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Chiroptera Inactive Member
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The New York Times: Reluctantly, Trump Recertifies Iran’s Compliance With Nuclear Agreement
The US President has to certify to Congress every 90 days whether Iran is complying with the "Nuclear Deal". For the second time, the Trump Administration has certified Iran's compliance. One of Trump's campaign promises was to scrap the deal and negotiate a better one. Unfortunately, this agreement involves the international community, especially the US' European allies. Trump is learning that negotiating deals is much more difficult in real life than on TV.Patriotism is the excuse that countries give to themselves for their failures. — Stephen Marche
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And now Trump is unloading on Sessions. The New York Times this morning mentioned how firing Sesssions would alienate the "conservative" portion of his base.
I felt at the beginning that his mix of Wall St/Washington insiders and right-wing nihilists would be unstable. I wonder if this is where the mix becomes unviable.Patriotism is the excuse that countries give to themselves for their failures. — Stephen Marche
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I've lost track. Does this mean that only the real lunatics are left in the Administration?
Patriotism is the excuse that countries give to themselves for their failures. — Stephen Marche
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You know, if I squint hard enough, I could see conservatives saying, "Well, Clinton woulda been worse."
What I absolutely cannot fathom is the large number of supporters who can still look at this Administration and say, "Yeah, that's the President I want!"Patriotism is the excuse that countries give to themselves for their failures. — Stephen Marche
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The New York Times:
About Stephen Bannon:
And anyone who stands in our way, we will go to war with. Among those already in Mr. Bannon’s sights: Speaker Paul D. Ryan; Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader; the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner; and Gary D. Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs who now directs the White House’s National Economic Council. I'll be loving it if they really do start to feed on themselves.The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract. That cannot be stressed too often. - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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As JonF pointed out, the real goal is to give big tax cuts to rich people.
In fact, that is the real purpose for trying destroying Obama are: The provisions of the ACA are partially funded by new taxes that primarily affect rich people, and the Republicans want those to go away.The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract. That cannot be stressed too often. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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After the 10 free articles the New York Times appears to be locked up tight, too. Try deleting the cookies. That seems to work for me. Also, I seem to have a five article limit, but maybe that's device dependent. By the way, I do subscribe to the NYT, but I'm too lazy sometimes to log in.Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - George Orwell
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Eliminating the mandate should have only a small effect on insurance rates. Maybe in the short term. But if healthy people quit signing up for insurance in droves, leaving the insurance companies to pay for the sick customers, premiums will definitely go up. That's the purpose of the mandates.Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - George Orwell
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Funny thing, a large number of veterans supported Trump because he claimed he'd get us out of the wars in the Middle East.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - George Orwell
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From CNN
I was at the laundromat this morning, and the TV was broadcasting a report that Trump (via Twitter, because of course!) is claiming that Mueller's team is going to try to rig the midterm elections. I'd LOL, but I'm now actually getting kind of worried about whether they're going to be sending out their Brownshirts to start beating up voters at the polls.Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - George Orwell
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Red state Republican governors and secretaries of state were among those who pushed back against Kobach's fake Election Integrity Commission. I hope they are among those who tell Trump to cool it.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - George Orwell
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It is also Congress' prerogative to impeach the President if there is an abuse of power. I read somewhere (I can't remember where, unfortunately) that, as understood by the Framers of the Constitution, the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" (the justification for impeachment) referred not only to violations of laws, but also to actions that may be technically legal but rise to the level of egregious abuse of power. And the power of impeachment was given to a political branch of government because it is a political decision as to what is an abuse of power.Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - George Orwell
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A few days ago, The Guardian had an article on Canada's protection of its dairy industry. Two points claimed in the article:
Canadian consumers themselves, the one's paying the higher prices, are in favor of the dairy protections. Many American small dairy owners do not begrudge the Canadians their system; they'd like one like here in the US.Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - George Orwell
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Trying to understand the President's behavior is all very well and good, but remember that he's a deranged imbecile. It won't be very fruitful if you assume that there is some sort of rational basis to his motivations.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known. -- Frank Herbert
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And let us remember: those partners with whom the US has voluntarily signed trade agreements that are (allegedly) unfair...those are foes.
A dictator who poses a threat to neighboring nations and attempts to interfere with the electoral process of democratic nations: he's a competitor, and that's a compliment.What do you despise? By this are you truly known. -- Frank Herbert |
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