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Any cash transaction over 10k gets reported to the IRS. That's a generic banking rule that coinbase has to follow. Everyone technically needs to pay taxes on crypto gains but if you withdraw over 10k you can't forget.

Yeah, I don't know how they'll ever recover from this one.

I read the memo directly, it's 6 pages including the cover letter. I haven't read any commentary on it.

These shenanigans include Trump appointees calling out the memo for containing material omissions of fact? The Deep State goes deep if it includes Trump.

So the memo is out and it's a real nothingburger.

Good one.

A lot going on in the criminal enterprise this week. The Nunes memo, which Republicans apparently discretely changed before sending it over to the white house for release approval, was kicked back to the house intelligence committee, presumably after Trump realized that rumors and innuendo surrounding the memo would be more effective than the actual trainwreck of a memo. This may have had something to do with the FBI publicly releasing a statement (an unusual move) stating that the memo contained "material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy." To make it worse, Trump's own pick to head the FBI after he fired James Comey, Chris Wray, is standing by the FBI in attacking the memo, and the FBI for its part appears to be standing by him. And Don Jr let slip what we all knew already, that Andrew McCabe didn't leave of his own volition. Apparently "drain the swamp" means purging civil servants tasked with investigating Trump's criminal enterprise. Just this morning Trump has continued his war on his own FBI, accusing them of politicizing investigations in favor of Democrats, apparently forgetting that his own Rod-Rosenstein-crafted flimsy excuse for firing Comey was that the FBI had apparently politicized the Clinton investigation in order to hurt Democrats. It's amazing how quickly law-and-order, pro-law-enforcement, "lock her up" Republicans have done a complete 180 on the sanctity of the FBI. Clearly there's a conspiracy here. The obvious one, the one we're all seeing play out in public, is that Trump, Nunes, et al are conspiring to obstruct or end a lawful and necessary investigation into Russian election meddling, an investigation that has already snagged 4 criminals, by purging the FBI of career civil servants unwilling to bend the knee to Trump, and publicly attacking the integrity of the organization itself. The alternate conspiracy, the one that exists only in the narrative Trump and his cronies have invented in order to carry out their own conspiracy, is that deep state liberals in the FBI just have it in for him, and somehow they're also being paid by Russia. Or something like that, it's hard to take this all seriously. Where there's smoke and fire, indeed, there must be fire. We need to end this ridiculousness.

Is this the first State of the Union you've watched? I spent 30 seconds finding this, here's . Cut to a wide shot of only half the room clapping, you can see Paul Ryan sitting there not clapping along with every single Republican. Does that mean Republicans don't think recovering from the 2008 recession was a good thing? They only care about their agenda? Look, it's idiotic that congress critters only clap during the SOTU when their own guy is giving the speech, but if there ever was a case for "both sides do it too," oh my god, this is it. This is standard behavior for both parties, going back as long as I can remember, and if you think it means what you just claimed it means, you're a stupid fucking twat. Do I need to go find more examples or are you going to retract your dumbass statement?

Lots of "investors" got lucky on crypto and have confused that luck with some sort of skill at predicting random events. If there was any solid reason to think that it was going to rebound in Feb/Mar, or rebound at all in the near future, then it would be rebounding right now.

It's always immigrants. Immigrants are why your family doesn't love you.

Yes, the Laffer curve. Easy to understand, doesn't work in practice. Kansas is my cite. Raise taxes, increase revenue. Also easy to understand and empirically proven to be true.

Well I see tonight that the HIC has voted to release the memo, barring any objection from Trump, on a party line vote. It's almost as if Democrats had no power after all to stop Republicans from release the Republican memo written by Republicans. Amazing. I'm sure confusion over how much power Democrats actually had to block release of this classified memo had nothing to do with the armies of Russian bots intentionally spreading misinformation around this issue on social media. In completely unrelated news, I'm sure, I see it's also being reported that the US State Department has decided that the Russian sanctions passed by congress in an unprecedented display of bipartisanship (419-3, 98-2) isn't actually necessary and they won't be enforcing it.

Yeah, I basically picked out that car and we went through 3 (A20) engines before my friends decided I was an idiot. Early '80s Hondas, not a fan anymore. Our financier (my cousin) went through a messy divorce and is getting remarried this year, if we can manage to get it caged finally and signed up for an HPDE I'll call that a win, with a possible look to next year. Our last race was in the fall of 2013, Chump has evolved a lot since then in terms of what's acceptable. At the time we still thought it should be $500 cars, but we shared a garage with this a beautiful E36 325is, the sort you'd get if you dropped a donor car off at a well-funded race shop with $15,000 and said, "turn it into a racecar." Which, we found out, was exactly what they did. Learned our lesson real fast. A lot of these series (AER and WRL especially) are basically home for ITS/PTD/Spec E46 type owners who get sick of burning weekends for 40 minutes of sprint racing. For everything but LeMons, a well prepped E36 is entry level. The downside of everything moving upscale is that you need a racing license or an equivalent of documented experience. I think LeMons is still the only place you can just grab your friends and go racing, but they're also the only group insisting on legitimately shitty cars.

I've got an E36 328 that we're building for Chumpcar since our Prelude blew up (5 years ago. As an aside, I've learned that getting a crapcan racecar put together and keeping it running is pretty damn tough for adults with kids and jobs and stuff). But we finally got this thing running well enough for me to take to Mid-Ohio, bone stock with 200TW tires on 18" BBS knock offs (style yo) I did about a 1:53 before I lost the brakes and had to park it. It did 115+ on the back straight, the big limfac is that BMWs handle like shit, especially with 20+ year old suspension components. Can't put the power down to save its life and turn-in blows. We've already got about 5 grand into it and it's still not caged and the brakes failed after a couple sessions and the suspension is crap. But 115 on the back straight is nothing to sneeze at, faster than a Miata

So why can't Republicans release the Republican memo written by Republicans after they redact out the classified portions? It'd be a lot easier for David Nunes to do it since he knows exactly where the source material is than for Democrats to reverse engineer the thing and release it themselves. Why won't David Nunes release the memo that David Nunes wrote and claims he wants to release if it's so easy?

Wait, we don't care about classified information being leaked anymore? Got it, sorry, it's hard to keep up with what Republicans care about in terms of national security on any given day.

I mean, Trump's "day 1" activities included a travel been targeting a religion (by his own campaign claims), which has done fuck all to make us safer, cost taxpayers money by spawning dozens of court cases, was executed in a completely moronic manner, and seriously ruined the lives of refugees from the targeted countries, most of whom had been on waiting lists for years and jumped through all kinds of hoops, only to be told at the 11th hour to get fucked. Why shouldn't I criticize that sort of repugnant activity? Because he did it early on in his presidency? Because I'm not personally affected by the travel ban? "But greg," you can say, "I like the travel ban." Well then, fuck you for liking it, but fuck you too for suggesting that I should give that asshole a chance after that. I'm entitled to my opinion on his actions.

Jesus, the cognitive dissonance.... How much smoke is there with this Trump/Russia investigation? Why is all of that smoke from deep state partisan corruption but the smoke around Clinton clearly indicative of a fire?

Post #3, you suck at everything.

And yet NPR played a clip this morning where Trump himself said that pleading the 5th was an indication of guilt, because who wouldn't be willing to talk unless they had something to hide! Of course, that was in reference to Hillary Clinton staffers... So do you agree with Trump that it's wise to listen to your lawyers and stay silent if necessary, or do you agree with Trump that Trump must be guilty if he's not willing to talk?

As I'm sure you all know, Trump only hires the best people. And you may also remember one of Trump's primary campaign promises being to tackle the opioid epidemic. One of these top minds was a 24-year-old former campaign staffer whose only previous work experience was getting fired from a job for just not showing up. Nevertheless, he was somehow appointed by Trump as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. This is the sort of federal agency that a competent administration might lean on to actually, you know, do something about the opioid epidemic. After the "lamestream media" caught wind of this dickwad's complete lack of qualificiations for a high paying government job, the administration reassigned him to "administrative duties," and it's now being reported by HuffPo that he's going to be stepping down after the White House received a letter signed by 10 senate Democrats calling out this jabroni by name and pointing out the administration's complete lack of effort at filling key roles required to fulfill Trump's campaign promises. Anyone care to defend this example of gross managerial incompetence?

Someone needs to start a new thread, this one is broken.

Best part of that exchange, "You fight back and, oh, it's obstruction." Maybe he's starting to get it.

Yeah and if you're in your basement and you notice that the previous owner shored up the foundation incorrectly you just knock out the fucking supports to motivate yourself to fix it correctly at some point in the next 6 months. I can't think of any way I'm better off now for Trump having forced the issue, and a bunch of unapproved orders proving how I'm not.

It's especially idiotic considering 1) DACA wasn't an issue, it's a popular program that was operating just fine, except 2) Republicans [rightfully] had a problem with the way it was implemented, via executive order rather than legislation, so 3) Congress did absolutely nothing about this issue, despite having the better part of a decade to deal with it and no real political opposition to doing something, until 4) Trump [wrongfully] cancelled it for no particular reason other than to motivate congress to do something, after which 5) Republicans in Congress wasted most of the 6 months pretending to do something about Obamacare even though they clearly had no plan for that, then passed a tax cut that didn't seem particularly urgent even though they clearly had no plan to pay for it, and finally 6) Everyone acts all surprised when this crisis of their own making finally comes to a head Pure dysfunction.