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Makes sense. If the Kenyan socialist didn't embrace him, then the Big Man himself must.

Obama Shunned Hungary’s Leader, but He Has a Friend in Trump

 

"I love your dinners! Especially the ones with the chicken strips and that little brownie in the corner!"

 

Only simple people look for simple answers to life’s complexities.

 

If "all credibility is gone," how can more be lost? Can you go into the negatives, when we're counting credibility?

 

Agreed.

The slogan wasn't, "No Taxation!"

It was, "No taxation with Representation!"

We can rephrase that to, "Taxation, but only if I get to vote in some Representatives!"

 

Scientific American.

Abortion Is a Problem to Be Solved, Not a Moral Issue

To be fair, the multivariable mesh of correlations in all these studies makes inferring direct causal links difficult for social scientists to untangle. But as I read the research, when women have limited sex education and no access to contraception, they are more likely to get pregnant, which leads to higher abortion rates. When women are educated about and have access to effective contraception, as well as legal and medically safe abortions, they initially use both strategies to control family size, after which contraception alone is often all that is needed and abortion rates decline.

 

But it’s so unfair to suggest that Trumpists are racist. So unfair to wonder if Trump has encouraged and empowered these people.

 

Just to expand on that, not only were tariffs how we got our tax dough before the income tax, but even after the income tax came in, we continued to maintain protectionist economic policies until the 1990s. It wasn't until the NAFTA/free trade/globalization era emerged in the mid-90s that the word tariffs got re-defined as a naughty word.

That's not meant as a defense of Trump, nor does it mean I support what he's doing. I'm just pointing out that some characterizations of his trade war policies as hysterical insanity strike me as perhaps a bit overboard. In reality, he's basically just suggesting doing things the way we did before the mid-90s. And, you know, the US did pretty damn well during those years.

 

Looking at global supply chains, I just don't see a way back there. I just see a lot of pain if we even try to get back there.

 

Only the best people. Amirite, @YankeeFan?

 

... speaking of words which have suddenly been cast as naughty ....