Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

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#2627474 28-Dec-2020 18:42

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SepticSceptic : "Trump's entire presidency has felt like being tied to a chair watching a toddler play with a loaded gun"

Another gem from the comments on "Trump & the Coronavirus" 😏 :

"Trump got the full 2020 experience; he got Covid, he lost his job, and in a month, he'll be evicted."

I feel embarrassed. I predicted no WW3, so I win. His usual pathetic behaviour is easy, I win again. But the childishness since his defeat (yes, him being him I;ll reluctantly allow him some petulance), but OMG since then its like a spoilt child (sorry, spoiled children) . Its easy to say he is narcissistic, but he has mental health issues, he is well short of stupid and idiotic behaviour, its well beyond that. Then I read today why the stats say he is likely to be 2024 candidate???? The USneeds to be told sort it out or F off. Deduct US, add Europe , Africa and South America to our trade deals. Its worth it. Or the US can get a human as POTUS, that's a viable option in 2024. Biden has a job to do, I hope he does, but he's 2% of the news right now thats unreal.

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#2627479 28-Dec-2020 19:01

It ain't over yet.

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#2627538 28-Dec-2020 22:35

Rikkitic: It ain't over yet.

The Washington Post - Dragging out Trump

Looking back at the last year of the disastrous Trump presidency.

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#2627563 29-Dec-2020 08:09

The Washington Post - Trump caves - but not before putting the GOP in an ugly spot

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Trump decided over the Christmas holiday to threaten not to sign a combination coronavirus relief package and spending bill.

Trump’s chief complaints: The deal delivered only $600 payments to the American people, rather than his desired $2,000, and he didn’t like the so-called "pork" - and especially foreign funding - in the legislation.

The exercise was bizarre ... for a number of reasons.

First was that this was a deal forged by his own administration, with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin serving as lead negotiator and hailing it shortly before Trump decided to call it “a disgrace.”

Second was that Trump raised virtually none of these concerns before the bill’s passage, instead waiting until after the hard work had (apparently) been done to hijack the process.

Third was that the "pork" that Trump and his media allies criticized not only wasn’t in the coronavirus relief bill but was rather in an accompanying omnibus spending bill ... by and large money that Trump himself had requested in his own proposed budget.

The whole gambit has now fallen apart in a spectacular but utterly predictable way, with Trump relenting and signing the bill Sunday night. ...

Trump got nothing. The whole thing was a waste.

It appears to have been some combination of a fit of pique, posturing for his post-presidency political efforts, and an effort to leverage Republicans into supporting his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. ...

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#2627567 29-Dec-2020 08:34

So now he's signed it, when do people get their cheques?

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#2627579 29-Dec-2020 09:12

quickymart:
So now he's signed it, when do people get their cheques?

It goes to US citizen who have filled out a 2019 federal tax form.

Moreover you get one if you're an ex-pat holding multiple citizenships, including a US passport.

By law you must submit a yearly tax form even it's for zero dollars. (USA is unique in the world in this.) Penalties are swift, far-reaching and draconian.

For everyone it doesn't matter if the last tax form was zero dollars, you get a cheque.

Based on the last stimulus check, for overseas people, I'd guess about 2 to 3 months.

It goes to the last address given to the IRS.

It's almost impossible to change the address, without intimate knowledge of your last tax form, a special PIN, and many, many phone calls and begging.

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#2627592 29-Dec-2020 09:49

Thanks for that, interesting.

Also, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/stop-the-insanity-new-york-post-slaps-down-donald-trump/UY6FQ4LOZZE4LSBHR6JZ2FRIOI/

Even Trump's favourite newspaper has turned on him now. Hopefully he reads the headline and decides to man up about his loss.

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#2627595 29-Dec-2020 09:56

quickymart: Even Trump's favourite newspaper has turned on him now. Hopefully he reads the headline and decides to man up about his loss.

"Rupert Murdoch is trying to shove the evil genie back into the bottle."

(Murdoch owns the NY Post and Fox News)

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#2627597 29-Dec-2020 10:01

kingdragonfly:

Moreover you get one if you're an ex-pat holding multiple citizenships, including a US passport.

By law you must submit a yearly tax form even it's for zero dollars. (USA is unique in the world in this.) Penalties are swift, far-reaching and draconian.

A bit off-topic (non-Trumpian) but interesting - I was reading an article last week about people who are US citizens just for being born there (like in many other countries, including NZ) but who fall under this requirement to file taxes. A woman in the Netherlands had her bank account closed because the bank asked her for her SSN - which she doesn't have and didn't even know about. To her surprise she is a US citizen - her parents worked in the USA when she was born but left the country when she was under two years old. So she was never "told" she was a citizen. Now she is in trouble because many European banks rather not have to deal with the USA tax agency so they close those accounts - and she's having a hard time opening accounts anywhere else.

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#2627607 29-Dec-2020 10:22

freitasm: I was reading an article last week about people who are US citizens just for being born there (like in many other countries, including NZ) but who fall under this requirement to file taxes. A woman in the Netherlands had her bank account closed because the bank asked her for her SSN - which she doesn't have and didn't even know about. To her surprise she is a US citizen - her parents worked in the USA when she was born but left the country when she was under two years old. So she was never "told" she was a citizen. Now she is in trouble because many European banks rather not have to deal with the USA tax agency so they close those accounts - and she's having a hard time opening accounts anywhere else.

Sounds right. the US government agency, the IRS, can pull directly from many overseas bank accounts without even telling the bank first. This is the case in New Zealand.

Obviously it's a bit of a shock to the bank-holder when their bank account balances goes to zero to pay the IRS.

If you hold a US passport, you must declare EVERY financial account you hold yearly (FBAR). Otherwise, if holding NZ $0.01 to $72,000, a $36,000 fine each account each year. More than that, you are penalized half the account each account each year.

Yeah, draconian, and the only country in the world that can and does do this. China is envious.

Record numbers of American passport holders are renouncing their US citizenship. Even that process is expensive, complex, and requires an automatic IRS tax audit beforehand, and requires two separate meetings at the nearest US embassy.

Anything involving US citizenship and/or US taxes is orders of magnitude worse than anything in New Zealand.

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#2627689 29-Dec-2020 11:44

Donald Trump allegedly wants an airport named in his honour

Ahahahahahah classic trump.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/123832391/donald-trump-allegedly-wants-an-airport-named-in-his-honour

Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding : Ice cream man , Ice cream man

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#2627705 29-Dec-2020 12:12

If Trump agrees to die first, I am okay with any number of airports being named after him.

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#2627707 29-Dec-2020 12:16

Gisborne Airport's management are keen to have their facility renamed but only if Trump promises to build a beautiful wall around the railway line.

'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' Voltaire

'A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.' Edward Abbey

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#2627709 29-Dec-2020 12:20

JaseNZ: Donald Trump allegedly wants an airport named in his honour.

Why not just convert the Trump International Scotland (golf course) into an airport?

The locals really love him: 😝

Scotland the most anti-Trump part of the UK according to constituency polling

Donald Trump is rejected in all Scottish constituencies, including his ancestral Western Isles home and in Aberdeenshire where his golf course provides jobs.

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#2627716 29-Dec-2020 12:33

Whoa, you don't say: "Operation Warp Speed Set To Miss Initial COVID Vaccine Distribution Goal"

Operation Warp Speed is set to miss the first distribution goal it laid out, Trump administration officials said last week, saying that getting the vaccines to people has been “slower than we thought it would be.”

Trump administration officials had promised to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of 2020, meaning that 40 million doses would be distributed by Jan. 1.

But Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of the Trump administration’s effort to accelerate vaccine development, said that the government would only have allocated 20 million doses by Jan 1. — far fewer than promised.

“We have allocated 15.5 million doses of vaccine and we are on track to allocate another 4.5 to 5 million next week, which will bring us to 20 million doses of vaccine allocated to America before the end of the year,” Perna said in a Dec. 23 briefing with reporters. “We’ll finish those deliveries in the first week of January.”

Perna’s remarks suggest that the Trump administration will not complete delivery of half of its projected estimate of vaccine until the first week of January. State and local governments will then oversee the vaccine’s distribution.

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