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The President’s loud complaint to John Kelly one day was typical: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
“Which generals?” Kelly asked.
“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.
“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.
But, of course, Trump did not know that. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the President replied. In his version of history, the generals of the Third Reich had been completely subservient to Hitler; this was the model he wanted for his military. Kelly told Trump that there were no such American generals, but the President was determined to test the proposition.
During an Oval Office briefing that included Trump, Kelly, and Paul Selva, an Air Force general and the vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kelly joked in his deadpan way about the parade. “Well, you know, General Selva is going to be in charge of organizing the Fourth of July parade,” he told the President. Trump did not understand that Kelly was being sarcastic. “So, what do you think of the parade?” Trump asked Selva. Instead of telling Trump what he wanted to hear, Selva was forthright.
“I didn’t grow up in the United States, I actually grew up in Portugal,” Selva said. “Portugal was a dictatorship — and parades were about showing the people who had the guns. And in this country, we don’t do that.” He added, “It’s not who we are.”
Even after this impassioned speech, Trump still did not get it. “So, you don’t like the idea?” he said, incredulous.
“No,” Selva said. “It’s what dictators do.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20220808133145/https://www.newyorker.com/m
agazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Sad. I can smell the desperation coming off of you from my computer screen.
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House passes $700B bill that cuts costs for Medicare, targets tax cheats, boosts green energy
The U.S. House on Friday passed a sweeping spending package aimed at juicing green energy and reining in health care costs, sending the bill to the White House and delivering a major victory for Democrats just months before the midterms.
The roughly $700 billion package empowers Medicare to negotiate drug prices, extends funding for the Affordable Care Act for three years and includes close to $370 billion in federal funding to expand tax credits for electric vehicles and boost wind and solar power.
The Medicare changes will impact nearly 4.5 million Texans, limiting their out-of-pocket costs and capping the cost of insulin at $35 a month.
The so-called Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 also tweaks the tax code to target major corporations and tax cheats, which Democrats say will more than cover the costs of the legislation, driving down the federal deficit over the next decade.
It passed the House on a party line vote, with Democrats cheering it as a win for working people. Republicans called the legislation reckless.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220813113108/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/politics/texas/article/House-passes-700B-bill-that-cuts-costs-for-17370533.php
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I taught my kids about democracy by letting them vote on which movie to watch and pizza to order.
And then I picked the movie and pizza I wanted because I'm the one with the money.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:I have to wonder ... why do you even bother to virtue-signal?
Originally posted by second:
I taught my kids about democracy by letting them vote on which movie to watch and pizza to order.
And then I picked the movie and pizza I wanted because I'm the one with the money.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I have to wonder ... why do you even bother to virtue-signal?
Originally posted by second:
I taught my kids about democracy by letting them vote on which movie to watch and pizza to order.
And then I picked the movie and pizza I wanted because I'm the one with the money.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Especially when he doesn't have any kids with his fake wife.
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Originally posted by second:
House passes $700B bill that cuts costs for Medicare, targets tax cheats, boosts green energy
It does none of those things.
You'll see.
Oh... P.S.
There's not a single coal burning car on the market today that will be subsidized by taxing poor people that qualifies for the subsidy.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/ev-tax-credits
Not a single coal burning car on the road in the world would qualify. I can't wait to see the backlash from all the stupid rich white Democrats that believe everything the media tells them, since they never change the channel from CNN or MSNBC and they don't get the credit they were told to think that they'd get.
Oh...
And about that tax credit.
Even though it doesn't qualify, Ford raised the prices on it's coal burning F-150 Lightning by, you guessed it, an average of $7,500 per vehicle on August 9th.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/09/ford-raises-f-150-lightning-prices-a
cross-the-board/
There goes the subsidy anyhow.
Now poor people can help you pay Ford a subsidy every time you buy a coal burning vehicle from them.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I taught my kids about democracy by letting them vote on which movie to watch and pizza to order.
And then I picked the movie and pizza I wanted because I'm the one with the money.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Just wanted to pop this up again so THUGR and CAPN see what SECOND thinks of democracy. (This is, btw, a well-known joke.) In case, yanno, they think he's some sort of patriot.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:What are you signalling when you misunderstand the simplest ideas? When you show the world you are an ignoramus? For example, see Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin signaling today that Social Security and Medicare could be "improved" by his ideas about fiscal efficiency and annual budgeting. There is something else going on here, something the Republican Senator is not explaining. What is that something? Killing Social Security and Medicare without mentioning killing. Even the writer of the story almost, but not quite, missed that point, once somebody pointed it out:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I have to wonder ... why do you even bother to virtue-signal?
Published: Aug. 15, 2022 at 2:37 p.m. ET
Should Social Security be eliminated as a federal entitlement program? Or would that ‘end the program as you know it’?
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson wants to ‘turn everything into discretionary spending’
Social Security and Medicare are two of the government’s mandatory spending programs — and popular ones at that — but one senator has suggested changing that label, making them vulnerable to annual budget cuts every year.
Under the current structure, Social Security and Medicare budgets are automatically approved and paid out, but under Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s plan, Congress would have the chance to review and edit these programs’ budgets every year.
Johnson did not respond to MarketWatch’s request for comment by deadline.
But critics say Johnson’s proposal could be detrimental to Social Security and Medicare, giving politicians an opportunity to cut spending for beneficiaries.
“It’s another way of saying let’s end the program as you know it,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, which advocates for expanding the program. Workers contribute to the program throughout their careers and expect to receive a benefit when they retire, she said, switching the program from a mandatory spending budget line to a discretionary one would leave those benefits “to the whims of Congress.”
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220815194342/https://www.marketwatch.com
/story/should-social-security-be-eliminated-as-a-federal-entitlement-program-or-would-that-end-the-program-as-you-know-it-11660588622
Wouldn’t it be nice if Social Security and Medicare stopped paying, or shutdown, every single time the Federal Government was shutdown by Republican Senators wishing to make a statement about the Federal budget? There have been many shutdowns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_State
s#List_of_federal_shutdowns
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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SECOND, what are you accomplishing when you tag me with statements I haven't made? Aside from looking like a dick, that is.
Do I defend ALL Republicans? No.
Do I attack ALL government programs? No.
I just think that if our politicians (both parties) spent more time defending the interests of their constituents instead of promoting the interests of their wealthy contributors we, the people, would be a lot farther ahead
Remember, pity (and many government programs) would be no more (or not so big) if someone were not MAKING someone poor. FDR wasn't supporting "the people" with his government programs, he was trying to save "capitalism" (such as it was) from itself (and the huge wealth inequality it had built up.)
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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