
You made your choice, fellow americans. It may be a choose between Giant Douche and Shit Sandwich...
But today you chose Shit Sandwich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4m848bh1iY
UPD. Just remembered of this picture in 2025 (yes, i forget about arts that i drew before). Looking at this, after events of July 13, 2024 makes me feel strange. I will never draw politically charged art ever again. It looks like a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point.
But today you chose Shit Sandwich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4m848bh1iY
UPD. Just remembered of this picture in 2025 (yes, i forget about arts that i drew before). Looking at this, after events of July 13, 2024 makes me feel strange. I will never draw politically charged art ever again. It looks like a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point.
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Actually economically yes Bush did destroy America as the cost of living has more than doubled in his term, and steadied during Obama's term. While yes it didn't really go down, it didn't sky rocket during the prior's 8 year term. He put us in a war he instigated under false pretenses hence why he was on trial as a war criminal.
Two years later and we've got:
Concentration camps for kids
Scandals galore
Trump promising to use power of the pardon to protect anyone committing crimes on his behalf
Lies, lies, lies, and more lies
Environmental destruction
Food contamination
Havoc in the sciences
Massive degradation of American diplomatic power
So...yeah, he's doing a decent job of it.
Concentration camps for kids
Scandals galore
Trump promising to use power of the pardon to protect anyone committing crimes on his behalf
Lies, lies, lies, and more lies
Environmental destruction
Food contamination
Havoc in the sciences
Massive degradation of American diplomatic power
So...yeah, he's doing a decent job of it.
http://tidbitsinthenews.com/2016/10.....nd-the-scenes/
Would you have really preferred this as our president?
(Read the bottom paragraph)
Would you have really preferred this as our president?
(Read the bottom paragraph)
Maybe this is better?
http://truthfeed.com/hillary-clinto.....from-me/14725/
Would you rather the link to her poking fun at Gaddaffi being sodomized by a bayonet until he died? Or maybe you want to see the story where she threw a drinking glass at a staffer's head?
Liberals are so ready to believe every horrific thing they hear of Trump, and only seem to become skeptical when Hillary's innocence is called into question.
It should be noted I am a former Democratic supporter I suppose.
http://truthfeed.com/hillary-clinto.....from-me/14725/
Would you rather the link to her poking fun at Gaddaffi being sodomized by a bayonet until he died? Or maybe you want to see the story where she threw a drinking glass at a staffer's head?
Liberals are so ready to believe every horrific thing they hear of Trump, and only seem to become skeptical when Hillary's innocence is called into question.
It should be noted I am a former Democratic supporter I suppose.
lol, this is the sort of shit we've been having to deal with regarding "info" on Hillary. Ya know, shit every politician does, heck shit every elected MALE president has done 100x worse and nobody ever batted an eyelid, but when she does it expect 9 fucking whole inquiries about it and a last minute campaign sabotaging FBI witch hunt.
Weather she did or not is moot, she still isnt a racist, homophobic, misogynistic rapist scumbag like trump is. She isn't endorsed by the KKK, she doesn't represent what is basically the rise of the fourth Reich, so of course she is the better alternative, but people were too fucking dumb and ignorant to see she was the lesser of two evils.
Weather she did or not is moot, she still isnt a racist, homophobic, misogynistic rapist scumbag like trump is. She isn't endorsed by the KKK, she doesn't represent what is basically the rise of the fourth Reich, so of course she is the better alternative, but people were too fucking dumb and ignorant to see she was the lesser of two evils.
You honestly bought into all of that, didn't you? Do you even ask if it's all real? Or do you just assume that if a Liberal said it, it must be true?
Okay, let's consider this then.
Hillary covered up a lot of rapes for Clinton - which makes her an enabler of rape. She only stopped being homophobic during this election (how convenient eh?) before which she was entirely against gay unions of any form. Despite her claims of Trump's wall building desire being racist, when she was a senator she supported the idea of building a wall on the border. She has her own history of racism that the liberal media likes to ignore (feel free to google it if you like - pretty nasty stuff) and, to top it all off, she is incredibly violent. Let's not forget that in a leaked e-mail she was talking about how much she wants to start a war with Russia which would undoubtedly start WW3.
Okay, let's consider this then.
Hillary covered up a lot of rapes for Clinton - which makes her an enabler of rape. She only stopped being homophobic during this election (how convenient eh?) before which she was entirely against gay unions of any form. Despite her claims of Trump's wall building desire being racist, when she was a senator she supported the idea of building a wall on the border. She has her own history of racism that the liberal media likes to ignore (feel free to google it if you like - pretty nasty stuff) and, to top it all off, she is incredibly violent. Let's not forget that in a leaked e-mail she was talking about how much she wants to start a war with Russia which would undoubtedly start WW3.
I'll just go by what Trump said himself to determine the kind of character he is.
But either way, you clearly support him. Everything that he will eventually mess up on I will turn to his nearest supporter and give the biggest "I told you so grin" of my life. I can't wait until his supporters become the silent majority again.
But either way, you clearly support him. Everything that he will eventually mess up on I will turn to his nearest supporter and give the biggest "I told you so grin" of my life. I can't wait until his supporters become the silent majority again.
Conservatives seem to have forgotten everything Obama did for the economy and they forgive every promise broken by Trump. You were never silent, you just being ignored like a child throwing a tantrum in their room. The problem is conservatives are upset that the world is constantly changing and it scares them. They think the old answers are the solutions to these new problems and they are angry when they don't work or told they won't work.
Your silence will always come when asked how to advance mankind forward because you will have no answer to give.
Your silence will always come when asked how to advance mankind forward because you will have no answer to give.
...and now a leftist when cornered decides to act condescending, laced with rhetoric and no actual statements of substance made. Sorry but if we conservatives are so easy to ignore, why is it that we are the number one focus of all news cycles 24/7? You mean to say you WISH we could be ignored, more accurate answer. And no, we cannot be stopped, and shouldn't be stopped, because our "old answers" type policies are far superior to leftist policies when it comes to the economy. It's easy, just look at the news.
And no, we are not scared. We confidently push on. 2020 in this case, with a grim smile on our face.
So, here's your chance, tell me then what Obama actually did for the economy? Then I will tell you respectfully and politely why Obama was useless for the economy, and then use substance to explain why President Trump actually helped our economy. If you can surprise me with actual substantive facts how Obama was anything but useless, by all means please explain.
But personal attacks and useless rhetoric about silencing conservatives will get you nowhere. Please begin.
And no, we are not scared. We confidently push on. 2020 in this case, with a grim smile on our face.
So, here's your chance, tell me then what Obama actually did for the economy? Then I will tell you respectfully and politely why Obama was useless for the economy, and then use substance to explain why President Trump actually helped our economy. If you can surprise me with actual substantive facts how Obama was anything but useless, by all means please explain.
But personal attacks and useless rhetoric about silencing conservatives will get you nowhere. Please begin.
...and now a leftist when cornered decides to act condescending, laced with rhetoric and no actual statements of substance made.
I like how after just one reply you think you have me cornered. I hope that confidence last longer then another post. I'm condescending because this is the same empty threats and debunked talking points I have need listening to for the past decade. Really, the right wing couldn't be any more of a meme if they said "call us legion for me are many."
Sorry but if we conservatives are so easy to ignore, why is it that we are the number one focus of all news cycles 24/7?
Yeah, you are definitely not getting news coverage because your traditional values are revolutionizing social reform. More like because Trump is president and he keeps saying stupid things like wanting to nuke a hurricane, thinking forests need to be raked and reminding us that an ocean is big and wet with lots of water.
And no, we cannot be stopped, and shouldn't be stopped, because our "old answers" type policies are far superior to leftist policies when it comes to the economy.
If you can't be stopped then why after two years of controlling all three branches of the government all you managed to get pass was a tax cut for the rich? Was that all the economy needed and no more work was required?
And no, we are not scared. We confidently push on. 2020 in this case, with a grim smile on our face.
I hope he does win. I'm curious to see what he will do once he no longer has to try to win a reelection. It will also provide plenty of moral high ground to leap off of and body slam into conservative mob pits.
So, here's your chance, tell me then what Obama actually did for the economy? Then I will tell you respectfully and politely why Obama was useless for the economy, and then use substance to explain why President Trump actually helped our economy. If you can surprise me with actual substantive facts how Obama was anything but useless, by all means please explain.
Sure. let's compare the numbers. Obama increased the GDP by 10%, lowered unemployment by 6% and cut the deficit by half. Please, tell me how Trump did better. =)
But personal attacks and useless rhetoric about silencing conservatives will get you nowhere. Please begin.
Oh, I will never silence you. I just like presenting facts I know you can't rebut and won't response to until you run out of scripted things to say and quit replying. Then I like to imagine you'll run back to 4chan and tell everyone the mean liberal is trying to oppress you and silence your opinions. I do love to dream.
I like how after just one reply you think you have me cornered. I hope that confidence last longer then another post. I'm condescending because this is the same empty threats and debunked talking points I have need listening to for the past decade. Really, the right wing couldn't be any more of a meme if they said "call us legion for me are many."
Sorry but if we conservatives are so easy to ignore, why is it that we are the number one focus of all news cycles 24/7?
Yeah, you are definitely not getting news coverage because your traditional values are revolutionizing social reform. More like because Trump is president and he keeps saying stupid things like wanting to nuke a hurricane, thinking forests need to be raked and reminding us that an ocean is big and wet with lots of water.
And no, we cannot be stopped, and shouldn't be stopped, because our "old answers" type policies are far superior to leftist policies when it comes to the economy.
If you can't be stopped then why after two years of controlling all three branches of the government all you managed to get pass was a tax cut for the rich? Was that all the economy needed and no more work was required?
And no, we are not scared. We confidently push on. 2020 in this case, with a grim smile on our face.
I hope he does win. I'm curious to see what he will do once he no longer has to try to win a reelection. It will also provide plenty of moral high ground to leap off of and body slam into conservative mob pits.
So, here's your chance, tell me then what Obama actually did for the economy? Then I will tell you respectfully and politely why Obama was useless for the economy, and then use substance to explain why President Trump actually helped our economy. If you can surprise me with actual substantive facts how Obama was anything but useless, by all means please explain.
Sure. let's compare the numbers. Obama increased the GDP by 10%, lowered unemployment by 6% and cut the deficit by half. Please, tell me how Trump did better. =)
But personal attacks and useless rhetoric about silencing conservatives will get you nowhere. Please begin.
Oh, I will never silence you. I just like presenting facts I know you can't rebut and won't response to until you run out of scripted things to say and quit replying. Then I like to imagine you'll run back to 4chan and tell everyone the mean liberal is trying to oppress you and silence your opinions. I do love to dream.
"I like how after just one reply you think you have me cornered. I hope that confidence last longer then another post. I'm condescending because this is the same empty threats and debunked talking points I have need listening to for the past decade. Really, the right wing couldn't be any more of a meme if they said "call us legion for me are many.""
Cool, at least you own your bullying condescending leftist snark. Your excuses aren't legit though.
"Yeah, you are definitely not getting news coverage because your traditional values are revolutionizing social reform."
Actually, we are. We are nuking Political Correctness every day (PC originated as a propagandist tool in soviet russia for societal control). Your denial doesn't hold water.
"More like because Trump is president and he keeps saying stupid things like wanting to nuke a hurricane, thinking forests need to be raked and reminding us that an ocean is big and wet with lots of water."
He said it to begin a conversation about what could be done. You leftists are always about starting conversations, right? Hypocrisy is strong in this one...
"If you can't be stopped then why after two years of controlling all three branches of the government all you managed to get pass was a tax cut for the rich? Was that all the economy needed and no more work was required?"
If you work for someone, you get paid by them. The person/organization you work for is considered 'the rich'. Give them more money and they have more money to pay more employees (more jobs) and give them higher salaries. If you never took a class in economics, I understand.
And we are at a 50 year unemployment low. Your argument is invalid.
And we have--
Defeated isis
Ended the korean war
highest average wages
lowest unemployment in 50 years
stopped intellectual theft by china
solved the international trade imbalance
The list goes on and on.
"I hope he does win. I'm curious to see what he will do once he no longer has to try to win a reelection.."
Well, cool, we agree on something. You can hate me for this, but I predict that another Trump-like president is coming after Trump's second term. History repeats itself, and this stuff is really showing.
" It will also provide plenty of moral high ground to leap off of and body slam into conservative mob pits"
Liberals and antifa make mobs. But if the conservatives mess up, I'll slam them too because no one is exempt. I am a constitutionalist and an independent in case you wondered.
"Sure. let's compare the numbers. Obama increased the GDP by 10%, lowered unemployment by 6% and cut the deficit by half. Please, tell me how Trump did better. =)"
And obama said that someone needed a magic wand to make GDP grow more than 3%...and then Trump made it grow by 4%. Also, reference a few of the items listed above. especially the 50 year low of unemployment and higher wages, lower taxes for lower classes too so more money for the average citizen...yeah, there is no comparison.
"Oh, I will never silence you. I just like presenting facts I know you can't rebut and won't response to until you run out of scripted things to say and quit replying."
Except...I have just rebutted you effectively. And your claim that I have scripted things to say is pretty laughable. I'm probably a russian troll too, right? More liberal snark, and lying. Mainly I will leave the conversation after you have been acceptably defeated enough to show the world that though you may keep coming back with snark and poorly-constructed responses, but that you still are wrong because you can't defeat facts with NYT propaganda.
"Then I like to imagine you'll run back to 4chan and tell everyone the mean liberal is trying to oppress you and silence your opinions. I do love to dream. "
I am not on 4chan. But keep imagining. Perhaps your problem is you imagine too much and think too little.
But that is your right, it is a free country after all.
Cool, at least you own your bullying condescending leftist snark. Your excuses aren't legit though.
"Yeah, you are definitely not getting news coverage because your traditional values are revolutionizing social reform."
Actually, we are. We are nuking Political Correctness every day (PC originated as a propagandist tool in soviet russia for societal control). Your denial doesn't hold water.
"More like because Trump is president and he keeps saying stupid things like wanting to nuke a hurricane, thinking forests need to be raked and reminding us that an ocean is big and wet with lots of water."
He said it to begin a conversation about what could be done. You leftists are always about starting conversations, right? Hypocrisy is strong in this one...
"If you can't be stopped then why after two years of controlling all three branches of the government all you managed to get pass was a tax cut for the rich? Was that all the economy needed and no more work was required?"
If you work for someone, you get paid by them. The person/organization you work for is considered 'the rich'. Give them more money and they have more money to pay more employees (more jobs) and give them higher salaries. If you never took a class in economics, I understand.
And we are at a 50 year unemployment low. Your argument is invalid.
And we have--
Defeated isis
Ended the korean war
highest average wages
lowest unemployment in 50 years
stopped intellectual theft by china
solved the international trade imbalance
The list goes on and on.
"I hope he does win. I'm curious to see what he will do once he no longer has to try to win a reelection.."
Well, cool, we agree on something. You can hate me for this, but I predict that another Trump-like president is coming after Trump's second term. History repeats itself, and this stuff is really showing.
" It will also provide plenty of moral high ground to leap off of and body slam into conservative mob pits"
Liberals and antifa make mobs. But if the conservatives mess up, I'll slam them too because no one is exempt. I am a constitutionalist and an independent in case you wondered.
"Sure. let's compare the numbers. Obama increased the GDP by 10%, lowered unemployment by 6% and cut the deficit by half. Please, tell me how Trump did better. =)"
And obama said that someone needed a magic wand to make GDP grow more than 3%...and then Trump made it grow by 4%. Also, reference a few of the items listed above. especially the 50 year low of unemployment and higher wages, lower taxes for lower classes too so more money for the average citizen...yeah, there is no comparison.
"Oh, I will never silence you. I just like presenting facts I know you can't rebut and won't response to until you run out of scripted things to say and quit replying."
Except...I have just rebutted you effectively. And your claim that I have scripted things to say is pretty laughable. I'm probably a russian troll too, right? More liberal snark, and lying. Mainly I will leave the conversation after you have been acceptably defeated enough to show the world that though you may keep coming back with snark and poorly-constructed responses, but that you still are wrong because you can't defeat facts with NYT propaganda.
"Then I like to imagine you'll run back to 4chan and tell everyone the mean liberal is trying to oppress you and silence your opinions. I do love to dream. "
I am not on 4chan. But keep imagining. Perhaps your problem is you imagine too much and think too little.
But that is your right, it is a free country after all.
"Oh, I will never silence you. I just like presenting facts I know you can't rebut and won't response to until you run out of scripted things to say and quit replying."
Oh and that was all scripted by my russian bot leader. For I have no mind and am only a mindless compilation of online data script floating in the ether. So...if I continue to defeat your arguments nonstop as I have been doing...a computer program will have proven to be smarter than you. Think about that.
Oh and that was all scripted by my russian bot leader. For I have no mind and am only a mindless compilation of online data script floating in the ether. So...if I continue to defeat your arguments nonstop as I have been doing...a computer program will have proven to be smarter than you. Think about that.
Cool, at least you own your bullying condescending leftist snark. Your excuses aren't legit though.
Condescending, yes. Bullying, no. I might be liberal but I'm as obsessed with being PC as other people. Respect has to be earned.
Actually, we are. We are nuking Political Correctness every day (PC originated as a propagandist tool in soviet russia for societal control). Your denial doesn't hold water.
Well, that was a short trip. You just complained about how I wasn't being PC enough towards you and in the very next statement you brag about how you are destroying PC. So, what you are saying is that you want people to be respectful of you but you don't want to be respectful towards other people?
I feel that is the key problem with the right, they don't actually know what they want but they do know they want it and they want it now. They just have to wait until someone tells them what it is they want.
He said it to begin a conversation about what could be done. You leftists are always about starting conversations, right? Hypocrisy is strong in this one...
That is a strange way to defend the stupid stuff Trump says. It seems he starts conversations lacking basic knowledge about anything. I mean do we really need to explain to everyone in the room that water is wet before we can move on to talking about how to get supplies across it? Would the follow up be "but, Mr. president, boats float!"?
If you work for someone, you get paid by them. The person/organization you work for is considered 'the rich'. Give them more money and they have more money to pay more employees (more jobs) and give them higher salaries. If you never took a class in economics, I understand.
The rich don't become rich by giving away their money. The problem with giving money to the rich is that they keep it and the economy stagnates. No one is going to pay their fast food employees more because they are paying less in taxes. It is the same reason that caused the last recession. If you did take a class in economics then you would learn trickle down economics never works. What does work is giving that money to middle class, because the middle class will spend all their money and put everything back into the economy.
And we are at a 50 year unemployment low. Your argument is invalid.
The list goes on and on.
I asked for policies passed while Republicans control all three branches of the government. None of what you listed answered that question. We never ended the Korean War, so you can't count that. We are still in a trade war so that means we never stopped the trade imbalances or intellectual theft by China yet. I'll give you ISIS because it did happen under Trump but I'll add that it was nearly defeated by the time he took office so it wasn't much of an accomplishment. How much of the things you listed did you get wrong?
Well, cool, we agree on something. You can hate me for this, but I predict that another Trump-like president is coming after Trump's second term. History repeats itself, and this stuff is really showing.
I would never hate you for that. It is honestly expected. It's a trend really. First it was Bush, then Trump and after Trump probably someone more extreme. The trick to winning over the right is to play off their fears and anger. You do that and they will vote against their interest every time.
And obama said that someone needed a magic wand to make GDP grow more than 3%...and then Trump made it grow by 4%. Also, reference a few of the items listed above. especially the 50 year low of unemployment and higher wages, lower taxes for lower classes too so more money for the average citizen...yeah, there is no comparison.
Oh, Obama just said that wand thing as a way to start a conversation, you understand that, don't you?
Trump started with a GDP of 2% growth and it is currently at 2%. It is pretty much at the point where Obama left it. If you want to compare Trump's highest to Obama's, then Obama still wins because he got it up to 5%. If you truly believe in facts, then you will have to admit Obama was better at the GDP then Trump.
As for the unemployment, Trump dropped it by less then 1%. But you have to remember unemployment was on a downward trend when Trump took over. So how much of it was the result of Trump and how much of it was just the natural result of that downward trend? If you count who lowered unemployment the most. The numbers speak for themselves, Obama did.
Except...I have just rebutted you effectively. And your claim that I have scripted things to say is pretty laughable. I'm probably a russian troll too, right? More liberal snark, and lying. Mainly I will leave the conversation after you have been acceptably defeated enough to show the world that though you may keep coming back with snark and poorly-constructed responses, but that you still are wrong because you can't defeat facts with NYT propaganda.
As predicted you gave the same scripted responses as every Republican I talked too. All equally wrong too. It is like none of you ever looked any of this stuff up for yourself and just accepted whatever Fox News told you.
I always leave my stuff up. Maybe in another two years another person will respond to this one as well.
I am not on 4chan. But keep imagining. Perhaps your problem is you imagine too much and think too little.
But that is your right, it is a free country after all.
you all share the same talking points so it is not like there is a difference between any two groups. Anyway, you have to be able to think before you have an imagination.
Condescending, yes. Bullying, no. I might be liberal but I'm as obsessed with being PC as other people. Respect has to be earned.
Actually, we are. We are nuking Political Correctness every day (PC originated as a propagandist tool in soviet russia for societal control). Your denial doesn't hold water.
Well, that was a short trip. You just complained about how I wasn't being PC enough towards you and in the very next statement you brag about how you are destroying PC. So, what you are saying is that you want people to be respectful of you but you don't want to be respectful towards other people?
I feel that is the key problem with the right, they don't actually know what they want but they do know they want it and they want it now. They just have to wait until someone tells them what it is they want.
He said it to begin a conversation about what could be done. You leftists are always about starting conversations, right? Hypocrisy is strong in this one...
That is a strange way to defend the stupid stuff Trump says. It seems he starts conversations lacking basic knowledge about anything. I mean do we really need to explain to everyone in the room that water is wet before we can move on to talking about how to get supplies across it? Would the follow up be "but, Mr. president, boats float!"?
If you work for someone, you get paid by them. The person/organization you work for is considered 'the rich'. Give them more money and they have more money to pay more employees (more jobs) and give them higher salaries. If you never took a class in economics, I understand.
The rich don't become rich by giving away their money. The problem with giving money to the rich is that they keep it and the economy stagnates. No one is going to pay their fast food employees more because they are paying less in taxes. It is the same reason that caused the last recession. If you did take a class in economics then you would learn trickle down economics never works. What does work is giving that money to middle class, because the middle class will spend all their money and put everything back into the economy.
And we are at a 50 year unemployment low. Your argument is invalid.
The list goes on and on.
I asked for policies passed while Republicans control all three branches of the government. None of what you listed answered that question. We never ended the Korean War, so you can't count that. We are still in a trade war so that means we never stopped the trade imbalances or intellectual theft by China yet. I'll give you ISIS because it did happen under Trump but I'll add that it was nearly defeated by the time he took office so it wasn't much of an accomplishment. How much of the things you listed did you get wrong?
Well, cool, we agree on something. You can hate me for this, but I predict that another Trump-like president is coming after Trump's second term. History repeats itself, and this stuff is really showing.
I would never hate you for that. It is honestly expected. It's a trend really. First it was Bush, then Trump and after Trump probably someone more extreme. The trick to winning over the right is to play off their fears and anger. You do that and they will vote against their interest every time.
And obama said that someone needed a magic wand to make GDP grow more than 3%...and then Trump made it grow by 4%. Also, reference a few of the items listed above. especially the 50 year low of unemployment and higher wages, lower taxes for lower classes too so more money for the average citizen...yeah, there is no comparison.
Oh, Obama just said that wand thing as a way to start a conversation, you understand that, don't you?
Trump started with a GDP of 2% growth and it is currently at 2%. It is pretty much at the point where Obama left it. If you want to compare Trump's highest to Obama's, then Obama still wins because he got it up to 5%. If you truly believe in facts, then you will have to admit Obama was better at the GDP then Trump.
As for the unemployment, Trump dropped it by less then 1%. But you have to remember unemployment was on a downward trend when Trump took over. So how much of it was the result of Trump and how much of it was just the natural result of that downward trend? If you count who lowered unemployment the most. The numbers speak for themselves, Obama did.
Except...I have just rebutted you effectively. And your claim that I have scripted things to say is pretty laughable. I'm probably a russian troll too, right? More liberal snark, and lying. Mainly I will leave the conversation after you have been acceptably defeated enough to show the world that though you may keep coming back with snark and poorly-constructed responses, but that you still are wrong because you can't defeat facts with NYT propaganda.
As predicted you gave the same scripted responses as every Republican I talked too. All equally wrong too. It is like none of you ever looked any of this stuff up for yourself and just accepted whatever Fox News told you.
I always leave my stuff up. Maybe in another two years another person will respond to this one as well.
I am not on 4chan. But keep imagining. Perhaps your problem is you imagine too much and think too little.
But that is your right, it is a free country after all.
you all share the same talking points so it is not like there is a difference between any two groups. Anyway, you have to be able to think before you have an imagination.
"Condescending, yes. Bullying, no. I might be liberal but I'm as obsessed with being PC as other people. Respect has to be earned.
Well, that was a short trip. You just complained about how I wasn't being PC enough towards you and in the very next statement you brag about how you are destroying PC. So, what you are saying is that you want people to be respectful of you but you don't want to be respectful towards other people?"
PC requires respect...yet you are condescending which is disrespectful, and all bullies are condescending, hence what bullies do. Cognitive dissonance is your game. CD
"I feel that is the key problem with the right, they don't actually know what they want but they do know they want it and they want it now. They just have to wait until someone tells them what it is they want."
Before the Soviets invented PC, there was a thing called common decency and dignity. PC is saccarin sweet fake garbage used for virtue signaling. Your claim of hypocrisy falls limp.
"That is a strange way to defend the stupid stuff Trump says. It seems he starts conversations lacking basic knowledge about anything. I mean do we really need to explain to everyone in the room that water is wet before we can move on to talking about how to get supplies across it? Would the follow up be "but, Mr. president, boats float!"?"
More baseless rhetoric with no facts. Facts don't care about your feelings.
"The rich don't become rich by giving away their money."
You're right. They hire more employees, hence more jobs, and pay them more money as bonuses for staying and working.
"The problem with giving money to the rich is that they keep it and the economy stagnates. No one is going to pay their fast food employees more because they are paying less in taxes. It is the same reason that caused the last recession. If you did take a class in economics then you would learn trickle down economics never works. What does work is giving that money to middle class, because the middle class will spend all their money and put everything back into the economy."
And that is what causes a failing company, so for the remaining SUCCESSFUL companies that are still in business, your rule doesn't apply. Go back to school.
"What does work is giving that money to middle class, because the middle class will spend all their money and put everything back into the economy."
Hence President Trump's tax break on the Middle Class... If you were employed, you would have enjoyed the check. Or did you?
"I asked for policies passed while Republicans control all three branches of the government. None of what you listed answered that question."
Wrong. The libs control the house.
"We never ended the Korean War, so you can't count that."
President Trump is the first to actually step in N. Korea and successfully begin peace talks.
"We are still in a trade war so that means we never stopped the trade imbalances or intellectual theft by China yet."
We have stopped trade imbalance by righting the imbalance, and resolving to continue to right the balance. If china adjusts their tariffs to make it uneven, we adjust again. This is so easy, why are you having issues understanding?
"we never stopped the trade imbalances or intellectual theft by China yet."
We stopped intellectual theft also by booting Huawei from our country. Where have you been the past year?
"I'll give you ISIS because it did happen under Trump but I'll add that it was nearly defeated by the time he took office so it wasn't much of an accomplishment. "
Wrong again. We dropped the MOAB on their leaders and got a high score. Then, amazingly, they never were seen again. ISIS, on the other hand, ROSE TO POWER during the Obama admin. You obviously haven't paid attention. This seems to be a recurring theme with you.
"How much of the things you listed did you get wrong?"
Goose egg.
"I would never hate you for that. It is honestly expected. It's a trend really. First it was Bush, then Trump and after Trump probably someone more extreme. The trick to winning over the right is to play off their fears and anger. You do that and they will vote against their interest every time."
Well...I can't argue with you on that one. You pretty much nailed it...except for the last part. You forgot the kind of leaders that founded this great country, they were quite trumpian.
"Oh, Obama just said that wand thing as a way to start a conversation, you understand that, don't you? "
:) I like your way of thinking. You remind me of me. But my point about Trump V.S. Obama on GDP still stands. But I smile because I'm beginning to like you.
"Trump started with a GDP of 2% growth and it is currently at 2%"
And he also broke 4%. Essentially he's breaking all the walls that the dems say he can't, and he's winning so much that it is ripping lib minds apart...
I don't expect the opposition to tell the truth about his strengths, only try and report on his weaknesses. Enemies will only tell you your weaknesses, friends only your strengths.
"If you want to compare Trump's highest to Obama's, then Obama still wins because he got it up to 5%. If you truly believe in facts, then you will have to admit Obama was better at the GDP then Trump."
If that's the case, show me references. If I'm wrong, I can accept it, but so far this would be the first time you successfully do it. Bravo? :)
"As for the unemployment, Trump dropped it by less then 1%. But you have to remember unemployment was on a downward trend when Trump took over. So how much of it was the result of Trump and how much of it was just the natural result of that downward trend?"
SHOW MEE THE MONEEYYYYYYYY (the references) :)
"As predicted you gave the same scripted responses as every Republican I talked too."
Sounds like a group of smart and respectable people. You should converse with them more and you might learn something.
"All equally wrong too."
Inaccurate.
"It is like none of you ever looked any of this stuff up for yourself and just accepted whatever Fox News told you."
Yet my referenced links never came from fox news, in fact they were liberal outlets.
OH THE BURN!
Have a nice day.
Well, that was a short trip. You just complained about how I wasn't being PC enough towards you and in the very next statement you brag about how you are destroying PC. So, what you are saying is that you want people to be respectful of you but you don't want to be respectful towards other people?"
PC requires respect...yet you are condescending which is disrespectful, and all bullies are condescending, hence what bullies do. Cognitive dissonance is your game. CD
"I feel that is the key problem with the right, they don't actually know what they want but they do know they want it and they want it now. They just have to wait until someone tells them what it is they want."
Before the Soviets invented PC, there was a thing called common decency and dignity. PC is saccarin sweet fake garbage used for virtue signaling. Your claim of hypocrisy falls limp.
"That is a strange way to defend the stupid stuff Trump says. It seems he starts conversations lacking basic knowledge about anything. I mean do we really need to explain to everyone in the room that water is wet before we can move on to talking about how to get supplies across it? Would the follow up be "but, Mr. president, boats float!"?"
More baseless rhetoric with no facts. Facts don't care about your feelings.
"The rich don't become rich by giving away their money."
You're right. They hire more employees, hence more jobs, and pay them more money as bonuses for staying and working.
"The problem with giving money to the rich is that they keep it and the economy stagnates. No one is going to pay their fast food employees more because they are paying less in taxes. It is the same reason that caused the last recession. If you did take a class in economics then you would learn trickle down economics never works. What does work is giving that money to middle class, because the middle class will spend all their money and put everything back into the economy."
And that is what causes a failing company, so for the remaining SUCCESSFUL companies that are still in business, your rule doesn't apply. Go back to school.
"What does work is giving that money to middle class, because the middle class will spend all their money and put everything back into the economy."
Hence President Trump's tax break on the Middle Class... If you were employed, you would have enjoyed the check. Or did you?
"I asked for policies passed while Republicans control all three branches of the government. None of what you listed answered that question."
Wrong. The libs control the house.
"We never ended the Korean War, so you can't count that."
President Trump is the first to actually step in N. Korea and successfully begin peace talks.
"We are still in a trade war so that means we never stopped the trade imbalances or intellectual theft by China yet."
We have stopped trade imbalance by righting the imbalance, and resolving to continue to right the balance. If china adjusts their tariffs to make it uneven, we adjust again. This is so easy, why are you having issues understanding?
"we never stopped the trade imbalances or intellectual theft by China yet."
We stopped intellectual theft also by booting Huawei from our country. Where have you been the past year?
"I'll give you ISIS because it did happen under Trump but I'll add that it was nearly defeated by the time he took office so it wasn't much of an accomplishment. "
Wrong again. We dropped the MOAB on their leaders and got a high score. Then, amazingly, they never were seen again. ISIS, on the other hand, ROSE TO POWER during the Obama admin. You obviously haven't paid attention. This seems to be a recurring theme with you.
"How much of the things you listed did you get wrong?"
Goose egg.
"I would never hate you for that. It is honestly expected. It's a trend really. First it was Bush, then Trump and after Trump probably someone more extreme. The trick to winning over the right is to play off their fears and anger. You do that and they will vote against their interest every time."
Well...I can't argue with you on that one. You pretty much nailed it...except for the last part. You forgot the kind of leaders that founded this great country, they were quite trumpian.
"Oh, Obama just said that wand thing as a way to start a conversation, you understand that, don't you? "
:) I like your way of thinking. You remind me of me. But my point about Trump V.S. Obama on GDP still stands. But I smile because I'm beginning to like you.
"Trump started with a GDP of 2% growth and it is currently at 2%"
And he also broke 4%. Essentially he's breaking all the walls that the dems say he can't, and he's winning so much that it is ripping lib minds apart...
I don't expect the opposition to tell the truth about his strengths, only try and report on his weaknesses. Enemies will only tell you your weaknesses, friends only your strengths.
"If you want to compare Trump's highest to Obama's, then Obama still wins because he got it up to 5%. If you truly believe in facts, then you will have to admit Obama was better at the GDP then Trump."
If that's the case, show me references. If I'm wrong, I can accept it, but so far this would be the first time you successfully do it. Bravo? :)
"As for the unemployment, Trump dropped it by less then 1%. But you have to remember unemployment was on a downward trend when Trump took over. So how much of it was the result of Trump and how much of it was just the natural result of that downward trend?"
SHOW MEE THE MONEEYYYYYYYY (the references) :)
"As predicted you gave the same scripted responses as every Republican I talked too."
Sounds like a group of smart and respectable people. You should converse with them more and you might learn something.
"All equally wrong too."
Inaccurate.
"It is like none of you ever looked any of this stuff up for yourself and just accepted whatever Fox News told you."
Yet my referenced links never came from fox news, in fact they were liberal outlets.
OH THE BURN!
Have a nice day.
PC requires respect...yet you are condescending which is disrespectful, and all bullies are condescending, hence what bullies do. Cognitive dissonance is your game. CD
I told you, I'm not into being PC because I'm not a politician running for office. Not every bully is condescending, not every condescending person is a bully. The world doesn't run on such black and white terms. But say that it did, when Trump is condescending does that make him a bully? If yes, then you have no problems with bullying. If no, then I am right that not all condescending people are bullies. Regardless of which answer you chose, I still win. Pick your poison.
Before the Soviets invented PC, there was a thing called common decency and dignity. PC is saccarin sweet fake garbage used for virtue signaling. Your claim of hypocrisy falls limp.
I'm not sure why you think the Soviets invented PC. PC has been around ever since elected officials realized they needed to appease the populace in order to stay in power. Can you even name a time when a politician had common decency and dignity without ever lying about it to win favor? What do you think a politician would sound like without PC? Unless you think politicians need to go back to isolating and insulting minorities in society. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and just assume you don't actually know what you are asking for. If you did, that would be pretty bad.
More baseless rhetoric with no facts. Facts don't care about your feelings.
Oh, so you don't think it's stupid of a president to start a conservation by reminding everyone water is wet? Why do you think it was important for Trump to say that? Who do you think didn't know that and had to be reminded of it? Is water being wet a little known fact? President Trump bringing in the deep thought questions. I think it shows a baseline for his level of intelligence. Calling into question his self-proclaimed status of being a ' very stable genius.'
You're right. They hire more employees, hence more jobs, and pay them more money as bonuses for staying and working.
If they already have enough employees to cover a shift they are not going to hire a few extras because they make more money. If any of them do they haven't been any of the places I worked before. A company isn't going to give their employees a raise either just because they make more. The name of the game is profits and to try to gain as much profits by eliminating cost. And one of those costs including paying workers. You have this strangely naive thinking that companies won't take advantage of a situation despite them doing so on every occasion.
And that is what causes a failing company, so for the remaining SUCCESSFUL companies that are still in business, your rule doesn't apply. Go back to school.
Oh boy, let me tell you of a magical time when Republicans use to say that these businesses are to big to fail and the ensuing recession and massive bailouts. It is almost like what you are saying is the third retelling of the same story. I really hope that "never forget" thing starts to kick in after the fourth time around.
Hence President Trump's tax break on the Middle Class... If you were employed, you would have enjoyed the check. Or did you?
Trump hasn't done a tax break on the middle class yet. He promises to do so after his reelection. I guess signing that tax cut for the rich really took it out of him and he needed time to recover before giving a tax break to the middle class? No idea why he didn't do it together or sometime in the following year, oh well. My taxes actually went up since then, so...
Wrong. The libs control the house.
Oh, I see the confusion, when I said back then Republicans controlled all three branches of government what I meant was back when Republicans controlled all three branches of government, not who controls it currently. You do realize Republicans controlled both the senate and congress for the first two years of Trump's presidency, right? For the third time, I'm asking why is the only legislation Republicans managed to passed while controlling all three branches of government for two years is a tax cut for the rich? For some reason you are being super dodgy when answering this rather simple question. Maybe you don't know why and refuse to answer it because doing so would admit your party is incompetent and self serving? I'm left with wondering the reason why you won't answer it.
President Trump is the first to actually step in N. Korea and successfully begin peace talks.
True, that was a historic event. But it doesnt change the fact we are still at war with them. We have been at war with them since they started their civil war that divided their country into south and north. Soviets backed the north while we supported the south. Trivia since you seem interested in knowing Soviet influence in our politics. Successful peace talks are questionable since the purpose of those talks was to have North Korea stop testing missile and they still are doing so.
We have stopped trade imbalance by righting the imbalance, and resolving to continue to right the balance. If china adjusts their tariffs to make it uneven, we adjust again. This is so easy, why are you having issues understanding?
What was the trade imbalance? Specific numbers, none of that we are losing billions to China. How do we know when we reach a balance and how to to raise or lower tariffs to keep the balance?
My other question is why is Trump willing to end the tariffs for a better trade deal with China? If China will lose more then what they are paying in tariffs, why would they agree to a trade deal. If we lose more then what we make in tariffs, why would we end them? I know these are uncomfortable questions you never thought of asking before, but, please, take your time in dodging them.
Wrong again. We dropped the MOAB on their leaders and got a high score. Then, amazingly, they never were seen again. ISIS, on the other hand, ROSE TO POWER during the Obama admin. You obviously haven't paid attention. This seems to be a recurring theme with you.
The MOAB only managed to get two confirmed kills. Was two the high score? And we still hear about them because they are still bombing places. Unless you are talking about losing all their territory, then yes, that happened under Trump. But they were also on the verge of losing it all when Trump took over. So I guess I wasn't the one who wasn't paying attention, huh?
Technically they rose to power during the bush administration thanks to the disbanding of the Iraq military and no follow up plans on what to do with them. They rose to the height of their power during the Obama administration.
Well...I can't argue with you on that one. You pretty much nailed it...except for the last part. You forgot the kind of leaders that founded this great country, they were quite trumpian.
Oh? Did they have a tax cut for the rich and started a tariff war with China too? Or was it their historically low unemployment rates for black people? Lol.
And he also broke 4%. Essentially he's breaking all the walls that the dems say he can't, and he's winning so much that it is ripping lib minds apart...
Yeah, but he couldn't keep it at 3% and even to keep it up for that long he had to jack up our debt to reach it. He essentially maxed out our credit cards to appear successful.
Also, Trump promised he could reach 6%
I don't expect the opposition to tell the truth about his strengths, only try and report on his weaknesses. Enemies will only tell you your weaknesses, friends only your strengths.
We keep each other honest. But does that mean you will ignore his mistakes to keep him strong? Because if you refuse to correct your mistakes, you'll never improve.
If that's the case, show me references. If I'm wrong, I can accept it, but so far this would be the first time you successfully do it. Bravo? :)
Read those sexy numbers. Obama got it up to 5.1%. Trump's highest was 4.5%.
https://www.statista.com/statistics.....gdp-in-the-us/
SHOW MEE THE MONEEYYYYYYYY (the references) :)
Look at that steady downward unemployment since Obama took over. The tend continues right into Trump and slows down a bit. Do you finally admit I was right?
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Sounds like a group of smart and respectable people. You should converse with them more and you might learn something.
I'm conversing with one right now. =)
Yet my referenced links never came from fox news, in fact they were liberal outlets.
Ah, you got me there.
I told you, I'm not into being PC because I'm not a politician running for office. Not every bully is condescending, not every condescending person is a bully. The world doesn't run on such black and white terms. But say that it did, when Trump is condescending does that make him a bully? If yes, then you have no problems with bullying. If no, then I am right that not all condescending people are bullies. Regardless of which answer you chose, I still win. Pick your poison.
Before the Soviets invented PC, there was a thing called common decency and dignity. PC is saccarin sweet fake garbage used for virtue signaling. Your claim of hypocrisy falls limp.
I'm not sure why you think the Soviets invented PC. PC has been around ever since elected officials realized they needed to appease the populace in order to stay in power. Can you even name a time when a politician had common decency and dignity without ever lying about it to win favor? What do you think a politician would sound like without PC? Unless you think politicians need to go back to isolating and insulting minorities in society. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and just assume you don't actually know what you are asking for. If you did, that would be pretty bad.
More baseless rhetoric with no facts. Facts don't care about your feelings.
Oh, so you don't think it's stupid of a president to start a conservation by reminding everyone water is wet? Why do you think it was important for Trump to say that? Who do you think didn't know that and had to be reminded of it? Is water being wet a little known fact? President Trump bringing in the deep thought questions. I think it shows a baseline for his level of intelligence. Calling into question his self-proclaimed status of being a ' very stable genius.'
You're right. They hire more employees, hence more jobs, and pay them more money as bonuses for staying and working.
If they already have enough employees to cover a shift they are not going to hire a few extras because they make more money. If any of them do they haven't been any of the places I worked before. A company isn't going to give their employees a raise either just because they make more. The name of the game is profits and to try to gain as much profits by eliminating cost. And one of those costs including paying workers. You have this strangely naive thinking that companies won't take advantage of a situation despite them doing so on every occasion.
And that is what causes a failing company, so for the remaining SUCCESSFUL companies that are still in business, your rule doesn't apply. Go back to school.
Oh boy, let me tell you of a magical time when Republicans use to say that these businesses are to big to fail and the ensuing recession and massive bailouts. It is almost like what you are saying is the third retelling of the same story. I really hope that "never forget" thing starts to kick in after the fourth time around.
Hence President Trump's tax break on the Middle Class... If you were employed, you would have enjoyed the check. Or did you?
Trump hasn't done a tax break on the middle class yet. He promises to do so after his reelection. I guess signing that tax cut for the rich really took it out of him and he needed time to recover before giving a tax break to the middle class? No idea why he didn't do it together or sometime in the following year, oh well. My taxes actually went up since then, so...
Wrong. The libs control the house.
Oh, I see the confusion, when I said back then Republicans controlled all three branches of government what I meant was back when Republicans controlled all three branches of government, not who controls it currently. You do realize Republicans controlled both the senate and congress for the first two years of Trump's presidency, right? For the third time, I'm asking why is the only legislation Republicans managed to passed while controlling all three branches of government for two years is a tax cut for the rich? For some reason you are being super dodgy when answering this rather simple question. Maybe you don't know why and refuse to answer it because doing so would admit your party is incompetent and self serving? I'm left with wondering the reason why you won't answer it.
President Trump is the first to actually step in N. Korea and successfully begin peace talks.
True, that was a historic event. But it doesnt change the fact we are still at war with them. We have been at war with them since they started their civil war that divided their country into south and north. Soviets backed the north while we supported the south. Trivia since you seem interested in knowing Soviet influence in our politics. Successful peace talks are questionable since the purpose of those talks was to have North Korea stop testing missile and they still are doing so.
We have stopped trade imbalance by righting the imbalance, and resolving to continue to right the balance. If china adjusts their tariffs to make it uneven, we adjust again. This is so easy, why are you having issues understanding?
What was the trade imbalance? Specific numbers, none of that we are losing billions to China. How do we know when we reach a balance and how to to raise or lower tariffs to keep the balance?
My other question is why is Trump willing to end the tariffs for a better trade deal with China? If China will lose more then what they are paying in tariffs, why would they agree to a trade deal. If we lose more then what we make in tariffs, why would we end them? I know these are uncomfortable questions you never thought of asking before, but, please, take your time in dodging them.
Wrong again. We dropped the MOAB on their leaders and got a high score. Then, amazingly, they never were seen again. ISIS, on the other hand, ROSE TO POWER during the Obama admin. You obviously haven't paid attention. This seems to be a recurring theme with you.
The MOAB only managed to get two confirmed kills. Was two the high score? And we still hear about them because they are still bombing places. Unless you are talking about losing all their territory, then yes, that happened under Trump. But they were also on the verge of losing it all when Trump took over. So I guess I wasn't the one who wasn't paying attention, huh?
Technically they rose to power during the bush administration thanks to the disbanding of the Iraq military and no follow up plans on what to do with them. They rose to the height of their power during the Obama administration.
Well...I can't argue with you on that one. You pretty much nailed it...except for the last part. You forgot the kind of leaders that founded this great country, they were quite trumpian.
Oh? Did they have a tax cut for the rich and started a tariff war with China too? Or was it their historically low unemployment rates for black people? Lol.
And he also broke 4%. Essentially he's breaking all the walls that the dems say he can't, and he's winning so much that it is ripping lib minds apart...
Yeah, but he couldn't keep it at 3% and even to keep it up for that long he had to jack up our debt to reach it. He essentially maxed out our credit cards to appear successful.
Also, Trump promised he could reach 6%
I don't expect the opposition to tell the truth about his strengths, only try and report on his weaknesses. Enemies will only tell you your weaknesses, friends only your strengths.
We keep each other honest. But does that mean you will ignore his mistakes to keep him strong? Because if you refuse to correct your mistakes, you'll never improve.
If that's the case, show me references. If I'm wrong, I can accept it, but so far this would be the first time you successfully do it. Bravo? :)
Read those sexy numbers. Obama got it up to 5.1%. Trump's highest was 4.5%.
https://www.statista.com/statistics.....gdp-in-the-us/
SHOW MEE THE MONEEYYYYYYYY (the references) :)
Look at that steady downward unemployment since Obama took over. The tend continues right into Trump and slows down a bit. Do you finally admit I was right?
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Sounds like a group of smart and respectable people. You should converse with them more and you might learn something.
I'm conversing with one right now. =)
Yet my referenced links never came from fox news, in fact they were liberal outlets.
Ah, you got me there.
"Oh, I will never silence you. I just like presenting facts I know you can't rebut and won't response to until you run out of scripted things to say and quit replying."
Honestly, I feel kinda bad for you because arguing with me AND trying to score good solid hit points in the form of facts is nearly impossible because I know the facts before I enter an argument every time.
You either have the facts, or you are on the wrong side of history.
Correctly winning an argument against me is an exercise in futility, since I can rebound on arguments like Ben Shapiro. You would have better luck walking on top of deep water at room temperature.
Just give up now, you only have your dignity to defend. If you walk away, I will let you keep your dignity. It's ok to be wrong, this is a free country after all. =^_^=
Honestly, I feel kinda bad for you because arguing with me AND trying to score good solid hit points in the form of facts is nearly impossible because I know the facts before I enter an argument every time.
You either have the facts, or you are on the wrong side of history.
Correctly winning an argument against me is an exercise in futility, since I can rebound on arguments like Ben Shapiro. You would have better luck walking on top of deep water at room temperature.
Just give up now, you only have your dignity to defend. If you walk away, I will let you keep your dignity. It's ok to be wrong, this is a free country after all. =^_^=
Honestly, I feel kinda bad for you because arguing with me AND trying to score good solid hit points in the form of facts is nearly impossible because I know the facts before I enter an argument every time.
You either have the facts, or you are on the wrong side of history.
Correctly winning an argument against me is an exercise in futility, since I can rebound on arguments like Ben Shapiro. You would have better luck walking on top of deep water at room temperature.
Just give up now, you only have your dignity to defend. If you walk away, I will let you keep your dignity. It's ok to be wrong, this is a free country after all. =^_^=
Kinda weird thinking any of us have any kind of dignity on a furry porn site.
This is fun mostly because the facts and numbers all say you are wrong but you need to be able to twist them in a way that makes you seem right. I wanna see how far you can bend the truth before you outright just break it.
You either have the facts, or you are on the wrong side of history.
Correctly winning an argument against me is an exercise in futility, since I can rebound on arguments like Ben Shapiro. You would have better luck walking on top of deep water at room temperature.
Just give up now, you only have your dignity to defend. If you walk away, I will let you keep your dignity. It's ok to be wrong, this is a free country after all. =^_^=
Kinda weird thinking any of us have any kind of dignity on a furry porn site.
This is fun mostly because the facts and numbers all say you are wrong but you need to be able to twist them in a way that makes you seem right. I wanna see how far you can bend the truth before you outright just break it.
"Kinda weird thinking any of us have any kind of dignity on a furry porn site. "
I...have to agree with you. That's a pretty fair point. XD
"This is fun mostly because the facts and numbers all say you are wrong but you need to be able to twist them in a way that makes you seem right. I wanna see how far you can bend the truth before you outright just break it. "
You have to actually know the truth first for you to know when it is broken. So no, not possible.
I...have to agree with you. That's a pretty fair point. XD
"This is fun mostly because the facts and numbers all say you are wrong but you need to be able to twist them in a way that makes you seem right. I wanna see how far you can bend the truth before you outright just break it. "
You have to actually know the truth first for you to know when it is broken. So no, not possible.
You have to actually know the truth first for you to know when it is broken. So no, not possible.
Truth is subjective and things can be truther then others. For example, you can ask people their age and get a different answer, and each of those answers are true. Another example, I can say "I have a job", "I have a job from 9 to 5", "I have a job from 9 to 5 on Monday to Friday." Each of those statements is truer then the last because they each add more information. The problem I'm seeing with you is you tend to stop with the truth right before it gets embarrassing. So that it is still technically true without having to admit you are wrong about something.
Truth is subjective and things can be truther then others. For example, you can ask people their age and get a different answer, and each of those answers are true. Another example, I can say "I have a job", "I have a job from 9 to 5", "I have a job from 9 to 5 on Monday to Friday." Each of those statements is truer then the last because they each add more information. The problem I'm seeing with you is you tend to stop with the truth right before it gets embarrassing. So that it is still technically true without having to admit you are wrong about something.
Yes, actually he dropped the deficit by 69% under his presidency. Which really helped the economy flourish. Debt is how much you owe and deficit is how much that debt is increased. He drastically cut down how much we were spending. While there was a lot of debt that occurred under Obama, no one ever seems to ask where all the debt came from. What did Obama spend all that money on? The trick to that is the previous administration started a lot of wars and those wars cost a lot of money. The cost of which wasn't added until the next administration. They set up a time bomb that whomever the next president was going to be had to catch it. If you are more interested in the end result then the cause, sure. But why let facts get in the way of a good story, am I right?
The again, in American debt is never really a concern unless it can be used as political weapon against your opponents.
The again, in American debt is never really a concern unless it can be used as political weapon against your opponents.
"Your silence will always come when asked how to advance mankind forward because you will have no answer to give."
Easy. Deregulation of industry to the degree that doesn't overly harm the environment and allows for energy/production independence from the world economy. Protection of our borders, just like every successful nation in the history of the world since time immemorial. Walls work. Enforcement of our laws without exceptions, equality is the name, remember? This stuff is too easy, and flies in the face of your statement of how conservatives have no answers. WE ARE the answer.
...and finally, I have forgotten NOTHING about the Obama administration times. If anything, they were the most horrible 8 years of my life. The most dangerous ones, with the bleakest hopes for maintaining a successful nation. I do not apologize for being American, White, or Male to ANYONE. Never again, this atrocity.
Easy. Deregulation of industry to the degree that doesn't overly harm the environment and allows for energy/production independence from the world economy. Protection of our borders, just like every successful nation in the history of the world since time immemorial. Walls work. Enforcement of our laws without exceptions, equality is the name, remember? This stuff is too easy, and flies in the face of your statement of how conservatives have no answers. WE ARE the answer.
...and finally, I have forgotten NOTHING about the Obama administration times. If anything, they were the most horrible 8 years of my life. The most dangerous ones, with the bleakest hopes for maintaining a successful nation. I do not apologize for being American, White, or Male to ANYONE. Never again, this atrocity.
Deregulation of industry to the degree that doesn't overly harm the environment and allows for energy/production independence from the world economy.
So, a while back, there was an oil spill in the Gulf. Devastated the environment and economy of that reason. Democrats put into place safety regulations to make sure that oil platforms regulatory inspect and maintain their equipment. Trump removed those regulations. Why? Also, why did Trump allow fracking and offshore drilling everywhere expect where he owns property?
Furthermore, how much can you harm the environment before Republicans consider it to much? That seems like an vague statement to allow as bunch abuse as possible. Feels like the answer you could give and still be right is "you can never overly harm the environment when it comes to profit."
Protection of our borders, just like every successful nation in the history of the world since time immemorial. Walls work. Only 40% of illegal immigrants come from the southern border. What is the Republican plan to stop the other 60% of illegal immigrants? Also, why is Trump not being held accounting for the illegal immigrants currently employed by him?
Enforcement of our laws without exceptions, equality is the name, remember?
How come Republicans refuse to enforce the law when Trump violates it? Republicans seem rather selective on which laws need to be enforced.
This stuff is too easy, and flies in the face of your statement of how conservatives have no answers. WE ARE the answer.
Most of the answers seem to boil down to "We want to do a thing, but we don't know how nor care enough to actually do it. We hope the problem revolves itself in the future." Like when you ask them "how do you solve poverty in America?" and they will respond with something like "We definitely want to see people succeed in life. We just accept the fact not everyone can and leave it like that. It is the natural order of things that some people will struggle in any system. If anything those people need to work harder to become successful at life through their own strength."
If anything, they were the most horrible 8 years of my life. The most dangerous ones, with the bleakest hopes for maintaining a successful nation. I do not apologize for being American, White, or Male to ANYONE. Never again, this atrocity.
I'm sorry, I have mistaken thought you were basing your reasoning off of irrational emotions like fear and angry- Oh, those were your reasons? My bad. Did anyone ever require you to apologize for being a white male American? Whatever strange life experience you went through I cannot say I seen anything of what you are describing. It feels like one of those "war on Christmas" deals where you make something up to feel persecuted about so you and your buddies can bond over a shared traumatic event together.
So, a while back, there was an oil spill in the Gulf. Devastated the environment and economy of that reason. Democrats put into place safety regulations to make sure that oil platforms regulatory inspect and maintain their equipment. Trump removed those regulations. Why? Also, why did Trump allow fracking and offshore drilling everywhere expect where he owns property?
Furthermore, how much can you harm the environment before Republicans consider it to much? That seems like an vague statement to allow as bunch abuse as possible. Feels like the answer you could give and still be right is "you can never overly harm the environment when it comes to profit."
Protection of our borders, just like every successful nation in the history of the world since time immemorial. Walls work. Only 40% of illegal immigrants come from the southern border. What is the Republican plan to stop the other 60% of illegal immigrants? Also, why is Trump not being held accounting for the illegal immigrants currently employed by him?
Enforcement of our laws without exceptions, equality is the name, remember?
How come Republicans refuse to enforce the law when Trump violates it? Republicans seem rather selective on which laws need to be enforced.
This stuff is too easy, and flies in the face of your statement of how conservatives have no answers. WE ARE the answer.
Most of the answers seem to boil down to "We want to do a thing, but we don't know how nor care enough to actually do it. We hope the problem revolves itself in the future." Like when you ask them "how do you solve poverty in America?" and they will respond with something like "We definitely want to see people succeed in life. We just accept the fact not everyone can and leave it like that. It is the natural order of things that some people will struggle in any system. If anything those people need to work harder to become successful at life through their own strength."
If anything, they were the most horrible 8 years of my life. The most dangerous ones, with the bleakest hopes for maintaining a successful nation. I do not apologize for being American, White, or Male to ANYONE. Never again, this atrocity.
I'm sorry, I have mistaken thought you were basing your reasoning off of irrational emotions like fear and angry- Oh, those were your reasons? My bad. Did anyone ever require you to apologize for being a white male American? Whatever strange life experience you went through I cannot say I seen anything of what you are describing. It feels like one of those "war on Christmas" deals where you make something up to feel persecuted about so you and your buddies can bond over a shared traumatic event together.
"why did Trump allow fracking and offshore drilling everywhere expect where he owns property?"
If you didn't know, fracking actually cleans the sand and pulls out the oils that saturate it naturally, like driftwood.
"So, a while back, there was an oil spill in the Gulf. Devastated the environment and economy of that reason. Democrats put into place safety regulations to make sure that oil platforms regulatory inspect and maintain their equipment. Trump removed those regulations. Why?"
The inspections also required higher taxes and fees to be levied that had nothing to do with inspections. Regardless of whether we force inspection on an industry, they are held responsible to amend any failings. Those regs still stand.
"Furthermore, how much can you harm the environment before Republicans consider it to much? That seems like an vague statement to allow as bunch abuse as possible. Feels like the answer you could give and still be right is "you can never overly harm the environment when it comes to profit.""
I would support regulation of an industry as long as it didn't overly burden the industry to the point where it no longer is profitable. If it wasn't profitable to begin with, there is no point to have said industry. But if it is profitable, the only worthwhile measures are those that ensure reasonable costs for inspections and minimal fees and surcharges to ensure our economy doesn't bog down. I am with you on ensuring our environment is safeguarded, just the dems poison-pill their measures with onerous fees that don't belong there in the package.
"Only 40% of illegal immigrants come from the southern border. What is the Republican plan to stop the other 60% of illegal immigrants? Also, why is Trump not being held accounting for the illegal immigrants currently employed by him?"
So funny...first the dems are 100% against ANY measure against illegal immigration, and then when president Trump finally starts plugging the holes in the dam you expect him to have 100% effectiveness all the while the liberal media attacks his every move 24/7. This is absurd. Security measures and cleanup takes time and preparation. As of now, he has done nothing but operate at the speed of a superhuman, regardless of the liberal toxic attacks.
"What is the Republican plan to stop the other 60% of illegal immigrants? "
So, illegal immigration happens over air travel too, so you are in support of ice law enforcement there? Cool! Oh wait...no...ya'll dems shot down his air travel bans, which were his first step towards enforcement. And yet then you blame him for not being successful.
"How come Republicans refuse to enforce the law when Trump violates it? Republicans seem rather selective on which laws need to be enforced."
Vague statement. Without facts it is invalid.
"Most of the answers seem to boil down to "We want to do a thing, but we don't know how nor care enough to actually do it. We hope the problem revolves itself in the future."
Funny, that was the same mantra I heard in the leftist community preceding obama's election at the end of bush's term. (no, bush didn't a good job, don't pin that on us, he wasn't really republican, more of a RINO) Once again, equality of application...and blame is
key.
""We definitely want to see people succeed in life. We just accept the fact not everyone can and leave it like that. It is the natural order of things that some people will struggle in any system. If anything those people need to work harder to become successful at life through their own strength.""
Cool.
"I'm sorry, I have mistaken thought you were basing your reasoning off of irrational emotions like fear and angry- Oh, those were your reasons? My bad. "
Your bad, I agree. You could ask my reasons (the list could fill a book), but no I base my reasons on fact, and I actually have emotions too. Libs don't have a monopoly on emotions or empathy.
"Did anyone ever require you to apologize for being a white male American? Whatever strange life experience you went through I cannot say I seen anything of what you are describing. It feels like one of those "war on Christmas" deals where you make something up to feel persecuted about so you and your buddies can bond over a shared traumatic event together. "
Pardon me, your elitist snark is showing.
Being shamed for being white or american is a ridiculous notion? Where have you been the last 12 years? Note, the links below are just basic examples of how you are wrong, and moreso how you are either blind to the world or in denial.
Shamed for being white:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/.....privilege.html
Shamed for being american:
https://www.heritage.org/europe/rep.....ted-superpower
This is just too easy.
If you didn't know, fracking actually cleans the sand and pulls out the oils that saturate it naturally, like driftwood.
"So, a while back, there was an oil spill in the Gulf. Devastated the environment and economy of that reason. Democrats put into place safety regulations to make sure that oil platforms regulatory inspect and maintain their equipment. Trump removed those regulations. Why?"
The inspections also required higher taxes and fees to be levied that had nothing to do with inspections. Regardless of whether we force inspection on an industry, they are held responsible to amend any failings. Those regs still stand.
"Furthermore, how much can you harm the environment before Republicans consider it to much? That seems like an vague statement to allow as bunch abuse as possible. Feels like the answer you could give and still be right is "you can never overly harm the environment when it comes to profit.""
I would support regulation of an industry as long as it didn't overly burden the industry to the point where it no longer is profitable. If it wasn't profitable to begin with, there is no point to have said industry. But if it is profitable, the only worthwhile measures are those that ensure reasonable costs for inspections and minimal fees and surcharges to ensure our economy doesn't bog down. I am with you on ensuring our environment is safeguarded, just the dems poison-pill their measures with onerous fees that don't belong there in the package.
"Only 40% of illegal immigrants come from the southern border. What is the Republican plan to stop the other 60% of illegal immigrants? Also, why is Trump not being held accounting for the illegal immigrants currently employed by him?"
So funny...first the dems are 100% against ANY measure against illegal immigration, and then when president Trump finally starts plugging the holes in the dam you expect him to have 100% effectiveness all the while the liberal media attacks his every move 24/7. This is absurd. Security measures and cleanup takes time and preparation. As of now, he has done nothing but operate at the speed of a superhuman, regardless of the liberal toxic attacks.
"What is the Republican plan to stop the other 60% of illegal immigrants? "
So, illegal immigration happens over air travel too, so you are in support of ice law enforcement there? Cool! Oh wait...no...ya'll dems shot down his air travel bans, which were his first step towards enforcement. And yet then you blame him for not being successful.
"How come Republicans refuse to enforce the law when Trump violates it? Republicans seem rather selective on which laws need to be enforced."
Vague statement. Without facts it is invalid.
"Most of the answers seem to boil down to "We want to do a thing, but we don't know how nor care enough to actually do it. We hope the problem revolves itself in the future."
Funny, that was the same mantra I heard in the leftist community preceding obama's election at the end of bush's term. (no, bush didn't a good job, don't pin that on us, he wasn't really republican, more of a RINO) Once again, equality of application...and blame is
key.
""We definitely want to see people succeed in life. We just accept the fact not everyone can and leave it like that. It is the natural order of things that some people will struggle in any system. If anything those people need to work harder to become successful at life through their own strength.""
Cool.
"I'm sorry, I have mistaken thought you were basing your reasoning off of irrational emotions like fear and angry- Oh, those were your reasons? My bad. "
Your bad, I agree. You could ask my reasons (the list could fill a book), but no I base my reasons on fact, and I actually have emotions too. Libs don't have a monopoly on emotions or empathy.
"Did anyone ever require you to apologize for being a white male American? Whatever strange life experience you went through I cannot say I seen anything of what you are describing. It feels like one of those "war on Christmas" deals where you make something up to feel persecuted about so you and your buddies can bond over a shared traumatic event together. "
Pardon me, your elitist snark is showing.
Being shamed for being white or american is a ridiculous notion? Where have you been the last 12 years? Note, the links below are just basic examples of how you are wrong, and moreso how you are either blind to the world or in denial.
Shamed for being white:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/.....privilege.html
Shamed for being american:
https://www.heritage.org/europe/rep.....ted-superpower
This is just too easy.
If you didn't know, fracking actually cleans the sand and pulls out the oils that saturate it naturally, like driftwood.
That isn't what people say when fracking is done near them. It also doesn't explain why Trump doesn't want it happening hear his property.
The inspections also required higher taxes and fees to be levied that had nothing to do with inspections. Regardless of whether we force inspection on an industry, they are held responsible to amend any failings. Those regs still stand.
So, Republicans couldn't just change it to exclude the tax and just require the inspections? The rest is just a classic "we don't have an answer on how to prevent this from happening again."
I would support regulation of an industry as long as it didn't overly burden the industry to the point where it no longer is profitable. If it wasn't profitable to begin with, there is no point to have said industry. But if it is profitable, the only worthwhile measures are those that ensure reasonable costs for inspections and minimal fees and surcharges to ensure our economy doesn't bog down. I am with you on ensuring our environment is safeguarded, just the dems poison-pill their measures with onerous fees that don't belong there in the package.
How much can you cut into an industry's profits before it is considered overly burdensome? Can we take half their profits to protect the environment? A quarter of their profits? A tenth? What? That leaves the door open to any number. Trump allowed companies to dump more toxins in the river because it was to costly to properly dispose of it, do you think that is acceptable? The rest is "I love the environment but I don't have an answer to how we should protect it."
So funny...first the dems are 100% against ANY measure against illegal immigration, and then when president Trump finally starts plugging the holes in the dam you expect him to have 100% effectiveness all the while the liberal media attacks his every move 24/7. This is absurd. Security measures and cleanup takes time and preparation. As of now, he has done nothing but operate at the speed of a superhuman, regardless of the liberal toxic attacks.
Untrue, Democrats increased funding to I.C.E and tried to pass two immigration reforms. Both reforms we denied by Trump because they didn't include a wall. Trump is unwilling to compromise on any unless he gets everything he wants right away. That is not how things are run.
So, illegal immigration happens over air travel too, so you are in support of ice law enforcement there? Cool! Oh wait...no...ya'll dems shot down his air travel bans, which were his first step towards enforcement. And yet then you blame him for not being successful.
The only ban I know of is his Muslim ban, which was illegal. The courts shot that one down. Normally if you over stay your visa and are caught, you are banned from flying. Which ban are you talking about?
Vague statement. Without facts it is invalid.
If you have to be told which crimes then you haven't been paying attention. Nepotism which is a violation of the constitution and prostitution which is a crime in almost every state. Not to mention his campaign violations for said prostitution.
Funny, that was the same mantra I heard in the leftist community preceding Obama's election at the end of bush's term. (no, bush didn't a good job, don't pin that on us, he wasn't really republican, more of a RINO) Once again, equality of application...and blame is
key.
Obama got a lot of stuff done despite Republican opposition. Every Republican loved Bush while he was in office because of his tax cuts for the rich, until he sank the economy and everyone hated him. Trump is following the same policies, everyone loves him and we are headed to another recession. Hopefully after a second time you'll actually remember what happens with trickle down economics.
Cool.
And that is why your party keeps losing to liberals with solutions.
Your bad, I agree. You could ask my reasons (the list could fill a book), but no I base my reasons on fact, and I actually have emotions too. Libs don't have a monopoly on emotions or empathy.
I am asking for your reasons. Your reasons so far in this section seem to be money. I haven't seen any facts, just opninions so far. You seem to have plenty of emotions, most of them just happen to be fear and anger.
Pardon me, your elitist snark is showing.
Being shamed for being white or american is a ridiculous notion? Where have you been the last 12 years? Note, the links below are just basic examples of how you are wrong, and moreso how you are either blind to the world or in denial.
I don't take much stock in opinion articles. I could just as easily look up stuff from InfoWars to prove how crazy the alt-right is.
Obama was saying in almost every quote about how America isn't prefect, we make mistakes, but we are doing our best, we don't want to be your enemies, let's work together. Obama was being honest and that honest from a politician is refreshing. He got a lot done on the world stage.
But compare Trump, never says he makes a mistake, never apologizes, never compromises, gets very little done on the world stage. While Obama was respected, Trump is being laughed at and taken advantage of constantly.
That isn't what people say when fracking is done near them. It also doesn't explain why Trump doesn't want it happening hear his property.
The inspections also required higher taxes and fees to be levied that had nothing to do with inspections. Regardless of whether we force inspection on an industry, they are held responsible to amend any failings. Those regs still stand.
So, Republicans couldn't just change it to exclude the tax and just require the inspections? The rest is just a classic "we don't have an answer on how to prevent this from happening again."
I would support regulation of an industry as long as it didn't overly burden the industry to the point where it no longer is profitable. If it wasn't profitable to begin with, there is no point to have said industry. But if it is profitable, the only worthwhile measures are those that ensure reasonable costs for inspections and minimal fees and surcharges to ensure our economy doesn't bog down. I am with you on ensuring our environment is safeguarded, just the dems poison-pill their measures with onerous fees that don't belong there in the package.
How much can you cut into an industry's profits before it is considered overly burdensome? Can we take half their profits to protect the environment? A quarter of their profits? A tenth? What? That leaves the door open to any number. Trump allowed companies to dump more toxins in the river because it was to costly to properly dispose of it, do you think that is acceptable? The rest is "I love the environment but I don't have an answer to how we should protect it."
So funny...first the dems are 100% against ANY measure against illegal immigration, and then when president Trump finally starts plugging the holes in the dam you expect him to have 100% effectiveness all the while the liberal media attacks his every move 24/7. This is absurd. Security measures and cleanup takes time and preparation. As of now, he has done nothing but operate at the speed of a superhuman, regardless of the liberal toxic attacks.
Untrue, Democrats increased funding to I.C.E and tried to pass two immigration reforms. Both reforms we denied by Trump because they didn't include a wall. Trump is unwilling to compromise on any unless he gets everything he wants right away. That is not how things are run.
So, illegal immigration happens over air travel too, so you are in support of ice law enforcement there? Cool! Oh wait...no...ya'll dems shot down his air travel bans, which were his first step towards enforcement. And yet then you blame him for not being successful.
The only ban I know of is his Muslim ban, which was illegal. The courts shot that one down. Normally if you over stay your visa and are caught, you are banned from flying. Which ban are you talking about?
Vague statement. Without facts it is invalid.
If you have to be told which crimes then you haven't been paying attention. Nepotism which is a violation of the constitution and prostitution which is a crime in almost every state. Not to mention his campaign violations for said prostitution.
Funny, that was the same mantra I heard in the leftist community preceding Obama's election at the end of bush's term. (no, bush didn't a good job, don't pin that on us, he wasn't really republican, more of a RINO) Once again, equality of application...and blame is
key.
Obama got a lot of stuff done despite Republican opposition. Every Republican loved Bush while he was in office because of his tax cuts for the rich, until he sank the economy and everyone hated him. Trump is following the same policies, everyone loves him and we are headed to another recession. Hopefully after a second time you'll actually remember what happens with trickle down economics.
Cool.
And that is why your party keeps losing to liberals with solutions.
Your bad, I agree. You could ask my reasons (the list could fill a book), but no I base my reasons on fact, and I actually have emotions too. Libs don't have a monopoly on emotions or empathy.
I am asking for your reasons. Your reasons so far in this section seem to be money. I haven't seen any facts, just opninions so far. You seem to have plenty of emotions, most of them just happen to be fear and anger.
Pardon me, your elitist snark is showing.
Being shamed for being white or american is a ridiculous notion? Where have you been the last 12 years? Note, the links below are just basic examples of how you are wrong, and moreso how you are either blind to the world or in denial.
I don't take much stock in opinion articles. I could just as easily look up stuff from InfoWars to prove how crazy the alt-right is.
Obama was saying in almost every quote about how America isn't prefect, we make mistakes, but we are doing our best, we don't want to be your enemies, let's work together. Obama was being honest and that honest from a politician is refreshing. He got a lot done on the world stage.
But compare Trump, never says he makes a mistake, never apologizes, never compromises, gets very little done on the world stage. While Obama was respected, Trump is being laughed at and taken advantage of constantly.
"That isn't what people say when fracking is done near them. It also doesn't explain why Trump doesn't want it happening hear his property."
So what do they say? They being you?
"So, Republicans couldn't just change it to exclude the tax and just require the inspections? The rest is just a classic "we don't have an answer on how to prevent this from happening again."
And so they did it. You're following along nicely.
"How much can you cut into an industry's profits before it is considered overly burdensome? Can we take half their profits to protect the environment? A quarter of their profits? A tenth? What? That leaves the door open to any number. Trump allowed companies to dump more toxins in the river because it was to costly to properly dispose of it, do you think that is acceptable? The rest is "I love the environment but I don't have an answer to how we should protect it.""
Unfortunately I'm not an accountant, but I'm sure if you found an accountant they could show you all 500 pages of content on how that is the case. Do you own a company? I don't. Anyway it has been proven correct. Do you need references for this one too? My fingers are getting tired from providing...so...many references. And you haven't given ANY.
"Untrue, Democrats increased funding to I.C.E and tried to pass two immigration reforms. Both reforms we denied by Trump because they didn't include a wall. Trump is unwilling to compromise on any unless he gets everything he wants right away. That is not how things are run."
Wrong. If you are familiar with the concept of a poison pill, you would of course know why President Trump couldn't accept the low-hanging fruit of poor immigration reform bills by the dems. And because he wouldn't accept the bad deals back then, we now are building the wall.
#winning
Or if you're a democrat... #whining
"The only ban I know of is his Muslim ban, which was illegal. The courts shot that one down. Normally if you over stay your visa and are caught, you are banned from flying. Which ban are you talking about?"
At this point, all of them. Pick any. Trump is batting a 1000/1 against the dems opposing all things he does. Any progress for Trump is progress because this isn't an uphill battle, it's cliff-climbing.
Once again, the travel bans were only first step attempts. Yes, you can see there were many different types he tried, but all were shot down.
"If you have to be told which crimes then you haven't been paying attention. Nepotism which is a violation of the constitution and prostitution which is a crime in almost every state. Not to mention his campaign violations for said prostitution. "
I know of many things, but I don't claim to know it all. You are free to explain what laws you think Trump may have violated.
"Obama got a lot of stuff done despite Republican opposition. Every Republican loved Bush while he was in office because of his tax cuts for the rich, until he sank the economy and everyone hated him."
Obama and Bush were both horrible sides of the same coin. I cannot defend either.
"Trump is following the same policies, everyone loves him and we are headed to another recession. Hopefully after a second time you'll actually remember what happens with trickle down economics."
Well let us hope it doesn't because I like my money and low taxes to stay where they are.
"And that is why your party keeps losing to liberals with solutions."
False equivalency. And the dems have no wins since 2016. ...unless you consider the green new deal to be a win, which I have to say, thank you for the Trump 2020 win guarantee with that one. Truly AOC couldn't have done it better. :)
"I am asking for your reasons. Your reasons so far in this section seem to be money. I haven't seen any facts, just opninions so far. You seem to have plenty of emotions, most of them just happen to be fear and anger."
Well...the ones I personally disliked the most were the raise in taxes and $1000 per year for Obamacare (the website alone cost more than Trump's wall) that almost ran my brother bankrupt...and all the attempts he supported to erode our second amendment, and then lie about it. The thing is, Obama is thankfully in the past, and I like to keep it that way. If you think this is a win for you, I'll give you a win, but it is too painful to begin talking about the criminal stuff he did to cause me so much stress, and talking about what he did to piss me off will make me lose more than win, even if I win the argument.
"I don't take much stock in opinion articles. I could just as easily look up stuff from InfoWars to prove how crazy the alt-right is.
Obama was saying in almost every quote about how America isn't prefect, we make mistakes, but we are doing our best, we don't want to be your enemies, let's work together. Obama was being honest and that honest from a politician is refreshing. He got a lot done on the world stage.
But compare Trump, never says he makes a mistake, never apologizes, never compromises, gets very little done on the world stage. While Obama was respected, Trump is being laughed at and taken advantage of constantly. "
Everyone has their own preference of who their ideal leader personality is. This is natural. You are entitled to your opinion, and in this case no one is really right or wrong. Of all three rulers, they all did wrong things. Just, I will vote for Trump next year because history's trends favor his current actions and policies. If you vote next year, we will likely cancel each other out, and that's fine too. =^_^=
So what do they say? They being you?
"So, Republicans couldn't just change it to exclude the tax and just require the inspections? The rest is just a classic "we don't have an answer on how to prevent this from happening again."
And so they did it. You're following along nicely.
"How much can you cut into an industry's profits before it is considered overly burdensome? Can we take half their profits to protect the environment? A quarter of their profits? A tenth? What? That leaves the door open to any number. Trump allowed companies to dump more toxins in the river because it was to costly to properly dispose of it, do you think that is acceptable? The rest is "I love the environment but I don't have an answer to how we should protect it.""
Unfortunately I'm not an accountant, but I'm sure if you found an accountant they could show you all 500 pages of content on how that is the case. Do you own a company? I don't. Anyway it has been proven correct. Do you need references for this one too? My fingers are getting tired from providing...so...many references. And you haven't given ANY.
"Untrue, Democrats increased funding to I.C.E and tried to pass two immigration reforms. Both reforms we denied by Trump because they didn't include a wall. Trump is unwilling to compromise on any unless he gets everything he wants right away. That is not how things are run."
Wrong. If you are familiar with the concept of a poison pill, you would of course know why President Trump couldn't accept the low-hanging fruit of poor immigration reform bills by the dems. And because he wouldn't accept the bad deals back then, we now are building the wall.
#winning
Or if you're a democrat... #whining
"The only ban I know of is his Muslim ban, which was illegal. The courts shot that one down. Normally if you over stay your visa and are caught, you are banned from flying. Which ban are you talking about?"
At this point, all of them. Pick any. Trump is batting a 1000/1 against the dems opposing all things he does. Any progress for Trump is progress because this isn't an uphill battle, it's cliff-climbing.
Once again, the travel bans were only first step attempts. Yes, you can see there were many different types he tried, but all were shot down.
"If you have to be told which crimes then you haven't been paying attention. Nepotism which is a violation of the constitution and prostitution which is a crime in almost every state. Not to mention his campaign violations for said prostitution. "
I know of many things, but I don't claim to know it all. You are free to explain what laws you think Trump may have violated.
"Obama got a lot of stuff done despite Republican opposition. Every Republican loved Bush while he was in office because of his tax cuts for the rich, until he sank the economy and everyone hated him."
Obama and Bush were both horrible sides of the same coin. I cannot defend either.
"Trump is following the same policies, everyone loves him and we are headed to another recession. Hopefully after a second time you'll actually remember what happens with trickle down economics."
Well let us hope it doesn't because I like my money and low taxes to stay where they are.
"And that is why your party keeps losing to liberals with solutions."
False equivalency. And the dems have no wins since 2016. ...unless you consider the green new deal to be a win, which I have to say, thank you for the Trump 2020 win guarantee with that one. Truly AOC couldn't have done it better. :)
"I am asking for your reasons. Your reasons so far in this section seem to be money. I haven't seen any facts, just opninions so far. You seem to have plenty of emotions, most of them just happen to be fear and anger."
Well...the ones I personally disliked the most were the raise in taxes and $1000 per year for Obamacare (the website alone cost more than Trump's wall) that almost ran my brother bankrupt...and all the attempts he supported to erode our second amendment, and then lie about it. The thing is, Obama is thankfully in the past, and I like to keep it that way. If you think this is a win for you, I'll give you a win, but it is too painful to begin talking about the criminal stuff he did to cause me so much stress, and talking about what he did to piss me off will make me lose more than win, even if I win the argument.
"I don't take much stock in opinion articles. I could just as easily look up stuff from InfoWars to prove how crazy the alt-right is.
Obama was saying in almost every quote about how America isn't prefect, we make mistakes, but we are doing our best, we don't want to be your enemies, let's work together. Obama was being honest and that honest from a politician is refreshing. He got a lot done on the world stage.
But compare Trump, never says he makes a mistake, never apologizes, never compromises, gets very little done on the world stage. While Obama was respected, Trump is being laughed at and taken advantage of constantly. "
Everyone has their own preference of who their ideal leader personality is. This is natural. You are entitled to your opinion, and in this case no one is really right or wrong. Of all three rulers, they all did wrong things. Just, I will vote for Trump next year because history's trends favor his current actions and policies. If you vote next year, we will likely cancel each other out, and that's fine too. =^_^=
So what do they say? They being you?
Educate yourself.
https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorks.....racking_w.html
And so they did it. You're following along nicely.
You just said they didn't because Democrats put a tax hike in the bill. Are you changing your answer to whatever you think is the right one?
Unfortunately I'm not an accountant, but I'm sure if you found an accountant they could show you all 500 pages of content on how that is the case. Do you own a company? I don't. Anyway it has been proven correct. Do you need references for this one too? My fingers are getting tired from providing...so...many references. And you haven't given ANY.
I feel that summarizes my entire point of Republicans not having any real answers. It sounds cool on paper but no one knows how to actually get it done and the way they set it up provides for a lot of abuse. If someone comes in and tries to prevent that abuse then suddenly they are being overly burdensome on their profits and need to be stopped.
Someone needs to make the hard calls. "You see that park over there? Don't throw trash there! You see that river? Don't dump toxins in it! See that forest? Don't drill there! I don't care how much it will cost you to drive your trash to the dump!" Problem solved, no needing a company's permission to protect the environment. Why is that so hard for you?
Wrong. If you are familiar with the concept of a poison pill, you would of course know why President Trump couldn't accept the low-hanging fruit of poor immigration reform bills by the dems. And because he wouldn't accept the bad deals back then, we now are building the wall.
#winning
Or if you're a democrat... #whining
He refused to compromise and now he gets nothing. Great, you won, grats. And he hasn't started building any new walls yet. Only refurbishing the ones Obama already put up. So technically Democrats put up more walls on the southern border then Trump has so far.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr.....gency-confirms
At this point, all of them. Pick any. Trump is batting a 1000/1 against the dems opposing all things he does. Any progress for Trump is progress because this isn't an uphill battle, it's cliff-climbing.
Once again, the travel bans were only first step attempts. Yes, you can see there were many different types he tried, but all were shot down.
I seen him try one type and it failed. Then he tried a second time for a six month ban and it succeeded. But those six months have passed and he hasn't reissued another one since. So, immigration problem solved?
I know of many things, but I don't claim to know it all. You are free to explain what laws you think Trump may have violated.
I... just listed three and you responded to none of them... So...
Obama and Bush were both horrible sides of the same coin. I cannot defend either.
That is fine, but I have a sneaking feeling Trump will make that a trio after he is out of office.
Well let us hope it doesn't because I like my money and low taxes to stay where they are.
Unfortunately, someone will eventually have to pay for it. We are playing Russian roulette with our generations over who will get stuck paying this bill.
False equivalency. And the dems have no wins since 2016. ...unless you consider the green new deal to be a win, which I have to say, thank you for the Trump 2020 win guarantee with that one. Truly AOC couldn't have done it better. :)
They won Congress from Trump during the hieght of his success, so...
Well...the ones I personally disliked the most were the raise in taxes and $1000 per year for Obamacare and all the attempts he supported to erode our second amendment, and then lie about it. The thing is, Obama is thankfully in the past, and I like to keep it that way. If you think this is a win for you, I'll give you a win, but it is too painful to begin talking about the criminal stuff he did to cause me so much stress, and talking about what he did to piss me off will make me lose more than win, even if I win the argument.
The main problem with the ACA I believe is when Republicans gutted price controls of the bill, essentially cutting the brakes in an attempt to sabotage it.
Obama is taking our guns, lol.
If you don't want to talk about that is fine. But it seems like every time I try to get into what did Obama wrong I get hit with this same response. I'm curious now...
Everyone has their own preference of who their ideal leader personality is. This is natural. You are entitled to your opinion, and in this case no one is really right or wrong. Of all three rulers, they all did wrong things. Just, I will vote for Trump next year because history's trends favor his current actions and policies. If you vote next year, we will likely cancel each other out, and that's fine too. =^_^=
It seems like you shifted from comparing results to personal preferences. Something that I can't argue against. An excellent dodge and block tactic, if I do say so myself.
Educate yourself.
https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorks.....racking_w.html
And so they did it. You're following along nicely.
You just said they didn't because Democrats put a tax hike in the bill. Are you changing your answer to whatever you think is the right one?
Unfortunately I'm not an accountant, but I'm sure if you found an accountant they could show you all 500 pages of content on how that is the case. Do you own a company? I don't. Anyway it has been proven correct. Do you need references for this one too? My fingers are getting tired from providing...so...many references. And you haven't given ANY.
I feel that summarizes my entire point of Republicans not having any real answers. It sounds cool on paper but no one knows how to actually get it done and the way they set it up provides for a lot of abuse. If someone comes in and tries to prevent that abuse then suddenly they are being overly burdensome on their profits and need to be stopped.
Someone needs to make the hard calls. "You see that park over there? Don't throw trash there! You see that river? Don't dump toxins in it! See that forest? Don't drill there! I don't care how much it will cost you to drive your trash to the dump!" Problem solved, no needing a company's permission to protect the environment. Why is that so hard for you?
Wrong. If you are familiar with the concept of a poison pill, you would of course know why President Trump couldn't accept the low-hanging fruit of poor immigration reform bills by the dems. And because he wouldn't accept the bad deals back then, we now are building the wall.
#winning
Or if you're a democrat... #whining
He refused to compromise and now he gets nothing. Great, you won, grats. And he hasn't started building any new walls yet. Only refurbishing the ones Obama already put up. So technically Democrats put up more walls on the southern border then Trump has so far.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr.....gency-confirms
At this point, all of them. Pick any. Trump is batting a 1000/1 against the dems opposing all things he does. Any progress for Trump is progress because this isn't an uphill battle, it's cliff-climbing.
Once again, the travel bans were only first step attempts. Yes, you can see there were many different types he tried, but all were shot down.
I seen him try one type and it failed. Then he tried a second time for a six month ban and it succeeded. But those six months have passed and he hasn't reissued another one since. So, immigration problem solved?
I know of many things, but I don't claim to know it all. You are free to explain what laws you think Trump may have violated.
I... just listed three and you responded to none of them... So...
Obama and Bush were both horrible sides of the same coin. I cannot defend either.
That is fine, but I have a sneaking feeling Trump will make that a trio after he is out of office.
Well let us hope it doesn't because I like my money and low taxes to stay where they are.
Unfortunately, someone will eventually have to pay for it. We are playing Russian roulette with our generations over who will get stuck paying this bill.
False equivalency. And the dems have no wins since 2016. ...unless you consider the green new deal to be a win, which I have to say, thank you for the Trump 2020 win guarantee with that one. Truly AOC couldn't have done it better. :)
They won Congress from Trump during the hieght of his success, so...
Well...the ones I personally disliked the most were the raise in taxes and $1000 per year for Obamacare and all the attempts he supported to erode our second amendment, and then lie about it. The thing is, Obama is thankfully in the past, and I like to keep it that way. If you think this is a win for you, I'll give you a win, but it is too painful to begin talking about the criminal stuff he did to cause me so much stress, and talking about what he did to piss me off will make me lose more than win, even if I win the argument.
The main problem with the ACA I believe is when Republicans gutted price controls of the bill, essentially cutting the brakes in an attempt to sabotage it.
Obama is taking our guns, lol.
If you don't want to talk about that is fine. But it seems like every time I try to get into what did Obama wrong I get hit with this same response. I'm curious now...
Everyone has their own preference of who their ideal leader personality is. This is natural. You are entitled to your opinion, and in this case no one is really right or wrong. Of all three rulers, they all did wrong things. Just, I will vote for Trump next year because history's trends favor his current actions and policies. If you vote next year, we will likely cancel each other out, and that's fine too. =^_^=
It seems like you shifted from comparing results to personal preferences. Something that I can't argue against. An excellent dodge and block tactic, if I do say so myself.
you can't imagine the relief we had here in france, swiss, canada, UK and a lot of other countries when we learned Clinton was out for good. I think this was the biggest issue of this election. Then Trump, seriously, he doesn't scare anyone, he's funny but not dangerous like Bush.
no, seriously i like the outcome.
no, seriously i like the outcome.
You need to learn the difference between the popular vote and the electoral college.
More people voted for Clinton. More people have voted for every Democrat Presidential candidate since Clinton, I think, except for Kerry.
The electoral votes can easily turn out differently from the popular vote.
More people voted for Clinton. More people have voted for every Democrat Presidential candidate since Clinton, I think, except for Kerry.
The electoral votes can easily turn out differently from the popular vote.
The electoral college ensures that overpopulated bully states like California don't get to marginalize minority states like Wyoming and North Dakota. I'm sure you care about the underdog, that's what being liberal and inclusive is all about, right?
The electoral college safeguards the smaller states interests, to ensure EQUALITY. Thank you.
The electoral college safeguards the smaller states interests, to ensure EQUALITY. Thank you.
"Overpopulated bully states" are where the people are. Safeguarding the smaller states' interest is what the Senate is for - not the Presidency.
If we're going to have a popular vote for the Presidency at all, then a) it shouldn't be first-past-the-post, and b) it should be a popular vote, not this muddled halfway hybrid. A New York farmer's vote should not be worth less than that of a North Dakota farmer.
If we're going to have a popular vote for the Presidency at all, then a) it shouldn't be first-past-the-post, and b) it should be a popular vote, not this muddled halfway hybrid. A New York farmer's vote should not be worth less than that of a North Dakota farmer.
The states are all equal, regardless of whether every leftist would just love it for New York and California to dominate all future elections until our country crumbles. No, it should NOT be a popular vote. The founding fathers knew this would happen and they put safeguards in place (electoral colllege) to stop it, thankfully.
It is not a popular vote, who ever told you that? Someone who obviously doesn't know that we have a representative republic. Not a democracy. An easy look at the history of an actual democracy shows in the greek states where it ends in mob rule and violent upheaval before collapse.
"A New York farmer's vote should not be worth less than that of a North Dakota farmer."
Are you discriminating against farmers? The STATES are equal. Those who choose to live in it, knowing their votes together are no more important than any other STATE, have no room to complain. If you want your vote to count more, move to a different, less populated state. Common knowledge dictates this is all open-source data. There is no secret, and this is (thankfully) still a free country.
It is not a popular vote, who ever told you that? Someone who obviously doesn't know that we have a representative republic. Not a democracy. An easy look at the history of an actual democracy shows in the greek states where it ends in mob rule and violent upheaval before collapse.
"A New York farmer's vote should not be worth less than that of a North Dakota farmer."
Are you discriminating against farmers? The STATES are equal. Those who choose to live in it, knowing their votes together are no more important than any other STATE, have no room to complain. If you want your vote to count more, move to a different, less populated state. Common knowledge dictates this is all open-source data. There is no secret, and this is (thankfully) still a free country.
" it should be a popular vote, not this muddled halfway hybrid."
There is nothing muddled about it. There are votes in a state, and they go to a representative who then votes based upon the majority of votes cast in that state. Representative Republic is what it is, and what it is called. It is rather beautiful actually. It prevents mob rule and ensures all states get an equal chance. Those unintelligent enough to live in overpopulated areas choose to have their votes count for less...but in the end, they are not competing with a farmer from north dakota, they are competing with other citizens from their own state.
To say otherwise is to accept a false equivalency, and to clearly show lack of understanding in our voting system.
There is nothing muddled about it. There are votes in a state, and they go to a representative who then votes based upon the majority of votes cast in that state. Representative Republic is what it is, and what it is called. It is rather beautiful actually. It prevents mob rule and ensures all states get an equal chance. Those unintelligent enough to live in overpopulated areas choose to have their votes count for less...but in the end, they are not competing with a farmer from north dakota, they are competing with other citizens from their own state.
To say otherwise is to accept a false equivalency, and to clearly show lack of understanding in our voting system.
The electoral college ensures that overpopulated bully states like California don't get to marginalize minority states like Wyoming and North Dakota. I'm sure you care about the underdog, that's what being liberal and inclusive is all about, right?
The electoral college safeguards the smaller states interests, to ensure EQUALITY. Thank you.
The electoral college safeguards the smaller states interests, to ensure EQUALITY. Thank you.
Not American Presidential Elections. Trump did actually lose the popular vote, though neither Trump or Clinton won a majority of votes because there are third parties. Trump won the electoral college vote and so won the election. Because states with lower population have more proportional electoral votes because electors are based on the number of senators and representatives in congress and every state gets two senators and one representative regardless of population. This is part of the us constitution, and so an amendment would be needed to change this. There has been a debate on the merits of doing this a long time in the us and several attempts to change it, but none have ever gotten enough support to do it. One potential argument for this system is that it stops the cities from drowning out the voice of people in less populated states. So, in the US were the rights of the states vs the federal government is a big issue the smaller states do not want to give up the power they have in choosing the president. This is now the fifth time this has happened in US history (app. 11% of all presidential elections). Also, in many voting systems around the world you do not need a majority to win just a plurality.
Trump derangement syndrome is a liberal-exclusive condition last time I checked. Conservatives haven't lost their minds at all...and the economy has been booming, unemployment lower than 50 years prior...the sun is shining and ISIS is in hiding... Life couldn't be better.
This fox approves =^_^=
This fox approves =^_^=
I'm not against helping people at all. Way to not read what I said. The cold heartless bastard ain't me. We don't need people having anchor kids here just to collect welfare. Go to the southern states and sing the tune of them being taken care of. Better watch for the stray of bullets you know. And illegals are exactly that, let them pay taxes like the rest of us to get the "free shit" illegals don't deserve the help but a boot in the ass and a trip back across the border if they don't want to be here legally.
You're a moron. That's no excuse to not go through legal channels to enter a country. We have laws that everyone has to abide. People immigrating have no excuse and to be treated above citizens of the country. You just don't understand that with what you are bringing up. We don't just accept people and let them be here for free. That's the problem that you are either too young, immature or dense to understand, or have relatives here illegally. In that last case I hope you enjoy watching them be deported. Enough is enough and the first start is you have to understand the how and why we don't need illegals here. There really is no excuse for them to be illegal.
Where do you think the money comes from that pays for all of that to get someone here? It comes with time from people that worked for it. I think the problem is with you that you think because the US can print money that its unlimited. Its far from that and can run out.
Where do you think the money comes from that pays for all of that to get someone here? It comes with time from people that worked for it. I think the problem is with you that you think because the US can print money that its unlimited. Its far from that and can run out.
And YOU are exactly whats wrong with the world. This cancerous, cold-hearted lack of any type of empathy or concern for the well being or future of our fellow human beings who are less fortunate than us, despite the fact we have more than enough resources to take care of them, especially when we are the ones responsible for their suffering in many cases.
You are the type of cold, heartless piece of shit we need less of in the world. I bet you are the type who sees children drowning in the Mediterranean, 3-4-5 year olds torn from the arms of their terrified mothers as they fell overboard from an overcrowded barge full of refugees who are just trying to flee a murderous death cult.
The type who see's entire families homeless with no where to go because their entire village got destroyed by a US or Russian bomb and says "send them dirty sand niggers back to where they came from!".
And yet IM the one who is called a "moron", sure pal.
Theres EVERY excuse to circumvent "laws", especially if these poor people arent even aware of said fucking laws to begin with! When you are fleeing for your fucking lives, worrying about some bureaucratic bullshit isn't exactly high on your list. Or if the laws themselves are discriminatory, i.e. only beneficial to the rich or to people who can pay exorbitant entry fee's, heck i'm a white male and i wanted to immigrate to the states and simply couldn't do it because the cost was too high, both financially and mentally and that was AFTER marrying a US citizen! (i didn't marry just for that reason, that was unrelated but the point still stands).
So you can go fuck yourself for that statement as you dont know SHIT about me or how old I am or what I know about the immigration system or how broken it is or what I myself had to go through or what others in far worse situations than I was in are going through.
Id rather go out of my way and help any number of those "worthless, sub human" immigrants that you sneer at and look down upon than even ever consider pissing on you if you were on fire. Hopefully the time will come someday when you are the one who needs help and hopefully everybody will turn their backs on you and we'll see who is "dense, immature" and "too young" then.
This conversation is over.
You are the type of cold, heartless piece of shit we need less of in the world. I bet you are the type who sees children drowning in the Mediterranean, 3-4-5 year olds torn from the arms of their terrified mothers as they fell overboard from an overcrowded barge full of refugees who are just trying to flee a murderous death cult.
The type who see's entire families homeless with no where to go because their entire village got destroyed by a US or Russian bomb and says "send them dirty sand niggers back to where they came from!".
And yet IM the one who is called a "moron", sure pal.
Theres EVERY excuse to circumvent "laws", especially if these poor people arent even aware of said fucking laws to begin with! When you are fleeing for your fucking lives, worrying about some bureaucratic bullshit isn't exactly high on your list. Or if the laws themselves are discriminatory, i.e. only beneficial to the rich or to people who can pay exorbitant entry fee's, heck i'm a white male and i wanted to immigrate to the states and simply couldn't do it because the cost was too high, both financially and mentally and that was AFTER marrying a US citizen! (i didn't marry just for that reason, that was unrelated but the point still stands).
So you can go fuck yourself for that statement as you dont know SHIT about me or how old I am or what I know about the immigration system or how broken it is or what I myself had to go through or what others in far worse situations than I was in are going through.
Id rather go out of my way and help any number of those "worthless, sub human" immigrants that you sneer at and look down upon than even ever consider pissing on you if you were on fire. Hopefully the time will come someday when you are the one who needs help and hopefully everybody will turn their backs on you and we'll see who is "dense, immature" and "too young" then.
This conversation is over.
Just for the hell of it I'll work through your points. And yes you're a fucking child from the way you're posting to me lib so fuck off. Because you need to shut the fuck up. You certainly don't understand the situation because you think you're doing the world a favor by how you're arguing. I don't look down on people. Secondly those concerns of those people around the world? We need to worry about at home first where it counts. I highly doubt if all of this well being was tended to by you for example to go over and help in person you'd be singing the same tune you're trying to shovel down my throat. I already told you that it takes people to do things, you simply don't grasp the concept.
The world problem is if we have to we take them out and help them rebuild. Simple as that. The United States is for those that are here and contributing to society. Clearly you aren't one of them and shouldn't be here at all.
Ok you let the people in your home and god forbid they may just be ok people or not. Honestly unless they legitimately be here and go through the other channels like others did they just don't belong here. That means they are undocumented and there have been times where it wasn't exactly good. I have documents like any other legal resident, sorry but we all have them. There's nothing ignorant about that, just you feel that we need to take each and every person in without thinking of the well being of those here. That's your fucking problem. If those people that seemed "oh they are downtrodden and had it bad over there we need to help them". Yeah the thing is we. I know far more and probably been around longer than you have that it takes work and sometimes you get those that just increase the crime rate.
I never called anyone sub human but you think because I don't see your point of view as in I was born and raised in the US. We shouldn't be continually paying for other countries problems. How about they start shorting their own shit out for a change? Not everyone does evil things every day. Some do and some don't, you just don't grasp the situations well from your bias.
So of course your point of view is going to be oh we should let anyone in Because I GOT IN so they should too. And guess what? That's not how it works. Sorry. It should be the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. The safety of those naturally here comes first as they are paying for that right. Something I highly doubt you ever did.
As far as the conversation being over, maybe I should contact the INS? Maybe we'll see just how legal you really are to be here given what you posted.
It's hilarious how I got blocked too.
The world problem is if we have to we take them out and help them rebuild. Simple as that. The United States is for those that are here and contributing to society. Clearly you aren't one of them and shouldn't be here at all.
Ok you let the people in your home and god forbid they may just be ok people or not. Honestly unless they legitimately be here and go through the other channels like others did they just don't belong here. That means they are undocumented and there have been times where it wasn't exactly good. I have documents like any other legal resident, sorry but we all have them. There's nothing ignorant about that, just you feel that we need to take each and every person in without thinking of the well being of those here. That's your fucking problem. If those people that seemed "oh they are downtrodden and had it bad over there we need to help them". Yeah the thing is we. I know far more and probably been around longer than you have that it takes work and sometimes you get those that just increase the crime rate.
I never called anyone sub human but you think because I don't see your point of view as in I was born and raised in the US. We shouldn't be continually paying for other countries problems. How about they start shorting their own shit out for a change? Not everyone does evil things every day. Some do and some don't, you just don't grasp the situations well from your bias.
So of course your point of view is going to be oh we should let anyone in Because I GOT IN so they should too. And guess what? That's not how it works. Sorry. It should be the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. The safety of those naturally here comes first as they are paying for that right. Something I highly doubt you ever did.
As far as the conversation being over, maybe I should contact the INS? Maybe we'll see just how legal you really are to be here given what you posted.
It's hilarious how I got blocked too.
Illegal immigration was never this country's problem. Illegal immigration wasn't the thing that sank our economy. Immigration is just a distraction from the real issues plaguing our nation. Once we get a bigger government to export all those illegals and we still have the same problems, who are you going to blame then?
Illegal immigrants cost the US government 120 billion a year in free handouts. The entire democratic party is having seizures and aneurisms over our president trying to use only 8 billion to help stop the flow and build a proper wall. This is no secret, and it's open source data, so there's no excuse not knowing it.
If you are concerned about the financial cost of illegal immigrants, do you know what the financial gains of illegal immigrants are? To keep things in proper perspective. They must be cost effective if people keep hiring them. And no, you are not doing to build a proper wall to stop anything for only 8 billion dollars. Think more $50 billion. $8 billion is just the annual budget for I.C.E.
"do you know what the financial gains of illegal immigrants are?"
Yes. It is the cost of a jail sentence and massive fines because to hire an illegal immigrant is a crime. Oh, and they don't pay taxes either, who'd have thought?
"And no, you are not doing to build a proper wall to stop anything for only 8 billion dollars. Think more $50 billion. $8 billion is just the annual budget for I.C.E. "
Wrong. The wall was priced at 8 billion. Carry on.
Yes. It is the cost of a jail sentence and massive fines because to hire an illegal immigrant is a crime. Oh, and they don't pay taxes either, who'd have thought?
"And no, you are not doing to build a proper wall to stop anything for only 8 billion dollars. Think more $50 billion. $8 billion is just the annual budget for I.C.E. "
Wrong. The wall was priced at 8 billion. Carry on.
"{So you admit Trump is guilty of yet another crime?"
You mistook me for a tribal political follower. If someone broke the law, that's on them if it's the case.
" And now you are complaining people aren't paying taxes?"
Yes. Reduced levels of taxes, but still need to be paid.
"I'm right, I.C.E budget is $8 billion, look it up. I have no idea where you are getting this cost for the wall tho. "
It's ok. Now you do know.
https://qz.com/1602807/the-pentagon.....n-trumps-wall/
If ICE budget is $8 billion, still isn't near the 120 billion we are cost in illegal immigrant supporting welfare. It is only 5% the price. In business, we call that a good investment.
You mistook me for a tribal political follower. If someone broke the law, that's on them if it's the case.
" And now you are complaining people aren't paying taxes?"
Yes. Reduced levels of taxes, but still need to be paid.
"I'm right, I.C.E budget is $8 billion, look it up. I have no idea where you are getting this cost for the wall tho. "
It's ok. Now you do know.
https://qz.com/1602807/the-pentagon.....n-trumps-wall/
If ICE budget is $8 billion, still isn't near the 120 billion we are cost in illegal immigrant supporting welfare. It is only 5% the price. In business, we call that a good investment.
You mistook me for a tribal political follower. If someone broke the law, that's on them if it's the case.
Good thing I'm here then. You were unaware of any of the crimes Trump committed until I mentioned them. While you can still support him, hopefully you will be more inclined to expect better from him.
Yes. Reduced levels of taxes, but still need to be paid.
Curious thought, with Trump's new tax cuts, a lot of the wealthiest companies are no longer paying taxes. In fact, the government is essentially paying them not to pay taxes, giving them free welfare at the cost of tax payers. Are you equally against those companies not paying taxes or just the lowest class of society not paying them?
It's ok. Now you do know.
https://qz.com/1602807/the-pentagon.....n-trumps-wall/
If ICE budget is $8 billion, still isn't near the 120 billion we are cost in illegal immigrant supporting welfare. It is only 5% the price. In business, we call that a good investment.
Did you read the article? It said they got 8 billion from the Pentagon to help cover the cost of about 50 miles of wall, not that the entire project would cost 8 billion to complete. Try again.
Good thing I'm here then. You were unaware of any of the crimes Trump committed until I mentioned them. While you can still support him, hopefully you will be more inclined to expect better from him.
Yes. Reduced levels of taxes, but still need to be paid.
Curious thought, with Trump's new tax cuts, a lot of the wealthiest companies are no longer paying taxes. In fact, the government is essentially paying them not to pay taxes, giving them free welfare at the cost of tax payers. Are you equally against those companies not paying taxes or just the lowest class of society not paying them?
It's ok. Now you do know.
https://qz.com/1602807/the-pentagon.....n-trumps-wall/
If ICE budget is $8 billion, still isn't near the 120 billion we are cost in illegal immigrant supporting welfare. It is only 5% the price. In business, we call that a good investment.
Did you read the article? It said they got 8 billion from the Pentagon to help cover the cost of about 50 miles of wall, not that the entire project would cost 8 billion to complete. Try again.
We can't even afford to feed and tend to our own health needs, what makes you think we can afford to take care of Mexico's as well? How about all these Illegals go back, throw out their corrupt politicians, install a Popularist and actually try to Make Mexico Grande Again? That's the difference, it seems. People come here fleeing broken governments, but get butthurt when the people who grew up here stand up and throw out their corrupt leaders.
It's like they hate seeing people actually do what needs to be done.
It's like they hate seeing people actually do what needs to be done.
I didn't know who to vote for, since I thought they both were clowny candidates, but much much later into the elections, I was running out of choices and did the same thing. To be honest, I don't know if what I did was good or bad.
All I can hope for now, is the USA to have the idea to restore a friendly relationship with Russia. I've been hoping for a day that Russia and US can end rivalry tensions and work together. Not really sure if he will make it happen, but I'm hoping for a miracle.
All I can hope for now, is the USA to have the idea to restore a friendly relationship with Russia. I've been hoping for a day that Russia and US can end rivalry tensions and work together. Not really sure if he will make it happen, but I'm hoping for a miracle.
So let me get this straight; you don't have the wherewithal as to how our system works, how it impacts the citizens and yet you throw your vote towards a literal shitshow of a party, all because you couldn't get Hillary supporters off your case? A case that involved a potentially catastrophic leadership with a ripple effect we can probably never recover from? Am I reading that correctly? Am I understanding that you didn't bother to investigate the issues people were having over this candidate vs. the other? That you failed to realize the bigger picture being painted by the big red elephant with a bleached squirrel stapled onto its head?
I'ma ask you in the nicest way possible:
Have you lost your fucking mind?
This shit ain't a joke. An unhinged reality TV star is getting access to nuclear FUCKING codes. Minority communities, one of them I'm a part of thanks to my skin palette, are also legitimately terrified over what this orange-faced knucklefuck can impose on us, and the people who relate to him streamlining their bigotry. You just straight up tossed me under the bus by proxy; and I don't even know you. I never even met you. I don't recall ever antagonizing anybody I've met or even needing to do so. This was the biggest no-brainer election we've all had to live through and it somehow still managed to be fucked, long dick style.
I get it. Some of you assholes are tired of the SJW tirade we've all been having to endure since that black guy took office, but that's not a valid reason to secure an already broken system, then potentially make it even MORE broken in hopes that it would tone down the rhetoric that oh so ruins your fun. This is the same asshat who avoided paying a massive amount of taxes that could've improved our education and infrastructure. The same asshat who has no problem shipping much of his portion of the jobs overseas; into areas that violate basic workers rights because fuck the workers amirite?
We Millennials are said to have outnumbered the previous generation. We Millennials are supposedly a bit more educated(read: A LOT MORE) than the previous generation. So explain to me the thinking process behind these young adults wanting to toss their votes towards a complete sociopath. To buck the system right? Right?
Ha
Haha
I fucking hate you people.
Now I get to live in constant fear because I'm already stuck living in a Red State.
A very, very unapologetically gleeful deep Red State.
I'ma ask you in the nicest way possible:
Have you lost your fucking mind?
This shit ain't a joke. An unhinged reality TV star is getting access to nuclear FUCKING codes. Minority communities, one of them I'm a part of thanks to my skin palette, are also legitimately terrified over what this orange-faced knucklefuck can impose on us, and the people who relate to him streamlining their bigotry. You just straight up tossed me under the bus by proxy; and I don't even know you. I never even met you. I don't recall ever antagonizing anybody I've met or even needing to do so. This was the biggest no-brainer election we've all had to live through and it somehow still managed to be fucked, long dick style.
I get it. Some of you assholes are tired of the SJW tirade we've all been having to endure since that black guy took office, but that's not a valid reason to secure an already broken system, then potentially make it even MORE broken in hopes that it would tone down the rhetoric that oh so ruins your fun. This is the same asshat who avoided paying a massive amount of taxes that could've improved our education and infrastructure. The same asshat who has no problem shipping much of his portion of the jobs overseas; into areas that violate basic workers rights because fuck the workers amirite?
We Millennials are said to have outnumbered the previous generation. We Millennials are supposedly a bit more educated(read: A LOT MORE) than the previous generation. So explain to me the thinking process behind these young adults wanting to toss their votes towards a complete sociopath. To buck the system right? Right?
Ha
Haha
I fucking hate you people.
Now I get to live in constant fear because I'm already stuck living in a Red State.
A very, very unapologetically gleeful deep Red State.
>To see if my fellow FA folk believed in democracy and freedom or not.
Neither my ancestors nor the leaders of the Civil Rights movement die fighting just so my black ass can sit this one out. So I don't know how the hell you think shitposting about voting-sorry-not-voting is a viable method of gauging furry turnout when plenty of us have already been visibly FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
Neither my ancestors nor the leaders of the Civil Rights movement die fighting just so my black ass can sit this one out. So I don't know how the hell you think shitposting about voting-sorry-not-voting is a viable method of gauging furry turnout when plenty of us have already been visibly FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
If "having a different opinion than yours and calling out your bullshit" = being a jackass, then you need to find a safe space zone from everyone, BRUH, because there are tons of people (I mean jackasses) that have different opinions out there.
People don't agree with your shit-post here, end of story. If anything, you make veterans/military people look bad. Now chill
People don't agree with your shit-post here, end of story. If anything, you make veterans/military people look bad. Now chill
>Quit acting like serving in the military gives you he right to act like a jackass in public.
Practice what you preach. Because you don't get to flip that script.
You forfeited that tactic the moment you decided not to vote.
Vet or not, you don't deserve to play off my dilemma for a cheap laugh when you could've help make a difference in the polls.
That just makes you an asshole, and leads right back to my first response.
#fuckouttahere
Practice what you preach. Because you don't get to flip that script.
You forfeited that tactic the moment you decided not to vote.
Vet or not, you don't deserve to play off my dilemma for a cheap laugh when you could've help make a difference in the polls.
That just makes you an asshole, and leads right back to my first response.
#fuckouttahere
I'm just saying how you judge people, i can say for sure you're 100% a child molester because you like to listen to music from Michael Jackson. And by listening to his music, you supported him and his actions and be okay with his things he did.
okay, now back to reality: what i said was all bullshit and not true, but this is how you just acted. hating over the choice of a complete stranger to you, calling him things he isn't, just because made a choice he may didn't even liked itself. so please be nice.
i'm out.
okay, now back to reality: what i said was all bullshit and not true, but this is how you just acted. hating over the choice of a complete stranger to you, calling him things he isn't, just because made a choice he may didn't even liked itself. so please be nice.
i'm out.
I'm just saying how you judge people, i can say for sure you're 100% a child molester because you like to listen to music from Michael Jackson.
I don't, I hate his music.
okay, now back to reality:
Indeed, realiuty is not ALL traits are distributive, racism and sexism however are.
what i said was all bullshit and not true, but this is how you just acted. hating over the choice of a complete stranger to you, calling him things he isn't
Incorrect, he IS a racist and a sexist, only those peopel would vote for a sexist and racist. If you think racism and sexism is unacceptable you do not vote for trump. If you vote for trump you think those are acceptable, which makes you one of them.
I don't, I hate his music.
okay, now back to reality:
Indeed, realiuty is not ALL traits are distributive, racism and sexism however are.
what i said was all bullshit and not true, but this is how you just acted. hating over the choice of a complete stranger to you, calling him things he isn't
Incorrect, he IS a racist and a sexist, only those peopel would vote for a sexist and racist. If you think racism and sexism is unacceptable you do not vote for trump. If you vote for trump you think those are acceptable, which makes you one of them.
Sexist,, racist, sexist, racist. Buzzword buzzword buzzword. You sound no different than an SJW with victim complex. Please, sit down and realize that you are just making yourself look like an asshole. Someone doesn't have to completely agree with someone to be for them.
And I'm sorry to say, but fox_XD's example went so far over your head, I'm being to question where your logic comes from. Because his example is pretty damn clear.
And I'm sorry to say, but fox_XD's example went so far over your head, I'm being to question where your logic comes from. Because his example is pretty damn clear.
You know, it is very prejudice of you to just label everyone who voted for trump as a racist, sexist, but I have yet to see much of those from him, or the majority of people voting for him. But hey, if you are so worried about that, go to a Politically correct country where you can hide in a safe space.
Just because he said a few things 12 years ago, doesn't make him a sexist. A pervert maybe, but it was something said in private lol. And you mean his talk about illegal mexicans who COULD BE rapists and murderers? Or are you following the media's crap saying that he said "all mexicans were rapists and murderers." because I watched him give that speech, and it was hardly racist lol. The mexican cartel is a thing, and our poor border control lets the bad in just as much as the good.
Just to let you know as well, every legal mexican I have spoken with who works hard and contributes to their country are on his side. So racist! There is also his discussions about helping the crime filled ghettos that often times is black communities. Because admitting there is a problem is racist right?
As a side note, thank's for calling me an idiot :3 It really helps your arguments.
Just to let you know as well, every legal mexican I have spoken with who works hard and contributes to their country are on his side. So racist! There is also his discussions about helping the crime filled ghettos that often times is black communities. Because admitting there is a problem is racist right?
As a side note, thank's for calling me an idiot :3 It really helps your arguments.
Just because he said a few things 12 years ago, doesn't make him a sexist. A pervert maybe, but it was something said in private lol. And you mean his talk about illegal mexicans who COULD BE rapists and murderers? Or are you following the media's crap saying that he said "all mexicans were rapists and murderers." because I watched him give that speech, and it was hardly racist lol. The mexican cartel is a thing, and our poor border control lets the bad in just as much as the good.
Just to let you know as well, every legal mexican I have spoken with who works hard and contributes to their country are on his side. So racist! There is also his discussions about helping the crime filled ghettos that often times is black communities. Because admitting there is a problem is racist right?
As a side note, thank's for calling me an idiot :3 It really helps your arguments.
You know what though, I am not going to really try to reply anymore after this, you really seem like the kind of person who even if I completely proved you wrong, you would find some reply to try to validate yourself.
Say what ever you want, the election is over XD
Just to let you know as well, every legal mexican I have spoken with who works hard and contributes to their country are on his side. So racist! There is also his discussions about helping the crime filled ghettos that often times is black communities. Because admitting there is a problem is racist right?
As a side note, thank's for calling me an idiot :3 It really helps your arguments.
You know what though, I am not going to really try to reply anymore after this, you really seem like the kind of person who even if I completely proved you wrong, you would find some reply to try to validate yourself.
Say what ever you want, the election is over XD
Considering that the near entirety of democratic strongholds are voting districts almost always made up of large cities with high minority populations. You're basically saying that cities should have absolute control of the nation as a whole and that didn't fly back in the Founding Father days for a reason.
No ... I'm pointing out the strangeness of your comment.
The 'Silent Majority' didn't win. Clinton got more US citizens, as a whole, to vote for her. It's strange to hear someone say 'majority' when the popular votes for Trump were in the minority.
It was only the fact that Trump got the EC that he won.
If the EC was not winner take all in most states, Trump would have been behind. Neither, though, would have won in that case; neither reached 50% of the popular vote (and thus, 50% of the EC).
Then we'd be watching the election turmoil in the House of Representatives.
The 'Silent Majority' didn't win. Clinton got more US citizens, as a whole, to vote for her. It's strange to hear someone say 'majority' when the popular votes for Trump were in the minority.
It was only the fact that Trump got the EC that he won.
If the EC was not winner take all in most states, Trump would have been behind. Neither, though, would have won in that case; neither reached 50% of the popular vote (and thus, 50% of the EC).
Then we'd be watching the election turmoil in the House of Representatives.
I don't think people understand the seriousness of this election. People have the potential to lose their retirements, get dropped from their healthcare, lose social security, and more. Yeah it would take a long time to do those things but it's the fact that it's possible that scares me. :/ good luck my Americans, stay safe out there and be kind to people
Nothing?
You'd have to convince the Supreme Court (cause it would rise to Supreme Court Level) that involuntary mental treatment of individuals is acceptable. if you could even get it past Congress.
Which ... was ruled to NOT be a thing quite a while back.
Seriously; the bar to involuntarily commit someone for mental treatment is quite high.
BIG Libertarian push back in the 70s Court.
You'd have to convince the Supreme Court (cause it would rise to Supreme Court Level) that involuntary mental treatment of individuals is acceptable. if you could even get it past Congress.
Which ... was ruled to NOT be a thing quite a while back.
Seriously; the bar to involuntarily commit someone for mental treatment is quite high.
BIG Libertarian push back in the 70s Court.
In part, I think it's due to his stance on free trade and 'getting companies to return to the US'.
Despite his lower corporate tax rate plan, there's still the high costs of relocation, hiring and payroll relative to other countries that Trump would have to address.
And that ... is a touchy subject with corporations.
Despite his lower corporate tax rate plan, there's still the high costs of relocation, hiring and payroll relative to other countries that Trump would have to address.
And that ... is a touchy subject with corporations.
No, just corporations and him.
He doesn't have the power to levy tariffs, which would be required. That lies with Congress; Article 1, Section 8.
And you KNOW the Corporations will be working hard behind the scenes to convince Senators and Representatives to NOT pursue such a course.
He doesn't have the power to levy tariffs, which would be required. That lies with Congress; Article 1, Section 8.
And you KNOW the Corporations will be working hard behind the scenes to convince Senators and Representatives to NOT pursue such a course.
I kinda saw this coming. Hillary clinton wasted time and resources on trying to put trump in a bad possition. Trump on the other hand focused on gaining votes and reuniting the republican party as well as gaining milenial votes. If bernie sticked around for the election instead of hillary, it would have been a close fight. But hillary's campagin tactic proved she was all sword and no sheild.
The evil has been defeated!!
That corrupt hag didn't even have the damn maturity to come out to her supporters and concede the race. She cowered in her hole and pushed one of her minions out to cover for her. She left her supporters cold and wet in the rain because that is all she is, a COWARD!
That corrupt hag didn't even have the damn maturity to come out to her supporters and concede the race. She cowered in her hole and pushed one of her minions out to cover for her. She left her supporters cold and wet in the rain because that is all she is, a COWARD!
You expect anyone to take you seriously when you gloat like that? The real evil is you and your ilk. It always has been. You may think you've won, but you haven't. We will fight you. Every step of the way, we will fight you, and we will not allow you to tear down this country for whatever sick, racist, xenophobic agenda you have planned.
You know. People want to get mad about this. But I think the thing I am more pissed off about is how terrible people became during this election. Even those from out of country. I hope that people don't just focus on the betterment of the country but look at themselves and realize just how ugly they have been.
All I hafta say is, new president. OK? So what? It's not like it's been worse already. People are forgetting about everything else that's happened here. It's already screwed up. If it doesn't effect me in any way, I just don't care. Why's everyone keep people are gonna die anyways? If you're not here in the US, why worry?~
If the founding fathers and past great american presidents could see the state America is in today, they'd be beyond happy to know their country is not yet lost to the abyss, and that the people of the United States still truly love their country and her people.
The Establishment didn't want it.
The DNC and RNC didn't want it
Mainstream media didn't want it.
Obama didn't want it
Comey didn't want it
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, George Soros and all billionaires who only care about their money and no one else didn't want it.
The degenerate and idiotic liberal celebrities didn't want it. (John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, John Stewart etc.)
SJW apologists and globalists didn't want it.
People who label every as racist and offensive didn't want it
The overwhelming elitists who are out of touch with the people and colluding with the media didn't want it.
Your neighbour wanted it
Your postman delivering your mail wanted it
Your local plumber fixing your pipes wanted it
Your Barber down the street wanted it
The man driving your bus wanted it
The people wanted it
And the people won.
The Establishment didn't want it.
The DNC and RNC didn't want it
Mainstream media didn't want it.
Obama didn't want it
Comey didn't want it
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, George Soros and all billionaires who only care about their money and no one else didn't want it.
The degenerate and idiotic liberal celebrities didn't want it. (John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, John Stewart etc.)
SJW apologists and globalists didn't want it.
People who label every as racist and offensive didn't want it
The overwhelming elitists who are out of touch with the people and colluding with the media didn't want it.
Your neighbour wanted it
Your postman delivering your mail wanted it
Your local plumber fixing your pipes wanted it
Your Barber down the street wanted it
The man driving your bus wanted it
The people wanted it
And the people won.
I threw my vote down on Hillary. It was a waste as soon as I cast it, because I live in Kansas and our favorite word is Republican, right in front of guns and country music. Still, I favorited this because it's funny, and who the hell knows? All that crazy shit he said might have just been his business side showing, a ploy to get votes from the deepest and darkest recesses of the red side of the political spectrum. He might be the greatest POTUS weve ever seen, or he might Watergate himself within a year. We will have to see once 2017 wraps up.
I love these salty post about Trump winning because totally he was the one advocating for war against Russia for no reason. He was the one who had felon after felon of hiding illegal activity behind an illegal server where they showed they rigged elections and colluded with the conventions to outs his opponents. To Vote for Hilary after all the death, the murder, the lies, the war, the rape, the gangs, the terrorist, would be nuts. Everyone said she was experienced. yes and so was Ed Wood, but that didn't make him into Francis Ford Coppala now did it? All her experience was bad. Worse than bad, it was enough to get anyone else fired and imprisoned. And I can't wait for the inauguration.
Maybe it is, but there's a lot of little things to pay attention to as well, really. For me, a lot of it was just not trusting Hillary. She's been a liar and a c heat her whole career, and I see no reason to believe anything she says. Really, I'm convinced most votes for Hillary were more like votes for Not-Trump, and that had Hillary had literally any other opponent even Democratic voters would scarcely support her.
Whatever reason you had for not liking Hillary is fine. But most people didn't like both of them more then they liked either of them. Most of it felt like people were voting for one person because they hated the other more. I don't think Trump can do better then Hillary because he isn't better then her. He won't make the same mistake as her, but I feel he will make equal mistakes else where. Each one is awful in their own ways and regardless of who actually won it would still be bad.
Yes, Hillary has a bad history by comparison but that is only because Trump never had any political history. Not saying that makes him worse, just that we have no idea how he would behave. All we got to go on his is business dealings, which are very corrupt. If he applies hat he has been doing all his life it would make him a rather corrupt politician as well. Yes, Hillary is a corrupt politician, but Trump has given no signs of not being just as corrupt.
There was a lot under Bush, not as many under Obama. None of them posing any threat of retaliation either. Secretary of state doesn't really have much sway over wars, she can approve it which has about as much effect as the Like button on Facebook. People usually don't blame wars on the Secretary of State. I mean who was the Secretary of State for the vietnam war? No one knows without looking it up because no one blames the person in that position.
It seems more like we were only blaming it on her to have more negative things to pin on her for the election. I don't recall anyone talking about her while the Iraq wars were happening.
It seems more like we were only blaming it on her to have more negative things to pin on her for the election. I don't recall anyone talking about her while the Iraq wars were happening.
Yes, no one blames the secretary of state for the vietnam war, because that was not their fault. The thing isn't that Hillary was secretary of state during these wars, it's that they had her full approval and backing. She wanted these wars. Hillary Clinton is the reason Libya is a failed state, which she encouraged Obama to join in attacking (which inevitably became a haven for terrorist organizations like ISIS), she voted in favor of the Iraq War (I don't know what position she held at the time but clearly it was a voting one), she supported a coup that destroyed Honduras... this is a woman who leaves death and destruction everywhere she goes. There is not one country on the face of this earth that is better because of her - indeed she may have played a part in removing some of them from the maps.
I'm not sure what powers a Secretary of State has, but voting for war is certainly not one of them. Only Congress can vote for war. If she was not part of Congress, then she had no vote in the war. There is a difference between wanting something and having the power to do it. Most staff do support their administration and I recall a lot of people being in favor of that war, not just her. Do you even know if the secretary of state for the vietnam war wanted it or not? Regardless if they did or not, it doesn't matter. Hillary wasn't a mastermind working from the shadows. That is all just hyperbole to villainize her.
Senators can vote for war action, which means Hillary was probably in the senate at the time.
Yes, there is a difference between wanting something and having the power to do it - the thing is, voting in favor of doing something is pretty much wanting it, and many attribute her to destabilizing the world not as a conspiracy, but because she has supported or actively enacted foreign policies that were nothing short of disastrous. Hillary has played a major role in destabilizing the world.
Here's some light reading.
http://imgur.com/5hWiX0n?r
It's important to know the Lybia incident is particularly horrific because now that place is a haven for terrorists.
Yes, there is a difference between wanting something and having the power to do it - the thing is, voting in favor of doing something is pretty much wanting it, and many attribute her to destabilizing the world not as a conspiracy, but because she has supported or actively enacted foreign policies that were nothing short of disastrous. Hillary has played a major role in destabilizing the world.
Here's some light reading.
http://imgur.com/5hWiX0n?r
It's important to know the Lybia incident is particularly horrific because now that place is a haven for terrorists.
She probably was? You don't even know? Because in the article it said she did vote for the Iraqi war. But at the time almost everyone was in favor of the war. Even Trump was in favor of the war. In retrospect, it turned out horrible. No body could have known. If we knew this ahead of time we wouldn't have done it. But the strange part is the person who is more responsible for it, Bush, is almost never blamed for it by Republicans. It seems like they just blamed the closet Democrat to the Republican who caused it. But again that is just politics.
The rest of it she accomplished her goals and moved on or some other country not under her dominion did something she couldn't control. Global politics are a complex thing, it is hardly a case of clear cut good or bed decisions. You can only do so much and some times you have to let bad things happen because you can't control everything. We still have to deal with countries that make decisions we don't like.
I'm not sure what she was thinking, she might of intended for the best scenario and it turned bad. I can't say, but I have zero confidence that Trump could have done any better.
The rest of it she accomplished her goals and moved on or some other country not under her dominion did something she couldn't control. Global politics are a complex thing, it is hardly a case of clear cut good or bed decisions. You can only do so much and some times you have to let bad things happen because you can't control everything. We still have to deal with countries that make decisions we don't like.
I'm not sure what she was thinking, she might of intended for the best scenario and it turned bad. I can't say, but I have zero confidence that Trump could have done any better.
Yes, she was on the senate. I say "probably" in the off chance I misread things because I have confidence issues, but I can assure you, she was in senate. That help?
Trump had reservations about the Iraq War, saying that we should consider the economy first. This was before the actual war started and it was just a rumor on peoples' lips -- he said "if he's going to do it then he should do it" and Liberals took that and ran with it. They tend to forget that he brought up that Bush should put more focus on the economy than on war because it doesn't really paint him as the warmongering monster they want people to believe he is.
Republicans do blame Bush, actually. Everyone blames Bush. The thing is that Republicans are often of the sort who believe people blame Bush too much. Democrats would have you believe every horrible thing that happened in Bush's presidency was his fault, and yet every horrible thing that happened in Obama's presidency is either blamed on Bush or the American people. The only person blaming Obama for not doing enough right now is Hillary Clinton herself (she literally blamed him for not doing enough to get her into the presidency).
Yes, politics are a complex thing, but would you really want someone as president who has always failed at it? We're not talking small things that Hillary just gets blamed for - we're talking things Hillary had a direct hand in influencing that turned horrific. You see, you're ultra critical of Trump and yet you forgive Hillary as having "the best intentions." Why is that? Don't you think there's something kind of off when you don't give Hillary the same critical gaze you give Trump?
Trump had reservations about the Iraq War, saying that we should consider the economy first. This was before the actual war started and it was just a rumor on peoples' lips -- he said "if he's going to do it then he should do it" and Liberals took that and ran with it. They tend to forget that he brought up that Bush should put more focus on the economy than on war because it doesn't really paint him as the warmongering monster they want people to believe he is.
Republicans do blame Bush, actually. Everyone blames Bush. The thing is that Republicans are often of the sort who believe people blame Bush too much. Democrats would have you believe every horrible thing that happened in Bush's presidency was his fault, and yet every horrible thing that happened in Obama's presidency is either blamed on Bush or the American people. The only person blaming Obama for not doing enough right now is Hillary Clinton herself (she literally blamed him for not doing enough to get her into the presidency).
Yes, politics are a complex thing, but would you really want someone as president who has always failed at it? We're not talking small things that Hillary just gets blamed for - we're talking things Hillary had a direct hand in influencing that turned horrific. You see, you're ultra critical of Trump and yet you forgive Hillary as having "the best intentions." Why is that? Don't you think there's something kind of off when you don't give Hillary the same critical gaze you give Trump?
I don't believe every bad thing that happened under Bush's watch was his fault. Things like the patriot act, the Iraq war and the economy are things do blame on him. Obama made some mistakes, but he did leave the place in better shape then he found it. Obama was like an average president. But I do blame a lot of stuff on congress.
Hillary did make some mistakes, but some of the things they blame her for she either had no way of knowing nor did she have any control over. She needs to take responsibility for them, but I don't think she is blamed for them.
With Trump it's a different story. You know how that saying goes "bad credit is better then no credit"? That is the situation we find our self selves with Trump. Obama is trying to tutor trump to get him ready for the presidency. So far he has a poor understanding of what the job entails. He is already trying to get his children top top secret clearance which is a violation of the nepotism law. During his campaign he promised to get rid of corrupt lobbyists, now he is stuffing his cabinet full of them with the excuse that everyone is a lobbyists.
I don't think Trump is doing any of this in a sense of malice or corruption, but rather ignorance. He simply doesn't know the job well enough to be effective at it. It is like getting a used cars salesman to preform brain surgery for the first time because he had a catchy ad on TV.
Hillary is like a experienced yet drunk pilot and Trump is the person who never flown a plane before. And the passagers have already decided who they think will land this thing safely. Regardless of who we picked, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Hillary did make some mistakes, but some of the things they blame her for she either had no way of knowing nor did she have any control over. She needs to take responsibility for them, but I don't think she is blamed for them.
With Trump it's a different story. You know how that saying goes "bad credit is better then no credit"? That is the situation we find our self selves with Trump. Obama is trying to tutor trump to get him ready for the presidency. So far he has a poor understanding of what the job entails. He is already trying to get his children top top secret clearance which is a violation of the nepotism law. During his campaign he promised to get rid of corrupt lobbyists, now he is stuffing his cabinet full of them with the excuse that everyone is a lobbyists.
I don't think Trump is doing any of this in a sense of malice or corruption, but rather ignorance. He simply doesn't know the job well enough to be effective at it. It is like getting a used cars salesman to preform brain surgery for the first time because he had a catchy ad on TV.
Hillary is like a experienced yet drunk pilot and Trump is the person who never flown a plane before. And the passagers have already decided who they think will land this thing safely. Regardless of who we picked, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
No, Obama didn't leave the place in better shape. Our deficit is worse than it was under Bush, race relations are worse than they've been in the past fifty years, SJWs run the internet... the only good thing Obama did in his entire presidency was Obamacare, and even that's debatable.
Hillary didn't just make some mistakes - she has made nothing BUT mistakes. Thirty years of crime, of scandal, and of destabilizing the world. You claim she had no way of knowing shit would happen the way it did, and yet every horrible thing she does she stands by AFTERWARDS. If the results are undeniably bad, she denies them and pretends they never happened. When four marines died in Lybia, she had the nerve to say we didn't lose a single person -- then when the families of the deceased called her out on it, she called them liars.
Trump knows more about politics than Hillary. Hillary is no less "business" than Trump, it's just for her politics is a business. She sells her services to the highest bidder, and she'll do whatever benefits her the most. She doesn't care about this country or any other, she just wants to line her own pockets -- Trump, meanwhile, has actually turned down presidential compensation.
Hillary didn't just make some mistakes - she has made nothing BUT mistakes. Thirty years of crime, of scandal, and of destabilizing the world. You claim she had no way of knowing shit would happen the way it did, and yet every horrible thing she does she stands by AFTERWARDS. If the results are undeniably bad, she denies them and pretends they never happened. When four marines died in Lybia, she had the nerve to say we didn't lose a single person -- then when the families of the deceased called her out on it, she called them liars.
Trump knows more about politics than Hillary. Hillary is no less "business" than Trump, it's just for her politics is a business. She sells her services to the highest bidder, and she'll do whatever benefits her the most. She doesn't care about this country or any other, she just wants to line her own pockets -- Trump, meanwhile, has actually turned down presidential compensation.
Did you just blame Obama for SJWs on the internet? Really now? C'mon. Under Obama the economy is recovering, unemployment went down, crime went down, gas prices went down, heck, even teen pregnancies went down. He also took down Osama Bin Laden. He wasn't the best, but he wasn't as bad as the person before him.
At what point did Trump ever demonstrated that he knows more about politics then Hillary? Yes, it was a nice gesture for a billionaire to turn down a $700,000 yearly salary. But that does that mean he isn't a corrupt business man and inexperienced politician? No, it does not. He isn't even in office yet and his lies has already destroyed the Mexican economy with a promise he is already backing out of. When the Mexico economy crashes where do you think all those people are going to flee too? You can't run politics like a business because you need to understand how your actions will effect people. Trump simply doesn't that that experience. Of course he didn't know any of this would happen, but going by your standards, Trump is already responsible for destroying another countries economy. Not unlike a certain person you hate, right?
At what point did Trump ever demonstrated that he knows more about politics then Hillary? Yes, it was a nice gesture for a billionaire to turn down a $700,000 yearly salary. But that does that mean he isn't a corrupt business man and inexperienced politician? No, it does not. He isn't even in office yet and his lies has already destroyed the Mexican economy with a promise he is already backing out of. When the Mexico economy crashes where do you think all those people are going to flee too? You can't run politics like a business because you need to understand how your actions will effect people. Trump simply doesn't that that experience. Of course he didn't know any of this would happen, but going by your standards, Trump is already responsible for destroying another countries economy. Not unlike a certain person you hate, right?
The SJW thing was a failed attempt at comedic relief. I try to be funny sometimes, I really do.
No, the economy is not recovering, Obama just minces the numbers to make it seem like it. The truth is that under him, the number of Americans below the poverty line was up by 3.5%, the median house hold income was down by 2.3%, Americans on foodstamps went up by 39.5%, Americans who own homes are down 5.6%, our national debt has roughly doubled, the number of families in which no one is employed has grown from 17.8% (2008) to 19.7% (2015)... I have no idea where in that our economy is better, but if you know something I don't feel free to say so.
A braindead monkey would be better at politics than Hillary. Seriously, Trump would have to actively try to meet her level of failure. This is a woman whose every foreign affair seems to end in failure. Ever hear the Bosnia story? Hillary said that as soon as she landed, she was under sniper fire. Not only was that not the case, there was video proof that she was met with a pleasant greeting ceremony. Trump is crass, but Hillary's entire career is built on lies, failure, and war.
No, the economy is not recovering, Obama just minces the numbers to make it seem like it. The truth is that under him, the number of Americans below the poverty line was up by 3.5%, the median house hold income was down by 2.3%, Americans on foodstamps went up by 39.5%, Americans who own homes are down 5.6%, our national debt has roughly doubled, the number of families in which no one is employed has grown from 17.8% (2008) to 19.7% (2015)... I have no idea where in that our economy is better, but if you know something I don't feel free to say so.
A braindead monkey would be better at politics than Hillary. Seriously, Trump would have to actively try to meet her level of failure. This is a woman whose every foreign affair seems to end in failure. Ever hear the Bosnia story? Hillary said that as soon as she landed, she was under sniper fire. Not only was that not the case, there was video proof that she was met with a pleasant greeting ceremony. Trump is crass, but Hillary's entire career is built on lies, failure, and war.
I said Obama did better despite his mistakes. What do you think I meant by mistakes? Given that his predecessor was Bush and that we were recovering from a recession it wasn't that difficult of a thing to do. I never suggested that Obama got prefect marks but the GDP has grown, investors are confident in our economy despite the debt, and the reserves are increasing interest rates. All signs of a strong and growing economy. Yes, the poor has grown some but the situation we are in is more like a zero sum game really.
Yes, brainless monkey could do better then Hillary but I never honestly thought that is what we would get. Why did we settle for the closest thing we could get to Hillary? Anyone would have been better.
Trump has done a pretty good job himself of building a career on lies. He also seems really bad on domestic policies given how anti-civil rights he seems to becoming. Honestly, I think Hillary might of been better on domestic issues then Trump. Given a choice between the two, I would have wished for a third term with Obama, lol.
I'm sure your well informed, but just out of curiosity, what would say was the top three top achievements out of Hillary's career?
Yes, brainless monkey could do better then Hillary but I never honestly thought that is what we would get. Why did we settle for the closest thing we could get to Hillary? Anyone would have been better.
Trump has done a pretty good job himself of building a career on lies. He also seems really bad on domestic policies given how anti-civil rights he seems to becoming. Honestly, I think Hillary might of been better on domestic issues then Trump. Given a choice between the two, I would have wished for a third term with Obama, lol.
I'm sure your well informed, but just out of curiosity, what would say was the top three top achievements out of Hillary's career?
Regarding your assessment of the Obama administration, I must call shenanigans.
Obama really did do a piss poor job during the recession. He engaged in very clear crony capitalism through the use of policies based on "too big to fail." Companies and creditors that were insolvent leveraged their size and importance to the economy against the federal government. Against a competent leader, this tactic would have failed. A more economically versed president would have petitioned congress to purchase majority stakes in the insolvent companies, stabilized them over time and sold the assets (preferably at a profit) to private groups over time. Instead, the companies got bailouts which meant they were given special treatment by the federal government.
GDP growth is not necessarily the sign of a strong economy because GDP growth is inclusive of government spending. There is a classic example of false GDP growth through Keynesian economics. You pay a man a fee to dig a hole. The next day, you pay a man a fee to fill in the hole. Money exchanges hands, GDP grows, nothing of value created. The government is rife with this through pork barrel spending, gross mismanagement (hello 834 million dollar Obamacare website) and general apathy towards the value of the taxpayer. Sure Obama. Go ahead and campaign for the whore of Babylon. We'll foot the bill! You need several million dollars to man and secure Air Force One? Cool. Need a couple more to sortie a fighter escort? It's fine.
Isn't it kind of weird how under Obama, the national debt has doubled? And what exactly was that money spent on? Infrastructure still sucks, important federal agencies like the Department of Transportation are chronically underfunded and we're not even in a full scale war. Bush can at least can have his debt rationalized with fighting two wars on two fronts. What did Obama need 10 trillion for? His shitty healthcare scheme that fines people who don't want to or don't have the money to participate in it? We're near 20 trillion in debt and interest on that is about 230 billion dollars per year. We have to blow through that much cash just to pay the interest.
Also, the first black president made race relations demonstrably worse. Did he quash BLM when he had the chance? Nope. In fact, he invited them over to the White House after one of their members killed a bunch of cops. And remember, they're responsible for that. Pigs in a blanket, fry'em like bacon chanted ad nauseum by BLM supporters. Minimal to no disavowal by BLM leadership. And now, some disabled white kid gets beaten in what is very clearly a hate crime, every liberal organization struggles to call it that because it kinda fucks up the "only white people can be racist" narrative and Shaun King (or Talcum X, if you prefer) gets triggered into ranting about how he doesn't care about the hate crime because it was a white kid and then deletes his tweets because he knows that kind of rhetoric pisses people off.
Obama was also disavowed by Louis Farrakhan, a prominent black activist who actually did try to make lives for blacks better. Now granted, Farrakhan has a bad history, but part of that history has been organizing blacks into functional conclaves with some order and structure. Did Obama help stop the rampant black on black crime? Did he lower black poverty? Did he get blacks off of welfare and into full time jobs? Did he bring fathers back to black families? Did he do anything at all to make race relations better? It's a resounding no.
Going back to fiscal policy, don't you find it kind of suspicious that the Fed is increasing interest rates right after the election when during the whole term of Obama, they raised it a grand total of fucking once? The reason they kept the interest rate low was to allow the mass printing of money (to pay for shit, still not sure for what, but that debt clock sure is high) without causing the dollar to plummet in value. We can do this only because we hold military hegemony and near economic hegemony over the rest of the world and because oil is traded in dollars. Be mindful of the fact that the Fed head, Janet Yellen is an avowed Keynesian. She's perfectly happy to destabilize the market if it gives the appearance of making people better off.
Trump built a multi-billion dollar empire on lies.
lol
Aside from asking for evidence, I would like to ask: how did he manage to get away with that for 40+ years, how did it not collapse like a house of cards once somebody started to question any of it, how did none of the federal official in the IRS pick up anything, how did he not get sued into oblivion and how is it that all of those rape accusers showed up for about a week and then disappeared when there was nothing else to gain from perpetrating unsubstantiated claims?
But let's assume you're right and he's built an empire on lies. So has Hillary. The difference between the two is that she's lied under federal oath (which is a felony) and her lies tend to correlate with an increase in her private value and the value of the Clinton Foundation, an organization that took a massive hit in donations once she lost the election. I believe Germany was donating millions for the Clintons to plant trees somewhere and once November 8th came and went, the donations evaporated.
There are entire compilations of her lying on youtube that preceded the election. Christopher Hitchens, probably the most intelligent journalist of his time, despised the Clintons because he knew what terrible human beings they were. That man was brilliant and there was no doubt he would have opposed Hillary at every turn had he lived to see her lose again.
Hillary doesn't have any achievements because she's a fucking idiot. Her congressional history had her sponsor 3 bills, all of which were to rename things. Her tenure as Secretary of State saw gross global destabilization (Honduras suffered a coup which made it the most violent nation in the world, Haiti's earthquake, ISIS in the middle east, ISIS in the far east, the Ukrainian crisis, fucking Benghazi). As FLOTUS, her beloved healthcare plan got shot down because (the majority democrat) Congress was smart enough to recognize that imposing federal law against companies and individuals "for their own benefit" would cause reductions in healthcare quality and violate basic principles of American sovereignty.
They weren't smart enough to figure that out 20 years later.
And do you really wanna know why we "settled" for the closest thing to Hillary? It's a doozy and it's courtesy of wikileaks. To quote Victor Sarrano, "the goofball, miscreant ball-tuggers" over at the Clinton campaign actually tried to get Trump into the Republican candidacy. They wanted him to be the Republican nominee because they thought they could beat him. People hated Hillary and the democrats (and were willing to personally insult Obama and his legacy that they either abstained from voting or voted for Trump.
Obama really did do a piss poor job during the recession. He engaged in very clear crony capitalism through the use of policies based on "too big to fail." Companies and creditors that were insolvent leveraged their size and importance to the economy against the federal government. Against a competent leader, this tactic would have failed. A more economically versed president would have petitioned congress to purchase majority stakes in the insolvent companies, stabilized them over time and sold the assets (preferably at a profit) to private groups over time. Instead, the companies got bailouts which meant they were given special treatment by the federal government.
GDP growth is not necessarily the sign of a strong economy because GDP growth is inclusive of government spending. There is a classic example of false GDP growth through Keynesian economics. You pay a man a fee to dig a hole. The next day, you pay a man a fee to fill in the hole. Money exchanges hands, GDP grows, nothing of value created. The government is rife with this through pork barrel spending, gross mismanagement (hello 834 million dollar Obamacare website) and general apathy towards the value of the taxpayer. Sure Obama. Go ahead and campaign for the whore of Babylon. We'll foot the bill! You need several million dollars to man and secure Air Force One? Cool. Need a couple more to sortie a fighter escort? It's fine.
Isn't it kind of weird how under Obama, the national debt has doubled? And what exactly was that money spent on? Infrastructure still sucks, important federal agencies like the Department of Transportation are chronically underfunded and we're not even in a full scale war. Bush can at least can have his debt rationalized with fighting two wars on two fronts. What did Obama need 10 trillion for? His shitty healthcare scheme that fines people who don't want to or don't have the money to participate in it? We're near 20 trillion in debt and interest on that is about 230 billion dollars per year. We have to blow through that much cash just to pay the interest.
Also, the first black president made race relations demonstrably worse. Did he quash BLM when he had the chance? Nope. In fact, he invited them over to the White House after one of their members killed a bunch of cops. And remember, they're responsible for that. Pigs in a blanket, fry'em like bacon chanted ad nauseum by BLM supporters. Minimal to no disavowal by BLM leadership. And now, some disabled white kid gets beaten in what is very clearly a hate crime, every liberal organization struggles to call it that because it kinda fucks up the "only white people can be racist" narrative and Shaun King (or Talcum X, if you prefer) gets triggered into ranting about how he doesn't care about the hate crime because it was a white kid and then deletes his tweets because he knows that kind of rhetoric pisses people off.
Obama was also disavowed by Louis Farrakhan, a prominent black activist who actually did try to make lives for blacks better. Now granted, Farrakhan has a bad history, but part of that history has been organizing blacks into functional conclaves with some order and structure. Did Obama help stop the rampant black on black crime? Did he lower black poverty? Did he get blacks off of welfare and into full time jobs? Did he bring fathers back to black families? Did he do anything at all to make race relations better? It's a resounding no.
Going back to fiscal policy, don't you find it kind of suspicious that the Fed is increasing interest rates right after the election when during the whole term of Obama, they raised it a grand total of fucking once? The reason they kept the interest rate low was to allow the mass printing of money (to pay for shit, still not sure for what, but that debt clock sure is high) without causing the dollar to plummet in value. We can do this only because we hold military hegemony and near economic hegemony over the rest of the world and because oil is traded in dollars. Be mindful of the fact that the Fed head, Janet Yellen is an avowed Keynesian. She's perfectly happy to destabilize the market if it gives the appearance of making people better off.
Trump built a multi-billion dollar empire on lies.
lol
Aside from asking for evidence, I would like to ask: how did he manage to get away with that for 40+ years, how did it not collapse like a house of cards once somebody started to question any of it, how did none of the federal official in the IRS pick up anything, how did he not get sued into oblivion and how is it that all of those rape accusers showed up for about a week and then disappeared when there was nothing else to gain from perpetrating unsubstantiated claims?
But let's assume you're right and he's built an empire on lies. So has Hillary. The difference between the two is that she's lied under federal oath (which is a felony) and her lies tend to correlate with an increase in her private value and the value of the Clinton Foundation, an organization that took a massive hit in donations once she lost the election. I believe Germany was donating millions for the Clintons to plant trees somewhere and once November 8th came and went, the donations evaporated.
There are entire compilations of her lying on youtube that preceded the election. Christopher Hitchens, probably the most intelligent journalist of his time, despised the Clintons because he knew what terrible human beings they were. That man was brilliant and there was no doubt he would have opposed Hillary at every turn had he lived to see her lose again.
Hillary doesn't have any achievements because she's a fucking idiot. Her congressional history had her sponsor 3 bills, all of which were to rename things. Her tenure as Secretary of State saw gross global destabilization (Honduras suffered a coup which made it the most violent nation in the world, Haiti's earthquake, ISIS in the middle east, ISIS in the far east, the Ukrainian crisis, fucking Benghazi). As FLOTUS, her beloved healthcare plan got shot down because (the majority democrat) Congress was smart enough to recognize that imposing federal law against companies and individuals "for their own benefit" would cause reductions in healthcare quality and violate basic principles of American sovereignty.
They weren't smart enough to figure that out 20 years later.
And do you really wanna know why we "settled" for the closest thing to Hillary? It's a doozy and it's courtesy of wikileaks. To quote Victor Sarrano, "the goofball, miscreant ball-tuggers" over at the Clinton campaign actually tried to get Trump into the Republican candidacy. They wanted him to be the Republican nominee because they thought they could beat him. People hated Hillary and the democrats (and were willing to personally insult Obama and his legacy that they either abstained from voting or voted for Trump.
well, first I need to point out that it was Bush who created Troubled Asset Relief Program that was the cause of the bailouts that resulted in the recession, not Obama. It is a common mistake, surprising how many people get that wrong. It does make me wonder what other thing you might of gotten wrong.
He dropped the deficit from 9.8% in 2009 to 2.8% by 2014. Meaning we are making more and spending less. That kind of means the economy is doing much better. These facts aren't hard to find.
That pretty much clears up your entire economy argument right there. Obama made it better.
BLM was a protest that white officers were needlessly killing black suspects. Are you saying that is a non-issue that needs to be silenced? As for a president trying to stop violence, I don't recall Trump ever telling his supporters to stop being violent even though after the election he admit they were acting violent.
More white people are on welfare then black people. It is like saying what white republican got white people off of welfare and into better paying jobs? Who brought fathers back to white families? And so on and so on. Obama failed black people just as hard as every white president failed white people. It is a strange thing to criticize.
From what little records we can find of Trump, he seems to get investors to back a lot of his projects, when the projects fails, he keeps the money and the investors take the hit. It is hard to sue him because business adventures fail all the time and he makes a contract for it. I have no idea why people keep trusting him. You would think they would learn their lesson when his casinos failed and he walked away with millions. then again, we won't know for sure how he did it until he releases his tax return. Maybe that was the reason he never did so?
Trump lied under federal oath too.
Both Trump and Hillary lie all the time. about the same amount too.
We really have to thank Putin for those emails he hacked. Without Russia's help, Trump might of lost. I need to point out that more people hated Trump then Hillary, by a very large margin.
Trump is about to be president, I wonder how long people are going to use Hillary as an excuse for Trump?
He dropped the deficit from 9.8% in 2009 to 2.8% by 2014. Meaning we are making more and spending less. That kind of means the economy is doing much better. These facts aren't hard to find.
That pretty much clears up your entire economy argument right there. Obama made it better.
BLM was a protest that white officers were needlessly killing black suspects. Are you saying that is a non-issue that needs to be silenced? As for a president trying to stop violence, I don't recall Trump ever telling his supporters to stop being violent even though after the election he admit they were acting violent.
More white people are on welfare then black people. It is like saying what white republican got white people off of welfare and into better paying jobs? Who brought fathers back to white families? And so on and so on. Obama failed black people just as hard as every white president failed white people. It is a strange thing to criticize.
From what little records we can find of Trump, he seems to get investors to back a lot of his projects, when the projects fails, he keeps the money and the investors take the hit. It is hard to sue him because business adventures fail all the time and he makes a contract for it. I have no idea why people keep trusting him. You would think they would learn their lesson when his casinos failed and he walked away with millions. then again, we won't know for sure how he did it until he releases his tax return. Maybe that was the reason he never did so?
Trump lied under federal oath too.
Both Trump and Hillary lie all the time. about the same amount too.
We really have to thank Putin for those emails he hacked. Without Russia's help, Trump might of lost. I need to point out that more people hated Trump then Hillary, by a very large margin.
Trump is about to be president, I wonder how long people are going to use Hillary as an excuse for Trump?
Here's the thing. If what you say is true and TARP worked, then the credit goes to Bush for the bailouts having succeeded. If they failed, Obama was not responsible for them either way. He didn't do anything but ride an already oncoming wave. Personally, I think Obama should have backed off on TARP upon coming into office. Didn't the dems have control of Congress at that time? Shouldn't the party of unions have taken that cronyism down posthaste?
Another issue: deficit=/=debt. If a country has a high deficit, but the budget it comes out of is low, debt is low. If a deficit is low, but the budget is high, the debt will be high. This is due to percentages. 10% of 100 is 10 and 1% of 1000 is also 10.
That also doesn't explain how the actual debt bloomed under Obama. Because you can tell me how low he got the rates, but if those rates don't adequately explain how the debt has come to be, you're either misinformed and dragging up irrelevant information to cover up a detail or lying.
Black Lives Matter is a farce. Wanna know why? Because blacks murder each other at rates comparable to that of third world nations that, when put into perspective of cops killing blacks, is a complete and total pittance. Black lives only matter when there's money to be made and attention to be whored.
But let's break it down into bite sized chunks that are more digestible. Asians don't commit that many crimes. They don't get shot by the cops a lot. Red indians don't commit that many crimes and don't get shot by the cops a lot. Hispanics commit a good number of crimes and get shot by the cops a bit. Blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes relative to their population and get shot by the cops a lot. Basic pattern recognition would tell us that the cops are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing overall to protect themselves and their communities. There will be some missteps, but overall they do an outstanding job given the people they have to deal with. I mean, what cop wouldn't be trigger happy when blacks kill each other at rates consistent with third world nations with minimal law and order? Over 5000 blacks killed in 2012 by other blacks despite being only 13% of the population. When you break it down by sex and age group, you're getting large chunks of the population that have killed and would likely kill again. When they're concentrated in a single city, it's a miracle more cops don't get shot.
More white people are on welfare than blacks, that is true. However, there are 5 times as many whites as there are blacks. When you correctly assess the data on a per capita basis, blacks are on welfare at rates completely incomparable to anyone else. There's also a tendency for white welfare use to go down when the economy is strong. Right before the dot com bubble burst, welfare rolls were going down and white shares were going down fastest compared to blacks and hispanics. This phenomenon is already well understood. It's an Alinsky tactic. When you get people dependent on the government, it is very easy for them to support the party that promises free shit. Why do you think Bernie was so popular with dipshit millennials who got most of the good things in their lives handed to them?
Ok, so what you're telling me about Trump is that he knows how to negotiate a deal in which he wins. Nice. Was any of that illegal? No? Well ok. As long as he doesn't fuck over the country like Obama did or Hillary would have, he'll be a fuckin' hero.
What did he lie about? When was it?
They both lie the same amount. I can go back decades and find footage of her lying throughout her career. The most you'll find about Trump are slam pieces that were meant to take him down recently and under tenuous circumstances about half the time. He didn't have a liar's reputation before the election. Hillary had a lead time of 20-30 years.
Yeah, we should give Putin a medal for imposing transparency on the democrats. Let me explain something to you. If the DNC and John Podesta (Hillary too) had used adequate security measures, they would never have suffered any breaches. The reason the DNC was "hacked" was because someone internally leaked the data, probably Seth Rich (curiously murdered around the time of the Dem rally in June). John Podesta was phished and his password was p@ssw0rd because he's a fucking retard. Hillary would never have had an issue if she had simply made paper copies of her records and kept those stored safely. She used an unsecured server and thus the risk.
And exactly what did the "Russians" hack? Oh, just incriminating evidence that showed the democrats had literally tampered with the election to prevent Bernie Sanders from winning. The dems did exactly what they accused the Russians of (without evidence). Psychological projection of the highest order. I'm surprised Obama's DoJ hasn't arrested anyone from the Democrats for election tampering. Oh, I'm just joking. I'm not surprised at all! They refused to prosecute Hillary on perjury charges. Of course they weren't going to do their jobs and actually clean their own house.
But let's face it. The Russians aren't really guilty of anything. If they had actually interfered with the election by hacking voting machines and flipping votes, Obama would have imposed sanctions against them, cut off all diplomatic relations and put the military on standby. All he did was eject a couple ambassadors. He knows they're not guilty of anything. Our vaunted national intelligence agencies have no evidence or they would have presented it by now to save face. As it stands, Obama looks like a petulant child who got his hand caught in the cookie jar.
Nope, r/The_Donald has turned Hillary into a meme and left her to rot. Nobody is going to use Hillary as an excuse. She's irrelevant and useless.
I have to wonder though. Are you one of those people that are hoping he fucks up and drags the country down with him? Are you praying that millions suffer just so you can be vindicated about your beliefs?
Another issue: deficit=/=debt. If a country has a high deficit, but the budget it comes out of is low, debt is low. If a deficit is low, but the budget is high, the debt will be high. This is due to percentages. 10% of 100 is 10 and 1% of 1000 is also 10.
That also doesn't explain how the actual debt bloomed under Obama. Because you can tell me how low he got the rates, but if those rates don't adequately explain how the debt has come to be, you're either misinformed and dragging up irrelevant information to cover up a detail or lying.
Black Lives Matter is a farce. Wanna know why? Because blacks murder each other at rates comparable to that of third world nations that, when put into perspective of cops killing blacks, is a complete and total pittance. Black lives only matter when there's money to be made and attention to be whored.
But let's break it down into bite sized chunks that are more digestible. Asians don't commit that many crimes. They don't get shot by the cops a lot. Red indians don't commit that many crimes and don't get shot by the cops a lot. Hispanics commit a good number of crimes and get shot by the cops a bit. Blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes relative to their population and get shot by the cops a lot. Basic pattern recognition would tell us that the cops are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing overall to protect themselves and their communities. There will be some missteps, but overall they do an outstanding job given the people they have to deal with. I mean, what cop wouldn't be trigger happy when blacks kill each other at rates consistent with third world nations with minimal law and order? O
More white people are on welfare than blacks, that is true. However, there are 5 times as many whites as there are blacks. When you correctly assess the data on a per capita basis, blacks are on welfare at rates completely incomparable to anyone else. There's also a tendency for white welfare use to go down when the economy is strong. Right before the dot com bubble burst, welfare rolls were going down and white shares were going down fastest compared to blacks and hispanics. This phenomenon is already well understood. It's an Alinsky tactic. When you get people dependent on the government, it is very easy for them to support the party that promises free shit. Why do you think Bernie was so popular with dipshit millennials who got most of the good things in their lives handed to them?
Ok, so what you're telling me about Trump is that he knows how to negotiate a deal in which he wins. Nice. Was any of that illegal? No? Well ok. As long as he doesn't fuck over the country like Obama did or Hillary would have, he'll be a fuckin' hero.
What did he lie about? When was it?
They both lie the same amount. I can go back decades and find footage of her lying throughout her career. The most you'll find about Trump are slam pieces that were meant to take him down recently and under tenuous circumstances about half the time. He didn't have a liar's reputation before the election. Hillary had a lead time of 20-30 years.
Yeah, we should give Putin a medal for imposing transparency on the democrats. Let me explain something to you. If the DNC and John Podesta (Hillary too) had used adequate security measures, they would never have suffered any breaches. The reason the DNC was "hacked" was because someone internally leaked the data, probably Seth Rich (curiously murdered around the time of the Dem rally in June). John Podesta was phished and his password was p@ssw0rd because he's a fucking retard. Hillary would never have had an issue if she had simply made paper copies of her records and kept those stored safely. She used an unsecured server and thus the risk.
And exactly what did the "Russians" hack? Oh, just incriminating evidence that showed the democrats had literally tampered with the election to prevent Bernie Sanders from winning. The dems did exactly what they accused the Russians of (without evidence). Psychological projection of the highest order. I'm surprised Obama's DoJ hasn't arrested anyone from the Democrats for election tampering. Oh, I'm just joking. I'm not surprised at all! They refused to prosecute Hillary on perjury charges. Of course they weren't going to do their jobs and actually clean their own house.
But let's face it. The Russians aren't really guilty of anything. If they had actually interfered with the election by hacking voting machines and flipping votes, Obama would have imposed sanctions against them, cut off all diplomatic relations and put the military on standby. All he did was eject a couple ambassadors. He knows they're not guilty of anything. Our vaunted national intelligence agencies have no evidence or they would have presented it by now to save face. As it stands, Obama looks like a petulant child who got his hand caught in the cookie jar.
Nope, r/The_Donald has turned Hillary into a meme and left her to rot. Nobody is going to use Hillary as an excuse. She's irrelevant and useless.
I have to wonder though. Are you one of those people that are hoping he fucks up and drags the country down with him? Are you praying that millions suffer just so you can be vindicated about your beliefs?
I never said the bailouts were a good thing, but this does reveal an interesting thing. You think if the bailouts were bad, the fault should land on Obama. But if they were a good thing, then someone else should take the credit. You are obviously looking to make Obama out to the bad guy regardless of what actually happened. Then you asked me if I'm doing the same thing to Trump. Cute. But I'll get more into that later.
Even though I'm more supportive of Obama, I can still list off a few things he did wrong off the top of my head. I'm just surprised you didn't name of of those things yet. Instead you rely on discrediting Bush's mistakes on Obama and a few misinformed alt-right talking points. Despite what you try to attribute, Obama left the economy in better shape then he received it. Which is starting be a pattern, republicans wreck everything and a democrat as to fix it.
While the debt is bad, it is not a sign the economy is doing bad. We always had debt since we declared our Independence. Investors are still confident that we will pay them back. The economy is strong enough that the reserve is raising the interest rates. Meanwhile, Trump has racked up a lot of debt yet you still believe that makes him a successful businessman. Besides, the last time we were actually above the deficit in the last 30 years was when Bill Clinton was president and I know you hate that guy.
Black people make up about 23% of the homicide rate. That is high for it's population. But is that really your justification for a trigger happy officer to shoot an unarmed, complying suspect? You really wonder why after decades of this happening that people are finally fed up with it? And you are upset that the president isn't doing more to get people to stop protesting the deaths of innocent people? Right.
Regardless of how violent a suspect could be, you don't shoot them when they are fleeing, when they are complying, nor when they are in custody. I'm sure even you would agree those things are considered police misconduct. If you noticed, those are the kinds of death the BLM usually protest. Do you honestly believe it's wrong for people to protest this type of government abuse?
While his dealings weren't illegal, they still hurt a lot of people and forced a lot of small businesses to shut down. He makes a lot of promises to pay people then he has a habit of not paying his bills. He had over 4,000 law suits including his most recent one involving a fake university where he scammed students our of their money. He has a business history of being a con artist, plain and simple.
You serious need me to tell about Trump lying? He lies about everything, even irrelevant things. Remember when he was complaining about the debate schedule and said he talked to the NFL about how stupid it was? That was a lie. Why even lie about something like that? Besides his business dealings, the reason he doesn't have career reputation of lying is because he was never in politics before, so no one gave much thought about what he was saying as a celebrity. Remember his birther conspiracy that he suddenly changed his mind on a few days before the debate? How long was that lie? No one really paid attention to his conspiracy theories before, now as president his tweets can sink the stock market or even start a war. You just gave a man with every little self control that kind of power. You think this won't cause problems later?
So you only care about transparency when it comes to the democrats and not the republicans? I would have preferred both. But it honestly feels like transparency is a turn off for you. Republicans have been actively trying to hide themselves by preventing their sessions from being recorded and you seem to like them more despite knowing less about them then democrats. The Russians hacked servers from both the republicans and the democrats. Yet only the democrats had their emails leaked. I'm sure the Russians have a valid reason for doing that. We can trust them, right? I mean you clearly do.
The republicans openly admitted they tried to rig the election against Trump. Republicans stated publicly what democrats tried to hide. It doesn't make you wonder that if that is what they are comfortable to say to the public what kind of things are they saying behind closed doors they don't want to get out? Trump wouldn't even release his tax returns, can you even imagine the types of secret emails he would have that would have crushed him? I guess only Putin would know that now.
You spent a lot of time talking about Hillary then said you weren't going to use her anymore after I said you were using her as a crutch. Hmm.
No, I want Trump to succeed. Because if he does then we do. But sadly I'm more realistic then hopeful. He is already shaping up to be a disaster and most of the world realized that the moment he started to run. If he messes up the country there isn't much we can do other then remind you this is what you wanted and we tried to stop you. Yes, millions of people will suffer and many will die. But that is what his supporters want, even if they don't realize it. Because it's easy to ignore the pain of others as long as it doesn't inconveniences you and you can say you saved money from it. Republicans always had a "deal with it later" attitude when it come to those less fortunate then themselves.
His administration is talking about how they want to abolish overtime. That if someone works more then 40 a week they should work for free to build "character. " He also said that we are going to pay for the wall to be built instead. And none of these things are raising flags of concern?
I fear for the future of America as the people unwittingly call in dark times with roaring applause.
Even though I'm more supportive of Obama, I can still list off a few things he did wrong off the top of my head. I'm just surprised you didn't name of of those things yet. Instead you rely on discrediting Bush's mistakes on Obama and a few misinformed alt-right talking points. Despite what you try to attribute, Obama left the economy in better shape then he received it. Which is starting be a pattern, republicans wreck everything and a democrat as to fix it.
While the debt is bad, it is not a sign the economy is doing bad. We always had debt since we declared our Independence. Investors are still confident that we will pay them back. The economy is strong enough that the reserve is raising the interest rates. Meanwhile, Trump has racked up a lot of debt yet you still believe that makes him a successful businessman. Besides, the last time we were actually above the deficit in the last 30 years was when Bill Clinton was president and I know you hate that guy.
Black people make up about 23% of the homicide rate. That is high for it's population. But is that really your justification for a trigger happy officer to shoot an unarmed, complying suspect? You really wonder why after decades of this happening that people are finally fed up with it? And you are upset that the president isn't doing more to get people to stop protesting the deaths of innocent people? Right.
Regardless of how violent a suspect could be, you don't shoot them when they are fleeing, when they are complying, nor when they are in custody. I'm sure even you would agree those things are considered police misconduct. If you noticed, those are the kinds of death the BLM usually protest. Do you honestly believe it's wrong for people to protest this type of government abuse?
While his dealings weren't illegal, they still hurt a lot of people and forced a lot of small businesses to shut down. He makes a lot of promises to pay people then he has a habit of not paying his bills. He had over 4,000 law suits including his most recent one involving a fake university where he scammed students our of their money. He has a business history of being a con artist, plain and simple.
You serious need me to tell about Trump lying? He lies about everything, even irrelevant things. Remember when he was complaining about the debate schedule and said he talked to the NFL about how stupid it was? That was a lie. Why even lie about something like that? Besides his business dealings, the reason he doesn't have career reputation of lying is because he was never in politics before, so no one gave much thought about what he was saying as a celebrity. Remember his birther conspiracy that he suddenly changed his mind on a few days before the debate? How long was that lie? No one really paid attention to his conspiracy theories before, now as president his tweets can sink the stock market or even start a war. You just gave a man with every little self control that kind of power. You think this won't cause problems later?
So you only care about transparency when it comes to the democrats and not the republicans? I would have preferred both. But it honestly feels like transparency is a turn off for you. Republicans have been actively trying to hide themselves by preventing their sessions from being recorded and you seem to like them more despite knowing less about them then democrats. The Russians hacked servers from both the republicans and the democrats. Yet only the democrats had their emails leaked. I'm sure the Russians have a valid reason for doing that. We can trust them, right? I mean you clearly do.
The republicans openly admitted they tried to rig the election against Trump. Republicans stated publicly what democrats tried to hide. It doesn't make you wonder that if that is what they are comfortable to say to the public what kind of things are they saying behind closed doors they don't want to get out? Trump wouldn't even release his tax returns, can you even imagine the types of secret emails he would have that would have crushed him? I guess only Putin would know that now.
You spent a lot of time talking about Hillary then said you weren't going to use her anymore after I said you were using her as a crutch. Hmm.
No, I want Trump to succeed. Because if he does then we do. But sadly I'm more realistic then hopeful. He is already shaping up to be a disaster and most of the world realized that the moment he started to run. If he messes up the country there isn't much we can do other then remind you this is what you wanted and we tried to stop you. Yes, millions of people will suffer and many will die. But that is what his supporters want, even if they don't realize it. Because it's easy to ignore the pain of others as long as it doesn't inconveniences you and you can say you saved money from it. Republicans always had a "deal with it later" attitude when it come to those less fortunate then themselves.
His administration is talking about how they want to abolish overtime. That if someone works more then 40 a week they should work for free to build "character. " He also said that we are going to pay for the wall to be built instead. And none of these things are raising flags of concern?
I fear for the future of America as the people unwittingly call in dark times with roaring applause.
Actually, no. That's just the logical outcome because of the timing. If it succeeded, Bush was the reason. If it failed, Bush was also the reason.
Although I will admit to being an idiot. I confused TARP for ARRA. Now THAT goddamn thing was a mistake. No shit it created jobs. Almost 1 trillion dollars were spent. If it didn't create jobs, it would have been an even larger waste of money. The problem was cost effectiveness. For 860+ billion dollars, we effectively kicked the can down the road. That's a lot of money on job spending for one year, but what about the next and the year after? We still had problems due to wage depression and job outsourcing. If Obama wanted to fix the problem, it would have been austerity and heightened government accountability. But no, let's spend money, reduce interest rates and print money because who the fuck cares about the problem 8 years from now? Not Obama. He's gonna live comfortably away from all the problems.
And this is where the problem you have lies. You believe the economy to be in a better condition after Obama, but none of the mathematical evidence supports it.
-The debt was doubled (and the federal gov't's credit rating took a hit, a first in its history.)
-Labor force participation rate plummeted tremendously within just a few years rather than on a gradual decline.
-Employment figures showed Obama added mostly low wage, service industry and part time jobs rather than full time, high wage jobs.
-Obamacare has priced millions of people out of the healthcare industry by forcing companies and citizens to comply or be penalized.
-The stock market has greatly increased in volume and worth, but that wealth is concentrated mostly to the 1% (thanks, Bernie) How wonderfully progressive of the liberal president.
You can bring up as many economists and politicians as you like who will praise the economy from their six figure NYC apartments, but people will lie to protect their heroes and their ideologies. Math will not. That last point I made is where people get their confidence in the economy. However, when you factor in the other points regarding employment and debt solvency, there's a bit of an issue. The market may be bullish, but if most of it is going to the 1%, then the economy isn't really doing most people any favors, is it?
If I hate Bill Clinton, it's because he's a rapist and the women he raped were able to prove that he did. Kind of hard to deny sexual assault when the woman in question knows about the physical characteristics of your dick.
Wow, a handful of bad cops not following police procedure. I guess that justifies BLM making death chants against police, blanket condemning all cops instead of individual ones. Again, pattern recognition would do you some good here. Cops do not tend to do this kind of stuff to asians. Why? Asians don't fight or fuck with the cops. BLM would actually save black lives if they bothered to address the roots of black crime: broken homes, fatherlessness and state dependency. If blacks solved these issues, (and since it's a communal issue, only blacks can) there would be greatly diminished police violence against blacks because there would be decreased black encounters with the cops PERIOD.
And what has BLM accomplished, anyway? Ooh, they raised the issue. And it only cost several cops their lives and caused millions in property damage in Ferguson and Baltimore. Yep, totes worth it.
Most of those things were Trump changing his opinion and the collateral damage was next to nil. Meanwhile, Barack Obama: "If you like your health care plan, keep it."
Millions lose their health care plan and billions of dollars are lost.
Also, Trump's gonna start a war with his twitter? Ha. With whom? The NSA hacked the fuck out of our friends and allies and all we got was shaking fists and stern letters. By your reckoning, Russia won't want war because you think they control Trump (lol) and China can't afford to get into a war with us because they will lose. We drag in the rest of the world to go to war with China and come out pretty ok because we have modernized, functional military equipment and China is stuck with poorly made gear used by conscripts. China ceases to exist if they get into a real fight with us. Their nuclear program is far behind ours. They don't win and they need us to build up their economy by buying their shit.
Well, I could potentially imagine the types of emails Trump sends. If he sent any. He got bitched at by the left for suggesting we use couriers to deliver classified messages. I've never seen a desktop on his desktop in any photos of his office. So people bitch at him for being a Luddite and then people like you speculate (with no evidence whatsoever) about his clandestine communiques. Which is it? The left wants to have it both ways, but is likewise guilty of conspiratorial operations. Again, massive psychological projection.
I need to ask. You claim that the Russians hacked both the DNC and the RNC. In the case of the latter, how the fuck do you know that? You don't know any of that, yet you claim it with perfect certainty like it's a valid talking point. Where is your evidence? What proof do you have to show it's true? Why does your speculation generate a feasible talking point? You have no way to say this, yet you make the claim. You raise it without evidence and I dismiss it without evidence.
Ok, you probably should reread what you say before you say it because when you don't, you say things that are non-sequiturs.
-"So you only care about transparency when it comes to the democrats and not the republicans?"
-"The republicans openly admitted they tried to rig the election against Trump. Republicans stated publicly what democrats tried to hide."
The republicans showed transparency by exposing themselves to political backlash and siding against Trump. The democrats numerically rigged their primary against Bernie Sanders and tried to cover it up. They were guilty and they tried to hide it. The republicans never hid their contempt for Trump. Those who did were called out on it. The DNC never punished anyone responsible for the entire fiasco.
Millions will suffer and many will die? Happened already. Obama's fomented the wars in the middle east that have killed hundreds of thousands, bluffed Putin and lost in Ukraine and now we have to deal with the debt and the fallout from Obamacare. What you accuse Trump of Obama is already guilty of. You condemn Trump for what you think he's going to do, but you've yet to say anything about what Obama has already done.
But really though, how do you stand to lose from admitting that Obama was a colossal failure? Entertain that thought for a moment. The presented evidence is conclusive. Corpses are stacked high, economic growth wanes and people are fucking exhausted of hope. Donald Trump came in and said he was going to fix it and already, things are starting to change. Is it really worth it to hate the president no matter what he does? What do you stand to gain nitpicking his flaws?
Although I will admit to being an idiot. I confused TARP for ARRA. Now THAT goddamn thing was a mistake. No shit it created jobs. Almost 1 trillion dollars were spent. If it didn't create jobs, it would have been an even larger waste of money. The problem was cost effectiveness. For 860+ billion dollars, we effectively kicked the can down the road. That's a lot of money on job spending for one year, but what about the next and the year after? We still had problems due to wage depression and job outsourcing. If Obama wanted to fix the problem, it would have been austerity and heightened government accountability. But no, let's spend money, reduce interest rates and print money because who the fuck cares about the problem 8 years from now? Not Obama. He's gonna live comfortably away from all the problems.
And this is where the problem you have lies. You believe the economy to be in a better condition after Obama, but none of the mathematical evidence supports it.
-The debt was doubled (and the federal gov't's credit rating took a hit, a first in its history.)
-Labor force participation rate plummeted tremendously within just a few years rather than on a gradual decline.
-Employment figures showed Obama added mostly low wage, service industry and part time jobs rather than full time, high wage jobs.
-Obamacare has priced millions of people out of the healthcare industry by forcing companies and citizens to comply or be penalized.
-The stock market has greatly increased in volume and worth, but that wealth is concentrated mostly to the 1% (thanks, Bernie) How wonderfully progressive of the liberal president.
You can bring up as many economists and politicians as you like who will praise the economy from their six figure NYC apartments, but people will lie to protect their heroes and their ideologies. Math will not. That last point I made is where people get their confidence in the economy. However, when you factor in the other points regarding employment and debt solvency, there's a bit of an issue. The market may be bullish, but if most of it is going to the 1%, then the economy isn't really doing most people any favors, is it?
If I hate Bill Clinton, it's because he's a rapist and the women he raped were able to prove that he did. Kind of hard to deny sexual assault when the woman in question knows about the physical characteristics of your dick.
Wow, a handful of bad cops not following police procedure. I guess that justifies BLM making death chants against police, blanket condemning all cops instead of individual ones. Again, pattern recognition would do you some good here. Cops do not tend to do this kind of stuff to asians. Why? Asians don't fight or fuck with the cops. BLM would actually save black lives if they bothered to address the roots of black crime: broken homes, fatherlessness and state dependency. If blacks solved these issues, (and since it's a communal issue, only blacks can) there would be greatly diminished police violence against blacks because there would be decreased black encounters with the cops PERIOD.
And what has BLM accomplished, anyway? Ooh, they raised the issue. And it only cost several cops their lives and caused millions in property damage in Ferguson and Baltimore. Yep, totes worth it.
Most of those things were Trump changing his opinion and the collateral damage was next to nil. Meanwhile, Barack Obama: "If you like your health care plan, keep it."
Millions lose their health care plan and billions of dollars are lost.
Also, Trump's gonna start a war with his twitter? Ha. With whom? The NSA hacked the fuck out of our friends and allies and all we got was shaking fists and stern letters. By your reckoning, Russia won't want war because you think they control Trump (lol) and China can't afford to get into a war with us because they will lose. We drag in the rest of the world to go to war with China and come out pretty ok because we have modernized, functional military equipment and China is stuck with poorly made gear used by conscripts. China ceases to exist if they get into a real fight with us. Their nuclear program is far behind ours. They don't win and they need us to build up their economy by buying their shit.
Well, I could potentially imagine the types of emails Trump sends. If he sent any. He got bitched at by the left for suggesting we use couriers to deliver classified messages. I've never seen a desktop on his desktop in any photos of his office. So people bitch at him for being a Luddite and then people like you speculate (with no evidence whatsoever) about his clandestine communiques. Which is it? The left wants to have it both ways, but is likewise guilty of conspiratorial operations. Again, massive psychological projection.
I need to ask. You claim that the Russians hacked both the DNC and the RNC. In the case of the latter, how the fuck do you know that? You don't know any of that, yet you claim it with perfect certainty like it's a valid talking point. Where is your evidence? What proof do you have to show it's true? Why does your speculation generate a feasible talking point? You have no way to say this, yet you make the claim. You raise it without evidence and I dismiss it without evidence.
Ok, you probably should reread what you say before you say it because when you don't, you say things that are non-sequiturs.
-"So you only care about transparency when it comes to the democrats and not the republicans?"
-"The republicans openly admitted they tried to rig the election against Trump. Republicans stated publicly what democrats tried to hide."
The republicans showed transparency by exposing themselves to political backlash and siding against Trump. The democrats numerically rigged their primary against Bernie Sanders and tried to cover it up. They were guilty and they tried to hide it. The republicans never hid their contempt for Trump. Those who did were called out on it. The DNC never punished anyone responsible for the entire fiasco.
Millions will suffer and many will die? Happened already. Obama's fomented the wars in the middle east that have killed hundreds of thousands, bluffed Putin and lost in Ukraine and now we have to deal with the debt and the fallout from Obamacare. What you accuse Trump of Obama is already guilty of. You condemn Trump for what you think he's going to do, but you've yet to say anything about what Obama has already done.
But really though, how do you stand to lose from admitting that Obama was a colossal failure? Entertain that thought for a moment. The presented evidence is conclusive. Corpses are stacked high, economic growth wanes and people are fucking exhausted of hope. Donald Trump came in and said he was going to fix it and already, things are starting to change. Is it really worth it to hate the president no matter what he does? What do you stand to gain nitpicking his flaws?
I don't think you're an idiot. Just a bit mistaken in your thinking. A discussion with someone of opposing views is a good way to sharpen my mind and get a better perspective of things. Better then living in an echo chamber. Each conversation changes our thinking and each interaction changes our behavior. This is a fun little debate where we can freely express our feelings. Because in the end it doesn't really matter what we say to each other, might as well keep enjoyable.
I always admitted that Obama made some big mistakes, but overall I do believe he did a decent job. Compare to his predecessor, that wasn't a hard thing to do. Bush had market collapse, recession, longest unnecessary wars in history, and clear violation of the constitution. Since Obama did better then that, I believe he was a better president. It is true that Obama took some big risks that didn't pay off, but not all of them were bad. If Trump does better the Obama, I'll admit it as well.
Curious, what would do you consider to be a strong and growing economy? Trump is going to ride the momentum Obama created. He is already taking credit for things he didn't do.
I'd like to apply your words back at you about Bill. If he did commit a crime, why wasn't he arrested? Don't you think it's strange his accusers disappeared at the same time Trump's did?
First, I want to say how surprising it is to hear a Trump support say he is uncomfortable about an unruly crowd chanting death threats. It is like you think I didn't watch his rallies or something.
You are so determined to prove the BLM are evil that you actually justify police criminal conduct. Are you saying an officer isn't expect to do his job correctly if he has to deal with impoverished people? To make things clear, if an officer uses lethal force on a violent suspect because that is a threat to himself or others after exhausting all other methods that is fine. If an officer uses lethal force on an unarmed, compliant suspect in custody because he is black that is wrong. If you make it a habit to be trigger happy around black people that have none nothing wrong, then naturally they would be more nervous and resistance towards those officers. The majority of serial killers are white males, but I'm sure you wouldn't be okay with an officer shooting you after he puts handcuffs on you just to be on the safe side in case you are a murderer.
You say black people are inherently violent yet you are surprised when their protests turns violent. If you don't want them to protest then you shouldn't give them a reason too. Just like if you don't want to be shot by the police you shouldn't be black.
The Obamacare is always an interesting topic to discuss. I didn't lose my health insurance, no one I know did either. Did you? Millions losing their health care seems more like their claims of death panels. I actually know someone whom life was saved because of Obamacare. Yes, it is big, clunky and expensive, but it is better then the alternative. I would love a more efficient and cost effective system. Republicans have been talking about repeal and replace for years yet none of them have any better ideas to replace it with that isn't another version of Obamacare. The reason it is so costly is because insurance companies have to give children and people with preexisting conditions care, and that is expensive. Millions of people depend on it and without it they will suffer and some of them will die from preventable diseases. That is why I say if Trump gets his way millions of people will suffer and many people will die. But I'm sure the Republicans will try to suppress that nasty little detail as they take a victory lap for dismantling Obamacare. Because it would sound to horrible for when them to admit they saved a lot of money by allowing children to die. You are unwittingly supporting a party that believes that way. I'm sure you will try to argue this, and my reply to that will be "What do you think will happen to all those millions of people once their taken off Obamacare?"
Trump might actually start a trade war with China. And that is a war our country will not win. There are more kinds of wars then just with a military. That is why foreign policy is so important, that is why a leader should be aware of what happens when they try to antagonize the wrong nation. I need to point out we did defeat the Soviet Union and end the cold war without having to resort to fighting Russia. You can crush nations without having to invade it. I know you probably hate globalism, but that is why it is important not to shrug it off so lightly. Do you think Trump has enough self control on Twitter to avoid something like that happening to us?
Trump uses Twitter to tell people they should use paper to convey messages. Do you think he will take his own advice? Also, I'm sure your probably not aware, but Trump did illegally delete thousands of emails that were court ordered to be handed over. You better believe he has some juicy secret he doesn't want to get out.
It is not hard to find out that it was. It just didn't get much coverage because nothing was leaked, so there wasn't much to report. With Russia clearly hacking the servers in Trump's favor, it make sense why the RNC emails weren't leaked. If they were, it probably wouldn't make Hillary look as bad. Hence why it is called influence. Of course the RNC isn't going to admit it either, otherwise they couldn't blame the DNC for having weak security.
The Republicans showed transparency by trying to dismantle the ethics committee in a secret meeting on their first day in power. And that causes no trust issues with you? Kudos on Trump for criticizing that move. Thought what he said leaves room for speculation. I guess that is the problem with using a 140 character messaging system to give statements.
The way I see it is like a woman who sleeps around but tries to keep it secret compared to a woman who brags about how much she sleeps around. Out of those two women, who would you say is trying to be more moral?
What wars did Obama fomented? Can you be more specific? Because it almost sounds like your about to blame him for another Bush problem. Did we have preexisting knowledge that Russia was going to invade Ukraine and that somehow America was critical to it? Because if not, it makes you sound like you are blaming him for anything that went bad in his presidency, even things he had no power or control over. I wouldn't even have blamed those things on Trump if it happened during his presidency. I don't even blame 9/11 on Bush. The president isn't Superman. He just directs policy.
The same thing you stand to lose from admitting that Obama wasn't a colossal failure. Bush was a colossal failure. Obama wasn't the best, but he wasn't as bad as you are describing. He was maybe at a C+ or even a B-, a lot of room for improvement but still a passing grade. You are clearly prejudice towards black people, maybe you just hated him because he was black and want to demolish all his accomplishes as a way to justify your hatred for him?
Donald Trump has said a lot about what he is going to fix, but I'm not sure what changes you are talking about. I know what he did and what changes he wants to do and I'm judging him on that so far because what else would I have to judge him on?
Your last statement, I'm not entirely sure if you're intentionally trying to troll me with hypocrisy or what but you're pretty much saying to me "You know everything I did to the last president? Can you not do the same this to the next one? Because that would be wrong, Thanks." I'm being overwhelmed by the shock wave of the pot calling the kettle black right now.
I will be as critical of Trump as you are of Obama. I think that is fair. Especially since Trump is such a wild card right now.
I always admitted that Obama made some big mistakes, but overall I do believe he did a decent job. Compare to his predecessor, that wasn't a hard thing to do. Bush had market collapse, recession, longest unnecessary wars in history, and clear violation of the constitution. Since Obama did better then that, I believe he was a better president. It is true that Obama took some big risks that didn't pay off, but not all of them were bad. If Trump does better the Obama, I'll admit it as well.
Curious, what would do you consider to be a strong and growing economy? Trump is going to ride the momentum Obama created. He is already taking credit for things he didn't do.
I'd like to apply your words back at you about Bill. If he did commit a crime, why wasn't he arrested? Don't you think it's strange his accusers disappeared at the same time Trump's did?
First, I want to say how surprising it is to hear a Trump support say he is uncomfortable about an unruly crowd chanting death threats. It is like you think I didn't watch his rallies or something.
You are so determined to prove the BLM are evil that you actually justify police criminal conduct. Are you saying an officer isn't expect to do his job correctly if he has to deal with impoverished people? To make things clear, if an officer uses lethal force on a violent suspect because that is a threat to himself or others after exhausting all other methods that is fine. If an officer uses lethal force on an unarmed, compliant suspect in custody because he is black that is wrong. If you make it a habit to be trigger happy around black people that have none nothing wrong, then naturally they would be more nervous and resistance towards those officers. The majority of serial killers are white males, but I'm sure you wouldn't be okay with an officer shooting you after he puts handcuffs on you just to be on the safe side in case you are a murderer.
You say black people are inherently violent yet you are surprised when their protests turns violent. If you don't want them to protest then you shouldn't give them a reason too. Just like if you don't want to be shot by the police you shouldn't be black.
The Obamacare is always an interesting topic to discuss. I didn't lose my health insurance, no one I know did either. Did you? Millions losing their health care seems more like their claims of death panels. I actually know someone whom life was saved because of Obamacare. Yes, it is big, clunky and expensive, but it is better then the alternative. I would love a more efficient and cost effective system. Republicans have been talking about repeal and replace for years yet none of them have any better ideas to replace it with that isn't another version of Obamacare. The reason it is so costly is because insurance companies have to give children and people with preexisting conditions care, and that is expensive. Millions of people depend on it and without it they will suffer and some of them will die from preventable diseases. That is why I say if Trump gets his way millions of people will suffer and many people will die. But I'm sure the Republicans will try to suppress that nasty little detail as they take a victory lap for dismantling Obamacare. Because it would sound to horrible for when them to admit they saved a lot of money by allowing children to die. You are unwittingly supporting a party that believes that way. I'm sure you will try to argue this, and my reply to that will be "What do you think will happen to all those millions of people once their taken off Obamacare?"
Trump might actually start a trade war with China. And that is a war our country will not win. There are more kinds of wars then just with a military. That is why foreign policy is so important, that is why a leader should be aware of what happens when they try to antagonize the wrong nation. I need to point out we did defeat the Soviet Union and end the cold war without having to resort to fighting Russia. You can crush nations without having to invade it. I know you probably hate globalism, but that is why it is important not to shrug it off so lightly. Do you think Trump has enough self control on Twitter to avoid something like that happening to us?
Trump uses Twitter to tell people they should use paper to convey messages. Do you think he will take his own advice? Also, I'm sure your probably not aware, but Trump did illegally delete thousands of emails that were court ordered to be handed over. You better believe he has some juicy secret he doesn't want to get out.
It is not hard to find out that it was. It just didn't get much coverage because nothing was leaked, so there wasn't much to report. With Russia clearly hacking the servers in Trump's favor, it make sense why the RNC emails weren't leaked. If they were, it probably wouldn't make Hillary look as bad. Hence why it is called influence. Of course the RNC isn't going to admit it either, otherwise they couldn't blame the DNC for having weak security.
The Republicans showed transparency by trying to dismantle the ethics committee in a secret meeting on their first day in power. And that causes no trust issues with you? Kudos on Trump for criticizing that move. Thought what he said leaves room for speculation. I guess that is the problem with using a 140 character messaging system to give statements.
The way I see it is like a woman who sleeps around but tries to keep it secret compared to a woman who brags about how much she sleeps around. Out of those two women, who would you say is trying to be more moral?
What wars did Obama fomented? Can you be more specific? Because it almost sounds like your about to blame him for another Bush problem. Did we have preexisting knowledge that Russia was going to invade Ukraine and that somehow America was critical to it? Because if not, it makes you sound like you are blaming him for anything that went bad in his presidency, even things he had no power or control over. I wouldn't even have blamed those things on Trump if it happened during his presidency. I don't even blame 9/11 on Bush. The president isn't Superman. He just directs policy.
The same thing you stand to lose from admitting that Obama wasn't a colossal failure. Bush was a colossal failure. Obama wasn't the best, but he wasn't as bad as you are describing. He was maybe at a C+ or even a B-, a lot of room for improvement but still a passing grade. You are clearly prejudice towards black people, maybe you just hated him because he was black and want to demolish all his accomplishes as a way to justify your hatred for him?
Donald Trump has said a lot about what he is going to fix, but I'm not sure what changes you are talking about. I know what he did and what changes he wants to do and I'm judging him on that so far because what else would I have to judge him on?
Your last statement, I'm not entirely sure if you're intentionally trying to troll me with hypocrisy or what but you're pretty much saying to me "You know everything I did to the last president? Can you not do the same this to the next one? Because that would be wrong, Thanks." I'm being overwhelmed by the shock wave of the pot calling the kettle black right now.
I will be as critical of Trump as you are of Obama. I think that is fair. Especially since Trump is such a wild card right now.
A good economy has a growth rate of 2% or more (with a caveat). At 2%, the economy increases in value by about 50% within one generation. When you base things in 20 year periods, you get a rough idea on the turnover of the retiring generation with the incoming one and what the wealth concentration looks like. If you don't have a sizable increase in the economy in that period of time, natural inflation will undermine the youth to an extreme and prevent them from massing wealth of their own.
The caveat is that government spending cannot exceed a certain threshold or you cannibalize the gains. This is where leftist economic theory breaks down. Supply side economics is the basis for any market. Excessive regulation and large tax rates kill the economy due to restrictions on trade. High taxation by the government eats the gains and reduces the taxable capital in the future. Obama blew it by having absurdly high spending when austerity was called for. He's a Keynesian. They think money is the only thing that matters rather than value, interest or solvency. When you spend money like the government, you end up reducing the effectiveness of that money not only by pushing it through an intermediary, (some federal employee has to get paid) but by reducing culpability.
"Well, I might get called up to a Congressional hearing and Jason Chaffetz might yell at me, but it doesn't matter that I spent 75 grand on bicycles because they're not going to prosecute or fire me." That actually happened. No accountability, no responsibility. That's what you get with gross government expenditures. We almost certainly would have had a stronger recovery without all those pernicious expenditures. The interest rate had to stay low and while that was good for investment, it ended up concentrating wealth in the hands of a few people who, because of the tax rate in the US, keep their money hidden overseas to avoid losing trillions to a tax hungry government. So money gets printed and then put into foreign banks. Problem in the making right there.
Rapin' Bill wasn't arrested because he was the sitting president and because he settled out of court. The accusers never went away either. They're still here.
Here's the thing: a crowd of non-German white people shouting death threats almost never amounts to anything. Did any of the Trump rallies wind up with fatalities? The answer is no. Did BLM motivate some already thuggish people to kill people and torture a disabled white kid? Yuuuuuuuup.
"You say black people are inherently violent yet you are surprised when their protests turns violent. If you don't want them to protest then you shouldn't give them a reason too. Just like if you don't want to be shot by the police you shouldn't be black."
I am reminded as to why the Nobel Prize is worthless. The logic is the same. If you call them rioters, blacks will riot. If you call them terrorists, Muslims will terrorize. If you call white people racist, sexist, bigot homophobes...nobody dies. Nothing gets broken. Basically nothing happens. People go about their business because someone called a pick a spade when there were plenty of other spades to properly identify. Besides, what you suggested was to allow bully behavior. Just give them what they want and they'll go away (they never do.) If blacks can threaten to riot and get what they want each time, why would they never threaten to riot?
But really, let's do some basic analysis of what happens with the cops and blacks. Most of the time, the cops that draw and fire on blacks are justified in doing so. Court hearings show that. We see a couple of occasions where blacks that appear[/i/] innocent (remember how the gentle giant of Ferguson was caught on CCTV robbing a convenience store) and then suddenly ALL cops and the ENTIRE system are guilty of systemic racism. Even the black cops. So when someone shows the black murder rate and posits that there is something wrong with the black community, they're a racist, but when some white kid pretending to be black points out a handful of murders by a few police (out of 3/4 million cops in the US with about a thousand KIA suspects) and accuses all white people of racism, he's an idealistic, rebel crusader?
That's just retarded.
I'll answer your Obamacare question with another question. What do you say to the people that lost their insurance due to Obamacare price hikes, were fined for not wanting to pay something they didn't sign up for and wasn't a tax or a court fee and lost their rainy day savings to pay the fine or the price hike? Because here's the thing: some people are so irresponsible with their health that it is a fair and just result if they do die. If someone eats nothing but snack cakes and smokes cigarettes every day of their life despite daily PSAs by every watchdog group in America and they get diabetes/cancer they cannot afford to cover, it is unjust in its entirety to force everyone else to pay for their coverage. Why should [i]anyone have to pay for their irresponsibility?
As for anyone with a congenital disorder or an honest accident: tort reform, insurance deregulation and right to physician suicide will do a hell of a lot more for cost cutting in the long run and do it sustainably. Further, charity matters. Tell wealthy people to stop wasting their money on pretending to save Africa. How many reports have to come out showing that billions of dollars in aid were eaten up by bureaucrats, warlords or just "lost" in paperwork? Dump money into American medical charities. It does so much more and stops Africa from being destroyed by unsustainable practices. If you save all the children from malaria with a billion dollars worth of drugs, what the fuck are you gonna do when their six children a piece need that medical assistance? Hope your checkbook can handle massive 500% overruns otherwise entire cities rather than entire villages end up piling corpses next to the local river. Even the fucking Chinese are getting fed up dumping money into Africa and they don't care at all about unsustainable practices or ruining lives.
False equivalence. Trump fucking with the government is not the same thing as being sworn to secrecy, violating federal law, lying to Congress and then lying to the face of a woman who's son was killed due to negligence. He's not going to be perfect, but nobody was going to find the killshot against Trump in his missing records. Someone that was slighted by him would have dug through that pile a long time ago. Only now did it become relevant.
Russia "clearly" hacking the servers. Clearly you have no evidence. Our great and powerful intelligence services can't figure out how to track ISIS IPs for impromptu drone strikes or keep track of suspected jihadis THAT FUCKING SHOWED UP AT THEIR OFFICES. They totally figured out the professional foreign intelligence officials that understand how to bounce IPs and infiltrate programs into US gov't networks. Never mind that the suspected DNC leaker was murdered in a "robbery" attempt with nothing stolen and he was in the right position to leak that information out. See, I don't have any evidence for that, but you have no evidence for Russian hacking. I'll keep up the conspiratorial talk if you do.
Wait a minute, the ethics committee? Who had a hand in stopping that move? Oh yeah, Trump. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"The way I see it is like a woman who sleeps around but tries to keep it secret compared to a woman who brags about how much she sleeps around. Out of those two women, who would you say is trying to be more moral?"
The latter, obviously. Seriously, that's a dumb question. When you break down their behavior, they both have at least one negative, but one of them has a second, more grievous negative attached to them. By default, that makes the former woman the worse of the two. At the very least, I know the second woman is to be avoided. The former is to be shamed and mocked for deceptiveness. Potentially prosecuted too if she has AIDS.
Obama fomented the wars in the middle east via withdraw of American troops in Iraq, allowing the dispersal of terror groups throughout the region. Furthermore, by attempting to oust dictators (and failing to learn from Bush's mistake) Obama allowed ISIS to flourish and get more people killed than were killed by the dictators. For purposes of self righteousness, he got hundreds of thousands of people killed for no particular reason. At least with Iraq, had we stayed, the country would have become serviceable over time. I spoke with an Army psy-ops guy and he told me that we needed to maintain a presence in Iraq for 20 years. That way, we would have raised an entire Iraqi generation on American values and set the stage for a democratized, stabilized state. But nope, Obama pulled us out. He was even nice enough to announce the date to our enemies. Had we stayed the length, we would have something to show for it. Now, the Iraq War was almost for naught and we have an even bigger problem to contend with.
Bush was a colossal failure, but he was handed the modern depression and Pearl Harbor within 8 months of assuming office. What in God's name was that man supposed to do? Iraq was the fuckup and it is a fuckup to this day. Bush was shit, but of all the things he's at fault for, the recession wasn't one of them. You can blame the 106th Congress and Bill Clinton for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The Republicans and Rapin' Bill fucked everyone over by grossly deregulating the one thing you actually have to keep tabs on: financial institutions. There's healthy deregulation and then just throwing out your SSN card, your tax returns and burning your house down.
Trump has already scared the bejesus out of companies into investing into American manufacturing. When the president tweets and you lose 5 billion in market valuation, you're probably going to listen. You can deny the causality to this, but I don't ever recall anything of this nature happening with Obama. The Mexican president and the Canadian PM have already declared they're willing to renegotiate NAFTA with Trump. Nieto and flower power Trudy both overturned their previous sentiments and went immediately to the bargaining table. He's not even the fucking president and people are capitulating to him. That's brilliant. We've not had that in decades.
And here's the last thing: Obama has spent 8 years in office and his failures are set in stone. What he's done is documented, recorded and for the most part, shameful. Trump isn't even the president and yet he's been crucified in ways that are not permissible against Obama because if you publicly accuse him of failure, you're a racist.
What's more, you're using conjecture with that Russian shit. It has not been proven while I'm citing clearly detailed news articles or scientific studies that show what Obama did wrong. There is a massive gap in the credibility of your criticisms and mine. So no, it's not fair at all to appeal to the center right now.
The caveat is that government spending cannot exceed a certain threshold or you cannibalize the gains. This is where leftist economic theory breaks down. Supply side economics is the basis for any market. Excessive regulation and large tax rates kill the economy due to restrictions on trade. High taxation by the government eats the gains and reduces the taxable capital in the future. Obama blew it by having absurdly high spending when austerity was called for. He's a Keynesian. They think money is the only thing that matters rather than value, interest or solvency. When you spend money like the government, you end up reducing the effectiveness of that money not only by pushing it through an intermediary, (some federal employee has to get paid) but by reducing culpability.
"Well, I might get called up to a Congressional hearing and Jason Chaffetz might yell at me, but it doesn't matter that I spent 75 grand on bicycles because they're not going to prosecute or fire me." That actually happened. No accountability, no responsibility. That's what you get with gross government expenditures. We almost certainly would have had a stronger recovery without all those pernicious expenditures. The interest rate had to stay low and while that was good for investment, it ended up concentrating wealth in the hands of a few people who, because of the tax rate in the US, keep their money hidden overseas to avoid losing trillions to a tax hungry government. So money gets printed and then put into foreign banks. Problem in the making right there.
Rapin' Bill wasn't arrested because he was the sitting president and because he settled out of court. The accusers never went away either. They're still here.
Here's the thing: a crowd of non-German white people shouting death threats almost never amounts to anything. Did any of the Trump rallies wind up with fatalities? The answer is no. Did BLM motivate some already thuggish people to kill people and torture a disabled white kid? Yuuuuuuuup.
"You say black people are inherently violent yet you are surprised when their protests turns violent. If you don't want them to protest then you shouldn't give them a reason too. Just like if you don't want to be shot by the police you shouldn't be black."
I am reminded as to why the Nobel Prize is worthless. The logic is the same. If you call them rioters, blacks will riot. If you call them terrorists, Muslims will terrorize. If you call white people racist, sexist, bigot homophobes...nobody dies. Nothing gets broken. Basically nothing happens. People go about their business because someone called a pick a spade when there were plenty of other spades to properly identify. Besides, what you suggested was to allow bully behavior. Just give them what they want and they'll go away (they never do.) If blacks can threaten to riot and get what they want each time, why would they never threaten to riot?
But really, let's do some basic analysis of what happens with the cops and blacks. Most of the time, the cops that draw and fire on blacks are justified in doing so. Court hearings show that. We see a couple of occasions where blacks that appear[/i/] innocent (remember how the gentle giant of Ferguson was caught on CCTV robbing a convenience store) and then suddenly ALL cops and the ENTIRE system are guilty of systemic racism. Even the black cops. So when someone shows the black murder rate and posits that there is something wrong with the black community, they're a racist, but when some white kid pretending to be black points out a handful of murders by a few police (out of 3/4 million cops in the US with about a thousand KIA suspects) and accuses all white people of racism, he's an idealistic, rebel crusader?
That's just retarded.
I'll answer your Obamacare question with another question. What do you say to the people that lost their insurance due to Obamacare price hikes, were fined for not wanting to pay something they didn't sign up for and wasn't a tax or a court fee and lost their rainy day savings to pay the fine or the price hike? Because here's the thing: some people are so irresponsible with their health that it is a fair and just result if they do die. If someone eats nothing but snack cakes and smokes cigarettes every day of their life despite daily PSAs by every watchdog group in America and they get diabetes/cancer they cannot afford to cover, it is unjust in its entirety to force everyone else to pay for their coverage. Why should [i]anyone have to pay for their irresponsibility?
As for anyone with a congenital disorder or an honest accident: tort reform, insurance deregulation and right to physician suicide will do a hell of a lot more for cost cutting in the long run and do it sustainably. Further, charity matters. Tell wealthy people to stop wasting their money on pretending to save Africa. How many reports have to come out showing that billions of dollars in aid were eaten up by bureaucrats, warlords or just "lost" in paperwork? Dump money into American medical charities. It does so much more and stops Africa from being destroyed by unsustainable practices. If you save all the children from malaria with a billion dollars worth of drugs, what the fuck are you gonna do when their six children a piece need that medical assistance? Hope your checkbook can handle massive 500% overruns otherwise entire cities rather than entire villages end up piling corpses next to the local river. Even the fucking Chinese are getting fed up dumping money into Africa and they don't care at all about unsustainable practices or ruining lives.
False equivalence. Trump fucking with the government is not the same thing as being sworn to secrecy, violating federal law, lying to Congress and then lying to the face of a woman who's son was killed due to negligence. He's not going to be perfect, but nobody was going to find the killshot against Trump in his missing records. Someone that was slighted by him would have dug through that pile a long time ago. Only now did it become relevant.
Russia "clearly" hacking the servers. Clearly you have no evidence. Our great and powerful intelligence services can't figure out how to track ISIS IPs for impromptu drone strikes or keep track of suspected jihadis THAT FUCKING SHOWED UP AT THEIR OFFICES. They totally figured out the professional foreign intelligence officials that understand how to bounce IPs and infiltrate programs into US gov't networks. Never mind that the suspected DNC leaker was murdered in a "robbery" attempt with nothing stolen and he was in the right position to leak that information out. See, I don't have any evidence for that, but you have no evidence for Russian hacking. I'll keep up the conspiratorial talk if you do.
Wait a minute, the ethics committee? Who had a hand in stopping that move? Oh yeah, Trump. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"The way I see it is like a woman who sleeps around but tries to keep it secret compared to a woman who brags about how much she sleeps around. Out of those two women, who would you say is trying to be more moral?"
The latter, obviously. Seriously, that's a dumb question. When you break down their behavior, they both have at least one negative, but one of them has a second, more grievous negative attached to them. By default, that makes the former woman the worse of the two. At the very least, I know the second woman is to be avoided. The former is to be shamed and mocked for deceptiveness. Potentially prosecuted too if she has AIDS.
Obama fomented the wars in the middle east via withdraw of American troops in Iraq, allowing the dispersal of terror groups throughout the region. Furthermore, by attempting to oust dictators (and failing to learn from Bush's mistake) Obama allowed ISIS to flourish and get more people killed than were killed by the dictators. For purposes of self righteousness, he got hundreds of thousands of people killed for no particular reason. At least with Iraq, had we stayed, the country would have become serviceable over time. I spoke with an Army psy-ops guy and he told me that we needed to maintain a presence in Iraq for 20 years. That way, we would have raised an entire Iraqi generation on American values and set the stage for a democratized, stabilized state. But nope, Obama pulled us out. He was even nice enough to announce the date to our enemies. Had we stayed the length, we would have something to show for it. Now, the Iraq War was almost for naught and we have an even bigger problem to contend with.
Bush was a colossal failure, but he was handed the modern depression and Pearl Harbor within 8 months of assuming office. What in God's name was that man supposed to do? Iraq was the fuckup and it is a fuckup to this day. Bush was shit, but of all the things he's at fault for, the recession wasn't one of them. You can blame the 106th Congress and Bill Clinton for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The Republicans and Rapin' Bill fucked everyone over by grossly deregulating the one thing you actually have to keep tabs on: financial institutions. There's healthy deregulation and then just throwing out your SSN card, your tax returns and burning your house down.
Trump has already scared the bejesus out of companies into investing into American manufacturing. When the president tweets and you lose 5 billion in market valuation, you're probably going to listen. You can deny the causality to this, but I don't ever recall anything of this nature happening with Obama. The Mexican president and the Canadian PM have already declared they're willing to renegotiate NAFTA with Trump. Nieto and flower power Trudy both overturned their previous sentiments and went immediately to the bargaining table. He's not even the fucking president and people are capitulating to him. That's brilliant. We've not had that in decades.
And here's the last thing: Obama has spent 8 years in office and his failures are set in stone. What he's done is documented, recorded and for the most part, shameful. Trump isn't even the president and yet he's been crucified in ways that are not permissible against Obama because if you publicly accuse him of failure, you're a racist.
What's more, you're using conjecture with that Russian shit. It has not been proven while I'm citing clearly detailed news articles or scientific studies that show what Obama did wrong. There is a massive gap in the credibility of your criticisms and mine. So no, it's not fair at all to appeal to the center right now.
The GDP growth is already at 3.5%. Even Trump admits that but he brags that he can bring it up to 4% or even 6%. Which a lot of expects think is impossible. So by your own definition of a good economy, Obama has already surpassed that point. Now would you like to admit you are wrong or do you need me to give you a minute to shuffle those goal posts around again?
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/cha.....tes/gdp-growth
(Sorry, I don't know how to do the little quote thing)
Bill was never arrested because all three previously testified, under oath, that Clinton never made unwanted advances. Several witnesses close to Willey and Jones state that the two women described their encounter with Clinton as consensual. Strangely when it was the election they changed their minds and decided it was rape. Only to stop caring out the issue after the election. It feels like you didn't look that up beyond the headline grabbers.
When white people chant death threats it isn't serious, but when black people chant death threats it is totally serious. What if the non-white didn't know those white death threats were only pretend? Your whole argument was that if you think a group is violent then it is alright to treat them as violent. But that suddenly isn't okay when applied to white people? How do you know it was the BLM that motivated them and not Trump's death threats? By your own logical reasoning Trump supporters are violent and these monsters and terrorists that tortured that kid is just as justified in doing so as are the officers that shot black people because they perceive them as being violent. I think all that is wrong, but you seem stuck in this double standard where you have to somehow defend why it is okay for you to do it but bad if someone else does. And the more you try to double down on it, the worse you make yourself look. Do you just want to back away from this and just say Obama isn't responsible for the actions of the BLM or do you want to keep digging that hole?
They are rioting because the police are unjustly killing innocent black people. You keep saying it's impossible for police to do their jobs correctly so black people just need to get over it. You don't find it strange they only riot after they find out a police officer killed an innocent black person? Can we just replace the bad cops with good cops and avoid all this rioting all together?
Again, they are not rioting the justified killings, they are rioting the unjustified one. Because most of the time when they do unjustifiably kill a black person it went unpunished.
I never met anyone who lost their health insurance because of Obamacare, but I would just say switch to a cheaper health care provider. But here is the thing, you are paying for that cost whether or not you are aware of it. Anyone who goes the the hospital has to receive medical attention whether they can pay for it or not, the hospital makes up for that cost by charging the patients that can pay more. Many hospitals agree that if Obamacare goes away it will cost them lots of money.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/23/trum.....hospitals.html
You still had to accept your okay with letting children die of curable things because you don't think that same system should be allowed to help people who made bad life choices. You can have whatever reason you want for shutting it down, but you also have to admit doing so would hurt children in the process. You are putting money before life. You caught me by surprise a few times during this conversation, but never did I expect to be more pro-life then a conservative.
So you want to give insurance companies less oversight and reduce damages they have to pay if they mess up? And that will somehow ensure that insurance companies will do the right thing and pay for expensive medical costs that they normally wouldn't have too? You have a disturbing amount of blind trust that companies will do the right thing. So you are saying if we reduce the law and reduce the penalty for breaking said laws, that people will naturally stop doing the wrong thing?
But I do agree with you that we would be better off spending money here first then helping other countries that will just squander it. Maybe if we gave charities less regulations they would spend more money here?
Trump messing with the government effects my personal life more so then someone violating federal law and lying to Congress. It becomes relevant now because his past shows up how he will lead the country. If he acted that way while running his company how do you think he will act leading 300 million people? Yeah, that isn't reassuring. I knew Clinton's past and still thought she was a better choice then Trump, as did most of America. But if we just reduced regulations and penalties then Clinton would have done the right things instead. I love how you said that, I'm going to use it so much now.
Okay, let's pretend it wasn't Russian hackers, who ever did hack the servers decided not to leak the RNC emails despite having an opportunity to do so. Thus unfairly effected the race and at worst it is sabotage.
I already gave him credit for doing so. But that really doesn't explain how republicans are more trust worthy by trying to dismantle an ethics committee that, I need to remind you, democrats into place. From this alone it seems democrats want more accountably in Congress the republicans.
The more I talk to you the more learn how you think. I would expand more on my metaphor but really these relies are getting long enough.
I need to point out ISIS was formed in Syria, not Iraq, when Bush dismantled the Iraq army and left them unemployed. It grew local popularity by fighting against the same corrupt dictators that Obama tried to oust. So ISIS would have formed regardless if we stayed 20 or even 100 years. Granted, it might not have been as large as it is today, but we would still be fighting them regardless. I mean trying to remove the dictators that gave rise to ISIS is a good way to help prevent more people from joining them as they think it's their only option. But are you trying to fault Obama for pulling out of a war that was made under false pretense that was drowning our nation in unneeded debt? That is his fault? Then you say you wanted to stay in Iraq for almost twice long and rack up even more debt trying to police and control another country? Then you said Obama did so intentionally to give rise to a terrorist group for no particular reason? Like anyone one could have actually seen that coming in advance? Geez, you might as well blame 9/11 on Bush for not putting more airplane regulations into effect before it happen while your at it.
Bush was a colossal failure, but it seem like you are stuck on blaming everything on Obama regardless again. It is either that Bush was right for starting the Iraq war and Obama was wrong for pulling out or Bush was wrong for starting the war in Iraq and Obama was right for pulling out. It is kind of contradictory it say it was wrong for Bush to start the war and wrong for Obama not to continue it. Pick one or the other.
I have to point out this is the second time you cited an act without first reading what it was about. I thought you might have learned your lesson from the first time. Everything you described is the opposite of what the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act actually did. The act was signed in 1999 as a regulation, not a deregulation, to the way financial institutions safeguarded private information. Who did this law screw over again? If it was deregulated it happened after Bill was out of office.
What businesses did did Trump scare the bejesus out of again? Trump has a habit of taking credit for things he never actually did. And because the details seem to be your biggest obstacle so far.
You are right that all of Obama's failures are set in stone. But actually remembering what he did or didn't do somehow still seems to be up for debate.
Speaking of crucified, you don't remember when conservatives use to say Obama was the anti-Christ and that he would bring a thousand years of darkness on America before he was even elected? Pepperidge farm remembers. I never said you couldn't call Obama out on his failures, I just said you had to be honest and call him out the right ones.
If Trump said never made fun of a handicapped reporter before but then we play the video of him actually doing that, is that us being overly critical of him or just calling him out when he lies?
The CIA confirmed it and explained why. But it is interesting how you will cite the CIA when it proves you right but then quickly deny them once they prove your wrong. If you don't trust your own sources, why should I? The other articles you provided didn't have anything to do with countering the points I was making. And the rest of the stuff was memes and YouTube videos. Whereas a lot of the other things you said were easily disproved with a quick Google search. Everything else is just an exercise in logical thinking.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/cha.....tes/gdp-growth
(Sorry, I don't know how to do the little quote thing)
Bill was never arrested because all three previously testified, under oath, that Clinton never made unwanted advances. Several witnesses close to Willey and Jones state that the two women described their encounter with Clinton as consensual. Strangely when it was the election they changed their minds and decided it was rape. Only to stop caring out the issue after the election. It feels like you didn't look that up beyond the headline grabbers.
When white people chant death threats it isn't serious, but when black people chant death threats it is totally serious. What if the non-white didn't know those white death threats were only pretend? Your whole argument was that if you think a group is violent then it is alright to treat them as violent. But that suddenly isn't okay when applied to white people? How do you know it was the BLM that motivated them and not Trump's death threats? By your own logical reasoning Trump supporters are violent and these monsters and terrorists that tortured that kid is just as justified in doing so as are the officers that shot black people because they perceive them as being violent. I think all that is wrong, but you seem stuck in this double standard where you have to somehow defend why it is okay for you to do it but bad if someone else does. And the more you try to double down on it, the worse you make yourself look. Do you just want to back away from this and just say Obama isn't responsible for the actions of the BLM or do you want to keep digging that hole?
They are rioting because the police are unjustly killing innocent black people. You keep saying it's impossible for police to do their jobs correctly so black people just need to get over it. You don't find it strange they only riot after they find out a police officer killed an innocent black person? Can we just replace the bad cops with good cops and avoid all this rioting all together?
Again, they are not rioting the justified killings, they are rioting the unjustified one. Because most of the time when they do unjustifiably kill a black person it went unpunished.
I never met anyone who lost their health insurance because of Obamacare, but I would just say switch to a cheaper health care provider. But here is the thing, you are paying for that cost whether or not you are aware of it. Anyone who goes the the hospital has to receive medical attention whether they can pay for it or not, the hospital makes up for that cost by charging the patients that can pay more. Many hospitals agree that if Obamacare goes away it will cost them lots of money.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/23/trum.....hospitals.html
You still had to accept your okay with letting children die of curable things because you don't think that same system should be allowed to help people who made bad life choices. You can have whatever reason you want for shutting it down, but you also have to admit doing so would hurt children in the process. You are putting money before life. You caught me by surprise a few times during this conversation, but never did I expect to be more pro-life then a conservative.
So you want to give insurance companies less oversight and reduce damages they have to pay if they mess up? And that will somehow ensure that insurance companies will do the right thing and pay for expensive medical costs that they normally wouldn't have too? You have a disturbing amount of blind trust that companies will do the right thing. So you are saying if we reduce the law and reduce the penalty for breaking said laws, that people will naturally stop doing the wrong thing?
But I do agree with you that we would be better off spending money here first then helping other countries that will just squander it. Maybe if we gave charities less regulations they would spend more money here?
Trump messing with the government effects my personal life more so then someone violating federal law and lying to Congress. It becomes relevant now because his past shows up how he will lead the country. If he acted that way while running his company how do you think he will act leading 300 million people? Yeah, that isn't reassuring. I knew Clinton's past and still thought she was a better choice then Trump, as did most of America. But if we just reduced regulations and penalties then Clinton would have done the right things instead. I love how you said that, I'm going to use it so much now.
Okay, let's pretend it wasn't Russian hackers, who ever did hack the servers decided not to leak the RNC emails despite having an opportunity to do so. Thus unfairly effected the race and at worst it is sabotage.
I already gave him credit for doing so. But that really doesn't explain how republicans are more trust worthy by trying to dismantle an ethics committee that, I need to remind you, democrats into place. From this alone it seems democrats want more accountably in Congress the republicans.
The more I talk to you the more learn how you think. I would expand more on my metaphor but really these relies are getting long enough.
I need to point out ISIS was formed in Syria, not Iraq, when Bush dismantled the Iraq army and left them unemployed. It grew local popularity by fighting against the same corrupt dictators that Obama tried to oust. So ISIS would have formed regardless if we stayed 20 or even 100 years. Granted, it might not have been as large as it is today, but we would still be fighting them regardless. I mean trying to remove the dictators that gave rise to ISIS is a good way to help prevent more people from joining them as they think it's their only option. But are you trying to fault Obama for pulling out of a war that was made under false pretense that was drowning our nation in unneeded debt? That is his fault? Then you say you wanted to stay in Iraq for almost twice long and rack up even more debt trying to police and control another country? Then you said Obama did so intentionally to give rise to a terrorist group for no particular reason? Like anyone one could have actually seen that coming in advance? Geez, you might as well blame 9/11 on Bush for not putting more airplane regulations into effect before it happen while your at it.
Bush was a colossal failure, but it seem like you are stuck on blaming everything on Obama regardless again. It is either that Bush was right for starting the Iraq war and Obama was wrong for pulling out or Bush was wrong for starting the war in Iraq and Obama was right for pulling out. It is kind of contradictory it say it was wrong for Bush to start the war and wrong for Obama not to continue it. Pick one or the other.
I have to point out this is the second time you cited an act without first reading what it was about. I thought you might have learned your lesson from the first time. Everything you described is the opposite of what the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act actually did. The act was signed in 1999 as a regulation, not a deregulation, to the way financial institutions safeguarded private information. Who did this law screw over again? If it was deregulated it happened after Bill was out of office.
What businesses did did Trump scare the bejesus out of again? Trump has a habit of taking credit for things he never actually did. And because the details seem to be your biggest obstacle so far.
You are right that all of Obama's failures are set in stone. But actually remembering what he did or didn't do somehow still seems to be up for debate.
Speaking of crucified, you don't remember when conservatives use to say Obama was the anti-Christ and that he would bring a thousand years of darkness on America before he was even elected? Pepperidge farm remembers. I never said you couldn't call Obama out on his failures, I just said you had to be honest and call him out the right ones.
If Trump said never made fun of a handicapped reporter before but then we play the video of him actually doing that, is that us being overly critical of him or just calling him out when he lies?
The CIA confirmed it and explained why. But it is interesting how you will cite the CIA when it proves you right but then quickly deny them once they prove your wrong. If you don't trust your own sources, why should I? The other articles you provided didn't have anything to do with countering the points I was making. And the rest of the stuff was memes and YouTube videos. Whereas a lot of the other things you said were easily disproved with a quick Google search. Everything else is just an exercise in logical thinking.
First paragraph in and you already fucked up. Did you not pay attention to the caveat I outlined? Because I very clearly delineated the condition under which GDP growth becomes irrelevant. I'll repeat the important part I already said. If you grow the economy, but cannibalize the gains through taxation, regulation and massive spending, you cause loss. I'm willing to bet this is going to become a pattern of you ignoring, wholesale, statements and evidence that clearly outline my position.
Okay, that's 3 of 7. Care to explain the remaining four women?
"What if the non-white didn't know those white death threats were only pretend?"
Then given the 24/7 stream of news and lack of reported casualties, they're looking at something with no pattern and believing it without historical precedent. Conversely, BLM has a rally, Baltimore gets burned down, shops get looted, injuries are cared for. Trump rallies get rowdy and then Trump supporters get violently harassed and CNN ignores it. It is cute that you think you've caught a logical fallacy, but your interpretation of the logic is flawed. My logic rests on there being causal connections to show justification for behavior. Trump rallies got raucous, but the supporters themselves mostly stayed calm. They sure as shit never kidnapped a Hillary supporter and tortured him into saying, "fuck Hillary."
"I never met anyone who lost their health insurance because of Obamacare"
Anecdotal evidence leads to cherrypicking. Bloomberg reports 1.4 million people will lose their coverage because the ACA will bankrupt insurance companies through legal bullshit if the companies don't pull out of the single payer market. So you might not know any, but that doesn't change the fact that they exist.
Again, you ignore my statements that solve the problems and assume a zero sum game that it's either Obamacare or nothing. It turns out, there are better, more effective options than socialized medicine. For example, as I suggested, charity is very, very useful. Ever hear of Shriners Hospitals for Children? They help sooooo many goddamn children it's incredible. Charitable organization, does their job much more effectively than the federal government ever could because they're not subject to federal union bullshit or middlemen taking their devil's due from dying kids.
"I mean trying to remove the dictators that gave rise to ISIS is a good way to help prevent more people from joining them as they think it's their only option."
Whatever semblance of credibility you might have had was lost here. The dictators didn't give rise to ISIS. They were the ones preventing it by being heavy handed against sectarianism and forcing people to comply with a revisionist form of islam that didn't do what islam tells its adherents to do, which is terrorize.
(Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels, "Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes."
Was there an international terror force originating from Iraq under Saddam that carried out attacks on the west? Nope! What about Gaddafi in Libya? Not only no, but fuck no. Islamic terror had minimal engagements in Libya while the strongman was being brutal. With him gone, Libya fell apart and now it's a hotbed of insurgency and violence. You know where Al-qaeda originated? Afghanistan during the Afghan War conducted by the Soviets. The destabilization of security in Afghanistan gave rise to that terror group. The fact that you even entertained writing that down as a counterpoint is just so telling about you. There's just such a wanton disregard for history and arab culture that it's alarming.
ISIS went into Syria BECAUSE Assad was threatened and his regime was shaky. Action against him was started by defectors from his military that formed the Free Syrian Army. They weakened Assad's hold and allowed ISIS to come in. ISIS capitalizes on power vacuums. They tried to assert themselves in Iraq during the Surge in 2007 and lost their leadership as a result. They flourished in Iraq after the American withdraw because Iraq was weak and they flourished in Syria because Assad's hold is tenuous. They sure as shit want an islamic caliphate. Are they in Saudi where wahhabism is prominent and where there's high military spending? Nope. What about in Palestine where they can attack the Israelis? lolno, the jews would fucking wreck them. They're not where there is good leadership and full strength militaries.
"Okay, let's pretend it wasn't Russian hackers, who ever did hack the servers decided not to leak the RNC emails despite having an opportunity to do so. Thus unfairly effected the race and at worst it is sabotage."
Or the RNC secured their networks and didn't get hacked. As far as I know, neither party uses the same servers.
Or it was actually someone from inside the DNC that was disgusted by their politicking and decided to leak it. In which case, the chickens came home to roost and there wasn't shit to be had from the RNC because they didn't have leaks or secured their servers. Regardless, whoever did it did America a favor. It told the Berniebros that Bernie was in fact cheated from the nomination. The DNC got rid of the chairwoman as a result of the scandal. The republicans were not guilty of that at all. They legally tried to stop Trump through rhetorical appeals to the voters. It did not work and he was allowed to be the nominee. Even if the Republicans had their dirty laundry aired, it wouldn't have been as damning because Trump was fighting them the entire way. If anything, he would have been vindicated with his swamp draining rhetoric because the only person calling the parties on their bullshit was Trump.
"It becomes relevant now because his past shows up how he will lead the country. If he acted that way while running his company how do you think he will act leading 300 million people? Yeah, that isn't reassuring. I knew Clinton's past and still thought she was a better choice then Trump, as did most of America. But if we just reduced regulations and penalties then Clinton would have done the right things instead."
There you go, dragging up the dead horse for me to beat. I tried to keep her out of this, but you brought it back in. Here's what we know. Trump fucked around in the private sector, but has not fucked around in the public sector and ran for public office. Hillary has fucked around in the public sector, but not (too much) in the public sector and ran for public office. Hillary has already demonstrated her willingness to fuck over the public even when she is scrutinized. Trump has fucked over wealthy people, lawyers and government agencies, but not the public. He has not yet been proven to be someone who will fuck over the public for personal gain as Hillary has already proven herself to be. Trump knows he has every single eye on him right now. He can't do the legal bullshit he did during his court dates because there is no one that will let him get away with it. If he is not immaculate, he loses the re-election.
In relation to the formation of Citigroup from the merger of an insurance company and banking group, one of the key players in the recession due to their subprime mortgage packing policies:
"Less than a year later, GLBA was passed to legalize these types of mergers on a permanent basis. The law also repealed Glass–Steagall's conflict of interest prohibitions "against simultaneous service by any officer, director, or employee of a securities firm as an officer, director, or employee of any member bank".[4]
So no, that act was instrumental in the recession. It even fucking says on the side that it repealed Glass-Steagall, specifically, the elements of which prevented conglomeration of financial institutions that could fuck the entire system if they were to become insolvent, which they did.
"It is either that Bush was right for starting the Iraq war and Obama was wrong for pulling out or Bush was wrong for starting the war in Iraq and Obama was right for pulling out."
Actually, it's the third option. Bush was wrong to start it and Obama was wrong to end it prematurely. By starting it, Bush indebted us to that conflict for the duration of his tenure. By pulling us out of it early, Obama made it so that none of the gains made in Iraq would be functional. Again, you don't seem to be able to understand anything beyond a zero sum game. Real life isn't simply, "yes" or "no". There are plenty of other options that work, it's just that Obama seems to have picked very few of them and they just seem to be invisible to you.
Lockheed Martin. Boeing. Chrysler. Ford. Toyota. Those people sure as shit had some other plans to go through with, but fucking Trump tweets and their plans suddenly change. They didn't change when he was still a candidate. And it sure is shit wasn't Obama that got those people to nix their plans and go to the negotiating table. They had 8 years to do that and only on the eve of his lame duck presidency is there a peep out of these people about putting their manufacturing on US soil. Yeah, that's totally not the result of a guy that threatened the hell out of these groups for outsourcing jobs. There's nooooooo causal connection whatsoever. And while you may not see that connection, the people who will get those jobs do and they will happily vote for Trump because he actually did what he said he'd do.
Except I didn't cite the CIA. Also, Trump made fun of a disabled reporter not because he was disabled, but because Trump was slighted by the reporter. So he mocked a disabled reporter not for being disabled, but for bad journalism. And that's perfectly fine. Most people are too stupid to understand the difference between mocking someone for what they've done versus what they are. People are so dumb that they think that mocking a woman/LGBT/colored person/disabled person is mocking them for being those things. Never mind how patronizing that is and how that indicates that such people need their hands held or their hurt fee-fees will kill them.
Would Trump have mocked Kovaleski if he had never encountered him in a negative fashion? Of course not. He didn't insult him for being disabled; he insulted him for shitty journalism. Trump sure as shit didn't avoid the vet with prosthetics and he's had a history of charitable actions with disabled children. I really don't care what he has to say about the disabled reporter because his actions spoke louder than his words.
Quick google search? Sure. So quick and damning that you never bothered to cite anything until I told you how important it was. I just have to take your word for it even though your word at this point is meaningless because you glossed over the parts of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that specifically stated it was repealing specific elements of Glass-Steagall. There's even a sample from fucking Obama that says the same thing. Broken clock will eventually be right twice a day, I suppose.
This is just getting stupid. You've not refuted anything. You've swaggered about saying, "no, you're wrong," while providing no evidence, no counter-logic or examples. As well, you've mischaracterized my statements, cherrypicked what you want to believe, misinterpreted history to the point of revisionism and you couldn't even correctly reference my citation's group of origin. I could go get the DOJ or watchdog group references too. They all say the same shit so it doesn't matter who said it.
Okay, that's 3 of 7. Care to explain the remaining four women?
"What if the non-white didn't know those white death threats were only pretend?"
Then given the 24/7 stream of news and lack of reported casualties, they're looking at something with no pattern and believing it without historical precedent. Conversely, BLM has a rally, Baltimore gets burned down, shops get looted, injuries are cared for. Trump rallies get rowdy and then Trump supporters get violently harassed and CNN ignores it. It is cute that you think you've caught a logical fallacy, but your interpretation of the logic is flawed. My logic rests on there being causal connections to show justification for behavior. Trump rallies got raucous, but the supporters themselves mostly stayed calm. They sure as shit never kidnapped a Hillary supporter and tortured him into saying, "fuck Hillary."
"I never met anyone who lost their health insurance because of Obamacare"
Anecdotal evidence leads to cherrypicking. Bloomberg reports 1.4 million people will lose their coverage because the ACA will bankrupt insurance companies through legal bullshit if the companies don't pull out of the single payer market. So you might not know any, but that doesn't change the fact that they exist.
Again, you ignore my statements that solve the problems and assume a zero sum game that it's either Obamacare or nothing. It turns out, there are better, more effective options than socialized medicine. For example, as I suggested, charity is very, very useful. Ever hear of Shriners Hospitals for Children? They help sooooo many goddamn children it's incredible. Charitable organization, does their job much more effectively than the federal government ever could because they're not subject to federal union bullshit or middlemen taking their devil's due from dying kids.
"I mean trying to remove the dictators that gave rise to ISIS is a good way to help prevent more people from joining them as they think it's their only option."
Whatever semblance of credibility you might have had was lost here. The dictators didn't give rise to ISIS. They were the ones preventing it by being heavy handed against sectarianism and forcing people to comply with a revisionist form of islam that didn't do what islam tells its adherents to do, which is terrorize.
(Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels, "Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes."
Was there an international terror force originating from Iraq under Saddam that carried out attacks on the west? Nope! What about Gaddafi in Libya? Not only no, but fuck no. Islamic terror had minimal engagements in Libya while the strongman was being brutal. With him gone, Libya fell apart and now it's a hotbed of insurgency and violence. You know where Al-qaeda originated? Afghanistan during the Afghan War conducted by the Soviets. The destabilization of security in Afghanistan gave rise to that terror group. The fact that you even entertained writing that down as a counterpoint is just so telling about you. There's just such a wanton disregard for history and arab culture that it's alarming.
ISIS went into Syria BECAUSE Assad was threatened and his regime was shaky. Action against him was started by defectors from his military that formed the Free Syrian Army. They weakened Assad's hold and allowed ISIS to come in. ISIS capitalizes on power vacuums. They tried to assert themselves in Iraq during the Surge in 2007 and lost their leadership as a result. They flourished in Iraq after the American withdraw because Iraq was weak and they flourished in Syria because Assad's hold is tenuous. They sure as shit want an islamic caliphate. Are they in Saudi where wahhabism is prominent and where there's high military spending? Nope. What about in Palestine where they can attack the Israelis? lolno, the jews would fucking wreck them. They're not where there is good leadership and full strength militaries.
"Okay, let's pretend it wasn't Russian hackers, who ever did hack the servers decided not to leak the RNC emails despite having an opportunity to do so. Thus unfairly effected the race and at worst it is sabotage."
Or the RNC secured their networks and didn't get hacked. As far as I know, neither party uses the same servers.
Or it was actually someone from inside the DNC that was disgusted by their politicking and decided to leak it. In which case, the chickens came home to roost and there wasn't shit to be had from the RNC because they didn't have leaks or secured their servers. Regardless, whoever did it did America a favor. It told the Berniebros that Bernie was in fact cheated from the nomination. The DNC got rid of the chairwoman as a result of the scandal. The republicans were not guilty of that at all. They legally tried to stop Trump through rhetorical appeals to the voters. It did not work and he was allowed to be the nominee. Even if the Republicans had their dirty laundry aired, it wouldn't have been as damning because Trump was fighting them the entire way. If anything, he would have been vindicated with his swamp draining rhetoric because the only person calling the parties on their bullshit was Trump.
"It becomes relevant now because his past shows up how he will lead the country. If he acted that way while running his company how do you think he will act leading 300 million people? Yeah, that isn't reassuring. I knew Clinton's past and still thought she was a better choice then Trump, as did most of America. But if we just reduced regulations and penalties then Clinton would have done the right things instead."
There you go, dragging up the dead horse for me to beat. I tried to keep her out of this, but you brought it back in. Here's what we know. Trump fucked around in the private sector, but has not fucked around in the public sector and ran for public office. Hillary has fucked around in the public sector, but not (too much) in the public sector and ran for public office. Hillary has already demonstrated her willingness to fuck over the public even when she is scrutinized. Trump has fucked over wealthy people, lawyers and government agencies, but not the public. He has not yet been proven to be someone who will fuck over the public for personal gain as Hillary has already proven herself to be. Trump knows he has every single eye on him right now. He can't do the legal bullshit he did during his court dates because there is no one that will let him get away with it. If he is not immaculate, he loses the re-election.
In relation to the formation of Citigroup from the merger of an insurance company and banking group, one of the key players in the recession due to their subprime mortgage packing policies:
"Less than a year later, GLBA was passed to legalize these types of mergers on a permanent basis. The law also repealed Glass–Steagall's conflict of interest prohibitions "against simultaneous service by any officer, director, or employee of a securities firm as an officer, director, or employee of any member bank".[4]
So no, that act was instrumental in the recession. It even fucking says on the side that it repealed Glass-Steagall, specifically, the elements of which prevented conglomeration of financial institutions that could fuck the entire system if they were to become insolvent, which they did.
"It is either that Bush was right for starting the Iraq war and Obama was wrong for pulling out or Bush was wrong for starting the war in Iraq and Obama was right for pulling out."
Actually, it's the third option. Bush was wrong to start it and Obama was wrong to end it prematurely. By starting it, Bush indebted us to that conflict for the duration of his tenure. By pulling us out of it early, Obama made it so that none of the gains made in Iraq would be functional. Again, you don't seem to be able to understand anything beyond a zero sum game. Real life isn't simply, "yes" or "no". There are plenty of other options that work, it's just that Obama seems to have picked very few of them and they just seem to be invisible to you.
Lockheed Martin. Boeing. Chrysler. Ford. Toyota. Those people sure as shit had some other plans to go through with, but fucking Trump tweets and their plans suddenly change. They didn't change when he was still a candidate. And it sure is shit wasn't Obama that got those people to nix their plans and go to the negotiating table. They had 8 years to do that and only on the eve of his lame duck presidency is there a peep out of these people about putting their manufacturing on US soil. Yeah, that's totally not the result of a guy that threatened the hell out of these groups for outsourcing jobs. There's nooooooo causal connection whatsoever. And while you may not see that connection, the people who will get those jobs do and they will happily vote for Trump because he actually did what he said he'd do.
Except I didn't cite the CIA. Also, Trump made fun of a disabled reporter not because he was disabled, but because Trump was slighted by the reporter. So he mocked a disabled reporter not for being disabled, but for bad journalism. And that's perfectly fine. Most people are too stupid to understand the difference between mocking someone for what they've done versus what they are. People are so dumb that they think that mocking a woman/LGBT/colored person/disabled person is mocking them for being those things. Never mind how patronizing that is and how that indicates that such people need their hands held or their hurt fee-fees will kill them.
Would Trump have mocked Kovaleski if he had never encountered him in a negative fashion? Of course not. He didn't insult him for being disabled; he insulted him for shitty journalism. Trump sure as shit didn't avoid the vet with prosthetics and he's had a history of charitable actions with disabled children. I really don't care what he has to say about the disabled reporter because his actions spoke louder than his words.
Quick google search? Sure. So quick and damning that you never bothered to cite anything until I told you how important it was. I just have to take your word for it even though your word at this point is meaningless because you glossed over the parts of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that specifically stated it was repealing specific elements of Glass-Steagall. There's even a sample from fucking Obama that says the same thing. Broken clock will eventually be right twice a day, I suppose.
This is just getting stupid. You've not refuted anything. You've swaggered about saying, "no, you're wrong," while providing no evidence, no counter-logic or examples. As well, you've mischaracterized my statements, cherrypicked what you want to believe, misinterpreted history to the point of revisionism and you couldn't even correctly reference my citation's group of origin. I could go get the DOJ or watchdog group references too. They all say the same shit so it doesn't matter who said it.
GDP is up and the deficit is down. We are making more and spending less. Everything so far is meeting your requirements for a healthy economy. How do you even cannibalize gains through regulations? Wouldn't regulations prevent gains instead? Losses in regulations would be calculated in before the final number, not after. It seems like you are so convinced the economy has to be doing bad there must be some kind of overlooked detail hidden someone to show all these other facts are misleading.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m.....ased-two-thir/
Who are the other four women again? I haven't hear anything about them after the election was over. They are probably hanging out with Trump's accusers.
Are you saying a death threat can't be taken seriously unless they can establish a history of violence first?
Yes, 1.4 million people losing coverage is bad. But in the article, they said even though they are losing it, they wouldn't have been able to get on an insurance plan if they already had cancer. They say around 10 million people would have been without insurance anyway. How many people would have been out of insurance if this law never passed?
Charities do help, but they can only help so much. You can't actually run a nation on volunteer work alone. If charities were good enough, we wouldn't have needed to make a law that says you need to make sure children are covered. I know you'll probably disagree with me on this, but I think the problem is that there isn't enough regulation on prices. The health care field isn't subject to the free market. Drug manufacturers can charge whatever price they want knowing that insurance companies will be required to pay it if someone needs it. Remember that guy to raised his drug prices to 4000%? There is no law saying he can't do that, but there is a law saying we can't let people die who need that medicine.
You were more right about ISIS then I was. But all that doesn't answer why you think it was Obama's fault. Iraq seemed stable enough to withdraw in 2011. They had their own military by then and we couldn't have indefinitely stayed there. No one could have foresaw the rise the ISIS. There is no way of knowing if we did stay another 20 years there something similar wouldn't have happened. Hind sight is 20/20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmO6RWy1v8
If we didn't know who hacked the Democrats, then yes what you said would make sense. The stuff you said about Trump attacking the Republicans if there stuff got leaked would also be true, I'll give you that. But if had the evidence to satisfy you that the Russians did hack the servers, what would be your response to that?
I need to point out I didn't bring her back up, you made a comment about her lying to congress and other things and I commented on that. I don't think Trump had as much power to screw over the public sector has Hillary had in office. But there is plenty of evidence to show he screwed over the public sector when he feels hurt. When he was building his golf course in Ireland , some people didn't sell him their land. So he built a wall around their property to block their view of the ocean and went them the bill for it. He has a history of hurting small people. It is hard to compare him to a seasoned politician because he was never in politics, so we have to convert his business practices into politics.
Glass–Steagall Act didn't cause the recession. Most of it was already decayed by the time it was repealed. Economic experts don't believe it was the reason for the collapse.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m.....ng-do-financi/
Lockheed Martin and Boeing stocks fell after Trump said they cost to much in a tweet. He hurt their business so of course they had to renegotiate. Is that stock manipulation though? He has the power to down their stocks then buy them at a lower cost?
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/11/lock.....onference.html
As for the Chrysler deal, they had plans for doing that since 2015. They didn't confirm it until just recently. Corporations just don't change their billion dollar plans over night. Trump took credit for something he has nothing to do with. Which he seems to be doing a lot recently. I wonder how long can he ride on others success until he is required to make his own success.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/fi.....-job-creation/
Mocking someone for bad journalism is fine. But when he include mimicking his disability by curling and waving his hands about he also mocking his disability. He didn't have to do that to mock his journalism. You can try to spin that all you want. But we have it on tape, we can see it for ourselves. I feel like this is the kind of response I'm going to get every time Trump screws up.
Trump's feelings were hurt by Kovaleski so he looked for the most obvious way to insult him, which was his disability. Whenever Trump gets criticized, his feelings get hurt, he gets mad and lashes out like a child. He always goes for the lowest hanging fruit. He has done this so many times it is almost expected of him. If you point out any mistakes he made he will get on tweeter to call you fat or ugly or stupid in response. Uncontrolled emotions is great for a reality TV star, but don't make for a good leader.
Honestly I didn't realize you were linking anything. I read this from my phone and it just looked like bold text. I had to get on my computer to see they were actual links you were posting. Once I realize you were, I started to post some in response. Still don't know how you link it like that. I apologize, that was my bad.
I refuted a lot of things, but it doesn't mean you would actually believe it. You seem to have these preconceived notions that if you believe something is true it has to stay true regardless of what facts can be presented. You also like simple answers to complex questions and once it is revealed how complex the question is, you divert into unrelated facts to try to keep the answer simple. You don't seem to ask to many whys about what is going on and resort to a sense of absolutes to quickly dismiss something you don't like. You want quick and simple answers and only dive into deeper thought once your answers are challenged.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m.....ased-two-thir/
Who are the other four women again? I haven't hear anything about them after the election was over. They are probably hanging out with Trump's accusers.
Are you saying a death threat can't be taken seriously unless they can establish a history of violence first?
Yes, 1.4 million people losing coverage is bad. But in the article, they said even though they are losing it, they wouldn't have been able to get on an insurance plan if they already had cancer. They say around 10 million people would have been without insurance anyway. How many people would have been out of insurance if this law never passed?
Charities do help, but they can only help so much. You can't actually run a nation on volunteer work alone. If charities were good enough, we wouldn't have needed to make a law that says you need to make sure children are covered. I know you'll probably disagree with me on this, but I think the problem is that there isn't enough regulation on prices. The health care field isn't subject to the free market. Drug manufacturers can charge whatever price they want knowing that insurance companies will be required to pay it if someone needs it. Remember that guy to raised his drug prices to 4000%? There is no law saying he can't do that, but there is a law saying we can't let people die who need that medicine.
You were more right about ISIS then I was. But all that doesn't answer why you think it was Obama's fault. Iraq seemed stable enough to withdraw in 2011. They had their own military by then and we couldn't have indefinitely stayed there. No one could have foresaw the rise the ISIS. There is no way of knowing if we did stay another 20 years there something similar wouldn't have happened. Hind sight is 20/20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmO6RWy1v8
If we didn't know who hacked the Democrats, then yes what you said would make sense. The stuff you said about Trump attacking the Republicans if there stuff got leaked would also be true, I'll give you that. But if had the evidence to satisfy you that the Russians did hack the servers, what would be your response to that?
I need to point out I didn't bring her back up, you made a comment about her lying to congress and other things and I commented on that. I don't think Trump had as much power to screw over the public sector has Hillary had in office. But there is plenty of evidence to show he screwed over the public sector when he feels hurt. When he was building his golf course in Ireland , some people didn't sell him their land. So he built a wall around their property to block their view of the ocean and went them the bill for it. He has a history of hurting small people. It is hard to compare him to a seasoned politician because he was never in politics, so we have to convert his business practices into politics.
Glass–Steagall Act didn't cause the recession. Most of it was already decayed by the time it was repealed. Economic experts don't believe it was the reason for the collapse.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m.....ng-do-financi/
Lockheed Martin and Boeing stocks fell after Trump said they cost to much in a tweet. He hurt their business so of course they had to renegotiate. Is that stock manipulation though? He has the power to down their stocks then buy them at a lower cost?
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/11/lock.....onference.html
As for the Chrysler deal, they had plans for doing that since 2015. They didn't confirm it until just recently. Corporations just don't change their billion dollar plans over night. Trump took credit for something he has nothing to do with. Which he seems to be doing a lot recently. I wonder how long can he ride on others success until he is required to make his own success.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/fi.....-job-creation/
Mocking someone for bad journalism is fine. But when he include mimicking his disability by curling and waving his hands about he also mocking his disability. He didn't have to do that to mock his journalism. You can try to spin that all you want. But we have it on tape, we can see it for ourselves. I feel like this is the kind of response I'm going to get every time Trump screws up.
Trump's feelings were hurt by Kovaleski so he looked for the most obvious way to insult him, which was his disability. Whenever Trump gets criticized, his feelings get hurt, he gets mad and lashes out like a child. He always goes for the lowest hanging fruit. He has done this so many times it is almost expected of him. If you point out any mistakes he made he will get on tweeter to call you fat or ugly or stupid in response. Uncontrolled emotions is great for a reality TV star, but don't make for a good leader.
Honestly I didn't realize you were linking anything. I read this from my phone and it just looked like bold text. I had to get on my computer to see they were actual links you were posting. Once I realize you were, I started to post some in response. Still don't know how you link it like that. I apologize, that was my bad.
I refuted a lot of things, but it doesn't mean you would actually believe it. You seem to have these preconceived notions that if you believe something is true it has to stay true regardless of what facts can be presented. You also like simple answers to complex questions and once it is revealed how complex the question is, you divert into unrelated facts to try to keep the answer simple. You don't seem to ask to many whys about what is going on and resort to a sense of absolutes to quickly dismiss something you don't like. You want quick and simple answers and only dive into deeper thought once your answers are challenged.
GDP is up, that is true. Deficit is down...in relation to the years where deficit spending was in the trillion dollar mark and revenues were low due to the recession, the former part of which happened under Obama and a fully democratic congress. See, you really don't understand how this works. The deficit is a byproduct of spending against revenue. If you have massive deficits against steep revenue loss, you create a very large amount of interest to be paid to the debt holders. That causes a massive handicap for every year after until the debt is brought back under control. If we have to pay 230 billion dollars per year to pay off the interest, we lose 6% of the total budget in order to pay to maintain the status quo. It creates an even narrower space to work within and causes a positive feedback loop of increased debt spending. That's the concern people have when talking about the debt.
And it's interesting to note: your beloved deficit decrease happened under a Republican House. Congress sets the budget and the president can veto or approve it. Prior to that, Congress was controlled by the Democrats. On a side note, when you bring up Bill Clinton's surplus, the Congress during most of that surplus was majority Republican. Go figure.
Women are listed here.
All those citations to politifact. looooooooool
Politifact has already been established as having a grossly liberal bias. Their parent company, The Tamp Bay Times, endorsed Hillary Clinton. Beyond that, the "fact-checkers" were themselves fact checked. It turns out they cherrypicked whenever it was convenient for their particular narrative. It was clear they had an anti-conservative, pro-liberal bias.
When a death threat is made by an individual, yes, quite serious. When a big rally does it, there's no one to positively identify as having made the threat. You can't do anything about it until something happens. Nothing ever seemed to happen at Trump rallies other than raucousness. This was in spite of the paid provocateurs that were sent to incite violence, the evidence of which was caught on tape and for which Bob Creamer resigned his position with the Clinton campaign so as not to damage her.
"Yes, 1.4 million people losing coverage is bad. But in the article, they said even though they are losing it, they wouldn't have been able to get on an insurance plan if they already had cancer. They say around 10 million people would have been without insurance anyway. How many people would have been out of insurance if this law never passed?"
Let me explain to you what a zero sum game is. A zero sum game is a condition under which the losses and gains incurred by one group are counterbalanced by the losses and gains of the other group such that when the losses and gains are tallied up, the entire system sums to zero. You presume that Obamacare was the only option by implying that without it, people would be far worse off despite the gains from fiscal austerity. Those are not the only two options. There are numerous changes that can be made to the way healthcare is treated in the United States. They are not blanket changes like Obamacare forcing people into enrollment is. There are many different changes like streamlining doctor/patient interaction to maximize the value of the doctor's time, training nurses to handle basic physician care and diagnosis, allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines and tort reform which will prevent mile high insurance claims against hospitals ([url=http://www.insurancejournal.com/new.....303718.htm]and worked in Texas hilariously well[/url). These are individual solutions that, when composited, create a more sustainable system by eliminating waste. You don't even have to spend that much money to get cuts in what you have to spend. That was the superior set of options that were ignored by a socialist unconcerned with the effectiveness of his plan. Charity wouldn't even be the primary source of income in an efficient system. Throwing in charity would just make a good system great.
I wasn't really just more right about ISIS. I was actually just right. We've seen this shit happen before with the CIA and the Taliban in Afghanistan and it was actually pretty clear what was going to happen to Iraq after the withdraw. We saw it happen in Vietnam, we saw it happen in the Balkans after the collapse of the USSR and we'll probably see it again in the future because people are retards and history repeats itself. Power vacuum+under strength military+political violence=catastrophe. This has happened before. We did not learn from it. We already knew Arabs can't fight for shit because we personally fought Arabs (and trounced them), the outgunned, outnumbered Israelis routed Arabs twice and Arab (and Persian) states fight amongst each other with attrition tactics and godawful strategy. Anyone who knew even a little bit about history knew the Iraqis were not going to be prepared. Fuck, Iran could have taken small chunks out of Iraq and we wouldn't have done anything about it. They've sure as shit used terrorism to further their political goals. Why not undermine a burgeoning democratic Iraq and wreck America's efforts? History, ethnography and basic military thinking all indicated it was a bad idea, but they went through with it anyway.
Also, lol at the Vox video. It fucking said right in the middle that Assad released jihadis from jails to taint the rebels. Which means he was jailing jihadis and containing their presence. He released them to fight the enemies that would destabilize the country and turn it into a jihadi nightmare (much like Libya). And because they were his enemies, he would also get them killed over time through foreign intervention. His regime still holds and what he does control maintains elements of civility. That video also shows where the damage caused by the Arab Spring took place. Let's see. Egypt elected the fucking Muslim Brotherhood and have an ognoing conflict, Libya was ruined as a nation, the Saudis are bombing Yemen right now. The only Arab government grossly afflicted by the Arab Spring and is still standing is Bashar Al-Assad's. His regime was stable enough to survive the Arab Spring and it's still able to retain some semblance of normalcy not found in most other sectarian muslim nations. Kinda odd how the evil dictator allows shit like that to happen.
Again, a demonstration of your ignorance. Pharma-bro Martin Shrkeli explained what he did and it's quite rational. If there's a small market for a drug and the drug is decades old and of substandard effectiveness, you cannot gain investment capital to research a superior drug. The only way to do that is to hike the price. If the market for the drug is small, the price has to go even higher to compensate. As well, insurance groups tend to foot the bill. Shkreli was a hedge fund manager; he knows that if the price was not payable, people would not be able to pay for it and he wouldn't have made any profit whatsoever. That's how the market works. And then about a month later, a company capitalized on the controversy and marketed an alternative at a very cheap price. Had Shkreli not done what he did, marketing personnel could have easily put the alternative up on the market at a price very similar to daraprim.
Did I not mention pharmaceutical price negotiation at the federal level? Because that could actually be effective. So effective that Trump wants to do it
If Russia did hack the servers and aired the Democrat's dirty laundry, ethically, they created a net positive because there was election tampering done by the democrats (and still no prosecution of the DNC, lol.) You can't tell me the Republicans had something similar because there was no evidence to suggest they had any wrongdoing. You're just assuming they have it too because the Democrats did. Some of them publicly derided Trump and that attached a face and responsibility to it. The Democrats denied wrongdoing, blamed the Russians and let Hillary have it despite the apparent tampering. People knew Hillary was cheating Bernie during the primaries exit polls and they were at least partially vindicated when the DNC was actively discussing attempts to undermine his campaign.
Also, lol again at politifact. They got a handful of economists to validate what they already agreed with and then said it was in Bill Clinton's, who was very clearly biased in favor of his wife, favor that he was correct. I love this quote though:
"Citigroup and others wanted and got the repeal of Glass-Steagall in order to validate what they had already been allowed to do"
Ok, why did they jump through those hoops, pay their lobbyists and bribe Congress to get that bill passed if it was merely a formality? Why did Citigroup have to get forbearance on their merger instead of just proceeding with it? Because it seems to me that the merger needed federal oversight in its issuance of a waiver because they still understood the importance of finance regulation. I mean, what would it have looked like if Citigroup started purchasing sub-prime mortgages right after their waiver was granted? Ho, they would have lost that shit in no time once a anyone started asking questions because it would have been immediately visible how bad of an idea it was.
Chrysler's telling a half-truth. How do I know this? I went to their publicly available financial report for 2015. Their plans were to focus on the Ram and Jeep brands due to an uptick in sales and while they were in the US, none of the numbers listed there were consistent with the 1 billion dollar investment now being reported. As well, their new location in Warren, Michigan was not listed as a possible site for manufacture. Actually, I didn't find many of the proposed locations in their report. There's also that niggling little detail about cars that were going to be made in Mexico that will now be made in the US that Rawstory failed to report.
I would highly recommend you get your sources from real news agencies like Bloomberg or the Wall Street Journal. That shit from Rawstory links to another liberal rag that has a hate-boner for Trump. Did they report any of the compromising details that would ruin their story? lolno. What a joke.
Okay, so Trump gets mad at people and shit talks them on twitter. The alternative had a body count attached to it. If someone with incriminating evidence set to testify against you dies, that's a cause for concern. If it happens a half dozen times, it's kind of hard to write it off as a conspiracy. If it happens two dozen times and change more, there's something fucked up going on. Oh, and there's one for Bush too. Terrible families.
A refutation is simply not saying, "well I think the opposite of you." Only recently have you started to properly cite your sources. That should be one of the first things you do when you make a bold claim. And you still don't quite have the logical part down. You accuse me of making absolutes, but the major contentions (the Iraq War, ISIS, Obamcare) are treated by you as either "Obama was right OR he was wrong and the outcome would have been worse." All you have demonstrated is narrow mindedness in the options available. He was wrong in almost all cases because other options were available and he picked the wrong ones. All the man wants is a legacy no matter how much damage he causes to get it. Ooh, he opened up Cuba! Cuba is still held by communists that still quash the people. Healthcare for everyone! The insurance companies can't afford it so they're pulling out. Stock market indices at all time highs! Those are capital gains being concentrated at the top.
And it's interesting to note: your beloved deficit decrease happened under a Republican House. Congress sets the budget and the president can veto or approve it. Prior to that, Congress was controlled by the Democrats. On a side note, when you bring up Bill Clinton's surplus, the Congress during most of that surplus was majority Republican. Go figure.
Women are listed here.
All those citations to politifact. looooooooool
Politifact has already been established as having a grossly liberal bias. Their parent company, The Tamp Bay Times, endorsed Hillary Clinton. Beyond that, the "fact-checkers" were themselves fact checked. It turns out they cherrypicked whenever it was convenient for their particular narrative. It was clear they had an anti-conservative, pro-liberal bias.
When a death threat is made by an individual, yes, quite serious. When a big rally does it, there's no one to positively identify as having made the threat. You can't do anything about it until something happens. Nothing ever seemed to happen at Trump rallies other than raucousness. This was in spite of the paid provocateurs that were sent to incite violence, the evidence of which was caught on tape and for which Bob Creamer resigned his position with the Clinton campaign so as not to damage her.
"Yes, 1.4 million people losing coverage is bad. But in the article, they said even though they are losing it, they wouldn't have been able to get on an insurance plan if they already had cancer. They say around 10 million people would have been without insurance anyway. How many people would have been out of insurance if this law never passed?"
Let me explain to you what a zero sum game is. A zero sum game is a condition under which the losses and gains incurred by one group are counterbalanced by the losses and gains of the other group such that when the losses and gains are tallied up, the entire system sums to zero. You presume that Obamacare was the only option by implying that without it, people would be far worse off despite the gains from fiscal austerity. Those are not the only two options. There are numerous changes that can be made to the way healthcare is treated in the United States. They are not blanket changes like Obamacare forcing people into enrollment is. There are many different changes like streamlining doctor/patient interaction to maximize the value of the doctor's time, training nurses to handle basic physician care and diagnosis, allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines and tort reform which will prevent mile high insurance claims against hospitals ([url=http://www.insurancejournal.com/new.....303718.htm]and worked in Texas hilariously well[/url). These are individual solutions that, when composited, create a more sustainable system by eliminating waste. You don't even have to spend that much money to get cuts in what you have to spend. That was the superior set of options that were ignored by a socialist unconcerned with the effectiveness of his plan. Charity wouldn't even be the primary source of income in an efficient system. Throwing in charity would just make a good system great.
I wasn't really just more right about ISIS. I was actually just right. We've seen this shit happen before with the CIA and the Taliban in Afghanistan and it was actually pretty clear what was going to happen to Iraq after the withdraw. We saw it happen in Vietnam, we saw it happen in the Balkans after the collapse of the USSR and we'll probably see it again in the future because people are retards and history repeats itself. Power vacuum+under strength military+political violence=catastrophe. This has happened before. We did not learn from it. We already knew Arabs can't fight for shit because we personally fought Arabs (and trounced them), the outgunned, outnumbered Israelis routed Arabs twice and Arab (and Persian) states fight amongst each other with attrition tactics and godawful strategy. Anyone who knew even a little bit about history knew the Iraqis were not going to be prepared. Fuck, Iran could have taken small chunks out of Iraq and we wouldn't have done anything about it. They've sure as shit used terrorism to further their political goals. Why not undermine a burgeoning democratic Iraq and wreck America's efforts? History, ethnography and basic military thinking all indicated it was a bad idea, but they went through with it anyway.
Also, lol at the Vox video. It fucking said right in the middle that Assad released jihadis from jails to taint the rebels. Which means he was jailing jihadis and containing their presence. He released them to fight the enemies that would destabilize the country and turn it into a jihadi nightmare (much like Libya). And because they were his enemies, he would also get them killed over time through foreign intervention. His regime still holds and what he does control maintains elements of civility. That video also shows where the damage caused by the Arab Spring took place. Let's see. Egypt elected the fucking Muslim Brotherhood and have an ognoing conflict, Libya was ruined as a nation, the Saudis are bombing Yemen right now. The only Arab government grossly afflicted by the Arab Spring and is still standing is Bashar Al-Assad's. His regime was stable enough to survive the Arab Spring and it's still able to retain some semblance of normalcy not found in most other sectarian muslim nations. Kinda odd how the evil dictator allows shit like that to happen.
Again, a demonstration of your ignorance. Pharma-bro Martin Shrkeli explained what he did and it's quite rational. If there's a small market for a drug and the drug is decades old and of substandard effectiveness, you cannot gain investment capital to research a superior drug. The only way to do that is to hike the price. If the market for the drug is small, the price has to go even higher to compensate. As well, insurance groups tend to foot the bill. Shkreli was a hedge fund manager; he knows that if the price was not payable, people would not be able to pay for it and he wouldn't have made any profit whatsoever. That's how the market works. And then about a month later, a company capitalized on the controversy and marketed an alternative at a very cheap price. Had Shkreli not done what he did, marketing personnel could have easily put the alternative up on the market at a price very similar to daraprim.
Did I not mention pharmaceutical price negotiation at the federal level? Because that could actually be effective. So effective that Trump wants to do it
If Russia did hack the servers and aired the Democrat's dirty laundry, ethically, they created a net positive because there was election tampering done by the democrats (and still no prosecution of the DNC, lol.) You can't tell me the Republicans had something similar because there was no evidence to suggest they had any wrongdoing. You're just assuming they have it too because the Democrats did. Some of them publicly derided Trump and that attached a face and responsibility to it. The Democrats denied wrongdoing, blamed the Russians and let Hillary have it despite the apparent tampering. People knew Hillary was cheating Bernie during the primaries exit polls and they were at least partially vindicated when the DNC was actively discussing attempts to undermine his campaign.
Also, lol again at politifact. They got a handful of economists to validate what they already agreed with and then said it was in Bill Clinton's, who was very clearly biased in favor of his wife, favor that he was correct. I love this quote though:
"Citigroup and others wanted and got the repeal of Glass-Steagall in order to validate what they had already been allowed to do"
Ok, why did they jump through those hoops, pay their lobbyists and bribe Congress to get that bill passed if it was merely a formality? Why did Citigroup have to get forbearance on their merger instead of just proceeding with it? Because it seems to me that the merger needed federal oversight in its issuance of a waiver because they still understood the importance of finance regulation. I mean, what would it have looked like if Citigroup started purchasing sub-prime mortgages right after their waiver was granted? Ho, they would have lost that shit in no time once a anyone started asking questions because it would have been immediately visible how bad of an idea it was.
Chrysler's telling a half-truth. How do I know this? I went to their publicly available financial report for 2015. Their plans were to focus on the Ram and Jeep brands due to an uptick in sales and while they were in the US, none of the numbers listed there were consistent with the 1 billion dollar investment now being reported. As well, their new location in Warren, Michigan was not listed as a possible site for manufacture. Actually, I didn't find many of the proposed locations in their report. There's also that niggling little detail about cars that were going to be made in Mexico that will now be made in the US that Rawstory failed to report.
I would highly recommend you get your sources from real news agencies like Bloomberg or the Wall Street Journal. That shit from Rawstory links to another liberal rag that has a hate-boner for Trump. Did they report any of the compromising details that would ruin their story? lolno. What a joke.
Okay, so Trump gets mad at people and shit talks them on twitter. The alternative had a body count attached to it. If someone with incriminating evidence set to testify against you dies, that's a cause for concern. If it happens a half dozen times, it's kind of hard to write it off as a conspiracy. If it happens two dozen times and change more, there's something fucked up going on. Oh, and there's one for Bush too. Terrible families.
A refutation is simply not saying, "well I think the opposite of you." Only recently have you started to properly cite your sources. That should be one of the first things you do when you make a bold claim. And you still don't quite have the logical part down. You accuse me of making absolutes, but the major contentions (the Iraq War, ISIS, Obamcare) are treated by you as either "Obama was right OR he was wrong and the outcome would have been worse." All you have demonstrated is narrow mindedness in the options available. He was wrong in almost all cases because other options were available and he picked the wrong ones. All the man wants is a legacy no matter how much damage he causes to get it. Ooh, he opened up Cuba! Cuba is still held by communists that still quash the people. Healthcare for everyone! The insurance companies can't afford it so they're pulling out. Stock market indices at all time highs! Those are capital gains being concentrated at the top.
The economy isn't prefect by any means, no golden era of prosperity. But it has been gradually improving.
I know Congress controls the budget. Everything you are saying is true. But when you thought the economy was doing bad you blamed it on Obama, when you realized it was doing better then you realized you gave the credit to Congress.
I wasn't doubting their existence, I was implying they got awfully quite after they had nothing left to gain from the election.
What site would you prefer me to get my citations from?
Saying they endorsed by Hillary Clinton is a very empty statement. Almost every major news paper endorsed Hillary. Even the ones that historically republican since Abraham Lincoln endorsed Hillary. I think Trump had one endorsement from Vagas a few weeks before the election and that was only because he had ties to it. In my years of experience, it is truly hard to find a non-bias site that doesn't learn one way or the other in to some degree. Everyone has an audience to pander too.
I believe anyone resorting to death threats should be taken seriously. Combine that with a mob mentality and that seems very dangerous. Individually most people won't riot on their own, get them into a crowd and they lose their sense of personal responsibility.
I know what a zero sum is. A lot of things you say could be used to improve the system. But that still won't help people get insurance if they can't afford it, nor will it help people with preexisting conditions, nor will it ensure that children will be covered. Before Obamacare, a lot of people couldn't get insurance, now they can and a lot of people depend on it. I don't care if it changes, if it gets repealed, but at least have something ready for then the people come off of it. How long will people be off insurance before these competitive companies start showing positive effects? It doesn't seem like republicans have any real plan after if is remove and they are content with letting things go back to the way it was before.
It usually does end in catastrophe, but normally that happens on the local level. No one could of seen the worst terrorist in history rising from this. The power gap contributed to it, but it wasn't it's sole cause. How long would have it taken for Iraq to be ready on their own to have handled something like this? Sure, you could say it could have taken 20 years to install American values into them, but would that have been enough to prevent this from happening? It was an unforeseeable mistake on Obama's part, sure, but far from intentional action. I wouldn't fault him on it, I imagine any president would do the same after a costly war like that.
The Middle East has been fighting for thousands of years, they show no signs of ever stopping. We can't police them forever. Instead of spending money fighting their wars, I think the money would be better spent on improving our infrastructure first.
If an alternative came out a month after his prices hikes, that means the alternative drug would spent how ever amount of time going through testing phase to get approval to be released. That means someone decided to make an alternative to this drug back when they thought their only competitor was still charging the lower price. If the alternative is more effective, why would they charge less then the cost of daraprim? Now that there is a more effective alternative to daraprim, is he going to lower the prices or keep them where they are? Since the pill is extremely cheaper to make then it's cost, I can imagine a foreign country, maybe China, selling it for a lot cheaper and crushing the American market for it. But that is just speculation.
If Trump does that, it would be get. But that was the part of Obamacare that republicans gutted, the cost controls. If Trump fixes that I would give him credit for it for sure.
You are right, I only have assumptions that they could have something as worse to hide then democrats. But when the republicans are quick to try to remove ethical oversight, it does raise questions of their trustworthiness. I feel the government should always be monitored and when they try to avoid being monitored is when problems arise.
The Citigroup does raise a lot of questions. But I'm reminded that the congress that was bribe was republican at the time, was it not? So would it be out of line to suggest that republicans had some blame for this?
Even if Chrysler's telling a half-truth, it still means Trump was lying when he said he caused it, does it not?
Alright, I'll try to find stories from Bloomberg or the Wall Street Journal.
So you fault me on using liberal sites then use conservative ones? Clinton isn't going to become president, Trump is. Trump's behavior is on himself. I don't excuse Obama's mistakes by saying Mitt would have been worse. Trump is going to be held accountable for his behavior and actions.
I don't believe I made to many claims that Obama was right, just that he shouldn't be blamed for thing he had little or not control over. I'm not so much making the claim that things could have been worse, but that they were worse and he made improvements if however slight even when there could have been better choices available. Regardless of how big a fail Obamacare is or can be, before it no one was talking about how people couldn't get the insurance they needed. Now the situation is getting the attention it deserves, we are talking about how best to help the people we previously ignored. All that matters in the end it results in a better system that helps people. Cuba is an interesting topic to bring up. The embargo wasn't improving anything and only made life harder for the people living there. And it is not like we stop doing business with oppressive communistic countries or anything. So it's a rather weird complaint to make. Now we have a new country that desperately wants to buy our goods.
I know Congress controls the budget. Everything you are saying is true. But when you thought the economy was doing bad you blamed it on Obama, when you realized it was doing better then you realized you gave the credit to Congress.
I wasn't doubting their existence, I was implying they got awfully quite after they had nothing left to gain from the election.
What site would you prefer me to get my citations from?
Saying they endorsed by Hillary Clinton is a very empty statement. Almost every major news paper endorsed Hillary. Even the ones that historically republican since Abraham Lincoln endorsed Hillary. I think Trump had one endorsement from Vagas a few weeks before the election and that was only because he had ties to it. In my years of experience, it is truly hard to find a non-bias site that doesn't learn one way or the other in to some degree. Everyone has an audience to pander too.
I believe anyone resorting to death threats should be taken seriously. Combine that with a mob mentality and that seems very dangerous. Individually most people won't riot on their own, get them into a crowd and they lose their sense of personal responsibility.
I know what a zero sum is. A lot of things you say could be used to improve the system. But that still won't help people get insurance if they can't afford it, nor will it help people with preexisting conditions, nor will it ensure that children will be covered. Before Obamacare, a lot of people couldn't get insurance, now they can and a lot of people depend on it. I don't care if it changes, if it gets repealed, but at least have something ready for then the people come off of it. How long will people be off insurance before these competitive companies start showing positive effects? It doesn't seem like republicans have any real plan after if is remove and they are content with letting things go back to the way it was before.
It usually does end in catastrophe, but normally that happens on the local level. No one could of seen the worst terrorist in history rising from this. The power gap contributed to it, but it wasn't it's sole cause. How long would have it taken for Iraq to be ready on their own to have handled something like this? Sure, you could say it could have taken 20 years to install American values into them, but would that have been enough to prevent this from happening? It was an unforeseeable mistake on Obama's part, sure, but far from intentional action. I wouldn't fault him on it, I imagine any president would do the same after a costly war like that.
The Middle East has been fighting for thousands of years, they show no signs of ever stopping. We can't police them forever. Instead of spending money fighting their wars, I think the money would be better spent on improving our infrastructure first.
If an alternative came out a month after his prices hikes, that means the alternative drug would spent how ever amount of time going through testing phase to get approval to be released. That means someone decided to make an alternative to this drug back when they thought their only competitor was still charging the lower price. If the alternative is more effective, why would they charge less then the cost of daraprim? Now that there is a more effective alternative to daraprim, is he going to lower the prices or keep them where they are? Since the pill is extremely cheaper to make then it's cost, I can imagine a foreign country, maybe China, selling it for a lot cheaper and crushing the American market for it. But that is just speculation.
If Trump does that, it would be get. But that was the part of Obamacare that republicans gutted, the cost controls. If Trump fixes that I would give him credit for it for sure.
You are right, I only have assumptions that they could have something as worse to hide then democrats. But when the republicans are quick to try to remove ethical oversight, it does raise questions of their trustworthiness. I feel the government should always be monitored and when they try to avoid being monitored is when problems arise.
The Citigroup does raise a lot of questions. But I'm reminded that the congress that was bribe was republican at the time, was it not? So would it be out of line to suggest that republicans had some blame for this?
Even if Chrysler's telling a half-truth, it still means Trump was lying when he said he caused it, does it not?
Alright, I'll try to find stories from Bloomberg or the Wall Street Journal.
So you fault me on using liberal sites then use conservative ones? Clinton isn't going to become president, Trump is. Trump's behavior is on himself. I don't excuse Obama's mistakes by saying Mitt would have been worse. Trump is going to be held accountable for his behavior and actions.
I don't believe I made to many claims that Obama was right, just that he shouldn't be blamed for thing he had little or not control over. I'm not so much making the claim that things could have been worse, but that they were worse and he made improvements if however slight even when there could have been better choices available. Regardless of how big a fail Obamacare is or can be, before it no one was talking about how people couldn't get the insurance they needed. Now the situation is getting the attention it deserves, we are talking about how best to help the people we previously ignored. All that matters in the end it results in a better system that helps people. Cuba is an interesting topic to bring up. The embargo wasn't improving anything and only made life harder for the people living there. And it is not like we stop doing business with oppressive communistic countries or anything. So it's a rather weird complaint to make. Now we have a new country that desperately wants to buy our goods.
Gradual improvement=/=Substantive improvement
A qualifying statement necessarily ignores the actual quantitative analysis. The economy is better than the past, but it's still sluggish and in order to get the sluggishness, we had to double the debt. By no means was it worth it. The sheer inefficiency of ARRA doomed it to mediocrity due to the over reliance on public funds in a time of low revenue for what would have been a typical recovery had there been more limited government spending. Now, because of that spending, we lose an additional 3% of our total revenue (for years to come) paying off the interest on the debt. So with just 3-4 years of Obama levels of spending, we've lost something like 460 billion dollars in 4 years just to pay off interest. This will continue until the debt is brought back under control and that could take decades. Even if the economy rallies and we can just balance the books, (which, based on conservative fiscal policy, would still take a while) we're going to be paying that additional 115 billion every year. In just 10 years, (which we're about halfway through) that's 1.15 trillion dollars lost to interest. That's already more than what ARRA cost. All ARRA did was kick the can down the road for someone else to pay. It was a band-aid on gangrene.
Well no. I specifically said that the president can veto the Congressional budget. If he does and they pass it without him, that's their fault and not his. The problem is Obama accepted them without any real issue. As far as I know, he never vetoed any of them. He never made a public statement criticizing the outrageousness of the spending and demanding Congress revise it. That's the issue. He had power over it, but let it be because he agreed with it.
Of course they went quiet. They won. The Clintons lost the White House again. That's as close as they'll get to a victory given statute of limitations.
But even beyond the ownership, politifact has very, very clearly shown their bias. Like the site I showed you, there was documented bias in everything they did. There was no attempt to even be partially unbiased. Everything Trump said was a lie even when people showed it to be true and everything Hillary, Obama or Bernie said was true regardless of their own statements that the information given was unreliable, out of date or flat out not relevant.
Let's pick something out of their mix and actually analyze it, the wage gap, for instance. If women really did make 3/4 of what men make, why would companies not simply hire only women and save billions on payroll? Why would the federal government not step in and forcibly enforce the already existing law that forbids unequal pay for equal work and earn themselves several billions in payroll taxes? Why does no reputable economist talk about the wage gap? The reason is that because the wage gap was calculated using raw data that had no account for variables or difference in work ethics, standing or any such discrepancies. It turns out men are more likely to work higher paying, higher risk, stress inducing jobs. Pew research did just one variable accounting measure and already found that Obama was off by nearly 10 cents. That's just one. They didn't account for differences in education, profession, pay negotiation, years worked, wealth skew, hazard pay or anything like that. And yet politifact certified the veracity of the president's statements even though they were off by what would amount to billions of dollars in income. That's pathetic.
Sure, anyone should be taken seriously. How do you police an entire group that hasn't done anything other than chant? Because for all the accusations that Trump's rallies were violent, incidences of violence were very low and even then were the result of agitation. Meanwhile, BLM murders a couple cops and then Obama blames the cops for not treating blacks the way they should. No shit cops treat blacks differently. Who fights cops in the greatest numbers? Who is most likely to be illegally armed with a weapon? Because you can pull all the cops out of black neighborhoods to reduce police brutality, but what happens then? Anarchy. Not the same with white or asian communities. Whites and asians have a habit of forming defensive formations, watchdog groups or even militias when the state presence is insufficient. Famous roof Koreans ready to stop the Rodney King riots dead in their tracks.
But what happens if blacks stop carrying firearms and knives and respect a felony record? What happens if they stay still when the police show up, comply with all orders and don't antagonize the cop? What happens if black crime rates go down to 1:1 per capita percents? Well then the cops don't have any particular reason to fear interacting with blacks as they don't with anyone else because the numbers and thus the perceptions balance out. When you conduct the hypothetical, the origin of the problem is made clearly manifest.
But nobody bothered to consider this kind of logic. The Trump rallies never got to the belligerent riot stage. BLM did. The news did their best to cover the Trump rallies and impose a narrative of wanton violence despite evidence. Did they have a greater response to BLM actually going out and causing millions in property damage? Not really.
Ok, a lot of people depend on it. What about the people that were booted off of what insurance they did have because the costs rose or because insurers dropped out of the market entirely? And of course, with more people accessing a system, there are logistical problems to consider. More people accessing a capped system results in shortages. Even fucking fake news CNN managed to acknowledge this in 2013 when they had a semblance of credibility. The way you get insurance to poorer people is to lower the barrier to entry. Increasing competition as well as allowing for things like catastrophic insurance (which is cheaper than typical coverage and was gutted by Obamacare to require an exemption) allows increased availability to people.
Insurance is there to cover something terrible happening that you didn't know would happen. If it covers what you already have and you have a lot, that drags down everyone else and forces them to pay more to compensate or the entire system goes belly-up. When you look at it from an ethical perspective, you have to ask the question: who is responsible for this? Is a person who maintains their health and pays their bills responsible? Is a citizen from another state who will never meet you responsible? Is a billionaire responsible simply because he is rich? When looking at this in respect to everyone else's personal sovereignty, the answer is always no. You are responsible only for you and yours and to make impositions on others is wrong because you compel others to do what they do not wish to do. If the ethos is "share the burden" then it's not quite sharing if someone sends a cop, with a gun, to your house and demands you pay the bill or you will be carted off to jail. That's compulsion.
If the government puts a little box on the side of your tax forms and asks if you want to make a charitable donation to a hospital or something, that's fine. You tick the box and make your choice if you want to. You give the people the choice and many will happily do it. But people get pissed off when the money they earn is taken from them by a federal government that mismanages funds all the time. No one would really mind if the federal government was as effective as a private corporation, but they're not. They're wasteful idiots.
Yeah, nobody knew that anything like ISIS would rise. Except Saddam. And Gaddafi
Islam was previously contained. Bush destroyed the containment. Now, with the proliferation of islamism, the only recourse is the removal of islam from the world. The muslims will not do it themselves. They have shown time and again refusal to reform it. Even in the safety of the United States, muslims refuse to revise the koran as the Christians revised the Bible. Their religion forbids them, but it forbids them under penalty of death under Sharia. That, thankfully, we do not have. They still have not done it. An imam in the US is more likely to be a terror sympathizer than a quranic revisionist. It's pathetic.
"why would they charge less then the cost of daraprim?
Volume based sales and marketing. Capitalizing on the controversy means they get quick and easy inroads into the markets. If it's not better than daraparim, they have to charge less or they look like idiots. As well, drugs made in a foreign nation still require FDA approval and patent coverage. Getting foreign drugs into the American market can be difficult and not worth the hassle. It's more likely that a foreign nation patents a drug and then contracts an American manufacturer to produce it locally.
Here's the thing. I'm not a Republican. I think they're cunts, but all of the evidence shows that the Democrats are even bigger cunts. It's better to work with the Republicans than the Democrats because while they may do shady shit, they tend to be better at balancing the books and keeping taxes from going sky high. That's always better for me and better for everyone in general.
If Chrysler is telling a half-truth and the half that was a lie was a result of Trump's pressure against them, Trump is telling the truth. Chrysler did not plan to invest as heavily in the US in their financial report of 2015. Trump wins the presidency and threatens auto-makers with tariffs. Chrysler now has plans to invest more heavily in the US. There is no further causal explanation and it is possible that they will rewrite their 2016 financial report to reflect the change without referencing Trump. As I understand it, doing it like that keeps their market value stable as opposed to letting Trump dictate a fall with a tweet.
I used the Daily Wire because it quickly listed the names I needed. I linked to that other one because it explicitly stated what the bias was politifact had and had examples. For the most part, I stick to mostly neutral sources. All I need are facts to back up what I'm saying. A quote or a statistic is the important part, not the narrative.
It wasn't worth the cost of several hundred billion dollars to raise the issue. All the president had to do was talk about it nonstop for a while. Hillary put up a bill during the 90s about healthcare and people talked about it. It was a bad bill and it was rejected, but people talked about it. I guess that's one good thing about Hillary.
In regards to Cuba, because the dictator wasn't deposed, his policies remained in place and Havana still maintains tight control over Cuba's import/export market. Without a very welcoming administration, there was little the government could do to open Cuba. And because the state owns most of the enterprise, the money goes to the Cuban government, emboldening and empowering them to crack down on pro-US, pro-capitalism.
Also, they want to buy our goods with their no money.
A qualifying statement necessarily ignores the actual quantitative analysis. The economy is better than the past, but it's still sluggish and in order to get the sluggishness, we had to double the debt. By no means was it worth it. The sheer inefficiency of ARRA doomed it to mediocrity due to the over reliance on public funds in a time of low revenue for what would have been a typical recovery had there been more limited government spending. Now, because of that spending, we lose an additional 3% of our total revenue (for years to come) paying off the interest on the debt. So with just 3-4 years of Obama levels of spending, we've lost something like 460 billion dollars in 4 years just to pay off interest. This will continue until the debt is brought back under control and that could take decades. Even if the economy rallies and we can just balance the books, (which, based on conservative fiscal policy, would still take a while) we're going to be paying that additional 115 billion every year. In just 10 years, (which we're about halfway through) that's 1.15 trillion dollars lost to interest. That's already more than what ARRA cost. All ARRA did was kick the can down the road for someone else to pay. It was a band-aid on gangrene.
Well no. I specifically said that the president can veto the Congressional budget. If he does and they pass it without him, that's their fault and not his. The problem is Obama accepted them without any real issue. As far as I know, he never vetoed any of them. He never made a public statement criticizing the outrageousness of the spending and demanding Congress revise it. That's the issue. He had power over it, but let it be because he agreed with it.
Of course they went quiet. They won. The Clintons lost the White House again. That's as close as they'll get to a victory given statute of limitations.
But even beyond the ownership, politifact has very, very clearly shown their bias. Like the site I showed you, there was documented bias in everything they did. There was no attempt to even be partially unbiased. Everything Trump said was a lie even when people showed it to be true and everything Hillary, Obama or Bernie said was true regardless of their own statements that the information given was unreliable, out of date or flat out not relevant.
Let's pick something out of their mix and actually analyze it, the wage gap, for instance. If women really did make 3/4 of what men make, why would companies not simply hire only women and save billions on payroll? Why would the federal government not step in and forcibly enforce the already existing law that forbids unequal pay for equal work and earn themselves several billions in payroll taxes? Why does no reputable economist talk about the wage gap? The reason is that because the wage gap was calculated using raw data that had no account for variables or difference in work ethics, standing or any such discrepancies. It turns out men are more likely to work higher paying, higher risk, stress inducing jobs. Pew research did just one variable accounting measure and already found that Obama was off by nearly 10 cents. That's just one. They didn't account for differences in education, profession, pay negotiation, years worked, wealth skew, hazard pay or anything like that. And yet politifact certified the veracity of the president's statements even though they were off by what would amount to billions of dollars in income. That's pathetic.
Sure, anyone should be taken seriously. How do you police an entire group that hasn't done anything other than chant? Because for all the accusations that Trump's rallies were violent, incidences of violence were very low and even then were the result of agitation. Meanwhile, BLM murders a couple cops and then Obama blames the cops for not treating blacks the way they should. No shit cops treat blacks differently. Who fights cops in the greatest numbers? Who is most likely to be illegally armed with a weapon? Because you can pull all the cops out of black neighborhoods to reduce police brutality, but what happens then? Anarchy. Not the same with white or asian communities. Whites and asians have a habit of forming defensive formations, watchdog groups or even militias when the state presence is insufficient. Famous roof Koreans ready to stop the Rodney King riots dead in their tracks.
But what happens if blacks stop carrying firearms and knives and respect a felony record? What happens if they stay still when the police show up, comply with all orders and don't antagonize the cop? What happens if black crime rates go down to 1:1 per capita percents? Well then the cops don't have any particular reason to fear interacting with blacks as they don't with anyone else because the numbers and thus the perceptions balance out. When you conduct the hypothetical, the origin of the problem is made clearly manifest.
But nobody bothered to consider this kind of logic. The Trump rallies never got to the belligerent riot stage. BLM did. The news did their best to cover the Trump rallies and impose a narrative of wanton violence despite evidence. Did they have a greater response to BLM actually going out and causing millions in property damage? Not really.
Ok, a lot of people depend on it. What about the people that were booted off of what insurance they did have because the costs rose or because insurers dropped out of the market entirely? And of course, with more people accessing a system, there are logistical problems to consider. More people accessing a capped system results in shortages. Even fucking fake news CNN managed to acknowledge this in 2013 when they had a semblance of credibility. The way you get insurance to poorer people is to lower the barrier to entry. Increasing competition as well as allowing for things like catastrophic insurance (which is cheaper than typical coverage and was gutted by Obamacare to require an exemption) allows increased availability to people.
Insurance is there to cover something terrible happening that you didn't know would happen. If it covers what you already have and you have a lot, that drags down everyone else and forces them to pay more to compensate or the entire system goes belly-up. When you look at it from an ethical perspective, you have to ask the question: who is responsible for this? Is a person who maintains their health and pays their bills responsible? Is a citizen from another state who will never meet you responsible? Is a billionaire responsible simply because he is rich? When looking at this in respect to everyone else's personal sovereignty, the answer is always no. You are responsible only for you and yours and to make impositions on others is wrong because you compel others to do what they do not wish to do. If the ethos is "share the burden" then it's not quite sharing if someone sends a cop, with a gun, to your house and demands you pay the bill or you will be carted off to jail. That's compulsion.
If the government puts a little box on the side of your tax forms and asks if you want to make a charitable donation to a hospital or something, that's fine. You tick the box and make your choice if you want to. You give the people the choice and many will happily do it. But people get pissed off when the money they earn is taken from them by a federal government that mismanages funds all the time. No one would really mind if the federal government was as effective as a private corporation, but they're not. They're wasteful idiots.
Yeah, nobody knew that anything like ISIS would rise. Except Saddam. And Gaddafi
Islam was previously contained. Bush destroyed the containment. Now, with the proliferation of islamism, the only recourse is the removal of islam from the world. The muslims will not do it themselves. They have shown time and again refusal to reform it. Even in the safety of the United States, muslims refuse to revise the koran as the Christians revised the Bible. Their religion forbids them, but it forbids them under penalty of death under Sharia. That, thankfully, we do not have. They still have not done it. An imam in the US is more likely to be a terror sympathizer than a quranic revisionist. It's pathetic.
"why would they charge less then the cost of daraprim?
Volume based sales and marketing. Capitalizing on the controversy means they get quick and easy inroads into the markets. If it's not better than daraparim, they have to charge less or they look like idiots. As well, drugs made in a foreign nation still require FDA approval and patent coverage. Getting foreign drugs into the American market can be difficult and not worth the hassle. It's more likely that a foreign nation patents a drug and then contracts an American manufacturer to produce it locally.
Here's the thing. I'm not a Republican. I think they're cunts, but all of the evidence shows that the Democrats are even bigger cunts. It's better to work with the Republicans than the Democrats because while they may do shady shit, they tend to be better at balancing the books and keeping taxes from going sky high. That's always better for me and better for everyone in general.
If Chrysler is telling a half-truth and the half that was a lie was a result of Trump's pressure against them, Trump is telling the truth. Chrysler did not plan to invest as heavily in the US in their financial report of 2015. Trump wins the presidency and threatens auto-makers with tariffs. Chrysler now has plans to invest more heavily in the US. There is no further causal explanation and it is possible that they will rewrite their 2016 financial report to reflect the change without referencing Trump. As I understand it, doing it like that keeps their market value stable as opposed to letting Trump dictate a fall with a tweet.
I used the Daily Wire because it quickly listed the names I needed. I linked to that other one because it explicitly stated what the bias was politifact had and had examples. For the most part, I stick to mostly neutral sources. All I need are facts to back up what I'm saying. A quote or a statistic is the important part, not the narrative.
It wasn't worth the cost of several hundred billion dollars to raise the issue. All the president had to do was talk about it nonstop for a while. Hillary put up a bill during the 90s about healthcare and people talked about it. It was a bad bill and it was rejected, but people talked about it. I guess that's one good thing about Hillary.
In regards to Cuba, because the dictator wasn't deposed, his policies remained in place and Havana still maintains tight control over Cuba's import/export market. Without a very welcoming administration, there was little the government could do to open Cuba. And because the state owns most of the enterprise, the money goes to the Cuban government, emboldening and empowering them to crack down on pro-US, pro-capitalism.
Also, they want to buy our goods with their no money.
Looking over the details of the ARRA. It seems rather debatable how effective it really was. Spending $800 billion over ten years to rebuild intrastructure. Half saying it helped the economy, while the other half saying it hurt the economy. Spending nearly $300 billion on tax incentives. Basically tax cuts. Which is basically what every Republican thinks will help the economy grow more. While spending another $200 billion on education and health care, things Republicans are generally opposed too. It seems like which ever way your bias leans is how you would feel about this act. It's a glass half full situation of politics.
I'm glad you finally admitted it was the Republicans fault for the spending crisis. Congress controls the discretionary spending. While Congress can't spend more then the max allowed on a policy, they do control how little to spend on it. Since it is an annual spending budget, the president can't veto that. So at any time Congress could have cut spending to any of Obama's programs. And surprisingly they didn't.
I guess that must be the same thing that happened with Trump's accusers then. Their statute of limitations were up and their rapist became the most powerful man in the world. Unfortunately for them, their rapist has a history of seeking out petty revenge for being scorn. Of course his accusers also received numerous death threats from trump supporters forcing them into hiding for their own safety. I mean if you accused Trump of wrong doing and then he became president, would you try to pursue it after that?
What if a black person isn't carrying a weapon, stays still, complies with orders and doesn't antagonize the cops and still gets shot? Because not only did that happen, we have it on tape! That seems to be the part of the argument you seem to be trying to mentally block out to prove your point. Because even when black people comply, they still get shot, those kinds of situations happen enough that the public finally started an uproar about it. Instead of showing me pictures of Koreans holding guns, how about pictures of whites or Asians getting treated the same way by police to justify this behavior. If you can not, then be honest and admit that innocent black people are being treated unfairly. And that unfairness is the reason for the violent rioting. You can't fault blacks for not changing when the police themselves won't change either.
You complain about a million plus people losing their insurance, what about the 20 million that will lose their insurance when Obamacare is cancelled? My sister would lose her insurance which would cost her even more to get a new one. That effects my family and that effects me personally.
Don't get me wrong, I do like a lot of your ideas about changing health care. I would personally back a lot of them as well. But the thing is no body in the government wants that. In fact, a proposal to lower prices of medicine to make it more affordable to Americans who desperately need it by importing drugs from Canada was blocked. Trump says he has a great plan for health care but for some reason he doesn't want to tell us yet. From the looks of it, once Obamacare is gone that is the end of health care reform in America. There wil be no improvement and we will go back to the 2009 status-quo. Any talk of what could be done to improve things will be just that, talk.
Thank goodness you can't be arrested in America for owing debt then. So no worries about police showing up to arrest you for not paying a bill.
A private corporation's main objective is to maximize their profits. A government's main objective should be to protect and serve the people. Corporation's have shown time and again that they are willing to make dangerous or even lethal short cuts in order to save money. A government should make regulations to prevent that. If a government puts money before people then the interest of the people will be neglected and the government becomes corrupt. That why Trump's message of draining the swamp had such appeal. Remove self interested politicians and lobbyists from government. Cut government spending but not at the expense of the people. If you really wanted corporations to run the country you should have voted for Hillary. I was going to add bankers to the list of people Hillary was going to let run the country but Trump is already doing that.
I guess that is why nearly 80% of Muslims voted for Bush in 2000 because they wanted him to free them from containment. But your getting off topic again. This conversation was about proving Obama is responsible for the rise of ISIS. You posted a link showing ISIS would have risen because of Bush regardless of who proceeded him or what they might have done. Now your posting links to the Koran and saying we need to kill off a billion people because they refuse to change their religion. If feels like you have nothing left to prove that this is Obama's fault other then hm being the president when it happened and your slowly driving this part of the conversation off track. You hate Muslims, most Trump supporters do. I really don't need much convincing of your disdain of them, I believe you.
You might not be a Republican but you most certainly entertain conservative views. Which is fine by me, each person gets their own opinion. Republicans tend to focus more on the economy, I agree, but actually being good at it something they project on themselves. As much so as the Democrats like to pretend they are for the working class of America. The last four Republican presidents expanded government while claiming to reduce government spending.
What would be the reason that Chrysler would deny Trump's claim? You are right in that they want to keep their market value stable, but there is reason to believe they did so other then because of Trump's threats. Because Michigan is the first state to legalize street use of self-driving cars. Driver-less cars will revolutionize the automotive industry. It is easily foreseeable this is something that will dominate the future market. When it becomes legal nationwide, companies want to have their foot in the door with a tested and reliable model ready to sell. And the only place to do that in America right now is in Michigan. Forward thinking and innovation is what brought the automotive companies back to Michigan. I tired looking it up but I couldn't find how effective Trump's tariff threats are on businesses. Only speculation on what could happen. I guess there won't be any conclusive numbers on that until it is actually in effect.
I'm just looking for numbers and statistics myself, I don't so much care about the spin they put around it.
Ha, never expected you to give Hillary a compliment. But in the same vain, I can say the same thing of Obama. Regardless of what your opinion of his health plan, you can at least say he did stand up and actually fought to get something through. Now all we need to do is replace it with something better.
It is evident that the embargo wasn't doing anything to change Cuba. Now that it is open again it can become an American tourist spot. Being as poor as it is, tourism could become a major source of income for it. It would be a lot harder to be anti-US when the locals there start adjusting their businesses to attract Americans. That is all hopefully thinking but it still a better chance of changing things over there then pretending to think the silent treatment will continue to work.
While I feel we are both becoming more reasonable and respectful of each other during this conversation, my friend was reading this and gave me a quote from a blog that she said reminded her of you.
She gave me this blog with this quote:
"The second principle of moral psychology is that moral thinking is for social doing: We engage in moral thinking not to find the truth, but to find arguments that support our intuitive judgments, so that we can defend ourselves if challenged. The crucial insight here comes from psychologist Tom Gilovich at Cornell, who says that when we want to believe a proposition, we ask, “Can I believe it?” — and we look only for evidence that the proposition might be true. If we find a single piece of evidence then we’re done. We stop. We have a reason we can trot out to support our belief. But if we don’t want to believe a proposition, we ask, “Must I believe it?” — and we look for an escape hatch, a single reason why maybe, just maybe, the proposition is false. So people who have a negative intuitive reaction to Obama, or who are fearful about the enormous changes going on, are already inclined to believe rumors against him and his plans. They hear about death panels and forged birth certificates and ask “can I believe it?” The answer is usually yes, particularly if Fox News raises these questions and brings on experts who claim that the propositions are true. Even if Fox News presents both sides, the fact that somebody on TV endorsed a proposition gives viewers permission to believe it, if they want to. Conversely, Democrats can give rebuttals till they’re blue in the face, but if people are asking themselves “must I believe it” about the Democrats’ claims then the answer they will usually reach is “no.” Logic and consistency just aren’t very important when it comes to morality. Reasoning is “the servant of the passions,” as the philosopher David Hume said long ago."
I'm glad you finally admitted it was the Republicans fault for the spending crisis. Congress controls the discretionary spending. While Congress can't spend more then the max allowed on a policy, they do control how little to spend on it. Since it is an annual spending budget, the president can't veto that. So at any time Congress could have cut spending to any of Obama's programs. And surprisingly they didn't.
I guess that must be the same thing that happened with Trump's accusers then. Their statute of limitations were up and their rapist became the most powerful man in the world. Unfortunately for them, their rapist has a history of seeking out petty revenge for being scorn. Of course his accusers also received numerous death threats from trump supporters forcing them into hiding for their own safety. I mean if you accused Trump of wrong doing and then he became president, would you try to pursue it after that?
What if a black person isn't carrying a weapon, stays still, complies with orders and doesn't antagonize the cops and still gets shot? Because not only did that happen, we have it on tape! That seems to be the part of the argument you seem to be trying to mentally block out to prove your point. Because even when black people comply, they still get shot, those kinds of situations happen enough that the public finally started an uproar about it. Instead of showing me pictures of Koreans holding guns, how about pictures of whites or Asians getting treated the same way by police to justify this behavior. If you can not, then be honest and admit that innocent black people are being treated unfairly. And that unfairness is the reason for the violent rioting. You can't fault blacks for not changing when the police themselves won't change either.
You complain about a million plus people losing their insurance, what about the 20 million that will lose their insurance when Obamacare is cancelled? My sister would lose her insurance which would cost her even more to get a new one. That effects my family and that effects me personally.
Don't get me wrong, I do like a lot of your ideas about changing health care. I would personally back a lot of them as well. But the thing is no body in the government wants that. In fact, a proposal to lower prices of medicine to make it more affordable to Americans who desperately need it by importing drugs from Canada was blocked. Trump says he has a great plan for health care but for some reason he doesn't want to tell us yet. From the looks of it, once Obamacare is gone that is the end of health care reform in America. There wil be no improvement and we will go back to the 2009 status-quo. Any talk of what could be done to improve things will be just that, talk.
Thank goodness you can't be arrested in America for owing debt then. So no worries about police showing up to arrest you for not paying a bill.
A private corporation's main objective is to maximize their profits. A government's main objective should be to protect and serve the people. Corporation's have shown time and again that they are willing to make dangerous or even lethal short cuts in order to save money. A government should make regulations to prevent that. If a government puts money before people then the interest of the people will be neglected and the government becomes corrupt. That why Trump's message of draining the swamp had such appeal. Remove self interested politicians and lobbyists from government. Cut government spending but not at the expense of the people. If you really wanted corporations to run the country you should have voted for Hillary. I was going to add bankers to the list of people Hillary was going to let run the country but Trump is already doing that.
I guess that is why nearly 80% of Muslims voted for Bush in 2000 because they wanted him to free them from containment. But your getting off topic again. This conversation was about proving Obama is responsible for the rise of ISIS. You posted a link showing ISIS would have risen because of Bush regardless of who proceeded him or what they might have done. Now your posting links to the Koran and saying we need to kill off a billion people because they refuse to change their religion. If feels like you have nothing left to prove that this is Obama's fault other then hm being the president when it happened and your slowly driving this part of the conversation off track. You hate Muslims, most Trump supporters do. I really don't need much convincing of your disdain of them, I believe you.
You might not be a Republican but you most certainly entertain conservative views. Which is fine by me, each person gets their own opinion. Republicans tend to focus more on the economy, I agree, but actually being good at it something they project on themselves. As much so as the Democrats like to pretend they are for the working class of America. The last four Republican presidents expanded government while claiming to reduce government spending.
What would be the reason that Chrysler would deny Trump's claim? You are right in that they want to keep their market value stable, but there is reason to believe they did so other then because of Trump's threats. Because Michigan is the first state to legalize street use of self-driving cars. Driver-less cars will revolutionize the automotive industry. It is easily foreseeable this is something that will dominate the future market. When it becomes legal nationwide, companies want to have their foot in the door with a tested and reliable model ready to sell. And the only place to do that in America right now is in Michigan. Forward thinking and innovation is what brought the automotive companies back to Michigan. I tired looking it up but I couldn't find how effective Trump's tariff threats are on businesses. Only speculation on what could happen. I guess there won't be any conclusive numbers on that until it is actually in effect.
I'm just looking for numbers and statistics myself, I don't so much care about the spin they put around it.
Ha, never expected you to give Hillary a compliment. But in the same vain, I can say the same thing of Obama. Regardless of what your opinion of his health plan, you can at least say he did stand up and actually fought to get something through. Now all we need to do is replace it with something better.
It is evident that the embargo wasn't doing anything to change Cuba. Now that it is open again it can become an American tourist spot. Being as poor as it is, tourism could become a major source of income for it. It would be a lot harder to be anti-US when the locals there start adjusting their businesses to attract Americans. That is all hopefully thinking but it still a better chance of changing things over there then pretending to think the silent treatment will continue to work.
While I feel we are both becoming more reasonable and respectful of each other during this conversation, my friend was reading this and gave me a quote from a blog that she said reminded her of you.
She gave me this blog with this quote:
"The second principle of moral psychology is that moral thinking is for social doing: We engage in moral thinking not to find the truth, but to find arguments that support our intuitive judgments, so that we can defend ourselves if challenged. The crucial insight here comes from psychologist Tom Gilovich at Cornell, who says that when we want to believe a proposition, we ask, “Can I believe it?” — and we look only for evidence that the proposition might be true. If we find a single piece of evidence then we’re done. We stop. We have a reason we can trot out to support our belief. But if we don’t want to believe a proposition, we ask, “Must I believe it?” — and we look for an escape hatch, a single reason why maybe, just maybe, the proposition is false. So people who have a negative intuitive reaction to Obama, or who are fearful about the enormous changes going on, are already inclined to believe rumors against him and his plans. They hear about death panels and forged birth certificates and ask “can I believe it?” The answer is usually yes, particularly if Fox News raises these questions and brings on experts who claim that the propositions are true. Even if Fox News presents both sides, the fact that somebody on TV endorsed a proposition gives viewers permission to believe it, if they want to. Conversely, Democrats can give rebuttals till they’re blue in the face, but if people are asking themselves “must I believe it” about the Democrats’ claims then the answer they will usually reach is “no.” Logic and consistency just aren’t very important when it comes to morality. Reasoning is “the servant of the passions,” as the philosopher David Hume said long ago."
Economic growth is preferable to immediate tax revenue because revenue only scales when the economy does. If you gouge the constituency immediately, you reduce the growth on the economy and reduce the future tax base compared to what it would be without the gouging.
Also, public education sucks. Anyone who's been through it knows it sucks. Federally mandated educational standards are bullshit (see Common Core), schools need to teach basic life skills and trade skills and finance plus reading and that's about all that's needed. Public K-8 is a joke and no amount of money is going to fix it principally because parents are so shit.
Small problem with that contention about Congress cutting Obama's funding there, sweetie. The dems controlled the House and Senate for the first years of his tenure as president. It was only when he started getting pushback from the Republican House that he started toning down the budget.
Well here's the thing about the Trump rape accusers. There wasn't a peep out of those people about Trump either before the election or before the later half of the election. They all seemed to spill out at once instead of, you know, coming out at any time prior to that whereas the women Bill raped came forward pretty quickly.
"I mean if you accused Trump of wrong doing and then he became president, would you try to pursue it after that?"
Didn't stop them. They got a pretty penny out of it too cuz Trump wanted to stop the controversy before he got into office.
Blacks getting shot like that happen because blacks as a whole have a problem with the police. And bear in mind, WaPo did its own studies and found 95% of police shootings were justified. And goddamn, blacks made up 25% of those shootings, nearly two times their population's worth. So by any empirical study of this, it would be safe to conclude that cops have reason to be trigger happy around blacks because blacks present a greater threat to police than anyone else based on pure numbers. Ok, so they accidentally killed a handful of blacks. As opposed to the overwhelming majority in which they were found to be justified? Also, without using the internet, can you name as many hispanic victims of unjustified police shootings as you can black? Don't see Mexican Lives Matter as a response, do ya?
So your sister loses it or mine and my family's premiums go up to compensate and our finances become even more precarious. Is that fair? Is that right for you to gain at my or anyone else's expense? Even if you taxed the rich their full incomes, there would not be enough to cover everyone in America. Just do the math on it. 320 million people in America. Let's give everyone 100 dollars in medical care per year. Well, depending on the state, that's one doctor visit and one dentist visit. All to the tune of 32 billion dollars. Now what about 1000 dollars? Not everyone is going to need that, but there are people who will need far, far more. 320 billion dollars. Now what if the price is 10000 per person? Unreasonable, you may say.
Not quite. In fact, that's a very accurate estimate. 3 trillion dollars. How the fuck are we supposed to dump several billion more into medical aid when the government already runs yearly deficits? You're not looking far enough ahead. The government inefficiently spends money to save lives now, cutting into the livelihoods of other citizens to split the burden unevenly and reducing growth for a short term gain that could be spent on maximizing gains for the future, gains that will ultimately do more good for more people because technology is better at helping humans than other humans. The only way you can fix this and not fuck over tens of millions of people to do it is by reducing waste and making things more affordable in general.
The Arab Spring was in response to the west. "America makes lackeys of Arabs!" chant the Arabs. And then the Muslim Brotherhood gets elected into parliament in Egypt, we let Mubarak get deposed and the region destabilizes. Not only did Obama not do the right thing, (which I will explain soon) he went and made it worse by deposing people who were controlling the region. Libya's gone to shit and if not for the Russians, Syria very might well be that way too.
You know how you fix this? You know how you can resolve this in 10 minutes? You get up on stage and make a speech. If you are the President of the United States, everyone listens. A 10 minute monologue from POTUS carries so much weight that it can change the thoughts of entire nations because the President can obliterate entire nations with very little effort. Anything bearing a remote resemblance to this would have done it:
"Over in Egypt, there was a spectacular failure of democracy. The Egyptians elected 88 Muslim Brotherhood, a known terrorist organization, members to parliament and, in another spectacular failure of democracy President Mubarak refuses them their seats and thank God for him. This has become a particular problem in the middle east this, 'Arab nationalism,' pride in being Arab. Ok. Tell me what you have to be proud of. Tell me how many lives your culture has saved, how many great works you've made recently, how many scientific discoveries you've made. Because I can tell you how many lives have been taken by Arabs and I can show what little difference that's made in land or resource gains. I can pull out any list of terror attacks and find that the majority of them and the majority of casualties are Muslim. Christians, Sikhs, Jews, Confucians, Buddhists, all of them can get along just fine. Islam, muslims? Nope.
Why in God's name is there this outrage in the Middle East? You've nothing as nations or peoples to show for all the effort, all the lives expended. You fought the Israelis twice, got beaten twice. You threaten a nation and a faith that has produced more Nobel Prize winners than the 1.2 billion muslims on this earth. And we're supposed to believe that the jews are the oppressors and the spawn of Satan or whatever. Really? Let me quote the koran. 9:30 - 'And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!'
It's funny how the people so turned away from God have done so much good for the world and benefited humanity so thoroughly. You're listening to or watching this speech on technology developed in the Judeo-Christian west, manufactured in the westernized east and likely bought with oil money gotten from the need of the west for a resource you happen to have and had no use for until someone made an engine to run off it. Tell me again, the justification for this Arab nationalism and muslim pride. What have you done to deserve it?
The world looks over its shoulder for islamic, Arab terror. The Middle East falls apart without the demand for Middle Eastern oil, but the world breathes a sigh of relief imagining a world without islamic terror. And we are more than happy to share what we have learned with those who operate peaceably. We turned Japan into the lynch pin of eastern economic security. The west is mighty, far beyond the comprehension of most humans that are alive this day. It is within our power to crush entire continents at our leisure, but we don't choose to do this very often. We chose to break down Iraq, but we chose to build it up. In time, it will be a jewel of the Middle East. And what do the islamists offer you? A glorious return to the caliphate of a hundred years ago that was not even powerful enough to take on one major European power on its own?
I'm telling you right now to go in peace because if you attempt war, you will lose. You will not defeat us in battle. You will not subvert us. You will not break our resolve. If you seek to better yourselves, we will aid you. If you want to learn, we will teach you. If you think you're too good for our aid and our knowledge, fine. We'll be happy to leave you be. But if you try to push yourselves, your faith upon us, you'll have given us a reason to come to your lands in force and bearing arms. The choice is yours."
That is the kind of speaking that people both fear and respect. It captures the nature of human psychology—the fear response, shame, reverse psychology and compels people, en masse, to think very, VERY carefully about the next choice they make that could potentially worsen or end their lives.
And then what? What the fuck could the Springers possibly do? Attack the local governments? Arm the gov't with weapons or involve the UN. Commit terror attacks abroad? Find the origin of the attacker and pin it on his home country. The US has options out the ass. Something could have been done and all it would have taken from Obama was a stern bluff. That's ALL he had to do to get hundreds of thousands of people to back down and at least think because it makes it poignantly obvious how dangerous it is to engage in the activities that lead to the Arab Spring. That is what a leader does. He leverages the office to at least try to stop shit from hitting the fan. But Obama never had the oratory skill or the sheer will to go on stage and say something lest he offend the progressives and lower his approval ratings because he was stern, but oh well. He made the attempt to stop chaos and would have a good shot at doing so.
Also, that article specifically said they voted for Bush because he said he'd get rid of the law that pinned them as being suspects by the federal government and because of conservative family values.
"Forward thinking and innovation is what brought the automotive companies back to Michigan."
Actually, they were always headquartered in Michigan. It's kind of easy to relocate when all your manufacturing, logistics and executives are in the same state.
Also, can I get a citation on this?
"Driver-less cars will revolutionize the automotive industry."
Because people said the same thing about electric cars, but those hit a bit of a problem with the whole "affordability," "recharge time" and "it turns out turning coal into kinetic energy into electricity and then back into kinetic energy" thing. For reference, the typical ham and cheese sandwich has about 8 times the energy density of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and typical gas is 3 times as powerful as ham and cheese. That's important when considering how much needs to be carried and how far you need to go and since Americans are fat and travel a lot, electric cars are mostly for skinny white guys with lots of money and nowhere in particular to go.
It would have been better to leave Cuba alone until the Castros were dead or deposed. At that point, the regime is weak enough to comply with international groups and obey basic human rights. The process gets streamlined and we don't have to fuck around with some uppity retard communist.
Wow, that blog is basically not me to the letter, but I can see why she thought that because it mentions insulting Obama. There are a couple issues with that, the first being that I am a philosophy major with a specialty in morality. It is in my educated opinion that morality is fucking bullshit and professional people who have dealings in the real world talk about ethics. Ethics, everyone can agree on. Morality is and always will be an opinion and opinions are like assholes. Thus, anyone who talks about morality as if it matters is foolish, lying or being compelled to talk about it by others. The former two are the most true. Morality is a piss poor way to convince people to follow you when anyone like me is around. It's so pathetically easy to destroy any type of moral argument by creating scenarios in which I can use formal logic to show that a type of morality is either immoral or untenable. I can always throw the moral argument back around on anyone that uses it because I can always either show or hypothesize that the "moral" position is going to get more people hurt or killed and that the opposition is so short sighted that they effectively advocate for suffering and death. Of course, you rarely defeat the ideological; the purpose is often simply to shame them in front of an audience. You make the audience wish to disassociate themselves from such a person and thus weaken their ideology. Very simple rhetorical work.
Second, I'm closest to utilitarianism which is about as anti-morality as you can get because utilitarianism is about math and math wins. However, it is beholden to no ideology and feeds from anything worth feeding from. If Obama came up with a good policy, I would steal it to improve my own position because that leaves me in the best possible position. The problem with Obama is that he hasn't created any major policy that was clearly effective. He was that useless from a mathematical standpoint. Middle East casualties, Obamacare costs, relations with Russia, the corruption in his DoJ and police forces. The fact that he could have won a third term is the most worrying thing about what Americans think because of the sheer ignorance of what he's done that such a position demonstrates.
Here's the thing: Fox will be right for the wrong reason. Obama is not a bad president because he has death panels or he's an illegal muslim. Obama's a bad president because the numbers show that he did a bad job. CNN is lying to you and said he's doing a great job what with all those temporary waitress and bartending jobs he made (though they never say what type of jobs he made) and how he made the country safer (just ignore those massacres by jihadis). So at this point, which is better by virtue of being less dishonest: Fox News for saying he's bad and not getting the reasons right or MSN or CNN outright telling you he's good with fabrication? The answer is clear. It doesn't make Fox honest, but it technically makes them better.
Also, I only watch Fox Business. Trump is good for my stocks.
Also, public education sucks. Anyone who's been through it knows it sucks. Federally mandated educational standards are bullshit (see Common Core), schools need to teach basic life skills and trade skills and finance plus reading and that's about all that's needed. Public K-8 is a joke and no amount of money is going to fix it principally because parents are so shit.
Small problem with that contention about Congress cutting Obama's funding there, sweetie. The dems controlled the House and Senate for the first years of his tenure as president. It was only when he started getting pushback from the Republican House that he started toning down the budget.
Well here's the thing about the Trump rape accusers. There wasn't a peep out of those people about Trump either before the election or before the later half of the election. They all seemed to spill out at once instead of, you know, coming out at any time prior to that whereas the women Bill raped came forward pretty quickly.
"I mean if you accused Trump of wrong doing and then he became president, would you try to pursue it after that?"
Didn't stop them. They got a pretty penny out of it too cuz Trump wanted to stop the controversy before he got into office.
Blacks getting shot like that happen because blacks as a whole have a problem with the police. And bear in mind, WaPo did its own studies and found 95% of police shootings were justified. And goddamn, blacks made up 25% of those shootings, nearly two times their population's worth. So by any empirical study of this, it would be safe to conclude that cops have reason to be trigger happy around blacks because blacks present a greater threat to police than anyone else based on pure numbers. Ok, so they accidentally killed a handful of blacks. As opposed to the overwhelming majority in which they were found to be justified? Also, without using the internet, can you name as many hispanic victims of unjustified police shootings as you can black? Don't see Mexican Lives Matter as a response, do ya?
So your sister loses it or mine and my family's premiums go up to compensate and our finances become even more precarious. Is that fair? Is that right for you to gain at my or anyone else's expense? Even if you taxed the rich their full incomes, there would not be enough to cover everyone in America. Just do the math on it. 320 million people in America. Let's give everyone 100 dollars in medical care per year. Well, depending on the state, that's one doctor visit and one dentist visit. All to the tune of 32 billion dollars. Now what about 1000 dollars? Not everyone is going to need that, but there are people who will need far, far more. 320 billion dollars. Now what if the price is 10000 per person? Unreasonable, you may say.
Not quite. In fact, that's a very accurate estimate. 3 trillion dollars. How the fuck are we supposed to dump several billion more into medical aid when the government already runs yearly deficits? You're not looking far enough ahead. The government inefficiently spends money to save lives now, cutting into the livelihoods of other citizens to split the burden unevenly and reducing growth for a short term gain that could be spent on maximizing gains for the future, gains that will ultimately do more good for more people because technology is better at helping humans than other humans. The only way you can fix this and not fuck over tens of millions of people to do it is by reducing waste and making things more affordable in general.
The Arab Spring was in response to the west. "America makes lackeys of Arabs!" chant the Arabs. And then the Muslim Brotherhood gets elected into parliament in Egypt, we let Mubarak get deposed and the region destabilizes. Not only did Obama not do the right thing, (which I will explain soon) he went and made it worse by deposing people who were controlling the region. Libya's gone to shit and if not for the Russians, Syria very might well be that way too.
You know how you fix this? You know how you can resolve this in 10 minutes? You get up on stage and make a speech. If you are the President of the United States, everyone listens. A 10 minute monologue from POTUS carries so much weight that it can change the thoughts of entire nations because the President can obliterate entire nations with very little effort. Anything bearing a remote resemblance to this would have done it:
"Over in Egypt, there was a spectacular failure of democracy. The Egyptians elected 88 Muslim Brotherhood, a known terrorist organization, members to parliament and, in another spectacular failure of democracy President Mubarak refuses them their seats and thank God for him. This has become a particular problem in the middle east this, 'Arab nationalism,' pride in being Arab. Ok. Tell me what you have to be proud of. Tell me how many lives your culture has saved, how many great works you've made recently, how many scientific discoveries you've made. Because I can tell you how many lives have been taken by Arabs and I can show what little difference that's made in land or resource gains. I can pull out any list of terror attacks and find that the majority of them and the majority of casualties are Muslim. Christians, Sikhs, Jews, Confucians, Buddhists, all of them can get along just fine. Islam, muslims? Nope.
Why in God's name is there this outrage in the Middle East? You've nothing as nations or peoples to show for all the effort, all the lives expended. You fought the Israelis twice, got beaten twice. You threaten a nation and a faith that has produced more Nobel Prize winners than the 1.2 billion muslims on this earth. And we're supposed to believe that the jews are the oppressors and the spawn of Satan or whatever. Really? Let me quote the koran. 9:30 - 'And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!'
It's funny how the people so turned away from God have done so much good for the world and benefited humanity so thoroughly. You're listening to or watching this speech on technology developed in the Judeo-Christian west, manufactured in the westernized east and likely bought with oil money gotten from the need of the west for a resource you happen to have and had no use for until someone made an engine to run off it. Tell me again, the justification for this Arab nationalism and muslim pride. What have you done to deserve it?
The world looks over its shoulder for islamic, Arab terror. The Middle East falls apart without the demand for Middle Eastern oil, but the world breathes a sigh of relief imagining a world without islamic terror. And we are more than happy to share what we have learned with those who operate peaceably. We turned Japan into the lynch pin of eastern economic security. The west is mighty, far beyond the comprehension of most humans that are alive this day. It is within our power to crush entire continents at our leisure, but we don't choose to do this very often. We chose to break down Iraq, but we chose to build it up. In time, it will be a jewel of the Middle East. And what do the islamists offer you? A glorious return to the caliphate of a hundred years ago that was not even powerful enough to take on one major European power on its own?
I'm telling you right now to go in peace because if you attempt war, you will lose. You will not defeat us in battle. You will not subvert us. You will not break our resolve. If you seek to better yourselves, we will aid you. If you want to learn, we will teach you. If you think you're too good for our aid and our knowledge, fine. We'll be happy to leave you be. But if you try to push yourselves, your faith upon us, you'll have given us a reason to come to your lands in force and bearing arms. The choice is yours."
That is the kind of speaking that people both fear and respect. It captures the nature of human psychology—the fear response, shame, reverse psychology and compels people, en masse, to think very, VERY carefully about the next choice they make that could potentially worsen or end their lives.
And then what? What the fuck could the Springers possibly do? Attack the local governments? Arm the gov't with weapons or involve the UN. Commit terror attacks abroad? Find the origin of the attacker and pin it on his home country. The US has options out the ass. Something could have been done and all it would have taken from Obama was a stern bluff. That's ALL he had to do to get hundreds of thousands of people to back down and at least think because it makes it poignantly obvious how dangerous it is to engage in the activities that lead to the Arab Spring. That is what a leader does. He leverages the office to at least try to stop shit from hitting the fan. But Obama never had the oratory skill or the sheer will to go on stage and say something lest he offend the progressives and lower his approval ratings because he was stern, but oh well. He made the attempt to stop chaos and would have a good shot at doing so.
Also, that article specifically said they voted for Bush because he said he'd get rid of the law that pinned them as being suspects by the federal government and because of conservative family values.
"Forward thinking and innovation is what brought the automotive companies back to Michigan."
Actually, they were always headquartered in Michigan. It's kind of easy to relocate when all your manufacturing, logistics and executives are in the same state.
Also, can I get a citation on this?
"Driver-less cars will revolutionize the automotive industry."
Because people said the same thing about electric cars, but those hit a bit of a problem with the whole "affordability," "recharge time" and "it turns out turning coal into kinetic energy into electricity and then back into kinetic energy" thing. For reference, the typical ham and cheese sandwich has about 8 times the energy density of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and typical gas is 3 times as powerful as ham and cheese. That's important when considering how much needs to be carried and how far you need to go and since Americans are fat and travel a lot, electric cars are mostly for skinny white guys with lots of money and nowhere in particular to go.
It would have been better to leave Cuba alone until the Castros were dead or deposed. At that point, the regime is weak enough to comply with international groups and obey basic human rights. The process gets streamlined and we don't have to fuck around with some uppity retard communist.
Wow, that blog is basically not me to the letter, but I can see why she thought that because it mentions insulting Obama. There are a couple issues with that, the first being that I am a philosophy major with a specialty in morality. It is in my educated opinion that morality is fucking bullshit and professional people who have dealings in the real world talk about ethics. Ethics, everyone can agree on. Morality is and always will be an opinion and opinions are like assholes. Thus, anyone who talks about morality as if it matters is foolish, lying or being compelled to talk about it by others. The former two are the most true. Morality is a piss poor way to convince people to follow you when anyone like me is around. It's so pathetically easy to destroy any type of moral argument by creating scenarios in which I can use formal logic to show that a type of morality is either immoral or untenable. I can always throw the moral argument back around on anyone that uses it because I can always either show or hypothesize that the "moral" position is going to get more people hurt or killed and that the opposition is so short sighted that they effectively advocate for suffering and death. Of course, you rarely defeat the ideological; the purpose is often simply to shame them in front of an audience. You make the audience wish to disassociate themselves from such a person and thus weaken their ideology. Very simple rhetorical work.
Second, I'm closest to utilitarianism which is about as anti-morality as you can get because utilitarianism is about math and math wins. However, it is beholden to no ideology and feeds from anything worth feeding from. If Obama came up with a good policy, I would steal it to improve my own position because that leaves me in the best possible position. The problem with Obama is that he hasn't created any major policy that was clearly effective. He was that useless from a mathematical standpoint. Middle East casualties, Obamacare costs, relations with Russia, the corruption in his DoJ and police forces. The fact that he could have won a third term is the most worrying thing about what Americans think because of the sheer ignorance of what he's done that such a position demonstrates.
Here's the thing: Fox will be right for the wrong reason. Obama is not a bad president because he has death panels or he's an illegal muslim. Obama's a bad president because the numbers show that he did a bad job. CNN is lying to you and said he's doing a great job what with all those temporary waitress and bartending jobs he made (though they never say what type of jobs he made) and how he made the country safer (just ignore those massacres by jihadis). So at this point, which is better by virtue of being less dishonest: Fox News for saying he's bad and not getting the reasons right or MSN or CNN outright telling you he's good with fabrication? The answer is clear. It doesn't make Fox honest, but it technically makes them better.
Also, I only watch Fox Business. Trump is good for my stocks.
Sure, as long as the gains from the growth exceed the revenue losses. Otherwise you get diminishing returns which drains the economy.
Education is important and the reason Republicans hate it is because it's a long term investment. You won't actually see the results of that until about twenty years later. Our current education system can use a lot of improvement. But most of that is controlled on a state level, the federal government just funds it. That is why Texas tried to use creationist books in biology class.
He didn't pay them to stop that controversy before he got into office, he was court order to pay a civil lawsuit he lost because it was shown he scammed people out of their money. It is hard to tell what position you are trying to make with that link.
Even when they comply with the police it is still justified to shoot them because other black people are violent? That is what you are trying to tell me?
Right now my sister is on my parent's insurance until she turns 26, thanks to Obamacare. That really shouldn't effect anyone's premiums. Right now it is sounds like you are saying "Why should I have to pay taxes to help the firefighters extinguish someone else's home?" How can you go to sleep at night knowing the ACA saved people's lives like his but still wanting to repeal it and not having any replacement plan at all?
Sure, let's talk about the price of health care. 3 trillion is the max that can be spent on healthcare, not the the average. It got close to that in 2013. That is to be expected with a new health care system, people needing treatment would have flooded a new system. Then after 2013 it fell to the close average of what it use to before Obamacare, mid range one and a half trillion. That high cost is because America spends two and a half times more for medical care then any other country.
We spend 17% of our GDP on health care, that is more then countries with full-coverage national health care. Not only that, America is rank 37th in health care, behind Costa Rica. We are only two ranks above Cuba! We pay twice as much for health care to get half of the quality. And all that is before the government gets involved. So, yeah, it's expensive. Maybe we should be focusing more on getting costs down first. The lower the cost, the cheaper insurance will be and the more people who will be able to afford their own and not need the government's help.
I'm atheist because of religion. Religious people think this life is temporary and the after life is the real life. So they care less about improving this world and focus their attention doing the rituals they think will earn them the after life. That is why religious people shouldn't run government. That is why our founding fathers separated church and state. The same thing always happens when religion is in charge.
The problem with ISIS is that they want to die fighting America. they are not afraid of losing. They want America to invade because it will fulfill their belief in a prophecy that says Jesus will come down, slaughter the crusaders and start Armageddon.
Muslims always voted Republican because of conservative family values.
You are right that a President has a lot of power behind his words. That is why they should always chose their words carefully. Try not to send the wrong message or offend anyone if they can help it to avoid any problems it might cause. That is one of the things that scares me about Trump is that he doesn't have that kind of restraint in public. In private, I'm hearing a lot of reports that he is a very reasonable person who seems like he has America's best interest at heart. So I'm wondering if his public appearances are just his stage persona. Which might be more troubling.
Electric cars were about changing a function when the previous function was better. self-driving cars are about adding a function that will reduce the amount of work the driver has to do. Doing less work is very popular with Americans. How many new cars are they coming with that don't have power steering, power windows or that aren't smart? Technology improves things people want.
I like how most of your plans come down to "we should have kicked that can down the road more."
I can see some things in what she says about you. You really don't need anything to believe something good about Trump, then you need a lot of time and convincing to somewhat imply to the thought maybe Obama isn't complete evil without actually admitting to it.
Education is important and the reason Republicans hate it is because it's a long term investment. You won't actually see the results of that until about twenty years later. Our current education system can use a lot of improvement. But most of that is controlled on a state level, the federal government just funds it. That is why Texas tried to use creationist books in biology class.
He didn't pay them to stop that controversy before he got into office, he was court order to pay a civil lawsuit he lost because it was shown he scammed people out of their money. It is hard to tell what position you are trying to make with that link.
Even when they comply with the police it is still justified to shoot them because other black people are violent? That is what you are trying to tell me?
Right now my sister is on my parent's insurance until she turns 26, thanks to Obamacare. That really shouldn't effect anyone's premiums. Right now it is sounds like you are saying "Why should I have to pay taxes to help the firefighters extinguish someone else's home?" How can you go to sleep at night knowing the ACA saved people's lives like his but still wanting to repeal it and not having any replacement plan at all?
Sure, let's talk about the price of health care. 3 trillion is the max that can be spent on healthcare, not the the average. It got close to that in 2013. That is to be expected with a new health care system, people needing treatment would have flooded a new system. Then after 2013 it fell to the close average of what it use to before Obamacare, mid range one and a half trillion. That high cost is because America spends two and a half times more for medical care then any other country.
We spend 17% of our GDP on health care, that is more then countries with full-coverage national health care. Not only that, America is rank 37th in health care, behind Costa Rica. We are only two ranks above Cuba! We pay twice as much for health care to get half of the quality. And all that is before the government gets involved. So, yeah, it's expensive. Maybe we should be focusing more on getting costs down first. The lower the cost, the cheaper insurance will be and the more people who will be able to afford their own and not need the government's help.
I'm atheist because of religion. Religious people think this life is temporary and the after life is the real life. So they care less about improving this world and focus their attention doing the rituals they think will earn them the after life. That is why religious people shouldn't run government. That is why our founding fathers separated church and state. The same thing always happens when religion is in charge.
The problem with ISIS is that they want to die fighting America. they are not afraid of losing. They want America to invade because it will fulfill their belief in a prophecy that says Jesus will come down, slaughter the crusaders and start Armageddon.
Muslims always voted Republican because of conservative family values.
You are right that a President has a lot of power behind his words. That is why they should always chose their words carefully. Try not to send the wrong message or offend anyone if they can help it to avoid any problems it might cause. That is one of the things that scares me about Trump is that he doesn't have that kind of restraint in public. In private, I'm hearing a lot of reports that he is a very reasonable person who seems like he has America's best interest at heart. So I'm wondering if his public appearances are just his stage persona. Which might be more troubling.
Electric cars were about changing a function when the previous function was better. self-driving cars are about adding a function that will reduce the amount of work the driver has to do. Doing less work is very popular with Americans. How many new cars are they coming with that don't have power steering, power windows or that aren't smart? Technology improves things people want.
I like how most of your plans come down to "we should have kicked that can down the road more."
I can see some things in what she says about you. You really don't need anything to believe something good about Trump, then you need a lot of time and convincing to somewhat imply to the thought maybe Obama isn't complete evil without actually admitting to it.
Republicans tend to hate education because it's so ineffective. It turns out government managed institutions backed by unions tend to be stupidly wasteful. If it was cost effective and useful like high school between 1950 and 1980, when home economics and shop were still present everywhere. Basic life lessons and trade skills matter.
Yes, when they comply, they shouldn't get shot. But again, you must look at the math. A 90% justified rate with, what, a 5% ambiguous rate plus what remains is supposed to be institutionalized racism?
"That really shouldn't effect anyone's premiums."
But it does. Where do you think all these millions of people get their new coverage from?
"Why should I have to pay taxes to help the firefighters extinguish someone else's home?"
Because I'm also paying taxes so that the firefighters come to my home in case it's on fire.
"How can you go to sleep at night knowing the ACA saved people's lives like his but still wanting to repeal it and not having any replacement plan at all?"
Well, first of all, those youtube comments bring up at least one good question: How the hell does a six week to live cancer diagnosis get fixed with healthcare when there are people (including family) who get half a year to live and all the rads and chemo don't fix it? Yeah, I get the feeling that big CNN logo at the bottom had something to do with that guy. Second, I'm not that one saying repeal and replace without a plan. Trump probably has something in the works and I didn't vote for any congressional officials.
So the cost went down in 2013. Why are premiums so much higher for anyone that doesn't get free care? So more people are covered and yet the costs get higher for people that don't qualify for government care. Yeah, let's just float more of the burden to people that can pay for what they originally had to pay. Also, that WHO link. lol. The actual report is from 2000, medical tourism is a popular thing in the US, but not elsewhere. As well, something like 80% of the countries above the US are protected by military alliances with the US, monocultures and oil subsidies. I'd love for Europe to have to actually pay for their own militaries and research. Take for example the F-35. We paid 1.5 trillion to research that piece of shit, but everyone else can buy it for 150 million a pop. To break even, we'd have to sell 10,000 of those. For comparison, in 40 years, we have sold about 8000 of the teen series fighters which the F-35 is set to replace. So those lucky duck euro-cucks get the benefit of our tax dollars and get to dump all kinds of money into their welfare systems that would otherwise be spent on defense. There's also that nasty problem of mostly male muslim migrants that aren't joining the workforce and eating up a few billion alone on their dental work.
Our system has such high costs because of government interference. The government mandates to give health care instead of researching how to make it more cost effective. We have a hybrid system that has the worst of both worlds.
"That is why religious people shouldn't run government."
In the west, a leader is an official first and a Christian second. In the islamic world, the law is religion. It's called Sharia. It sucks. It's why the Middle East and Pakistan suck and why the Sharia no go zones in Europe are trash.
Jesus fucking Christ. You really do just look for links to support your point. I suspected that when you linked that WHO report from 15 years ago and I know it now. That fucking article YOU linked to show muslim support for 2000 Bush noted that muslims trended towards the Democrats. I even found another article from '96 that affirmed that.
Power steering at this point is more of a safety feature than for reducing the driver effort. By reducing the input necessary to drive, you decrease input time to make turns and course corrections and increasing driver awareness. Less effort over long drives also means greater awareness. Self driving cars come with a multitude of problems that will always require a steering system and either an integrated network and wireless transponder or sophisticated detection systems and all of that will add large sums of money to the cost.
For a car to operate autonomously, it must be a part of a network that pings its location to other cars in the area and receives data from the network as to what it can do. Too much traffic? Tough shit, boy. Everyone else also picked the option to skip the traffic. A network solution like that also requires every other automobile to be on the network.
The other option requires sophisticated obstacle detection. Every car would need to be equipped with radar or some other detection system linked to a computer. Costs rise, but even if succeeds, all it takes is a single firmware update to cause cities worth of car crashes and entire system shutdowns for days at a time while the system gets fixed. For as stupid as human beings are, they can generally pilot things well.
As opposed to the plans Obama put in place that kicked the can down the road?
I believe good about Trump because he stopped Hillary Clinton and her decades worth of political baggage. His proposed solutions were already mostly consistent with what I believed. He picked a fight with the retard Republicans, especially John McCain and won despite them. He shuts down the politically correct because he just doesn't give a shit. He's the first man in a long time to put America first in everything he talks about and for someone that believes in what Ulysses said about America, that means a hell of a lot more than all that other half-assed shit that comes out of the left.
You haven't presented a good case for Obama. I've mostly seen exactly what I said I would and it's just getting boring to contend with at this point.
Yes, when they comply, they shouldn't get shot. But again, you must look at the math. A 90% justified rate with, what, a 5% ambiguous rate plus what remains is supposed to be institutionalized racism?
"That really shouldn't effect anyone's premiums."
But it does. Where do you think all these millions of people get their new coverage from?
"Why should I have to pay taxes to help the firefighters extinguish someone else's home?"
Because I'm also paying taxes so that the firefighters come to my home in case it's on fire.
"How can you go to sleep at night knowing the ACA saved people's lives like his but still wanting to repeal it and not having any replacement plan at all?"
Well, first of all, those youtube comments bring up at least one good question: How the hell does a six week to live cancer diagnosis get fixed with healthcare when there are people (including family) who get half a year to live and all the rads and chemo don't fix it? Yeah, I get the feeling that big CNN logo at the bottom had something to do with that guy. Second, I'm not that one saying repeal and replace without a plan. Trump probably has something in the works and I didn't vote for any congressional officials.
So the cost went down in 2013. Why are premiums so much higher for anyone that doesn't get free care? So more people are covered and yet the costs get higher for people that don't qualify for government care. Yeah, let's just float more of the burden to people that can pay for what they originally had to pay. Also, that WHO link. lol. The actual report is from 2000, medical tourism is a popular thing in the US, but not elsewhere. As well, something like 80% of the countries above the US are protected by military alliances with the US, monocultures and oil subsidies. I'd love for Europe to have to actually pay for their own militaries and research. Take for example the F-35. We paid 1.5 trillion to research that piece of shit, but everyone else can buy it for 150 million a pop. To break even, we'd have to sell 10,000 of those. For comparison, in 40 years, we have sold about 8000 of the teen series fighters which the F-35 is set to replace. So those lucky duck euro-cucks get the benefit of our tax dollars and get to dump all kinds of money into their welfare systems that would otherwise be spent on defense. There's also that nasty problem of mostly male muslim migrants that aren't joining the workforce and eating up a few billion alone on their dental work.
Our system has such high costs because of government interference. The government mandates to give health care instead of researching how to make it more cost effective. We have a hybrid system that has the worst of both worlds.
"That is why religious people shouldn't run government."
In the west, a leader is an official first and a Christian second. In the islamic world, the law is religion. It's called Sharia. It sucks. It's why the Middle East and Pakistan suck and why the Sharia no go zones in Europe are trash.
Jesus fucking Christ. You really do just look for links to support your point. I suspected that when you linked that WHO report from 15 years ago and I know it now. That fucking article YOU linked to show muslim support for 2000 Bush noted that muslims trended towards the Democrats. I even found another article from '96 that affirmed that.
Power steering at this point is more of a safety feature than for reducing the driver effort. By reducing the input necessary to drive, you decrease input time to make turns and course corrections and increasing driver awareness. Less effort over long drives also means greater awareness. Self driving cars come with a multitude of problems that will always require a steering system and either an integrated network and wireless transponder or sophisticated detection systems and all of that will add large sums of money to the cost.
For a car to operate autonomously, it must be a part of a network that pings its location to other cars in the area and receives data from the network as to what it can do. Too much traffic? Tough shit, boy. Everyone else also picked the option to skip the traffic. A network solution like that also requires every other automobile to be on the network.
The other option requires sophisticated obstacle detection. Every car would need to be equipped with radar or some other detection system linked to a computer. Costs rise, but even if succeeds, all it takes is a single firmware update to cause cities worth of car crashes and entire system shutdowns for days at a time while the system gets fixed. For as stupid as human beings are, they can generally pilot things well.
As opposed to the plans Obama put in place that kicked the can down the road?
I believe good about Trump because he stopped Hillary Clinton and her decades worth of political baggage. His proposed solutions were already mostly consistent with what I believed. He picked a fight with the retard Republicans, especially John McCain and won despite them. He shuts down the politically correct because he just doesn't give a shit. He's the first man in a long time to put America first in everything he talks about and for someone that believes in what Ulysses said about America, that means a hell of a lot more than all that other half-assed shit that comes out of the left.
You haven't presented a good case for Obama. I've mostly seen exactly what I said I would and it's just getting boring to contend with at this point.
How would you judge the effectiveness of a school if the results won't be shown until a decade later? Cost waste oversight is something we could address, but that cost is definitely not going to the teachers. State districts control most of the school curriculum. When I went to high school we had home economics and vocational training in a trade. I learned wielding. If your schools don't have that, you must live in a very bad district then.
That 5 to 10% death rate of innocent people is what people are getting mad about. Is the final shooting of white or Asians by police near the 10% range? Shooting someone should be a last resort, not a go to response if you are unsure of the situation. It is like you went to a restaurant and the waiter said the hamburger meat your eating is 90% cow while the other 10% is ambiguously rodent because we can't keep the rats out of the kitchen, would you be satisfied with your dining experience?
I can't say for sure because I'm not a medical expect, but if I were to guess, maybe he had a tumor on his lung or throat that would have grown to the point to cut off his breathing if he didn't get help? He did say he would pay three times the cost and that he was a small business owner, so I can't imagine the procedure would have been to expensive. We don't mind if it is repealed and replaced with something better, but we would like to know what is going to replace it before they repeal it. so far nobody told us anything yet.
The entire business model for insurance companies is that healthy people on the plan pay for the sick people on it. So the more sick people going on it, the more they need healthy people on it or charge them more. That is why your premiums are going up. There were more sick people in America then you realize. And even if they get rid of ACA, your health care premiums aren't going back down.
Actually, we spend more on out military then the entirety of Europe.
Allowing migrants in was probably the worse mistake German made in a while, but speaking to German citizens they will very firmly remind you that is their choice in the matter and when they want them to leave they will make them. Then again, by circle of German friends is like half a dozen, lol.
Our system was high before ACA got started. The thing is we already know how to make medicine cost effective. The same drug companies produce drugs for both Canada and the US. Only the same exact drugs they sell in Canada is a quarter of the price they sell in America. Again, it's less about trying to figure out how to make drugs cheaper and more about how to get companies to reduce their bloated prices.
Expect for Trump's VP, Mike Pence, he is a Christian first and a politician second.
They trended towards Democrats in 1996, that doesn't detract from my statement that 80% of them voted for Bush in 2000. Besides, we both look for links to support our points. And we both sometimes get a hit or miss with them.
People care less about the sum cost when it is convenient to them. That is why people chose gas or electric engines. Here is a list of pros and cons for self-driving cars, enjoy.
That could be a matter of perspective. The ACA might have been put in place because people were waiting to long to actually do it themselves.
I can respect your view of Trump and why you like him. To me, he sounds more like the kind of person who will say what ever you want to hear to get what he wants. He has flip-flopped on a lot of issues or has taken contradicting opinions on the same issue sticking with the one that gives him the most favor. He often says what great things he will do without ever explaining his plans or dismisses it by saying he'll tell people later. He doesn't seem experienced in politics and more like he is used to calling the shots from the side lines. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy that likes to be told no and seems very egoistical. It felt like he was going this more for his own sake then for the people.
Really? I'm enjoying this conversation I often look forward to reading your statements and thinking up replies. You taught me a lot. I never had much of a good case for Obama, just not as bad as the one you were presenting. I came in here knowing either one of us would convince the other. I just wanted to hear your thoughts on the matter. I thought I stated that at the start?
That 5 to 10% death rate of innocent people is what people are getting mad about. Is the final shooting of white or Asians by police near the 10% range? Shooting someone should be a last resort, not a go to response if you are unsure of the situation. It is like you went to a restaurant and the waiter said the hamburger meat your eating is 90% cow while the other 10% is ambiguously rodent because we can't keep the rats out of the kitchen, would you be satisfied with your dining experience?
I can't say for sure because I'm not a medical expect, but if I were to guess, maybe he had a tumor on his lung or throat that would have grown to the point to cut off his breathing if he didn't get help? He did say he would pay three times the cost and that he was a small business owner, so I can't imagine the procedure would have been to expensive. We don't mind if it is repealed and replaced with something better, but we would like to know what is going to replace it before they repeal it. so far nobody told us anything yet.
The entire business model for insurance companies is that healthy people on the plan pay for the sick people on it. So the more sick people going on it, the more they need healthy people on it or charge them more. That is why your premiums are going up. There were more sick people in America then you realize. And even if they get rid of ACA, your health care premiums aren't going back down.
Actually, we spend more on out military then the entirety of Europe.
Allowing migrants in was probably the worse mistake German made in a while, but speaking to German citizens they will very firmly remind you that is their choice in the matter and when they want them to leave they will make them. Then again, by circle of German friends is like half a dozen, lol.
Our system was high before ACA got started. The thing is we already know how to make medicine cost effective. The same drug companies produce drugs for both Canada and the US. Only the same exact drugs they sell in Canada is a quarter of the price they sell in America. Again, it's less about trying to figure out how to make drugs cheaper and more about how to get companies to reduce their bloated prices.
Expect for Trump's VP, Mike Pence, he is a Christian first and a politician second.
They trended towards Democrats in 1996, that doesn't detract from my statement that 80% of them voted for Bush in 2000. Besides, we both look for links to support our points. And we both sometimes get a hit or miss with them.
People care less about the sum cost when it is convenient to them. That is why people chose gas or electric engines. Here is a list of pros and cons for self-driving cars, enjoy.
That could be a matter of perspective. The ACA might have been put in place because people were waiting to long to actually do it themselves.
I can respect your view of Trump and why you like him. To me, he sounds more like the kind of person who will say what ever you want to hear to get what he wants. He has flip-flopped on a lot of issues or has taken contradicting opinions on the same issue sticking with the one that gives him the most favor. He often says what great things he will do without ever explaining his plans or dismisses it by saying he'll tell people later. He doesn't seem experienced in politics and more like he is used to calling the shots from the side lines. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy that likes to be told no and seems very egoistical. It felt like he was going this more for his own sake then for the people.
Really? I'm enjoying this conversation I often look forward to reading your statements and thinking up replies. You taught me a lot. I never had much of a good case for Obama, just not as bad as the one you were presenting. I came in here knowing either one of us would convince the other. I just wanted to hear your thoughts on the matter. I thought I stated that at the start?
Address why the parents are garbage is a good way to help solve the problem. I remember them trying to fine the parents if their kids get bad grades which was rejected. Some parts in my state fine the parents based on the attendance of the child. What are causing these parents to be garbage in your opinion?
You are back pedaling and missing the point again. I'll agree with you that it is justified to shot someone that is a threat, it is not justified to shot someone not posing a threat. And I'm not even talking about the grey area ones that assumed to be treating do to them fighting back or what. I'm talking about the ones that are completely unjustified. Such as shooting someone in the back as they are running away or shooting them if they are quietly laying on the ground. Those are the ones BLM are protesting about.
Yes, that is what happens. You can't pay for a treatment, they don't treat you. You don't get treated, you die. What do you think would happen if you didn't pay them?
What makes you think it will go down? You do need their services. The insurance companies is subject to the health field, the health field is not subject to the market. They can try to lower health insurance, but the insurance still has to pay whatever the drug companies want. That is why insurance companies try to kick off as many sick people as they can to lower costs. We can go back to the old ways, but that means a lot of sick people won't get covered because it raises prices.
From what I can tell, each country agreed to put 2% of their GDP into their defense budget and the other nations are arguing they are meeting their requirement. It could just be we are just super richer then them all?
Germany will bounce back, they always do.
He wants to negotiate drug prices, I'll wait and see if he does.
Trump said he wants Pence to make the policies.
Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. The vast majority of people who will oppress the gay community are in fact Christians. While it is hypocritical for people not to be as openly opposed to Muslims who do it too, I have you point out a logical error. You repetitively said it was alright to stereotype all black people if they make up 40% of violence, but then you think it is wrong to do the same things to Christians who make up 80% of the oppressors. Muslims on the other hand, only make up 1% of the population. Tell me, is that enough logic bomb exploding over your head or what? KA-BOOM, BABY!
You said Bush broke them out of containment, I was just showing you they weren't in any form of containment. If you were half aware of what you were saying, it is not unfair to say I was confused in the point you were trying to make and posted something irrelevant.
You started this conversation, you are the one entertaining me. I know eventually this conversation will end and I will miss it, but unit then, I will enjoy it.
You are back pedaling and missing the point again. I'll agree with you that it is justified to shot someone that is a threat, it is not justified to shot someone not posing a threat. And I'm not even talking about the grey area ones that assumed to be treating do to them fighting back or what. I'm talking about the ones that are completely unjustified. Such as shooting someone in the back as they are running away or shooting them if they are quietly laying on the ground. Those are the ones BLM are protesting about.
Yes, that is what happens. You can't pay for a treatment, they don't treat you. You don't get treated, you die. What do you think would happen if you didn't pay them?
What makes you think it will go down? You do need their services. The insurance companies is subject to the health field, the health field is not subject to the market. They can try to lower health insurance, but the insurance still has to pay whatever the drug companies want. That is why insurance companies try to kick off as many sick people as they can to lower costs. We can go back to the old ways, but that means a lot of sick people won't get covered because it raises prices.
From what I can tell, each country agreed to put 2% of their GDP into their defense budget and the other nations are arguing they are meeting their requirement. It could just be we are just super richer then them all?
Germany will bounce back, they always do.
He wants to negotiate drug prices, I'll wait and see if he does.
Trump said he wants Pence to make the policies.
Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. The vast majority of people who will oppress the gay community are in fact Christians. While it is hypocritical for people not to be as openly opposed to Muslims who do it too, I have you point out a logical error. You repetitively said it was alright to stereotype all black people if they make up 40% of violence, but then you think it is wrong to do the same things to Christians who make up 80% of the oppressors. Muslims on the other hand, only make up 1% of the population. Tell me, is that enough logic bomb exploding over your head or what? KA-BOOM, BABY!
You said Bush broke them out of containment, I was just showing you they weren't in any form of containment. If you were half aware of what you were saying, it is not unfair to say I was confused in the point you were trying to make and posted something irrelevant.
You started this conversation, you are the one entertaining me. I know eventually this conversation will end and I will miss it, but unit then, I will enjoy it.
Negligence and unwillingness to impose discipline.
Addressing BLM is simple. They are not proposing that the guilty cops be punished; they are proposing that police agencies are guilty of systemic racism and should be abolished I agree with part of their message. Cops should be removed from some black neighborhoods that elect to remove them. The gangbangers and drug pushers will either kill them or keep them quiet. Darwin award worthy.
You get a medical loan. You get treated. You pay it back. You're fine. If the guy was a business owner, he would understand how interest rates work and how long it would take to pay off a loan. They want you to live so that you can pay off the initial loan price plus interest.
Actually, I don't need their services. I'm young and relatively healthy. I could use a catastrophic plan, but not much else. You reduce costs by increasing profit through volume based sales. A healthier populace lowers the cost of insurance. That begins with good education (the kind we don't have in public schools) that teaches about calories, fats, sugars, proteins and where to get them. If it can be sold, it is subject to market forces.
We dump around 5-6 percent of our GDP into military expenditures. This roughly 600 billion dollars pays for military bases and missile batteries in Europe that the Europeans don't have to pay for. As well, we are only slightly richer than the EU. There is nothing stopping them from paying for a proper multinational military of their own, but they don't because the US foots the bill. And those little fucks knew it. Trump scared the fuck out of them and they had to get plans in place in the wake of his election.
When Pence starts the Gaystapo, then we can talk.
Here's the difference between black violence and Christian anti-homosexuality: black violence gets thousands of people dead per year. Christian intolerance to homosexuality hurts feelings. There is no comparison because the damage done is several orders of magnitude different. Beyond that, you wrongly assume all Christians are guilty of harboring anti-gay beliefs that they act upon in a tangible fashion. Because the population of Christians is so high, they would have to be committing over 83% of the anti-gay hate crimes. By your account, they're not. By wikipedia's tally, it's mostly tranny victims and a looooooooooot of blacks/hispanics doing the deeds. Omar Mateen also skewed the fatality list of anti-gay murders in this decade pretty largely in the favor of muslims too.
Bush broke muslims in the middle east out of containment and loosed islamic extremism further. That was the point You pointed to Americans voting him into office. That was completely irrelevant. I was half aware of your response and let it go. That was a mistake.
Addressing BLM is simple. They are not proposing that the guilty cops be punished; they are proposing that police agencies are guilty of systemic racism and should be abolished I agree with part of their message. Cops should be removed from some black neighborhoods that elect to remove them. The gangbangers and drug pushers will either kill them or keep them quiet. Darwin award worthy.
You get a medical loan. You get treated. You pay it back. You're fine. If the guy was a business owner, he would understand how interest rates work and how long it would take to pay off a loan. They want you to live so that you can pay off the initial loan price plus interest.
Actually, I don't need their services. I'm young and relatively healthy. I could use a catastrophic plan, but not much else. You reduce costs by increasing profit through volume based sales. A healthier populace lowers the cost of insurance. That begins with good education (the kind we don't have in public schools) that teaches about calories, fats, sugars, proteins and where to get them. If it can be sold, it is subject to market forces.
We dump around 5-6 percent of our GDP into military expenditures. This roughly 600 billion dollars pays for military bases and missile batteries in Europe that the Europeans don't have to pay for. As well, we are only slightly richer than the EU. There is nothing stopping them from paying for a proper multinational military of their own, but they don't because the US foots the bill. And those little fucks knew it. Trump scared the fuck out of them and they had to get plans in place in the wake of his election.
When Pence starts the Gaystapo, then we can talk.
Here's the difference between black violence and Christian anti-homosexuality: black violence gets thousands of people dead per year. Christian intolerance to homosexuality hurts feelings. There is no comparison because the damage done is several orders of magnitude different. Beyond that, you wrongly assume all Christians are guilty of harboring anti-gay beliefs that they act upon in a tangible fashion. Because the population of Christians is so high, they would have to be committing over 83% of the anti-gay hate crimes. By your account, they're not. By wikipedia's tally, it's mostly tranny victims and a looooooooooot of blacks/hispanics doing the deeds. Omar Mateen also skewed the fatality list of anti-gay murders in this decade pretty largely in the favor of muslims too.
Bush broke muslims in the middle east out of containment and loosed islamic extremism further. That was the point You pointed to Americans voting him into office. That was completely irrelevant. I was half aware of your response and let it go. That was a mistake.
Those could be it. Those there might be a root cause behind why the parents do that. Nothing I can firmly speculate on tho.
From what I read in your link it is just one person saying that and she had gotten some criticism from the different leaders of the movement. It also seems like your taking it out of context. For she asks for it to be abolished and replaced with something better. She then compares it to the abolishment and restructure of the prison system. While using different word, she is just suggesting the same things we are in that she wants a better system in place.
As for removing police from black neighborhoods, they already did that in Detroit. My car got broken into in front of a court house there, so I called the cops and they put me on hold for 30 minutes, and when I finally got someone they said they wouldn't send anyone out unless shots were fired.
The whole purpose of having insurance is not that you need it now, but you have it in the off case that you do. Education about a healthy diet would help people become more healthier, this is true, but I feel like that scope would be limited. Healthier food tends to be more expensive then junk food and poorer families might not be able to afford a proper diet. There might also be a correlation between being poor and being unhealthy and being moderately well off and being more healthy. It would also explain why the poor mostly need the ACA then the middle class. I like how your trying to come up with alternatives to universal health care, if more people worked out the things you wanted to do, there probably wouldn't have been a need for it in the first place.
I have no problem with them paying their fair share. My biggest concern is that we might lose some of our global influence in the process. The stronger other nations get, the less threatening we become. The less powerful our words become. But then again, we are running high on debt so we might have to give that up eventually anyhow.
I would find it almost humorous that if it ever did get to that point is when you'll want to start talking about it, lol. I also see the irony in that I was saying the same thing to people who thought Obama was going to put us all into camps.
Christian intolerance to homosexuality hurts feelings and kills people according to your list you provided. It listed if the victim was black or hispanic, but it didn't really list the race of the attacker. The point I was trying to make just like not all Christians are anti-gay, not all black people should be perceived as violent. If you don't like the same things applied to you, then you should be reasonable enough to understand it isn't fair to try to apply the same things to others.
I could argue that Islamic extremism is what caused Bush to go to the Middle East. I wonder if that was the terrorist plan all along, get America involved in a war to expand their ideology. If it was it worked and we fell right for it.
From what I read in your link it is just one person saying that and she had gotten some criticism from the different leaders of the movement. It also seems like your taking it out of context. For she asks for it to be abolished and replaced with something better. She then compares it to the abolishment and restructure of the prison system. While using different word, she is just suggesting the same things we are in that she wants a better system in place.
As for removing police from black neighborhoods, they already did that in Detroit. My car got broken into in front of a court house there, so I called the cops and they put me on hold for 30 minutes, and when I finally got someone they said they wouldn't send anyone out unless shots were fired.
The whole purpose of having insurance is not that you need it now, but you have it in the off case that you do. Education about a healthy diet would help people become more healthier, this is true, but I feel like that scope would be limited. Healthier food tends to be more expensive then junk food and poorer families might not be able to afford a proper diet. There might also be a correlation between being poor and being unhealthy and being moderately well off and being more healthy. It would also explain why the poor mostly need the ACA then the middle class. I like how your trying to come up with alternatives to universal health care, if more people worked out the things you wanted to do, there probably wouldn't have been a need for it in the first place.
I have no problem with them paying their fair share. My biggest concern is that we might lose some of our global influence in the process. The stronger other nations get, the less threatening we become. The less powerful our words become. But then again, we are running high on debt so we might have to give that up eventually anyhow.
I would find it almost humorous that if it ever did get to that point is when you'll want to start talking about it, lol. I also see the irony in that I was saying the same thing to people who thought Obama was going to put us all into camps.
Christian intolerance to homosexuality hurts feelings and kills people according to your list you provided. It listed if the victim was black or hispanic, but it didn't really list the race of the attacker. The point I was trying to make just like not all Christians are anti-gay, not all black people should be perceived as violent. If you don't like the same things applied to you, then you should be reasonable enough to understand it isn't fair to try to apply the same things to others.
I could argue that Islamic extremism is what caused Bush to go to the Middle East. I wonder if that was the terrorist plan all along, get America involved in a war to expand their ideology. If it was it worked and we fell right for it.
She's one of many. It's not hard to find these people.
lol Detroit.
"Healthier food tends to be more expensive then junk food and poorer families might not be able to afford a proper diet."
lolololol
I gotta ask: are you white? Because I've never encountered a hispanic, black or asian who made that statement because it's monstrously untrue for two reasons.
The first reason is that I can go to any Safeway, Walmart market or Kroger and get enough to feed a family of 4 for one month for about 100 bucks. Yes, it is that easy. It's not going to have Kobe beef, but goddammit, anyone that has been inside a greengrocer and looked at prices could do it. It is not hard whatsoever to get a high amount of calories because staples are fucking cheap. Rice, beans, wheat and potatoes can be bought in such quantities that you could satisfy caloric intake with just them and still have money left over. Nobody who doesn't need to do that does so, but it just goes to show how overwhelmingly powerful our farm system is.
The second reason is because junk food requires a multitude of ingredients with specialized processes for production and is often calorie deficient per dollar compared to a staple. It's cheaper to go buy a five pound bag of potatoes, some oil and salt and make your own chips than it is to go buy a bag.
We've already lost global influence. Since we tend to be held to a higher standard, it's easier for little foreign governments to be fucksticks about their anti-free trade practices. For example, those cunty Germans put a 10% tax on American car imports, but we only put 2.5% on German cars.
Again, fuckin' krauts.
In order to have power and influence, we must exert it from time to time to show that we have it and we are aware of abuses.
Christian intolerance does kill gays, that is true. Cars also kill gays and in greater amounts than Christians in the west. The list also tended to name the attacker and I'm pretty sure you can get a good idea of ethnicity based on name and the fact that in-group murders are more likely than out-group murders. Of course not all blacks should be seen as an overt threat. It's mostly black men who engage in black on black violence. There's no real reason to fear black women because they don't tend to spike the crime rate in the country. Remember, 6.5% of the country commits anywhere between 25 to 50% of the country's crime, depending on what type of crime it is. When you break the population down, that becomes a worryingly high chance you will find a black male who may have criminal intent. That's just the way the stats break down.
I'm not a Christian, by the way. I'm an agnostic that recognizes how much better Christianity is to everyone on the planet than islam.
Bush didn't cause islamic extremism. It was always there. All you need do to find that out is look at islamic terror in Europe prior to 2000. There's a lot of it. Some of it has to do with colonialism, a lot of it has to do with the jews. If anything, Bush was the death knell for the ME. It's unstable, Iran is gaining power and Saudi is losing power due to decreased oil prices. The house of cards falls.
lol Detroit.
"Healthier food tends to be more expensive then junk food and poorer families might not be able to afford a proper diet."
lolololol
I gotta ask: are you white? Because I've never encountered a hispanic, black or asian who made that statement because it's monstrously untrue for two reasons.
The first reason is that I can go to any Safeway, Walmart market or Kroger and get enough to feed a family of 4 for one month for about 100 bucks. Yes, it is that easy. It's not going to have Kobe beef, but goddammit, anyone that has been inside a greengrocer and looked at prices could do it. It is not hard whatsoever to get a high amount of calories because staples are fucking cheap. Rice, beans, wheat and potatoes can be bought in such quantities that you could satisfy caloric intake with just them and still have money left over. Nobody who doesn't need to do that does so, but it just goes to show how overwhelmingly powerful our farm system is.
The second reason is because junk food requires a multitude of ingredients with specialized processes for production and is often calorie deficient per dollar compared to a staple. It's cheaper to go buy a five pound bag of potatoes, some oil and salt and make your own chips than it is to go buy a bag.
We've already lost global influence. Since we tend to be held to a higher standard, it's easier for little foreign governments to be fucksticks about their anti-free trade practices. For example, those cunty Germans put a 10% tax on American car imports, but we only put 2.5% on German cars.
Again, fuckin' krauts.
In order to have power and influence, we must exert it from time to time to show that we have it and we are aware of abuses.
Christian intolerance does kill gays, that is true. Cars also kill gays and in greater amounts than Christians in the west. The list also tended to name the attacker and I'm pretty sure you can get a good idea of ethnicity based on name and the fact that in-group murders are more likely than out-group murders. Of course not all blacks should be seen as an overt threat. It's mostly black men who engage in black on black violence. There's no real reason to fear black women because they don't tend to spike the crime rate in the country. Remember, 6.5% of the country commits anywhere between 25 to 50% of the country's crime, depending on what type of crime it is. When you break the population down, that becomes a worryingly high chance you will find a black male who may have criminal intent. That's just the way the stats break down.
I'm not a Christian, by the way. I'm an agnostic that recognizes how much better Christianity is to everyone on the planet than islam.
Bush didn't cause islamic extremism. It was always there. All you need do to find that out is look at islamic terror in Europe prior to 2000. There's a lot of it. Some of it has to do with colonialism, a lot of it has to do with the jews. If anything, Bush was the death knell for the ME. It's unstable, Iran is gaining power and Saudi is losing power due to decreased oil prices. The house of cards falls.
Speaking of schools and Detroit, did you hear about Trump's pick for Sectary of Education, Besty Devos? She ran the charter schools in Detroit. She wants to end all federal funding for public schools, wants to teach teach intelligence design in school to help "grow god's kingdom," and she wants guns in schools in case of grizzly bear attacks. She did not know what IDEA is (it's the law that provides for students with physical and mental disabilities to receive adaptations and services in schools). This is one of the most important federal laws regarding education. The Department of Education is responsible for enforcing IDEA nationwide and she did not know what it is. To put it in context, it would be like the Secretary of Transportation not knowing what FAA is, or the Attorney General not knowing what FBI is. She did not know the difference between proficiency and growth, in terms of measuring educational success. This is the equivalent of a Secretary of State not knowing the different between Austria and Australia, or a Secretary of Agriculture not knowing the difference between meat and vegetable. She is the most wholly unqualified Cabinet pick in decades, perhaps ever. Yet there is not a single Republican willing to stop her from ruining the future of the more than 50 million public school students in this country (in part because she's donated over $200 million to Republican campaigns, including to every Republican Senator on the panel for her confirmation hearing.) Our hopes for a better improved school system doesn't look bright this term.
If you think you can feed a family of four on $100 a month you evidently never had to support a family before. Look it up, they tell you a ton of ways on how to feed a family of four on less then $100 a week, but I could find nothing reliable for just $100 a month. Unless your homeless and dumpster diving a lot. And/or you're all really good at shoplifting.
Did Trump talk about raising import tax on foreign trade? I thought he only talked creating a tariff on American goods made in other countries.
Cars also kill more people then blacks do. Should we be on the look out for sentient cars then? Does their ethnicity somehow prove they weren't Christian? Or when you envision Christians do you imagine them being all white? According to this, 75% of all violent crime is committed by men. Men are three times more likely to crime then women. And men only make up half the population! I wasn't even aware of this until you made me curious to looked it up. Men are statistically more violent then black people. Police should be way more caution when approaching any male suspect!
You're an agnostic what? Agnostic is a neutral word in relation to something else. It just means you have no knowledge to prove or disprove god. You can be an agnostic Christian who can't prove god exists but still believes he does or you can be an agnostic atheist who doesn't believe in god because he can't be proven. Most atheist are agnostic while some gnostic atheists do exist along with gnostic theists. So are you an agnostic theist or an agnostic atheist?
I also believe Christianity is better then Islam. Mainly because it has centuries of internal competition and decades of intellectual debates to help smooth it out and make it more people friendly. It is relatively recent since people started to question Islam and it is clear that most of them aren't used to having their beliefs questioned in such a fashion. We have such a long time debunking Christians claims that Islam has no real way to defend against it. Most Muslims I debate with can only go so far as to saying "if it is in the Koran it is true" and then circle back to that statement when placed in a logical corner. Some of them honestly don't believe the Earth moves because of what is said in the Koran.
I agree, Bush did a fine job unstablizing the ME.
If you think you can feed a family of four on $100 a month you evidently never had to support a family before. Look it up, they tell you a ton of ways on how to feed a family of four on less then $100 a week, but I could find nothing reliable for just $100 a month. Unless your homeless and dumpster diving a lot. And/or you're all really good at shoplifting.
Did Trump talk about raising import tax on foreign trade? I thought he only talked creating a tariff on American goods made in other countries.
Cars also kill more people then blacks do. Should we be on the look out for sentient cars then? Does their ethnicity somehow prove they weren't Christian? Or when you envision Christians do you imagine them being all white? According to this, 75% of all violent crime is committed by men. Men are three times more likely to crime then women. And men only make up half the population! I wasn't even aware of this until you made me curious to looked it up. Men are statistically more violent then black people. Police should be way more caution when approaching any male suspect!
You're an agnostic what? Agnostic is a neutral word in relation to something else. It just means you have no knowledge to prove or disprove god. You can be an agnostic Christian who can't prove god exists but still believes he does or you can be an agnostic atheist who doesn't believe in god because he can't be proven. Most atheist are agnostic while some gnostic atheists do exist along with gnostic theists. So are you an agnostic theist or an agnostic atheist?
I also believe Christianity is better then Islam. Mainly because it has centuries of internal competition and decades of intellectual debates to help smooth it out and make it more people friendly. It is relatively recent since people started to question Islam and it is clear that most of them aren't used to having their beliefs questioned in such a fashion. We have such a long time debunking Christians claims that Islam has no real way to defend against it. Most Muslims I debate with can only go so far as to saying "if it is in the Koran it is true" and then circle back to that statement when placed in a logical corner. Some of them honestly don't believe the Earth moves because of what is said in the Koran.
I agree, Bush did a fine job unstablizing the ME.
How exactly would getting rid of the schools benefit the gifted students you are so worried about?
Oh, I'm sure a lot of things are going to burn down. I just hope the next person in office will be able to rebuild from the ashes.
let's do the math to see if your food budget experiment will actually work. A $100 budget for four people for a month would equal about $0.80 a day for food for each person or $3.20 a day for the entire family. Since your basing it off calories, that means we need to get 2,000 calories for $0.80 a day. Since you listed rice, that being the cheapest thing, we'll use that as an example. Rice has almost 600 calories per pound. That mean each person would have to eat 3 pounds a day to get 1,800 calories. That's 12 pounds of rice a day they would have to eat. But let's say they are light eaters and only eat 10 pounds a day. That is 1,500 calories a day per person. Wal-Mart sells 20 pound bags of rice for nearly $9. But let's say they got it on sale for $8. Since the family would require to eat 10 pounds a day, that is half the price for $4 a day. They would spend $4 a day for 1,500 calories. That is the lowest recommended amount of calories required to survive and they would still be over budget by $0.80 a day or $120 a month in rice alone. Simple math implies your suggestion to be wrong. Not to mention they would have to have perfect portion control and zero waste for even my most generous estimate to be this successful. You still think your food budget could work?
I chuckled a bit with your "let them eat cake" example. Usually damaged food goods don't sell. They have the option of either throwing it away or trying to sell it at a very low price to at least make something off it. Just because they sell one damage box of cake mix at 75 cents, doesn't mean the cake business can survive selling every box at that price. That is a unique standard in which to sell something.
China is starting to have a bigger influence on the world with it's growing economy and military. If Trump does screw over Europe with his higher tariffs, or withdrawing military support, they might actually get fed up with trading with America and decide switch over to China instead. America has competition now. If Trump decides to weaken our influence in Europe if won't give them much of an obligation to deal with us. I'm fine with withdrawing our forces and having them pay their fair share, but messing with trade costs hits me with a bit of caution.
Most of the places you listed are regions of the world heavily influenced by region. That really doesn't prove that it is based on ethnicity rather then religion. The whole Sweden thing is rather selective. Foreigners in Sweden are four time more likely to commit violent crime then naive Swedes. And that report was from 2005, long before the immigrant crisis. It would be more compelling to show how native ethnic groups are more liking to commit crime then naive whites in that country.
I'm surprised you finally admit there is a way to deal with a belligerent suspect that doesn't require shooting them.
What you are describing is atheism. Having no form of belief system nor caring about it. But you seem resistant to using that term. Everyone is atheist about something, even Christians are atheist towards the Greek gods. I feel like you don't need a religion to be a good person. I can be good, kind and caring to others without the need of a reward or punishment system attached to it because it's the right thing to do.
Oh, I'm sure a lot of things are going to burn down. I just hope the next person in office will be able to rebuild from the ashes.
let's do the math to see if your food budget experiment will actually work. A $100 budget for four people for a month would equal about $0.80 a day for food for each person or $3.20 a day for the entire family. Since your basing it off calories, that means we need to get 2,000 calories for $0.80 a day. Since you listed rice, that being the cheapest thing, we'll use that as an example. Rice has almost 600 calories per pound. That mean each person would have to eat 3 pounds a day to get 1,800 calories. That's 12 pounds of rice a day they would have to eat. But let's say they are light eaters and only eat 10 pounds a day. That is 1,500 calories a day per person. Wal-Mart sells 20 pound bags of rice for nearly $9. But let's say they got it on sale for $8. Since the family would require to eat 10 pounds a day, that is half the price for $4 a day. They would spend $4 a day for 1,500 calories. That is the lowest recommended amount of calories required to survive and they would still be over budget by $0.80 a day or $120 a month in rice alone. Simple math implies your suggestion to be wrong. Not to mention they would have to have perfect portion control and zero waste for even my most generous estimate to be this successful. You still think your food budget could work?
I chuckled a bit with your "let them eat cake" example. Usually damaged food goods don't sell. They have the option of either throwing it away or trying to sell it at a very low price to at least make something off it. Just because they sell one damage box of cake mix at 75 cents, doesn't mean the cake business can survive selling every box at that price. That is a unique standard in which to sell something.
China is starting to have a bigger influence on the world with it's growing economy and military. If Trump does screw over Europe with his higher tariffs, or withdrawing military support, they might actually get fed up with trading with America and decide switch over to China instead. America has competition now. If Trump decides to weaken our influence in Europe if won't give them much of an obligation to deal with us. I'm fine with withdrawing our forces and having them pay their fair share, but messing with trade costs hits me with a bit of caution.
Most of the places you listed are regions of the world heavily influenced by region. That really doesn't prove that it is based on ethnicity rather then religion. The whole Sweden thing is rather selective. Foreigners in Sweden are four time more likely to commit violent crime then naive Swedes. And that report was from 2005, long before the immigrant crisis. It would be more compelling to show how native ethnic groups are more liking to commit crime then naive whites in that country.
I'm surprised you finally admit there is a way to deal with a belligerent suspect that doesn't require shooting them.
What you are describing is atheism. Having no form of belief system nor caring about it. But you seem resistant to using that term. Everyone is atheist about something, even Christians are atheist towards the Greek gods. I feel like you don't need a religion to be a good person. I can be good, kind and caring to others without the need of a reward or punishment system attached to it because it's the right thing to do.
Because in order to rebuild something, it usually requires breaking it down.
Actually, I factored in a couple things like the family being half or mostly children, meaning their caloric intake is not the daily recommended intake is reduced compared to an adult. Also, among all the staples listed, the rice is the second most calorie deficient. Per dollar, the others are
4127 calories for the flour
1680 calories for the pasta.
1058 calories for the pinto beans
The rice is 1125. It turns out that flour, just general purpose flour, is so goddamn energy rich you can fill people up on bread. Again, I tried for variety. You can literally just buy hundreds of pounds of flour and feed several people for several weeks. Wheat is amazing for human consumption.
The box wasn't damaged. I told you that. Big Lots sells clearance and overstock stuff. Everything about it was good. The other point was that Big Lots is very good for finding novel stuff that's dirt cheap. Sometimes you find good stuff, sometimes, you don't. It's a matter of knowing that you can go to such places and find discounts.
Europe's not going to China for consumer goods. They are already highly reticent to purchase American goods and American products are reliable and functional. China makes trash. Those fancy pants yuros aren't going to be making major purchases from China, but China is keen to buy out European brands and labels. More importantly, they know that siding with the evil they know over the evil they don't (which is China) is always preferable. They know China is keen to fuck them at any turn because the Chinese have proven themselves to be sneaky little shits with all their state sponsored intrusions of corporate and government servers in the US and Europe. They caught a fucking Chinese guy stealing corn samples in Iowa.
The Europeans will undoubtedly balk before a demanding Trump. They cannot afford whatsoever to piss off the US and lose our military funding or business. They are FUCKED if they have to increase military spending to counter Russia. It will eat into their social benefits, raise their debts (and they don't have monetary hegemony with the Euro so inflation and debt kill them) and make the muslim crisis even worse.
Actually, what I said kinda does prove patterns of violence. Africa is predominantly Christian or muslim. Patterns of violence are still consistently higher across nearly all African nations than they are across Christian Europe. So if Christians in Europe are less violent than Christians in Africa and Christians in South and Central America, doesn't the only explicable factor boil down to the people that adhere to the faith?
But let's get an indigenous "white" group. In Finland, right next to Sweden and one of the least violent countries on Earth, there are the Sami people. They still herd reindeer. So violent are they that they have effectively no mentions in any crime report about Finland. It's not the color of skin, but the content of genetic history. What if I told you the mean IQ of most African nations is two standard deviations less than the rest of the developed world? And further, what if I told you that in America, people of African descent (many of whom are mixed) average one standard deviation lower on IQ than the rest of the country? And then, what if I told you east asian nations beat out Europe by about 7 or so points, placing them on top of the IQ pile?
Is that racist?
And actually, atheism entertains the opinion of certainty regarding the absence of a deity. It's quite adamant about that. Atheism is many things, but it is certainly not apathetic. It speaks of certainty in all cases. Agnosticism is simply not knowing and I am content with not knowing. I will happily entertain the idea of a deity of any making, but I won't consider it particularly useful.
Actually, I factored in a couple things like the family being half or mostly children, meaning their caloric intake is not the daily recommended intake is reduced compared to an adult. Also, among all the staples listed, the rice is the second most calorie deficient. Per dollar, the others are
4127 calories for the flour
1680 calories for the pasta.
1058 calories for the pinto beans
The rice is 1125. It turns out that flour, just general purpose flour, is so goddamn energy rich you can fill people up on bread. Again, I tried for variety. You can literally just buy hundreds of pounds of flour and feed several people for several weeks. Wheat is amazing for human consumption.
The box wasn't damaged. I told you that. Big Lots sells clearance and overstock stuff. Everything about it was good. The other point was that Big Lots is very good for finding novel stuff that's dirt cheap. Sometimes you find good stuff, sometimes, you don't. It's a matter of knowing that you can go to such places and find discounts.
Europe's not going to China for consumer goods. They are already highly reticent to purchase American goods and American products are reliable and functional. China makes trash. Those fancy pants yuros aren't going to be making major purchases from China, but China is keen to buy out European brands and labels. More importantly, they know that siding with the evil they know over the evil they don't (which is China) is always preferable. They know China is keen to fuck them at any turn because the Chinese have proven themselves to be sneaky little shits with all their state sponsored intrusions of corporate and government servers in the US and Europe. They caught a fucking Chinese guy stealing corn samples in Iowa.
The Europeans will undoubtedly balk before a demanding Trump. They cannot afford whatsoever to piss off the US and lose our military funding or business. They are FUCKED if they have to increase military spending to counter Russia. It will eat into their social benefits, raise their debts (and they don't have monetary hegemony with the Euro so inflation and debt kill them) and make the muslim crisis even worse.
Actually, what I said kinda does prove patterns of violence. Africa is predominantly Christian or muslim. Patterns of violence are still consistently higher across nearly all African nations than they are across Christian Europe. So if Christians in Europe are less violent than Christians in Africa and Christians in South and Central America, doesn't the only explicable factor boil down to the people that adhere to the faith?
But let's get an indigenous "white" group. In Finland, right next to Sweden and one of the least violent countries on Earth, there are the Sami people. They still herd reindeer. So violent are they that they have effectively no mentions in any crime report about Finland. It's not the color of skin, but the content of genetic history. What if I told you the mean IQ of most African nations is two standard deviations less than the rest of the developed world? And further, what if I told you that in America, people of African descent (many of whom are mixed) average one standard deviation lower on IQ than the rest of the country? And then, what if I told you east asian nations beat out Europe by about 7 or so points, placing them on top of the IQ pile?
Is that racist?
And actually, atheism entertains the opinion of certainty regarding the absence of a deity. It's quite adamant about that. Atheism is many things, but it is certainly not apathetic. It speaks of certainty in all cases. Agnosticism is simply not knowing and I am content with not knowing. I will happily entertain the idea of a deity of any making, but I won't consider it particularly useful.
I would think tearing down your house and rebuilding it to fix a leaky sink would be a bit extreme in my opinion. I would just try to repair it first.
Since you are my only Trump supporter friend, there are some things I want to get your opinion. Trump's first executive order was to cut the FHA. A tax cut for new home buyers. Effectively raising taxes on the poor. But the strange thing is I don't remember him talking about the FHA before. I certainly don't remember that being one of the things he promised to do in his first day in office. Can you lend any insight into why that was his first move?
His first executive order against ACA did basically nothing. It granted the same powers they had before the order was signed. Was that just symbolic?
I feel like if you are at the point of rationing out food to the point a parent has to decide how much food to take away from their children to prevent starving to death is a good point to ask for government aid. Just give that family some government cheese already. Looking it up, school age children need about 1,600-2,500 calories a day. And looking up the requirement for calories for adults, men need 2,500 a day and women need 2,000 a day. So 2,000 calories is a pretty far estimate for every family member.
Alright, I'm willing to reexamine your experiment. Using the prices from the Wal-Mart site. The calories I get are from a Google search of that item. I'm just assuming your getting your calories from the gross weight amount listed on the box. A pound of flour has 1,650 calories and costs $0.82, a pound of pinto beans has 1,590 calories and costs $1.20. A pound of spaghetti has 720 calories and costs $0.95. If one person ate just one pound consisting equally of all the ingredients it should only have 1,320 calories and cost $0.99. Still under calories and over budget. The problem is even the cheapest staple still goes over budget. You would need something even cheaper then flour to feed them. You picked two random numbers that sounded good to prove your point thinking I wouldn't check it. But I did check it and now your stuck trying to defend this foolish remark you made.
I was mistaken, the box you mentioned wasn't damaged, you are right. It is not an everyday thing, but you can find cake, a junk, at a lower price then the average cost of flour. Things like that might add to obesity.
The Europe trade deal is just a worse case scenario. But the odd part about your comment is when you said that siding with the evil you know over the evil you don't is always preferable. Seeing how we went the complete opposite route with our current president, I'm hoping that Europe with exercise better common sense then we demonstrated. Can you imagine if Europe got their own president Trump who wanted to make better deals for Europe? Gosh, I can only imagine how that would play out.
If we are already threatening to remove our military support from them, we really can't use that as leverage against them. If they have to pay for their own military which cuts their social benefits, they probably wouldn't be able to afford expensive American important and have to start using a more cheaper source, namely China. Seeing how they are the only ones who can compete with us.
That is one pattern of violence, I see another. Societies with better education and social programs tend to have less violent crime. Religious people tend to be less intelligent then atheists.
That isn't racist stating IQ statistics. I already knew Asians were smarter then Europeans, this isn't the first time I had this conversation. I'm interested to know if there is a correlation between IQ and violence in nations with better social programs. If Africans are X percent more violent then Europeans because of a Y difference in IQ, then that pattern should be evident in the radio between Europeans and Asians. I'm not saying IQ isn't a contributing factor, just that there might be more controllable factors involved.
Can you have certain opinions if you are agnostic? Because most atheists are agnostic, including most scientists. Normally on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being gnostic theists and 10 being gnostic atheists, most atheists float around a 6 to a 8. Most atheists will agree they will believe in a god if one can be proven, but with what we know about the universe there isn't any evidence to support there is one. But some will say if there is a god, it most certainly isn't the one described in the bible. Saying they have an agenda really isn't true. Like of you don't believe in fairies, you simply don't believe in them. It is not that you hold certain opinion regarding the existence of fairies. If they can be proven then great, but most people don't care either way. It comes to a bulwark when you run into a group of people who insist that do fairies exist and the only reason someone wouldn't believe in them is because they have an ulterior motive. Atheists certain opinions only come into play when they are certain what is being said can't be proven.
Since you are my only Trump supporter friend, there are some things I want to get your opinion. Trump's first executive order was to cut the FHA. A tax cut for new home buyers. Effectively raising taxes on the poor. But the strange thing is I don't remember him talking about the FHA before. I certainly don't remember that being one of the things he promised to do in his first day in office. Can you lend any insight into why that was his first move?
His first executive order against ACA did basically nothing. It granted the same powers they had before the order was signed. Was that just symbolic?
I feel like if you are at the point of rationing out food to the point a parent has to decide how much food to take away from their children to prevent starving to death is a good point to ask for government aid. Just give that family some government cheese already. Looking it up, school age children need about 1,600-2,500 calories a day. And looking up the requirement for calories for adults, men need 2,500 a day and women need 2,000 a day. So 2,000 calories is a pretty far estimate for every family member.
Alright, I'm willing to reexamine your experiment. Using the prices from the Wal-Mart site. The calories I get are from a Google search of that item. I'm just assuming your getting your calories from the gross weight amount listed on the box. A pound of flour has 1,650 calories and costs $0.82, a pound of pinto beans has 1,590 calories and costs $1.20. A pound of spaghetti has 720 calories and costs $0.95. If one person ate just one pound consisting equally of all the ingredients it should only have 1,320 calories and cost $0.99. Still under calories and over budget. The problem is even the cheapest staple still goes over budget. You would need something even cheaper then flour to feed them. You picked two random numbers that sounded good to prove your point thinking I wouldn't check it. But I did check it and now your stuck trying to defend this foolish remark you made.
I was mistaken, the box you mentioned wasn't damaged, you are right. It is not an everyday thing, but you can find cake, a junk, at a lower price then the average cost of flour. Things like that might add to obesity.
The Europe trade deal is just a worse case scenario. But the odd part about your comment is when you said that siding with the evil you know over the evil you don't is always preferable. Seeing how we went the complete opposite route with our current president, I'm hoping that Europe with exercise better common sense then we demonstrated. Can you imagine if Europe got their own president Trump who wanted to make better deals for Europe? Gosh, I can only imagine how that would play out.
If we are already threatening to remove our military support from them, we really can't use that as leverage against them. If they have to pay for their own military which cuts their social benefits, they probably wouldn't be able to afford expensive American important and have to start using a more cheaper source, namely China. Seeing how they are the only ones who can compete with us.
That is one pattern of violence, I see another. Societies with better education and social programs tend to have less violent crime. Religious people tend to be less intelligent then atheists.
That isn't racist stating IQ statistics. I already knew Asians were smarter then Europeans, this isn't the first time I had this conversation. I'm interested to know if there is a correlation between IQ and violence in nations with better social programs. If Africans are X percent more violent then Europeans because of a Y difference in IQ, then that pattern should be evident in the radio between Europeans and Asians. I'm not saying IQ isn't a contributing factor, just that there might be more controllable factors involved.
Can you have certain opinions if you are agnostic? Because most atheists are agnostic, including most scientists. Normally on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being gnostic theists and 10 being gnostic atheists, most atheists float around a 6 to a 8. Most atheists will agree they will believe in a god if one can be proven, but with what we know about the universe there isn't any evidence to support there is one. But some will say if there is a god, it most certainly isn't the one described in the bible. Saying they have an agenda really isn't true. Like of you don't believe in fairies, you simply don't believe in them. It is not that you hold certain opinion regarding the existence of fairies. If they can be proven then great, but most people don't care either way. It comes to a bulwark when you run into a group of people who insist that do fairies exist and the only reason someone wouldn't believe in them is because they have an ulterior motive. Atheists certain opinions only come into play when they are certain what is being said can't be proven.
It's not a leaky sink. The supports are rotten.
The FHA cut was presumably done to generate solvency in the event of another housing bubble plus incur cost saving since federal mortgage insurance distributes the cost of home ownership over the entire populace. It's saving a few billion dollars per year. Everything counts in small amounts.
The order on the ACA allowed him to bypass Congress. He pulled an Obama by having it such that federal agencies could ignore ACA stipulations by just having none of his executive branches enforce the law. It's kind of smart, actually. He doesn't have to wait on legislation to repeal the ACA. By having his government refuse to enforce it, he was able to stop Obamacare dead in its tracks on day one without any guff from Congress. It's quite smart, actually.
That calorie listing seems off. 2500 calories for a child? Because they're growing? Maturation into adulthood is adding tissue mass to the body. There's not a whole lot of difference between adding tissue to a child and adding it to an adult. Physics dictates that the energy of tissue is going to come from the breakdown of caloric energy and the manufacturing of proteins. A kid gaining one pound of muscle is going to cost less than a 40 year old because of metabolic efficiency decreases with age. So how does a 12 year old kid weighing 100 pounds require just as much energy as his 160 pound father?
I think what happened was that I divided the total calorie count for the flour by four instead of ten. I don't know why that happened. I may have mistaken the flour's weight for the pinto bean's weight since that was four pounds, but I'm not sure. Yeah, that's a bit of an issue. I was operating on the premise that flour had a massive calorie to dollar ratio. That was a bit of an oopsy. My bad.
Although I would like to know what the minimum dollar count is for a calorie sufficient, nutrient rich diet. Still probably not going to be that expensive considering SNAP gives a family of four up to six hundred dollars.
Yes, I know what it's like for Europe to get a pro-nationalist movement pushed to completion. Britain's manufacturing is up. Confidence in a Brexit failure is down. The EU will die if Marine Le Pen wins in May. The Europeans foolishly joined a political and financial institution with the goddamn Germans as the leaders. Never mind the fact that they tried to make a United States of Europe without having a common language, culture or identity. They're not gonna be able to afford domestic goods for a while during the inevitable collapse of the EU.
Thankfully, we're the power player in the IMF. We can single-handedly shut down any measures put up for a vote in the world's most powerful monetary organization. It's fuckin' great.
We have leverage in spades against Europe. NATO is just one element.
You're falsely correlating intelligence with education. Education is not a positive indicator for genuine intelligence. This has been evidenced by the overwhelming support of college educated millennials supporting Bernie Sanders despite the fact that a basic analysis of his fiscal plans revealed insolvency very quickly as well as wealthy people moving their assets off American shores to avoid US taxes because they've done that before and they know how to do it. Also, the excerpts from that guy's paper were trash.
"Intelligent people typically spend more time in school — a form of self-regulation that may yield long-term benefits," Zuckerman wrote. "More intelligent people get higher level jobs and better employment may lead to higher self-esteem, and encourage personal control beliefs."
So it MAY have benefits. It MAY mean something and it MAY be assuming a false relationship because it assumes that education functions as a form of regulation for the self (which religion isn't?) and that intelligence itself didn't create that regulation.
Also, dat Einstein thing at the bottom. Einstein was smart enough to realize the importance of an American nuclear program, but regretted his decision, failing to understand that ending the suicidal religious fanaticism of the Japanese (sound familiar?) required an act of God to break the resolve of the Japanese, confirmed when the Japanese prince confirmed that Japan would continue the war if we did not agree to the sovereignty of the Japanese emperor.
The quintessential genius of the 20th century was also the kind of person to buy into ideological nonsense and himself spouting platitudes and truisms that had no application in the real world. Raw intelligence is no substitute for true wisdom. His spiritual children tried to burn down DC because they didn't get their way. Lots of college degrees, not a tick of brainpower between any of them.
Having an opinion while agnostic can very easily defeat the point of agnosticism. If you're making an uninformed opinion, that's quite dumb. If you're informed, you're not agnostic at that point. And atheism most certainly does have an agenda to it. Atheists sure do enjoy bragging about their intelligence and demanding that others conform to their specific view of the world, blaming religion for everything terrible, ignoring the comfort it gives to people and the guidance that dedicated faith gives.
Because here's the stupidity of most atheists: supposing that they do have a higher than average intelligence, what would be the point of imposing a belief that, in theory, requires the kind of brain power that is well beyond that of the common human? Because the whole point of atheism is that you're so "enlightened by your intelligence" that you can live your day to day without the burden of religion or whatever the fuck it's supposed to be. It's a rather disturbing lack of empathy for people who have the need for spiritual fulfillment. Atheism is mostly an unfunny joke by self-aggrandizing white kids that can't just let shit go.
The FHA cut was presumably done to generate solvency in the event of another housing bubble plus incur cost saving since federal mortgage insurance distributes the cost of home ownership over the entire populace. It's saving a few billion dollars per year. Everything counts in small amounts.
The order on the ACA allowed him to bypass Congress. He pulled an Obama by having it such that federal agencies could ignore ACA stipulations by just having none of his executive branches enforce the law. It's kind of smart, actually. He doesn't have to wait on legislation to repeal the ACA. By having his government refuse to enforce it, he was able to stop Obamacare dead in its tracks on day one without any guff from Congress. It's quite smart, actually.
That calorie listing seems off. 2500 calories for a child? Because they're growing? Maturation into adulthood is adding tissue mass to the body. There's not a whole lot of difference between adding tissue to a child and adding it to an adult. Physics dictates that the energy of tissue is going to come from the breakdown of caloric energy and the manufacturing of proteins. A kid gaining one pound of muscle is going to cost less than a 40 year old because of metabolic efficiency decreases with age. So how does a 12 year old kid weighing 100 pounds require just as much energy as his 160 pound father?
I think what happened was that I divided the total calorie count for the flour by four instead of ten. I don't know why that happened. I may have mistaken the flour's weight for the pinto bean's weight since that was four pounds, but I'm not sure. Yeah, that's a bit of an issue. I was operating on the premise that flour had a massive calorie to dollar ratio. That was a bit of an oopsy. My bad.
Although I would like to know what the minimum dollar count is for a calorie sufficient, nutrient rich diet. Still probably not going to be that expensive considering SNAP gives a family of four up to six hundred dollars.
Yes, I know what it's like for Europe to get a pro-nationalist movement pushed to completion. Britain's manufacturing is up. Confidence in a Brexit failure is down. The EU will die if Marine Le Pen wins in May. The Europeans foolishly joined a political and financial institution with the goddamn Germans as the leaders. Never mind the fact that they tried to make a United States of Europe without having a common language, culture or identity. They're not gonna be able to afford domestic goods for a while during the inevitable collapse of the EU.
Thankfully, we're the power player in the IMF. We can single-handedly shut down any measures put up for a vote in the world's most powerful monetary organization. It's fuckin' great.
We have leverage in spades against Europe. NATO is just one element.
You're falsely correlating intelligence with education. Education is not a positive indicator for genuine intelligence. This has been evidenced by the overwhelming support of college educated millennials supporting Bernie Sanders despite the fact that a basic analysis of his fiscal plans revealed insolvency very quickly as well as wealthy people moving their assets off American shores to avoid US taxes because they've done that before and they know how to do it. Also, the excerpts from that guy's paper were trash.
"Intelligent people typically spend more time in school — a form of self-regulation that may yield long-term benefits," Zuckerman wrote. "More intelligent people get higher level jobs and better employment may lead to higher self-esteem, and encourage personal control beliefs."
So it MAY have benefits. It MAY mean something and it MAY be assuming a false relationship because it assumes that education functions as a form of regulation for the self (which religion isn't?) and that intelligence itself didn't create that regulation.
Also, dat Einstein thing at the bottom. Einstein was smart enough to realize the importance of an American nuclear program, but regretted his decision, failing to understand that ending the suicidal religious fanaticism of the Japanese (sound familiar?) required an act of God to break the resolve of the Japanese, confirmed when the Japanese prince confirmed that Japan would continue the war if we did not agree to the sovereignty of the Japanese emperor.
The quintessential genius of the 20th century was also the kind of person to buy into ideological nonsense and himself spouting platitudes and truisms that had no application in the real world. Raw intelligence is no substitute for true wisdom. His spiritual children tried to burn down DC because they didn't get their way. Lots of college degrees, not a tick of brainpower between any of them.
Having an opinion while agnostic can very easily defeat the point of agnosticism. If you're making an uninformed opinion, that's quite dumb. If you're informed, you're not agnostic at that point. And atheism most certainly does have an agenda to it. Atheists sure do enjoy bragging about their intelligence and demanding that others conform to their specific view of the world, blaming religion for everything terrible, ignoring the comfort it gives to people and the guidance that dedicated faith gives.
Because here's the stupidity of most atheists: supposing that they do have a higher than average intelligence, what would be the point of imposing a belief that, in theory, requires the kind of brain power that is well beyond that of the common human? Because the whole point of atheism is that you're so "enlightened by your intelligence" that you can live your day to day without the burden of religion or whatever the fuck it's supposed to be. It's a rather disturbing lack of empathy for people who have the need for spiritual fulfillment. Atheism is mostly an unfunny joke by self-aggrandizing white kids that can't just let shit go.
Saving a few billion does sound like a good idea.
There is some concern that the healthy and young will leave their insurance plans causing chaos in the market. Forcing that burden on the rest and thus raising premiums even further.
Also, America seems to be withdrawing from the UN. Giving either Russia or China a chance to be the new world security.
I was honestly surprised by the calorie count for kids as well. I was expecting something much lower. I don't understand it myself. Maybe I can find something to challenge it?
Don't worry to much about it. We all make mistakes from time to time. The important thing is that you didn't cling to that idea after you learned it was a mistake.
I'm sure you can probably get food for very cheap if you have the time to bargain shop for it. There was that one show Super Coupons or something, where they would figure out how to get thousands of dollars of food for a few bucks. It can be done, but it is not nothing everyone can do.
Britain's manufacturing is up but some might worry it might be a slow burn. They were wrong before, they could be wrong now. Realistically not every countries manufacturing can go up, will America's manufacturing have to compete with Britain's for dominance in Europe?
I didn't even the know the IMF was a thing. that is great. Learning new things every day.
We have leverage in IMF as you mentioned, we are withdrawing military support and our position in the UN, what other cards do we have left to play?
Alright, I'll admit education is not a correlation to intelligence.
I guess I opened a can or worms with this atheist talk, lol. An atheist just mean to not have a belief system in a god. You don't need to be intelligent not to have a belief in something. What would be an atheist agenda exactly? To get people to stop believing in god so they can do what exactly? Atheists brag about their intelligence just as much as theist brag about how their faith makes them wise. If I can change your last statement to "ignoring the comfort that Islam gives to the people and the guidance that dedicated faith gives" would that change your mind that Islam wasn't as evil as you first thought?
They are not imposing a belief because they don't have a belief to impose. It is simply a lack in believing in something. It's like saying turning off a TV is a new TV show or how not smoking is addictive. It is so strange watching you get upset over something to have no concept of. There is no point to atheism, because atheism refers to something that doesn't exist. I have no idea where you get this "enlightened by your intelligence" from but atheism isn't a movement. You don't disbelieve in Islam because you don't want to be burdened by it, you simply don't believe in it.
People can get spiritual fulfillment in whatever they want to, no one is stopping them. The clash comes from when people who do have a spiritual belief demand that people who don't should start living to their spiritual standards and have it taught to their kids in schools and spend tens of millions of dollars in tax payer money in order to fulfill their spiritual needs. Fights often happen when intelligent people try to figure out how the world works and it clashes with how religious people think the world should work. When a scientist says that animals evolved, it interferes with a religious person's idea that their god created all the animals the way they are. When scientists present their evidence, religious people often view it has a "atheist agenda" to discredit their faith. Atheism isn't tied to anything. If you don't believe in Santa Claus, congratulations, your an atheist. Is your non-belief in Santa Claus a belief system to try to steal the comfort people get from believing in Santa Claus? Of course not, your beliefs are independent of that.
There is some concern that the healthy and young will leave their insurance plans causing chaos in the market. Forcing that burden on the rest and thus raising premiums even further.
Also, America seems to be withdrawing from the UN. Giving either Russia or China a chance to be the new world security.
I was honestly surprised by the calorie count for kids as well. I was expecting something much lower. I don't understand it myself. Maybe I can find something to challenge it?
Don't worry to much about it. We all make mistakes from time to time. The important thing is that you didn't cling to that idea after you learned it was a mistake.
I'm sure you can probably get food for very cheap if you have the time to bargain shop for it. There was that one show Super Coupons or something, where they would figure out how to get thousands of dollars of food for a few bucks. It can be done, but it is not nothing everyone can do.
Britain's manufacturing is up but some might worry it might be a slow burn. They were wrong before, they could be wrong now. Realistically not every countries manufacturing can go up, will America's manufacturing have to compete with Britain's for dominance in Europe?
I didn't even the know the IMF was a thing. that is great. Learning new things every day.
We have leverage in IMF as you mentioned, we are withdrawing military support and our position in the UN, what other cards do we have left to play?
Alright, I'll admit education is not a correlation to intelligence.
I guess I opened a can or worms with this atheist talk, lol. An atheist just mean to not have a belief system in a god. You don't need to be intelligent not to have a belief in something. What would be an atheist agenda exactly? To get people to stop believing in god so they can do what exactly? Atheists brag about their intelligence just as much as theist brag about how their faith makes them wise. If I can change your last statement to "ignoring the comfort that Islam gives to the people and the guidance that dedicated faith gives" would that change your mind that Islam wasn't as evil as you first thought?
They are not imposing a belief because they don't have a belief to impose. It is simply a lack in believing in something. It's like saying turning off a TV is a new TV show or how not smoking is addictive. It is so strange watching you get upset over something to have no concept of. There is no point to atheism, because atheism refers to something that doesn't exist. I have no idea where you get this "enlightened by your intelligence" from but atheism isn't a movement. You don't disbelieve in Islam because you don't want to be burdened by it, you simply don't believe in it.
People can get spiritual fulfillment in whatever they want to, no one is stopping them. The clash comes from when people who do have a spiritual belief demand that people who don't should start living to their spiritual standards and have it taught to their kids in schools and spend tens of millions of dollars in tax payer money in order to fulfill their spiritual needs. Fights often happen when intelligent people try to figure out how the world works and it clashes with how religious people think the world should work. When a scientist says that animals evolved, it interferes with a religious person's idea that their god created all the animals the way they are. When scientists present their evidence, religious people often view it has a "atheist agenda" to discredit their faith. Atheism isn't tied to anything. If you don't believe in Santa Claus, congratulations, your an atheist. Is your non-belief in Santa Claus a belief system to try to steal the comfort people get from believing in Santa Claus? Of course not, your beliefs are independent of that.
Russia is too poor to be the world police. Russia's decline is demographic based. They can't pull in immigrants and their population is decreasing. That, I believe is the real reason for the invasion of Ukraine; by absorbing the ethnic Russians in Ukraine, they could bolster their population.
China has no interest in being the world either. They can afford it for now, but China is completely unstable due to their economic manipulation, but also due to their social instability. The CCP has to clamp down on everything about the Chinese population, preventing true thriving. They poison their land and have ruined their population with the one child policy. China's killing itself slowly.
As I understand it, there's not a lot of manufacturing competition between the US and EU. Most of the manufacturing competition is between pre-established markets like chemicals. I have no concern with countries that cannot make themselves solvent. If they fail, they fail. We shouldn't have to prop up countries like the EU props up the PIGS.
If we pull out of the UN, if we pull out of NATO, we always have the interventionist option to stop whoever we want to stop should a war arise. Oh hey, Russia's at your door? Well, we could help. You're adopting the US Constitution, making English your official language and trading in the dollar now. The alternative is being a Russian proxy. Ask Poland how terrible that is.
If we can save 200 billion dollars by pulling out of Europe, magnificent. If I was the president who signed off on the bill that broke our alliances with those parasitic Europeans, I would quote Victor Sarrano to show my true feelings.
An atheist agenda is, in its simplest forms, a bunch of white people with a superiority complex (which is actually hiding a sense of inferiority) looking to ruin other people's faith for the sake of their own ego. People who don't believe gravitate towards atheism or agnosticism on their own. There is no reason to go and tell people about the values of atheism. You either want it or you don't.
Atheism is a lacking of belief, but it has a proselytic wing to it. Those shouldn't be things that can occur together, but they do. Atheists are a lot like American liberals; they talk a really big game about being so helpful and wonderful, but they're effectively the plantation owners of 150 years ago. Who else has undeserved self satisfaction and overt condescension in their common speech than someone so convinced of their own superiority that they think they can speak for other people? I can pull up MSN and watch Rachel Maddow dramatize and act indignant when blacks or gays are supposedly mistreated (it's usually a lie), but the closest Fox ever gets to that is when Tucker Carlson laughs at someone who is behaving stupidly. That's why people find liberals and atheists so grating. It's not ever really about helping people; demanding to see the positive results of their efforts results in lies, half-truths and waffling. They slandered Mike Pence even though he wasn't guilty of what they were accusing him of. All he did was sign into law a bill with provisions for voluntary therapy for people that needed help with their sexuality.
You're making the same mistake moderate feminists and moderate muslims make: you're appealing to the dictionary definitions which are not practiced. There is a reason militant atheism is a concept whatsoever in the same way feminazis and fundamentalist muslim terrorists are concepts: they exist and they are vocal.
China has no interest in being the world either. They can afford it for now, but China is completely unstable due to their economic manipulation, but also due to their social instability. The CCP has to clamp down on everything about the Chinese population, preventing true thriving. They poison their land and have ruined their population with the one child policy. China's killing itself slowly.
As I understand it, there's not a lot of manufacturing competition between the US and EU. Most of the manufacturing competition is between pre-established markets like chemicals. I have no concern with countries that cannot make themselves solvent. If they fail, they fail. We shouldn't have to prop up countries like the EU props up the PIGS.
If we pull out of the UN, if we pull out of NATO, we always have the interventionist option to stop whoever we want to stop should a war arise. Oh hey, Russia's at your door? Well, we could help. You're adopting the US Constitution, making English your official language and trading in the dollar now. The alternative is being a Russian proxy. Ask Poland how terrible that is.
If we can save 200 billion dollars by pulling out of Europe, magnificent. If I was the president who signed off on the bill that broke our alliances with those parasitic Europeans, I would quote Victor Sarrano to show my true feelings.
An atheist agenda is, in its simplest forms, a bunch of white people with a superiority complex (which is actually hiding a sense of inferiority) looking to ruin other people's faith for the sake of their own ego. People who don't believe gravitate towards atheism or agnosticism on their own. There is no reason to go and tell people about the values of atheism. You either want it or you don't.
Atheism is a lacking of belief, but it has a proselytic wing to it. Those shouldn't be things that can occur together, but they do. Atheists are a lot like American liberals; they talk a really big game about being so helpful and wonderful, but they're effectively the plantation owners of 150 years ago. Who else has undeserved self satisfaction and overt condescension in their common speech than someone so convinced of their own superiority that they think they can speak for other people? I can pull up MSN and watch Rachel Maddow dramatize and act indignant when blacks or gays are supposedly mistreated (it's usually a lie), but the closest Fox ever gets to that is when Tucker Carlson laughs at someone who is behaving stupidly. That's why people find liberals and atheists so grating. It's not ever really about helping people; demanding to see the positive results of their efforts results in lies, half-truths and waffling. They slandered Mike Pence even though he wasn't guilty of what they were accusing him of. All he did was sign into law a bill with provisions for voluntary therapy for people that needed help with their sexuality.
You're making the same mistake moderate feminists and moderate muslims make: you're appealing to the dictionary definitions which are not practiced. There is a reason militant atheism is a concept whatsoever in the same way feminazis and fundamentalist muslim terrorists are concepts: they exist and they are vocal.
If not them someone will fill the spot. China has a lot to gain from it if they did. Who ever controls the UN gets their message sent through out the world. They would get that sea they are contesting for. You would probably even start seeing nations legalize trafficked human organs if China gets it.
Trump seems pretty pro Russian, you think he would try to oppose Russian aggression after they gave him the election? For all the countries we did help we never asked them to adopt our Constitution, language or money. When we conquered Japan, we wrote them a different Constitution all together. The Constitution really doesn't work well for other countries it seems. You should ask the Philippines how being an American proxy feels now. It is not that good.
What quote are you referring too?
People who don't believe don't gravitate to atheism, people who don't believe are atheists either because of agnosticism or gnosticism. Agnostic isn't a middle ground between theism and atheism, you can believe in god and still be agnostic. A lot of people do. But, yes, some people who stop believing or never believed do criticize or even mock people who still do. It could be out of a sense of superiority or ego or pity.
I can think of a lot of people who speak of undeserved self satisfaction and overt condescension towards others. One of those groups are religious people themselves. They think of themselves as being god's chosen going to heaven while the disbelievers are going to hell.
Both liberals and conservatives do their fair share of lying. But some times when conservatives lie they call it "alternate facts." The reason people don't like conservatives is that they usually go against their own interests. They base their reasoning on simple emotional responses rather then thinking things through. They are reactive rather then proactive. Their decisions typically cause a lot of problems for others that they either can't see because it doesn't effect them or refuse to see because they hate being wrong. Then when they do mess up, they usually blame it on someone else and continue doing the same things expecting different results.
Take Mike Pence for example. People are upset about him because what he did implies there is something wrong with being gay that needs to be corrected which it doesn't. He only does this because his religion tells him that gay people are evil. Now people are going to see this and think gay people are bad and they are refusing to get fixed thus increasing Christian intolerance which gets people hurt. Pence did what he thought would help, but all it did was hurt people. But if we reserved the situation I'm sure you wouldn't be as supportive of it. If someone signed a bill that provides voluntary therapy for people that need help with Christian indoctrination, you should be shouting up and down about how "liberal atheists are trying to ruin the comfort people get from faith." You don't see the people you hurt until you are effected by it as well.
When you say moderate feminists, are you referring to the same ones that just pulled off the largest global peace protest in history? Those moderate feminists are the bad ones to which you are referring?
We are referring to the actual meaning of those words, you are treating splinter groups as if those things are commonly practiced. Hence why there is a distinction between "atheist" and "militant atheism." You can be very small and still be very vocal about it. I don't compare all Christians to the westboro baptist church even though they are vocal about it. I don't compare all Christians to Catholics despite Catholics making up the largest and oldest division of Christians.
Trump seems pretty pro Russian, you think he would try to oppose Russian aggression after they gave him the election? For all the countries we did help we never asked them to adopt our Constitution, language or money. When we conquered Japan, we wrote them a different Constitution all together. The Constitution really doesn't work well for other countries it seems. You should ask the Philippines how being an American proxy feels now. It is not that good.
What quote are you referring too?
People who don't believe don't gravitate to atheism, people who don't believe are atheists either because of agnosticism or gnosticism. Agnostic isn't a middle ground between theism and atheism, you can believe in god and still be agnostic. A lot of people do. But, yes, some people who stop believing or never believed do criticize or even mock people who still do. It could be out of a sense of superiority or ego or pity.
I can think of a lot of people who speak of undeserved self satisfaction and overt condescension towards others. One of those groups are religious people themselves. They think of themselves as being god's chosen going to heaven while the disbelievers are going to hell.
Both liberals and conservatives do their fair share of lying. But some times when conservatives lie they call it "alternate facts." The reason people don't like conservatives is that they usually go against their own interests. They base their reasoning on simple emotional responses rather then thinking things through. They are reactive rather then proactive. Their decisions typically cause a lot of problems for others that they either can't see because it doesn't effect them or refuse to see because they hate being wrong. Then when they do mess up, they usually blame it on someone else and continue doing the same things expecting different results.
Take Mike Pence for example. People are upset about him because what he did implies there is something wrong with being gay that needs to be corrected which it doesn't. He only does this because his religion tells him that gay people are evil. Now people are going to see this and think gay people are bad and they are refusing to get fixed thus increasing Christian intolerance which gets people hurt. Pence did what he thought would help, but all it did was hurt people. But if we reserved the situation I'm sure you wouldn't be as supportive of it. If someone signed a bill that provides voluntary therapy for people that need help with Christian indoctrination, you should be shouting up and down about how "liberal atheists are trying to ruin the comfort people get from faith." You don't see the people you hurt until you are effected by it as well.
When you say moderate feminists, are you referring to the same ones that just pulled off the largest global peace protest in history? Those moderate feminists are the bad ones to which you are referring?
We are referring to the actual meaning of those words, you are treating splinter groups as if those things are commonly practiced. Hence why there is a distinction between "atheist" and "militant atheism." You can be very small and still be very vocal about it. I don't compare all Christians to the westboro baptist church even though they are vocal about it. I don't compare all Christians to Catholics despite Catholics making up the largest and oldest division of Christians.
Someone can only fill the spot if they are capable of filling the spot. No one but the US is capable of filling the spot because of either power projection (which American carriers and bases enable) or economic stability.
If the one controlling the UN gets their message out, why do many Americans and the conservatives tend to oppose it? It's mostly because the UN does whatever the hell it wants based on who's agenda is in play.
No, the Constitution works well in most places because it demands personal responsibility. The Bill of Rights specifically uses language to delineate power given to the citizen. The government "shall not infringe" on that power. We didn't make the Japanese accept the US Constitution because it was not a well considered option and we wanted to impose Article 9 on the Japanese specifically. It's hard to do that if you allow the citizenry to be armed.
Self aggrandizing theists are at worst an annoyance. Self aggrandizing atheists shake people's faith and can very easily wreck people's sense of self. There is very little comparison in the damage they can do. Theism can even be charming at times with all the friendly proselytizers on college campus. More importantly, since most people fall below the line for intelligence, giving them a very simple, easily digestible form of morality (which in truth is ethics) is the best way to control any kind of negative behavior. Overcomplicating the issue with anti-theistic arguments just tends to upset people.
I would rather the conservatives signify that they're lying with "alternate facts" than to have some liberal bitch at me and call me a racistbigotsexisthomophobe because I disrupted their worldview. One of those I can actually debate. The other gets harassed for being a child.
Well, you say there's nothing wrong with being gay, but there's a problem when you drag out the stats. Gay men are grossly more likely to engage in promiscuous behavior which creates epidemic levels of STD infection. Without billions of dollars of investment in HIV research, gay men have grossly reduced lifespans. There's also this nasty issue of domestic violence that grossly outpaces heterosexual violence. There are also smatterings of issues about kids from LGBT families more likely to have social issues and identify as gay themselves in numbers exceeding the normal population, but I'm not going to defend those points in particular.
How do you explain to the evangelical Christian, "the gays are just like you" and then I come in and point out the domestic violence and STD proliferation to the Christian? Why would they ever believe this when there is statistical evidence showing a disparity between homosexuality and heterosexuality that results in obvious detriment to the person in question?
No, the women marching were mostly idiots. They had a leader who was tied to terror organizations, promoted islam without pausing to consider the irony of supporting the most woman hating faith out there, propped up a woman who tortured a man over 3 weeks before killing him, has huge amounts of ties to the political agitator George Soros who propped up BLM, (notice how they're not showing up too often after the election? No more funding) [url=http://www.catholicnews.com/service.....articipate.cfm ] denied pro-life feminists participation and left huge swaths of trash for the (almost exclusively male) sanitation workers to pick up.
The moderate feminists I refer to are the ones demonstrated here who make a whole lot of claims, but when backed into a paradox, shut up completely. They're the types to smugly state that "feminism is the radical notion" blah blah blah and when confronted with Primary Aggressor Laws, Tender Years Doctrine, alimony and child custody disparities, college graduation rates, the methodology that showed the 1 in 4 statistic to be false, you know things that show women to be legally empowered on the basis of gender or victimize them for the sake of power mongering, stop being cheery and get very grim very quickly. It's a coin flip as to whether they get quiet or they stop being moderate, but they can't be consistent when confronted with the facts.
The problem is that the splinter groups are the ones that become the primary face as in the case of Erin Pizzey, founder of the first women's shelter who had her movement hijacked by feminists and received death threats from those very same people for daring to question them.
If the one controlling the UN gets their message out, why do many Americans and the conservatives tend to oppose it? It's mostly because the UN does whatever the hell it wants based on who's agenda is in play.
No, the Constitution works well in most places because it demands personal responsibility. The Bill of Rights specifically uses language to delineate power given to the citizen. The government "shall not infringe" on that power. We didn't make the Japanese accept the US Constitution because it was not a well considered option and we wanted to impose Article 9 on the Japanese specifically. It's hard to do that if you allow the citizenry to be armed.
Self aggrandizing theists are at worst an annoyance. Self aggrandizing atheists shake people's faith and can very easily wreck people's sense of self. There is very little comparison in the damage they can do. Theism can even be charming at times with all the friendly proselytizers on college campus. More importantly, since most people fall below the line for intelligence, giving them a very simple, easily digestible form of morality (which in truth is ethics) is the best way to control any kind of negative behavior. Overcomplicating the issue with anti-theistic arguments just tends to upset people.
I would rather the conservatives signify that they're lying with "alternate facts" than to have some liberal bitch at me and call me a racistbigotsexisthomophobe because I disrupted their worldview. One of those I can actually debate. The other gets harassed for being a child.
Well, you say there's nothing wrong with being gay, but there's a problem when you drag out the stats. Gay men are grossly more likely to engage in promiscuous behavior which creates epidemic levels of STD infection. Without billions of dollars of investment in HIV research, gay men have grossly reduced lifespans. There's also this nasty issue of domestic violence that grossly outpaces heterosexual violence. There are also smatterings of issues about kids from LGBT families more likely to have social issues and identify as gay themselves in numbers exceeding the normal population, but I'm not going to defend those points in particular.
How do you explain to the evangelical Christian, "the gays are just like you" and then I come in and point out the domestic violence and STD proliferation to the Christian? Why would they ever believe this when there is statistical evidence showing a disparity between homosexuality and heterosexuality that results in obvious detriment to the person in question?
No, the women marching were mostly idiots. They had a leader who was tied to terror organizations, promoted islam without pausing to consider the irony of supporting the most woman hating faith out there, propped up a woman who tortured a man over 3 weeks before killing him, has huge amounts of ties to the political agitator George Soros who propped up BLM, (notice how they're not showing up too often after the election? No more funding) [url=http://www.catholicnews.com/service.....articipate.cfm ] denied pro-life feminists participation and left huge swaths of trash for the (almost exclusively male) sanitation workers to pick up.
The moderate feminists I refer to are the ones demonstrated here who make a whole lot of claims, but when backed into a paradox, shut up completely. They're the types to smugly state that "feminism is the radical notion" blah blah blah and when confronted with Primary Aggressor Laws, Tender Years Doctrine, alimony and child custody disparities, college graduation rates, the methodology that showed the 1 in 4 statistic to be false, you know things that show women to be legally empowered on the basis of gender or victimize them for the sake of power mongering, stop being cheery and get very grim very quickly. It's a coin flip as to whether they get quiet or they stop being moderate, but they can't be consistent when confronted with the facts.
The problem is that the splinter groups are the ones that become the primary face as in the case of Erin Pizzey, founder of the first women's shelter who had her movement hijacked by feminists and received death threats from those very same people for daring to question them.
I imagine why most conservatives are against is because of it's cost or that it is trying to take away American sovergienty. Right now who's agenda is at play is ours. Hopefully it will stay that way.
It seems the only people we can force our Constitution on are the ones we conqueror and those are the people we don't want to have it. Beyond that, the most we can do is try to install democracy into people who don't have it yet and let them figure out their own constitution.
I noticed earlier that you mocked liberals because they complained about their feelings getting hurt, now your coming to the defense of other people's feelings. I'm not sure how much or how selective feelings come into play when you consider debates, but this is starting to feel like one of those situations where it's only bad when it happens to you. A theist will tell an atheists they are evil and will be tortured for entirety, an atheist will rebuttal with that they won't because their god isn't real, then the theist will decry that the atheist is oppressing their religious beliefs. If you attack people, you need to be prepared to be attacked back. Did you ever stop and wonder why there isn't an atheist movement against something like Buddhism? Because they are not aggressive and people don't have to defend themselves against their attacks. Telling a Christian their god doesn't exist has no more effect on theirs lives then telling a kid Santa Claus doesn't exists. They might get upset or depressed but their lives doesn't actually change based on this revelation.
Really I feel it goes both way, you get people on both sides that would rather call each other names then debate. You don't think liberals get called names as well? I might be guilty of doing that sometimes, but I'm still trying to hold an open conversation.
You seem to be confusing personal responsibility with why being gay is bad. One of the reasons STDs were so prevalent in the gay community is because of a lot of them were persecuted to the point they had to resort to anonymous sex. Because of regardless of how hard you try, you are not going to stop people from having sex. Besides, lesbians are less likely to spread STD's then heterosexual women. It seems like men are more likely to spread STDs then women by a far margin. Maybe we should just stop having sex with men then? You are citing a 3% differance as "grossly outpaces"? Is this one of your "alternative facts"? There isn't anything inherently wrong with gay sex as there is with straight sex. I don't see much of a problem is a child identifies as heterosexual or homosexual.
You don't think there are gay Christians? Because there are. According to this report, religious people are more likely to murder and have unprotected sex. You can explain to them that they first need to get their own problems straightened out before trying to criticize others.
I would have to ask why one woman's relationship with an ex-terrorist (and family members currently serving time in foreign prisons) would discredit the entire march (which was diverse, including both women AND men from all walks of life, as well as a global phenomenon), while the current President can appoint Goldman-Sachs bankers to key positions in his cabinet and somehow not lose credibility on his own message of "America First", especially given that one of the key issues the general public had with Clinton was that she was the Wall St. candidate, bought and paid for by Goldman-Sachs, aka the people who were putting their own selfish interests ahead of America?
I love the child custody debate because of how misrepresented it is, most custody battles are settled before they go to court with the father giving custody to the mother. The few that do go to court typically favor the father. But if you ignore that detail and just look at the end result, it does seem like women are overwhelming getting custody. Regardless of all those other things to listed, feminists still have to fight for the right to control their own body and health. I could list more but do you really need more then that to start a movement? Just fighting for basic freedoms men enjoy but women have to struggle to get seems like a good enough reason for feminists to exist.
It seems the only people we can force our Constitution on are the ones we conqueror and those are the people we don't want to have it. Beyond that, the most we can do is try to install democracy into people who don't have it yet and let them figure out their own constitution.
I noticed earlier that you mocked liberals because they complained about their feelings getting hurt, now your coming to the defense of other people's feelings. I'm not sure how much or how selective feelings come into play when you consider debates, but this is starting to feel like one of those situations where it's only bad when it happens to you. A theist will tell an atheists they are evil and will be tortured for entirety, an atheist will rebuttal with that they won't because their god isn't real, then the theist will decry that the atheist is oppressing their religious beliefs. If you attack people, you need to be prepared to be attacked back. Did you ever stop and wonder why there isn't an atheist movement against something like Buddhism? Because they are not aggressive and people don't have to defend themselves against their attacks. Telling a Christian their god doesn't exist has no more effect on theirs lives then telling a kid Santa Claus doesn't exists. They might get upset or depressed but their lives doesn't actually change based on this revelation.
Really I feel it goes both way, you get people on both sides that would rather call each other names then debate. You don't think liberals get called names as well? I might be guilty of doing that sometimes, but I'm still trying to hold an open conversation.
You seem to be confusing personal responsibility with why being gay is bad. One of the reasons STDs were so prevalent in the gay community is because of a lot of them were persecuted to the point they had to resort to anonymous sex. Because of regardless of how hard you try, you are not going to stop people from having sex. Besides, lesbians are less likely to spread STD's then heterosexual women. It seems like men are more likely to spread STDs then women by a far margin. Maybe we should just stop having sex with men then? You are citing a 3% differance as "grossly outpaces"? Is this one of your "alternative facts"? There isn't anything inherently wrong with gay sex as there is with straight sex. I don't see much of a problem is a child identifies as heterosexual or homosexual.
You don't think there are gay Christians? Because there are. According to this report, religious people are more likely to murder and have unprotected sex. You can explain to them that they first need to get their own problems straightened out before trying to criticize others.
I would have to ask why one woman's relationship with an ex-terrorist (and family members currently serving time in foreign prisons) would discredit the entire march (which was diverse, including both women AND men from all walks of life, as well as a global phenomenon), while the current President can appoint Goldman-Sachs bankers to key positions in his cabinet and somehow not lose credibility on his own message of "America First", especially given that one of the key issues the general public had with Clinton was that she was the Wall St. candidate, bought and paid for by Goldman-Sachs, aka the people who were putting their own selfish interests ahead of America?
I love the child custody debate because of how misrepresented it is, most custody battles are settled before they go to court with the father giving custody to the mother. The few that do go to court typically favor the father. But if you ignore that detail and just look at the end result, it does seem like women are overwhelming getting custody. Regardless of all those other things to listed, feminists still have to fight for the right to control their own body and health. I could list more but do you really need more then that to start a movement? Just fighting for basic freedoms men enjoy but women have to struggle to get seems like a good enough reason for feminists to exist.
because of course, trump and his staff and the rest of your country will be totally cool with russias continued efforts to stock up on nuclear weapons i'm sure. trump could just ignore that, since he's proven time and time again that he's not easily provoked by the smallest things. and just leaving russia to do its nuclear build up wouldn't make him look weak or anything, I'm sure. trump never cared about looking weak.
being serious here, no one in their right mind would 'wage war with russia' just for the fun of it. not a trump, nor a clinton
but I personally don't trust trump - who reportedly doesn't seem to understand the consequence of actually using nukes, since he had to ask one of his advisors like three times 'why we can't use them even if we have them' - to keep a cold war situation, which is absolutely where russia would love to be in right now, due to it distracting a lot from all the other homemade problems and all the cold war related job opportunities for the lower class folks, in a cold war state.
personally, i wouldn't even trust him to know what cold war means. he might mix it up with the cola wars.
and it doesn't matter if you or any country in the world is spread thin or not for the next big war. the next big one, if no one miraculously surrenders on day one, which all those 'strong leaders' definitely won't, will end in nukes anyway.
being serious here, no one in their right mind would 'wage war with russia' just for the fun of it. not a trump, nor a clinton
but I personally don't trust trump - who reportedly doesn't seem to understand the consequence of actually using nukes, since he had to ask one of his advisors like three times 'why we can't use them even if we have them' - to keep a cold war situation, which is absolutely where russia would love to be in right now, due to it distracting a lot from all the other homemade problems and all the cold war related job opportunities for the lower class folks, in a cold war state.
personally, i wouldn't even trust him to know what cold war means. he might mix it up with the cola wars.
and it doesn't matter if you or any country in the world is spread thin or not for the next big war. the next big one, if no one miraculously surrenders on day one, which all those 'strong leaders' definitely won't, will end in nukes anyway.
A lot of the assumptions are wrong here. He wanted to make America Great again for various reasons and he stated this clearly.....our roads are 3rd-world-country condition as in pot holes, danger zones and hell things on the road make your tires pop.... 2nd is getting rid of the UN....3rd is bringing back the infrastructure as in the steel industries and all to make it stronk like American Muscle... Russia knew about this and they saw how America was before Nixon came into power and started the trade deal with China...think about it... Did you ever have nuts round out on yeah for no reason, did you have a bolt snap right inside a engine block, did you have a threads strip for no reason like first time take something apart.....I have in all 3 cases. How about blenders, yes, stoves, yes, oven elements.,...yes, how about computer screens, yes, hard drives, yes, anything made in china break......YES! A lot of the younger folks didn't see the strength of the beast of America, I have, my Grand parents were born in the 1920's and that was during the Great depression..... So do you think Hillary would make America great again or Trump.....If hillary got in she would have started WW3 with Russia and Russia didnt want WW3 to happen with them......neither do we. If you really care about your family members you better think about the dangers that could happen... Hillary is not trusted for various reasons and you know I am Marine and I will stand up against Hillary Clinton for her crimes for "National Security Exposure...." All 5 Military Branches will stand against her for her corruption....... Look up Alex Jones and the Next News Network on Youtube, that is where you will find the Truth all the way down to the bone of Nazi Collaborators who wanted new world order... Hitler tried that and FAILED with a side of suicide!! Even though Alex Jones maybe a little excited on certains but you can tell he tells nothing but the truth, you can see it in his eyes and in his voice tone of how pissed he is when there is something that isnt right.....
My understanding is that Hillary may have cheated to win the primary. After that, it didn't matter how many people voted for Sanders. In many states, you have to register to qualify as a write-in candidate (which he didn't) and in others write-ins aren't allowed at all. Anyone who tried to vote for him in the general election may as well have just left it blank
Everyone just shut up about this...Trump won, get over it. And another thing, stop blocking eachother and tearing eachother apart for having a different opinion, it's bullshit and is affecting this whole site(and country even) So how about instead of arguing we become the UNITED states of America again, and actually respect eachother's opinions. Seriously grow up everyone...
haha I get to finally say this after 8 years of being told it every time i didn't agree with Obama's shenanigans at being stupid and contradictory.
"If you don't like whats happening then you can move to Somalia" - Just about every left winger when I spoke out against Obama shit.
"If you don't like whats happening then you can move to Somalia" - Just about every left winger when I spoke out against Obama shit.
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