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A person will never see . . . what they don't want to see !!!
The real question is; "Are you better off today then . . .
when Trump was in office" ?
~ GLTU
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One can find a few positive things frumpty did, but once they're dissected, it becomes clear frumpt was the majority beneficial party.
Sadly, 5 years of history and I'm still looking.
I've honestly have been trying to look at the positives that frumpt has done in his political career.
Don't know why this board has been so quiet.
There's so much hate of frumpt to go around.
Looks like what would happen if Boris Johnson had marital relations with a Tribble.
OFFICIAL PET TRUMP
http://officialpettrump.com/
Looks like DJT's shtick had a "sell by" date.
Ah, Kudlow, the "Officer Barbrady" of economists.
While a lot of people slag Scott Adams for his proish-Trump attitude, a close reading of his work indicates that he sees Trump as the political equivalent of a magician puling tricks on rubes, and he is the guy in the back row, laughing that the rubes fall for the transparent magic tricks.
I’m not sure if a more accurate assessment was ever made, but for the fact that half of the other residents pulled down their pants, too, because he told them to, while not realizing he gave their pants to his wealthy friends to burn in their gauche fireplaces. Unfortunately, for them, they won’t realize it until ALL their clothes have been taken and burned.
It’s like lemmings off a cliff, except the first lemming was so far ahead, he made it look like he jumped off, but instead he ran behind a bush, laughing at their stupidity as they all went over the cliff.
It’s truly sad, actually.
Trump Quote of the Day:
https://theweek.com/speedreads/877227/anonymous-author-likens-trump-pantsless-old-man-wreaking-havoc-nursing-home
"It's like showing up at the nursing home at daybreak to find your elderly uncle running pantsless across the courtyard and cursing loudly about the cafeteria food, as worried attendants tried to catch him," the person writes. "You're stunned, amused, and embarrassed all at the same time. Only your uncle probably wouldn't do it every single day, his words aren't broadcast to the public, and he doesn't have to lead the U.S. government once he puts his pants on."
You mean like balancing the budget, or building a wall in record time and making Mexico pay for it, or winning an easy trade war, or repealing ACA, or raising taxes on the rich, or releasing his tax returns, or the trillion dollar infrastructure package, or never golfing because he would be too busy, hiring "the best people," or ending birthright citizenship, or eliminating the carried interest tax loophole...
Trump 2020! MAGA Life!
Disclaimer: No race is, or has been hated in this post. Im am NOT racist. I love many people of color. I also love America.
God bless!
Well, I would not expect someone to come to a stock message board and the first post to be political; but I like it. And you picked the perfect number to post at 101.
101 is a topic for beginners in any area. It has all the basic principles and concepts that is expected in a particular field.
In American university course numbering systems, the number 101 is often used for an introductory course at a beginner's level in a department's subject area. This common numbering system was designed to make transfer between colleges easier. In theory, any numbered course in one academic institution should bring a student to the same standard as a similarly numbered course at other institutions.[1] KAG
DEMOCRATS- TOO MUCH RACISM AND HATE NOT ENOUGH LOVE AND UNITY FOR AMERICA !!
The Hard Truth, Episode 1: Media Bias #WalkAway Education Series
President Trump Advancing American Kidney Health
Don't pretend to enlighten me on what a neocon is.
Don't pretend that Trump isn't tainted with that brush, since he appointed John Bolton as his National Security Advisor. Even the other neocons think he is extreme.
Will's contempt for Trump was crystallized when he claimed that a USA-born Judge of Mexican descent couldn't be a fair jurist in one of his cases.
Don't pretend to know anything, if you are quoting a 15 year old article from Lew Rockwell's library of foilhattery at me. I suppose that the irony of you bitching about CNN and MSNBC while quoting something dragged up from Lew Rockwell's website that dates from George Bush's first term like I am supposed to take it seriously, escapes you.
Drump caught taking $2.5 million from America’s national parks — to pay for his Fourth of July military show
Published 4 hours ago
on July 2, 2019
By Matthew Chapman
On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that the National Park Service is siphoning off some $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees in order to pay for President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July blowout.
The fees, which are collected from national park visitors at the gates, are generally used for maintenance and improvement of national parks, including those in D.C. like the National Mall. The transfer represents some 5 percent of all the funds tapped last year — and it is only a tiny fraction of the overall cost of Trump’s event.
“This is a breach of trust with the public,” said National Parks Conservation Association President Theresa Pierno in a message to the Post. “The public pays parks fees to fix national parks and for educational programs not the president’s parade.”
The president is calling for a massive ceremony this year, including parades of military bands, tanks in the streets, flyovers from fighter jets from every branch of the military, and a private section at the Lincoln Memorial which will be reserved for Trump’s friends, family, and “VIP” guests who receive tickets distributed by the Republican National Committee.
Sources also told the Post that the president has asked for Apollo 11 mission footage to be projected onto the Washington Monument, a strict departure from the Park Service’s general policy of displaying monuments in an unaltered form at all times.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/busted-trump-caught-taking-2-5-million-from-americas-national-parks-to-pay-for-his-fourth-of-july-military-show/
George Will, is a neocon never liked the man. George Will and the Neoconservatives
Neoconservatives must justify the need for government to move beyond the task of protecting negative rights, while at the same time arguing that the government ought not be used to secure an equal set of robust positive rights for each citizen. It isn't easy to do this. Neither is it easy to develop criteria for explaining just what the government ought to do beyond protecting basic rights, if social equality or a u201Cbasic needs” approach is not the goal.1 So I am willing to be sympathetic to the neoconservative intellectual plight. Be this as it may, neoconservatives such as Will disappoint. What they point to time and again is the issue of “the practical,” as in, well, a libertarian society be wonderful, but it's just not practical, because the poor would never go for it; or because of the War on Terror; or because society needs government-enforced cohesion; or because people are just evil.
Thus neoconservatives are reduced to designing principles that simultaneously treat the public as being defective and thus in need of government control, and also as being defective and thus in need of governmental deference to their frightening, media-driven wants. What they come up with is two-fold. First, neoconservatives favor “national unity” under a military-espionage aegis, with the jettisoning of any cultural elements not deemed necessary for this goal, such as loyalty to particularist ethnic or religious currents that fall below the level of “Western civilization.” Second, neoconservatives favor the pacification of the lower classes through government welfare. (Here they sometimes draw explicitly from Bismarck.)
Will's column works on this second point: Bush's spending spree makes sense, Will claims, because Republicans can spend in a way that is better than Democrats can. But to do this, they certainly have to spend. And, apparently, spend, and spend, and spend….
Will writes: “Today “strong government conservatism” – “strong” is not synonymous with “big” – is the only conservatism palatable to a public that expects government to assuage three of life’s largest fears: illness, old age and educational deficits that prevent social mobility…. Republican strong-government conservatism contracts the dependency culture and expands the sphere of choices, thereby enhancing the individual’s competence and responsibility. This validates Republicans’ claims to power ….”
Will's analysis rests on two key assumptions. First, there is the assumption that a majority of Americans do not believe that it would be better if the federal government largely removed itself from the tasks of providing for healthcare, retirement, and education; where it is not reasonable to expect that a majority of Americans could be convinced otherwise. Second, there is the assumption that Republicans will tax, borrow, and spend in ways that are better for Americans than Democrat methods would be.
Neither of these assumptions are at all credible. It is true that Bush is unwilling to cut spending. But (as with immigration) Bush is here totally out of step with his GOP base, which believes in overturning FDR and Great Society expansions of government, not simply transforming such expansions to “contract dependency culture and expand the sphere of choice.” Will's assumption that one could not add to this base to achieve a majority in favor of limited government is not sustainable. If the GOP leadership was pushing for limited government, but a majority would not follow, then we might be able to speak of real evidence for Will's claim. But we have nothing to talk about until the GOP leadership enunciates a strong vision of limited government to the American people. This vision would have to include the gradual phasing out of Social Security, Medicare, the Department of Education, et al, over a multi-decade period. Until such a vision is offered, we have no way of distinguishing true majority preference from simple accession to the political reality of neoconservative dominance.
As to this idea that the GOP could somehow refrain from limiting government, but still make government spending less damaging than it would be under Democrat rule – well, I suppose here much depends on one's perspective about what it is important not to damage. Let us assume that one's major concerns are preserving an economy that allows the flourishing of a wealthy, jet-set group bleached of all strong cultural connections with any historically-viable society. If such were the case, well, then I say, vote Bush till the cows come home! However, if one is actually concerned about the life-prospects of the majority of Americans, one might very well argue that Democrat-managed spending on education and healthcare would be preferable to GOP spending on NASA, wars fought under false public pretences, and the corruption of private education. In any case, I see no reason to assume that the GOP would be noticeably better spenders of citizens' wealth.
More to the point, if the GOP abandons the goal of limiting government, a sizeable number of Republicans are going to refrain from voting for Republicans, even if they were judged to be “better” spenders than are Democrats. This is because such voters will want to rub the GOP-leadership's nose in the fact that it has betrayed the central conservative impulse of limiting government. Such voters will continue to rebel until GOP leadership comes to its senses. Moving to the middle costs you at least as much on the right, as moving to the right costs you from the middle. No song-and-dance about “better” spending is going to change this.
Given the shaky nature of Will's assumptions, I doubt he actually believes them. After all, Will is a smart guy. Moreover, neoconservatives, being as a group rooted in Strauss's Platonic doctrine of the conflict between truth and custom, tend to be somewhat circumspect about their true motives. When we find neoconservative arguments being offered publicly, we thus get a wonderful opportunity to think about human love of the state, as the neoconservatives do not so much explain their state-worship, as hint mysteriously as its’ nature.
Why do neoconservatives so love the state? Toward what goals do they wish to direct the trough-spillage of state-spending? Mere goals of social equality are for the liberal; something else is desired. But what? Do neoconservatives have dreams of constructing a grand, monochrome civilization that reaches for the stars, all the while under their control? Is the simple extinction of traditional culture a sufficiently grand goal? Is it more about just having power that one does not have to share with the other, liberal talking heads? Or perhaps it stems from a belief that the providential function of America is to bring the gods of Democracy and Semi-Market Economics to the world? All of the above, plus some? Who can say!
My, one can wonder at such possibilities for hours. Neoconservatives certainly do bring up fascinating questions about what one is to want, if not simply safe and peaceful lives for all of one's fellow humans.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/02/marcus-verhaegh/george-will-and-the-neoconservatives/
George Will, a man whose conservative bona fides are beyond question, put it best:
https://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/george-will/george-will-column-trump-is-an-almost-inexpressibly-sad-specimen/article_78f56803-ac06-560c-b97d-7f4331c9cc21.html
Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.
If the country’s condition is calibrated simply by economic data — if, that is, America is nothing but an economy — then the state of the union is good. Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Unless the president has forever banished business cycles — if he has, his modesty would not have prevented him from mentioning it — the next recession will begin with gargantuan deficits, which will be instructive.
The president has kept his promise not to address the unsustainable trajectory of the entitlement state (about the coming unpleasant reckoning, he says: “Yeah, but I won’t be here”), and his party’s congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate — the world’s most overrated deliberative body — will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.
And that senatorial dignity is too brittle to survive the disapproval of a president not famous for familiarity with actual policies. Congressional Republicans have their ears to the ground — never mind Churchill’s observation that it is difficult to look up to anyone in that position.
The president’s most consequential exercise of power has been the abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, opening the way for China to fill the void of U.S. involvement. His protectionism — government telling Americans what they can consume, in what quantities and at what prices — completes his extinguishing of the limited-government pretenses of the GOP, which needs an entirely new vocabulary. Pending that, the party is resorting to crybaby conservatism: We are being victimized by “elites,” markets, Wall Street, foreigners, etc.
After 30 years of U.S. diplomatic futility regarding North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the artist of the deal spent a few hours in Singapore with Kim Jong Un, then tweeted: “There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.” What price will the president pay — easing sanctions? ending joint military exercises with South Korea? — in attempts to make his tweet seem less dotty?
By his comportment, the president benefits his media detractors with serial vindications of their disparagements. They, however, have sunk to his level of insufferable self-satisfaction by preening about their superiority to someone they consider morally horrifying and intellectually cretinous. For most Americans, President Trump’s expostulations are audible wallpaper, always there but not really noticed.
Still, the ubiquity of his outpourings in the media’s outpourings gives American life its current claustrophobic feel. This results from many journalists considering him an excuse for a four-year sabbatical from thinking about anything other than the shiny thing that mesmerizes them by dangling himself in front them.
Dislike of him should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen.
It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump.
He seems to have as many friends as his pluperfect self-centeredness allows, and as he has earned in an entirely transactional life. His historical ignorance deprives him of the satisfaction of working in a house where much magnificent history has been made. His childlike ignorance — preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion — concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people he is as bewildered as a kindergartner at a seminar on string theory.
Which is why this fountain of self-refuting boasts (“I have a very good brain”) lies so much. He does so less to deceive anyone than to reassure himself. And as balm for his base, which remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions. The tungsten strength of his supporters’ loyalty is as impressive as his indifference to expanding their numbers.
Either the electorate, bored with a menu of faintly variant servings of boorishness, or the 22nd Amendment will end this, our shabbiest but not our first shabby presidency. As Mark Twain and fellow novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside together one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked, “Do you think it will stop?” Twain replied, “It always has.”
Which part of "I voted for Johnson and not Hillary Clinton" was too hard for you to read?
I thought the Johnson voters voted for him because they saw the fetid mess behind the Trump curtain. Well, mos of them did.
You really have become a good acolyte, checking off all of the boxes.
My opinion President Trump, has done great for the USA. Everyone, stumbles in life, failure is not trying after you have been knocked down, President Trump, always gets back up. Many people have filed bankruptcy, in business adventures. You have been on IHUB for 10 years, did you pick all winners, or did some of your stock picks go south for you? Did you give up on trading after a stock went bad, did you feel like a failure? I bet you will say you never lost money. And as for a failure of a "human being", with all your hate I think you fall into that category. Failure in the dictionary has this
Meds? This conversation was a waste of my time just like your vote for Hillary. President Trump, will be elected again. 5% of the population voted for Gary Johnson, and I doubt any of us will be voting a democrat. So enjoy the next 6 years.
Voted for Johnson.
Trump is a failure as a President, a businessman, and as a human being.
I like Jesse Watters, another commentator.
Ah yes, Fox News's court jester. The guy whose job is to make everyone else at Fox News seem less stupid.
Judicial Watch is a good source for info.
If you took your meds, the ironically named "Judicial Watch" would stop being news for you.
This is the best economy for small business in 50 years: NFIB CEO
"proselytizing for a cult." That would be the MSNBC viewers.
Well bud this one you are wrong on, I do not watch Sean Hannity, but he calls himself a commentator not a journalist, he says it himself. Can't stand most of Fox news people, I like Jesse Watters, another commentator. But CNN is the worst. Judicial Watch is a good source for info. News has been fake most of my life, (I am 56) it did not just start in 2016 it has always been phony, especially since news went 24/7
"I assume you never went." I dropped out of school at the age of 15 got my GED then I went to a two year tech, it was a waste of time and money. All that for something I could have trained on the job. I have a great Union job and pension. Be retiring soon. I never voted for President Trump I voted for Gary Johnson. But I will be voting for President Trump next election. I hope you do too.
My news source of choice is The Economist print edition. You know, printed words made by serious people and all of that.
The way they write about our President is simultaneously funny, insightful, and sad.
Your own argument no doubt works better for your own beliefs: if you stopped treating Sean Hannity like he is a journalist, you might accidentally stumble into something accurate.
The funniest thing is: you have no idea just how much you sound like you are proselytizing for a cult. Which, of course, you are.
I paid them off. I assume you never went.
I also note that there is a negative correlation between education and support for the Trump Clown College.
She’s the best thing that came out of the Mueller report.
Her porn site went from 1.6mm views to over 52mm views in 3 months.
A hooker that had to pay Trump back. Chalk one up for all the guys that has to pay for it.
I love Trump for that if for anything.
Who is "Stormy"? OH I think I remember, wasn't she the one that lost a lawsuit against Mr. Trump, and is doing porn and stripping to pay for Mr. Trumps court cost. And made millions from a book deal, oh I forgot her lawyer stole that money. It made me smile just typing this post. Have a great next 6 years Mr. Fink
Did you pay off your College loans, or do you expect us tax payers to pay it off for you?
I played this game called telephone when I was a kid, where you whisper something in the ear of the person next to you. And when it comes back to you it is not the same story. The lesson of the game is, do not listen to CNN they rarely get the story correct. Go to the source unfiltered, no edited clips you will know the truth. Take the time to get to know "YOUR" so called "enemy". You will learn to "LOVE" President Trump.
Agent Killed in 'Fast and Furious' Gun Operation
Nov, 17. 2016
Remember that date. It’s very important. The fist brick in the Obama/Clinton soy Foundation was kicked out of place.
This is the Ah ha, moment. Rogers is the true American hero in saving Trumps ass. A Devine intervention.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/04/30/unsung-hero-admiral-mike-rogers-obamas-nsa-chief-discovered-administrations-702-illegal-spying-operation-briefed-trump-surveillance-trump-tower/
Hey! But we always have Stormy!
Get your popcorn for act 2 tonight. Should be a gas.
It’s all coming out. It’s all your going to see over the next 2 years.
You had Mueller shit show for the past 2, get comfy.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-11-bombshell-hillary-clinton-ran-weapons-into-libya-for-the-obama-administration.html
And if you live under a rock, please read.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/spygate-the-true-story-of-collusion_2684629.html
Guys! America is not this. This is Venezuela politics at its best. Wake up and get pissed.
https://teapartypac.org/watch-loretta-lynch-signed-every-single-fisa-warrant-to-spy-on-trump-campaign/
Yes, I’m okay with that.
It’s a prime example of how Obama and krew weaponized the federal government.
I’m not okay with this.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-clinton-foundation-state-and-kremlin-connections-1469997195
Loretta Lynn? Look at the 25 year Jail time she is facing today.
That’s the low hanging fruit. Wait till she starts to squeal.
Trump will win 2020.
How was your debate last night? No energy from that crowd. No agenda. No real solutions for American tax payers. Just a lot of ‘we must do’. Con artists. And not good ones at that.
Apparently, in your world, people who dislike Trump are not "American," despite, you know, a USA birth certificate, a USA residence address, and a USA passport.
And a USA college diploma, but Trump loves his uneducated, doesn't he?
Come to America one day.
We love him here.
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