In the Age of Nuclear Cheeto, Year 1, Day 55

[veronica_rich]

Am I the only one who thinks Trump leaked those 2 pages of his 2005 tax return himself to the press in order to distract people protesting the GOP Obamacare replacement disaster?

I mean, there's no itemized details or paperwork attached to the return. It's 12 years old. It's probably the most taxes the man has ever paid in one single year - he probably just thought What'll get the peasants with pitchforks off my ass the quickest? and had it delivered. It's enough to further piss off those already against him but not enrage anyone who supported him who might have been wavering in that support of late because of the shitty, shitty GOP health plan thing ("He paid $38 million! That's a LOT!!" Yeah, asshole, it's about 25 percent; tell me, how much of a percentage of your $50,000 or less salary do YOU pay into federal income tax? Not too far from that I'd wager).

Oh, and for those of you still on LJ who can't get enough GOP-bashing from just me: pir8fancier is also posting regular screeds. Check them out. You'll like them.

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't even mention the Russian thing - that's such an ongoing albatross that it's kind of fallen into the part of my memory of "more of the asshole being an asshole" with misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and general "being human garbage" that is associated with him and his familiars.