Good thing he doesn't have a peanut farm.
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Could you imagime the scandal?
There is one other source of money Trump could potentially dip into. The president previously sold permanent seats on his board for $1 billion a head, but refused to say where that money was going.
WTF. This almost seems more important.
It would be if he wasn't taking $10B of US tax payer money for his secret Qatari slush account.
If ya'll ever get out from under this fascist government, you should demand all the money hidden away in Qatar and if it's not, well that's what aircraft carriers are for.
Was that money appropriated by Congress?
If not, he has no authority to take it.
Like Congress cares. They'll do fuck all about it.
I'm hungry. When do we eat?
I'm sure there's a judge somewhere who said the same thing, and trump continues to not give a fuck.
The real question is there a mechanism to access funds not appropriated?
Was it an official act, though?
LOL
That is what I was wondering myself. The EU sent a representative, much to the dismay of Macron. Does that mean they paid billions for the privilege of being there? That'd be a scandal in my eyes.
No, the payment was to get permanent seat. Otherwise they have membership for 3 years.
Ah ok, thank you.
Sooo, anyone else not feel like paying taxes this year?
I’ve seen a lot of talk around this on a few different platforms, if enough people actually do so there’s potential for real and significant effect. I honestly don’t even know what the reaction from the admin would be. There simply are not enough IRS agents to police an and process a tax protest. I guess they could throw everyone that doesnt pay in the death camps they are building but that seems shortsighted
Project 2025 was bandying about something about a "sustainable population" of the US being 150 million people max, so it sounds like they want an excuse to kill about 250 million of us.
Or is it going straight to Trump’s pocket via some offshore bank account based in Qatar? We may never know.
I was looking for evidence of this, but can't find it yet so I can't argue with magas that it's what is happening.
For the seized Venezuelan oil assets though, that apparently is going directly to his account in Qatar so it really isn't a stretch to believe this board of ~~scam~~ peace money is too... I just wish we had proof so I could use it in an argument.
I just wish we had proof so I could use it in an argument.
Stop trying to take the moral high ground and just argue in their style, without facts and pure accusations.
Don't know why the down votes, that's exactly what trumpers do
Because of they go and "verify" what I say and it's found to be wrong that just cements in their mind that "we" just lie and have no idea what we're talking about. It makes any future arguments even harder because it reinforces the idea in their minds that "we're" always wrong.
Many of us have the guns to do something about it (please don't change your post text, lol) but do not want to unlawfully use those guns as we may be incarcerated for making that choice.
I have my guns to protect against tyranny, but it's illegal to stand against tyranny. Maybe we should petition the courts for a revolution.
So what's the point of 2A if you won't use your guns against tyranny cause it's illegal?
"Trump reveals he can do whatever he wants and 45% of americans will think he's super smart while the other 55% wont care."
So there was this book that was published a few years ago and the first 3 pages were devoted to the life of a squirrel...I had to trip acid to realize the book was intended to start like that. Before you can comment on today's sociey, you must read 'The Illumantis Trilogy'. If you don't, it isn't funny...
Illuminatus. You mean the Illuminatus Trilogy, by Shea and Wilson, and by "a few years", you mean 51.
This is Illumantis:
I sometimes think about how the attacks on the WTC were a distraction from those on the Pentagon and what they were trying to free and how today's world seems to have started that day.
Thank you for the correction, it has been 27 years, the memory has swiss-cheesed.
First order of business should be dismantling bullshit like this.
Did none of these members pay for a permanent membership so far?
But we saved G.. Oh never mind. Proud now, sitouts?