This is Why Trump is a SCUMBAG!
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UPDATED: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 22:00
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, I thought we were all talking in a vacuum, so maybe bringing "real life" to our eyeballs might clarify things. Perhaps we will see things to be outraged about. Or maybe we'll see things as a tough situation that's being handled as best as possible on an emergency basis.
"Zero Tolerance" was the opposite of "best as possible."
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The President of the United States is saying more than seven things that aren't true a day. SEVEN.
And, what's more, his tendency toward untruth is actually picking up steam. As WaPo's Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly note, Trump was averaging less than five false or misleading claims in his first 100 days. (Only five!) But, between June and July Trump is averaging -- averaging -- 16 falsehoods a day. (As a thought experiment, try to lie -- or misrepresent -- 16 times tomorrow. I bet you can't.)
It's not just the raw numbers either. Trump has ramped up his disdain and dismissiveness of all forms of communication that don't originate with him. "Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening," Trump said earlier this month. "Just stick with us, don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news." On Tuesday, at a campaign rally in Tampa, Florida, Trump said: "You know, polls are fake, just like everything else."
That message is getting through. According to a CBS News poll released earlier this week, 91% of strong Trump supporters say they trust the President to provide them accurate information while 63% say they trust their family and friends to do the same. Just 11% of them trust the mainstream media to provide accurate information.
More at www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/politics/donald-trump-mistruths-analysis/index.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Well, I thought we were all talking in a vacuum, so maybe bringing "real life" to our eyeballs might clarify things. Perhaps we will see things to be outraged about. Or maybe we'll see things as a tough situation that's being handled as best as possible on an emergency basis. - SIGNY
"Zero Tolerance" was the opposite of "best as possible." - CC
BTW .... those pictures were taken in 2014.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Well, I thought we were all talking in a vacuum, so maybe bringing "real life" to our eyeballs might clarify things. Perhaps we will see things to be outraged about. Or maybe we'll see things as a tough situation that's being handled as best as possible on an emergency basis. - SIGNY
"Zero Tolerance" was the opposite of "best as possible." - CC
BTW .... those pictures were taken in 2014. Who was President then?
Zero Tolerance is Trump.
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So what? Is your beef with "how the children are treated?" or with the "zero tolerance policy"? Clarify.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Quote:Will you get to this Big Question any time soon?
I'll come to the Big Question in a little while. Right now, I need to run some errands.- SHINY
Me too. Looking forward to your response. -SIGNY
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Quote:You've had it explained to you countless times, comrade.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Will you get to this Big Question any time soon?
I'll come to the Big Question in a little while. Right now, I need to run some errands.- SHINY
Me too. Looking forward to your response. -SIGNY
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Quote:Sorry SHINY, your post got buried.
Seriously Siggy, what was the Big Question again? I looked back in the thread, but couldn't find the Question.Thanks. SGG
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:You've had it explained to you countless times, comrade.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Will you get to this Big Question any time soon?
I'll come to the Big Question in a little while. Right now, I need to run some errands.- SHINY
Me too. Looking forward to your response. -SIGNY
Yes yes yes, I was about to say the same thing and did so about her, kiki and others trying to get us to explain things over and over as though it hasn't been explained umpteen times already.
It's why I am posting more and more news videos instead of writing about it. Let them argue with whats being reported and those reporting it instead of me. It's also why I am choosing more and more to respond to those who post facts instead of those who troll them.
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Quote:Well, I guess I had two, so I don't know which one you were focusing on. The perennial one is ...What are America's biggest problems, and how can we solve them? That's a pretty big question, don't you think? But as I worm my way thru the answer to that one, I found another question which is also pretty big, which the The Role of Government. It went like this ...
Seriously Siggy, what was the Big Question again? I looked back in the thread, but couldn't find the Question.Thanks. SGG
Sorry SHINY, your post got buried.- SIGNY
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I personally think that's one of the critical questions: What is the role of centralization in the coming storm?
When people face a Big Problem, they tend to look for a Big Fix. In this case, a "world-government" to solve world-straddling issues.
But what happens if the Big Fix is part of the Big Problem? There is a kind of One Ring quality to looking for ever-more-centralized solutions to ever-more-centralized causes. Everyone wants to grab it. Are we sure that Sauron has not already grasped the Ring of Power?
So, looked at this from a different perspective, perhaps the question can be re-framed as What is the proper role of government?
How I got to that question goes like this>>> Sometimes, the government winds up trying to solve a problem that it itself created. For example, the current wealth gap. That wealth gap has been getting steadily larger and larger no matter who is in office. Is "the fix" a government-mandated wealth redistribution plan, as SECOND seems to want? And, if we DO go the route of government-redistribution, might that not cause other problems down the road, such as a dependency on Big Government and people's loss of agency in their own lives? Maybe if we looked into the causes of the wealth gap, instead of simply patching the problem, we could develop a better more robust solution.
So there are several government-sourced causes of this wealth gap that could be fixed. One of them is the current system of "rentier economy", in which the worst form of "rent" is when banks own the ability to create money which they then lend out with interest. (No, banks don't simply lend out savings, that would mean 100% capitalization. banks are at about 6% capitalization, IIRC, which means that roughly 94% of the money that they lend is simply created by them.) So, a change in the "rules of the game" to require 100% capitalization would significantly reduce the hold that banks have on the circulation of capital.
There are all kinds of things I could point to, but I just wanted to give you an example of where I thought that government could eliminate a problem without becoming a larger and larger centralizing force in the economy.
I think these are both very large questions, and also very interesting ones that deserve a lot of thoughtful discussion. They are so multi-faceted, as each question has entire OTHER questions attached to them, it would be fascinating to go down some of these bunny-trails with other people.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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