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Shame the old thread just got superseded. As someone who practised tax law for quarter of a century, I was enjoying HYUFD's continuing wilful self humiliation.

His comments directed @OldKingCole were out of order, and he is an embarrassment to decent conservatives

I do not understand why he post such nonsense and insults

Basildon of course voted for the 'undecent conservatives' ie Reform as you would put it even at the last GE when they were third nationally on votes. Now Reform would romp home there

I really do not know why you dont join them

It's still Biden's economy.

Fox News: The economy shrank. First time in three years. People are pointing to the tariff policy.

J.D. Vance: This is Joe Biden’s economy.
https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1941929574624854319

With Trump we make allowances because he’s 79 years old and was never very smart.

Vance is only in his 40s and is supposed to be quite bright. What’s his excuse?

Trump's anti-BRICS policy notably doesn't apply to Russia.
https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/1942214679763325200

It's still Biden's economy.

Fox News: The economy shrank. First time in three years. People are pointing to the tariff policy.

J.D. Vance: This is Joe Biden’s economy.
https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1941929574624854319

@TSE

You mentioned OPT about MAGA obsessives who believe Pearl Harbor was a false flag.

They weren’t the first. Jeanette Rankin, Representative from Montana, thought so too, saying ‘The British are such clever propagandists they might have cooked up the whole story.’ She said this while casting the only vote against declaring war on Japan.

Oddly this absolute batshit line is missing from a Wiki entry that tries to pretend she did it as a point of principle.

Also, we might mention that of course it was Hitler declared war on America, not the other way around (although Congress voted to reciprocate in which vote Rankin, realising what an utter twat she had made of herself over Japan, abstained).

We're only going after the worst of the worst..

NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people

Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1942209099321524658

I think it is more Stephen Miller rather than Trump. Doubt Trump knows any of the details.

There's a long piece in today's NYTimes on Miller. A fanatic to put it mildly.

Shame the old thread just got superseded. As someone who practised tax law for quarter of a century, I was enjoying HYUFD's continuing wilful self humiliation.

On what? You butted in to an argument you hadn't followed from its origin.

Kjh was saying the government should have deprived him of his WFA, if he didn't use so many tax minimisation schemes and take cash in hand from his capital he would have been well over the taxable income threshold for losing his WFA

The trouble is you have all spent pages over the past few days essentially quibbling over the semantics around tax. Is it tax planning, tax avoidance, tax dodging, tax minimisation, who flipping cares?

Meantime, the flame war continues.
Advantage Musk...

What’s the time? Oh look, it’s no-one-has-been-arrested-o’clock again …
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1942132189229162960

Again, Mr Musk, 2 people were arrested! Epstein and Maxwell. Very probably, the two most important people to arrest.

You might not like Musk but on this story he is on the side of the Angels so whilst pedantically you are correct, he has a very valid criticism that the list that was on Pam Bondi’s desk a few months ago miraculously never actually existed apparently and no further arrests will be made which quite clearly is something he is right to get shouty about.