It was said that, had Mitch not blocked (the $2k bill), it would have passed.
Forget the president. The real veto power is in the Senate Majority Leader. And with no path to override his veto.
Oh. And there will be hostages. Even Trump has said, he wants strings attached to the $2k. That section 230 rule he wants abolished.
The rule that makes our comments possible.
Because if Go Comics can be sued for having published our comments, so often in opposition to the president, then likely Go Comics will either have to review our comments for content prior to allowing them to be seen.
“Moscow” isn’t precisely right. It’s not even Russia anymore. Putin is the lord of the global oligarchy. National boundaries have no meaning to them, except as tools to stoke nationalist fervor in their enforcers.
Lieu and Rice noted that such violations upward of $25,000 are felonies punishable by up to five years in prison. Trump’s campaign and an affiliated committee regularly spent millions of dollars through American Made Media Consultants, according to FEC records.
Insider reported earlier Friday that Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, helped establish the shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent almost half of the $1.26 billion in the campaign’s coffers, according to a person familiar with the operation.
“As former prosecutors, we know that this conduct, if true, violates multiple laws,” Lieu and Rice wrote in their letter to the FBI. “We respectfully request that you open investigations into whether or not Mr. Kushner and members of the Trump family violated federal campaign finance or other statutes.”
American Made Media Consultants, which Kushner helped create in 2018, received $617 million from the Trump campaign to pay for ads and, in some cases, members of Trump’s family, the source said.
Kushner picked Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, Vice President Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence, and Trump campaign Chief Financial Officer Sean Dollman to serve on the board of the shell company, according to a person familiar with the creation of AMMC, who spoke with Insider.
Insider was able to independently verify those details with other sources close to the Trump campaign.
Oh, clearly having nothing to do with shell companies such as American Made Media Consultants and the other 500(?) shell companies that Trump has…
Trump’s veto is obviously all about the military bases named for Confederate leaders.
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A groundbreaking measure to ban anonymous shell companies in the United States cleared Congress on Friday as the Senate joined the House in passing a defense-spending bill with a veto-proof margin.
The Corporate Transparency Act, which was tacked onto the defense bill, would require corporations and limited liability companies established in the United States to disclose their real owners to the Treasury Department, making it harder for criminals to anonymously launder money or evade taxes. The rule applies to future and existing entities alike.
The measure passed the Senate with an 84-to-13 vote as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which cleared the House earlier this week. Trump pledged to veto the defense bill — one of few laws that passes every year — because it doesn’t include his demand to repeal liability protections for social media companies.
Trump also opposes a clause that orders military bases named for Confederate leaders to be renamed.
The anonymous-shell-company ban was years in the making, as supporters slowly built a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, law-enforcement officials and even business groups that originally opposed the idea, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Tolerance of anonymous shell companies has long helped drug- and human- traffickers, organized crime groups and foreign kleptocrats launder their ill-gotten gains through the U.S. financial system, supporters of the legislation say.
It took Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, only a few days to set up and use an anonymous Delaware LLC to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels, in violation of campaign finance laws.
‘Old’ year retrospectives are usually published about now…
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Remember that stupid thing Donald Trump did? Hard as it is to pick, here are the top 10
1) That time Trump suggested injecting household cleaners into people’s lungs to cure them of the coronavirus.
2) That time he looked at a solar eclipse without eye protection — after everyone was repeatedly told not to look at the eclipse without eye protection.
3) That time he couldn’t admit he was wrong when he tweeted that Hurricane Dorian was going to hit Alabama, and so he drew on a weather map with a Sharpie to make it seem like he was right.
4) That time he threw paper towels at people in Puerto Rico who had just endured Hurricane Maria.
5) That time he asked members of the National Security Council if they could nuke hurricanes rather than letting them hit the U.S.
6) That time Trump was told to talk about Frederick Douglass at a Black History Month event, clearly had no idea who that was, and while trying to bulls—- his way through the talk, implied that Douglass was still alive.
7) That time he suggested that his much-desired border wall could just maybe be buttressed with alligator moats.
8) That time he asked Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?”
9) That time Trump “liked” a tweet praising Rihanna.
10) When he called the Second Epistle to the Corinthians “Two Corinthians.”
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that $600 stimulus checks will go out very quickly this time. And that if Congress increases it to $2,000 the Treasury will also send out the difference very quickly. This is no doubt because they have gone through this before and will again be using 2019 returns. Distribution will done the same way as last time. Either direct deposit if they have your checking account on file because of a past refund or you provided it through the IRS ‘Get My Payment’ tool, or a paper check, or (I’m assuming this) as in my case through the Economic Impact Payment Debit Card that thousands of us received instead of a check.
Beginning in the 19th century, the Federal government helped create a national communication system which enabled the citizenry to have access to ideas and information. It fostered the development of national transportation systems which have made the movement of goods and people possible.
Likewise, the Federal government has promoted education at all levels as the way Americans can achieve equality of opportunity, and has made it possible for the arts and culture to reach places far removed from major metropolitan areas.
And the Federal government has played a central role in expanding the very definition of who can enjoy the fruits of American citizenship.
The anti-government sentiment that Reagan crystallized has created a strange patriotism, in which to love our country, we must hate the governments we elect.
Abraham Lincoln understood the matter more profoundly when he told the mourners at Gettysburg that we are a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” Our federal government is nothing more and nothing less than a collective reflection of ourselves.
The programs and policies we have pursued through the Federal government haven’t always proven effective, or efficient, or even just. In that sense, the Federal government represents us as a people, sometimes at our best, sometimes at our worst.
But to a remarkable degree, the actions of the Federal government have succeeded in doing what they were intended to do. In that sense, the America we enjoy today would be inconceivable without the active role of “big government.”
So before you go to your next tea party to denounce the role of government in American life, try to imagine an America without the actions of the Federal government: where the safety of food is not regulated, where contracts may or may not be enforceable, where education is inaccessible to many and where the roads never get paved.
#BothSidesDont I really dislike cartoons like that that blithely ignore the fact there are people in congress trying to get stuff done. Cartoons like this do them a disservice by letting off the do-nothings by lumping everyone together. Gross.
Cheapskate0 almost 4 years ago
If you think it’s just the government, you’re kidding yourself.
kaffekup almost 4 years ago
Half of Congress, at least. The House has been working.
“I object.”
Moscow Mitch
jmworacle almost 4 years ago
Well said.
KLSeering almost 4 years ago
Although, in 2020 congress is actually making use of this dead time! #stimulus
Cheapskate0 almost 4 years ago
(Repeat of reply to kaffekup above)
It was said that, had Mitch not blocked (the $2k bill), it would have passed.
Forget the president. The real veto power is in the Senate Majority Leader. And with no path to override his veto.
Oh. And there will be hostages. Even Trump has said, he wants strings attached to the $2k. That section 230 rule he wants abolished.
The rule that makes our comments possible.
Because if Go Comics can be sued for having published our comments, so often in opposition to the president, then likely Go Comics will either have to review our comments for content prior to allowing them to be seen.
Or just shut down the comments section, period.
Cheapskate0 almost 4 years ago
Scott’s cartoon has never been further from the truth than today.
Unless he’s just talking about Republicans.
braindead Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Oh yeah. For sure.
Congress.
Both sides. Equally.
.
Gee, Scott, how many bills have been passed in the house only to be trashed by Moscow Mitch?
Sanspareil almost 4 years ago
Moscow Mitch is not called that for no reason.Big daddy Vlad has compromat on him and orange imbecile and a lot of right wing senators.
things will get ugly!
William Robbins Premium Member almost 4 years ago
“Moscow” isn’t precisely right. It’s not even Russia anymore. Putin is the lord of the global oligarchy. National boundaries have no meaning to them, except as tools to stoke nationalist fervor in their enforcers.
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
The investigations will continue…
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Lieu and Rice noted that such violations upward of $25,000 are felonies punishable by up to five years in prison. Trump’s campaign and an affiliated committee regularly spent millions of dollars through American Made Media Consultants, according to FEC records.
Insider reported earlier Friday that Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, helped establish the shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent almost half of the $1.26 billion in the campaign’s coffers, according to a person familiar with the operation.
“As former prosecutors, we know that this conduct, if true, violates multiple laws,” Lieu and Rice wrote in their letter to the FBI. “We respectfully request that you open investigations into whether or not Mr. Kushner and members of the Trump family violated federal campaign finance or other statutes.”
American Made Media Consultants, which Kushner helped create in 2018, received $617 million from the Trump campaign to pay for ads and, in some cases, members of Trump’s family, the source said.
Kushner picked Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, Vice President Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence, and Trump campaign Chief Financial Officer Sean Dollman to serve on the board of the shell company, according to a person familiar with the creation of AMMC, who spoke with Insider.
Insider was able to independently verify those details with other sources close to the Trump campaign.
~
https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-trump-campaign-fbi-fec-investigation-shell-company-lara-2020-12
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
Oh, clearly having nothing to do with shell companies such as American Made Media Consultants and the other 500(?) shell companies that Trump has…
Trump’s veto is obviously all about the military bases named for Confederate leaders.
~
A groundbreaking measure to ban anonymous shell companies in the United States cleared Congress on Friday as the Senate joined the House in passing a defense-spending bill with a veto-proof margin.
The Corporate Transparency Act, which was tacked onto the defense bill, would require corporations and limited liability companies established in the United States to disclose their real owners to the Treasury Department, making it harder for criminals to anonymously launder money or evade taxes. The rule applies to future and existing entities alike.
The measure passed the Senate with an 84-to-13 vote as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which cleared the House earlier this week. Trump pledged to veto the defense bill — one of few laws that passes every year — because it doesn’t include his demand to repeal liability protections for social media companies.
Trump also opposes a clause that orders military bases named for Confederate leaders to be renamed.
The anonymous-shell-company ban was years in the making, as supporters slowly built a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, law-enforcement officials and even business groups that originally opposed the idea, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
✁
Tolerance of anonymous shell companies has long helped drug- and human- traffickers, organized crime groups and foreign kleptocrats launder their ill-gotten gains through the U.S. financial system, supporters of the legislation say.
It took Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, only a few days to set up and use an anonymous Delaware LLC to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels, in violation of campaign finance laws.
~
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/11/anonymous-shell-company-us-ban/
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
‘Old’ year retrospectives are usually published about now…
~
Remember that stupid thing Donald Trump did? Hard as it is to pick, here are the top 10
1) That time Trump suggested injecting household cleaners into people’s lungs to cure them of the coronavirus.
2) That time he looked at a solar eclipse without eye protection — after everyone was repeatedly told not to look at the eclipse without eye protection.
3) That time he couldn’t admit he was wrong when he tweeted that Hurricane Dorian was going to hit Alabama, and so he drew on a weather map with a Sharpie to make it seem like he was right.
4) That time he threw paper towels at people in Puerto Rico who had just endured Hurricane Maria.
5) That time he asked members of the National Security Council if they could nuke hurricanes rather than letting them hit the U.S.
6) That time Trump was told to talk about Frederick Douglass at a Black History Month event, clearly had no idea who that was, and while trying to bulls—- his way through the talk, implied that Douglass was still alive.
7) That time he suggested that his much-desired border wall could just maybe be buttressed with alligator moats.
8) That time he asked Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?”
9) That time Trump “liked” a tweet praising Rihanna.
10) When he called the Second Epistle to the Corinthians “Two Corinthians.”
~
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/26/remember-that-stupid-thing-donald-trump-did-hard-as-it-is-to-pick-here-are-the-top-10/
rossevrymn almost 4 years ago
The ol’ Congress dig, meanwhile over 70,000,000 geniuses voted for trumpster fire.
nosirrom almost 4 years ago
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that $600 stimulus checks will go out very quickly this time. And that if Congress increases it to $2,000 the Treasury will also send out the difference very quickly. This is no doubt because they have gone through this before and will again be using 2019 returns. Distribution will done the same way as last time. Either direct deposit if they have your checking account on file because of a past refund or you provided it through the IRS ‘Get My Payment’ tool, or a paper check, or (I’m assuming this) as in my case through the Economic Impact Payment Debit Card that thousands of us received instead of a check.
I hope everyone saved their EIP Debit Card
Michael G. almost 4 years ago
And the beat(ing) goes on …
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
Beginning in the 19th century, the Federal government helped create a national communication system which enabled the citizenry to have access to ideas and information. It fostered the development of national transportation systems which have made the movement of goods and people possible.
Likewise, the Federal government has promoted education at all levels as the way Americans can achieve equality of opportunity, and has made it possible for the arts and culture to reach places far removed from major metropolitan areas.
And the Federal government has played a central role in expanding the very definition of who can enjoy the fruits of American citizenship.
The anti-government sentiment that Reagan crystallized has created a strange patriotism, in which to love our country, we must hate the governments we elect.
Abraham Lincoln understood the matter more profoundly when he told the mourners at Gettysburg that we are a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” Our federal government is nothing more and nothing less than a collective reflection of ourselves.
The programs and policies we have pursued through the Federal government haven’t always proven effective, or efficient, or even just. In that sense, the Federal government represents us as a people, sometimes at our best, sometimes at our worst.
But to a remarkable degree, the actions of the Federal government have succeeded in doing what they were intended to do. In that sense, the America we enjoy today would be inconceivable without the active role of “big government.”
So before you go to your next tea party to denounce the role of government in American life, try to imagine an America without the actions of the Federal government: where the safety of food is not regulated, where contracts may or may not be enforceable, where education is inaccessible to many and where the roads never get paved.
~
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/central-government-book_b_1777321
XtopherSD almost 4 years ago
#BothSidesDont I really dislike cartoons like that that blithely ignore the fact there are people in congress trying to get stuff done. Cartoons like this do them a disservice by letting off the do-nothings by lumping everyone together. Gross.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 4 years ago
Clear not the half where the Republicans rule under the great dictator Moscow Mitch.