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Uhh...I forget, who has control of all 3 branches of government? This is a great project if the Dems every regain a smidgen of power, but we all know those snivelling cowards would never do anything so sensible.

Political suicide I fear but this destruction of the state is overwhelmingly a church agenda & we shouldn't be giving tax breaks tonseditionist radical extremist anti-government wackos.

Whatever the legality, going after churches gets us the fast track to poor performance at the polls.

Maybe you're right. Now that I think about it, we should comb their financials and if we find anything askew, send the people responsible to CECOT

religiously

We can at least start with EXPLICITLY political endeavors that are characterized as 501c3. Looking at the heritage foundation and the federalist society.

Would love to see Adam Kinzinger would be a good choice if he was interested He has the Military background, He can bring in Republicans, 12 yrs in Congress a d He Hates EVERYTHING DONNY Dtands For. JB Pritzker, Gov of Illinois is another..Billionaire, and a people fav, got most votes in 50 yrs

Material conditions. You change voting behavior by changing material conditions.

Even if we were doing some collective punishment, we’re talking about straight down the middle libs here. If a disaster affects a population center even in a red state, chances are very very good that most of the affected people are average liberals

Cool thing is, destroying the institutions that fund the fascist movement is, in many cases, also supporting the Constitution!

Tax all the churches. Even the “good” ones.

You took the words right off of my fingers about tax exempt status for churches.

dont just take it away; charge them for the years and decades of taxes they havent been paying. Bankrupt the lot of them in a day.

This includes car dealerships and bullshit health supplements

Time for Harvard and every university to band together to sue the Trump regime.

ALL of them.

It's over due

Heh. Good one.

YES! There is no separation of church and state when the church blatantly supports the fascist.

Go after the Heritage Foundation, whatever Koch foundations there are, the Federalist Society etc.

YES! Every. Single. Church.

100%. Make these fascists understand that the destruction of liberal neutrality can hurt them too. Liberalism was the compromise. If they want to play for higher stakes, they should be reminded of what they have to lose.

Tax exempt status should be removed from ALL churches. Separation of Church and State and all that.

He's a fucking piece of shit.

Remove tax deductions for any charitable contribution. Get rid of one incentive to fund these pet think tanks.

forget churches. destroy the car dealerships' monopoly.

"just wait" is the operative phrase in my comment.

That would be great if they weren’t so pathetically weak and feckless.

Congressional Democrats are not powerless being in the minority. They can keep the Trump administration frustrated and miserable if they would STEP UP and make start making noise. If they continue sitting on their hands, they are complicit in Democracy's demise.

Just as they are attacking liberal power centers, it's only fair we bring the fight to theirs.

They’re have to adopt the same tactics. Change voting laws, intimidation, fake problems with heroic solutions etc. That’s why it’s never really been done, I believe.

Big moron

I can name a few in Huntington Beach

This utterance from Trump is clearly written by his Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the Secretary of the Dept of Cruelty. That guy even hates himself!

This right here.

The Congress should get to work.

I have NO idea why you'd feel this way Beks 🤣😂

(Reupping my view that most media orgs being based in NYC, DC, or LA means that only things that happen geographically close to them count as “real” for them. The NYC tabloids made a tacky local landlord King of the Celebrities. Other cities might as well be on the moon for them.)

it sure as hell ain't gonna be them.

Didn’t you pay to rebuild a GOP office that got burned down?

With what power?

"Democrats go on the attack". That would be a first.

Bessent is the weakest, most vulnerable cabinet member, and the person who's closest to being accountable for these audits (the IRS doesn't actually have *anyone* in a position to declare churches as having lost their status, since the law was gutted) — Dems could demolish him in the press.

god to live in a world where Dems were willing to stand up against extremist Christians

I live in Utah how about starting with the Mormon Church.

I would love nothing more.

this is the way

Tax the churches as the businesses they are!

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

not that "campaigned for trump" needs to be part of the equation. take away the tax-exempt status of all churches. period.

If they don’t like it they can always apply for exempt status purely as a charity. But they won’t cause they wouldn’t qualify

Democrats don’t do things like that. Are you new here?

No cabinet member is manipulable by public sentiment. They serve at the pleasure of the president and this current sort knows EXACTLY what that means. Bessent is acting to create uncertainty for the market manipulation not because he's in any way off the reservation.

i guess maybe on the state level until scotus says naw you can't do that because you're not Republicans

I don’t think blanket taxing churches is good because of taxation representation and respecting separation of church and state. With that said ones that cross the line into preaching pulpit politics should have actual meaningful consequences to those actions.

Automatic follow. Gold plated churches should be going hungry before poor children.

It's also important to flood suicidal media. Normies have to step up and fight the 4chan acolytes

@lujan.senate.gov @heinrich.senate.gov @repstansbury.bsky.social

Absu-fucking-lutely. We've allowed them too much leniency for too long.

Churches should not tax exempt. Schools should be.

Hello fellow car dealership hater.

Cardealer delenda est

100%. Groomer taxes.

Can't like this, but really enjoyed it.

Many churches should have lost their tax-exempt status many, many years ago and not just because of their political campaigning.

THIS NOW.

How are they going to do that?

Would make sense, but democrats are weaklings.

Wait so if Harvard doesn't submit to political control by the state it should be considered MORE political? I know this is trying to catch raindrops but sometimes even his shit gets a little too muddled