Is Trump Nuts?

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SECOND

Friday, March 31, 2017 4:03 PM

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Epic win that is already paying dividends to the Trump Family.

Let's hope so. That running for president stuff is expensive, and captain hairpiece and his cadet flirtsalot are both on no salary
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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.

Oh look, I found the jew.
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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.
He should keep his eye on his last marriage before it spends too much quality time with Justin Trudeau

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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?
It's been going for many years.

The Chinese turned down the deal, so this is NOT a step along the way to Firefly's Chinese/American Alliance:

In a happy moment in the otherwise cloudy world of the Trump family and the flood of financial conflicts they’ve carted into Washington, a major Chinese investor has decided not to pour billions of dollars into a Manhattan skyscraper owned by the Jared Kushner clan.

Had this deal gone forward -- the effect would have been to bail Kushner out of a huge, misbegotten investment while letting his family take home at least $400 million and retain a minority ownership stake in the building -- it would have compromised President Donald Trump's diplomacy with China.

www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-29/senators-please-ask-jared-k
ushner-about-666-fifth-avenue

Now the Trump son-in-law is asking Russians to make him rich. From the same article:

Kushner's meetings with Russian bankers during the presidential transition last fall and winter apparently help explain why the Senate is interested in speaking with him.

The timeline matters. Kushner began talking with Chinese investors about 666 Fifth Avenue last summer, around the time that Trump locked up the Republican nomination. Then he spearheaded more serious talks that took place in New York about a week after his father-in-law was elected in November.

According to the Times, Kushner met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, in early December as part of what appeared to be normal presidential transition meetings. A second Kislyak meeting with a Kushner deputy followed in December, as well as another, brokered by Kislyak, between Kushner and the head of a Russian bank, Vnesheconombank. The U.S. had imposed financial sanctions on that bank because of Russian President Vladimir Putin's military incursions in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.

Vnesheconombank has close ties to the Kremlin and its chief executive, Sergey Gorkov, attended a training academy for members of Russia's security and intelligence services.

A Trump spokeswoman described Kushner's meetings with the Russians as routine, which they may have been given his role at the time as Trump's liaison to foreign powers.

But given how important 666 Fifth Avenue was for Kushner at the time, it's also possible that he saw the Russians as potential investors alongsi

6STRINGJOKER

Friday, March 31, 2017 4:08 PM

Leave no stone unturned Second. I'm sure you'll come up with something.

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Friday, March 31, 2017 4:13 PM

Trump appears not to care about science. CAN THIS REALLY BE TRUE??? Trump's problem with science is (a) it's bo-o-o-o-o-ring, (b) it's depressing, and (c) it often clashes with stuff Trump wants to do. Why would Trump staff the egghead department, anyway?

www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/science-technology-white-house-
trump.html

On the fourth floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the staff of the White House chief technology officer has been virtually deleted, down from 24 members before the election to, by Friday, only one.

....Mr. Trump has not yet named his top advisers on technology or science, and so far, has made just one hire: Michael Kratsios, the former chief of staff for Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor and one of the president’s wealthiest supporters, as the deputy chief technology officer.

Neither Mr. Kratsios, who has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Princeton, nor anyone else still working in the science and technology office regularly participates in Mr. Trump’s daily briefings, as they did for President Barack Obama. “The impression this leaves is that Trump isn’t interested in science and that scientific matters are a low priority at the White House,” said Vinton G. Cerf, a computer scientist, vice president of Google and one of the chief architects of the internet.

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

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Friday, March 31, 2017 4:29 PM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
Leave no stone unturned Second. I'm sure you'll come up with something.

Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is asking for an immunity deal. Flynn had a different view of immunity when discussing the Hillary Clinton email investigation on Meet the Press during the campaign season:

“I mean, five people around her have had, have been given immunity, including her former chief of staff,” Flynn told Chuck Todd. “When you are given immunity, that means that you have probably committed a crime.”

www.vox.com/2017/3/30/15132280/michael-flynn-immunity-testify

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

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Friday, March 31, 2017 5:03 PM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
Leave no stone unturned Second. I'm sure you'll come up with something.

Taxpayers pick up the tab for Trump’s pricey golf excursions.

Each golf trip costs taxpayers more than $3 million.

Trump family travel and protection costs will surpass half-a-billion dollars by the end of Trump’s four-year term, vastly more than has been spent for any other president. This despite Trump promising “I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done.”

www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-trump-golf-20170327-st
ory.html

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

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Friday, March 31, 2017 5:54 PM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
Leave no stone unturned Second. I'm sure you'll come up with something.

“My action today is the latest in a series of steps to create American jobs and to grow American wealth,” President Trump said earlier this week before a group of coal miners.

Trump was announcing the rollback of several Obama-era environmental regulations that would have affected industries such as coal mining. Trump has repeatedly claimed that over-regulation has led to a decline in coal-industry jobs.

“I made them this promise,” Trump said at the signing. “We will put our miners back to work.”

Experts in the industry have already pointed out, repeatedly, that the coal jobs are extremely unlikely to come back. The plight of the coal industry is more a function of changing energy markets and increased demand for natural gas than anything else.

The chief executive of the nation's largest privately held coal operation told the Guardian earlier this month that Trump “can't bring back.”

Another largely overlooked point about coal jobs is that there just aren't that many of them relative to other industries. There are various estimates of coal-sector employment, but according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns program, which allows for detailed comparisons with many other industries, the coal industry employed 76,572 people in 2014, the latest year for which data is available.

That number includes not just miners but also office workers, sales staff and all of the other individuals who work at coal-mining companies.

Although 76,000 might seem like a large number, consider that similar numbers of people are employed by, say, the bowling (69,088) and skiing (75,036) industries. Other dwindling industries, such as travel agencies (99,888 people), employ considerably more. Used-car dealerships provide 138,000 jobs. Theme parks provide nearly 144,000. Carwash employment tops 150,000.

Looking at the level of individual businesses, the coal industry in 2014 (76,572) employed about as many as Whole Foods (72,650), and fewer workers than Arby's (close to 80,000), Dollar General (105,000) or J.C. Penney (114,000). The country's largest private employer, Walmart (2.2 million employees) provides roughly 28 times as many jobs as coal.

If anything the numbers above over-estimate the jobs impact of coal relative to other industries. Since 2014 the coal industry has shrunk further according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to 50,300 employees as of February 2017.

The point isn't that coal jobs don't matter — they matter to the people who have them and to the communities they support, especially as they typically pay far more than do jobs in the retail and service industries, But if you're looking to make a meaningful increase in the number of jobs available to U.S. workers, bringing back coal jobs isn't going to do it.

Of course, part of the fixation on coal is because mining has always loomed large in the American imagination. There's something mysterious and ennobling about the dangerous endeavor to extract valuable commodities from deep within the earth, something that's missing from, say, used-car sales or ski-lift operation.

There's also a larger economic debate about coal's impact on the economy, given the large role it plays in generating the nation's electricity. But while the industry's impact is large, its payrolls aren't.

The other thing about coal is that unlike retail and other industries, coal is highly concentrated in certain regions. When coal mines shut down, towns go under. National media sends reporters and TV crews to those towns, and the resulting coverage can make coal's impact on national employment levels feel much larger than it actually is.

That national impact is only likely to get smaller, regardless of Trump's actions. Even a quarter-century ago, the coal industry employed only 131,000 people. If Trump were to somehow bring all those jobs back, t

THGRRI

Friday, March 31, 2017 7:46 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
Leave no stone unturned Second. I'm sure you'll come up with something.
Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is asking for an immunity deal. Flynn had a different view of immunity when discussing the Hillary Clinton email investigation on Meet the Press during the campaign season:

“I mean, five people around her have had, have been given immunity, including her former chief of staff,” Flynn told Chuck Todd. “When you are given immunity, that means that you have probably committed a crime.”

www.vox.com/2017/3/30/15132280/michael-flynn-immunity-testify

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

I just started a thread about this SECOND. I didn't see you had posted it here first. My bad....

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SIG says I'm a deep state troll.

oh my.

SECOND

Saturday, April 1, 2017 4:10 PM

Trump's approach to intel agencies shows his anxiety, his distrust
https://apnews.com/992ae77585fc4956b29328e49a926c62/Trump%27s-approach
-to-intel-agencies-shows-anxiety,-distrust

Here's a tidbit from the AP about how President Trump might "seize the reins" of the intelligence community:

Officials have expressed an interest in having more raw intelligence sent to the president for his daily briefings instead of an analysis of information compiled by the agencies, according to current and former U.S. officials. The change would have given his White House advisers more control about the assessments given to him and sidelined some of the conclusions made by intelligence professionals.

Trump seems like the kind of guy who could do his own analysis of raw intelligence. They should give it a try. What could go wrong?

DREAMTROVE

Sunday, April 2, 2017 2:12 AM

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Originally posted by SECOND:
Trump's approach to intel agencies shows his anxiety, his distrust
https://apnews.com/992ae77585fc4956b29328e49a926c62/Trump%27s-approach
-to-intel-agencies-shows-anxiety,-distrust

Here's a tidbit from the AP about how President Trump might "seize the reins" of the intelligence community:

Officials have expressed an interest in having more raw intelligence sent to the president for his daily briefings instead of an analysis of information compiled by the agencies, according to current and former U.S. officials. The change would have given his White House advisers more control about the assessments given to him and sidelined some of the conclusions made by intelligence professionals.

Trump seems like the kind of guy who could do his own analysis of raw intelligence. They should give it a try. What could go wrong?

And here's a real twist for you, Second,

If he does that, he might very well be the first republican candidate to get my vote.

Don't know if you remember liberals, that we used to be? Remember all those protest marches, where we complained and demanded a return of runaway intelligence agencies to civilian control? How we said that they were fighting a third world war of their own? funding drug cartels in Colombia and terrorists in Nicaragua and gun running their own income racket in Mexico and the inner cities?

If the person who fixes that problem is Donald J Trump, than he deserves the credit just as much as Bernie Sanders would if he were the person who did that.

THGRRI

Sunday, April 2, 2017 4:38 AM

Oh bullshit. He has been working to undermine everything we stand for. All our democratic institutions. Judicial, the house and senate, the media, take your pick. He has also attacked all our allies. Russia

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SIG says I'm a deep state troll. oh my.

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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND:
Trump's approach to intel agencies shows his anxiety, his distrust
https://apnews.com/992ae77585fc4956b29328e49a926c62/Trump%27s-approach
-to-intel-agencies-shows-anxiety,-distrust

Here's a tidbit from the AP about how President Trump might "seize the reins" of the intelligence community:

Officials have expressed an interest in having more raw intelligence sent to the president for his daily briefings instead of an analysis of information compiled by the agencies, according to current and former U.S. officials. The change would have given his White House advisers more control about the assessments given to him and sidelined some of the conclusions made by intelligence professionals.

Trump seems like the kind of guy who could do his own analysis of raw intelligence. They should give it a try. What could go wrong?

And here's a real twist for you, Second,

If he does that, he might very well be the first republican candidate to get my vote.

Don't know if you remember liberals, that we used to be? Remember all those protest marches, where we complained and demanded a return of runaway intelligence agencies to civilian control? How we said that they were fighting a third world war of their own? funding drug cartels in Colombia and terrorists in Nicaragua and gun running their own income racket in Mexico and the inner cities?

If the person who fixes that problem is Donald J Trump, than he deserves the credit just as much as Bernie Sanders would if he were the person who did that.