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Mormos's avatar

We need to acknowledge the point of this is to desensitize America to Republican's own crimes. Serious charges are being brought against Trump, so they just accused the other side of the exact same thing and make a spectacle of it, so they can claim "see both sides are just as bad." Doesn't matter whether the allegations are true or not, all that matters is that both sides get accused of the same thing. This is a strategy, and it's effective.

EDIT: There has to be a counter-strategy

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Fuck me running backwards up a perpendicular hill. This is THE stupidest damned thing. I didn't file my taxes one year. I was not quite 20 years old and according to the math I was only going to get about $47 back after filing and I didn't see how it was worth it to even bother.

So I didn't.

A few months later I got a very nasty, official letter from the IRS scolding me and wanting to know why I had not done that; they don't ask very nicely. So I wrote them back, explaining that filing the freaking 10W-40 form wasn't worth it and that I was donating anything they owed me toward diminishing the national debt.

I never heard ANOTHER fucking word from them about it.

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