DONALD TRUMP HAS made no secret of his desire for revenge.

On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.

Now, just days after he secured a second term in the White House, Congress is already moving to hand a resurgent Trump administration a powerful cudgel that it could wield against ideological opponents in civil society.

Up for a potential fast-track vote next week in the House of Representatives, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, also known as H.R. 9495, would grant the secretary of the Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”

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    1 month ago

    None of that is even the beginning of an excuse for going out of your way to burn your own and your neighbor’s house down.

    “They should have been 1000x better than the alternative of burning everything, instead of merely 10x better”. This shit just doesn’t fly.

    And yes the Democrats are guilty of being better than Republicans by an embarrassingly thin 10x margin. Any decent party is 1000x and that should have happened, too.