DONALD TRUMP HAS made no secret of his desire for revenge.
On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.
Now, just days after he secured a second term in the White House, Congress is already moving to hand a resurgent Trump administration a powerful cudgel that it could wield against ideological opponents in civil society.
Up for a potential fast-track vote next week in the House of Representatives, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, also known as H.R. 9495, would grant the secretary of the Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”
Thanks, abstainers. Really showed us what a great America you lot believe in.
I didn’t abstain, but the blame doesn’t lie entirely with them. This feels like 2016 all over again, down to blaming the voters instead of the party.
People want change and are unhappy with the state of things, so the Democratic Party runs a status quo candidate against a (psychotic liar) who is making promises about change.
At least a charismatic candidate like an Obama (who doesn’t actually rock the status quo boat too much) would have rallied voters. Why is the Democratic Party so bad at this?
The fault fall on both the DNC and the voters.
The DNC for being god damn awful at campaining and the voters for seeing the situation and still decide not to go vote.
Both can be true.
None of that is even the beginning of an excuse for going out of your way to burn your own and your neighbor’s house down.
“They should have been 1000x better than the alternative of burning everything, instead of merely 10x better”. This shit just doesn’t fly.
And yes the Democrats are guilty of being better than Republicans by an embarrassingly thin 10x margin. Any decent party is 1000x and that should have happened, too.
Don’t worry, they’re just thinking long-term. They’ve got a plan to make everything better in 12-16 years, just you wait and see! Any day now!
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Incidentally, also terrorist-supporrinf organizations.
He really did go through all that shaming and embattlement. Think of the stress and the assassination attempt. There should be a price paid to the victor when the opponent he overcame would have done to him even more than he already went through. He will bring the fight to the Deep State. Listen to the actual policy decisions.
Just for a couple of examples, tell me you don’t you think that the policy for the IGs to be physically separated from who they are regulating and for Federal institutions to be decentralized from the NW corridor aren’t great ideas in so many ways.
Breaking up the Deep State by having the World’s RICHEST Man who is the CEO of MULTIPLE Businesses with Government Contracts being in Charge of Oversight and Regulation? Like that Deep State?
Then you are not paying attention. Look how the corporate Democrats cozyed up to the neocons and the Cheneys. They really don’t like Trump. The CIA establishment is deep blue. The party switched.
C. Wright Mills https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/27993/chapter/211702330
I don’t care if people can’t tolerate different perspectives on the left and feel the compulsion to cast out and silence dissent.
That is genuinely what it looks like to me. I pay attention.
I pay attention.
Hey, good for you! My dog likes to watch tennis. Could say he PAYS ATTENTION. I wouldn’t say he understands wtf is going on, but attention is being paid…
