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SECOND

Monday, April 2, 2018 7:53 PM

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Originally posted by JO753:
Silly to giv advise az if Trump iznt perfectly aware uv how much trouble he iz in. If therez anybody hoo knowz more about the crimez he can be charjed with than Mueller, its Trump.

Trump is unaware. Do you really think Trump is competent? He might actually believe what he said: Trump has publicly and privately said he should sit down with the special counsel. He has long expressed a belief he should be able to deliver his argument personally to Mueller, which is that his campaign did not collude with Moscow's election-meddling efforts in 2016. Trump has to be demented if he thinks saying "Believe Me" to Mueller will carry any weight with a prosecutor.

I just checked on Trump to see how well his brain is working on Monday morning. Holy Crap! Trump is idiot:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump • 1m

So sad that the Department of "Justice" and the FBI are slow walking, or even not giving, the unredacted documents requested by Congress. An embarrassment to our country!

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump • 25m
Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed. Also, our fully tax paying retailers are closing stores all over the country...not a level playing field!

Trump's comment "THEY LOSE A FORTUNE" shows that he knows nothing about the package delivery industry. If Trump's understanding is so screwed up about the Post Office there is no reason to think Trump really understands anything, including Robert Mueller.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, April 2, 2018 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Is there a problem with Rosanne's house?

We all can't live in Ivory Towers like you do in your mind from your mom's basement.
6ix, why are you not planning a better future for yourself? Are you waiting for your luck to spontaneously change because this America, the land of freedom?

I'm good. I'm not going to post again what I have been and what I am currently doing to improve my situation.

I will once again say that I'm the only one in here that seems to be doing that though, while the rest of you don't seem to have grown at all.

To be fair, I was quickly on my way to hitting rock bottom when we met. I had nowhere to go but up or death. And yes, I would have been dead by now if I hadn't started changing.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JO753

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 1:17 AM

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Originally posted by second:Trump is unaware. Do you really think Trump is competent? He might actually believe what he said: Trump has publicly and privately said he should sit down with the special counsel.

Megalomania and idiosy arent proof that he duznt know he conspired with Putin to steal the election. Every new name that pops up in the newz about Muellerz investigation wuz alredy known to Trump.

A month ago I coud believ he mite think he can con hiz way thru an interview with Mueller, but not now. "He knowz about that guy? That meanz he must know...."

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JO753

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 5:56 AM

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SECOND

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 4:18 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Is there a problem with Rosanne's house?

We all can't live in Ivory Towers like you do in your mind from your mom's basement.
6ix, why are you not planning a better future for yourself? Are you waiting for your luck to spontaneously change because this America, the land of freedom?

I'm good. I'm not going to post again what I have been and what I am currently doing to improve my situation.

I will once again say that I'm the only one in here that seems to be doing that though, while the rest of you don't seem to have grown at all.

To be fair, I was quickly on my way to hitting rock bottom when we met. I had nowhere to go but up or death. And yes, I would have been dead by now if I hadn't started changing.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6ix, if you are living in Indiana, a failing state, this is for you. Keep in mind there are 49 other states you could move to in order to avoid the failure of your local environment:

What’s the matter with Trumpland?

Regional disparities aren’t a new phenomenon in America. Indeed, before World War II the world’s richest, most productive nation was also a nation with millions of dirt-poor farmers, many of whom didn’t even have electricity or indoor plumbing. But until the 1970s those disparities were rapidly narrowing.

Take, for example, the case of Mississippi, America’s poorest state. In the 1930s, per-capita income in Mississippi was only 30 percent as high as per-capita income in Massachusetts. By the late 1970s, however, that figure was almost 70 percent — and most people probably expected this process of convergence to continue.

But the process went into reverse instead: These days, Mississippi is back down to only about 55 percent of Massachusetts income.

Mississippi isn’t an isolated case. As a new paper by Austin, Glaeser and Summers documents, regional convergence in per-capita incomes has stopped dead. And the relative economic decline of lagging regions has been accompanied by growing social problems: a rising share of prime-aged men not working, rising mortality, high levels of opioid consumption.
www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/saving-the-heartland-place-based-polic
ies-in-21st-century-america/

An aside: One implication of these developments is that William Julius Wilson was right. Wilson famously argued that the social ills of the nonwhite inner-city poor had their origin not in some mysterious flaws of African-American culture but in economic factors — specifically, the disappearance of good blue-collar jobs. Sure enough, when rural whites faced a similar loss of economic opportunity, they experienced a similar social unraveling.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/192111/when-work-disappears-by-willia
m-julius-wilson/9780679724179/

So what is the matter with Trumpland?

For the most part I’m in agreement with Berkeley’s Enrico Moretti, whose 2012 book, “The New Geography of Jobs,” is must reading for anyone trying to understand the state of America. Moretti argues that structural changes in the economy have favored industries that employ highly educated workers — and that these industries do best in locations where there are already a lot of these workers. As a result, these regions are experiencing a virtuous circle of growth: Their knowledge-intensive industries prosper, drawing in even more educated workers, which reinforces their advantage.
www.hmhbooks.com/newgeographyofjobs/

And at the same time, regions that started with a poorly educated work force are in a downward spiral, both because they’re stuck with the wrong industries and because they’re experiencing what amounts to a brain drain.

While these structural factors are surely the main story, however, I think we have to acknowledge the role of self-destructive politics.

That new Austin et al. paper makes the case for a national policy of aiding lagging regions. But we already

SECOND

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 4:32 PM

Trump speaks inappropriately to Easter Egg Hunting Children:

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This is a special year. Our country is doing great. You look at the economy, you look at what’s happening. Nothing’s ever easy, but we have never had an economy like we have right now, and we’re going to make it bigger and better and stronger. Our military is now at a level, will soon be at a level that it’s never been before. It’s, you see what’s happening, and you see what’s happening with funding, the funding of our military, which is so important. And so many military people are with us today, so, just think of 700 billion dollars, because that’s all going into our military this year.

Trump is petrified of losing support over his failure to fulfill various pledges.
https://goo.gl/voMsW2

You can tell what President Trump is afraid of by what he chooses to lie about. That means he must be petrified of losing support over his failure to build a single mile of the “big, beautiful” border wall he promised.

Trump is scared of a lot of things — special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, honest reporting by the news media, adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and, reportedly, sharks. But nothing seems to make him quake and tremble more than the fear that his core base will realize all his tough-guy huffing and puffing about Latino immigration was a bunch of hot air.

What I didn’t realize during the campaign was that Trump’s base realized he could never fulfill his absurd pledge to deport all of the estimated 11 million people who are here without papers. But his supporters did expect him to do something to stem what they see as an invasion — something concrete and unambiguous. Like the promised wall.

But a man with his name emblazoned on skyscrapers and golf courses around the globe, a man who fancies himself a master builder, has been unable to even begin construction of a new border wall. And some of the most vocal anti-immigration commentators — with influence among Trump’s base — have been getting restless.

I don’t know how to break this to you, folks, but Trump’s wall promise was no more serious than anything else that comes out of his mouth. His antipathy toward Latinos and non-whites is genuine, I trust, but his ability to follow through is pure counterfeit. With all of his heart, he hopes you’re too stupid to notice.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 5:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Is there a problem with Rosanne's house?

We all can't live in Ivory Towers like you do in your mind from your mom's basement.
6ix, why are you not planning a better future for yourself? Are you waiting for your luck to spontaneously change because this America, the land of freedom?

I'm good. I'm not going to post again what I have been and what I am currently doing to improve my situation.

I will once again say that I'm the only one in here that seems to be doing that though, while the rest of you don't seem to have grown at all.

To be fair, I was quickly on my way to hitting rock bottom when we met. I had nowhere to go but up or death. And yes, I would have been dead by now if I hadn't started changing.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
6ix, if you are living in Indiana, a failing state, this is for you. Keep in mind there are 49 other states you could move to in order to avoid the failure of your local environment:
www.chron.com/news/article/Express-lane-to-death-Texas-seeks-approval-
12799384.php

LOL. A failing state? That's not even worth a reply.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

THGRRI

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:05 PM

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/is-trump-s-corruption-the-key-to-sto
pping-him-1200826947833

New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait argues that it's not Russia or Stormy Daniels that can stop the president, but rather the disconnect between his campaign promises and his presidential corruption.
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SECOND

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

LOL. A failing state? That's not even worth a reply.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6ix, you've never given me the impression that you are the kind of guy making decisions based on hard facts. Trump voters are more about gooey feelings than hard facts. But, having written that, Indiana is rated 35th in Median Household Income by State, beating Puerto Rico, so you don't live in the worst shit-hole of all. Congratulations for your state's relative "success" in the bottom half of states! Indiana is not a complete failure! You should brag about it, although if you are making less than the median you are dragging your state down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SECOND

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/is-trump-s-corruption-the-key-to-sto
pping-him-1200826947833

New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait argues that it's not Russia or Stormy Daniels that can stop the president, but rather the disconnect between his campaign promises and his presidential corruption.

Why Isn’t Donald Trump Polling at 0%? It is around 40%.

Think how Trump is like Nixon. Even historically insane Nixonian levels of corruption and abuse of power aren’t likely to move the Republican base. The example given:

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My father, a staunch conservative Republican, continued his support for Richard Nixon through all of the revelations about his lies, corruption and obstruction of justice. In the end, dad finally abandoned him when the Oval Office tapes were published in book form because he couldn’t abide the frequency with which the president swore.

www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/04/why-isnt-donald-trump-polling-a
t-0/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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