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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

  3. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    This 3-5 league record shit ain't gonna cut it anymore.
     
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  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    In honor of the page number:

     
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  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    To each his own. When you post on two separate threads about a second string Steelers offensive lineman going on IR, I didn't figure you were playing to the crowd, but then again, I didn't know what the hell you were doing.
     
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  6. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    QU Poll Release Detail

    American voters disapprove 56 - 17 percent, with 26 percent undecided, of the Republican health care plan to replace Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. Support among Republicans is a lackluster 41 - 24 percent.

    If their U.S. Senator or member of Congress votes to replace Obamacare with the Republican health care plan, 46 percent of voters say they will be less likely to vote for that person, while 19 percent say they will be more likely and 29 percent say this vote won't matter, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds.

    Disapproval of the Republican plan is 56 - 22 percent among men, 56 - 13 percent among women, 54 - 20 percent among white voters, 64 - 10 percent among non-white voters, 80 - 3 percent among Democrats, 58 - 14 percent among independent voters and by margins of 2-1 or more in every age group.

    One out of every seven Americans, 14 percent, think they will lose their health insurance under the Republican plan. That 14 percent includes 27 percent of voters in families with household income below $30,000, 18 percent of working class families and 14 percent of middle class families.
     
  7. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Why on earth won't Trump and the Republicans take the easy popular way out? Forget Obamacare and just a big tax cut. Everybody likes those and nobody really cares about the deficit except Ragu.
     
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  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Because they've got to piss off the SJWs. They have no other objectives than to make "libtards" mad. Therefore anything and everything they do has to be a big "fuck you" to at least 45% of the overall population.
     
  9. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    He thinks it's OK because he's rewarded for it. Until he isn't, he'll keep doing it. He's done it all his life. He's been rewarded all his life. Lying works for him. It works for most politicians.
     
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  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    There is no tax cut. We have $20 trillion of Federal debt and the debt ceiling deadline passed (while nobody has paid attentoin) -- without Congress authorizing the treasury to keep borrowing, they are reduced to robbing government pensions to keep the lights on right now. By Memorial Day, they are out of cash.

    There are enough people in Congress who won't vote for a tax cut unless it is somehow "revenue neutral" -- at least their BS version of revenue neutral. Coming up with THAT fantasy is not the easy way out. It's as ridiculous as the notion that they had an easy-peas-candy-canes-for-everyone health care bill that was any different than the mess the ACA created in the first place.

    There is no tax cut. It's not even a good fantasy. People are clueless about the fact that we are at the end of our rope. This is our Federal public debt:

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    Maybe the last president could have gotten through a ridiculous"tax cut" bill, if that was his agenda. ... BEFORE he contributed to the doubling of that debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion, sending the line on that graph parabolic. But that fantasy world doesn't exist anymore. Who do you think is going to keep buying our debt when the line on that graph is vertical? People have been lulled into a sense of absurdity. Then, in the aftermath of the credit crisis we have brought on ourselves. ... we'll be having a conversation that is as ridiculous as the one we are having about health care right now -- as our economy suffers something far worse than the deleveraging we needed in 2008, but we didn't get in order to buy more time. ... and make it much worse.

    BTW, that is just Federal public debt -- add in the local public debt load and the private debt loads that have ripped higher over the last decade, too, and we have created something that is unsustainable and is going to have consequences fairly soon that belie the silly discussions people are having right now.
     
  11. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    I like the cover of the issue with the Trump interview; it's a play on the "Is God Dead?" cover from the 1960s. Except this year's model asks, "Is Truth Dead?"

    When a President Can't Be Taken at His Word
     
  12. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    That's okay. Nobody expects you to know about anything other than teachers banging their students. That's why it isn't a surprise that you can't tell the difference between a starting defensive lineman and a second-string offensive tackle.
     
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