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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Fit for hard work. I myself certainly am no longer capable of such...nor are many of my baby boomer kin. The blue-collar populists have had to work hard all their lives anyway.
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.~Ringo
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1524 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
White house response:
Manafort? Manfort who??? Oh,,,, small role in the campaign...hardly seen him and actually didn't know him at all. "You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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Taq Member Posts: 10033 Joined: Member Rating: 5.3
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Phat writes: He likely sees his heirs and the strongest of the blue collar base making it while the weaker liberals and socialists fall away. His American Dream is basically survival of the fittest. I think you forget that parasitism is a viable evolutionary strategy. Trump more than likely sees blue collar workers as people he can steal resources from in order to gain what he wants. It becomes even more obvious after the election when massive tax cuts favor the wealthy but not the blue collar worker. Trump also wants to trash any protections that may be given to blue collar workers where health care is concerned.
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jar Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Phat writes: Fit for hard work. What hard work has he or any of his family ever done?
Phat writes: The blue-collar populists have had to work hard all their lives anyway. And what has Trump done for the Blue Collar worker?
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
Certainly what is known publicly is much less than what Bob Mueller knows, but the New York Times has constructed a detailed timeline of what is publicly known about the Russia investigation accompanied by detailed descriptions of each event: A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath. Here are a very few short excerpts from the event descriptions:
quote: What is publicly known seems already more than enough to prove conspiracy. --Percy
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
It seems that Trump still thinks that building walls is the answer to illegal immigration, without thinking about details like do we even control that land?
Trump urged Spain to 'build a wall' across Sahara, says minister
The border with the Sahara cannot be bigger than our border with Mexico," the President is reported to have said. The US-Mexico border is 1,954 miles (3,145 km) long. The Sahara desert stretches for 3,000 miles. Spain has no sovereignty over the Sahara, but it does possess two small enclaves on the north African coast, Ceuta and Melilla, separated from Morocco by controversial wire fences.
Just daft.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1045 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
There is a big wall in Sahara desert already. More earthern embankments than a wall for most of it's length (image below), but there are minefields in these sections. Have you considered mining the US-Mexico border?
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
Have you considered mining the US-Mexico border? Yeah, that would do it. We don't need no wall. Or maybe this:
--Percy
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Diomedes Member Posts: 995 From: Central Florida, USA Joined:
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Sahara desert is 3000 miles across. And incidentally, its a desert. Which means it is functionally a 'wall' in an of itself. i.e., the likelihood of a poor migrant crossing it safely is probably nil. Dumb idea.
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
News outlets are today reporting that Trump is proposing to block visas and green cards for immigrants who have used food stamps, Medicaid or Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy. See, for example, Trump admin rule would deny green cards to immigrants who took food stamps, Medicaid.
Why is Trump doing this? Because he believes immigrants are a net minus to the country rather than a net plus, despite that everyone in this country is an immigrant or descended from immigrants (even Native Americans, one could argue, the only difference being that they immigrated thousands of years before everyone else). Here's my own brief immigrant history: My mother's side came over in the 1600s and soon began moving as far west as possible, eventually arriving in Calgary, Alberta, in the early twentieth century. My father's side came over in the late 1800's in a flood of Jewish immigrants fleeing Ukrainian pogroms. While the details differ, all our stories are the same: our ancestors came here from somewhere else as immigrants, and we built this country. Immigrants are our country's strength. Trump seems to ignore that he himself is descended from relatively recent immigrants. Trump's grandparents immigrated (unwillingly after having been thrown out of Bavaria) in the early twentieth century. Trump's wife Melania is a very recent immigrant, as are her parents. --Percy
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1045 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined:
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Sahara desert is 3000 miles across. And incidentally, its a desert. Which means it is functionally a 'wall' in an of itself. i.e., the likelihood of a poor migrant crossing it safely is probably nil. Dumb idea. While I agree that it's a dumb idea; obviously lots of migrants do in fact cross the Sahara. Where do you think the migrants trying to get from Libya to Europe came from? They cross the desert using new-fangled technologies like the internal combustion engine. These chaps are in Niger getting ready for the long drive across the Libyan Sahara:
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Capt Stormfield Member Posts: 429 From: Vancouver Island Joined:
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"The border with the Sahara cannot be bigger than our border with Mexico," the President is reported to have said. There's a pretty good chance he doesn't realize the Mediterranean is between Spain and the Sahara. Seriously. Edited by Capt Stormfield, : typo
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jar Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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There are even Guided Tour Groups with Family & Friends discounts:
Edited by jar, : add discounts
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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Michael Avenatti is again in the news after his announcement that he has a client who also accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual abuse. News articles tend to also mentioned in passing Avenatti's interest in exploring a possible run for the presidency in 2020, almost always in dismissive terms because of his background and lack of government experience. My sense is that most Democrats don't seem much interested, either. They want a traditional candidate.
I'm not a Democrat, but I'm reminded of a three decade old column by conservative George Will who wrote after Democrat Michael Dukakis lost the 1988 election to Republican George Herbert Walker Bush:
quote: Whoever the Democrats nominate in 2020, he had better learn the lesson that is already part of Avenatti's makeup: the rules of the game have changed. That's what happens when a lying conniving but convincing populist runs. When Trump is out of power then we can return to traditional norms, but until then the emphasis has to be on making sure Trump isn't reelected in 2020 (not that a Republican isn't elected - that Trump isn't elected). If Trump runs again it may well take an Avenatti-style Democrat to effectively run against him. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee considering the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court yesterday displayed a stunning lack of honesty, integrity and sensitivity. There's enough material that one could easily get lost in the details, so I will keep this short. This is what I learned from yesterday's committee interviews of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh:
That's my take. --Percy PS - The "t" on my laptop keyboard is still broken. I have an appointment with a supposed genius this afternoon.I'm posting from my development machine, which I don't often do. Edited by Percy, : In the original Senator Susan Collins was accidentally referred to as Senator Gail Collins.
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