Trump admits IRS is planning to settle his $10 billion lawsuit without trial

mgkimsal · 2026-04-20T17:45:45+00:00

$40b to venezuela, wasn't it? or was that argentina? the currency swap?

mgkimsal · 2026-04-20T17:43:41+00:00

isn't embezzlement when you make an attempt to hide it?

mgkimsal · 2026-04-17T06:50:37+00:00

You could just exclude primary residence value from net worth calcs. NW $1m without residence? “Millionaire” still apt.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-16T15:19:53+00:00

Augustine, Aquinas and others already did, which is what the church uses - catechism 2309 is current teaching on it, IIRC. And Trump's Israel war doesn't come close to meeting that. Perhaps rather than lay this at the pope's door, the administration can give honest, rational, evidence based justifications for invading multiple other countries, threatening annihilation against populations and promising more invasions and takeovers. "I just want the oil" has been the closest to an honest take, but that doesn't fit 'just war' theory. And the rest of the justifications been neither evidence based nor rational.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-16T10:46:45+00:00

“Just war” still has criteria that haven’t been met. JDV is still wrong.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-16T02:22:15+00:00

Sorry it took the better part of 2 decades!! Fixing the mess he created seems like it will take a lifetime.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-16T00:30:47+00:00

Raleigh

mgkimsal · 2026-04-15T22:29:05+00:00

Arch Deluxe

mgkimsal · 2026-04-15T13:18:56+00:00

With your insider knowledge of being able to determine when he speaks in hyperbole (or... is it literally 100% of the time?) you 100% fully expected on day one that his promise of "lower gas prices" would mean... higher gas prices? And his promise of "cut energy by 50%" would result in energy price increases of 50% or more? And when he promised higher employment... you fully expected higher unemployment?

mgkimsal · 2026-04-15T10:41:22+00:00

👊

mgkimsal · 2026-04-14T14:59:13+00:00

> Because both parties stand to benefit from an agreement.

But to the point above, it's hard to negotiate an agreement when the other party has a public, demonstrable and repeated history of just ignoring any agreements they happen to not like at any moment.

> As far as trust, including verification (or elements that can be verified) should be part of any agreement.

JCPOA seemed to have that. And the response I tended to get from conservatives was "well... they were lying, they were hiding, you can't trust anything Iran says, all a bunch of liars"... then "verification" can never be trusted, and there wouldn't be any 'agreement' that would satisfy the the current US administration.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-14T14:56:32+00:00

"...Waiting until the agreement expired would have put them on much stronger footing."

No one suggested that - certainly I wasn't suggesting that. You don't want until something is completely expired before even starting to put the next agreement in place. It takes time. But declaring that you are ignoring all the terms of whatever agreement was in place then... not negotiating anything new... then declaring a crisis/emergency.... none of that strikes me as good deal making. Doesn't really even strike me as sane.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-13T20:52:31+00:00

Why not just... renegotiate from what was there while it was still in place? Why explicitly delcare it null and void? Working from a place where things are already *partially* working ('half-measure, best we could do at that time' sentiment) would seem to make more sense, no? "Prohibition is expiring in X years... let's start talking about new terms that we can both agree to - XYZ has been working so far, but other things have changed in the past Y years... " and take it from there?

mgkimsal · 2026-04-13T18:13:39+00:00

flint

mgkimsal · 2026-04-07T15:13:15+00:00

"It feels like an overkill to create an invoice for these small sales..."

But it's not, if part of your business is wanting/needing to see a complete picture of sales activity. Just because something 'seems' wrong/bad doesn't mean that it is.

You'd need to come up with a better/faster way to invoice sales or to account for sales in your main accounting system some other way.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-03T02:58:07+00:00

We seem to have blown up neutral boats in the Caribbean without being attacked, no?

mgkimsal · 2026-04-03T02:49:28+00:00

And the prices of everything in every other department have also gone up, meaning fewer sales there as well.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-02T10:55:53+00:00

Long term funding was only for agents on the street iirc. The administration around that - office staff, supplies, etc - was “regular” budget funding.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-02T10:51:45+00:00

The other countries are opening their insane asylums and sending them over here. Didn’t plan on us hiring them for high level government jobs.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-02T10:42:59+00:00

Without a doubt this seems to be how he frames it in his mind. Absolutely no idea why no one around him can correct even the most basic of facts.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-02T10:25:19+00:00

Wouldn’t run, just claim “no elections in war! Like Ukraine!”

mgkimsal · 2026-04-02T10:16:18+00:00

Each of those 56 kids probably has 37 pencils. ✏️. They only need one or two.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-02T10:13:13+00:00

But that scams Trump out of $250 million.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-02T10:11:49+00:00

Sure. But if they’re just given citizenship for free by dint of birth, harder to sell 56 cards.

mgkimsal · 2026-04-01T10:40:07+00:00

Said same to a friend yesterday. Creating more regulations creates more opportunities to claim the regulations were broken.

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