#republicans cheat

[kp777]

#florida #republicans cheat #republicans #gop #anti democratic #democracy

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

#Republicans lie about everything #republicans can’t win without cheating #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #traitor #maga morons #never trump

[aunti-christ-ine]

#editorial cartoons #bill bramhall #gerrymandering #gop #congressional districts #republicans #cheating #political cartoon

[socialjusticeinamerica]

A stinking grifter and traitorous insurrectionist backed by multi-millionaire and billionaire right-wing oligarchs.

#Republicans can’t win without cheating #republicans lie about everything #Rafael Eduardo Cruz #Cancun Cruz #Trump sycophant #never trump #republican assholes #crooked donald #traitor trump

[judgejudyofficial]

So I tried the blank “Trump 2024” profile thing and I can 100% confirm the DL republicans went insane and flooded my inbox. One of the guys I knew IRL and his wife….this guy…first thing he sends is nudes and a face pic and says a bunch of freak nasty shit and I’m over here screen capping away…would be a shame if his wife found out 💀💀💀

you're right that'd be a crying shame 💅🏼

#dont cheat #or be a republican #<3

[tomorrowusa]

Corporations pay their CEOs extravagantly while trying to cheat on taxes.

It would be one thing if, alongside the exorbitant executive pay, the quality of American CEO-ing was going up. But these executives are making off with bigger bags of boodle despite their persistent incompetence: Media executives keep running their businesses into the ground, tech firms are laying people off because of vibes, the planes keep nearly crashing, and examples of insane eye-popping greed—like Rite-Aid’s decision to claw back severance paid out to laid-off workers on the same day they handed their CEO a $20 million bonus—keep on coming. So it may come as no surprise that there’s a robust connection between the overindulged CEOs and the firms that are most flagrantly dodging their fair share of taxes. For a report released Wednesday, the Institute for Policy Studies teamed up with Americans for Tax Fairness to spelunk into the balance sheets at some of America’s best-known tax scofflaws between 2018 and 2022. What they found was pretty consistent: The firms took home high profits and lavished their top executives with exorbitant pay, all while stiffing Uncle Sam. The excess is stunning. “For over half (35) of these corporations,” the study reports, “their payouts to top corporate brass over that entire span exceeded their net tax payments.” An additional 29 firms managed this feat for “at least two of the five years in the study period.” Eighteen firms paid a grand total of zero dollars during that five-year span, 17 of which were given tax refunds. All in all, the 64 companies in the report “posted cumulative pre-tax domestic profits of $657 billion” during the study period, but “paid an average effective federal tax rate of just 2.8 percent (the statutory rate is 21 percent) while paying their executives over $15 billion.” Which firms are the worst of the worst? You can probably guess the company that tops the list because it’s the one run by The New Republic’s 2023 Scoundrel of the Year. During the five years of the study, Tesla took home $4.4 billion in profits as CEO Elon Musk carted off $2.28 billion in stock options, which, since his 2018 payday, have ballooned to nearly $56 billion—a compensation plan so outlandish that the Delaware Court of Chancery canceled it. Tesla has, during that same period of time, paid an effective tax rate of zero percent through a combination of carrying forward losses from unprofitable years and good old-fashioned offshore tax dodging.

Elon Musk is either the world's richest or second richest person. But he still wants more. Give him credit for pathological greed.

In all fairness, Musk is not alone when it comes to enriching himself while screwing workers.

What sort of innovations have these CEOs wrought from this well-remunerated period? T-Mobile’s Mike Sievert presided over the Sprint merger that led to $23.6 million in stock buybacks and 5,000 layoffs. Netflix’s Reed Hastings poured $15 billion in profit into jacking up subscription rates. Nextera Energy has devoted $10 million in dark money in a “ghost candidate scheme” to thwart climate change candidates. Darden Restaurants has been fighting efforts to raise the minimum wage. Metlife has been diverting government money meant to fund low-cost housing into other, unrelated buckraking ventures. And some First Energy executives from the study period are embroiled in a corruption scandal that’s so massive that even Musk might find it to be beyond the pale.

These oligarchs are going to spend lavishly to elect Republicans who would give them even bigger tax breaks.

Fortunately, they can't literally buy votes. If we return to old school grassroots precinct work then we can thwart the MAGA Republican puppets of billionaire oligarchs.

One to one contact is a more important factor than TV or online ads in convincing people to vote your way. It takes more effort, but democracy was not built by slacktivism in the first place.

#corporate tax cheats #extravagant salaries for ceos #tax dodging #greed #oligarchs #tesla #elon musk #t-mobile #netflix #nextera energy #first energy #metlife #darden #maga #republicans #grassroots political work #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[anotherpapercut]

also every fucking 4 years idiots on here make dozens of posts about how if the Republicans win they're going to personally blame everyone who chose not to vote for Biden. if y'all put half this energy into helping the people who are actually trying to hold these war criminals accountable maybe we'd finally be in the position to have an election where no one has to use the fucking phrase "the lesser of two evils"

#its not random leftists fault for voting 3rd party when a bad candidate wins #its 100% the fault of the republican party for spending the last 100 years devising new ways to CHEAT in every election #maybe if we all collectively acknowledged that we havent had a free and fair election since at least probably bush v gore #then we could actually start to get somewhere with fucking REFORMING this shit #if you keep getting on your knees and sucking the DNCs dick every 4 years theyre just going to keep getting worse! #holy fuck! #oh my god! #some of you think activism begins with a tweet and ends with a vote

[thebreakfastgenie]

I think sometimes it's easier to blame The System--nebulous, sinister, faceless--than to accept that a lot of people vote for Republicans because they want to.

#like don't get me wrong there ARE systemic advantages + also they cheat #but that only works on the margins #they have support #and there is no system that makes people who want to vote for Republicans not want to vote for Republicans

[kp777]

Rightwing activist helps fund ‘predatory payday lenders’ in supreme court case

Excerpt:

The rightwing activist Leonard Leo has helped fund a network of groups involved in a crucial US supreme court case that could fundamentally weaken the federal government’s ability to hold corporations to account, a leading watchdog said as the conservative-dominated court prepared for its new term.

#leonard leo #dark money #u.s. supreme court #anti democracy #republicans cheat #government functionality

[izooks]

Here’s what I’m hearing Republicans are planning in the event Joe Biden wins re-election & Democrats hold the Senate and take the House this November…

#gop #democrats #republicans #vote blue #vote biden #democracy #fuck trump #maga 🧠 = 🐶 💩 #Republicans can only win if the cheat #coup attempt

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

“Judge Ana Reyes highlighted the gravity of the crime, saying multiple times that it amounted to an attack against the US and its legal foundation.

“What you did in attacking the sitting president of the United States was an attack on our constitutional democracy,” Reyes said. “We’re talking about someone who … pulled off the biggest heist in IRS history.”

The judge compared Littlejohn’s actions to those of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, noting that, “your actions were also a threat to our democracy.”

“It engenders the same fear that January 6 does,” Reyes added.”

😡

#republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #Trump is a tax cheat #tax the rich #tax the oligarchs

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#Tax the rich #make the 1% pay their share #end corporate subsidies #end corporate welfare #billionaire tax #Republicans are owned by billionaires #oligarchs own GOP #corporate greed #republican party #never trump #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #republican hypocrisy #tax cheat Trump

[frank-o-meter]

“the documents here clearly contain fraudulent valuations that defendants used in business”

“The judge said that Trump’s defenses “are wholly without basis in law or fact.”

“Trump and his company… exaggerated values on financial documents, allowing for better loan terms and other business benefits”

#fuck Donald Trump #legal set back #defrauding banks #cheating and lying #the Republican Party is morally corrupt #trump loves piss

[tomorrowusa]

Tens of thousands of public service workers are getting student loan relief from President Biden.

The Republican Supreme Court blocked Biden's broad effort to forgive onerous student loans. But the administration has found legal ways to reduce or eliminate student debt for specific segments of those saddled with such debts. This week's announcement is part of that effort.

President Joe Biden announced another round of student loan debt forgiveness Thursday, totaling $5.8 billion for nearly 78,000 public-sector workers, and will be sending congratulatory emails to those borrowers next week. Additionally, 380,000 borrowers who may be eligible for debt relief within the next one or two years will also be getting emails from Biden with a message that says “keep it up!” “If you continue your career in public service, you’re on track to get your eligible student loans forgiven in less than two years through Public Service Loan Forgiveness,” an example email provided by the White House reads. Under the forgiveness program, known as PSLF, qualifying borrowers – like teachers, social workers, some nurses and doctors, and government lawyers – are eligible for student debt cancellation after making 10 years of monthly payments.

Republicans like Donald Trump are against debt forgiveness. Of course Trump is a nepo baby who got daddy to pay for everything including (probably) bribing admissions officers and paying others to do his course work for him.

Trump's attendance at Penn has been a source of controversy. The university would probably like him to just go away.

Penn rejects calls from Wharton professors to investigate Trump's SAT cheating allegations

Prominent Philadelphia lawyer Stephen Sheller also penned a letter to Gutmann and Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen requesting an investigation into Trump’s admission into Penn. Sheller, a 1960 College graduate and 1963 Penn Law graduate, did not receive a response. Both requests, written a week apart in July, center around a claim made by the president’s niece Mary Trump in her tell-all book “Too Much and Never Enough.” She wrote that Trump paid another person, named as Joe Shapiro, to take his pre-collegiate exam, the SAT, on his behalf — a score he later used when transferring from Fordham University to the Wharton School in 1966. The allegations resurfaced Saturday night when Mary Trump provided secretly recorded audio to the Washington Post which featured the president’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, saying Trump cheated on the SAT. Mary Trump sent the audio excerpts, recorded in 2018 and 2019, to the Post in response to a question asking how she knew Trump had someone take his SAT for him.

For filthy rich crooks, a degree is of little academic value. It's more like a badge for them to show off. They would like to discourage others from being able to say that they are in some way their equals.

#student debt forgiveness #biden administration #pslf #public service workers #removing burdens from the middle class #republicans #gop opposition to student debt relief #donald trump #trump's dodgy college career #trump cheated on the sat #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[intelligentchristianlady]

Dire Warning from a Republican

[J. Michael] Luttig, in stark remarks near the close of Thursday’s hearing, warned that Trump and his supporters remain a “clear and present danger to American democracy” because they have so often indicated their desire to try again in 2024 to overturn the presidential election, if they lose.

“I have written that today, almost two years after that fateful day in January of 2021, that still, Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy,” Luttig began.

“That’s not because of what happened on Jan. 6. It’s because, to this very day, the former president, his allies and supporters pledge that in the presidential election of 2024, if the former president or his anointed successor as the Republican Party presidential candidate were to lose that election, that they would attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but succeed in 2024, where they failed in 2020,” he continued. (x)

#J. Michael Luttig #GOP #Republicans #beliefs values and principles #post-policy part #Republicans have no commitment to democracy #Republicans have no respect for the rule of law #Republicans try to change the rules in order to win #Republicans are willing to cheat in order to win #it's all about remaining in power #Republicans have no core principles #serious challenges to democracy