Trump - Make America Great Again!

[SteelChip]

Oh, you mean like Obama and his school transcripts? I remember how outraged you were over that.

Barry had a good reason not to release his school transcripts.

 

[Spike]

Ha Ha

Trump: Elizabeth Warren 'Didn't Have The Guts' To Run For President

Goofy Elizabeth Warren didn’t have the guts to run for POTUS. Her phony Native American heritage stops that and VP cold.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...for-president/ar-BBsW0fB?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp

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Now go into that meeting today and tell that ********** Ryan that those 11 Million Republican voters, the biggest primary returns in HISTORY, demand you get behindTrump!

and tell Romney to **** off too - he didn't release his tax returns till October - The Donald doesn't have to do anything they say. **** em all, cram their hate up their ***.

 

[TDX27]

It's common sense on the tax returns. Trump is under an audit.. I am sure his attorney's involved in the audit have advised him not to release them until the audit is over. You don't put tax returns out there for millions of additional people to help scrutinize and help the leftist IRS try to find something, anything in there. Plus, 99.99999% of the people won't understand such a complex tax return. It really means absolutely nothing. I have never paid attention to any candidates tax returns in any election.

 

[Spike]

He isn't sending in a 1040 EZ

 

[Spike]

uh-oh


Could Bernie be indicted?

Hahahahahahahahahahaha


FEC releases damning 639 pages of violations by Bernie Sanders campaign

The Federal Elections Commission released a letter to the Bernie Sanders campaign detailing campaign finance issues they have with his campaign with the latest forms Bernie 2016 filed. Now to be fair to Bernie, his campaign has refunded some of the people who donated more than $2,700 back in December and January, however there have been no listed refunds since then. To note this paperwork requires a response by 6/14/16 which just happens to be the day of the final primary so IF Bernie responds it will be as DC is filling out the last votes of the primary.

Just so everyone’s aware this is not just a problem with Bernie’s March filings, he also had a problem back with his February filing as well. In February he had a 264 page attachment with all his campaigns illegal donations received. That attachment has pages 1-241 have illegal donations over $2,700 that were not refunded and pages 241-263 of illegal donations and again the last page was money returned without an itemized reason.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/...ages-of-violations-by-Bernie-Sanders-campaign

 

[Spike]

Your boy Rand just endorsed him.

He sure did

Rand Paul: I'll Support Trump

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/rand-paul-support-trump/2016/04/02/id/721968/

 

[Spike]

Obama doing everything he can to destroy America now that his time is up


Feds open Texas border to 4,000 Cubans, security interview lasts just 1 hour before release

U.S. Border Patrol officials are opening up the Texas border to let 4,000 Cubans in, taking about an hour to interview them and check their criminal background, before letting them enter the United States on their own where most will stay for life.

Aware that Panama had airlifted nearly 250 of 4,000 Cubans to the Mexican border near El Paso, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said it stands ready to process the new immigrants with speed, in fact faster it takes many Americans to get a drivers license or buy a gun.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/f...ts-just-1-hour-before-release/article/2591121

 

[Tibs]

So now that you have your answer about the tax returns, Tibs...I notice no comment from you.

Yeah, the whole lot of you may believe his hemming and hawing, stammering and stalling, but I don't accept that kind of bullshit from a presidential candidate. The bar must be so low for you conservatives, seeing the Republican field that wilted like flowers, I can't say I don't understand.

I Saw Trump's Tax Returns. You Should, Too.
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-12/time-for-donald-trump-to-release-his-tax-returns

In January, Donald Trump had this to say when he was asked about whether he would release his tax returns: “I have very big returns, as you know, and I have everything all approved and very beautiful and we’ll be working that over in the next period of time.”

Yet he held off on releasing his returns. And on Tuesday night, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee seemed to close the door for good on the matter. He told the Associated Press that he wouldn’t release his returns prior to the November elections unless what he described as Internal Revenue Service audit of his finances was complete.

“There’s nothing to learn from them,” Trump said of his tax returns.

That prompted Mitt Romney to take Trump to task late Wednesday afternoon.

“It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either military or public service,” wrote the former GOP presidential nominee in a Facebook post. “While not a likely circumstance, the potential for hidden inappropriate associations with foreign entities, criminal organizations, or other unsavory groups is simply too great a risk to ignore for someone who is seeking to become commander-in-chief.”

Trump then stepped up with a surprise of his own and reversed course again last night, telling Fox News that he would, indeed, release his taxes before the elections. “I’ll release. Hopefully before the election I’ll release,” he said. “And I’d like to release.”

For anyone who had whiplash after all of this, Trump offered some comfort by reaffirming that whenever he might release his returns, there wouldn’t be anything of value to be discovered there anyway.

“You learn very little from a tax return,” he told Fox News.

Actually, as someone who saw Trump’s federal tax returns about a decade ago as part of a legal action in which he sued me for libel (the suit was later dismissed), I think there probably are some things to be learned from them.

The tax returns my lawyers and I reviewed were sealed, and a court order prevents me from speaking or writing about the specifics of what I saw. I can say that Trump routinely delayed -- for months on end -- producing those documents, and when they finally arrived they were so heavily redacted that they looked like crossword puzzles. The litigation ran on for five years, and during that time we had to petition the court to compel Trump to hand over unredacted versions of the tax returns -- which he ultimately did.

So despite Trump’s statements to the contrary, here are some general questions that a full release of at least several years of his tax returns might usefully answer:

1) Income: Trump has made the size of his fortune a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, implying that it’s a measure of his success as a businessman. He has also correctly noted that the income shown on his tax returns isn’t a reflection of his total wealth. Even so, income is a basis for assessing some of the foundations of any individual’s wealth -- and would certainly reflect the financial wherewithal of the businesses in which Trump is involved.

After Fortune’s Shawn Tully dug into Trump’s financial disclosures with the Federal Election Commission and an accompanying personal balance sheet his campaign released, he noted in March that Trump “appears to have overstated his income, by a lot, which could be the reason he has so far tried to avoid releasing his returns.” Tully said that Trump apparently boosted his income in the documents by conflating his various businesses’ revenue with his personal income. Trump didn’t respond to Tully’s assessment, but he could clear up all of that by releasing his tax returns.

2) Business Activities: Trump has long claimed that his company, the Trump Organization, employs thousands of people. He has also criticized Fortune 500 companies for operating businesses overseas at the expense of jobs for U.S. workers. Trump’s returns would show how active he and his businesses are globally -- and would help substantiate the actual size and scope of his operation.

3) Charitable Giving: Trump has said that he’s a generous benefactor to a variety of causes -- especially war veterans -- even though it’s been hard to find concrete evidence to support the assertion. Other examples of major philanthropic largess from Trump have also been elusive. Trump could release his tax returns and put the matter to rest.

4) Tax Planning: There’s been global attention focused on the issue of how politicians and the wealthy use tax havens and shell companies to possibly hide parts of their fortunes from authorities. If released, Trump’s returns would make clear whether or not he used such vehicles.

5) Transparency and Accountability: Trump is seeking the most powerful office in the world. Some of the potential conflicts of interest or financial pressures that may arise if he reaches the White House would get an early airing in a release of his tax returns.

For the last 40 years, presidential candidates have released their returns. Trump, of course, has portrayed himself as the un-candidate, the guy who bucks convention. But disclosing tax returns is a valuable political tradition that’s well worth preserving.

 

[Spike]

Poor Tibs - still has the shaking fits from Bernie withdrawl I see. There's no LAW that says he has to release anything, ever.



Trump is setting Hillary up: He will release HIS tax returns when she releases HER Wall Street speech transcripts

Of course Trump could say they mysteriously vanished from his server like all the e-mails

 

[BAS]

This sums it up pretty succinctly. As much time as I spend reading this board, I have nothing to add, really.

New Poll Confirms What Liberals Have Suspected All Along: Trump Supporters Are Complete Idiots
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/05...l-along-trump-supporters-are-complete-idiots/

Funny... but what those different questions tell me is that Trump supporters are cynical and suspicious of anything the gov't tells them.

Is there idiocy there... some, but mostly it's mistrust of authority that's the driving force of Trump's followers.

 

[Tibs]

Poor Tibs - still has the shaking fits from Bernie withdrawl I see. There's no LAW that says he has to release anything, ever.

There you go again, covering up for the *****. Never thought you'd support a coward like Trump, but I guess these are the end of days, so it doesn't matter to you anymore. It's been clear for months you and the other Trump apologists are with the anarchists, who want to see **** get blown up - full on race wars, religious wars, class wars - to see the end of America as we know it. I'm still praying, hoping you won't get your wish, but if you do, stay safe man.

 

[Spike]

It's been clear for months you and the other Trump apologists are with the anarchists, who want to see **** get blown up - full on race wars, religious wars, class wars - to see the end of America as we know it. I'm still praying, hoping you won't get your wish, but if you do, stay safe man.

Says the devout Communist lover - it's all right, once the shakes wear off you just have to get through the withdrawl fevers of your Bernie addiction - give it another month or two

speaking of taxes

An Analysis of Senator Bernie Sanders's Tax and Transfer Proposals


Confirmed: Sanders is selling a fantasy agenda

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has attracted a passionate following because he is selling his followers a fantasy. And not just any fantasy — but one of epic proportions. A group of respected, nonpartisan experts offered the public a sense of the scale on Monday, releasing the most thorough analysis * yet on Sanders’s plan and finding that it is profoundly flawed

The analysts found that Sanders’s program is very progressive, jacking up taxes massively on the rich and providing a range of new benefits to the poor. Though every working person would face higher payroll taxes, the value of these benefits would leave 95 percent of households better off.

But there is a massive catch. Sanders’s assurance that he has “a plan to pay for every spending program he has introduced to date” is wrong. And not just wrong, but extravagantly so. Even with his large tax increases, Sanders would fall $18 trillion short over just 10 years. Factoring in interest costs, his plan would add $21 trillion to the debt over a decade. That is more than the roughly $19 trillion the Treasury already owes. And the picture would probably get much worse as time went on.

Sanders’s health-care plan is the big budget-buster. It alone would cost $32 trillion over 10 years

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publ...or-bernie-sanderss-tax-and-transfer-proposals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...onfirmed-sanders-is-selling-a-fantasy-agenda/

 

[SCSteeler4life]

There you go again, covering up for the *****. Never thought you'd support a coward like Trump, but I guess these are the end of days, so it doesn't matter to you anymore. It's been clear for months you and the other Trump apologists are with the anarchists, who want to see **** get blown up - full on race wars, religious wars, class wars - to see the end of America as we know it. I'm still praying, hoping you won't get your wish, but if you do, stay safe man.

Or you could just go drive in downtown Chicago on any given night and see all of the above you listed. Trump has yall libtards scurrying like roaches.

 

[Tibs]

Or you could just go drive in downtown Chicago on any given night and see all of the above you listed. Trump has yall libtards scurrying like roaches.

If you mad men get your wish and Trump somehow gets elected, it will be on an unprecedented scale, from coast to coast. That seems to be the deathwish you guys are operating under, so this is probably quite comforting and attractive to you.

 

[BAS]

There's certainly something coming to a head in the state of US politics. I think this is the first election cycle that's shown that the establishment that is the Republican and Democratic parties is really Career Politicians vs. the Common Man.

Both establishment parties have shown that they are puppeteers holding the strings over the candidates to put 'their' people into positions of power. All are just interested in maintaining their positions of power -- though you may see minor shifts regionally when a politician screws up, there's really no major wholesale turnover in the government.

Trump and Sanders are working outside the box -- and the fact that they're building huge followings is more on the dissatisfaction with the government as a whole than it is about their relative political, left vs right, leanings.

So what's the solution? Do we just let Hillary waltz into the Oval Office come next winter? More of the same for the establishment cronies? Do we overthrow the government?

 

[Tibs]

Do we overthrow the government?

If the nation somehow loses it's collective mind and votes Trump into office, don't worry, there will be plenty motivation to overthrow the goverment. It will come from blacks, latinos, women, muslims and most certainly from the lower classes. But for some reason Spike, Indy, Supe, Tim and the motley crew of Trump's fanboys seem to care only about the top 1%. Trump will be great for the mega rich. Damn, maybe Spike, Indy and the boys ARE mega rich. I never put two and two together, turns out this board is saturated with invesment bankers, hedge fund managers and the like. Now it all makes sense.

Report: Trump tariffs would be 'catastrophic' for poor
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/...be-catastrophic-for-poor-223117#ixzz48SVISbAZ

Donald Trump’s plan to get tough with China, Japan and Mexico could cost the average U.S. household more than $6,000 a year if carried to its logical extreme, with the burden falling hardest on the lowest-income households, according to a new report from the National Foundation for American Policy, which describes itself as a nonpartisan research group.

“We find that a Trump tariff proposal against all countries would cost U.S. consumers $459 billion annually and $2.29 trillion over five years,” David Tuerck and Paul Bachman, a pair of economists at Suffolk University in Boston, write in the report. “Our analysis finds that the Trump tariffs would manifest themselves as a 30.5 percent increase in the price of competing domestic producer goods and therefore, as a cut in real wages.”

The economists looked at two different scenarios to arrive at their calculations. First, based on statements Trump has made in the campaign, they modeled the effect of a 45 percent tariff on imports from China and Japan and a 35 percent tariff on imports from Mexico. That would cost the average American household more than $2,200 annually, with those households in the lowest income brackets feeling the greatest pinch.

U.S exports to the three countries also would fall by about 78 percent as a result of the damage done by Trump’s tariffs to companies in China, Japan and Mexico that buy American goods, the report said. If the countries actively retaliated against U.S. exports, the impact would be even worse.

However, tariffs on just three countries would likely be ineffective in protecting American workers from foreign competition because importers could simply turn to other suppliers, the economists said. So the team examined a second scenario in which a Trump tariff of 45 percent is applied to imports from all countries.

“Then the results would be truly catastrophic for the poor,” the report said. “It would be as if the United States imposed a new tax of 53 percent on the lowest 10 percent income decile and a 20 percent tax on the next lowest decile. It would be the equivalent to an 11 percent flat tax on the after-tax income of U.S. workers.”

The economists estimated the total burden on consumers from higher prices and reduced consumption opportunities would be about $760 billion annually.

“That would not seem to be a recipe to ‘make America great again,'” they concluded, invoking Trump’s campaign slogan.

The Trump campaign did not return a request for comment Thursday morning.

 

[TDX27]

He sure did

Rand Paul: I'll Support Trump

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/rand-paul-support-trump/2016/04/02/id/721968/

Interesting because there is going to be a Libertarian candidate and Paul is pretty much a Libertarian.

 

[scraps]

Trump, Ryan, pledge to work together; endorsement may come


WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan pledged to work together despite their differences after a meeting Thursday aimed unifying a party torn over Trump's rise to the cusp of the Republican presidential nomination. The speaker appeared closer to offering a full-throated endorsement.

Trump and Ryan issued a statement describing their meeting as a "very positive step toward unification" that recognized "many important areas of common ground" as well as areas where they disagree. Ryan stunned Republicans by withholding his endorsement a week ago when it became clear Trump was on a firm path to the nomination.

The much-anticipated meeting unfolded Thursday morning as more Republicans have begun urging the party to put the extraordinary discord behind. The statement by the two suggested both are invested in tamping down the Republican infighting as they try to pull the GOP together for the fight against Hillary Clinton and Democrats in the fall.

Ryan told a news conference they are "planting the seeds" to accomplish that.

Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York, a Trump supporter, said it will help both the candidate and the speaker if they can work through their differences.

"I don't think it's do or die, any endorsement in particular," he said outside the building. But "Donald Trump's candidacy is strengthened with an endorsement from the most powerful person, top-ranking Republican in the country. It helps."

On the eve of the meetings, Trump eased his defiant tone of recent days. Asked on Fox News who leads the party in his view, he said Ryan. "I would say Paul for the time being and maybe for a long time," he said.

"We can always have differences," he said. "If you agree on 70 percent, that's always a lot."

The two men represent vastly different visions for the Republican Party, and whether they can come together may foretell whether the GOP will heal itself after a bruising primary season or face irrevocable rupture.

Trump, for years a registered Democrat, has offended women, Hispanics, and others while violating establishment party orthodoxy on numerous issues Ryan holds dear, from trade to wages to religious freedom. Ryan, a policy-focused conservative, insists the GOP must be a party of ideas, and has championed an agenda that has drawn Trump's scorn by pushing cuts in Medicare and other government programs.

Indeed, a broader swath of Republican voters appears to be moving behind Trump, despite big-name holdouts such as Ryan, both former president Bushes and the party's 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney. Romney went after Trump on Wednesday over his refusal thus far to release his taxes, calling it "disqualifying" and asserting that the only explanation must be "a bombshell of unusual size."

Still, almost two in three Republican-leaning voters now view Trump favorably, compared with 31 percent who view him unfavorably, according to a national Gallup Poll taken last week. The numbers represent a near total reversal from Gallup's survey in early March.

And on Capitol Hill, where Ryan has managed to remain popular since taking over as speaker in the fall, some Republicans made clear that they would like to see him come around to supporting Trump sooner rather than later.

Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, an ally of GOP leadership, said Thursday his biggest worry about Trump is that he is "'unpredictable." Yet Trump is also a "change agent," Cole said. "That's exactly what people want right now, so in that sense he's very well-positioned for a general election."

"It seems to me they have every incentive to find common ground," he said of Trump and Ryan, "because to be successful they both in a sense need one another."

Three meetings were on tap for Trump: the one with Ryan and the party chairman, then with Ryan joined by other senior House GOP leaders and one with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Senate Republicans.

McConnell was quick to embrace the mogul after he clinched the nomination and said this week that Trump is looking like he'll be "very competitive" in November.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-ryan-prepare-meet-republicans-call-unity-072436796--election.html

 

[Tibs]

McConnell was quick to embrace the mogul after he clinched the nomination and said this week that Trump is looking like he'll be "very competitive" in November.

Translation: Let's hope we don't get our dicks kicked in too badly.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Translation: Let's hope we don't get our dicks kicked in too badly.

Nobody cares what that senile old woman McConnell has to say.

 

[Spike]

Trump will have them all eating out of his hand. Good dogs.


Trump, Ryan signal unity

The statement from the presumptive GOP presidential nominee and House Speaker said the two had a “great conversation” and that they were honest over their “few differences” during two hours of meetings on Thursday.

“We will be having additional discussions, but remain confident there’s a great opportunity to unify our party and win this fall, and we are totally committed to working together to achieve that goal,” the joint statement said.

The joint statement from Trump and Ryan highlighted one of those common values and echoed talking points sent earlier in the day to Trump surrogates emphasizing the need to defeat likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“The United States cannot afford another four years of the Obama White House, which is what Hillary Clinton represents,” it said. “That is why it’s critical that Republicans unite around our shared principles, advance a conservative agenda, and do all we can to win this fall.

“With that focus, we had a great conversation this morning. While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279675-trump-ryan-signal-unity

 

[Tibs]

“That is why it’s critical that Republicans unite around our shared principles, advance a conservative agenda, and do all we can to win this fall."

Yet Trump shares few, if any principles with conservatives, will not only not advance a conservative agenda, but act steadfastly against it. Just a few minor details, but carry on.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

So Ryan hopes to support our nominee. **** him.

 

[Spike]

Interesting because there is going to be a Libertarian candidate and Paul is pretty much a Libertarian.

Republican labels don't mean much any more, although Bernie is still a crazy communist that hates black people and "deep south" - it's no wonder he only wins white states



Confirmed: Sanders is selling a fantasy agenda

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has attracted a passionate following because he is selling his followers a fantasy. And not just any fantasy — but one of epic proportions. A group of respected, nonpartisan experts offered the public a sense of the scale on Monday, releasing the most thorough analysis * yet on Sanders’s plan and finding that it is profoundly flawed

The analysts found that Sanders’s program is very progressive, jacking up taxes massively on the rich and providing a range of new benefits to the poor. Though every working person would face higher payroll taxes, the value of these benefits would leave 95 percent of households better off.

But there is a massive catch. Sanders’s assurance that he has “a plan to pay for every spending program he has introduced to date” is wrong. And not just wrong, but extravagantly so. Even with his large tax increases, Sanders would fall $18 trillion short over just 10 years. Factoring in interest costs, his plan would add $21 trillion to the debt over a decade. That is more than the roughly $19 trillion the Treasury already owes. And the picture would probably get much worse as time went on.

Sanders’s health-care plan is the big budget-buster. It alone would cost $32 trillion over 10 years

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publi...sfer-proposals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...antasy-agenda/

 

[Superman]

If the nation somehow loses it's collective mind and votes Trump into office, don't worry, there will be plenty motivation to overthrow the goverment. It will come from blacks, latinos, women, muslims and most certainly from the lower classes. But for some reason Spike, Indy, Supe, Tim and the motley crew of Trump's fanboys seem to care only about the top 1%. Trump will be great for the mega rich. Damn, maybe Spike, Indy and the boys ARE mega rich. I never put two and two together, turns out this board is saturated with invesment bankers, hedge fund managers and the like. Now it all makes sense.

no.


I can't speak for the others you named, but as for me, I'm tired of:

• jobs being shipped overseas
• veterans going without healthcare
  - hearing about that alleged healthcare veterans receive
• immigrants who would be deemed "ILLEGAL" coming here without being vetted properly
• immigrants being GIVEN healthcare via taxpayer dollars
• being forced to buy healthcare
• being "fined" if I do not buy healthcare
• people receiving refunds who paid ZERO in income tax
• my taxes going to an increasing pool of people who can work, but do not work (this does not include the retirees, veterans or disabled - but the able bodied and able minded who choose to not work)
• our elected President stroking the racial flames
• increasing crime but decreasing the allowance of my being able to protect myself and family
• continued assault on the 2nd Amendment

so it comes down to less jobs; more people coming in; more people given healthcare who have not paid a dime for it; those who follow the law and have healthcare are then met with the nightmare of not having their insurance accepted by doctors, or having their premium/deductible so high that it can't be paid/met.

just off the top of my head.

and I have ZERO faith that Hillary ******* Clinton would resolve any of this. Her under the table deals with sheiks and Wall Street, her "terrible concussion" that affected her for six months, her ****** handling of Benghazi where Americans died (which we'll likely never know the absolute truth about), her illegal handling of national security documents and secrets are all at the forefront of my mind when I see her grace my tv.

Bernie, like I said, you can likely believe he'll do what he says. He's likely trustworthy in that regard. I do not see how his version of Socialism will prevail here when that same version has failed worldwide. Constantly comparing this country to a CONTINENT is mind-boggling when we have so many immigrants wanting to come HERE. Why don't those immigrants go that CONTINENT where things are so damn much better? Aside from that, the continent is also closer to the desert **** hole from which they were farted from.

Do I believe Trump will resolve ALL the issues above? Absolutely not. I do know that Hillary and Bernie will NOT resolve even half those. With Trump, I can hope he does.

afterall, we were promised hope and change for the last 7+ years. I'm down to my last few coins. All I have left now is some hope.