Trump Thread

[Strike For The South]

Football is my hobby and this bum is sticking his nose in it.

[HopAlongBunny]

To kneel or not to kneel
That is the question...

[Strike For The South]

They should all kneel. No one should give in to threats.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

They'll start discarding the anthem tradition is my guess.

[CrossLOPER]

They'll start discarding the anthem tradition is my guess.

I never understood the point, anyway.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I never understood the point, anyway.

It started spontaneously, got continued because someone thought it would please the crowd and ended up as a tradition. Link Levels of reverence vary across the full spectrum.

[Montmorency]

It started spontaneously, got continued because someone thought it would please the crowd and ended up as a tradition. Source

Levels of reverence vary across the full spectrum.

6-year old report on carbon emissions?

Anyway, isn't it linked to the military marketing contracts?

[spmetla]

Football is my hobby and this bum is sticking his nose in it.

What's your team anyhow, GB Packers for me!

The POTUS should have too many real priorities to worry about players kneeling or not for the National Anthem. People can do all sorts of disrespectful things in protest and it is their absolute right to, celebrities and athletes are not excluded. Perhaps when his 'house' is running in proper order he can start sticking his nose in unessential business, right now it's damn annoying.

[Strike For The South]

They'll start discarding the anthem tradition is my guess.

that great tradition from 2009 when the federal government paid for it. I'll watch any college or NFL game sptemla.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

oopsie, wrong link. Changed.

[Beskar]

The POTUS should have too many real priorities to worry about players kneeling or not for the National Anthem. People can do all sorts of disrespectful things in protest and it is their absolute right to, celebrities and athletes are not excluded. Perhaps when his 'house' is running in proper order he can start sticking his nose in unessential business, right now it's damn annoying.

To win the Worse President award, he needs to be seen to be doing something. Because if he did absolutely nothing, it wouldn't be the worst.

[Gilrandir]

To win the Worse President award, he needs to be seen to be doing something. Because if he did absolutely nothing, it wouldn't be the worst.

Oh come on! He walks and talks and combs his hair. It should be enough.

[HopAlongBunny]

Because if he did absolutely nothing, it wouldn't be the worst.

The mayor of San Juan might disagree with you:

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...mnation-2017-9

https://www.vox.com/2017/10/1/163915...o-alec-baldwin

Slow response, inadequate response; just imagine how it would look with absolutely No response.

A possible dividend may be in the offing:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...mate-refugees/

[HopAlongBunny]

Tax cuts for everyone!
Of course the amount of the benefit might depend on your income, but it will be beautiful for all:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKCN1C42C8

The administration insists middle-class families are the big winners, to bad no independent analysis backs them up.

[rory_20_uk]

Vive the Kleptocracy!

I do wonder how many Republicans will think the tax plans are a great idea. One day it could be them who is super rich and benefiting, after all...

[Seamus Fermanagh]

More than 18 hours following the mass murder event in Las Vegas, President Trump has managed to avoid being grossly offensive or saying anything notably stupid.

[HopAlongBunny]

Time for a Muslin ban?

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/1...115500667.html

[Beskar]

Time for a Muslin ban?

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/1...115500667.html

Probably because Stephen Paddock was a Trump supporter. We know it is true. Just wished it wasn't.

[Beskar]

Trump starting to crack down on Political Opponents.

[Husar]

The Russia connections explained (bad language warning!).

[HopAlongBunny]

Finding those fraudulent voters just got harder.
In an obvious finesse by the deep state, a judge has ruled that handing over voter information is a breach of privacy.
That's exactly what you would expect from a process with something to hide:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...a-court-defeat

[HopAlongBunny]

The migration may have begun already:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/withou...gmaybe-forever

Having lost most (if not all) they had, the mainland beckons.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

The migration may have begun already:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/withou...gmaybe-forever

Having lost most (if not all) they had, the mainland beckons.

Florida is gonna pick up a quarter million plus is my guess. They tend to vote Dem too, so it probably shifts us Blue for Trump's reelection bid

[Montmorency]

Florida is gonna pick up a quarter million plus is my guess. They tend to vote Dem too, so it probably shifts us Blue for Trump's reelection bid

I didn't realize - Florida has the second-highest Puerto Rican population by state at a little shy of a million. But the Northeast still has half the Puerto Ricans of the territorial states, so that continue as the primary destination.

Edit: *should continue

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I didn't realize - Florida has the second-highest Puerto Rican population by state at a little shy of a million. But the Northeast still has half the Puerto Ricans of the territorial states, so that continue as the primary destination.

Edit: *should continue

I think the pattern continues, but my number is based on a guestimate of PR dropping 600k in pop

[Shaka_Khan]

[Hooahguy]

A Tillerson-Trump IQ test challenge? Love it, I want it televised.

Also Pence doesnt seem to be much of a fiscal conservative, he spent at least $250,000 of taxpayer money for a planned walkout of a football game in which everyone knew the players would kneel. Shameful for the VP to be a paid protester.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

A Tillerson-Trump IQ test challenge? Love it, I want it televised.

Also Pence doesnt seem to be much of a fiscal conservative, he spent at least $250,000 of taxpayer money for a planned walkout of a football game in which everyone knew the players would kneel. Shameful for the VP to be a paid protester.

Political theater is part of the job.

One of the inherent advantages of incumbency.

In this instance, not even particularly squandrous of taxpayer dollars.

And when you're trillions in debt with no serious plan to do anything beyond slowing the increase of the debt, what's a bit of chump change anyway.

[HopAlongBunny]

The Donald is doing his best to fix health-care.
Obviously, the first thing to do is gut the mechanism that makes Obamacare work.
Without subsidies and without cost control, premiums are going way up.
Spark a crisis, and anything that's offered will look better than nothing; Art of the Deal indeed:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republ...s-into-turmoil

[Seamus Fermanagh]

The Donald is doing his best to fix health-care.
Obviously, the first thing to do is gut the mechanism that makes Obamacare work.
Without subsidies and without cost control, premiums are going way up.
Spark a crisis, and anything that's offered will look better than nothing; Art of the Deal indeed:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republ...s-into-turmoil

It is a pretty logical step, albeit fairly cold-blooded.

His party cannot be brought to amend it; the opposition wants to add funding support without fundamental changes.

The lack of support for repeal is because politicos and a goodly slice of the public already view it as an entitlement.

So if you want to replace it rather than paper (money) over the problems, you cut out a component or two that more or less guarantees failure in the near future. THEN the pressure for change will allow for action.

Mind you, I think Trump is miscalculating in that it will not be the Trump plan that rides to the rescue. I think it will be (sadly) the Sanders plan.