Invite ye felawes and frendes desirous in gold to enter the gates of Shrewd'm, for they will thanke ye later.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 3
Well, now Trump installs agents into the Criminal Investigation division of the IRS, with orders to go after left leaning groups. Just what we need. The US reminds me more and more of the Philippines every day.
Snip Trump Hatches New Plot to Attack His Political Enemies
A government agency is being reshaped as an instrument of presidential payback.
The Trump administration is overhauling the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division, making it easier to launch probes into Democratic groups and donors, and compiling a list of potential targets.
The overhaul includes installing President Donald Trump’s allies at the IRS-CI and weakening the role of IRS lawyers assisting agents with cases, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Snip
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-plots-m...I tried to get the WSJ, but the archiver told me to enable JS and disable my ad blocker. It does this sometimes even though JS is enabled and I have no ad blocker anymore.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Snip Trump Hatches New Plot to Attack His Political EnemiesThanks for reminding me. I remember an uproar about the IRA office in Cincinnati challenging the tax exempt status of organizations. Wondered how that came out.
In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under the Obama administration, revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes. This led to wide condemnation of the agency and triggered several investigations, including a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal probe ordered by United States Attorney General Eric Holder. Conservatives claimed that they were specifically targeted by the IRS, but an exhaustive report released by the Treasury Department's Inspector General in 2017 found that from 2004 to 2013, the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny.
On September 8, 2017, the Trump Justice Department declined to reopen the criminal investigation into Lois Lerner, a central figure in the controvershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_contro...As the report came out when his nibs was in power, seems the takeaway is there was not the slightest shred of evidence the IRS' investigation was biased against the right.
I mentioned a while back, that The Henry Ford, a museum complex in Dearborn, MI, has, at great expense, moved a house from Selma, Alabama to Greenfield Village, due the many prominent people in the civil rights movement who passed through that house in the 60s. The reassembled house is supposed to open next year. I would not be surprised if the regime declared the house "woke", and "crt", and demanded The Henry Ford tear the house down and destroy the materials, or their tax exempt status would be revoked.
https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/greenfield-vill...Steve...because history is what Lord Trump says it is
No. of Recommendations: 3
In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under the Obama administration, revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes.
Yes, U was thinking of this when I posted. There were 106 new orgs being looked at back then. Ya knew if there were 106 that probably 3 were fraudulent, but the problem is identifying them.
If they are plugging agents into CID, those fellows can access almost everything. So expect direct leaks of information and data to Trump, et al, and all hell to break loose during elections. Act Blue is one of the orgs they are after and we know they have no scruples.
No. of Recommendations: 3
I would not be surprised if the regime declared the house "woke", and "crt", and demanded The Henry Ford tear the house down and destroy the materials, or their tax exempt status would be revoked.
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Fantasizing and then blaming Trump for the F\fantasy. Surely your side has not run out of nazi stuff.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Fantasizing and then blaming Trump for the F\fantasy. Surely your side has not run out of nazi stuff.
What would you say if it happened?
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 11
Surely your side has not run out of nazi stuff.
Can't speak for them. But it's "fascist", to be more correct. "NAZI" is an actual party. While Reps are becoming much more fascist lately, they are not NAZIs...they are Republicans.
And there seems to be no shortage of fascism on display. They recently revoked some student visas, one of them being a German student. Ironically, he was calling Charlie Kirk "fascist". Which, of course, he mostly was (from what I've read of his quotes). When a German is calling you a fascist, that's something special. They know (and I believe have outlawed) fascists in Germany.
No. of Recommendations: 4
What would you say if it happened?
Steve
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I would say your side and the country would be better off if your side applied its vast college educated intellect in proposing solutions to real issues rather than working yourself into a frenzy over made up stuff.
Screaming "Trump is Hitler" is not a solution to anything, especially since he is not running again. Except you intellectuals have another fantasy that Trump is running in 2828 so you can whine and complain and warn the rest of us.
I forget, is Trump suspending elections or is he running for a third term. You seem to argue for both things but both cannot be true.
No. of Recommendations: 2
I forget, is Trump suspending elections or is he running for a third term. You seem to argue for both things but both cannot be true.
Too soon to tell. But I would say both are on the table for him. The Felon likes power, and probably won't want to give it up.
Tactically, it would make more sense to suspend elections. He he tried to run in 2028, enough states would refuse to put him on the ballot (by law) that he could never get enough EC votes to win.
No. of Recommendations: 3
I forget, is Trump suspending elections or is he running for a third term.
I don't think Trump knows. But it's likely that Trump screws up the economy, and some of his policies will down right hurt people. We've goown into this middle class oriented party, but we've got to change. The working schlub needs someone looking out for him.
I think people are worried about health care again.
No. of Recommendations: 7
And there seems to be no shortage of fascism on display. ~OPG
Yes Sir, it is undeniable, you nailed it!
This guy saw it...
"There is definitely an element of Donald Trump’s support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia." ~JD Vance
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?" ~JD Vance
No. of Recommendations: 1
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?" ~JD Vance
His nibs is a "JC". In my experience, the typical "JC" is a cynical, selfish, greedy, lying, manipulating, backstabbing, bullying, swaggering, tin-plated, dictator, with delusions of god-hood......what's the word?....psychotic?
Boton is comparing Trump to Stalin
Steve...HBTT
No. of Recommendations: 1
And this tells you all you need to know about JD Vance, a disgusting Quisling.
"There is definitely an element of Donald Trump’s support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia." ~JD Vance
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?" ~JD Vance
No. of Recommendations: 14
When a German is calling you a fascist, that's something special. They know (and I believe have outlawed) fascists in Germany.
As I've mentioned before, my 94 yr old Mom is a German Jew.
Some of her family moved back to Berlin after the war. She visited them regularly. On returning from some of those trips she talked about the rise of anti-semitic sentiment that did not end with the defeat of the Nazis.
Without hesitation, she calls the American right wing extremists 'Nazis.'
The voice of experience.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Screaming "Trump is Hitler" is not a solution to anythingHe is Hitler-like, as is Stephen Miller. How do you ignore the favoritism they extend to racist white South Africans, the incessant denigration of non-white christian people... Hegseths bigotry? Kirks blatant racism?
Would you even read this story in the New York Times that demonstrates the administrations efforts to
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/tru..."The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
The proposals, some of which already have gone into effect, would transform a decades-old program aimed at helping the world’s most desperate people into one that conforms to Mr. Trump’s vision of immigration — which is to help mostly white people who say they are being persecuted while keeping the vast majority of other people out."
The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD."Trump already began doing this, probably at Musk's behest, with the importation -at US taxpayers expense- of white Boers who are unhappy in an anti-apartheid South Africa.
No. of Recommendations: 13
Screaming "Trump is Hitler" is not a solution to anything,
It’s not supposed to be a solution to any specific single issue. It’s a warning at the macro level that Trump is following the same authoritarian path as Hitler.
Hitler was elected using the agreed upon process of the time. Then he dismantled that process piece by piece, like authoritarians before and after him have done, until the entire system of government had been bent and twisted and reshaped to his will.
That what we are beginning to see with Trump.
If Trump neither stops nor changes, we will continue down the path to an authoritarian government.
Get far enough along, and the arguments over abortion and 2nd amendment rights and Obamacare subsidies and immigration and climate change and inflation and interest rates and a whole host of other issues important to one side of the aisle or the other won’t matter. Everything will be decided by the authoritarian and not by any kind of democratic or legal process. And if anyone crosses the strongman or his acolytes, they will be dealt with harshly and without recourse.
—Peter
No. of Recommendations: 6
"If Trump neither stops nor changes, we will continue down the path to an authoritarian government.
Get far enough along, and the arguments over abortion and 2nd amendment rights and Obamacare subsidies and immigration and climate change and inflation and interest rates and a whole host of other issues important to one side of the aisle or the other won’t matter. Everything will be decided by the authoritarian and not by any kind of democratic or legal process. And if anyone crosses the strongman or his acolytes, they will be dealt with harshly and without recourse."
I 100% would bet a lot of money that if anyone here asked Dumbass Dope or BHM if they have any problem at all with what Trump has done while in office, they will not say anything meaningful. At best they will offer up some wishy-washy response about something like Trump taking his eggs over easy instead of over hard. Literally it will be about nothing that matters.
Here is a hint. If you are unable to be significantly bothered by at least one thing Trump has done, you are a fucking clueless moron, or a fascist. There isn't really any other option.
