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Quote:I am pretty sure that you are correct about Trump and the GOP position on "global warming and nuclear threat". You are not correct on the Democratic Party and Biden's position.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Not really. As I keep posting, and neither extremely partisan side seems to understand, just because I'm against someone doesn't mean I'm for the other side.
I dislike them both, because BOTH of them will take the planet in the wrong direction when it comes to global warming and nuclear threat. And those are my 2 bottom-line priorities.
https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/the-issues/environment/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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More Tax Cuts From the GOP
In 1993 Bill Clinton passed a tax increase to reduce the deficit. Republicans insisted it would do no such thing. In fact, they said, it would cripple the economy.
They were wrong. The economy boomed, and for the first time since the Roaring ’20s the deficit turned into a surplus for four consecutive years.
In 2001—and again in 2003—George W. Bush passed a tax cut. Once again, Republicans said it would supercharge the economy and pay for itself.
They were wrong. All we got was a jobless recovery and a housing bubble that wrecked the economy. It produced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
At the beginning of 2013, as part of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, Barack Obama forced Republicans to accept a tax increase on high earners. But even though the bill passed with bipartisan support, some Republicans insisted it would kill the economy.
They were wrong. The deficit declined and Obama produced the longest economic recovery in American history—one that was still going strong until the coronavirus pandemic killed it.
Finally, in 2017, Republicans passed yet another tax cut. This one primarily benefited corporations and the rich, and once again Republicans insisted it would supercharge the economy and pay for itself.
They were wrong. No — scratch that. They lied. They knew the evidence of the past 40 years as well as anyone, but they sold the public a bill of goods anyway. Why? Because for all of Donald Trump’s bluster, this was the one thing he really, truly had to do. It’s the one thing the Republican Party’s big donors insist on.
www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/trumps-tax-cuts-were-a-disaster-n
aturally-republicans-want-even-more/
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Originally posted by second:
More Tax Cuts From the GOP
In 1993 Bill Clinton passed a tax increase to reduce the deficit. Republicans insisted it would do no such thing. In fact, they said, it would cripple the economy.
They were wrong. The economy boomed, and for the first time since the Roaring ’20s the deficit turned into a surplus for four consecutive years.
Wrong. That was because the Clinton admin sold us out to China.
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In 2001—and again in 2003—George W. Bush passed a tax cut. Once again, Republicans said it would supercharge the economy and pay for itself.
They were wrong. All we got was a jobless recovery and a housing bubble that wrecked the economy. It produced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
The housing bubble is in no way related to the tax cut.
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At the beginning of 2013, as part of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, Barack Obama forced Republicans to accept a tax increase on high earners. But even though the bill passed with bipartisan support, some Republicans insisted it would kill the economy.
They were wrong. The deficit declined and Obama produced the longest economic recovery in American history—one that was still going strong until the coronavirus pandemic killed it.
lol. Now MotherJones is just being silly.
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Finally, in 2017, Republicans passed yet another tax cut. This one primarily benefited corporations and the rich, and once again Republicans insisted it would supercharge the economy and pay for itself.
They were wrong. No — scratch that. They lied. They knew the evidence of the past 40 years as well as anyone, but they sold the public a bill of goods anyway. Why? Because for all of Donald Trump’s bluster, this was the one thing he really, truly had to do. It’s the one thing the Republican Party’s big donors insist on.
Fuck MotherJones and their lies.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Not really. As I keep posting, and neither extremely partisan side seems to understand, just because I'm against someone doesn't mean I'm for the other side.
I dislike them both, because BOTH of them will take the planet in the wrong direction when it comes to global warming and nuclear threat. And those are my 2 bottom-line priorities.
I'm not partisan. I'm two things.
1. A huge Trump supporter.
2. I hate 2020 Democrats.
By default, they've pushed me to support Republicans now. I can't believe that they've gotten so bad that I long for the days where I thought I couldn't hate a party more back when GWB was president.
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Jacks one of those loyal democrats who loves social programs. That is, until they are extended to minorities. Then he hates the democrats for doing that and becomes a bigoted republican. Who, try to only provide social program assistance to white people.
T 
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
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Originally posted by THG:
Jacks one of those loyal democrats who loves social programs. That is, until they are extended to minorities. Then he hates the democrats for doing that and becomes a bigoted republican. Who, try to only provide social program assistance to white people.
T
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
You're going to have to go back and show me any posts I've ever made that make that claim.
I guaranty you that you won't find any.
And no, giving our tax dollars to people in another country does not count.
I'm a Nationalist. Not a racist.
You're either too fucking stupid to know the difference, or you hate America.
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From an hour ago: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
THE VAST SILENT MAJORITY IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!
7:37 AM · Jun 28, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
The Un-President
On June 2, Trump issued another of his minimalist tweets, which said in total: “SILENT MAJORITY!” The great predecessor he was summoning was not Lincoln but Richard Nixon, who used the phrase in his televised address to the nation in November 1969. The speech was specifically about the Vietnam war, Nixon appealing to “the great silent majority of my fellow Americans” to stand with him against the antiwar movement. Trump’s own Silent Majority is neither a majority nor silent — his base is a very noisy minority. But his evocation of that speech is more meaningful than Trump can have consciously intended. For Nixon began the address by raising questions of truth and lies:
“Many Americans have lost confidence in what their Government has told them about our policy. The American people cannot and should not be asked to support a policy which involves the overriding issues of war and peace unless they know the truth about that policy.”
That, though, is precisely what they were never permitted to know. The Vietnam War was conducted through a fog of lies. That sustained campaign of deception — of Congress and of citizens — broke something in the presidency itself. One of the most gifted politicians of the twentieth century, Lyndon Johnson, was shattered by it. Nixon, a formidable operator with a substantial domestic program and a wide popular base, ended up as a political racketeer, authorizing and covering up illegal dirty tricks against his opponents. Watergate was a side-effect of Vietnam.
In 1974 James Mann, a conservative southern Democrat and a member of the committee of the House of Representatives that was considering the impeachment of Nixon for his role in Watergate, explained his support for that process: “If there be no accountability, another president will feel free to do as he chooses. But the next time there may be no watchman in the night.” There is now “another president” who feels “free to do as he chooses.” As Trump told a right-wing student rally in July 2019, “I have an Article 2 of the Constitution, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” The great difference is that the watchman is now a willing accomplice.
Nixon was forced out because Republican-appointed judges and Republican members of Congress joined with Democrats to reassert constitutional checks on the abuse of presidential power. Now the Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. Trump’s wild response to the coronavirus disaster and to the Black Lives Matter protests must be seen in connection with the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate even to go through the motions of a trial after his impeachment by the House. Unshackled from any notion of accountability, Trump has also become unmoored from any relationship to reality.
The Senate Republicans told Trump, in effect, that he can exercise power arbitrarily. Absolute power deranges absolutely. During the 2016 election campaign, Trump was asked about whom he consulted on foreign policy: “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain. My primary consultant is myself.” Freed from any need to pretend that there is anyone else he might possibly need to talk to, Trump is now openly talking to himself in public. He is, often on live TV, communing with the voices in his head that tell him that he is a combination of Lincoln and Churchill, that coronavirus will suddenly vanish, that it can be cured by ingesting disinfectant, that Joe Scarborough is a murderer, that George Floyd is looking down on him and rejoicing.
There is that sense of a spilling over of history, of the madness that, with Nixon, was only revealed to close confidantes in the White House and recorded on secret tapes, now parading itself naked before the world, the embodiment of absolute unrestraint, the president’s unchecked exhalation of hallucin
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Trump is the president.
Sorry not sorry if that's Double Plus Ungood to you, Napoleon. Or is it Mr. Pilkington.
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Quote:For all rich Americans, Trump is double plus good. But for less than rich Americans: “I have an Article 2 of the Constitution, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” No, Article II does not grant Trump absolute power to do ‘Whatever’ he wants, but what he wants is to help himself and me to large amounts of money. I am for that. If Trump wasn't crazy, or it was Pence for President, I'd vote for the GOP candidate just to get more money.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trump is the president.
Sorry not sorry if that's Double Plus Ungood to you, Napoleon. Or is it Mr. Pilkington.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
https://hillreporter.com/no-article-ii-does-not-grant-trump-absolute-p
ower-to-do-whatever-he-wants-analysis-41451
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:For all rich Americans, Trump is double plus good. But for less than rich Americans: “I have an Article 2 of the Constitution, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” No, Article II does not grant Trump absolute power to do ‘Whatever’ he wants, but what he wants is to help himself and me to large amounts of money. I am for that. If Trump wasn't crazy, or it was Pence for President, I'd vote for the GOP candidate just to get more money.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trump is the president.
Sorry not sorry if that's Double Plus Ungood to you, Napoleon. Or is it Mr. Pilkington.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
https://hillreporter.com/no-article-ii-does-not-grant-trump-absolute-p
ower-to-do-whatever-he-wants-analysis-41451
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Yeah. We get it. You're rich dude.
lol
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