TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
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Quote:It takes me two seconds. Perhaps it is time to reboot your Xfinity modem? Or something else technical like that.
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Shit this thread takes an hour to load. Is it a record?
Trump's Staff Sure Seems Eager to Tell the World He's an Imbecile
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/trumps-staff-sure-seems-eager-t
ell-world-hes-imbecile
Every new White House has lots of growing pains and plenty of leaks. But they never feature leak after leak after leak portraying the president as a boob. That's something new. This is truly bizarre and unique.
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Thanks SECOND. I was joking. I was just commenting on the length of the thread. Some of the video and picture laden threads do take a while though. Like you can't take the sky from me.
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Russia parliament votes 380-3 to decriminalize domestic violence
Russia's parliament voted 380-3 on Friday to decriminalize domestic violence in cases where it does not cause "substantial bodily harm" and does not occur more than once a year.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/27/russian-parliament-decri
miinalizes-domestic-violence/97129912/
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
Shit this thread takes an hour to load. Is it a record?
Are you still using the link to the "blue background"?
The updated site breaks up the threads in 50 posts that load up right away. It's going to take forever for you if you're actually loading every post in this thread.
Try fireflyfans.net
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Trump is laying the groundwork for the next financial crisis
There’s no great mystery as to how regulatory policy shaped primarily by the business interests of major banks will end — big profits, big bonuses, and eventually a big crash and a big bailout.
www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/12/bush200712
Bankers feel that if American banks weren’t regulated so much, they could do business more aggressively, which would be good for Trump’s friends. Trump’s choice of the COO of one giant bank as his top economic policy adviser and citation of the CEO of another giant bank as a leading authority on smart regulatory policy is a good sign of where he stands on this. His anecdote explaining that some of his rich friends are being told regulation is the reason they can’t get loans is, in its way, even more telling. Statistically speaking, there is more bank lending today than ever before. But it’s certainly true that if regulators allowed banks to engage in riskier behavior, some new risky bets could get made.
The downside, of course, would be a much more fragile economy.
But the genius of bank regulation as a policy area is that no matter how badly Trump screws it up, the odds are that on any given day, there won’t be a financial crisis anyway.
A poorly supervised financial system can pile on egregious hidden risks for fun and profit and suffer no obvious bad consequences for years. If it happens to blow up in an election year, of course, Trump is screwed.
But while dramatic moves on immigration, health care, and budget policy are sure to provoke immediate blowback, on bank regulation, it’s entirely plausible that Trump will sow the seeds of destruction and nobody will notice until reelection in 2020 is in the rearview mirror.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/8/14521806/trump-dodd-frank-rol
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Trump Caves In To Chinese
Behold the greatest negotiator our nation has ever seen:
President Donald J. Trump and President Xi Jinping of China had a lengthy telephone conversation on Thursday evening. The two leaders discussed numerous topics and President Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honor our "one China" policy.
A single sentence in a late-night press release from the White House was the least humiliating way Trump's aides could think of for publicly knuckling under to China.
December 12, 2016: Trump goes on Fox News Sunday to poke China: "I fully understand the 'one China' policy, but I don't know why we have to be bound by a 'one China' policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade."
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/after-silent-treatment-trump-ca
ves-chinese
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Trump’s conflicts of interest are multidirectional and comprehensive
A president would want to separate himself from ownership of operating businesses in order to insulate himself.
Liberal activists would have loved to hit Bush in the wallet while he was president, but they couldn’t — his financial assets were in a blind trust. Conservative activists, similarly, had no way to injure Obama’s portfolio, because his money was in diversified index funds.
Trump, by contrast, literally has his name stamped on things. Foreign governments that don’t like a Trump policy decision can take action against the factories that make Trump-branded apparel. Foreign terrorists can attack Trump-branded buildings located around the world. Protesters can try to shut down Trump’s golf courses. And boycott campaigns can urge retailers to stop carrying Trump-branded products. Trump could, of course, choose not to care about any of this.
But from Trump’s failure to comply with precedents around financial conflicts of interest to his actions over Nordstrom’s decision, he has shown that he clearly does care about his various businesses and brand-licensing ventures. The subsequent behavior of his staff shows that in a faction-ridden administration, the temptation to curry favor by operating on behalf of the Trump Family Business is unavoidable. And whether the net impact on Trump’s personal finances is positive or negative, the public debate will be repeatedly dragged away from the GOP’s policy agenda and toward the idiosyncratic personal and professional interests of the president and his family.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/10/14559744/donald-trump-vs-nor
dstrom-explained
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I think it's a lot better than having a president start with such a high approval rating that he gets the Nobel Peace prize for doing nothing and with a majority in the house and senate was able to do just about whatever the hell he wanted to his first two years in office. Funny how they never asked for that peace prize or the money back when he proved that to be totally false.
I think it's a good thing that his approval rating is low because I don't think any president should have that much sway, especially when the house and senate lean in their favor.
He's been in office 3 weeks. I think it's far too early to say anything he plans on doing has failed, or will fail. I don't think it's a bad thing that he is taking his time to fill the cabinet either. I don't think anybody besides the Clintons would argue that killing the TPP deal was a bad thing. America is just as white as it was 3 weeks ago.
Comparing inauguration sizes? Are we in high school again? lol
Obama promised a Hope and Change, an end to the wars in the middle east, and a better economy. All we got was more of the same, several new illegal wars without a congressional declaration of war, and the worst standard of living for the lower 50% of Americans since the Great Depression. It took him 8 full years of doing nothing for his people to get all of that done.
I'm going to give him a little bit more than 21 days before I start throwing out judgements.
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Those pissy democrats are doing their job. I for one like it when they're busy fighting each other. :)
You weren't going to have a high approval rating for Trump. Period. Our nation has become more and more divided, at least since the GWB years, and this election process was just terrible. I think we all know of at least one relationship that was destroyed or family members who are no longer talking to each other because of it.
Honestly, I have missed a lot of things. I am still suffering from a major case of burn out after that election. The only news I've really gotten since the election is from what you guys post here and what I hear other people talking about in real life. It's not as if I could do anything about anything now anyhow. No reason to get myself all stressed out again for the moment. I'm sure I'm going to have a lot of complaints about Trump after the first 100 days. I just hope that by then he has done some good things too.
Besides... I've got a couple of projects I've been working on IRL. Things I've been meaning to do for years but wasn't doing because I was drunk all the time. Once I rid myself of that clutter (and the clutter in my mind), and now that I'm sobering up and starting to feel like a human being again, I got bigger things to worry about like becoming employed again, even if it's not "gainfully".
The one great thing about America is no matter how bad the government is fucking everything else up, we still have a lot of freedom in our own life to change our own situations. Is anything going to be perfect? Nah... but there's always something you can do to make it better. Especially if you've let yourself go as far down the rabbit hole as I did. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by G:
I worry that he will get even more petulant and feel unappreciated and start screwing things up on purpose.
What has gone right for him so far:
1. Immigration ban - no
2. Biggest inauguration eva! - eh, no.
3. Bueno Wall - not gonna happen
4. Repeal and replace ACA - not this term
5. TPP - gift to China
6. Fix NATO - ?
7. Increase Ivanka's sales - no
8. Make America White Again - yes!
9. Lowest ratings for a new president - yes!
10. Slowest to get full cabinet - yes!
11. Keeping a safe house in Russia jic - yes!
Maybe ala George Costanza, he'd be more successful if he does the opposite of what he thinks he should do?
If the democrats wish to win back some of the one thousand legislative seats they have lost across the country in the last 8 years, they better stop insulting and cutting out of the heard they represent, the white working class.
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
If the democrats wish to win back some of the one thousand legislative seats they have lost across the country in the last 8 years, they better stop insulting and cutting out of the heard they represent, the white working class.
Yep.
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