Whoa, I’m actually learning something from Booker’s speech. If I’m hearing him right, the GOP is planning to use Enron/Arthur Andersen accounting techniques to lie about the fiscal consequences of their tax cuts.
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Gramps in cognitive decline. Blank eyes. Slack jaw. Flaccid lips. Bemused expression. He has no idea what's going on. His confused brain latches onto his many selfish past grievances, it's all he's got left. Musk, Vance, Johnson know it, take advantage ("you go golf, we're takung care of it).
The difference is, Daddy Putin wasn't there to "de-nazify and save" Enron in the way Trump's setting Putin up to "de-nazify and save" America when the GOP inevitably bankrupts us.
Yes, it’s well documented. And many thought it was just the way business is done. This Trump show tells more about the American people than about Trump. If the business community was not corrupt then Trump and company could not exist. I’m seeing so many excuses for justifying corrupt behavior. 🤦♀️
It’s not meant to be sketchy. It’s the absolute goal! They are out to break the govt. acting for Putin who said we would fall from the inside. Here we are… mat likely at his hands.
Truth be told, we’ve been using off balance sheet entities at Fed, state and local levels for years. These guys however will do it so much worse with little to no oversight or transparency.
probably giving them too much credit to actually have a strategy to their lying. I think they will just make up some bullshit numbers and the entire party and media will bark it out as the truth 24/7. No need for fancy accounting techniques when straight up "I know you are but what am I?" will work
Yes, because they can't pass the bill through reconciliation (which precludes a filibuster) if the bill increases the deficit after 10 years, and they want the cuts to be permanent. The MAGA-GOP only cares about debt and deficits if there's a Democrat in the White House.
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So damn greedy, so damn corrupt, so damn insensitive to the needs of the people! We have to fight to gain a sense of sensibility and stability to our country, bringing back democracy at full force
Yes! I’m overjoyed that someone is finally talking about this. When I mention it to friends, I just get eye rolls… nobody cares. This government is fucking rotten to the core but mention criminal accounting… nothing but yawns.
But why? Why are Republicans even bothering to cover it up as they've already devoted themselves to further illiberalism and fascism? Does this somehow let them sleep better at night or something?
A conservative told me a couple weeks ago that "millions of dead people collecting Social Security" is plausible because Enron/AA showed big frauds can be covered up. He must have heard it from Republican cult media. They accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of.
They can lie about the economy, but corporations won't go along with it. Businesses can't function on lies. Yeah, they may lie to the public, but a business can not operate successfully on lies.
Ex. BofA can't invest properly if lies tell them the market is good when it's actually terrible.
Won't work for him, anymore than Biden's smugness about macro-economy didn't filter down to people living in micro-economy. Food/gas still be unaffordable; health insurance/rents unobtainable. People dying in plane crashes, of measles & pandemics, of neglect. No golden age for all except elites.
The economic data will show whatever Trump wants it to show and will be about as reliable as the financial statements of the Trump Corporation. That is to say....not reliable in the least.
The "smartest guys in the room" according to radical right libertarians who believe in neoliberalism, AKA free-market fundamentalism. "The market corrects everything!" :/
Actually, they are waiting to see if the Senate parliamentarian will allow the renewal of the King Yam Tits first tax cut to count as existing expense.
If so, the idiots can claim it doesn’t increase debt. If not, their budget collapses under its own weight.
Yes. Hoping to change to something like existing policy accounting which keeps the status quo of the bill as the baseline rather than having to account for all of the impact. It's great. If they can do that then they can use reconciliation since it will be net neutral and not need new revenue.
Would be awesome if Dems knew how to communicate….maybe they could run ads in all 50 states, including red ones.
Run them on Fox News, OAN, NewsNation…run them during sporting events, run them in dinner time … draw the connection with Enron and how the GOP plans to justify tax cuts.
I doubt they even need to go that far. If they destroy all the records of previous costs, which I'm sure they can do given the access DOGE has, they could just make all the numbers up.
Without leaks to the press, I doubt we'll ever really know.
As a CPA, I find such a plan highly offensive. I don’t like the feeling hate gives me but I can’t help it. Walks outside and SCREAMS, scaring the chickens.
Not surprising. Elon recently asked Tesla employees and retail shareholders to hold onto their stock…meanwhile Tesla insiders are dumping theirs. Sound familiar?
Booker is a Rhodes Scholar who also went to Yale and holds several degrees - he looks like the former football player he also is, but he's smarter than everyone in the Trump Admin.
The left has smart, accomplished people - MAGA has dropouts & sexual assaulters.
They intend to absolutely break our govt. Putin said the U.S. would fall from the inside. When you look at all Trump has done and you overlay Putin on it, it all makes sense. Tyranny is the goal, he has absolutely achieved it.
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It's a house of cards just waiting to collapse.
The oligarchy is the enemy behind the curtain pulling the strings.
They control the legacy media, gop controls new media.
We need the guardian to do a us streaming news show, as well as a bbc America.
Conservatives bought cnn…
They also want to remove government costs/spending from GDP to cook the books on economic growth stats.
Booker’s analogy yday really helped me get my head around it.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/house-republican-trump-tax-cuts-cbo-report-rcna197300
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/enron#:~:text=The%20collapse%20of%20the%20energy,even%20more%20appealing%20to%20investors.
* Forbes estimated wealth in 2023: 🤑 14 million. #NeoliberalismWorksForMe 😣
The world consider you to have leprosy. We are avoiding you. Tourism, weapons, munitions, software, cars, food, we don't want you because of Trump.
For cooking books and lying to investigators.
Perfect
He sure is a man with integrity and honor.
Just not for people outside US.
There he is yet another disgusting genocide supporter.
Voodoo math won't fix their corruption
Ex. BofA can't invest properly if lies tell them the market is good when it's actually terrible.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5323155/economic-data-reliability-trump-howard-lutnick
They’re in the dark.
Thune announced this yeaterday
#Protest!
Except the lies the regime plans to perpetrate
If so, the idiots can claim it doesn’t increase debt. If not, their budget collapses under its own weight.
Run them on Fox News, OAN, NewsNation…run them during sporting events, run them in dinner time … draw the connection with Enron and how the GOP plans to justify tax cuts.
Without leaks to the press, I doubt we'll ever really know.
I guess they're saving that tactic for the great depression.
There is no point low enough for them to sink.
This smells like 'prosperity gospel' writ large. And that crap only works for the 'pastor'.
The left has smart, accomplished people - MAGA has dropouts & sexual assaulters.
#FightLikeCory
They re-branded!