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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

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    Kavanaugh driving away from the White House
     
    heyabbott, Sep 26, 2018
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  2. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    I think Jill Abramson co-authored a book (or at least a magazine article) re Clarence Thomas after his confirmation and nothing has come of it.
     
    tapintoamerica, Sep 26, 2018
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  3. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Ya don’t say...
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Sep 26, 2018
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  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I still can't believe Kavanaugh has his calendar from 1982.
     
    Inky_Wretch, Sep 26, 2018
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  5. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    He has large thighs, fat chubby thighs that meet at the knees. I would guess he is more than the drunk doc said.
     
    lakefront, Sep 26, 2018
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  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Noah Smith has been beating that drum in columns and on his blog for a while -- along with specious columns in which he makes "progressive" arguments cloaked in faux academic speak about all kinds of things, including "health care policy." Personally, I find him to be an attention-seeking hack. Sort of Paul Krugman light (very light).

    But to avoid making it into just an ad hominem attack of him, sorry, cartels that rely on government protection to exist, benefit the cartel. That is the extent of anything economics is going to find about that.

    If the idea is that unions do great things for people lucky enough to be in favor after politicians are bought off for votes, and they do those things to benefit a few at the expense of lots of others. ... what he is saying has merit. But nothing he ever writes looks at the cost for everyone else his "progressive" ideas carry with them, and the net effect economically in the aggregate. To use an extreme example, it's kind of like saying that for a long time OPEC did great things for oil producing countries. ...without acknowledging how it affected other countries. The only difference is that from a populist perspective, "workers" as a broad category (and unions give artificial leverage to only certain workers -- never mind the economic cost) are more sympathetic to a lot of people than "oil producers" are.
     
    The Big Ragu, Sep 26, 2018
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  7. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Oddly enough, it states on each day, “I didn’t sexually assault anyone today.”
     
    cyclingwriter2, Sep 26, 2018
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  8. John B. Foster

    John B. Foster Well-Known Member

     
    John B. Foster, Sep 26, 2018
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  9. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    In a world of large corporations, unions are a necessary countervailing force. The evidence they improve the lives of their members, to which I can testify personally, is irrefutable. The comparison to OPEC is risible. Break up OPEC and a union, what's left. Whole countries with substantial resources on one hand, individual workers with limited or nonexistent resources on the other.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Sep 26, 2018
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  10. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    “I would have grabbed her by the pussy and shoved her aside.”
     
    TigerVols, Sep 26, 2018
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  11. GilGarrido

    GilGarrido Active Member

    A few weeks ago, we were getting lots of calls on our landline urging us to vote for certain candidates in Florida's Republican primary (or runoff, maybe). Our area code is entirely in Georgia. I ignored the calls, figuring that if the candidates wanted to waste their money it was their business, but I did eventually find the website of one of the most frequent callers and posted a message saying that if she didn't stop, I would report her for solicitation of voter fraud. Never heard back, and the calls stopped, but I assume only because the election took place.
     
    GilGarrido, Sep 26, 2018
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  12. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Fortunately, I keep in mind that Trump told us not to believe what we see with our own eyes, so I'm good.

    If he were to say, "I always lie. Now listen carefully: I am lying," then my head might explode.
     
    goalmouth, Sep 26, 2018
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