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Trumpean word-salad incoherence at its finest/most deplorable.
On the other hand, Trump buries the needle on the amygdalaometer.
Built by a Librul as a 'thrill ride' because such complex engineering, and an appreciation of the importance of an enriched environment for yard critters, is well beyond the capabilities of dull witted unimaginative righties. Sorry for that bit of redundancy there.
(I know my squirrel aerodynamics.)
How far can a squirrel fall and survive?
https://www.healthguidance.org/entry/14196/1/amazing-animals-squirrels.html
* Regular grey squirrels are able to fall over 100 feet and survive by using their tail as a parachute and to balance themselves. Again this is the equivalent of a human falling around 600 feet ad surviving.Oct 22, 2010
Slain again by Librul analytic capabilities, saltmeister.
Psychological look at how Trump's 'reptilian brain' motivates his actions | Opinion
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2016/06/psychological_look_at_how_trumps_reptilian_brain_motivates_him_opinion.html
Updated Jun 23, 2016; Posted Jun 23, 2016
By Deborah Stuckey Mulhern
What drives Donald Trump?
Who is this man who, less than a year ago, most people didn't give any chance at winning the Republican presidential nomination and who are these people who support him? Those who see him as a bully, a fraud, or even a neo-Nazi find his rise surprising to say the least.
And yet, one of the most surprising developments over the last few months was the lightning speed with which Republican Party officials jumped on the Trump bandwagon -- even after condemning him not long before.
His overall volume of supporters matches the number of people who believe the moon landing was as hoax.
Trump's recent racial insults that have prompted some party elite to pull back their support and caused his poll numbers to drop, but that hasn't been sufficient -- from a clinical perspective -- for the GOP to dump him as its nominee. Recent developments though, from the standpoint of evolutionary psychology, very well may be.
To understand this concept, we have to look inside the brain.
Paul MacLean, an innovative neuroscientist who did groundbreaking brain research in the 1960s and '70s, noticed that our brains have a three operating systems that are nestled one on top of the other.
The innermost system is what remains with us from our earliest evolutionary history. MacLean called it the Reptilian Brain. The second system -- the Paleomammalian Brain -- is what has been left to us from early mammals' brains. It is nested just above the brainstem and inside the latest developing part of the brain which we call the cortex.
This outermost layer -- all those hills and valleys of gray matter that we associate with the brain -- McLean called the Neomammalian Brain because this part of the brain is present in later developing mammals.
Paul MacLean described the human brains as having three operating systems that are nestled one on top of the other: The Reptilian, Paleomammalian and Neomamalian brains. (NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
And then there is the pre-frontal cortex -- the part of the brain that is the most highly evolved -- which resides close to the front of the brain and houses functions that are unique to human beings. It is the site of empathy, moral reasoning, emotional regulation and self-awareness. When this operating system is dominant, human beings experience states of interest, contentment and the capacity to connect safely and comfortably with one another.
It is apparent that this is not the operating system that Donald Trump is using.
Instead, Donald Trump is a slave to the fear-driven operating system of the amgydala -- a small almond shaped structure that lies at the nexus of the three levels of the brain and is derived from the reptilian brain. Trump's power lies in his ability to activate this same operating system in his followers.
He has fine-tuned the skill of activating the primitive fear of the enemy or the "other" with speech and facial expressions -- the two things that most interest the amygdala. The amygdala knows no nuance. It sees nothing but bad and good, enemy or ally.
And it is primed to see the former everywhere. When the amygdala takes over, the lower, reptilian brain is activated. And when this brain is activated, reason and sense are irrelevant.
Actually, not just irrelevant but physiologically embargoed. When the lower survival brain states are activated, blood flow is shunted away from the more highly evolved frontal lobe making thought and conscious decision difficult, if not impossible.
This is the state of mind in which Trump speaks to his followers and the state of mind that he activates in them. That is why his words don't matter; only his emotions do. Logic and reason are silenced when the lower brain gains dominance. He and his followers are resonating with fear and anger at a pre-mammalian level. It is not a level at which to make decisions, let alone policy.
An important characteristic of these operating systems is that they come online sequentially in response to the perception of a threat. If the brain perceives danger but not of an imminently life-threatening kind, the "the tend and befriend" response will be mobilized in the frontal lobe. Rational thought and conscious choices are possible in this situation. If, however, this danger becomes life-threatening -- the brain shifts to automatic defensive behaviors -- the "fight or flight" response.
When this shift happens, the higher brain becomes increasingly disabled. If the brain then further perceives that death is unavoidable, an even more primitive reaction will emerge. This third line of defense is to submit or play dead.
This state of mind was easily on display as we watched Gov. Chris Christie share the stage with Trump following his endorsement. Let's hope that some of the endorphins that the brain secretes in these situations were available to Christie to dull the pain he was clearly experiencing.
Trump was still an invincible foe as he ranted against Judge Curiel and congratulated himself on his insight into terrorism following the Orlando shooting.
He was still someone who was willing to say or do anything to stay on top. But Donald Trump is looking substantially less invincible and as he does the GOP will shake off the torpor of submission and fight back.
And when we fight back against a foe who has dominated us, we fight particularly viciously. If Trump's financial and campaign woes continue, that is just what we will see.
Deborah Stuckey Mulhern, Ph.D., a Teaneck native, is a clinical psychologist specializing in relationships, self-destructive behaviors and conflict resolution. She earned her master's in clinical psychology from Boston University and bachelor's in political science and psychology from Wesleyan University.
Robert Mueller's Legacy Will Haunt Donald Trump
Gee, I hope it's Jacob Marley chain rattling quality haunting....KFC, Big Mac, guilt and two-scoops fueled.
I liked it better when it was new and again 27 year later.....
Maybe I misunderstand. But I don't see progressive taxes as incompatible, mutually exclusive, with both job creation and infrastructure needs.
I don't know if Upstate New Yorkers labor under the same delusions and resentments that pertain in downstate IL.
Do the poorer parts of NY State receive more back than they pay in State taxes, as documented for IL?
That's right. It's well established that facts have a liberal bias.
You misunderstand 'redistribution'. On the Federal level many if not most high GDP Blue States get less back then they pay in Fed taxes. I've posted the facts on that many times here.
Guess what? The pattern repeats within our State.
Within our State if all you had was the taxes you paid in you wouldn't have enough to repair and rebuild jack in your neck of the woods.
But, that's NOT the way it works....
We'll call this lesson: Know Your State.
Chicago gets most of the state money, right? Think again, according to new study
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article217665185.html
By Joseph Bustos
September 07, 2018 05:00 AM, Updated September 07, 2018 01:05 PM
A popular belief is that when it comes to state funding, Chicago gets all the public money. But a recent study found, that downstate counties, for the most part, get back more than what they send to Springfield.
For example, for every $1 St. Clair County sends to state coffers, it receives $1.13 back. Madison County receives $1.10 back.
In the rural counties, it’s even more. Clinton County gets $2.42 back, and $3.08 is returned to Randolph County for every dollar it sends, according to the study. Only Monroe County receives less, getting 49 cents back for every dollar in taxes it pays.
WTF!! You'd better start sending me some free corn on the cob.
Most southwestern Illinois counties receive more in state general fund money than they send to state coffers, according to the recently released analysis by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
The money typically comes in the form of state aid for public school districts, as well as funding for downstate prisons, mental health facilities, Medicaid and community colleges and universities.
The institute looked at, among other things, the perception about whether the state does a good job at distributing government resources, and how those dollars are allocated.
Researchers found that there is a perception that Chicago gets more than its fair share of money, and the state does not do a good job at distributing government resources equally across rural, urban and suburban areas.
In reality, Chicago only gets 80 cents back for every dollar it puts in. The suburban collar counties fare even worse, with DuPage County getting back only 31 cents.
The study looked at income tax data by county as well as sales tax revenue, lottery sales, state aid to schools and community college, higher education expenditures, state operations and local governments.
Study authors excluded revenue from motor fuel taxes, vehicle license fees, tollways and expenditures for capital projects.
Included in the study was polling data by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, which found there is a common belief that rural areas get less than their fair share and suburban areas get more than their fair share. The study found 55 percent of people in Chicago believe urban areas get less than their fair share.
“The downstate voters are the most alienated or disenchanted with their lot from state government as compared to their peers in the other two regions in the state,” the study said.
Former Governor Jim Edgar, a Republican who served from 1991-99, said he wasn’t surprised by the study’s findings and said it’s been true for years.
“Downstate gets more money than they send to Springfield. Chicago doesn’t get quite as much, but who really pays the most is the suburbs,” Edgar said. “They don’t get as much money back and they pay more money. ... (They’re) wealthier both in income and property value.”
Downstate Illinois benefits from the state tax and spend mix, the study wrote. “The 96 downstate counties, as a group, receive about 50 percent more in state spending than they contribute in tax revenue.
“The lower income regions of Illinois as a whole are receiving significantly more in state expenditures than they contribute in taxes,” the study wrote. “Indeed in the most southern region, there would be very little economic activity at all without the state.”
Read more here: https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article217665185.html#storylink=cpy
Disbursement of state money
How much general fund money is sent by each county to Springfield, and how much each county receives.
County Ratio per $1 Revenue to the state Disbursements to the county
Cook $0.80 $11,925,148,518 $9,515,776,084
Dupage $0.31 $2,738,909,746 $850,866,241
Kane $0.76 $1,082,636,293 $820,072,628
Lake $0.39 $2,151,565,097 $848,508,822
McHenry $0.42 $648,667,262 $272,598,913
Will $0.68 $1,402,726,419 $946,909,089
Bond $1.85 $23,713,245 $43,918,319
Clinton $2.42 $64,894,472 $157,161,499
Madison $1.10 $489,544,441 $538,829,494
Monroe $0.49 $66,117,098 $32,509,825
Randolph $3.08 $58,749,712 $180,921,286
St. Clair $1.13 $465,735,103 $525,228,978
Washington $1.18 $26,799,930 $31,715,131
Chart: Belleville News Democrat •Source:Paul Simon Public Policy Institute • Get the data
EDITORIAL: A progressive tax is a fairer tax — and now it’s up to you to make it happen
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/30/18645922/illinois-graduated-tax-progressive-income-fair-jb-pritzker-democrats-wealth-michael-pine
State Rep. Robert Martwick, D-Chicago, left, greets Gov. J.B. Pritzker on the Illinois House floor after the bill to put Pritzker’s graduated income tax proposal on the November 2020 ballot passed on Memorial Day. |Ted Schurter/The State Journal-Register via AP
And now the ball’s in your court, Illinois voters.
Next year, you will decide whether to change the state’s constitution and switch from the current flat income tax to a graduated tax structure, which we have no doubt would be fairer.
It would offer a break to working class people just struggling to get by. It would help solve our state’s fiscal problems by imposing taxes at a higher rate on the very wealthiest among us.
Legislators this week finally passed a proposal that puts the question on the November 2020 ballot, making good on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s promise to get it done before the end of May.
So get ready for a 16-month barrage of half-truths or worse from anti-tax conservatives desperate to convince voters that it’s a terrible idea.
They’ll try to paint a picture of Armageddon approaching. They’ll act like Genghis Khan and his hordes, disguised as Pritzker and the Democrats, are descending to pillage taxpayers’ wallets and leave the state in ruins.
honest debate about a graduated income tax has to acknowledge reality. Fat-cutting will not pay off $134 billion in unfunded pension liability and keep the state up and running.
A progressive income tax is class warfare!
Actually, it could avert the class warfare that’s revving up now, with the rich getting richer while the middle class shrinks and the poor grow in number.
In Illinois in 1960, the top 1 percent of workers took home 3.4 times as much income as the median worker, according to a study by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute. By 2014, the earnings gap grew to at least 14.3.
Nationally, 40 percent of all wealth is now controlled by just 1 percent of all Americans; in 1970, the richest controlled just 10 percent.
It’s worth noting that America historically has kept inequality in check by imposing higher taxes on the rich. From the 1950s through much of the 1980s, the top federal income tax rate was at least 50%, and from 1951 to 1964, it was 91%. Now it’s just 37%.
The current flat tax is already fair because everybody pays taxes at the same rate!
A recent op-ed from a millionaire who favors a graduated income tax explained why that notion is nonsense.
“It’s true, of course, that the multimillionaire will pay a larger total amount in taxes,” writes Michael Pine, a member of a group called Patriotic Millionaires. “But even just a 1 percent increase in the flat tax rate can be monumental to a working mother on a marginal income.
It can make it impossible for her to keep up with the costs of medicine and health care for her and her child, for school supplies, and even food for the week. On the other hand, the multimillionaire, at worst, might have to postpone buying a new vacation home.”
Enough said.
Rich people will flee the state!
An analysis by the Better Government Association suggests that’s an empty threat: When the state raised the flat income tax temporarily from 3% to 5% (in 2011), lower-income workers and Downstate folks fled, while the rich stuck around.
It will kill jobs!
If a flat tax is so great for jobs, why do so many states — many or most of them doing better on jobs than Illinois — have progressive tax structures?
What’s killing jobs in Illinois now is miserably shaky finances. Businesses like stability. They despise uncertainty.
They also want a highly educated workforce, and plenty of high school graduates leave the state for a better financial deal in college elsewhere because Illinois woefully shortchanges higher education.
A February 2019 report from the progressive-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that raising state income taxes on the wealthiest helped states boost economic productivity. In six of eight states that enacted higher taxes on the wealthy since 2000, “private sector economic growth met or exceeded that of neighboring states.”
It’s a blank check to raise taxes!
Legally speaking, there’s nothing stopping lawmakers from raising the flat income tax on everyone right now — as they have done before. But if the fear is that a progressive system of taxation will make it easier to raise the levy only on the highest earners, Illinois Republicans could have done something about that during this spring legislative session.
They could have demanded the inclusion of a ratio, built into the constitutional amendment, that tied the highest tax bracket to the lowest tax bracket, a kind of tether. If the highest bracket were increased, the lowest would rise proportionately.
We’re not at all sure Pritzker and his fellow Democrats would have gone for that — they didn’t need Republican votes — but the other side never seriously sat down to bargain.
Their strategy was to reject a progressive income tax in any way, shape or form. It would be possible to include this sort of tether in future legislation that tinkers with the tax brackets.
Consider this an opening volley. Over the next 16 months, we’ll have much more to say in favor of voting “yes” to a progressive income tax — truly a fairer tax — in November 2020
Why, the world inside his paranoid head of course.
At least if the gun in the back of his pants discharges a round it will strike the ground after having traveled obstructed past a very sad, virtually nonexistent, pair of butt cheeks.
And yet the IL GDP chugs right along, fueled mostly by the productivity in the NE portion of the State.
When the graduated State income taxe arrives you will thank N. IL for repair of your roads, bridges, outhouses, henhouses, warehouses and just about everything else encompassed in inspector Gerard's hard target search radius in your part of the State. LOL!
Iran attacks US warships in the Gulf of Tonkin
Published
10 hours ago
on June 1, 2019
ByVeishnoriets
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/06/ex-false-flag-ii/?utm_source=Normal+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f289d53475-Duffel_Blog_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d392bc034-f289d53475-23791221&goal=0_6d392bc034-f289d53475-23791221&mc_cid=f289d53475&mc_eid=cc8af7284a
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam—Iran has staged a failed hit-and-run attack on U.S. warships, the Navy has reported.
According to Pentagon officials, vessels secretly controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy (IRGCN) fired several missiles at the U.S. destroyers USS Maddox (DD-731) and USS Turner Joy (DD-951) yesterday while they cruised in the Gulf of Tonkin, just off the coast of Vietnam. The missiles failed to strike either warship.
The move came as a shock to Seventh Fleet, which expected Iran to attack U.S. forces on the other side of the world in the Persian Gulf.
“This shows just how devious the Ayatollahs are,” said a senior U.S. official who spoke anonymously so he would not be tweet-fired, referring to Iran’s religious leaders, who control the country.
“Clearly, the Persians realize that we have achieved local superiority in the Middle East and are pursuing asymmetric responses.”
Earlier this month, the U.S. sent an aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf to deter what U.S. officials claimed was an impending Iranian attack. More recently, officials claimed the Iranian threat had faded.
The vessels that staged the attack are traditional Iranian sailing vessels, called dhows, and did not have military markings. The dhows departed immediately after the incident and have not been located since, according to several Pentagon officials.
“This is some real gray zone stuff,” an admiral said. “We were expecting renewed great-power competition, or at least a near-peer fight.”
A sailor familiar with the matter said that it was not unusual for sailing vessels to be hard to track on the high seas. Conditions in the Gulf of Tonkin, where a squall shortly after the attacks reduced visibility to brought six-foot waves, also likely contributed to the Iranian escape.
Beyond difficult detection conditions, the sailor said the Maddox‘s long-range air-search radar and the Turner Joy‘s radar were inoperative.
“We’re just happy we didn’t hit a freighter,” the sailor said.
"Before I make any important decision, I read Duffel Blog to ensure it's the right one."
—former Defense Secretary in the Trump administation, speaking on condition of anonymity
What, there's no GOP machine south of I-80?
Hell, it's practically KY south of Kankakee.
And they vote like it is too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Illinois
You're overrating the benefits of 'ownership' and, as you noted, it's a FED case.
The 'machine' can not choose jurisdiction. It's either a Fed case or it isn't.
Or..………….
The reason why the Fed could be pressured to raise rates
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business
Updated 12:15 PM ET, Fri May 31, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/investing/fed-rate-hikes-inflation/index.html
New York (CNN Business) — The tariff-induced market meltdown is increasing the probability that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates later this year.
But what if the central bank goes in a different direction? There's an argument that the Fed's hands are tied and that it might need to actually hike rates if consumer prices creep higher.
The Fed may not just be facing the risk of recession. It needs to watch out for another threat: a troublesome economic trend known as stagflation, which is when sluggish growth and inflation happen simultaneously. That's what happened in the 1970s, when oil prices surged at the same time the broader economy was slumping.
"It's entirely possible the Fed could have to raise rates," said Michael DePalma, managing director of fixed income with MacKay Shields, a firm that runs the High Yield (HYLD) bond ETF.
What's tricky is that inflation is a process. It doesn't turn on a dime. It has to work its way through," DePalma added. "If you do get inflation it can seriously hamper the Fed's ability to cut rates if the economy slows."
Retailers are raising prices
Make no mistake: Tariffs imposed on China and Mexico should lead to higher prices at US retailers and car dealerships.
Costco (COST) chief financial officer Richard Galanti was pretty blunt when asked about the impact of the trade war on the company's earnings conference call Thursday evening.
"At the end of the day, prices will go up on things," Galanti said.
Keep in mind that Costco is a retail powerhouse that has the financial wherewithal to absorb the hit from higher costs better than many other chains. It's also a company that prides itself on offering bargains. So if Costco might have to raise prices, expect just about every other retailer, large and small, to do the same.
Lewis Alexander, chief US economist at Nomura, said in a report that he's expecting a "pronounced impact on auto prices and some electronics" because of tariffs. He argues that food prices could go up, too.
"Higher tariffs on imports from Mexico and China could provide an opportunity for price-setters to raise prices, which could make long-term inflation expectations unstable," Alexander added. "In that case, shocks induced by tariffs might have a long-lasting impact on inflation."
Inflation risk is 'underappreciated'
A lot of people are also too quick to dismiss inflation as a concern, said Alejandra Grindal, senior international economist with Ned Davis Research.
She noted that in addition to the possibility of higher consumer prices from tariffs, the healthy job market in the United States has led to higher wages. A continued rise in the size of workers' paychecks will add to inflation pressures.
"I'm not saying the Fed will definitely raise rates. But it's a risk that's underappreciated since tariffs and higher wages could lead to a spike in inflation," Grindal said.
Still, unless the pendulum swings dramatically toward a recession or a substantial pickup in inflation, the Fed may have no choice but to sit tight and wait to see how the trade war ultimately pans out.
"It's hard to see stagflation coming, but you could see consumer prices accelerate at the same time the economy slows down," said Brian Nick, chief investment strategist with Nuveen. "That's why I don't think the Fed steps in either way."
The Fed also has to worry more about a prolonged economic slump because of tariffs than the risk of higher prices, said Mona Mahajan, US investment strategist and portfolio manager with Allianz Global Investors.
"The case for cutting rates has escalated. There is substantial downside for the US economy," Mahajan said, adding that the Fed may be willing to let inflation overshoot a bit in order to avoid a sharp economic slowdown.
Either way, the Fed is in a bind right now. There are no easy answers about what it should do next.
Burying Supply-Side Once and for All
By Neera Tanden
from Summer 2013, No. 29 – 11 MIN READ
Tagged Middle Class
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/29/burying-supply-side-once-and-for-all/
Weekend TOONs - The McCain Mutiny
Surprised that it took this long for that play on words to appear. Even more surprised that one of us didn't come up with it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212151084
202 posts and counting. How often has that happened here?
Proud to do my part.
Probably won't be surpassed until the day impeachment hearings begin or Trump says no mas, whichever comes first.
You know it's my default practice and that the exception does, in this instance, prove the rule.
That said, I will continue to strangle the Trumpanzees with my links.
C'mon, nothing looks like that BUT a quote from Wikipedia.
And the only links the person I was responding to likes are maple.
You had to be there.
Not quite THE last one.
Nobody doesn't have an emotional hook in this one. Anyway, a good pairing.
Like singer James Brown being 'caped' or Dracula after spotting a crucifix.
Mama don't take my speedbag away..... to the tune of....
So you're THAT good of a shot, huh? LOL.
I was in a reserve unit that had it's share of cops. The original Mayor Daley gave an order to the police to "shoot to kill arsonists, shoot to wound looters"
I jokingly asked one of the cops: you THAT good a shot? Fuck no he said, we pull the gun we shoot to bring the perp down. A fatal shot is the way to do that. That said, none of us are going to shoot a looter struggling with a 23" TV set, or two guys with a couch.
After we stop laughing we're going to command the perps to put the fucking TV/couch DOWN.
Yeah, I figured whoever was focused on the debate would have read your whole post or tracked back to it.
I did leave the link in for the article, but I get your point.
The more complex the dispute the more I default to the 'it's this AND it's this' rather than THIS is the answer.
It does have a reputation as a driver's car in whichever iteration it comes. YouTube reviews of it are uniformly enthusiastic.
Which model do you have, and did it arrive with iodine capsules in the glove box?
My Administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations.....and Mike Pence.... to join us in this effort!
C'mon MIke, you bible thumping knucklehead, you know I love you! Get up here and join me in this declaration. Mike?! Mike?! Where'd he go? Sarah, get his ass back in here.
You are attributing 'thinking' to one for whom that is too much heavy lifting.
I'm surprised that you would do that, as you can almost smell the burnt out motor, of a cheap Harley, while reading his posts.
Friday TOONs - Better?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212147292
The Fox News chyron that ruined Trump's day
President Donald Trump’s fragile state-of-mind was dealt a “fatal blow” by Fox News, MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace reported on “Deadline: White House.”
The host explained that “today we’ve been watching the collapse of a con.”
“Donald Trump’s cover story — crafted with a heavy assist from Attorney General William Barr’s five pre-report appearances and statements — came crumbling down today when Donald Trump woke up and realized that Robert S. Mueller clearly found evidence he obstructed justice and that he had unseemly contacts with a foreign adversary,” Wallace said.
“The fatal blow to his fragile state may have come from the words on the bottom of the screen on his network of choice Fox News where they ran these words, ‘no exoneration,'” she continued, showing a clip of Fox News personality Bret Baier on Wednesday.
“It was a far cry from Trump’s words, ‘total and complete exoneration,'” Wallace noted.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/fox-news-reporting-no-exoneration-was-a-fatal-blow-to-donald-trumps-delicate-state-of-mind-nicolle-wallace/
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212145645
Nah, I got his middle name exactly right. I've seen his lame ass kicked around and handed to him on just about every cable show he's been on.
Here's a tip, word salad works so much better if you serve it up with some ground coherent thought and yes, a fucking point.
Work on it.
Scott Stedman: "This is a huge win for Putin."
Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman
Wow. In a single phone call, Trump overrides months of foreign policy and takes a step to allow Turkey to purchase US F'35s and Russia's S-400 missiles. This is a huge win for Putin. Congress was pushing to sanction Turkey for buying the Russian missiles https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-approves-key-turkish-offer-s-400s …
3. Russia will now have access to the F-35 and can insert malware in its networking devices
Trump is an utter fool
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212148168
Hilarious, who knew a conservative could strategize?
He's talking to a network incapable of subjecting itself to the same introspection he demands of the NYT.
Yeah, FAUX News, do look in the fucking mirror at your own overt partisanship.
It's a Russian doll. Fox is in Trump's pocket and Trump is in Putin's pocket.
Conservative strategist Chris Barron echoed Gainor’s reaction to the Vanity Fair story.
“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this story,” Barron told Fox news. “Has anyone from the New York Times actually read the New York Times? If they want to avoid the appearance of overt partisanship they might try taking a look in the mirror first.”
Marc fucking Thiessen? Well he served a couple of first class liars. He's a hyper-partisan RW jackass.
Marc Alexander Thiessen (born January 13, 1967) is an American author, columnist, and political commentator. He writes for The Washington Post newspaper. He served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush (2004–09) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001–06).[1]
Nothing you've ever posted makes that clear.
The next clever thing you post will be your first.
Look up the difference in meaning between manifest and assert.
In other words, start walking your talk.
CAP aside, the comma was unnecessary and your lack of understanding of the difference between purger and perjure is pathetic.
You're not a clear thinker partly because you are a stone cold illiterate.
and I don't think you can handle the English language.
He was pointing out YOUR illiteracy, dipshit.
This is the word that escaped you..
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/perjure
perjure
[ pur-jer ]SHOW IPA
EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN
SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR perjure ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object), per·jured, per·jur·ing.
1to render (oneself) guilty of swearing falsely or of willfully making a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation:
The witness perjured herself when she denied knowing the defendant.