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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. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Trump is losing the twitter war to Kim Jong-Un and making him look as rational as as POTUS. Calling Kaepernick a son of a bitch and insulting NBA players, trump is not unhinged as much as he’s just punk.
    Trump needed to stick to scripted reality game shows, he can’t think for himself.

    Please Twitter, for the sake of the planet, cutoff his twitter account
     
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  2. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Status quo bias. Our minds just don't want to accept that it really is that bad. The leopards haven't come for our faces yet.
     
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  3. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    For every occasion

     
  4. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    The federal government has slapped eight of the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) known corporate board leaders with more than $6.2 billion in federal fines and penalties for misconduct or corporate crimes since 2000.

    The leading ALEC scofflaws include pharmaceutical giant Pfizer ($4.350 billion), Exxon Mobil ($715 million), Koch Industries ($657 million), AT&T ($421 million), United Parcel Service ($35 million), alcohol multinational Diageo ($17 million), Peabody Energy ($16 million), and Altria (owner of Phillip Morris, the largest US cigarette manufacturer) ($7 million).

    The companies pay thousands of dollars each year to sit on the "Private Enterprise Advisory Council" of ALEC, a pay-to-play organization that lets its corporate members rub elbows with lawmakers and draft bills promoting their interests for legislators to take back home to their states. ALEC re-branded its corporate board as an "advisory council" in 2013 after Common Cause and CMD filed a complaint against the group with the IRS for being a corporate lobby masquerading as a charity.

    The extensive violations data is accessible for the first time thanks to "Violations Tracker," an expanded database of federal regulatory actions created by Good Jobs First. The tally of fines and penalties does not include state enforcement actions, such as the billions that Altria and three other major tobacco companies are required to pay for illnesses caused by smoking under a master settlement with 46 states.

    Good Jobs First's database shows that the eight ALEC companies had over 2,000 separate instances of federal fines and penalties for health and safety, environmental and consumer protection violations, employment discrimination, and other categories of misconduct over the past 18 years.

    ALEC's Corporate Board Leads in Federal Violations
     
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  5. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    When you actually drain the swamp you find swamp monsters
     
  7. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Someone actually did something against ALEC? During the Trump administration, no less?

    Wonders never cease.
     
  8. UPChip

    UPChip Well-Known Member

  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    You can always count on the response being more absurd than whatever Trump said.

     
  11. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

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  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Nuclear-capable B1-B!!

    Except that it wasn’t.



     
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