Tom Clancy’s US Politics Thread

Glol. A half-arsed panhandle/grift from Trump?

Whoulda thunk it!

As long as he never gets near anything resembling actual power again, I'll be happy. Happier if the fucker gets put in jail, of course, but I'll take small victories in the meantime.

Not necessarily true. On federal charges brought in DC no doubt he would be convicted. Trump vote there is like 1%.

I think he's more likely to die of old age before any conviction comes his way.

Didn't see all of the committee session today but what I did see was pretty damning.

The charges:

Obstruction of an official proceeding
Conspiracy to defraud the United States
Conspiracy to make a false statement
Inciting, assisting, aiding, or comforting an insurrection
Conspiracy to make really shit NFTs

The last one was too late to be within the scope of the committee but it deserves to be in the list.

Trump as a giant space marine with a T on his codpiece is maybe the best thing I've ever seen.

The Imbecile Sisters are feuding.

Seems to be the least exaggerated part of the whole ensemble. Huh.

Biden looks ancient any time he has to walk. Tiny tiny steps.

Seems that Trump's tax statements are out in the open.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64127825



Ok...

People have been clamoring for these tax returns, but as the article points out, you can't really say anything about them without the accompanying documents, and it's all a bit of a mess anyway.

And I really doubt it will make Trump supporters (however many are left at this point) not vote for him, or Trump haters suddenly decide to give him their support.

I suppose it's more of a moral victory?

It’s worth having it out there as proof of what’s been generally highly suspected for a long time anyway- that he’s a prick who pays no tax by being really terrible at business and writing it off. There’s no two ways about it, his tax-avoidance losses are either fraud or proof that he’s utterly shit at legit business and relies on ripping off his sycophantic marks.

You can rightly argue that they won’t notice, but enough people will to prevent him becoming President again. I mean even Murdoch got sick of the cunt, which is like pubes fighting.

They also work incredibly differently in the US to the UK. The US seems like a free for all for paying fucking no federal tax by just writing stuff off. You have to go through the self employed rules in the UK: www.gov.uk/expenses-if-youre-self-employed which are generally more limiting. But Trump seems to have basically just announced that capital assets he still owned were just valued less and wrote that off at times, and I don't think there's any mechanism for that bullshit in the UK (not an accountant though).

Not that rich people here pay that much tax, but that's because they squirrel it all away off shore in Jersey or whatnot. 

Edit: Ignore me, I misread what you said.

The biggest takeaways really are that he held foreign accounts and actually paid significant amounts of income tax on those. The rest of it is just loopholes and uncovering his lies, like claiming to donate his salary, being under audit, etc, which while embarrassing for most people, amount to nothing.