"Some industries command pricing power while others look to be absorbing the levies."

Huh.

Republicans always say any tax hikes just get passed along to the consumer.

That's what it means to command pricing power.

But it looks like some other companies aren't doing that. They are cutting into revenue rather than pass along the costs.

And that's how raising taxes can put companies out of business.

And Republicans are raising taxes on any business that imports and exports, thanks to retaliatory tariffs.

Remember when Republicans were crowing about Energy Independence a few years ago?

They're about to Find Out.

Believe any lie to protect their warm fuzzy feelings that Trump is going to finally make things right for them. After a lifetime of struggle and suffering.

BJ has been given all these facts ad infinitum for years.... and he doesn't care. Because he's in a Cult.
#229 | Posted by Corky

But Corky you must understand:

A cult is the closest thing to friends that BillJohnson has ever had.

They're all like him. All the MAGAs. They are so in need of emotional support, they'll do anything to protect him.

He was a shady lobbyist with sketchy ties but if that makes someone a "Russian asset", DC is full of them.

This is what Manafort a Russian asset:

The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded in its August 2020 final report that as Trump campaign manager "Manafort worked with Kilimnik starting in 2016 on narratives that sought to undermine evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election" and to direct such suspicions toward Ukraine. The report characterized Kilimnik as a "Russian intelligence officer" and said Manafort's activities represented a "grave counterintelligence threat."
--wikipedia

"What they did find was a Clinton funded dossier, a politicized FBI, and a media that ran with fiction like it was gospel."

You still can't say what parts of the Steele Dossier are fact, fiction, or still unknown.

So how can you say it's fiction?

Your claim is laughable.

I like how they said, it's to protect the Druze. Can't help but make it be somebody else's fault.

What percent of that did they have to pay as a bribe to Trump?
#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce

I believe Jensen paid $100M to attend some Mar A Lago dinner back around Liberation Day.

Republicans are fine with that.

Three months of increasing inflation.

Trump promised he would fix this.
Trump is causing this.

"Officers are required to make an arrest where evidence of domestic violence exists"

This doesn't come close to explaining why he was in jail, for 100 days, at tremendous expense compared to the county jail.

If there was no collusion, it wasn't for lack of trying.

Attempted collusion, attempted coup. It just isn't a crime to Republicans.

"He denied collusion because there wasn't any."

Can you acknowledge Manafort gave Trump campaign data to the Russians, or do you deny it.

What do you think Russia might do with that data?

Now, define this "collusion" you're saying didn't happen.

Trump acknowledged the interference. He denied collusion because there wasn't any. That's the point. No one was charged.

^
Who was gonna charge him, Trump's AG?

It's different in the winter. But it is a very reasonable place to live. They believe in social services, much like California does.

It's the only major city in a 500 mile radius so anyone who wants to leave the small town life but doesn't want to leave the other parts of the culture ends up there. You know, like gay people from the neighboring states will end up there.

Also, the entire city burned to the ground when the police assaulted the George Floyd protesters, according to Republicans.

I want the list out.
#137 | Posted by eberly

Your Republican Representative in the House voted to keep the list secret.

You don't care enough to call them and speak your mind, I assume.

"The bipartisan Senate report said Russia wanted Trump to win and that his campaign welcomed it. That's not collusion."

Collusion is not a crime, so why bother denying it?

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"Manafort? Yeah terrible pick. But calling him a "Russian asset" is a stretch."

It's not a stretch at all.

"Our disagreement is over the law enforcement conspiracy."

What you describe is not a conspiracy. It's the opposite; it's everyone casting a blind eye. That doesn't require skullduggery and backroom dealings. Just willful ignorance.

It just requires the "good cops" to do nothing while the "few bad apples" spoil the barrel.

It's not a conspiracy.
It's apathy to ones own willful ignorance.
And apathy always supports the status quo.

I mean, this is pretty much what you're always telling us about most everything: That people don't much care. Because they choose not to.

Eberly do you agree with BillJohnson, or should Trump keep his promise and release the information?

"If somehow Trump's sex life becomes the story"

The story is Trump's "sex life" is raping 13 year old girls.

What the ---- is the matter with you people that your call what a predator does his "sex life?"

Eberly sure did go grab a snack, I'm sure he'll brb to say if he agrees with BillJohnson.

You really think Trump should drop everything and play the morality police while he's juggling nukes, global war, and an economy on the edge?
Same as Alex...just think for a second.
#109 | Posted by BillJohnson

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This is the same narrative place you guys end up when it's school shootings. It's always "too soon" to act.

By your reasoning above, so long as any of the powerful perpetrators are alive, the time is never going to be right to tell the truth.

And thus the crimes of the rich and powerful will never be punished.

And you want it to be that way.

This is why we are not the same. And, frankly, why I think you don't have any morals at all.

I mean it's not Trump's position to out people in other countries what they did with Epstein.
Just think about the international problems that would be created.
#102 | Posted by BillJohnson

Eberly, is Bill Johnson right?

Should the information remain hidden, for the same reasons Barney Fife shouldn't enforce the laws on the rich and powerful. For all the problems it would create.

I think we are close to having a breakthrough here.

"These people should be exposed."

It's not your call moron.

I've known liberals who think anyone gay should be outed. Are you one of those? I bet your are.
#101 | Posted by BillJohnson

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This piece of ---- human being just equated being gay with abusing children.

So, big picture, should Trump release the list?

Or would that be too disputive, like expecting Barney Fife to enforce the law in a Small Town?

I think this is where the rubber meets the road for you and all Republicans, Eberly.