The controversy is about corporate anonymity, not money laundering directly. Delaware's economy was built on corporate anonymity, thanks to Joe Biden. I'd wager more money laundering occurs in Delaware than anywhere else in the US.

I worked at a money laundering operation while in college. I had no idea until about 10 years later when the FBI came looking to talk to me. In hindsight, the signs were there.

#3 Trump doesn't have pets

"I would be amiss if I don't mention these are the same types who think a 10yr rape victim should be forced to have the baby."

How did you draw that conclusion?

"You'd think that after all that time it would have at some point dawned on him that that's not how thread promotion werks around here."

How does thread promotion work?

"You posted this article, you must agree with it."

If you bothered to read the article you would see it is chock full of statistics, facts and research. It's not heavy on opinion, and my posting of it does not convey mine.

Yet for some reason, statistics, facts and opinions from NPR are triggering to you.

You do you, little man.

Thank you Sentinel, for explaining the process. Interesting that some of you choose to attack me for simply posting an NPR article. I expressed no opinion and added no commentary of my own, but Clown and the dead guy want to fight me. It's NPR dude, not some vast right wing conspiracy.

#9 Lampy, can you help me understand where the Rebecca Solnit Facebook post came from? The only link I posted was to the NPR article.

Tariffs are a tax. Period. Tariffs will be passed on to consumers, we all know this. What I don't get is why people don't view increasing Corporate Income tax through the same lens.

For example, Harris vowed to increase the corporate income tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, Increase the corporate AMT tax from 15 percent to 21 percent, Quadruple the stock buyback tax from 1 percent to 4 percent"

Yet for some reason people tout this strategy as a way to "Rein in Corporate Greed". I've got news for you. Walmart is going to raise consumer prices to cover the increased taxation, regardless of the form it takes. The result is EXACTLY the same.

"Gaslighting ourselves is part of the reason we just lost, badly.

#20 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG AT 2024-11-24 09:57 AM"

Indeed!

Somebody told Trump his cabinet was looking too white so he's trying to find the right position for P Diddy.

#26 We have so much in common. Slide Rule, shortwave radio. I listened to Motown radio from my grandparents house in Alabama....I still have the radio. Now i use it to listen to the aircraft that I see fly by window.

Eberly, I don't know how old you are, and I'm not going to tell you my age, but most people I know don't have twitter accounts, and many don't even know what Tik Tok is. Facebook? Yeah, they are all over Facebook, liking and sharing inane ----.

"I discovered Harry always read multiple newspapers daily, to get varied takes on events.

I adopted the habit, and it stunned me how often basic facts claimed differed from article to article"

Me too. Whenever a story breaks, I'm flipping channels with the remote. trying to discern the truth. The underlying facts may be the same, but at each channel the phrasing changes as bias gets inserted. Adjectives matter, even tone of voice changes perceptions.

Unfortunately, "multiple newspapers" isn't enough either. Each original story spawns hundreds of other articles that are just lazy copies with a few phrases changed. The same thing appearing 500 times doesn't make it true.

Note the way they spin it up, taking it back to the primary FACTUAL source:

"I trust my 15 year old nephew to make better decisions online than I do my 70 year old mother."

LOL, this. The elderly are, in some ways, more vulnerable to online exploitation than children. They will literally click on anything, the flashier the better. At least with kids, parents can control router access or use software to limit exposure. The only thing that slows down Granny is when her laptop gets swamped with popups or frozen from malware. When that happens I give her a few days to live with it then I send the 15 year old over to fix it for her.

Maybe if Congresspeople spent less time in DC interracting with lobbyiests and more time in their districts, interracting with their consituents, we would have actual "representative" government that the founders intended.

Simple answer. Merrick Garland did not bring charges because there was no evidence of a federal crime. Garland can't charge state offenses. As to the 17 year old at the sex party in Florida, the circumstances, though aborrhent, would not lead to a reasonable probability of conviction, regardless of the identity of the offender.

I could go into the reasons why, but I'm sure i would be attacked for "defending him" which I am not. He is a creep. Our criminal justice system is set up to protect creeps.

And yes, July is miserable in Florida. December is wonderful

#33 excuse my lack of specificity, but I dint want to go too deep. Yes, it does vary by time of year, and I won't specify which highways because that would give away my location. I would wager it is most of them. Lots of Canadian vehicles on our roads, particularly RV's

As far as cost of living, I was referring to those who relocate here from other places. As a friend of mine says, "the only thing worse than the bugs down here is a Yankee with a u-haul"

Any time of the year, more than half the license plates on Florida highways are from out of state, and half of them are from Canada. ( I know, we used to count them) Lots of snowbirds in all parts of Florida, not just Orlando, Miami and the Keys. British and other high latitude European tourists flock to Florida beaches on both coasts.

Many choose lower cost of living and warm weather over social justice and politics. It is every man for himself.

I'm sure some of this has changed with the advent of electronic transactions, but when I was a server, each employee had a minimum of 10% of their sales added to their W2 as tip income whether they made it or not.

For terrible service, I tip 10%, because the server has to pay taxes on that, and I certainly don't expect a server having a lousy day to actually pay the IRS for the privilege of waiting on me. "Bad service" is often beyond the server's control (kitchen issues, short staffed, no colverage for breaks, etc) Don't punish them.

"Black people don't tip"is a racist lie and self fulfilling prophecy. When you treat a customer with disregard, like you don't expect them to tip you, they can tell, and they won't.