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Twice impeached. And now this. The ultimate Republican.

Don Snoreleone

I thought Joe was supposed to be "sleepy."

Correct. But Congress lacks the will to do so (or are being actively encouraged not to do so).

This happened in the Bay Area today, too. I don't think the reactions on HB are much different than the rest of the country. Yes, we're aware that these activists want a positive outcome for their cause. And yes, we are more aware of their cause because of these actions. But are they changing minds by blocking traffic to O'Hare, or the Golden Gate Bridge? Did climate activists change anyone's mind by throwing soup on paintings? I'm not thinking so. I think a lot of these annoyance/vandalism actions are detrimental to their cause. Protesting creatively isn't always the answer. 'Free Palestine' protesters block part of I-880 in Oakland, Golden Gate Bridge OAKLAND, Calif. - ‘Free Palestine’ protesters blocked several sections of freeway around the Bay Area on Monday, including a section of I-880 in Oakland and the Golden Gate Bridge. Traffic was snarled after the demonstration took over the northbound lanes of Interstate Highway 880 at 5th and Embarcadero in Oakland on Monday and the southbound lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge. The CHP said the Oakland protest began about 6:30 a.m. Dozens of CHP officers were seen in riot gear watching as protesters waved flags near where they had painted the colors of Palestine on the highway's center median. Traffic was backed up past the Coliseum.

The article explains better than the tweet. Pfizer, which is headquartered in New York and received billions of dollars from the federal government for its COVID-19 vaccine, reported an overall 2023 loss of $4.4 billion domestically, bringing its effective corporate income tax rate to -105.4 percent, the company reported in a recent regulatory filing. Conversely, Pfizer reported more than $31 billion in revenue from international market sales, netting more than $5.4 billion of income for 2023. Pfizer has more than 300 subsidiaries in more than 60 different countries, with 98 subsidiaries based in known tax havens such as Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, and Puerto Rico, according to a Lever review of Pfizer’s recent 10-K filing. The 2017 tax law championed by Trump cut the federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, but many corporations offshore profits and exploit other loopholes to pay even less. From 2018 to 2022, the Trump tax cuts allowed 342 of the largest U.S.-based corporations to pay just $562 billion in taxes on nearly $4 trillion in profits, an effective average rate of 14.1 percent, according to a recent study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-partisan tax policy organization. Pharmaceutical companies comprise a significant portion of the companies engaged in tax avoidance. In 2022, major U.S. pharmaceutical companies reported more than $214 billion in revenue and only $10 billion in profits in the U.S. Those same companies reported more than $171 billion in foreign revenue and more than $90 billion in profits overseas, despite the fact that Americans pay the highest pharmaceutical costs in the world, said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “A large number of American pharmaceuticals report getting the bulk of their revenue from the U.S., earning no income in the U.S., and earning very substantial sums outside the U.S.,” Setser told The Lever. “And that same set of companies typically tends to report the bulk of their profits that they earn globally are in some combination of Ireland, Switzerland, Singapore, and Puerto Rico.”

The jacket is made by Nike, sure. But Clark's didn't have the Nike swoosh on the N like the ad. That's the Nebraska N. It's trademarked. https://ucomm.unl.edu/brand/our-marks "These are the official marks of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln"

Tell us more about this guest. What did they say? What "wrong wrong" made them asked not to come back.

Right wingies want to paint war in the Middle East as Bad For Biden. But if Orange Man Bad was in office, the narrative would be, "We can't change horses mid-stream!"

Only in the deepest MAGA fantasies is that fat tub of orange goo considered 'hardened.'

Exactly. They don't want FISA because they're getting caught by FISA. This isn't so much a citizen's rights issue (although authoritarians could use it against citizens, which is obviously a concern) as much as it's politicians upset they're being watched while working with foreign powers.

What, specifically, did they say?

He was saying that the Republicans are dysfunctional. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Which you are also now saying. But you seem defensive about that, which is why you brought up that the "dysfunctional" Republicans voted the same as the Democrats. Which isn't a point worth making, because the Democrats didn't vote against their own House rules. Don't bury the lede.

Do you think that's a good thing for the Republican party?

Are you OK? You seem kind of manic lately. Lots of posts without any substance, and like this one, not responding to the topic at hand. Genuinely asking if you're all right.

Who did you convince, and what did you convince them of?

You asked this Tuesday.

It makes more sense when you realize DEI is the new racist dogwhistle.

I've heard some prefer both, depending on their mood.

When your argument is that every election you've won is legit, and every election you've lost is the result of ballot harvesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not this again. Senate Russia report proves Trump collusion was very real. But do voters care? The Senate Intelligence Committee should be applauded for releasing the fifth and final volume of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. With over 200 witness interviews and roughly 1 million documents reviewed, the nearly 1,000-page report documents in detail the comprehensive campaign conducted by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his proxies to seek influence within President Donald Trump's campaign, help Trump win the 2016 presidential election and amplify polarization and division within American society. Far from a hoax, as the president so often claimed, the report reveals how the Trump campaign willingly engaged with Russian operatives implementing the influence effort. For instance, the report exposes interactions and information exchanged between Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. According to the report, campaign figures “presented attractive targets for foreign influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities.” (Manafort was later convicted of tax and bank fraud.) Concluding one of the highest-profile congressional investigations in recent memory, the report also uncovers abuses within the U.S. government’s investigation of this operation. These methods require review and reform. The bipartisan tone of the majority of the report, released by a committee chaired by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, should be welcomed by all Americans who want our elected leaders to protect American sovereignty. National security should never be a partisan issue. Trump was not exonerated by my report, Robert Mueller tells Congress Mr Mueller said he had not exonerated Mr Trump of obstruction of justice. The former FBI director spent two years probing alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, but did not establish collusion in a crime. He concluded that Russia had interfered in the election with the intention of benefiting Mr Trump's campaign. The questions focused largely on Mr Mueller's investigation of President Trump and his decision to say he could not exonerate the president of obstruction of justice, but Mr Mueller repeatedly stressed the importance of concerns over ongoing Russian interference in US democracy. "Over the course of my career I have seen a number of challenges to our democracy. The Russian government's effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious," he said. He added: "Much more needs to be done in order to protect against this intrusion, by the Russians but others as well."