The guy who Jacob Wohl claimed was Kamala Harris’s lover says he was hired via Craigslist and paid $500 to read from a script, that he was told it was for a Spike TV show, and he had no idea Harris was a real person.
Wohl may just be the most incompetent troll in the history of trolling.
The thing I can’t figure out about people like Wohl is, are they actually stupid? Or have they just correctly identified how little effort it takes to grift conservatives?
Does he make any money off of this? If I could easily make money posting ridiculous crap that people believe, I would.
Well, let’s do that then! We could call our site somewhat opposite of Straight Dope. Like Crooked Intellectual. That would attract a lot of the alt-truthers. I’m in!
Trump is now operating under the Unitary Sovereign Executive Citizen mindset. If there’s gold fringe on the flag, it doesn’t count. He can say the magic words and people have to let him go. He doesn’t want to create joinder with you, tho; let’s be clear about that. As President, everything he says is law, too. And, legally, because he’s President, he’s the best at everything so everyone has to do what he says.
On The View today, Rand Paul said that only people who earn more than $50,000 pay taxes.
Rand Paul is an idiot with stupid hair.
I make $45,000 a year and I pay taxes.
Rand Paul can lick my schwanz.
I gather that lots of people with incomes below $50K don’t pay “income tax” but do pay “payroll tax”, a distinction that’s fascinating and relevant to politicians and economists but not to people actually paying those taxes. I’d like Paul to explain to an hourly employee why that Social Security tax they pay isn’t really an income tax, but a totally different tax that doesn’t count.
Also, of course, Paul doesn’t take into account state and local taxes and sales taxes.
As far as I can tell, any actual official who’s tried that “skin the game” crap has been careful to specify that 47% (or whatever) of the people don’t pay federal income tax. This gets readily picked up by the glennbecks of the world who restate it as 47% of the population pay no taxes at all.
Not only do lower- or middle-income people pay taxes, but they very often pay taxes that are higher, as a percentage of their income, than the rich! Contrary to confused and lying right-wingers, Buffett’s secretary really is taxed at a higher rate than Buffett is.
SocSec funding and spending can either be treated as part of the Federal Government, or SocSec can be regarded as a financial entity distinct from the government. Either approach is legitimate. What is NOT legitimate is to treat it as part when it suits your agenda, and not part in the very next paragraph when you want the opposite spin,* yet this is precisely what right-wingers love to do***: Lament about SocSec spending in the context of the tax burden on Job Creators, yet then pretend that workers don’t pay taxes.
There’s an excellent NYTimes article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/opinion/sunday/wealth-income-tax-rate.html which lays out the tax burden across income percentiles. Include Property tax, payroll and income. Eye opening, if you haven’t been paying attention.
Wohl and Burkman claim they’re going to produce the guy who provides drugs to Pelosi and Schiff.
(Yeah, I know it’s Sputnik, but they’re just reporting Pelosi’s tweets)
I just used Google to look up a definition, therefore my legal opinion here is sound. Legal zoom sound, no less.
It turns out that these 2 numb fucks are guilty of defamation of character. I’m going with slander. But in my newly expert opinion (from gancing at most of the paragrahs I saw.) Pelosi or Schiff, Harris, Warren and any of the others would have to file a civil suit.
As public figures, Pelosi, Schiff, et al would need to show actual malice. What a reasonable person might think or believe isn’t sufficient in that case. To show actual malice, you need to show what the 2 numb fucks were actually thinking–that they knew or didn’t give a shit that their statements were both false and damaging. If they did hire people to read a script, that would seem to meet that bar.
GOP Senator afraid of being asked about Trump:
Risch, too cowardly to face a few words, retreated into a safe space and barely avoided melting like the snowflake he is.
It’s the Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy (“Peter the Great”)
The deleted tweet in question:
Posted here rather than the Clusterfuck thread because it currently appears a third party, rather than the administration, was responsible:
The clip, which the article says appeared to have been lifted from the movie Kingsman: the Secret Service, apparently showed a figure with Trump’s head firing at representations of media members and political opponents including the late Sen. John McCain, Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Mitt Romney, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CNN.
:rolleyes: It was bound to happen sooner or later. That will really help, eh? It just gives FPT* more ammunition (as it were). His people will probably take that video and plaster the CNN logo across the bottom to “prove” they put out fake news.
My take was that it was made by FPT supporters for FPT supporters.