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14th May 2018, 02:51 PM | #241 |
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Now reports that Trump talks with Hannity every night.
We have never had a situation like this our history. Sadly, I think disaster for this country is now inevitable with Trump in the White House.Only question is how bad and in how many ways will it come. |
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14th May 2018, 05:24 PM | #247 |
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The unfortunate thing here is that there are good and valid reasons to continue to sell chips to China. We don't want Qalcom and Intel to stop selling chips to China as much as we don't want China to decide the supply of chips from the US is unreliable and they need to build their own. Our national security depends on a reliable supply of microchips and our suppliers need to sell into China to remain viable.
Oh course Trump, being the whore that he is, showed his belly at the first opportunity, negating any chance we had to gain concessions without it looking like a lame effort to salvage some credibility. |
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14th May 2018, 08:09 PM | #253 |
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Here's a good fun place we've arrived, as a nation: a senator had to say, "I guess my main problem with the President helping that group of people is that they are spies intent on harming us."But all is fair, promoting white supremacy and "pwning the libs." |
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15th May 2018, 06:36 AM | #260 |
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Maybe we can elect Obama again after Trump...
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WRT the deal where China is funding a Trump project in Indonesia to the tune of half-a-billion dollars, and Trump is using government resorces to bail out a Chinese firm which makes devices that spy on American citizens:
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/...71702740344833
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Thanks to Trump, the U.S. is approaching a situation where it has:
- The lack of financial regulations that occurred prior to the 2007/2008 recession. (http://thehill.com/policy/finance/36...frank-overhaul) - Protectionist trade policies similar to those that helped deepen/extend the great depression (https://www.marketplace.org/2017/08/...us-legislation) - Increased government debt (thanks mostly to a tax cut which favors the wealthy) will require more borrowing (crowding out private investments) and reduce the flexibility that the government may have in dealing with any financial emergencies in the future. What could possibly go wrong? |
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15th May 2018, 10:26 AM | #276 |
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Non sequitur. I asked how you got an attack out of that exchange.
BTW the "argument" is your oft stated claim that you are just trolling to "make liberals angry". My response, again, is that I don't care because you consistently make the conservative side look bad. FWIW, I don't actual believe you are trolling. Rather I think you are saying what you really believe but think you can a pass on it being challenged if you are "joking". Again, though, I don't really care because you're posts are net benefit to my positions. |
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Worth a shot.
As far as I can tell you are attributing a thought to logger that not only was speculation, you are thinking that the "he" in that speculative post referred to logger himself. Which I don't think it did; it referred to Trump. I want this forum to be a safe space. I often don't like what logger says either, but disparaging "libs lol" or "conservatives" is acceptable, while making the discourse about an arguer is not acceptable. IMO this shows imperfect comprehension of the spirit of the forum rules. (Enough weasel words there for ya ?) The rules make this forum different than the continual "yer an idiot, no yer an idiot" back and forth on some other websites. |
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