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RFK vs Joe. Would be comedy gold.  Wish AOC was also running. 
 

Of course, Joe would only “debate” if he had the questions in advance or an earpiece.  Really needs another bullshit lockdown to hide in the basement.

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26 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

RFK vs Joe. Would be comedy gold.  Wish AOC was also running. 
 

Of course, Joe would only “debate” if he had the questions in advance or an earpiece.  Really needs another bullshit lockdown to hide in the basement.

 

Trump is a bigger clown than anyone you mention here and Biden won the debates against Trump last time

 

Trump is the one saying he'll skip all debates 

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59 minutes ago, pat said:

A dude in the barbershop was talking about RFK Jr.  It’s amazing how people get pulled in and aligned to a message.

 

People were just not ready for mass social media, significant idle time on their hands, and monetized unaccountable 'influencers' in our political information sphere .  It's a modern version of the unregulated snake oil days, where way too many consumers think they are clever, or more importantly not getting duped,... while getting duped.

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IRS reduces tax return backlog by 80% and is doing better job answering the phone

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS has processed tens of millions of tax returns faster this year compared with past years while getting through to customer service on the phone is slowly improving, according to a report to Congress released Wednesday. But there is a huge need to update the agency’s information technology services and have more workers answering calls. Still, it’s a vast improvement after years of backlogs and decades of underfunding.

 

The latest update on the IRS from National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins said the agency cut its backlog of unprocessed paper tax returns by 80%, from 13.3 million returns at the end of the 2022 filing season to 2.6 million at the end of the 2023 filing season. And now 35% of calls are answered, compared with 11% before. “Overall, the difference between the 2022 filing season and the 2023 filing season was like night and day,” Collins said. “It marks a return to pre-pandemic levels.”

 

Through the climate, health care and tax legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden last year, the IRS received $80 billion for tax collection efforts. Agency leaders started using that money immediately to add employees to the IRS workforce, which had dwindled to 1970s levels through retirements, attrition and low pay that has not caught up with inflation.

https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-return-backlog-answering-calls-7798ae85ac160cbd6939131ef477608d

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3 hours ago, begooode said:

IRS reduces tax return backlog by 80% and is doing better job answering the phone

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS has processed tens of millions of tax returns faster this year compared with past years while getting through to customer service on the phone is slowly improving, according to a report to Congress released Wednesday. But there is a huge need to update the agency’s information technology services and have more workers answering calls. Still, it’s a vast improvement after years of backlogs and decades of underfunding.

 

The latest update on the IRS from National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins said the agency cut its backlog of unprocessed paper tax returns by 80%, from 13.3 million returns at the end of the 2022 filing season to 2.6 million at the end of the 2023 filing season. And now 35% of calls are answered, compared with 11% before. “Overall, the difference between the 2022 filing season and the 2023 filing season was like night and day,” Collins said. “It marks a return to pre-pandemic levels.”

 

Through the climate, health care and tax legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden last year, the IRS received $80 billion for tax collection efforts. Agency leaders started using that money immediately to add employees to the IRS workforce, which had dwindled to 1970s levels through retirements, attrition and low pay that has not caught up with inflation.

https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-return-backlog-answering-calls-7798ae85ac160cbd6939131ef477608d

And yet Republicans are somehow angry about all this…

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https://apnews.com/article/china-biden-xi-jinping-dictator-c1fe17f72e2d37fcc840575eea1b78d2
 

President Joe Biden’s remarks calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator” and China a country with “real economic difficulties” drew fast condemnation from China on Wednesday, cracking open a new rift just after the two countries agreed to tentative steps to stabilize the relationship. 
  

In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning condemned Biden’s unusually pointed comments as “extremely absurd and irresponsible.”

 

The clash of words comes after Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a visit to Beijing on Monday that sought to break the ice in a relationship that has hit a historical low. While both sides saw those talks as productive, they did not result in any significant breakthroughs beyond an agreement to return to a broad agenda for cooperation and competition.

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/22/politics/house-impeachment-biden-lauren-boebert/index.html
 

The House voted Thursday to pass a rule sending a resolution offered by Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado to committee, effectively pausing a move to bring a privileged motion to the floor that would have forced members to vote on whether to impeach President Joe Biden. 
 

The rule was passed along party lines.

 

Boebert’s resolution had divided House Republicans, with many members expressing frustration with the conservative congresswoman’s push to force a vote on the politically contentious issue. Speaker Kevin McCarthy urged his GOP conference to vote against the resolution.

 
A number of House Republicans have filed articles of impeachment against Biden since the party took the House majority, but Boebert made a specific procedural move on Tuesday that would force the chamber to vote on the impeachment of Biden this week. Some House Republicans have raised concerns about their right-wing colleagues using procedural methods to bypass the committee process and force votes on the floor, particularly after they had harped on Congress returning to regular order as part of their demands in exchange for electing McCarthy as speaker earlier this year. 

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