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04-24-2017 , 02:42 PM
Looks like we're back to deficits don't matter

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President Donald Trump has ordered White House aides to accelerate efforts to draft a tax plan slashing the corporate rate to 15% and prioritizing cuts in tax rates over an attempt to not increase the deficit, according to a person familiar with the directive.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-w...-15-1493057898



https://twitter.com/SeanMcElwee/stat...37190837686274

Last edited by Huehuecoyotl; 04-24-2017 at 02:52 PM.
04-24-2017 , 02:49 PM
The US Embassy in the UK is promoting Mar-a-Lago on its website.

https://uk.usembassy.gov/mar-lago-winter-white-house/
04-24-2017 , 03:19 PM
why is PB holding a giant fork?
04-24-2017 , 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by einbert
The US Embassy in the UK is promoting Mar-a-Lago on its website.

https://uk.usembassy.gov/mar-lago-winter-white-house/
This sort of stuff is why Trump's corruption isn't actually a threat to the Republic. He is a short term grifter down to the center of his soul. He has the entire apparatus of the state at his disposal and literally cannot think of anything beyond using official websites for advertising. This is the most American ****.
04-24-2017 , 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by revots33
Latest poll has 96% of Trump voters saying they'd vote for him again. They are so dumb.
I believe that another part of that poll said that Trump would win the popular vote against Clinton if the vote was held today. They had him winning 43-40. I don't know if anyone has pointed it out already but the conclusion is obviously wrong. The numbers give it away. Trump's number coincides with the quote above. But in the case of Clinton it is clear that many of those who didn't like her but hated Trump felt inclined to answer the question without worrying that declining to choose Clinton could make Trump president. In other words everyone knows that much of that other 17% would switch back to Clinton in a real election, and therefore should realize that the results of the paper's poll was spurious.
04-24-2017 , 04:14 PM
He didn't win the popular vote before, he sure as **** wouldn't win it now
04-24-2017 , 04:19 PM
Former Fox News anchor and correspondent Heather Nauert will be the new U.S. State Department spokeswoman.

Nauert was most recently an anchor for Fox News' morning news show "Fox and Friends"
04-24-2017 , 04:32 PM
that's hilarious
04-24-2017 , 04:35 PM
It's the only way to get trump to listen to his state department.
04-24-2017 , 04:41 PM
Another Trump appointment with absolutely no motive behind it. State-run media, or media-run state? Sucks both ways I guess.
04-24-2017 , 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
I believe that another part of that poll said that Trump would win the popular vote against Clinton if the vote was held today. They had him winning 43-40. I don't know if anyone has pointed it out already but the conclusion is obviously wrong. The numbers give it away. Trump's number coincides with the quote above. But in the case of Clinton it is clear that many of those who didn't like her but hated Trump felt inclined to answer the question without worrying that declining to choose Clinton could make Trump president. In other words everyone knows that much of that other 17% would switch back to Clinton in a real election, and therefore should realize that the results of the paper's poll was spurious.
In my opinion that's a terribly worded question and the pollster is almost guilty of shading the results by asking it that way. Noone wants to say they "regret" their vote, especially not just 100 days in. And even if they end up hating Trump, they can still say they didn't "regret" their vote because they still hate Hillary for whatever reason.
04-24-2017 , 05:10 PM
I'm just thinking, if the Senate & House committees are both stalled on Russia, it probably means the FBI has a ****-ton of information than it never handed over to them; much more than we would suspect, and maybe even enough to implicate Republican committee members (such as Nunes).

Seth brought up a good point before. Why is the House committee calling the former Director of National Intelligence, who knows virtually nothing, to testify instead of the current DNI? IMO, It could be because he can't tell what he knows to the public OR to the committee itself.

EDIT: If the FBI is also stalled, WAAF right? Or is there still a chance for an independent commission?

Last edited by Our House; 04-24-2017 at 05:18 PM.
04-24-2017 , 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by einbert
The US Embassy in the UK is promoting Mar-a-Lago on its website.

https://uk.usembassy.gov/mar-lago-winter-white-house/
How can this **** be legal?
04-24-2017 , 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by El_Timon
How can this **** be legal?
It's OK if a Republican does it.
04-24-2017 , 06:16 PM
Mar-a-Lago obv the place for international meetings, both secret and public.
04-24-2017 , 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Autocratic
This sort of stuff is why Trump's corruption isn't actually a threat to the Republic. He is a short term grifter down to the center of his soul. He has the entire apparatus of the state at his disposal and literally cannot think of anything beyond using official websites for advertising. This is the most American ****.


It's the other ****ers who will that are the problem



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04-24-2017 , 06:31 PM
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Now, new research by the Forward has revealed that Gorka’s use of a special lower-case “v.” insignia in his signature, which the Vitézi Rend allows only sworn members to use, goes back much further than previously known.

In articles he published in 1998, when he was 28 years old, and then in 1999, Gorka signed his name “Sebestyén L. v. Gorka,” using the Hungarian honorific abbreviation for “Vitez,” which is reserved exclusively for sworn members of the Vitézi Rend order.

The articles predated the death of Gorka’s father by several years, making his assertion that he simply inherited the title from his father, as he has claimed, seemingly impossible.
Hahahahaha. Who was it that had to trot out every time and defend Gorka? Time to strap on the armor and go back at it because Forward just keeps the slow drip of Gorka/ right wing Nazi connections

http://forward.com/news/369683/exclu...-back-decades/
04-24-2017 , 06:37 PM
LOOOOOOL SUSHY

RIP
04-24-2017 , 06:38 PM
What did Sushy do?
04-24-2017 , 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese
Free college and student debt relief was a campaign platform of Bernie in the primary, and then Hillary in the general. Not sure how you can appeal to young people any more than that. Support for Planned Parenthood also should primarily appeal to women under 30. Climate change is a young person's issue, too, in the sense that it is not the olds who will suffer the most disastrous consequences. The imperative for millennials to vote Democratic in November should have been even clearer than for older groups.

That being said, ASAP and 2Out's handwringing about turnout seems exaggerated. I've read that millennial turnout was comparable to 2012, and that the same number voted for Romney as Trump.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgo...ennials-voted/
50% is still too low. And overall it was 55.5%. Remember, all it takes for HRC to win Michigan with respect to millennials would be 40-50K more of them showing up.
04-24-2017 , 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by GermanGuy
In case this comment was on "Stolperstein":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein
Thanks for posting this link, I didn't know about these. Very powerful.
04-24-2017 , 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by danspartan
Don't worry, he'll definitely higher ratings. All he has to do is be responsible for more deaths than 9/11, which shouldn't be hard by the time he finishes presidenting.
04-24-2017 , 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by champstark
I may have missed this in the beginning of this thread, but Alabama and Mississippi state offices are closed today for Confederate Memorial Day.
Forever striving to be 49th and 50th
04-24-2017 , 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Our House
I'm just thinking, if the Senate & House committees are both stalled on Russia, it probably means the FBI has a ****-ton of information than it never handed over to them; much more than we would suspect, and maybe even enough to implicate Republican committee members (such as Nunes).

Seth brought up a good point before. Why is the House committee calling the former Director of National Intelligence, who knows virtually nothing, to testify instead of the current DNI? IMO, It could be because he can't tell what he knows to the public OR to the committee itself.

EDIT: If the FBI is also stalled, WAAF right? Or is there still a chance for an independent commission?
I'm sure they got enough, not sure about Nunes, but Susan Rice, Obama and Hillary is doomed

Last edited by yeSpiff; 04-24-2017 at 07:06 PM. Reason: hard facts
04-24-2017 , 07:06 PM

      
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