President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Oh, it's a d_b. But it's a good d_b.

 

The problem lies, largely, in financial practices.
Businesses account for all costs in price setting and in determining revenue needs. That includes return on equity, debt services and full personnel costs, including benefits.
Government does not do that and does not have to do it. A government agency like the USPS or you local town or county regularly engage in financial practices that would get a business shut down - carrying unfunded liabilities equal to or greater than 50% their annual revenues.
If you wanted to make USPS solvent, people would be out with torches and pitchforks over the needed increases because the consumer prices have been artificially depressed for so long.

 

'(NOTE) The above applies only to the 5% of arrested individuals who a) did exactly what they were accused of, and b) refuse to admit what they did and then seek a just punishment via plea. Trump is in the tiny minority of criminals who won't take responsibility for their actions.'

This is a bit mind-boggling and has nothing to do with Trump.
He's saying that the vast a majority of criminals 'take responsibility for their actions' since only a tiny minority won't.
Most criminals take responsibility. Not 'are held responsible' but take responsibility.

And 95% of criminals either a) did not do what they are accused of AND b) admit what they did and seek 'just' punishment via plea?

Is that not what he is saying?

 

That tweet was from an Indian.

 

Didn't he think this was a fireable offense in the case of the ABC News reporter, saying something wrong that messed with stock prices?

Gander sauce, get you red-hot gander sauce ...

 

If there's still agate clerks in 16 years, imagine the scene.

 

Click through.

 

I couldn't agree more; I'm in USPS offices all the time and rarely do I not find great customer service and the price can't be beat.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the USPS went the free-market route that the MAGA folks are demanding -- and then suddenly find out they get charged more to send their Christmas cards from Bumfuck Idaho than do the dark-skinned folks in Chicago!

 

And he'll be grabbed by Trump at some point.

 

In Obama's defense, he didn't want to upset Hezbollah.

 

"This is the president of the United States speaking to the New York Times. His comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed. This is not a partisan judgment — indeed, the interview is rarely coherent or specific enough to classify the points Trump makes on a recognizable left-right spectrum. As has been true since he entered American politics, Trump is interested in Trump — over the course of the interview, he mentions his Electoral College strategy seven times, in each case using it to underscore his political savvy and to suggest that he could easily have won the popular vote if he had tried.

I am not a medical professional, and I will not pretend to know what is truly happening here. It’s become a common conversation topic in Washington to muse on whether the president is suffering from some form of cognitive decline or psychological malady. I don’t think those hypotheses are necessary or meaningful. Whatever the cause, it is plainly obvious from Trump’s words that this is not a man fit to be president, that he is not well or capable in some fundamental way. That is an uncomfortable thing to say, and so many prefer not to say it, but Trump does not occupy a job where such deficiencies can be safely ignored"



Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump’s New York Times interview is a scary read

 

Saban only got 43.

Edited to add: Oops. That’s only for one county (Tuscaloosa). Saban’s total is 264.