Yes, Donnie, now tax returns are brought up again
I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
Non sequitur, Donnie. Irrelevant. Not the point. We know you won the Electoral vote; that doesn’t make your tax returns no longer of interest. On the contrary: it makes them far more so. You’re not a private individual. We need to know exactly how you’ve been enriching yourself all these years.
Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
Duh, we know the election is over, that’s (again) not the point. Oddly enough you become all the more accountable to us once you’re elected, not less so – that is, you do if you follow normal procedures, which because you’re corrupt and dishonest, you don’t. Hence the rallies yesterday: people dislike your corruption and lying and secrecy.
On Saturday, in marches held in Washington DC, Los Angeles and in cities worldwide, thousands demanded a chance to examine Trump’s business ties and determine whether he has links to foreign powers.
Such concerns have been piqued in recent days after Prospect magazine published an interview with Sir Richard Dearlove.
The former chief of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency said: “What lingers for Trump may be what deals – on what terms – he did after the financial crisis of 2008 to borrow Russian money when others in the west apparently would not lend to him.”
See that’s a red flag right there. If others wouldn’t lend to him after the financial crisis of 2008, that seems to indicate that Russia may have offered some sort of special deal. We’ll lend to you but you have to ______. It would be good to know what goes in the blank space.
(Blinks at ‘Someone should look at who paid…’)
It’s a wonder he doesn’t pass out, huffing on that dog whistle like that.
And who cares who, if anyone, paid for the Tax Day rallies? How would the answer change whether he should release his tax returns?
“The election is over” says the guy who keeps holding big victory rallies.
Easily winning the electoral college… Almost impossible for a Republican.
What… The hell… Is he on about? Crunch the numbers and that’s pretty much the only thing a Republican can do at this point.
Except the Electoral College is rigged in favour of conservatives.
Unfortunately there’s no unrigging the Electoral College. Liberals (and other goodish people) don’t want to live in the third world hellholes that control it…
BKiSA, there are some liberals who do live in these areas. We need the help of the big city folks, and when I read pundits, on both sides, they seem to think we should leave it alone because it is doing what it meant to do, and because somehow the idea that the majority of the people should control the majority of the votes is outlandish to them. They say “if we did away with the Electoral College, our country would be controlled by cities where most of the people are” and don’t seem to see anything but profundity in their statement. This would not necessarily be a bad thing for someone who is a liberal, but there is too much of the “listen to the heartland” or “the poor forgotten heartland” or “the good souls in the heartland who just want [fill in the blank with whatever noble utopian ideal they are supposed to want today]”. Until the pundits begin shouting in indignation that the office went to someone who got 3 million votes fewer than the opposition, nothing will happen.
By the way, 3 million votes is more than the entire population of the (heartland) state where I live. But we are considered more important than the millions who live in New York or California (but not Texas, because they tend to vote the same way the ‘heartland’ does).