Is Trump Nuts?
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Lol SECOND, I quoted you before pointing out what you posted to 6 was way beyond his reading comprehension skills. I see he still doesn't get it. It's just to funny.
Hey, you may want to try telling 6 directly, 6, I am talking to you. Or 6, I am not talking to you. It's just to funny.
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You still expect I'm posting to answer your questions. Once in awhile I'll take the bait, but I can tell I'm wasting my time on you because you've got a serious problem with understanding the world as it actually is rather than your simple-minded model of how the world works.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Haha! Good luck getting a straight answer out of Second.
Incoming link to another vaguely related story to deflect your questions in 3..... 2...... 1....
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Quote:A test of 6stringJoker's reading skills:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Lol SECOND, I quoted you before pointing out what you posted to 6 was way beyond his reading comprehension skills. I see he still doesn't get it. It's just to funny.
Hey, you may want to try telling 6 directly, 6, I am talking to you. Or 6, I am not talking to you. It's just to funny.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/24/15375206/respect-trump-voter
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If you really respect Trump voters, tell them the truth:
Trump's nostalgia economics won’t work.
A wave of recent columns argue that what Trump superfans — or at least some hazily imagined, hard-pressed Northern working-class version of them — really want is respect. By all appearances, though, the opposite is the case. Those voters want what most voters want from politicians: to be disrespected, via shameless pandering and the occasional blatant lie.
This was true of the men I spoke to in Bucksport, Maine, in the summer of 2016 who’d never backed a GOP presidential candidate before but were drawn to Donald Trump on the theory that he could bring back the shuttered Verso paper mill — whose closure devastated the community. They seemed most of all to want to be told that reopening the mill was a realistic dream, even though it almost certainly is not.
That doesn’t make Trump fans unique. It makes them normal. Politicians who tell liberals that overturning Citizens United would solve all their problems or that an aggressive crackdown on fossil fuel use would magically usher in a bonanza of well-paid green jobs are, similarly, misleading their constituents and not respecting them.
But if you really respect people and really want to help them, you need to level with them at some point.
More at www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/24/15375206/respect-trump-voter
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Whether or not you agree with what they say about policies in the article, it's about having an honest discussion. Not possible here. Quote:
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A test of 6stringJoker's reading skills:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Lol SECOND, I quoted you before pointing out what you posted to 6 was way beyond his reading comprehension skills. I see he still doesn't get it. It's just to funny.
Hey, you may want to try telling 6 directly, 6, I am talking to you. Or 6, I am not talking to you. It's just to funny.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/24/15375206/respect-trump-voter
s-truth
If you really respect Trump voters, tell them the truth:
Trump's nostalgia economics won’t work.
A wave of recent columns argue that what Trump superfans — or at least some hazily imagined, hard-pressed Northern working-class version of them — really want is respect. By all appearances, though, the opposite is the case. Those voters want what most voters want from politicians: to be disrespected, via shameless pandering and the occasional blatant lie.
This was true of the men I spoke to in Bucksport, Maine, in the summer of 2016 who’d never backed a GOP presidential candidate before but were drawn to Donald Trump on the theory that he could bring back the shuttered Verso paper mill — whose closure devastated the community. They seemed most of all to want to be told that reopening the mill was a realistic dream, even though it almost certainly is not.
That doesn’t make Trump fans unique. It makes them normal. Politicians who tell liberals that overturning Citizens United would solve all their problems or that an aggressive crackdown on fossil fuel use would magically usher in a bonanza of well-paid green jobs are, similarly, misleading their constituents and not respecting them.
But if you really respect people and really want to help them, you need to level with them at some point.
More at www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/24/15375206/respect-trump-voter
s-truth
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Quote:You're expecting them to publicly agree to reverse themselves on Trump, either for him or against him. Privately, that might happen but there is nowhere on the internet, not just at fireflyfans.net, where that has ever happened in public. Now on with the continuing story of Trump. In the episode where Trump does his latest parody of being wise and well-informed:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Whether or not you agree with what they say about policies in the article, it's about having an honest discussion. Not possible here.
Trump demands federal funding for a border wall he promised Mexico would pay for. He has leaned heavily on the argument that the wall is the only way to stop illegal drugs from coming across the Southwest border.
“The Wall is a very important tool in stopping drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth (and many others)!” the president tweeted this week. “If the wall is not built, which it will be, the drug situation will NEVER be fixed the way it should be!”
But experts on the drug trade say a border wall, even one as big and beautiful as Trump promised, would be near-impotent in stemming the supply of illegal drugs.
The primary reason? Drugs that flow across the Southwest border, like heroin, are primarily transported through existing border checkpoints via cars and trucks. Those checkpoints will be there whether the wall gets built or not.
Mexican drug cartels “transport the bulk of their drugs over the Southwest border through ports of entry (POEs) using passenger vehicles or tractor trailers,” the DEA writes in its 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment. “The drugs are typically secreted in hidden compartments when transported in passenger vehicles or comingled with legitimate goods when transported in tractor trailers.”
Trump does not know it but his administration knows this. At an April hearing, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly acknowledged that illegal drugs “mostly come through the ports of entry.” At a separate hearing in February, the director of a customs border task force told lawmakers that “the Southwest land border POEs are the major points of entry for illegal drugs, where smugglers use a wide variety of tactics and techniques for concealing drugs.”
Maybe Trump should talk to his own people? Or is that too much work?
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/25/the-1-reason-why-trumps
-wall-wont-fix-the-drug-problem/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Polls show he has lost 2% of his followers. But no, you're right. Many still don't acknowledge they voted for him in the first place. More statistics show when called by a real person, more said they didn't vote Trump than when answering to a recording. Those of his voters who are not ideologues, are saying it is still to soon to say if they have made a mistake. Quote:
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You're expecting them to publicly agree to reverse themselves on Trump, either for him or against him. Privately, that might happen but there is nowhere on the internet, not just at fireflyfans.net, where that has ever happened in public. Now on with the continuing story of Trump. In the episode where Trump does his latest parody of being wise and well-informed:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Whether or not you agree with what they say about policies in the article, it's about having an honest discussion. Not possible here.
Trump demands federal funding for a border wall he promised Mexico would pay for. He has leaned heavily on the argument that the wall is the only way to stop illegal drugs from coming across the Southwest border.
“The Wall is a very important tool in stopping drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth (and many others)!” the president tweeted this week. “If the wall is not built, which it will be, the drug situation will NEVER be fixed the way it should be!”
But experts on the drug trade say a border wall, even one as big and beautiful as Trump promised, would be near-impotent in stemming the supply of illegal drugs.
The primary reason? Drugs that flow across the Southwest border, like heroin, are primarily transported through existing border checkpoints via cars and trucks. Those checkpoints will be there whether the wall gets built or not.
Mexican drug cartels “transport the bulk of their drugs over the Southwest border through ports of entry (POEs) using passenger vehicles or tractor trailers,” the DEA writes in its 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment. “The drugs are typically secreted in hidden compartments when transported in passenger vehicles or comingled with legitimate goods when transported in tractor trailers.”
Trump does not know it but his administration knows this. At an April hearing, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly acknowledged that illegal drugs “mostly come through the ports of entry.” At a separate hearing in February, the director of a customs border task force told lawmakers that “the Southwest land border POEs are the major points of entry for illegal drugs, where smugglers use a wide variety of tactics and techniques for concealing drugs.”
Maybe Trump should talk to his own people? Or is that too much work?
www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/25/the-1-reason-why-trumps
-wall-wont-fix-the-drug-problem/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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And Second doesn't disappoint! 
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Quote:I saw an article this morning that mentioned Herbert Hoover, despite his incompetent handling of the Great Depression, still got 80 percent of his previous vote total during his doomed reelection bid. Trump has now got a nearly perfect 96 percent lock on Trump voters. But what might keep Trump from serving 8 years are the people who did not vote for either Trump or Hillary.
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Maybe Trump should talk to his own people? Or is that too much work?
Trump IS a man of the people. Really. Having Trump as president is like having my neighbor suddenly plucked out of his house and life and made president. I can just hear Dan say, "Huh? Who know Health Care could be so complicated?" Dan also watches Fox, and parrots pretty much everything they say.
I find Trump's stubbornness and lack of focus, ie, his inability to LEARN, one of the most troubling things. Now he's going back to his vendetta against the ACA, tax reform in a week, The Wall (terrible movie), he's in a loop of failure, too stubborn to take on what might actually work, just "force it! I will not be denied!"
I met a traveller from an antique land . . .
Trump’s inability to win over the majority of voters who backed a rival candidate is a much bigger deal than his skill at retaining the support of most of the people who already voted for him. The big question in American politics is whether Trump’s opponents can find a platform and set of candidates that unite the diverse and somewhat diffuse anti-Trump majority, not whether the president’s fans continue to celebrate him.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/25/15399028/trump-supporters-ov
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Trump’s White House is obsessed with how its first 100 days will be scored in the media. It’s a ridiculous, arbitrary marker and Trump himself has even said so. But he’s the most media-obsessed president of all time and The Trump White House is very concerned about how it will be graded on its first 100 days. Trump himself has called the marker “ridiculous.” But he clearly cares about it profoundly, which is why he’s out there telling absurd lies about the scale of his achievements and having his press office release an error-riddled comparison of Trump’s 100 days to his predecessors.
Trump was, of course, right the first time. It’s an entirely meaninglessly milestone. But in his desperation to put points on the board, the White House is suddenly jamming the last week of his 100 days with a crowded agenda of half-baked policy items. He’s got a new health care bill that hasn’t been scored by the CBO, suddenly has a plan to totally rewrite the tax code, but still needs congress to avert a government shutdown, while he picks obscure fights with Canada.
It’s an approach to government that prioritizes good cable news segments over good governance and it’s ridiculous.
Normal presidents downplay the 100 days cliché. Trump is letting it control him this week. Has the situation driven him momentarily crazy because the 100th day deadline is on Saturday?
www.vox.com/2017/4/26/15413388/trump-100-days-obsession
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Yesterday Trump revealed his tax plan. It is one page. That is less than his four page tax plan from the campaign. He had 100 days to work on it and the new plan is less detailed than the old. Real plans get more detailed with time. Trump should have released this plan earlier, on April Fool’s Day.
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/trump-tax-reform.pdf
There are good reasons, short reasons, to think Trump’s tax plan is a huge boon for corporations and the rich, which pleases me.
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/04/trump-tax-plan-unveiled
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/04/one-chart-shows-how-trump-tax-p
lan-will-totally-pay-itself
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Trump was, of course, right the first time. It’s an entirely meaninglessly milestone.
Yeah, no kidding.
To some, Trump was the worst president we've ever had the second they realized he won....
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