Is Trump Nuts?

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1KIKI

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 5:01 AM

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I SAID YOU WERE A DUMBSH*T FOR BELIEVING THE FAKE NEWS ABOUT HILLARY.

Really? Where?

MEANWHILE, I have yet to see you respond ON TOPIC, which was the point YOU MADE that all I was concerned about was moi. And I replied:

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Well, and everyone else and the rest of the entire planet that could be ashed and radiated to death, or perish in a nuclear winter.

Did those minor concerns that are - may I point out - NOT about me - escape your notice?

So, how about those minor concerns like 'everyone else and the rest of the entire planet that could be ashed and radiated to death, or perish in a nuclear winter'? Are they about me, or not?

Originally posted by G:
"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:50 AM

I just noticed this thread was about Obama wiretapping Trump, and perhaps about Obama illegally disseminating private phone content gleaned from that.

Gee Whiz, talk about a mislabeled Thread Title.

This thread seems more on point:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61444&mid=1
027379#1027379

SECOND

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:00 PM

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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
Automation increases what a worker can do. If a company has 100 workers, and automating some drudgery in the work place enables the company to do twice as much, only a relatively unimaginative company would selection reducing the staff to 50 as the only viable option.

If you can't think of anything else for your workers to do, you probably shouldn't be in business, and with 300,000 corporations competing in America, pretty soon, you probably won't be.

Coal is real life example where this kind of thinking is just wrong. As miners get 10 times more productive, the USA does not need 10 times more coal. Who would buy when 9 out of every 10 tons of coal produced are not needed for furnaces?

One of Trump’s crazier promises: Nine-tenths of coal miners are gone
www.wvgazettemail.com/gazette-columns/20170321/james-a-haught-nine-ten
ths-of-coal-miners-are-gone-gazette

The decline in coalmine jobs is glaringly visible in West Virginia.

Our state had 125,000 pick-and-shovel miners in 1950 when I was a teen. Most of the diggers lived in company-owned towns. Coal was the state’s throbbing pulse. Explosions killing scores of miners were common. Violent strikes were common.

In the 1950s, coal owners began replacing human miners with digging machines, and misery followed. Around 70,000 West Virginia miners lost their jobs and fled north via the “hillbilly highway” to Akron and Cleveland. But coal production remained high.

In the 1970s, longwall machines could produce 10 times as much coal with half as many workers. And more jobs vanished because mining switched to huge surface pits, where monster machines and explosives do the work. The number of West Virginia miners continued falling — to the 30,000s in the 1990s, then below 20,000 in the new 21st century. The slump worsened when horizontal drilling and hydraulic “fracking” loosed a flood of cheaper natural gas that grabbed coal markets. Official state figures put today’s total around 12,000.

During coal’s heyday, West Virginia was called the most unionized state — and it voted solidly Democratic. As jobs fizzled, so did organized labor. The state turned “red.” In 2016, Donald Trump vowed: “We’re going to get those miners back to work” — and West Virginia voted for him by one of the largest margins in America.

But even if Trump wipes out federal pollution and safety controls, I doubt that it will “get those miners back to work.” They would stand a better chance if Trump shifted enough federal funds to training for jobs of the future instead of easy but hollow promises that he can’t possibly keep.

The number of highly productive jobs in mining cannot grow without creating a glut of coal, driving down prices and constraining further growth in the wages paid to workers. Meanwhile, the technological capacity to eliminate costly labor in coal mining will continue to improve. To increase the number of coal miners back to what it was in 1950, Trump will have to write an executive order supporting Legacy Coal Mining. It’s all picks and shovels.

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

SECOND

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:20 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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You're showing a little too much bias. What I am saying is that Obama, with his high interest in the itty-bitty details of whatever the Pentagon was plotting in its wars ...
So basically what you're saying is that there are people in positions of authority .... in this case, the Pentagon .... who are plotting things that go against the President's plans?

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, that such a thing would happen!

The way the Pentagon prefers to run a mission is to not keep track of civilian deaths. It hates to give a body count sorted into categories: women, children. Then the local newspapers in Yemen keep track for the Pentagon. Then the Pentagon reads about it in the Yemen newspapers and denies it killed who it killed. When the same information makes it into the NYTimes because it sent reporters to the village the Pentagon attacked, the Pentagon denies that report, too. It can’t do anything but deny because it did not keep track. This is the Trump way, which fits very well with the way the Pentagon prefers to operate.
www.npr.org/2017/02/10/514378178/fact-check-trumps-yemen-raid-winning-
mission-or-failure-its-not-so-simple

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

SECOND

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 1:43 AM

I'm sure glad that Republicans are restoring the respect for America that we lost after eight years of that empty suit Barack Obama:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/the-offender-of-the-free
-world.html

When Donald Trump met Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany earlier this month, he put on one of his most truculent and ignorant performances. He wanted money — piles of it — for Germany’s defense, raged about the financial killing China was making from last year’s Paris climate accord and kept “frequently and brutally changing the subject when not interested, which was the case with the European Union.”

This was the summation provided by a senior European diplomat briefed on the meeting. Trump’s preparedness was roughly that of a fourth grader. He began the conversation by telling Merkel that Germany owes the United States hundreds of billions of dollars for defending it through NATO, and concluded by saying, “You are terrific” but still owe all that dough. Little else concerned him.

Trump knew nothing of the proposed European-American deal known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, little about Russian aggression in Ukraine or the Minsk agreements, and was so scatterbrained that German officials concluded that the president’s daughter Ivanka, who had no formal reason to be there, was the more prepared and helpful. (Invited by Merkel, Ivanka will attend a summit on women’s empowerment in Berlin next month.)

Merkel is not one to fuss. But Trump’s behavior appalled her entourage and reinforced a conclusion already reached about this presidency in several European capitals: It is possible to do business with Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but these officials are flying blind because above them at the White House rages a whirlwind of incompetence and ignorance.

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

6STRINGJOKER

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 1:47 AM

That's just a lot of negative spin by Trump haters Second.

I like how he handled that.

Merkel won't be a problem for anybody after she's voted out.

SECOND

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:05 AM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
That's just a lot of negative spin by Trump haters Second.

I like how he handled that.

Eventually he will handle it with "I can't recall" because Trump is having memory problems. Can’t remember Russian mobster Felix Sater.
http://whowhatwhy.org/2017/03/27/fbi-cant-tell-trump-russia/

Sater could simply walk up a flight of stairs to Trump’s office and stop in for an impromptu chat. Indeed, Sater and the Trump clan grew so close that in February 2006, at the personal request of Donald Trump, the mobster joined his children Ivanka, Donald Jr., and his son’s wife Vanessa in Moscow to show them around, according to his deposition testimony.

. . . a few years later, he could still be found in Trump Tower. But now he was apparently working directly for Trump himself, with an office, business cards, phone number and email address all provided by the Trump Organization. The cards identified him as a “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump.”

Today, Trump claims to have trouble remembering Sater.

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

DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:19 AM

I'm pretty sure that was an epic win for Trump, and I feel as if you're just confirming that, Second.

6STRINGJOKER

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:22 AM

To be fair, studies have shown that most human beings can only remember about 150 or so people. Years after high school I still remembered pretty much all the names of people I knew back then, but I'll admit that a lot of the names to the faces I still recall have escaped me now. My circle has never been that large at any other point in my life, so I can't speak from personal experience otherwise.

I'm not saying that he didn't intentionally "forget" this person. I'm not saying that maybe at his age his memory isn't escaping him. One of those things could be true. I'm just saying that there could be other reasons why he doesn't remember this person other than automatically accusing him of something.

Could be that this person who remembers spending time with Trump's family in 2006 hasn't been on his mind much in the last 11 years and was purged from the memory banks.

I guess everything is a nefarious conspiracy when you're looking for one though.

SECOND

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:14 PM

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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
I'm pretty sure that was an epic win for Trump, and I feel as if you're just confirming that, Second.

Epic win that is already paying dividends to the Trump Family. There will be other deals we will never know about:

A New York real estate company owned by the family of President Trump’s son-in-law has been negotiating to sell a $400 million stake in its Fifth Avenue flagship skyscraper to a Chinese insurance company with ties to leading families of the Communist Party.

The Chinese company, Anbang Insurance Group, would pay to get a high-profile piece of Manhattan real estate and would commit to spending billions more to completely transform the 60-year-old tower into a chic condominium and retail citadel.

If signed, the potential agreement would create a financial marriage of two politically powerful families in the world’s two biggest economies, but it would also present the possibility of glaring conflicts of interest. The Kushner family, owners of the tower, would reap a financial windfall courtesy of a Chinese company, even as Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to Mr. Trump as well as his son-in-law, helps oversee American foreign policy.

News of the negotiations surfaced as President Trump and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, were preparing for their first meeting, to be held next month.

www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/nyregion/kushner-companies-anbang-insurance
-group.html?_r=0

It could bring financial harmony at the top level of both superpowers. Perhaps this is how Firefly's corrupt Chinese/American Alliance began its rule of the Universe?

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

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