Theres a tinge of hypocrisy there. But Trump has a well known 50 year career in big real estate. This Harrison is mainly identified as a former party chairman. I don’t know how parallel the two situations are.
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Candidate SS Biden Today Admitted, After Months of Denial, That He Sometimes Forgets He is Wearing a Mask and Accidentally Waterboards Himself.
Trump Administration allows USPS to auction Chinese Virus Postcard to increase funding for sitting mailmen.
Trump tweet September 12, 2020:
My next 6 years will be the best and most productive of any sitting president since Andy Jackson. I will laser focus on the poor, un/under-educated, who have the additional misfortune of being so gullible that PT Barnum and Bernie Madoff would weep for them.
Dictators and Socialists need a poorly educated proletariat and control of the media. President Trump will help to educate the masses and possibly even offer opportunities to those misbegotten souls who are lost.
Wow! Democrats have already taken over the USPS and immediately instituted cutting-edge socialist management tools. Workers Rejoice!
More accurate than anything else posted!
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After candidate SS Biden agrees to let Scientific American test his brain for CTE. Sadly, neither the geniuses at SA or SS Biden set the date for said examination.
So anytime you haven’t heard of something, I can just say you’re not paying attention. But I can’t call you a name that means the same thing, right?
What’s the difference between a nation-island and an island. Is it that one gets money from the primarily US funded UN and the other doesn’t? And finally, do you have proof that 50 years ago, these islands didn’t have displaced persons.
There are areas in practically every state in the union that have more frequent flooding on the streets. Is global cooling the cause for Charlotte NC to experience more flooding than previously?
Have at it, but one thought as you do - look at the cities that have been run by Democrats for decades. I know the party line of the mean Republican Governors and Presidents have kept the cities down, but please consider that there might be another reason.
Great, I feel better already … just kidding … actually, feel pretty good all the time. 
It’s also important to feel like one is doing “good” in the big scheme of things, so these kinds of “we’ve been so bad” and “we must fix it or the planet will die” are easy to fall into. I did, but not for feeling good about myself. I did it for the girls. 
Actually back in 2019 Graham did say that everybody running for office should publish their tax returns and he has released his own in this cycle so I don’t see a huge inconsistency. No he has not lambasted Trump to great lengths for not releasing his but come on, he was not gonna do this to someone within his own party beyond that statement he did. It’s understandable that he’d be pressing his opponent much harder than he did Trump on this even if it seems like double-standards.
Now I don’t know the reason for Harrison to not release his but there’s really no excuse in any case. IRS stated many times that being audited was not a hurdle. And no matter how complex, if someone was able to figure the taxes out to file the returns, many people will be more than competent to analyze them (IRS agents and tax accountants) to explain it to the public.
So all excuses are just BS to hide the fact that you’re not paying as much taxes as you claim or you’re not giving to charities like you claim, you’re using loopholes/tax strategies not accessible to most taxpayers, or you’re wealthier/not as wealthy as you claim. Just like when Buffet published his own taxes to show that his effective tax rate was lower than his secretary. The optics are definitely not good and that was his point. But someone like Trump (and likely Harrison too) who is probably in similar situation does not want this picked apart as campaign fodder for his opponent. It’s understandable strategically but it needs to be called for what it is.
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Please refrain from using that imagery…
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A POTUS home run in last evening’s debate . . er . . I mean town meeting. It just seemed like a debate between Trump and “moderator” George “I’m a news man” Stephanopoulos.
So funny. But wonderful debate prep for our President.
At one point Trump accused the diminutive Stephanopoulos of being a Democrat and the little guy did not bat an eye. Of course it was plainly obvious to all present and to everyone watching at home on TV. But Trump did not become at all perturbed with George’s constant ripostes. Instead he just kept hammering away in a good natured manner. This was effective, George knew it, and he was not pleased.
Trump is out there meeting voters and setting the standard. Biden needs now to respond in kind. I’m not certain he is able. Biden cannot do an event like that from his basement.
That was fair since he was WH communication director under Bill Clinton.
I think so too. Although he has less of a track record to discuss with voters, he should meet undecided voters in a similar setting to promote his platform. Have someone like Mike Wallace moderate. He’s obviously not in Biden’s camp and sharp enough to keep Biden straight on his answers.
Impossible but highly appropriate. You see:
Mike passed away back in 2012. So impossible.
And Joe cannot have that many years remaining. So highly appropriate.
Oh damn I meant Chris Wallace who did the interview of Trump a few weeks back.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Why I never said a word! 
Seriously, Chris will soon be moderating the first debate so I doubt it would be appropriate for him to do a “one-on-one” with Biden at this point.
Nope, IMO not understandable. Country before party. Oath of office applies to everyone in office.
It’s only “understandable” through a completely partisan lens, where it’s expected none of the elected representatives will be working for the people or the country but solely for their own self interests.
Well yeah… they have longer life expectancy and higher incomes. Such a failure…
Filibuster is dead. McConnel has killed it. It makes no sense for a (potential) Democrat controlled senate to keep around any filibuster.
Supreme Court can potentially be expanded as well, after the shenanigans McConnell has pulled.
OK. Safe to say then that you’ve never heard of Harry Reid? Right?
Harry did it first!! And not all that long ago, either!!
Oh, and BTW, Harry is a Democrat . . . like you.
The problem for Wall Street, and indeed for the entirety of America, should Biden win, is that Biden has priorities which detract from our prosperity. You saw this during the Obama years with all the hamfisted regulations . . . . so many of which President Trump has repealed.
America prospers when people who want to become rich go for it. Why? Because most often those people realize early that they will need to hire other people to make their dreams come true.
I don’t care what color your skin is. If you can find a job you have a chance. This is true even if it’s only an entry level position. Because at that point it’s up to you to work hard and move up. A job also offers any individual a measure of self respect and independence, both invaluable.
But people on the dole, living off the efforts of others, do not really have a chance at the gold ring. Wealth redistribution is a catastrophe for America. And Biden does not know that. What we need instead is what Trump gave us prior to the pandemic: low unemployment and a good economy. And only Trump is capable of doing this once again, when the pandemic is on the wane.
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It is understandable, because Trump isn’t a career politician. His tax returns as a private citizen only provide fodder for crude, uninformed criticism. “He deducted millions! Loopholes! So corrupt!”.
There is nothing informative about them; everyone knows how he makes his money, and the specific numbers aren’t particularly meaningful.
Of course, I’m sure Democrats are expecting to find “Russian bribes” listed on the “Misc Other Income” line.
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I think either gridlock would be fine, Trump + D House and/or senate (although they’d probably impeach him for winning), or Biden + R senate. I think a D sweep would be bad for the country’s finances and the market would likely take it that way.
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That was only for Supreme Court nominations though. Not for other votes. And if Dems get SCOTUS nominations, nobody will blame them for using and abusing something GOP did in 2017 and would have used again should Sotomayor have left her seat open.
But I don’t know how I feel about changing those filibuster rules for all votes. On one hand, in a hyperpolarized country like today, it essentially means nothing can get done without being so water-down as to be nearly irrelevant. Like it or not, Dems have been on the benefiting side of it for preventing complete repeal of Obamacare forcing GOP to chip at it from a million angles without being able to totally kill it even though they controlled both chambers and the presidency for two years. The noble idea that the filibuster rule forced compromise has been soundly proven wishful thinking at this point. Senators prefer to not compromise to keep their base happy and get re-elected rather than compromise for the benefit of the country. That could also be solved somewhat by putting a two term limit on senator seats. Senators not looking for re-election may have the guts to put the interest of the country ahead of their own.
On the other hand, do we really want a system where things can be totally overhauled every 4 years? It sounds marginally better to me than having a do-nothing broken senate like we’ve had for a long while now. But it also sounds extremely ripe for extreme swings in policies at the mercy of the latest populist movement. Imagine if we had to totally change tax laws or entitlements every time one party controls both Chambers. Maybe moving the threshold to 55 could work where you need just a few moderates of the other party to side with the majority to pass. Maybe that’d be more workable than letting strict party line votes dictate policies just like in the House.
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