President Trumps first 100 days;

freespiritx · May 21, 2018

With Trumps dismantling, and funding cuts of the general public's resources, environmental
protections, and public support nets, etc. to advantage his friends, and family's business
interests, by using public transportation as an example, is this the new future?

shootersa · May 21, 2018

C'mon man.
Check the facts before you spew.

freespiritx · May 21, 2018

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C'mon man.
Check the facts before you spew.
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Ah C'mon!
I want to play as well!
Everyone else gets to post little ditties here, and there.
It's not fair!
At least the video was entertaining. Right?

JimmyCrackPorn · May 21, 2018

JimmyCrackPorn · May 21, 2018

PRESIDENT OBAMA LEGACY

5/12/18

Aside from ObamaCare, most of President Obama’s legacy was achieved through executive fiat.

Except for the Nobel Peace Prize. And even the guy responsible for that has had second thoughts.

The Iran Nuclear deal would have had staying power as a treaty with two thirds U.S. Senate approval. But Obama couldn’t get that. So he settled for the authority of a narrative by aspiring novelist Ben Rhodes.

Here’s Dan Henninger in the WSJ:

The Iran nuclear deal is just that—a deal Mr. Obama did with the mullahs, Russia, Germany, France, the U.K. and China, with no formal instrument of ratification.

And the same goes for the Paris Climate Accord:

The Paris climate agreement is an “accord” with so little domestic support that even some Democrats would have voted “no” if Mr. Obama had submitted it to the Senate for approval.

President Obama Legacy
Not that Trump has any better luck getting the approval of Congress. But then, he doesn’t need it. He’s unraveling the Obama Legacy with the same pen and phone Obama used to create it.
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freespiritx · May 22, 2018

ridgerunner · May 22, 2018

trumpie bear has done nothing but make us a target

deleted user 1548766 · May 22, 2018

The Most Important Man In The Free World.

BTW the one standing next to him is President Trump.

stumbler · May 23, 2018

Trump’s thoroughly pointless trade war with China was a big victory — for China

So many people have heaped so much derision on President Trump after the abrupt abandonment of his “trade war” with China that it almost makes one suspect he’s doing something right. I said “almost.”

One of many ways the Trump administration has broken new ground in American politics lies in pushing the universal tendency to say one thing and do another to a surreal extreme. Trump is justly renowned for saying things that are not true. He may not get enough credit for the artful application of his falsehoods, which are not merely meant to bamboozle the public or to render questions of fact impenetrable but to suggest that he is inventing the world as he goes along, like some deity of ancient mythology.

Or maybe he just says whatever feels good at the time, and constructs half-baked excuses for it later. I’m not sure Trump was elected president because he vowed to get tough on the Chinese in trade talks — who knows why he won, really? There seem to be more reasons than people who voted for him. But he definitely made such promises. One interpretation of “Make America Great Again,” from the beginning, was the Steve Bannon homoerotic fantasy of broad-shouldered men with lunch buckets and overalls, going to work at shipyards and ironworks in a magic land of full employment, free of imported discount-store goods, hybrid cars and feminism.

If Trump’s tweets from March promising that “trade wars are good, and easy to win” reflected an understanding of the global economy that the word “childish” fails to capture — it’s more like a golden-retriever-ish view of the issue — his proposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum were more complicated. As policy, they were a blunt instrument that likely wouldn’t have accomplished much. But as politics they were distinctively Trumpian, wrong-footing his friends and enemies alike.

Republicans hated the tariffs, because they hate everything that interferes with the most rapacious version of free trade. But they couldn’t do or say much of anything, because to defy Trump openly, as a Republican, is (at least for now) to sign your one-way ticket to golf-course retirement, bumming cigarettes from John Boehner and putting up with Bob Corker’s frat-house pranks. Democrats — well, to be honest they mostly hated the tariffs too. But those who come from Rust Belt states or the party’s leftward fringe, like Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio or Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, had to follow the lead of the labor movement, which has wanted limits on imported raw materials for decades.

So that was neatly done, except that as usual with Trump, the whole thing was about performance, rather than substance or execution. Ten weeks or so later, it’s all just vaporware: There is no trade war, there are no tariffs and victory has been declared that looks an awful lot like defeat.

“China is winning Trump’s trade war,” ran the mocking headline atop Heather Long’s Sunday story in The Washington Post, which observed that Trump and his top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, had gotten no specific promises from the Chinese on reducing the trade deficit, prosecuting intellectual property theft (meaning the theft of patents and business secrets), limits on Chinese investment in the U.S. or much of anything else. If anything, the administration retreated on all fronts: Kudlow told reporters on Friday that Chinese negotiators had agreed to reduce the deficit by “at least” $200 billion, but the Chinese immediately denied it and the official statement released by the White House the next day mentioned no such number.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a onetime Trump primary opponent who is clearly trying to position himself as lead carrion bird of the post-Trump GOP, tweeted, “Why do U.S. officials always fall for China trickery?” (Which reads a lot like an actual Trump tweet, with superior literacy skills.) Former steel industry executive Dan DiMicco, who has tried to shore up Trump’s rearguard flank with the Bannonite “economic nationalism” crowd, tweeted plaintively, “Did president just blink?” (If you have to ask, Dan, you know the answer.)

Things were no better to Trump’s left, where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — whose views on trade are largely Republican-lite — accused him of selling out “for a temporary purchase of goods.” Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, a pro-union Democrat who had largely held fire on the tariff policy, issued a statement saying that after “the tough-guy rhetoric, the administration is simply getting rolled on trade with China.”

Of course it’s no surprise that Chinese state media proclaimed this result a great victory, in which “China didn’t ‘fold’” to Trump’s so-called pressure but “stood firm,” in the words of a China Daily editorial. But I’m not aware of anyone, anywhere, in the Western press who seriously suggests that’s a misinterpretation.

Salon columnist Patrick Lawrence has recently written about both the North Korea and Iran policy paradoxes in the context of shifting relations between the “West,” meaning the Euro-American alliance that has dominated the world since the end of the Cold War, and the “non-West.” (Everybody else, but China, India and Russia foremost among them.) That might be a useful way of framing whatever just happened in Trump’s across-the-board capitulation to the Chinese.

Donald Trump is a master of bluff and bluster — I mean, that’s why he got elected, right? But in this case, as in many others, he’s been exposed as a card shark with a dud hand who convinced everybody he had an ace up his sleeve when it was really an empty condom wrapper and an expired bus ticket to Peoria. That’s largely because the country he “leads,” although still the greatest military superpower in history, is running on credit and struggling with massive economic and structural problems that admit of no obvious solutions.

The New York Times and many other publications ran a photo comparison that apparently went viral on Weibo (the Chinese cognate of Twitter) and appears to speak all too clearly to the relative vibrancy of the two nations’ economies. One picture shows the recent round of U.S.-China trade talks, the other depicts the signing of the Boxer Protocol, the humiliating peace treaty of 1901 in which China made numerous concessions to the major Western powers.

“Over the past 100 years, American officials have gone from young to old, and Chinese officials have gone from old to young,” wrote one Weibo user, according to the Times.

Sure, go on about freedom and democracy all you like — I value those things too, and I’m well aware I couldn’t do this job in China, at least not without learning to tread delicately enough to stay out of a labor camp. But among the corollary questions to emerge from Donald Trump’s collapsing trade war, I suppose, are the ones about how well we have safeguarded those things, where they have gotten us and what they have to do with economic prosperity.

Trump is an old guy who spins lies to make himself feel better, elected by a significant slice of the American population who want exactly the same thing. Losing (or abandoning) a trade war with China is not calamitous; it was never winnable. Losing our national sense of self and our shared dreams is a lot worse than that.
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JimmyCrackPorn · May 23, 2018

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Is he referring to the boot(s) that the senile old geezer forgot which foot to put on?

John McCain's walking boot mysteriously appears to swap feet in latest photo

CS natureboy · May 23, 2018

freespiritx said: ↑

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Yeah, everybody knows who the "shoe shine boy" in Washington is...

deleted user 1548766 · May 23, 2018

JimmyCrackPorn said: ↑

Man, the Trump Derangement fever has its victims working overtime in their policy of "Trump was wrong to" say or do whatever it was that he said or did. In this case, his newest mortal sin was in referring to members of one of the most violent and deadly gansgs, MS-13, as "animals". Oh, no no no no no...you can't refer to these poor misunderstood souls as animals. Murdering people with machetes, and cutting off body parts, and doing it right in their own neighborhoods to instill fear in those around them, is no reason to reer to them as animals. They're God's precious children...they have a "spark of divinity." Referring to them as animals is "repulsive." It's "what the Nazis did...what slaveowners did."

So, it’s repulsive to refer to ANY human being as an animal, even members of MS-13, a gang notorious for commiting brutal murders with machetes, often cutting off heads, limbs, noses, and even cutting out the heart of the victim…
…which apparently is minor compared to (Warning: Trigger Alert!) “opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants”, a sin so horrible, only an “inhumane beast, raised by wolves” dares to sink that low.

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And let us not forget that, "just because we say Trump is wrong for saying something", it's still perfectly acceptable to say it about him.

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I wonder if Democrats will be creating "safe spaces" within their sanctuary cities, in order to add an extra layer of protections for those poor vulnerable MS-13 members, to keep them safe from any Trump harm.

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ace's n 8's · May 25, 2018

Business Investments up 39 Percent Due to Tax Cuts
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Issued: 2018-05-15
April 27, 2018

Erica York

Business investment in the United States is on the rise. Bloomberg Markets reports that among the 130 S&P 500 companies that have reported results for the first quarter of 2018, capital spending increased by 39 percent—the fastest growth in seven years.

An increase in how much businesses are investing is good news, as business investment is a determinant of the long-term size of the economy. Increased capital expenditures can increase the size of the stock of capital, such as plants, machinery, and equipment. In the long run, a larger capital stock leads to higher levels of productivity, employment, output, and incomes.

Bloomberg markets also reported that net buybacks (16 percent) and dividends (11 percent) rose, but not by as much as capital spending (39 percent).

ace's n 8's · May 25, 2018

Best Month in HISTORY for Budget according to CBO
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Issued: 2018-05-15
The federal government took in a record tax haul in April en route to its biggest-ever monthly budget surplus, the Congressional Budget Office said, as a surging economy left Americans with more money in their paychecks — and this more to pay to Uncle Sam.

All told the government collected $515 billion and spent $297 billion, for a total monthly surplus of $218 billion. That swamped the previous monthly record of $190 billion, set in 2001.

CBO analysts were surprised by the surplus, which was some $40 billion more than they’d guessed at less than a month ago.

ace's n 8's · May 25, 2018

Black and Hispanic Unemployment rates hit record low in April
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Issued: 2018-05-15
Image Credits: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

The unemployment rate for black workers hit the lowest on record in April, according to the latest jobs figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday.

The unemployment rate for black workers dropped to 6.6 percent, beating the previous record low of 6.8 percent set in December.

The jobless rate for Hispanics fell to 4.8 percent, tying the record reached last year and in 2006.

Meanwhile, unemployment for white Americans stood at 3.6 percent.

ace's n 8's · May 25, 2018

US Embassy moved to Jerusalem by President Donald J Trump
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Issued: 2018-05-15
The tired, conventional arguments against it haven’t held up well in the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to move our embassy. The Arab street hasn’t exploded. The West Bank has been relatively quiet. Arab capitals haven’t erupted in outrage. The flashpoint has been in Gaza, the terror statelet ruled by Hamas. Israel pulled out of Gaza more than a decade ago and has been rewarded with constant attacks emanating from a territory where the infrastructure of mayhem and destruction — rockets, tunnels, and the like — is the only growth industry.

Hamas has goaded rioters to storm the Israeli border, defended by Israeli soldiers who fire on them if necessary to protect local communities (more than 50 were killed on Monday). This isn’t “the caravan” that arrived at the U.S. border with peaceful migrants seeking asylum, but a violent provocation that is a function of Hamas’s commitment to Israel’s destruction.

ace's n 8's · May 25, 2018

DHS is planning on denying green cards to legal immigrants if they receive federal or state aid

Just released:
By Daniel Shoer Roth

dshoer@elnuevoherald.com

February 10, 2018 11:35 AM

The Trump administration, in another effort to reduce legal immigration, wants to deny permanent residence to hundreds of thousands of foreigners living legally in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing to deny so-called “green cards” to legal immigrants and their children if they receive federal or state aid — even if the children are U.S.-born.

A draft of the new DHS regulation, first published by the Reuters news agency, targets immigrants who receive food stamps, Medicaid benefits, rent and utilities subsidies and those who enroll their children in public schools.

“Non-citizens who receive public benefits are not self-sufficient and are relying on the U.S. government and state and local entities for resources instead of their families, sponsors or private organizations,”the draft states.

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If such a regulation had been in effect in 2016, about 383,000 immigrants who received public benefits would have been denied permanent residence, according to Reuters.

stumbler · May 25, 2018

CBO: Trump’s Budget Plan Won’t Curb Spiraling Deficit As Promised

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s budget plan won’t curb the spiraling deficit as it claims.

Trump’s budget, released in February and mostly ignored since, promises spending cuts and economic growth that would cut the deficit to $363 billion in 10 years. CBO said it would instead hit almost $1.1 trillion if all of the president’s policies were followed.

All told, CBO said Trump’s budget would produce deficits of $9.5 trillion over the coming decade instead of the $7.2 trillion promised by the White House.

CBO took a more cautious approach to estimating tax revenues and economic growth. It rejected Trump administration claims that last year’s $2 trillion-plus tax cut measure will pay for itself by boosting the economy.

Either way, deficits are likely to go even higher. Congress has passed legislation — signed by Trump — that rejected many of the proposed spending cuts in Trump’s budget.

CBO estimated that Trump’s budget, if passed by Congress, would cut spending by $3.5 trillion over the coming decade.

Even though Republicans control both Congress and the White House, they’ve shown no signs of addressing the budget deficit this year.

“The CBO confirmed today that the Trump budget would make drastic cuts to programs that millions of Americans rely on, while the Republican tax breaks for millionaires and corporations send our deficit soaring,” said top House Budget Committee Democrat John Yarmuth of Kentucky.

CBO provides budget estimates and analysis of legislation for Congress.
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ace's n 8's · May 25, 2018

stumbler said: ↑

CBO: Trump’s Budget Plan Won’t Curb Spiraling Deficit As Promised
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The federal government took in a record tax haul in April en route to its biggest-ever monthly budget surplus, the Congressional Budget Office said, as a surging economy left Americans with more money in their paychecks — and this more to pay to Uncle Sam.

All told the government collected $515 billion and spent $297 billion, for a total monthly surplus of $218 billion. That swamped the previous monthly record of $190 billion, set in 2001.

CBO analysts were surprised by the surplus, which was some $40 billion more than they’d guessed at less than a month ago.

stumbler · May 31, 2018

Hatch: Trump steel and aluminum tariffs are a 'tax hike on Americans'

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Thursday blasted the Trump administration's decision to place steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico, saying the financial penalties are a "tax hike on Americans."

"My position remains unchanged: Tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are a tax hike on Americans and will have damaging consequences for consumers, manufacturers and workers," Hatch said in a statement.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced earlier Thursday that President Trump has decided to slap hefty tariffs on the EU, Mexico and Canada, ending the temporary exemptions for the key trading allies despite their two months of lobbying to avoid the tariffs.

Hatch added that he would urge the administration to reverse its decision but did not specify what steps he would take to try to pressure them to do so.

"In light of the mounting evidence that these tariffs will harm Americans, I will continue to push the administration to change course," Hatch added.

Republicans, including Hatch, have publicly fretted for months over Trump's trade policies, including concerns that broad steel and aluminum tariffs would spark retaliation from other countries. Some GOP senators have floated new legislation that would give Congress more oversight of the president's trade decisions.

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) separately called the tariff decision "bad news" that would "invite retaliation."

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that Trump's move leaves the EU with "no choice but to proceed with a [World Trade Organization] dispute settlement case and the imposition of additional duties on a number of US imports."

Mexico also responded to the tariffs, saying it would impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports like pork bellies, apples, grapes and flat steel, among other things.

Trump first announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum for national security reasons in March, later granting temporary exemptions for key allies.
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