This is Why Trump is a SCUMBAG!

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REAVERFAN

Thursday, July 12, 2018 1:01 AM

Foreign investment in the United States plunged 32% in 2017
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/news/economy/foreign-direct-investmen
t-2017/index.html

REAVERFAN

Thursday, July 12, 2018 1:38 AM

TRUMP GOES FULL “NO PUPPET, YOU’RE THE PUPPET” ON ANGELA MERKEL
During a deeply uncomfortable NATO breakfast meeting, the president accused Germany of being “totally controlled” by Russia.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/trump-goes-full-no-puppet-your
e-the-puppet-on-angela-merkel

Sources who’ve discussed the pipeline with the president told Axios that it’s a long-standing obsession of his for two reasons: 1) because he wants Germany to buy American gas instead, and 2) because in his mind, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a “hypocrite” who’s always “lecturing” him on things like maintaining international order, while “not spending enough on Germany’s defense [and] sucking up to Iran and Russia.” Unfortunately for Trump, not only did his breakfast tangent make everyone present deeply uncomfortable, it was also grossly inaccurate. As Reuters notes, his comment that the Germans get “60 to 70 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline” vastly overestimated Germany’s dependence—in reality, about 20 percent of its energy use derives from Russian oil and gas. He also seemed to imply that the German government was putting up the funds for the pipeline, when in fact it’s a commercial venture. Moreover, whether accidentally or on purpose, Trump failed to articulate the real issue with the pipeline, which is still opposed by some E.U. members: it could potentially allow Moscow to cut off gas to other Baltic states, giving it even more leverage over Western Europe.

By pointing a diminutive orange finger at Germany, Trump is trying to spread the blame, deflecting attention from his own administration’s all-too-cozy ties to Putin, whom he’ll visit later this week. It’s the same move he pulled in October 2016, when he so eloquently told Hillary Clinton, “No puppet, no puppet. You’re the puppet.” For their part, the Europeans were not impressed; Merkel, who grew up in a Germany that was literally partially controlled by Russia, remarked that the country had been “free of Russian control since the fall of the Berlin Wall”:

The entire world laughs at the moronic child who can only babble nonsense. SCUMBAG!

REAVERFAN

Thursday, July 12, 2018 2:02 AM

Donald Trump's Supporters 'Want Anybody Darker Than a Latte Deported,' Claims Republican Strategist
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporters-darker-latte-1018600

Rick Wilson has the best way with words. His followup: GOP immigration policy summed up in 3 tweets.

1/ The reaction to my CNN appearance today is perfectly telling. The whole "politically-incorrect tough-talking-dick-swinging-fuck-your feelings-snowflake-melter" crowd is really comprised of the most brittle, fragile, insecure, weak-ass punks imaginable.

2/ The overt racial animus in many of Trump's base is virulent, widespread, readily detectable in surveys, and manifested through their orange avatar when he calls for restrictions on immigration from shithole countries, etc.

3/ They favor restrictions on legal immigration. They dehumanize asylum seekers, refugees, and even those here from foreign nations with legal status. They embraced the family separation policy with glee until Trump discovered it was blowing up in his face.

REAVERFAN

Thursday, July 12, 2018 6:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I don't want to believe that any American is that screwed up in the head, but neither 1kiki and SignyM are at all like actual Republicans or disappointed ex-Democrats I know in Texas.
I'm sorry your very limited experience and thinking has led you so far astray from reality.

I'm sorry obvious troll is obvious. ^

WISHIMAY

Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:11 PM

I sometimes have wondered -with the amount of grad students we have had come through here- if they aren't actual programmed chatbots and someone out there is studying their posts and our interaction with them. Maybe the study stopped years ago and it's just a hobby now.

The thing I just don't get though... It's clear that in however many years they've been here that they haven't had a lot of converts to their causes, so why bother?? Surely there must be other groups of like minded people for them to commune with...SO WHY HERE??? I mean, there isn't even anything IN Firefly that was remotely Socialist...If anything the sentiment was Anti-Socialist with Mal fighting central command structure??

I dunno... I don't get it...

1KIKI

Thursday, July 12, 2018 1:43 PM

If anything the sentiment was Anti-Capitalist with Mal fighting central corporate/ government structure??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_%28Firefly%29

The Alliance is a fictional corporate supergovernment in the Firefly franchise, a powerful authoritarian government and law-enforcement organization that controls the majority of territory within the known universe.

Corporations

The Blue Sun corporation is a powerful conglomerate with much influence within the Alliance. Joss Whedon compared it with "Coca-Cola or Microsoft" and said that "practically half the government was Blue Sun". Their agents are "Hands of Blue".

SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time).

REAVERFAN

Thursday, July 12, 2018 9:04 PM

Hate Crimes On The Rise In California, Especially Against Latinos
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/07/10/latino-hate-crimes-californ
ia/

Wow. It's almost as if these people are emboldened because there's someone in power who shares their views!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Donald Trump's Supporters 'Want Anybody Darker Than a Latte Deported,' Claims Republican Strategist

Oh shit! I just got a great tan working on my car.

Womp Womp

Do Right, Be Right. :)

WISHIMAY

Friday, July 13, 2018 4:04 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
If anything the sentiment was Anti-Capitalist with Mal fighting central corporate/ government structure??

I don't think the show was about having NO leadership, just not having a planet half a solar system away trying and failing to lead ANYTHING effectively. Thus the comment about being meddled with or left alone equally. I wouldn't want to have a ruling system on another planet I didn't get a say in, and always assumed it was a modern take on the Revolutionary War. Joss isn't a Socialist, either way...

"In July 2012, at the San Diego Comic-Con International, in response to one woman who noted the anti-corporate themes in many of his films, and asked him to give his economic philosophy in 30 seconds or less, Whedon spoke out against both socialism and capitalism, stating that "ultimately all these systems don't work".[citation needed] (from Wiki)

And it's not like Mal wasn't trying to earn a profit, either...so you are just grasping at straws there...

REAVERFAN

Friday, July 13, 2018 11:06 PM

Trump Denies Saying Something He Was Recorded Saying
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-denies-saying-somet
hing-he-was-recorded-saying.html

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