The IRS did something wrong, so they apologized for it. All well and good. The problem is that the wrong thing the IRS did and apologized for is not the same as the wrong thing conservatives said they did; the conservative version imaginary unless Pres. Obama was psychic and time travelling and also hated liberals.
It'd help a LOT if the Israeli's didn't tolerate their fellow Israeli's behaving like active settler-colonialists in the territories as they have been doing for decades (and it's been getting steadily worse).
Not even you have such bad reading comprehension DD.
Since the report concluded that the impacts fell on both conservative and liberal groups, since the report concluded that the IRS had come up with these procedures on their own without instruction from above and since the report concluded that this stuff had been going on since 2004 your characterization of Obama having ordered the IRS to investigate the taxes of conservatives is completely false on, like, three different axes.
The only way it'd work is if Obama considered both liberals and conservatives to be his opponents; could subliminally command the IRS somehow and also travelled back in time to start doing it in 2004.
The GOP of the Trump era crawled all over this and despite having every motivation to prosecute any malfeasance they could find or make up, they didn't file any charges at all. That's because it wasn't some partisan targetted scheme by the Obama admin. It was just an internal bureaucratic snafu.
The IRS apologized because they agreed it'd not been good procedure but the "scandal" was discredited as any form of Obama era partisan program.
In late September 2017 (under Trump, mind), an exhaustive report by the Treasury Department's inspector general found that from 2004 to 2013, the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny, blunting claims that the issue had been an Obama-era partisan scandal. The 115-page report confirmed the findings of the prior 2013 report that some conservative organizations had been unfairly targeted, but also found that the pattern of misconduct had been ongoing since 2004 and was non-partisan in nature.
Not to mention the IRS "scandal" was pretty much completely discredited from stem to stern. Eh, forget the facts, it's too good a story to let go even if it didn't happen the way they say it did.
She's around double the max that a normal non-profit ratio is considered acceptable at (35%) so unless she's getting an absolutely staggering return on the pennies she's throwing at water efforts, I'm not abashed to call her a grifter.
36 cents (Max- they probably spend money fundraising too) out of every dollar that goes to her organization maybe goes to the cause it ostensibly serves. The rest goes into her pocket or the pocket of her crony employee. That's classic nonprofit nest feathering.
Actually, by the numbers, Ms. Jones doesn't appear to do a lot of good for anyone other than Ms. Jones. It seems unfair to the UN, the US Government and the World Bank to lump them in with Ms. Jones.
Ugh, that cost breakdown for the non-profit makes my teeth itch. I am not quite to the point of fearing that the non-profit sector is to the left as the Christian mega-preacher movement is to the right, but I worry that the two are at least nodding acquaintances.
Well pro-lifers are generally pretty up front about their being dead set on trying again, if the lose, and pushing further, if they win. So that attitude from pro-choicers is entirely rational.
It's hard to go abduct a political opponent when you're all pushing your walkers and have an appointment at Old Country Buffet.
Alternatively it's undesirable to try and terrorize when you're middle aged and have a lot of money and property to lose in the civil trial while you're rotting in jail from the criminal conviction. That covers most of the participants of one side in our two side conflict.
Vast civil conflicts are a young persons' game and the youngs are mostly on one side and it's the side that's not interested in vast civil conflict. It's easier to just talk big on the internets.
If you mean random murdering that's been happening forever. If you mean some kind of "Troubles" style widespread irregular civil conflict then I would refer back to my original objection.
I think if we widen the definition of "war" very much at all it rapidly stops becoming war at all and you should probably pick a different, and probably less scary, word.
I put my nickel on option C: just muddle along. Divorce is too expensive- neither side wants it, and the only side that'd consider war is too old and decrepit to really make a go of it.
Awfully good night for the Dems. Nice to return to the country to this.Now I just have to keep chanting to myself "Polls this far out from the election are basically noise.Polls this far out from the election are basically noise."
In addition to what Pinky said the number of people you're talking about is also small so there's a lot less room for variation within that population pool.
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The IRS did something wrong, so they apologized for it. All well and good. The problem is that the wrong thing the IRS did and apologized for is not the same as the wrong thing conservatives said they did; the conservative version imaginary unless Pres. Obama was psychic and time travelling and also hated liberals.
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It'd help a LOT if the Israeli's didn't tolerate their fellow Israeli's behaving like active settler-colonialists in the territories as they have been doing for decades (and it's been getting steadily worse).
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Not even you have such bad reading comprehension DD.
Since the report concluded that the impacts fell on both conservative and liberal groups, since the report concluded that the IRS had come up with these procedures on their own without instruction from above and since the report concluded that this stuff had been going on since 2004 your characterization of Obama having ordered the IRS to investigate the taxes of conservatives is completely false on, like, three different axes.
The only way it'd work is if Obama considered both liberals and conservatives to be his opponents; could subliminally command the IRS somehow and also travelled back in time to start doing it in 2004.
The GOP of the Trump era crawled all over this and despite having every motivation to prosecute any malfeasance they could find or make up, they didn't file any charges at all. That's because it wasn't some partisan targetted scheme by the Obama admin. It was just an internal bureaucratic snafu.
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The IRS apologized because they agreed it'd not been good procedure but the "scandal" was discredited as any form of Obama era partisan program.
In late September 2017 (under Trump, mind), an exhaustive report by the Treasury Department's inspector general found that from 2004 to 2013, the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny, blunting claims that the issue had been an Obama-era partisan scandal. The 115-page report confirmed the findings of the prior 2013 report that some conservative organizations had been unfairly targeted, but also found that the pattern of misconduct had been ongoing since 2004 and was non-partisan in nature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
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Not to mention the IRS "scandal" was pretty much completely discredited from stem to stern. Eh, forget the facts, it's too good a story to let go even if it didn't happen the way they say it did.
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She's around double the max that a normal non-profit ratio is considered acceptable at (35%) so unless she's getting an absolutely staggering return on the pennies she's throwing at water efforts, I'm not abashed to call her a grifter.
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36 cents (Max- they probably spend money fundraising too) out of every dollar that goes to her organization maybe goes to the cause it ostensibly serves. The rest goes into her pocket or the pocket of her crony employee. That's classic nonprofit nest feathering.
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Actually, by the numbers, Ms. Jones doesn't appear to do a lot of good for anyone other than Ms. Jones. It seems unfair to the UN, the US Government and the World Bank to lump them in with Ms. Jones.
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Ugh, that cost breakdown for the non-profit makes my teeth itch. I am not quite to the point of fearing that the non-profit sector is to the left as the Christian mega-preacher movement is to the right, but I worry that the two are at least nodding acquaintances.
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Oh? The exact the exact opposite of banned DD?
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Well pro-lifers are generally pretty up front about their being dead set on trying again, if the lose, and pushing further, if they win. So that attitude from pro-choicers is entirely rational.
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As usual you and I see pretty eye to eye on this.
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I hadn't noticed how 538 got absorbed into ABC and was shocked... and then I realized that's kindof why 538 got absorbed into ABC.
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It's hard to go abduct a political opponent when you're all pushing your walkers and have an appointment at Old Country Buffet.
Alternatively it's undesirable to try and terrorize when you're middle aged and have a lot of money and property to lose in the civil trial while you're rotting in jail from the criminal conviction. That covers most of the participants of one side in our two side conflict.
Vast civil conflicts are a young persons' game and the youngs are mostly on one side and it's the side that's not interested in vast civil conflict. It's easier to just talk big on the internets.
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If you mean random murdering that's been happening forever. If you mean some kind of "Troubles" style widespread irregular civil conflict then I would refer back to my original objection.
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https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/07/sick-leave-for-rail-workers
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I think if we widen the definition of "war" very much at all it rapidly stops becoming war at all and you should probably pick a different, and probably less scary, word.
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I'd contribute.
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We won't miss Manchin but we'll miss his seat.
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I put my nickel on option C: just muddle along. Divorce is too expensive- neither side wants it, and the only side that'd consider war is too old and decrepit to really make a go of it.
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I do not agree with AOC a lot but I think the party is lucky to have her.
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Awfully good night for the Dems. Nice to return to the country to this.Now I just have to keep chanting to myself "Polls this far out from the election are basically noise.Polls this far out from the election are basically noise."
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What a total giant!
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The tree of the Second Amendment must be refreshed with increasing frequency with the blood of innocents and the nut cases who kill them.
American gun culture is, easily, the area where I least understand my mother country.
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In addition to what Pinky said the number of people you're talking about is also small so there's a lot less room for variation within that population pool.