Not Surprising
Head Up: Roger Stone will get his sentence from the judge on Thursday but she will postpone the actual punishment pending his decision on a new trial.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson is not on Trump’s Christmas card list. Trump has whined about her several times on Twitter. According to him, she is so unfair. So. Unfair. Boohoo.
And … the hits just keep on coming.
I guess he’s testing his pardoning skills for the big ones.
Coming across the wire now, Trump pardons Michael Milkin. See a pattern here? Next up, Fat Donnie plans on pardoning Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
Yes, snark, but it would fit the pattern.
1With the Judges decision not to imprison stone immediately upon sentencing she is guarenteeing that he will never spend a day in jail.
2Between appeals, paid off thuglican judges, barr deciding to drop all charges if a retrail the dishonorable scotus and demented donnies pardon pen this piece of manure will never learn to enjoy the hedonistic pleasures of bubba for a bunkmate.
K @2, What makes you think he doesn’t already?
3Error in allowing milken to keep even 1 penny much less the $1 billion ( now worth $3.7 Billion he was allowed to keep.
4Enough to buy a pardon.
Lets track his political contributions.
Oops can’t since he launders them through his “non profit” and other dark money laundremats.
Trump is up to nearly twenty pardons today, all of them either financial fraudsters or corrupt politicians.
5And I thought I was outraged at the pardon of the AZ sheriff!
7Grandma, you outrage too easily. Wait until he pardons Bernie Maddoff!
8Pardons – about that. Gloateus Maximus just declared himself the chief law enforcement officer in the US.
This is only the beginning of onerous attacks on citizens from now until November. Steady your course helm.
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Millionaires Stop Paying Into Social Security for the Year Tomorrow, Highlighting Need to Scrap Payroll Tax Cap
Edit: The program’s become less progressive,” said Jim Roosevelt, a former associate commissioner for retirement policy at the Social Security Administration and a grandson of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935.
On Wednesday, not even two full months into 2020, millionaires will stop paying into Social Security for the year due to the program’s payroll tax cap.
The cap limits annual wages subject to the Social Security payroll tax to the first $137,700. Sarah Rawlins, program associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), wrote Tuesday that the cap means “someone who makes $1,000,000 per year stops paying into the program on February 19, 2020.”
“That makes a millionaire’s effective tax rate well below the 6.2% of income that most Americans pay,” Rawlins noted. “Instead, it is less than 1% of a millionaire’s income. The Social Security tax is only levied on wages, excluding income from other sources like capital gains, meaning those with wages over the cap likely have an effective tax rate even lower than this estimate.”
“The burden of Social Security taxes falls more heavily on those who make less,” Rawlins added.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/18/millionaires-stop-paying-social-security-year-tomorrow-highlighting-need-scrap
9So “Mexico is sending us her criminals“, but we have more than enough of our own and a president* who identifies with them and wants to ignore the rule of law. They will end up as acting cabinet secretaries facilitating the total overthrow of our democracy.
10IQ4.5* just thinks he* is Darth Sidious, when the facts reveal him* to be Darth Hideous. Sorry about your luck Donnie* (not) but your pardon pen has no weight in state courts. Zero gravity, ***king moron*. Stop tweeting and answer your phone; Leticia James is calling. Judge Amy Berman Jackson on line two.
megasoid @9, Senator Warren and 2021 President Warren can fix that. She may be a policy wonk, but she is our wonk. After the manner in which Boofy Kavanaugh dissed Senator Klobuchar, we’ll be equally happy with either Senator Harris or Senator Klobuchar as the next United States Attorney General.
Seeing a pattern there, Donnie*. The ladies are coming for you, and not in a way your pea brain can fathom.
11Darth Hideous*! May I steal your clever invention, Jane and PKM? My Star Wars fanatic sons will love it and they vote.
12maryelle, our pleasure, share away. Any comment we share with the WMDBS belongs to all of you. If it adds to IQ4.5’s* overall stroke quotient, may it go viral. The tweeter of our hearts for the day is Ms. Bette Midler who left no doubt as to where Donnie* belongs on the plankton scale.
@BetteMidler
Democrats haven’t learned a goddamned thing. This guy is a fascist, a dictator, and you guys have got to toughen up your game. You’re too fucking polite! This is a blood sport to the GOP, and they #playdirty. Men like to kill each other! Get in the ring!!
13Is Judge Jackson legally obligated to let trump try to put his thumb on the scale here or is it just a courtesy to his office?
14Here’s one more, a federal judge, telling you* and Billy Bob Barr, that your crookedness is about to crash land. Philadelphia-based U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe giving you another nyet, Donnie*. ” The head of the 1,100-member Federal Judges Association on Monday called an emergency meeting amid concerns over President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr’s use of the power of the Justice Department for political purposes, such as protecting a long-time friend and confidant of the president.” https://crooksandliars.com/2020/02/federal-judges-call-emergency-meeting-over
^ The above in answer to John@14. Not if Judge Rufe has anything to say about it.
15First it was the inmates running the asylum.
Now Trump’s giving prison inmates a clean record and awarding them with medals.
From the best crazy people to the best criminals.
16More abuse of power. Pardoning those who abused the public trust is not what pardons are supposed to be for.
Meanwhile “Dark Towers” about Deutsche Bank, which incriminates the trump crime family and others, was released today. One thing the dotard knows how to do is distract. I haven’t heard anything today so far about the book.
The man really has no respect for the rule of law. With the pardons he’s disrespected judges, prosecutors, jurors, researchers & paralegals, and the public. It should infuriate every single American.
17Anyone seen any reports about Judge’s telephone conference on the roger stone case or results of Judiciary association’s emergency meeting?
18Rachel Maddow did a segment on Dark Towers last night.
19The author thinks the subpoenaed documents may have been destroyed. Given the murky history of DM, not a stretch.