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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

    A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump

    This pairing of author and subject sounds divinely ordained: The world’s smartest comic novelist vs. a TV reality star who ran for president while bragging about his genitals and threatening to lock up his opponent. Yet it’s impossible to imagine a victim more immune to satiric injury. Having shot so many arrows into his own bloated corpus, Trump leaves little room for a fresh point. And unless someone reads passages of this novel aloud on Fox News, the president and his fans will never hear of it. As Howard Jacobson correctly pointed out to the Guardian, “ ‘Pussy’ isn’t going to persuade anyone who’s already persuaded otherwise.”
     
    heyabbott, Apr 26, 2017
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  2. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Following my suggestion and responding to political thrusts on the politics thread ...

    The exact quote was "Conservative today is more thoughtless reactionary."
     
    doctorquant, Apr 26, 2017
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  3. king cranium maximus IV

    king cranium maximus IV Active Member

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    Remember when Obama using a paperclip was a scandal?
     
    king cranium maximus IV, Apr 26, 2017
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  4. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    PUT SPACES AROUND AN EM DASH.

    Christ.
     
    Big Circus, Apr 26, 2017
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  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Heh. Maybe somebody can hack his EO so that he winds up withdrawing from NATO instead of NAFTA.

    At our shop they say we have to use an EN dash. Has no oomph at all.
     
    BTExpress, Apr 26, 2017
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  6. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    When your tax "plan" is less detailed than a recipe for baking a cake, it's not really much of a plan.

    But 100 days! Cha-ching! Scoreboard!
     
    Inky_Wretch, Apr 26, 2017
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  7. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Aren't recipes very detailed?
     
    Guy_Incognito, Apr 26, 2017
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  8. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    The weird thing is, once it's Sunday and day 101, Trump will again head for the golf course and let Congress quietly do whatever it wishes, which on tax legislation will take some time.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Apr 26, 2017
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  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Yep. Just as a tax reform plan should be.
     
    Inky_Wretch, Apr 26, 2017
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  10. Machine Head

    Machine Head Well-Known Member

    Johnny Jett from "Barnwood Builders" and Ryan from "Maine Cabin Masters" would make a nice ticket in 2020.
     
    Machine Head, Apr 26, 2017
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  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I'm all for paying 0 in tax. ... More than anyone you have ever met, I think taxation and government despotism in this country got way out of hand.

    But the conversations we have in this country are pure fantasy. We have more than $10 trillion of spending built into our budgets over the next decade that are not being addressed. Without addressing Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, even if this had a chance of getting through (and not even the profligate spenders in Congress are going to go for it), it would just hasten the U.S. defaulting on its debt way more qcuikly. It is a complete fantasy to think what they are suggesting can spur enough growth to make it pay for itself. They will point to Reagan, but Reagan's cuts didn't lead to growth. They blew up spending at the same time, and all of the debt they added was what gave their faux growth. Also, debt to GDP was around 30 percent then. Today, it is well past 100 percent. We don't have a few decades more to live a fantasy in which we run up endless debt, monetize it with a central bank and pretend that we are growing.

    There is no chance the house and senate will go for anything close to what they are talking about (at least what they have in broad strokes). But as usual, we are having the wrong conversations. Our debt is near crisis levels. We need to be talking about cutting spending -- significantly -- and that means addressing the entitlement programs first and foremost. It's one thing to keep our heads in the sand until there is no choice, but cutting revenues (and this will do that) at a time that we are already bankrupting ourselves in slow motion is the height of insanity.
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 26, 2017
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  12. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Repeal the AMT? Wow. If that goes through, I will be impressed. I have heard about repealing the AMT since I got in the workforce.
     
    poindexter, Apr 26, 2017
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