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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1475 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
The likelihood that Trump flat out lied that there were two calls from high-ranking Chinese officials Sunday night continues to grow. The CNBC article China unaware of any calls to Trump reports these comments from Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang on Tuesday, a day after he first denied the calls ever took place:
quote: State-run media Xinhua reiterated the Chinese position on trade:
quote: Xinhua called Trump's demands that US companies leave China "ridiculous at best." Trump supporters: Does this sound like a country that's ready to talk? Do you still believe Trump's declaration that trade wars are easy to win? --Percy
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
Do you still believe Trump's declaration that trade wars are easy to win? Yes. Trade wars are easy to win if you don’t mind destroying your own economy along with that of your opponent, which along with Europe’s issues with Britain and the issues in the Middle East and Latin America, leaves the island nation of Tuvalu as the premier economic powerhouse of the planet. Simple.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
What happens if China simply says "Okay, you win. Please cash in my chips (all those government bonds we purchased) and we will padlock all the properties we own in the US and pull out all of our business interests and instead turn to Iran and Pakistan and Turkey and Russia and Brazil and Mexico and Canada and the EU and Indonesia and Africa and Argentina and Latin America as trade partners. No hard feelings and congratulations!"
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
Then the island nation of Tuvalu becomes the premier economic powerhouse of the planet and the rest of us have another war but his time with nukes.
Actually it wouldn't be a bad idea for the Chinese to sell off their US Bonds. That would so depress the price of the bonds everyone else we owe trillions to would panic and also move to sell off their bonds further depressing the price then we could buy it all back for pennies on the dollar. Of course the ensuing collapse of the world economy would precipitate yet another world war over vanishing economic resources but that's OK since our climate problems are going to dump that into our laps sooner than we expect anyway. We're kinda fucked either way so might as well have a seat, get comfortable, bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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JonF Member (Idle past 199 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
‘Impeachable bribery’: Legal experts horrified by Trump’s promise to pardon aides for breaking the law to build his wall
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JonF Member (Idle past 199 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
#RussianCosigners trends on Twitter after bombshell report says Trump’s loans were guaranteed by Putin’s pals
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I think I may have mentioned "Follow the Money" before. The importance of that continues to grow since financial issues will persist beyond the Presidency and cannot be pardoned.
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JonF Member (Idle past 199 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Trump’s top spokeswoman caught in a ‘bald faced lie’ after trying to justify Playboy reporter’s suspension
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1271 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
the vice president is a YEC, what a great time to be alive.
we went from having a president openly hostile to Christ with a VP who takes the eucharist yet is publicly pro-choice (ultimate hypocrite), to having a president who courts the religious right and a VP who is a born again YEC. God is good. Edited by a servant of Christ, : No reason given. Edited by a servant of Christ, : No reason given.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9207 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.4 |
What President was openly hostile to Christianity?
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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ringo Member (Idle past 443 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
a servant of Christ writes:
Or maybe He just hates America. God is good."Come all of you cowboys and don't ever run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns" -- Woody Guthrie
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.7
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Or maybe He just hates America. What's to hate? The "true Christians" are all adulating The Beast and wearing the Mark of the Beast upon their foreheads (MAGA hats). [voice=Monty Burns]Everything is proceeding according to plan. Excccellent![/voice]
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1055 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
Old topic, but I only just stumbled across it.
Citizens of a country are allowed to vote in their country's elections even when they live abroad. That seems so obvious to me I can't imagine what the objections are. It's also not true, or at least, not universally so. My right to vote expires in 2021 as I will have been a non-resident too long (though of course I'd be able to vote if I ever moved back to the country of my birth). This seems like so obviously sensible to me that I'm astonished how many countries allow their citizens to vote decades after they emigrated.
What does this have to do with the issue of the constitutional requirement that the US census must count all persons? I think censuses are a fools errand, but that's another topic. However, I think it's definitely a bad idea to base congressional apportionment on census population. I know it's constitutionally required, but it's a bad idea. In today's age international mobility is very high, and this means that the number of non-citizen residents in certain places is high. I am not a citizen of country of residence. Non-citizens are generally concentrated in certain areas; usually for economic reasons. An extreme example should demonstrate why this causes a problem. Region A's population are all citizens. Region B's population are 50% citizens, 50% non-citizens. Both regions get to elect the same number of representatives, even though there are twice as many voters in A. The vote of a resident in B is weighted more favourably than A. Real examples are of course less exagerrated, but votes in areas with a high proportion of residents who can't vote do indeed count for more. It's not only foreign residents that demonstrate this flaw in the US system of apportioning representation - prison populations have the same effect of weighting the votes of non-inmates in the same area. It's not like this is some golden rule that all democracies must abide by. In the UK, redistricting is done to try and equalise the number of electors in a constituency - not the census count of residents. So non-citizens do not count for districting, and nor do children. Here in Czech Republic the regional distribution of seats in the lower house is not even known in advance of the election. The number of seats granted to a region is decided based on the number of votes cast.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1535 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
well look who America elected.
"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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