JRP3
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Hillary won the popular vote, Bill is more popular by far than Hillary, Bill would have beaten Trump.
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So would Bernie or Biden. Most any other Democrat, too. But Hillary lost.
Speaking of presidential competence, we really had a doozy of an example with the tv spectacle today among the prez, Pelosi and Schumer. Two of the three showed presidential cred. Trump keeps handing the dems so many gifts. He must want to destroy the Republican Party. (I don't have a link handy but I don't think you will miss it on the evening news.)
But then who are we compared to the prez's superior intellect? The deal is already cast, Pence will pull a Ford within ten minutes of Trump's resignation. You heard it here first (although someone else whispered it into my telly.) What genius planning, parlaying a lie about a birth certificate into the presidency in order to get a pardon for all previous criminal activity. Brilliant!
Stephen Mnuchin will make a great movie about this. Title suggestion: The Outsider Turns Everything Inside Out from the Inside to Stay Outside. Alternative, The Worm Turns After a Wiggle or So.
(This could go on forever, but poetry is verboten here. Besides, an unpilot I am not.)
But then who are we compared to the prez's superior intellect? The deal is already cast, Pence will pull a Ford within ten minutes of Trump's resignation. You heard it here first (although someone else whispered it into my telly.) What genius planning, parlaying a lie about a birth certificate into the presidency in order to get a pardon for all previous criminal activity. Brilliant!
Stephen Mnuchin will make a great movie about this. Title suggestion: The Outsider Turns Everything Inside Out from the Inside to Stay Outside. Alternative, The Worm Turns After a Wiggle or So.
(This could go on forever, but poetry is verboten here. Besides, an unpilot I am not.)
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They're now going right back to 15%, where they were before Trump started bloviating.
China Agrees to Reduce Tariffs on U.S. Autos
As several people at this website predicted, Trump *created* a problem, and is now taking credit for reversing the *problem of his own creation*. We are right back where we were when he started.
So. Are you willing to concede that Trump is a lying conman, or at least that he's incompetent? He got China to raise tarriffs for a few months and then drop them back to... exactly where they were before he started shooting his mouth off.
It's not actually clear whether it's legally possible to pardon someone generically for "all crimes". That's evidence of corrupt intent in issuing the pardon, at the very least, and that corrupt intent is itself a crime (and an impeachable offense). In particular, most legal experts say that it's impossible to pardon someone for crimes which are *in the future*, or which are *continuing* at the time of the pardon. Make no mistake, Trump is still engaged in a criminal conspiracy with the fake charity "Trump Foundation" at the very least.
More relevantly, Trump has shown an unwillingness to resign.
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And incidentally, from following Sarah Palin's record before she got national attention, she actually had a very solid record as a *reformer* and a *good-government* type! Betcha didn't know that. She was fighting to remove self-dealing, kickback-taking, bribe-taking Republicans for her entire Alaska career.
(Palin is not very bright and rather ignorant, but she was much much cleaner than Frank Murkowski who she ran against. Credit where credit is due.)
This a million times. This actually is a simple solution...
Sometimes politicians avoid the simple, effective solution, and turn to something ineffective and destructive, because they want to express their displeasure with people who use recreational drugs. Or express their displeasure with women who have sex. Or with people who worship different gods, or no gods. Or whatever. This is what I consider evil political activity: hurting everyone in an ineffective attempt at "virtue signalling". Right-wingers seem to looooove pointless, meaningless virtue signalling.
I support legalization of all drugs. And I actually oppose the recreational use of drugs. It's just blatantly obvious that prohibition is counterproductive. So let's cut it out.
Likewise, it's well past time to legalize prostitution; making it illegal has only hurt the sex workers by putting them at threat from the police. They want it brought out in the open so abusive clients and abusive pimps can be arrested. Why not? Prohibition certainly hasn't reduced prostitution, but prohibition has increased kidnapping and sex trafficking. This doesn't mean I think prostitution is a good *idea*.
After looking at the history of communism, I also think we should legalize private for-profit business. It seems to be impossible to stamp it out, and trying to prohibit it seems to cause lots of trouble and very little benefit. And that doesn't mean that I think private for-profit business is a *good* idea -- I don't think that "greed is good". Greed is bad, and we can see the problems with it in the greedy monopolistic international megacorporations. which have resulted -- but we should regulate and tax for-profit business, rather than prohibiting it, since prohibition doesn't work.
What I'm saying is, I'm practical. And a lot of people aren't: they're virtue-signalling with no attention to practicality.
U.S. China trade is about $636B per year ($506B from both China to U.S. and $130B from U.S to China in 2017). U.S. auto sales in China about $10B and China auto sales in U.S. about $1B, so automobile sales are less than 2% of the trade issue. One can't look at one sliver of the picture and say "We are right back where we were when he started."
That's because the *actual* problem, as many people in the tech industry and creative industries will tell you, is the US's brazen and ridiculous invention of "intellectual property". There is no such thing, and copyrights and patents have been extended well past any reasonable level. China's been doing this *right* and the US has been doing it *wrong*.... recently. China is actually following the same approach to "intellectual property" that the US followed in the 19th century, *and China knows that*, even if people in the US have forgotten this.
Simple solution: say no to Disney, slash copyright terms, get rid of "patents" on mathematics (which were never supposed to be legal), and leave trade secrets as the wild west (they're secret until someone finds them out, and then you're Sorry, Out of Luck).
No points for explaining why we haven't adopted the simple solution. (*cough* Disney)
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The very next time you present a post that dispenses medical advice - which this and more than a few prior posts of yours has done - you will be permanently banned from TMC.
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I claim writer's license. It would only be federal crimes, as with Ford pardon. Civil and state would remain hazards. Have you heard the one about the centipede and the wise old monkey of the jungle?
On resignation: It's his best choice, although the teller of that tale expects it to occur before a Democratic president is inaugurated next time.
You could do it at a per-state level, though (proportional within each state), without amending the Constitution. Easy. Wyoming, Alaska, etc. would still get their one representative each.
TheTalkingMule
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LOL...what a trainwreck. Apparently "communicable diseases and drugs" are flowing in from Mexico like crazy. Amazing that 48%of the populace buys this nonsense.
I smell a shutdown.
I smell a shutdown.
I smell Congress overriding a shutdown attempt. All Trump can do to attempt a shutdown is to veto a budget bill, and vetoes can be overridden.
Do you think Paul Ryan wants to retire on a government shutdown? I don't... he has nothing to lose by telling his caucus to override it.
I may be wrong, but I'm getting the whiff of dissension in the Republican ranks...
Do you think Paul Ryan wants to retire on a government shutdown? I don't... he has nothing to lose by telling his caucus to override it.
I may be wrong, but I'm getting the whiff of dissension in the Republican ranks...
lolachampcar
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I give Sarah a ton of credit. Sure, she was not smart enough not to jump in the infinitely deep end of the pool WHILE the sharks were circling below but she has since recovered and quickly learned how to make a significant buck playing the talking head role. I suspect she is reasonably bright but just let here ego get ahead of her then current capacity. What's that saying? Confidence, that feeling you have right before you face plant.
My quote clearly states “after six months”. There is still a lot of time on the clock. There is obvious progress being made and part of the reason is because the tariffs helped bring them to the negotiating table. Not sure why you replied to my quote with so much time left and progress being made.
I will also note that there was not one person that took me up on my proposal. I assume it is because there is a possibility of tariffs being lowered but nobody wants to give him credit.
My proposal still stands. Neroden, will you be the one to take me up on it? After six months at the time of the writing that post, if tariffs for Tesla are lower than 15% will you give Trump credit? If they are higher then I will admit he is a lying conman.
Sorry, didn't notice Pence was there as mannequin.
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MikeQ
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Disney got copyright laws changed. This has nothing to do with tech industry patents.
Fascinating reading all this. Heartland I will take you up on your bet for sure.
Will you then admit that trump is a serial womanizer who had sex with a porn start right after his son was born?
Will you admit that his pandering to the base about Obama not being a US citizen was a blatant lie?
On the point of legal drugs...why can't everyone agree this is by far the best way forward.
Please read "Chasing the scream"
Will you then admit that trump is a serial womanizer who had sex with a porn start right after his son was born?
Will you admit that his pandering to the base about Obama not being a US citizen was a blatant lie?
On the point of legal drugs...why can't everyone agree this is by far the best way forward.
Please read "Chasing the scream"
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