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Millionaire Republican Cites Deficit To Block Aid — After Enriching Himself With Special Tax Cuts

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Millionaire Republican Cites Deficit To Block Aid — After Enriching Himself With Special Tax Cuts

Financial disclosure records reviewed by The Daily Poster show Johnson and his wife own a limited liability corporation, which is the kind of pass through entities that were targeted for tax cuts by Johnson’s 2017 legislation. Their LLC owns an industrial building in Oshkosh, Wisc., that is worth between $5 million and $25 million and generated as much as $1 million in income last year.

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Republican Senator Who Voted for Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich Blocks $1,200 Stimulus Checks

Michael Linden, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, noted on Twitter following Johnson’s objection that “another round of stimulus checks at $1,200 would be roughly 1/7 of the size of the Trump tax cuts which Senator Johnson happily supported.”

White House aides reportedly stepped in to keep Trump from calling for $2,000 stimulus checks, fearing it could torpedo relief negotiations

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White House aides reportedly stepped in to keep Trump from calling for $2,000 stimulus checks, fearing it could torpedo relief negotiations

President Donald Trump was talked out of calling for $2,000 direct payments to Americans because it might’ve derailed fragile relief talks between Republicans and Democrats, The Washington Post reported.

Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

The reason Twitter (usually) leaves phony pictures like that up is that the United States permits its citizens to speak freely about politicians — even to say mean things about them. Repealing Section 230 would likely have no impact on the tweet in question, because the Twitter user’s speech is protected under the First Amendment.

It might, however, make Twitter legally liable for what its users post — which would lead the company to remove more speech, not less. Whatever repealing Section 230 might achieve, it would not be what the president seems to want.

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Blackmailing China over COVID-19 ‘daydreaming’

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China is extremely dissatisfied with the abuse of litigation by the US against China over the COVID-19 epidemic, and is considering punitive countermeasures against US individuals, entities and state officials, such as Missouri’s attorney general Eric Schmitt, who filed a lawsuit against China seeking compensation for the coronavirus pandemic, sources close to the matter told the Global Times exclusively.

At least four US Congress members, including Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton, and two entities will be put on China’s sanctions list, analysts said.

Blackmailing China over COVID-19 ‘daydreaming’

Trumpism After Trump: Will the movement outlive the man?

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Trumpism After Trump: Will the movement outlive the man?

For Trump was doing tricky ideological lifting that went all but unappreciated by the NatCons. He fed the richest in society in the currency they prefer—dollars—and he fed his fans lower down with a temporarily effective substitute—recognition. It takes a certain talent to keep so much in the air. The Trumpists will survive the end of Trump, but they will also inherit Trump’s circus act. The dimmer NatCons aspire to sustain the performance; the more earnest want to slip an actual popular agenda into the mix. But when the time is ripe, the Grand Old Party will treat Trumpian idealism like any debt-ridden entity, selling it for what they can, once they’ve stripped it of its parts.

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