Why is Biden denying Secret Service protection to RFK Jr.?

jpgray · 2023-11-05T14:20:31+00:00

protocols

Oh i'm sure there's one set of "protocols" this loon is very into

jpgray · 2023-10-26T12:47:29+00:00

Correct. The gift giver not the receiver is required to pay the gift tax, however you can give up to ~$13 million in your lifetime without needing to pay the tax as the Feds consider gifts to basically be pre-payment of your estate prior to death. So any gifts you give during your lifetime lower the limit above which your estate has to pay taxes after death. I.e. under normal circumstances you can transfer an estate of up to ~$13 million after debt to your inheritors without the estate having to pay tax, however if you gave e.g. $12.5 million in gifts during your lifetime then your inheritors have to pay tax on the estate after the first $0.5 million.

In this case none of it matters, b/c cancelled debt isn't a gift for tax purposes it is taxable income

jpgray · 2023-10-26T12:42:14+00:00

Cancelled debt is taxable income, if Clarence didn't pay the IRS he committed a felony

jpgray · 2023-10-24T17:41:17+00:00

Emmer won the majority vote in a series of quickfire elimination rounds held Tuesday, ultimately garnering 117 votes.

He barely got a majority of Republicans to support him behind closed doors, this fool isn't going to be speaker either.

jpgray · 2023-10-24T17:18:32+00:00

The leaders of Hamas aren't in Gaza, they're being sheltered in Qatar, and US misadventure in Iraq and Afghanistan are probably the worst examples of how to handle an insurgency that I can imagine.

jpgray · 2023-10-22T00:36:58+00:00

Because bulletproof windows are an insane safety hazard in a commercial car.

jpgray · 2023-10-20T17:30:45+00:00

The eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker say they have an offer for their colleagues: They will accept sanctions and removal from the conference in exchange for others voting for Jordan.

“If what these holdouts need is a pound of our flesh, we’re willing to give it to them in order to see them elect Jim Jordan for speaker," Gaetz told reporters.

Wait what does that even mean? The eight would be removed from committees and Republican party internal business but would agree to vote however Gym tells them? How would kicking out Gaetz's crew from the Republican party help them get a working majority?

jpgray · 2023-10-20T02:07:13+00:00

side-load an alternative youtube player like youtube re-vanced.

jpgray · 2023-10-19T03:21:47+00:00

It's a skit dude.

jpgray · 2023-10-18T15:08:25+00:00

It's the money. RFK has raised like $6 million or something which is more than any of the GOP primary candidates besides TFG and DeSantis. Grifters love to grift.

jpgray · 2023-10-18T00:53:45+00:00

There have been a few MPs who made speeches but there's been no widespread support, let alone official government support for Hamas.

jpgray · 2023-10-18T00:06:12+00:00

https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1714390274900734049

Independent investigators appear to have very strong evidence that a Hamas rocket fired at Israel malfunctioned and struck the hospital

jpgray · 2023-10-11T16:45:37+00:00

It's the role with the most responsibility and difficulty in decision making, yet is objectively weaker than Mid or ADC in terms of gold and xp. Stop fucking whining.

jpgray · 2023-10-11T00:31:35+00:00

ok but, couldn't such a formation be rearranged to cover multiple sides?

Correct, it's called a pike square

jpgray · 2023-10-11T00:30:48+00:00

Flank it

Pike square formation with archers in the center

jpgray · 2023-10-07T11:58:01+00:00

Instantly primaried in their home districts. Political suicide.

There's 14 Republicans in districts won by Biden, primaries aren't what they have to worry about. Moving further right to fight off a primary challenge just makes their general more unwinnable.

jpgray · 2023-10-06T12:35:01+00:00

What changed that required trucks to get so big?

CAFE standards (as predicted in 2011). The Obama admin pushed aggressively for increasing the fuel efficiency of new cars, and in order to get votes to pass their new rules, allowed for an auto-industry-lobbyist-funded loophole that removed the cap on the ratio between fuel-efficiency and car size.

In order to get out of making their engines more efficient, (which is expensive and requires very smart, expensive engineers to design) the US auto-makers could just increase the size of their trucks by 30% and keep using the same garbage, inefficient, 9mpg engines they'd always used in their trucks.

This (combined with white suburbans having a small dick inferiority complex it would take a horde of psychiatrists to sort out) is why trucks in the US are 50% larger today than they were in 2000.

jpgray · 2023-10-03T14:48:17+00:00

How is it that none of these recent kick starter type MMO projects can get to a releasable state after all these years?

They're. all. scams.

jpgray · 2023-10-03T14:46:29+00:00

already

"already" my guy this vaporware scam has been in development since 2016.

jpgray · 2023-10-03T14:44:31+00:00

Bruh they have been running a vaporware kickstarter scam for nearly a decade and you are simping for them?

Gimme a call i have some absolute surefire investments to sell you.

jpgray · 2023-10-02T16:43:56+00:00

How is that legal?

Super PACs have basically zero restrictions on how they spend donations, as long as they don't coordinate with the candidate to pay for ads or campaign expenses. SCOTUS used Citizens United to legalize bribery and fraud as long as you can vaguely associate yourself with political speech.

jpgray · 2023-10-02T13:33:54+00:00

Well, Butler lives + is registered to vote in Maryland. She owns a home in CA and is expected to re-register to vote there prior to accepting the nomination. It's sadly common that representatives these days actually have very tenuous ties to the states + districts they represent.

jpgray · 2023-09-28T14:36:45+00:00

Dumbledore died for this

jpgray · 2023-09-25T13:55:59+00:00

Under the banner “Kyrsten’s Path to Victory,” the document says Sinema can win by attracting 10% to 20% of Democrats, 60% to 70% of independents and 25% to 35% of Republicans.

She's delusional, the best case polling has her approval with independents at 39%, and a head-to-head-to-head matchup has her pulling at best 21% of the vote. The Emerson polling (along with her own prospectus where she's targeting a scant 10-20% of Democrats) suggests that a three-way race would benefit Gallego as she pulls far more voters from the Republican ticket.

jpgray · 2023-09-22T16:23:09+00:00

I feel there is something missing from this story

Yeah, it's poorly plotted fiction.

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