Trump Disgraces America Every Day

[Chicks]

Orange Dufus' Payroll Tax Plan Fizzles

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump...224300958.html

President* Trump’s payroll tax deferral plan is fizzling.

The plan, meant to boost workers’ incomes by allowing their employers to postpone collection of the 6.2% employee share of the tax funding Social Security, took effect at the beginning of the month. So far, though, big employers are rejecting the idea, concerned about the complexity of administering a temporary deferral and about having to pay back the uncollected taxes next year.

The New York Times’s Jim Tankersley reports:

“More than a month after Mr. Trump signed an executive memorandum to defer the collection of the payroll taxes that workers pay to help fund Social Security, few companies or people are taking part. Trade groups and tax experts say they know of no large corporations that plan to stop withholding employees’ payroll taxes this fall. As a result, economic policy experts now say they expect the deferral to have little to no effect on economic growth this year.”

Small businesses and even some Republican-run states are balking at Trump’s tax deferral, too. And Bloomberg News's Laura Davison and Steve Matthews add:

“Even the House of Representatives isn’t going ahead, concluding it ‘would not be in the best interests’ of employees. The Senate’s still mulling it over. That largely leaves the federal government largely on its own in proceeding, with its workers.”

No trust in Trump: As The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake notes, those decisions to not participate in the deferral come even as Trump has repeatedly pledged to have the deferred taxes forgiven if he’s reelected. “The reaction shows how little confidence American businesses — and even some red states — have in Trump’s promise,” Blake writes. “There’s very little reason not to defer the taxes if you think they’ll be forgiven at a later date.”

[Pio1980]

The deep malevolence that drives Trump’s behavior has now been laid bare

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/the...een-laid-bare/

[Chicks]

MICHAEL COHEN’S DAUGHTER REFLECTS ON HIS TIME WITH THE PRESIDENT, AND BECOMING TRUMPWORLD “COLLATERAL DAMAGE”
Samantha Cohen never liked Donald Trump—especially after her dad paid the price for spending years by his side. Here, she talks Trump’s creepy sexual comments, Ivanka’s iciness, and her friendship with Tiffany: “I know there’s no way she believes that s--t.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...ime-with-trump

Emily Jane Fox: The book contains a stunning story about Trump making a comment about how you looked when you were 15.

Samantha Cohen: There are so many creepy men, and it was hardly the first comment like that I’d heard. It was almost meaningless to me at the moment because I’d heard them before. If you can hit on a 15-year-old, I am pretty sure there is something wrong with you, and when you allow someone with that little integrity to be in the most powerful office, that sets the tone for the rest of the country’s culture.

I'm still flummoxed at how Trumpkins are fully aware of the complete and utter lack of character of this slimeball, yet still stand behind him. A cult is really the only explanation. Jim Jones raped young girls, brought to him by their mothers. Trumpkins would no doubt allow Donny to do the same to their daughters. "Deplorables" doesn't even begin to describe them.

[Chicks]

Mary Trump says Donny's 'desperation' led him to accuse Biden of drug use

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/13/media...ugs/index.html

Mary Trump said her uncle has accused Biden of mental instability because the president himself has been accused of lacking mental fitness in his old age. Trump has defended himself by claiming he aced a cognitive test, although that does not -- as he claimed -- indicate mental superiority.

"He projects about almost everything," Mary Trump said. "Normalizing him — which has been going on for decade — is one of the reasons we're here."

[Chicks]

Randy Rainbow's latest gem.

https://youtu.be/TI8RZhhoBM0

[Chicks]

In Visiting a Charred California, Orange Shitstain Confronts a Scientific Reality He Denies
A president* who has mocked climate change and pushed policies that accelerate it is set to be briefed on the scorched earth and ash-filled skies that experts say are the predictable result.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/u...te-change.html

What will the deniers do when it affects them profoundly? Keep on living in their fantasy world, or wake up to reality?

[donquixote99]

Some wake up, some don't.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

In Visiting a Charred California, Orange Shitstain Confronts a Scientific Reality He Denies
A president* who has mocked climate change and pushed policies that accelerate it is set to be briefed on the scorched earth and ash-filled skies that experts say are the predictable result.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/u...te-change.html

What will the deniers do when it affects them profoundly? Keep on living in their fantasy world, or wake up to reality?

All they gotta do is rake up all the leaves and pick up them "explosive trees".
(sarcasm)

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

All they gotta do is rake up all the leaves and pick up them "explosive trees".
(sarcasm)

I'll just put this here in case the resident idiot Trumpkins should ever visit the thread ...

In terms of which entity manages the forests in California, the federal government, manages more land than the state of California. The federal government manages 57 percent of the forests in California, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office. The state manages 2 percent. Private owners are responsible for 39 percent.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/majority-o...-isnt-to-blame

[Chicks]

Lock Him Up?
For the Republic to survive Trump’s presidency, he must be tried for his crimes. Even if that sparks a constitutional crisis of its own.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/arti...osecution.html

In the end, the most salient fact about Donald Trump may simply be that he is a crook. He has been defying the law since at least the early 1970s, when he battled the Department of Justice over his flagrant refusal to allow Black tenants into his father’s buildings. He has surrounded himself with mafiosi, money launderers, and assorted lowlifes. His former attorney, national security adviser, and adviser, and two of his campaign managers, have been arrested on or convicted of an array of federal crimes ranging from tax fraud to perjury to threatening witnesses. He employs the lingo of the underworld: People who cooperate with law enforcement are “flippers” and “rats”; investigators pursuing his misconduct are “dirty cops.” To him, the distinction between legal and illegal activity is merely an artificial construct enforced by sanctimonious hypocrites.