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Has Fetterman been able to do his job yet as Senator since he won? Not being snarky, I just know he's had some set-backs.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A coworker yelled at me for taking time off work when my kids were in the NICU and my wife was recovering from an emergency C-section so our girls could live Awhile back, the gas station Sheetz had a hiring campaign poster that went something along the lines of "That face you make when you see your work fam." And jesus loving christ, the phrase "work fam" fills me with a form of negativity and loathing that I can not adequately put into words.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Has Fetterman been able to do his job yet as Senator since he won? Not bring sparky, I just know he's had some set-backs. He’s been able to show up and vote. He also has led a committee, which went somewhat rough but not as bad as I had feared.
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I dont think they can find something to replace pro life but hey im no political consultant. That was a real good term so if its tainted theyre kinda boned lol. Like pro baby or pro birth reveal you think women are just babymaking machines. Whereas pro life, who isnt pro life? Pro baby's life, mother's life, father's life. Pro state's rights has a direct, explicit relationship to slavery in the minds of everyone under the age of 30 from what I've seen, including conservatives (in a deep red state)
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I was watching The Orville (it’s like Star Trek but comedy) and one of the alien species is 100% anti-abortion to the point that they bring the parents into a VR simulation to show them a kid version of the fetus/baby they aborted to show them what they “lost” and what could have been.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I'm pretty sure this is only going to be used by candidates in swing states or close races, but it is kind of interesting that the NRSC is officially advising candidates to make it explicitly clear that they oppose a national abortion ban being passed by congress.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I can also guarantee that there will be candidates for national office that explicitly call for a national abortion ban. It’s a certainty. They don't have to- it's their supporters, not their opponents, who will make a national ban a litmus test. That is their big problem, since they have to please their supporters first and then convince the general electorate they didn't really mean it without also convincing their supporters of that
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haveblue posted:They don't have to- it's their supporters, not their opponents, who will make a national ban a litmus test. That is their big problem, since they have to please their supporters first and then convince the general electorate they didn't really mean it without also convincing their supporters of that Trump did this, dont think he can repeat tho
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:5) "Don't just call yourself pro-life and let Democrats fill in the details in the mind of the public. Instead, say ‘I’m pro-life, but … .’ Or ‘I care deeply about the mother and the children, and we should always have compassion. But I believe that after 15 weeks where the child can feel pain, they should be protected.’" I have a feeling this is going to bounce off the public pretty hard. Politicians in general - but especially the GOP - aren't really known for nuance. Not to mention, the more you try to articulate a detailed position, the greater the risk of alienating potential voters who don't align with you. Not enough to make them vote the other direction, but potentially enough to just not vote at all.
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The IRS announced a new enforcement and reform plan for tax collecting starting with the 2023 tax year (after April 15th, 2024). This is sort of a separate halfway plan from their previously announced plan to ramp up enforcement against people making more than 400,000 per year, businesses, and S-Corps (which isn't likely to be fully staffed and effective until around 2026). This plan is intended to start now so they have metrics for the larger enforcement change, it can serve as a mini-trial run, and to get an early start on some other reforms. The plan consists of: - Select 1,600 millionaire filers with complicated taxes who are suspected of underpaying/have already recognized tax debt and send them to a new high-income collection and audit unit. The unit will focus exclusively on collecting from taxpayers who already have an identified tax debt greater than $250,000 that has not been paid or income that is unreported that would result in more than $250,000 in owed taxes. - Select the top 75 largest business partnerships and send them to a new high-scrutiny audit division for complicated business tax audits. These 75 corporations and partnerships average at least $10 billion in assets. They will also send notices to 500 more of the largest corporations and partnerships with suspicious income reporting and ask them to provide documentation that explains the discrepancies. - The IRS will open a new audit division devoted entirely to analyzing Americans with foreign bank accounts or holdings who have financial activity using those foreign bank accounts that is likely taxable income and not reported. (No specific numbers on how many they are shooting for) - The IRS will open an new audit and fraud division that is specifically focused on 1099 fraud in construction. According to the IRS, construction contractors are issuing Forms 1099-MISC/1099-NEC to what appear on paper to be subcontractors—but the subcontractors don't actually exist. Instead, the recipient of the 1099 is a shell company with no legitimate business relationship to the contractor. The scheme, which is currently being seen in Texas and Florida, allows companies to claim a deduction for money that's being paid out—even though the money is eventually returned to the original contractor. The IRS will be giving those transactions extra looks with both civil audits and criminal investigations. - Crank up enforcement on cryptocurrency and digital asset tax evasion. Through subpoenas to digital asset exchanges, the IRS has determined that as much as 75% of taxable cryptocurrency activity is not being reported or paid. - Implement a test for a new AI auditing program. The plan will free humans from performing manual paper audits. The AI is trained to detect patterns, trends, and activities that they can link to tax evasion and trigger further scrutiny by a human. - Implement a new process to help alleviate phone scams pretending to be the IRS. This includes a public awareness campaign that the IRS will never contact you via phone, review of tax returns that suddenly change their bank to a foreign bank to prevent theft of tax refunds, and "additional steps to help people" targeted by scams. (No info on what those "additional steps" will be) https://twitter.com/taxgirl/status/1700141680811266392 quote:IRS Plans To Ramp Up Enforcement On Millionaires, Partnerships, And Crypto—And To Harness AI Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Sep 8, 2023 |
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Interesting that they publically announce their strategy like that. Arent worried about their suspects hiding their tracks now that they are forewarned?
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Baudolino posted:Interesting that they publically announce their strategy like that. Arent worried about their suspects hiding their tracks now that they are forewarned? This will definitely change tax strategies going forward, but it sounds like they're going to re-examine past returns that were already filed and are set in stone. They're looking for instances where something looked fishy but they didn't have the budget to thoroughly investigate it and claim what they were owed; now they do
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If you were already hiding income from the IRS, then you can't really hide it harder unless you are getting the banks to delete your transaction history and cooking your books. It all seems like pretty objectively good things that will make a difference. The only two problems are that House Republicans are already trying to defund some of the initiatives and that I am fairly confident that the public education campaign to beg people not to answer phone calls from the IRS or buy iTunes gift cards to pay their taxes is not going to make much of a difference. The people who fall for that are either elderly and confused or people who are never going to come in to contact with an IRS public education campaign.
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Shooting Blanks posted:I have a feeling this is going to bounce off the public pretty hard. Politicians in general - but especially the GOP - aren't really known for nuance. Not to mention, the more you try to articulate a detailed position, the greater the risk of alienating potential voters who don't align with you. Not enough to make them vote the other direction, but potentially enough to just not vote at all. Just from listening to Evangelical media for a bit (I have a problem), pro-life pundits are essentially making this case. By their rhetoric, a politician is only worthy of your vote if they are explicitly against abortion in almost every case, although some do say there's "still considerations to be made" in the case of rape, incest, etc. If a candidate isn't sufficiently pro-life, just don't vote or vote third party so that your soul remains pure. Anti-abortion influencers are still riding the high of finally getting Roe overturned, so they're really not reading the room. I dunno how much it's going to actually spread to the general GOP population, but conservative Christians are being fed a very hardline "if you don't get everything you want, stay home" message on this issue. It's not gonna stop everyone on the MAGA train, of course, but it'll be interesting to see the trends after the fact.
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OctaMurk posted:I dont think they can find something to replace pro life but hey im no political consultant. That was a real good term so if its tainted theyre kinda boned lol. Don't the anti-abortion groups do this in real life already? Minus the sci-fi parts, but, don't they show up with like baby shoes and doctored photos and poo poo to do the whole "This could have been your baby" thing?
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the_steve posted:Don't the anti-abortion groups do this in real life already? Minus the sci-fi parts, but, don't they show up with like baby shoes and doctored photos and poo poo to do the whole "This could have been your baby" thing? It was a fairly common TRAP tactic to force, or propose to force, a pregnant person to listen to their fetus's heartbeat before the procedure And yeah, they present a highly inaccurate picture of what a fetus actually looks like at early stages of development
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haveblue posted:It was a fairly common TRAP tactic to force, or propose to force, a pregnant person to listen to their fetus's heartbeat before the procedure I know Missouri or one of the southern M states make you do that waiting period with the brochure explaining that you're a sinful murderer if you go through with the procedure because the Satanic Temple is constantly making religious exemption cases over it for people.
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haveblue posted:It was a fairly common TRAP tactic to force, or propose to force, a pregnant person to listen to their fetus's heartbeat before the procedure Virginia had a thing where they showed you an ultra sound and the doctor was required to point out specific features. "There are the eyes, there are the little hands." This was part of the same package of rules that mandated trans-vaginal ultrasounds. The whole thing was absolutely grotesque and likely part of why the state flipped blue.
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Baudolino posted:Interesting that they publically announce their strategy like that. Arent worried about their suspects hiding their tracks now that they are forewarned? It might just be to try to counter the inevitable political messaging about the IRS being weaponized against YOU, the loyal taxpayer, by just coming out and saying "Yeah, we're looking at people who already owe 250k in back taxes and businesses worth 10B+. That's not you."
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Virginia had a thing where they showed you an ultra sound and the doctor was required to point out specific features. "There are the eyes, there are the little hands." This was part of the same package of rules that mandated trans-vaginal ultrasounds. The whole thing was absolutely grotesque and likely part of why the state flipped blue. so what if its too early for eyes and hands??
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PhazonLink posted:so what if its too early for eyes and hands?? Then you just point to a random lump on the screen. The important thing is to inflict as much emotional trauma as possible
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haveblue posted:Then you just point to a random lump on the screen. The important thing is to inflict as much emotional trauma as possible Also, the people who came up with this poo poo are not well-informed.
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Semafor with an obituary for the Sanders left https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1700192996971389022 quote:The image, used in ad after ad, stuck with Rhode Island Democrats: White House staffer Gabe Amo with Joe Biden, in the Oval Office. As early voting wrapped up, Democrats in the 1st Congressional District saw another potent image: Amo and Patrick Kennedy, their old congressman, who warned that Bernie Sanders-endorsed front-runner Aaron Regenburg would put the state’s defense economy at risk. They attribute it to a few things: 1. Moderates went after the left wing of the party hard after 2020 2. Infighting about electoralism/the system/the process 3. Right wing opposition going HAM in instances where progressive lefty candidates make the general 4. Being brought into the fold by the Biden admin, especially in the case of Ron Klain 5. Current issue set is less in the progressive wheelhouse I'd say the lack of a leader or figurehead is a huge problem, because LoC people, as it is said, have to fall in love with their candidate. As Sanders backed and worked with his good friend Joe Biden, supporters were either mollified or rejected him as a sellout and there is no credible successor because he isn't going to run for president ever again. Who does the lefty wing of the Dems see as possible successors? I'm sure it's cyclical and it'll come around again but what was the high water mark for progressive/lefty politics prior to Bernie? That's not to say the party electorate has coalesced around Biden: https://twitter.com/admcrlsn/status/1699783599867019557 But only 18% can name someone they'd prefer, and each of those is in the MoE. zoux fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Sep 8, 2023 |
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I was afraid of this happening once Sanders pulled back. It was going to happen eventually because the man’s nearing retirement. I really think the main issue with progressive challengers today is that the establishment Dems learned from the surprise election of AOC that they can’t just ignore primaries all the time. As a result they are snuffing out challengers early on so that they don’t have another upset like with AOC.
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the aeverage democratic voter basically wants biden but not old as gently caress, its as simple as this
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what we need is joe biden jr
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What are Biden’s kids up to these days, would any of them make good presidential candidates?
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haveblue posted:What are Biden’s kids up to these days, would any of them make good presidential candidates? Where's Hunter?
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Hunter Biden vs Donald Trump, running their campaigns from the same prison cell
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Dudes are weird. Between 1/3 to half of men are extremely uncomfortable showing any emotion or affection to another man, but men are WAY more comfortable being naked with another man than a woman would be with a naked woman. 13% of men age 18-25 said they would be very uncomfortable saying "I love you" to a romantic partner. I love the 4% of men who would not be comfortable eating food with another male friend at a restaurant. https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1700091582769152001 quote:Almost half of men would be uncomfortable crying in front of male friends, or saying “I love you” to a male relative
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It’s finally Martin O’Malley’s time to shine!
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Biden has been unofficially anointed and no one wants to rock the boat. 2028 Dem primary is gonna be a caravan of clowncars though.
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Dubar posted:Biden has been unofficially anointed and no one wants to rock the boat. 2028 Dem primary is gonna be a caravan of clowncars though. It's not even unofficially anointed, it is officially anointed. The DNC and RNC have both had a policy for decades that they will support the incumbent President. The DNC doesn't endorse in open primaries, but they already officially endorsed Biden a few months ago.
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Dubar posted:Biden has been unofficially anointed and no one wants to rock the boat. 2028 Dem primary is gonna be a caravan of clowncars though. Whitmer, Newsom, Beshear, Shapiro, who else? I mean besides RFK and Marianne Williamson
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Dubar posted:Biden has been unofficially anointed and no one wants to rock the boat. 2028 Dem primary is gonna be a caravan of clowncars though.
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zoux posted:Whitmer, Newsom, Beshear, Shapiro, who else? I mean besides RFK and Marianne Williamson
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FlamingLiberal posted:It’s going to be the first time since I think 2004 that there was no incumbent or ‘anointed’ person running for President as a Dem Harris is the incumbent VP, I don't think she's guaranteed to win a primary but if she polls well the conventional wisdom will become "Harris was anointed". Remember that in 2020, the press coverage and donors were obsessed with non Biden candidates until we got a few states into the primaries and it turned out that Biden was more popular with the actual voters than they thought.
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zoux posted:Whitmer, Newsom, Beshear, Shapiro, who else? I mean besides RFK and Marianne Williamson Sherrod Brown? He'll be ~76 though.
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James Garfield posted:Harris is the incumbent VP, I don't think she's guaranteed to win a primary but if she polls well the conventional wisdom will become "Harris was anointed". Remember that in 2020, the press coverage and donors were obsessed with non Biden candidates until we got a few states into the primaries and it turned out that Biden was more popular with the actual voters than they thought.
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Speaking of incumbents: Nancy Pelosi is running again despite being 83 goddamn years old and despite using a promise to step aside to win over objectors during the 2020 House speaker election. I can only assume that she's interpreting "limit my time to four years" as including nonconsecutive speakerships. Grover Cleveland would be proud
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