Corporate taxes are the lowest in more than 50 years

More evidence that the Trump tax cut was a scam to help businesses and wealthy people.

This is what happens when you think corporations are people, let them into politics, give them unlimited power, and jam through tax laws written by their lobbyists.https://t.co/znAneDGToO
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) June 14, 2019

I’m pretty sure the next step in this game is that we’re going to be told lots and lots of programs that actually benefit people will need to be cut because we can’t afford them. https://t.co/tO8aiJlZnN
— aderson francois 🇭🇹 14th Amendment Baby (@abfrancois) June 15, 2019

Republican Rep. Kevin Brady, a lead architect of the GOP tax bill, suggested today that the tax cuts may not fully pay for themselves, contradicting a promise Republicans made repeatedly while pushing the law in late 2017. https://t.co/1Xf9wiwwOA
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 11, 2019

Republicans don’t care about election security

McConnell will block bill, the administration has slowed work on election security and Trump would accept foreign help. There will be foreign efforts to meddle in the 2020 election which will undermine confidence in the results. Sad!

.@chriscuomo: 2020 election security bills have hit Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's roadblocks. Why?

The answer may simply be because he and his side benefited in 2016. Could he even be counting on benefiting in the same way in 2020? pic.twitter.com/PmAYVbMmGl
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) June 14, 2019

Multiple election security bills are being blocked by Senate Majority Leader McConnell. https://t.co/8Zbv8JLYpE
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 15, 2019

There is simply not any legitimate reason to do this. He would have the control to amend it in any way he sees fit. But to not allow it to even be considered – there’s no justification. https://t.co/O7BLnuGgOY
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) June 15, 2019

My story about EAC Executive Director Brian Newby is now up on our free site! https://t.co/lMfoiS1OjZ https://t.co/obOVFv26Ut
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) June 15, 2019

Trump thanks GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn for blocking legislation that would require candidates to alert the FBI if they were offered aid by foreign governments. https://t.co/JSdOlVHaYP
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 15, 2019

McConnell is resisting calls for election security bills because he believes enough has been done, says Washington shouldn’t have too heavy a hand. But moving bills could amount to implicit rebuke of Trump. House Dems are now planning a new push. https://t.co/tRiA8AIwk0
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 14, 2019

The bills Mitch McConnell is blocking would subject the voting machine vendors to new cybersecurity regulations and could reduce their overall sales to states. McConnell’s campaign gets money from voting machine lobbyists.https://t.co/3OGKHoAunj
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 14, 2019

Trump owes DC in addition to what he owes El Paso

Not surprising based on his sleazy business history

#Trumpthedeadbeat

Trump still owes the District of Columbia a whopping $7 million three years after his inauguration. Yet, now the city is about to hand him a blank check so he can take over the Lincoln Memorial on Independence Day.https://t.co/87Gdr8QPyY
— Tim Evanson (@TimintheCLE65) June 14, 2019

Even though most cities absorb the safety costs that come from Trump rallies, some cities, like El Paso, Texas, say his campaign owes them more than $450,000 for things like extra police. pic.twitter.com/xGzHEzwN22
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) June 14, 2019

Here are five people and places not getting Trump cash, Insider's analysis of federal records found.https://t.co/fPABQYLIWP
— Politics Insider (@PoliticsInsider) August 7, 2021

Liberals identify judges for the post-Trump era

Liberals have begun identifying judges that could be nominated by the next Democratic president.

This is an excellent idea. The Republicans have done an excellent job of finding and approving conservative judges and Democrats need to do the same thing.

How the Gore campaign handled documents belonging to Bush

This is very different from Trump’s attitude. Trump will do anything to win.

“Uh-oh, we shouldn't have this.” Former congressman Tom Downey was advising the Gore team in 2000 when he received documents belonging to George W. Bush. He told @russellberman why he immediately called the FBI: https://t.co/aQ7CmPA7OY
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) June 15, 2019

Covers: Call Me the Breeze

J. J. Cale’s “Call Me the Breeze” from 1972 is best known in the cover version released by Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1974.

Harry Nilsson

15 June 1941, born on this day, American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, who had the 1972 UK & US No.1 single with his version of The Badfinger song 'Without You', and the 1969 US No.6 single 'Everybody's Talkin' from the film Midnight Cowboy'. pic.twitter.com/jPr9xJF9ka
— This Day in Music (@Thisdayinmusic) June 15, 2019

One of my favorite Nilsson songs:

“The Story of Rock and Roll.” https://t.co/kX4UqEgw7Q
— American Songwriter (@AmerSongwriter) October 15, 2022

Covers: Do You Want to Dance

Bobby Freeman’s 1958 recording was the original version of his song “Do You Want to Dance”. There have been numerous covers. The Ramones sped it up and Bette Midler slowed it down. Some versions are called “Do You Wanna Dance”.

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Dave Edmunds

Trump uses official events for political purposes

I have written about this before. He does it often such as when he spoke to the CIA and the Boy Scouts. Taxpayers should not have to pay for this abuse of his office. Sad!

Trump is at an "official" event in Iowa — funded by taxpayers — and is attacking Joe Biden, a political opponent.

He does this at pretty much every "official" event, but a reminder that this is not normal, that previous presidents did not do this.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 11, 2019

Without a clear governing agenda, Trump has all but erased the line between his political role and his official one — and taxpayers are now sometimes paying for his campaign talk. https://t.co/8SywMgJdr4
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) June 15, 2019

Trump’s words encourage foreign meddling in our elections

Trump is fine with foreign meddling in our objections. This will encourage his Russian pals. This is not alright. Democrats will say it’s wrong. Let’s see what the Trump cult says.

President Trump tells ABC News he'd take information about 2020 opponents from foreign powers pic.twitter.com/r9ZxuW88jQ
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) June 12, 2019

Trump tells ABC News that the FBI director Chris Wray is "wrong" when he says you should call the FBI if a foreign government offers dirt on your political opponents.
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 12, 2019

This is an engraved invitation for foreign powers to interfere in our elections yet again. https://t.co/fX7Q3VeI3I
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 12, 2019

If you’re wondering if the President of the goddamn United States just invited foreign intelligence agencies to hack and spy on his political opponents, he did—PUBLICLY.
— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) June 12, 2019

"We're now in unchartered territory. Maybe we've been here for a while, but it's never been so clear before."

Jake Tapper, on President Trump saying he'd be willing to listen to dirt on political rivals as delivered by foreign entities.https://t.co/NgTeIvPFsF pic.twitter.com/leE5k3s0DN
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 13, 2019

Disgraceful yet sadly par for the course for this president.

When the president talks like this, it’s no wonder @SenateMajLdr McConnell is blocking bipartisan efforts to secure our elections from foreign interference. https://t.co/AOHAlS5pOs
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 13, 2019

CNN running the clip of Barr saying that if a "foreign intelligence service" offers info, you should call the FBI.

Wait for it: Whoever comes to Trump from Russia or China, Barr will say: "Not a foreign intelligence service." This man parses words for a reason.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 13, 2019

Remember 12 JUN 2019. Today was the day a sitting President announced he would accept clandestine help from a hostile power to stay in office.

Translation for the cheap seats: Donald J. Trump, our 45th president, admitted that he is a traitor. On camera.https://t.co/C9hLDR4tcj
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 13, 2019

Notice how long Barr thought before answering this question? He carefully qualified his answer by limiting it to a "foreign intelligence service." Had Trump previously discussed with Barr his view that obtaining information from foreign governments is okay? https://t.co/QJSUDrtLLq
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 13, 2019

.@RepAdamSchiff:

“Trump is basically telling the Russian dictator that, if you want to intervene in our election again, as long as you do it to help my campaign, I will never call you out on it."https://t.co/6ZF6RHeBfF
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 13, 2019

The President says the FBI doesn't have enough agents to investigate every report of foreign interference in an election.

A reminder that Counterintelligence is among the FBI's top two investigative priorities across all programs. pic.twitter.com/FrZ0DQ2Oy4
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) June 13, 2019

considering the values embodied in this statement, is there any reason to believe Donald Trump Jr would have hesitated for a second to tell his father about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting w/Russians? https://t.co/w4bVjQKQzl
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 13, 2019

I’ve dealt with oppo research for 30 plus years. Clinton campaign hired a firm that researched Trump’s business. He did business in Russia (lied about it.)That research is standard. Receiving information from intelligence service of hostile foreign power is totally different.
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) June 13, 2019

Trump’s strategy is to distract from this by lying about Democrats.

This never happened. Warner, trying to get in touch with Christopher Steele, texted with a Washington lawyer-lobbyist who has represented oligarch Oleg Deripaska and other Russian powerbrokers. There was no entertainer purporting to be an operative. pic.twitter.com/8xd83ZoO9g
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 13, 2019

There is no bottom.

There is no better Trump.

He will always stoop lower, smear everything around him with excrement, and diminish absolutely everyone and everything. https://t.co/IpnZPRtKCC
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 12, 2019

Remember 12 JUN 2019. Today was the day a sitting President announced he would accept clandestine help from a hostile power to stay in office.

Translation for the cheap seats: Donald J. Trump, our 45th president, admitted that he is a traitor. On camera.https://t.co/C9hLDR4tcj
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 13, 2019