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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. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    My guess is the man is perpetually constipated.
    How much fiber do you think this shitstain is getting per day?
     
    3_Octave_Fart, May 2, 2019
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  2. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

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  3. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    As long as Ragu gets his, he doesn't give a fuck about anybody else.
     
    JC, May 2, 2019
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  4. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    puppet + no strings = one uncomfortable puppet
     
    DanielSimpsonDay, May 2, 2019
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  5. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

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  6. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    The revolution is the natural byproduct of the coup.

    Reform capitalism or face revolution, billionaires are told at Milken Conference

    If the barricades have not been erected in the streets, they were told several times over, they could soon be unless there is reform of the American economic system.

    “It’s not whether we should be capitalist or socialist. It’s how do we make sure that capitalism is working the way it has in the past,” said Alan Schwartz, a managing partner at global investment firm Guggenheim Partners, who warned of “class warfare.”

    He noted that salaries and wages as a percentage of the economic pie is a postwar low of 40%, prompting a “throw out the rich” mentality that would require some form of income redistribution to head off.
     
    TigerVols, May 2, 2019
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  7. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    'Thinkers' like Big Ragu helped light this fire and now they want to cover their privates with a fig leaf of centrism.
    It's not going to fly.
    All of this shit is the chemical yield of 40 years of bad ideas, wrongheaded policy, defective philosophy.
     
    3_Octave_Fart, May 2, 2019
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  8. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Ultimately, I think Schwartz is right. I've been saying that for awhile. Sooner or later, as unsavory as it may seem to the super-wealthy, there's going to be more class-to-class violence, since there doesn't seem to be any way to change the laws.
     
    Alma, May 2, 2019
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  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Um, I'm not Ray Dalio or Alan Schwartz or any of those self-serving Milken Conference types, and nothing in that article speaks for me or anything I have ever said on here.

    "He noted that salaries and wages as a percentage of the economic pie is a postwar low of 40%, prompting a “throw out the rich” mentality that would require some form of income redistribution to head off."

    The rich have gotten way richer over the last couple of decades because we HAVEN'T allowed capitalism to work. They are bemoaning capitalism not working, when the problem hasn't been capitalism. It has been the command economy we have allowed to creep in. I have posted about it how many times on here, in many forms.

    Tell you what. ... Let the price of money float in a marketplace (intrest rates, the most important price in a market economy), rather than having a central planning authority price fix it so it is artificially low for several decades so politicians can pull growth forward for their gain. ... and then whatever you perceive the failures or successes of an actual market-based economy, you can talk about what I think. Otherwise, talk about Ray Dalio and his BS.
     
    The Big Ragu, May 2, 2019
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  10. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    What's the difference between asking and suggesting?

    I think Barr is wise to grapple with it. I really do. Harris doesn't want answers. She wanted to spend eight minutes communicating her disdain for Barr and trying to run over him. I found it to be a game of entrapment that bordered on posturing.

    And if the goal of William Barr was to get out of this line of questioning having said as little as possible and not entrapping himself, he did that.
     
    Alma, May 2, 2019
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  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I don't think much of Kamala Harris the politician. But what she did wasn't some cheap ploy or her posturing. It was a fair and simple question. ...

    Is the corrupt shithead we all see in the oval office trying to use the justice department in a corrupt way -- to create smokescreens to take the spotlight off himself or to go after his political enemies?

    Obviously she was onto something, too.
     
    The Big Ragu, May 2, 2019
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  12. Justin_Rice

    Justin_Rice Well-Known Member


    It's all these burdensome regulations which are stopping the wealthy from letting their gains trickle down, and if we would just dismantle the social safety net, everyone would better off?
     
    Justin_Rice, May 2, 2019
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