Is Trump Nuts?
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One of the central conceits of Trump’s presidential campaign was that all shortcomings of US public policy stemmed from the fact that the country’s previous political leaders were either stupid or corrupt.
Potential Canadian retaliation against Trump’s lumber measures reveals that, on the contrary, many issues are genuinely difficult. Every administration launches its share of trade policy actions, but it’s often hard to bring these disputes to a satisfactory resolution precisely because the other side also gets to retaliate. Foreign governments can often become quite clever at coming up with actions that maximize political damage to their American adversaries while minimizing economic costs to themselves.
A bar on American coal exports from the British Columbia port would be, in this sense, perfect. Trump has made big promises to the American coal industry and could pay a real price for failing to represent their interests. British Columbia, meanwhile, gains relatively little from being a way station between American coal and Asian power plants, and public opinion in Canada — where Trudeau is constantly walking a tightrope between trying to take action on climate change and trying to exploit Canada’s oil sands resources — would probably support banning American coal on environmental grounds alone.
Trump could, of course, always try to come up with a new tit-for-tat countermeasure in response. His problem in winning this kind of dispute, however, is that identifying clever trade war targets requires a fair degree of substantive policy knowledge — an area in which he is notably lacking.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/27/15444540/british-columbia-co
al-exports
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I'll give him more than 3 months to figure it out.
At least his foreign policy isn't bend over for everybody like Barry. Well... everyone but those we were already bombing and drone striking under GWB... Apparently, they could go fuck themselves.
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Once upon a time this thread was attempting to ridicule the accurate, pointed, and too-close-to-home revelations of the Obama illegal wiretapping of Trump.
Have all the Obamabot drones tired so much of denying the truth and facts, that they don't even bother addressing their denials, delusions, and dungheap talking points anymore?
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Quote:In other countries, law enforcement has no qualms about arresting ex-Presidents. South Korea, for example, arrested its ex-President. Bush hasn’t visited Europe since 2008, has he? He’s afraid of the law. If Obama broke the law then the FBI would have already arrested him. He’s not President. He can’t stop them. Same goes for Hillary and her email server. Yet, the FBI has done nothing. Obama and Hillary didn’t break the law. They have no immunity from law. But if you want to say they did break the law despite not being arrested, you are a nutcase. Seek help from a minister or psychologist.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Once upon a time this thread was attempting to ridicule the accurate, pointed, and too-close-to-home revelations of the Obama illegal wiretapping of Trump.
Have all the Obamabot drones tired so much of denying the truth and facts, that they don't even bother addressing their denials, delusions, and dungheap talking points anymore?
Bush cancels visit to Swiss charity gala over fears he could be arrested on torture charges
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354211/George-W-Bush-cancels-Switzer
land-visit-fears-arrest-torture-charges.html
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Actually, the FBI said that Hillary DID break the law.
The only reason she "got away" with it is because they found that she unknowingly broke the law. In the same breath they made a point of letting everybody else know that this was not going to be a get out of jail free card for anybody else.
Yeah. That was Comey who said that. I think you guys were trying to say that he is Trump's pet, right?
lol
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Quote:Do you often "unknowingly" spread falsehoods? There has never been a law that says if you "unknowingly" broke the law you didn't break the law. The "unknowingly" might influence the severity of the sentence the criminal eventually receives much later, but the criminal still get arrested in the here and now, if the cop (not the criminal) feels like obeying the law. And Comey had plenty of motivation to feel like arresting Hillary and let a judge sort it all out because the entire Republican Party was aware of every little detail of Comey investigating Hillary.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Actually, the FBI said that Hillary DID break the law.
The only reason she "got away" with it is because they found that she unknowingly broke the law. In the same breath they made a point of letting everybody else know that this was not going to be a get out of jail free card for anybody else.
Yeah. That was Comey who said that. I think you guys were trying to say that he is Trump's pet, right?
lol
The New York Times published a detailed story about why Comey did what he did. At every step of the way, Comey demonstrated either his fear of crossing Republicans or his concern over protecting his own reputation from Republican attacks after the election. He was not reacting to what Hillary did or knew. He only reacted to what Republicans might do to him or think of him.
www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html
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....As Trump is beginning to better understand the challenges—and the limits—of the presidency, his aides are understanding better how to manage perhaps the most improvisational and free-wheeling president in history. “If you’re an adviser to him, your job is to help him at the margins,” said one Trump confidante. “To talk him out of doing crazy things.”
www.politico.com/story/2017/04/27/the-education-of-donald-trump-237669
Go ahead and read the whole thing if you want to know how Trump is. The White House remains on a collision course between the president's fixed habits and the demands of his new job.
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Since his ascension to the White House, conventional wisdom has developed an odd tendency to describe Trump's inability to make major legislative changes as an indication that his presidency is failing. It's certainly true that Paul Ryan’s speakership of the House is failing, arguable that Mitch McConnell’s tenure as majority leader of the Senate is failing, and indisputably true that the Koch brothers’ drive to infuse hardcore libertarian ideological zeal into the GOP is failing.
But Trump isn’t failing. He and his family appear to be making money hand over fist. It's a spectacle the likes of which we've never seen in the United States, and while it may end in disaster for the Trumps someday, for now it shows no real sign of failure.
Details of how Trump grows wealthier are at "Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been a moneymaking success story"
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/28/15365438/donald-trump-100-da
ys-kleptocracy
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"I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump told Reuters in an interview. "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier." He was nuts to think that, then he went on to say something even nuttier.
The president has been at loggerheads with many news organizations since his election campaign and decided not to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday because he felt he had been treated unfairly by the media.
"I would come next year, absolutely," Trump said when asked whether he would attend in the future. Does Trump really think the News will be kinder and fairer to him once they get to know him better? Is he completely nuts or what? That is not how the News has ever worked with any President. Does Trump not understand this?
www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-100days-idUSKBN17U0CA
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Originally posted by second:
Do you often "unknowingly" spread falsehoods?
No. I do not.
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There has never been a law that says if you "unknowingly" broke the law you didn't break the law.
You're right. There isn't. Ignorance of the law is no excuse... Unless you're Hillary Clinton.
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The "unknowingly" might influence the severity of the sentence the criminal eventually receives much later, but the criminal still get arrested in the here and now, if the cop (not the criminal) feels like obeying the law. And Comey had plenty of motivation to feel like arresting Hillary and let a judge sort it all out because the entire Republican Party was aware of every little detail of Comey investigating Hillary.
The New York Times published a detailed story about why Comey did what he did. At every step of the way, Comey demonstrated either his fear of crossing Republicans or his concern over protecting his own reputation from Republican attacks after the election. He was not reacting to what Hillary did or knew. He only reacted to what Republicans might do to him or think of him.
www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html
It should have gone to trial. Why it still hasn't is another disappointment of mine since Trump has been elected.
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