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those people are Americans too,

I disagree. They are not my friends, they are not my neighbors, and they sure as shit are not my countrymen. Given the chance they would undoubtedly screw me over. If they want to be shown quarter than can ask Mexico or Guatemala for it.

If one President can play politics with a natural disaster, what’s to keep another President from playing politics with a different disaster and in a different location? “Oh, you voted for my opponent in the election? Well, suck it; you’re getting no help from the Federal government.”

Some of the proposals here are worthy of a big city ward boss or a tin pot dictator. Some people on the Right are just as clueless and are evidently just as bent on turning this country into a third world hellhole as any leftist.

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Biden on Russian Election Interference.

“You think that would happen on my watch or Barack’s watch? You can’t answer that, but I promise it wouldn’t have, and it didn’t.”

President Trump twittered this about ol' Creepy-as-Fuck....

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Joe Biden is a reclamation project. Some things are just not salvageable.

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If one President can play politics with a natural disaster, what’s to keep another President from playing politics with a different disaster and in a different location? “Oh, you voted for my opponent in the election? Well, suck it; you’re getting no help from the Federal government.”

Some of the proposals here are worthy of a big city ward boss or a tin pot dictator. Some people on the Right are just as clueless and are evidently just as bent on turning this country into a third world hellhole as any leftist.

I see your point. But we all know he’s a master at taking almost any shitty situation and handling it so that people love him.

I’m not saying to withhold emergency funds at all. But, it being California, there’s some leverage that he may use to get something that benefits the non-leftists, or at the very least highlight how stupid they are.

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those people are Americans too,

I disagree. They are not my friends, they are not my neighbors, and they sure as shit are not my countrymen. Given the chance they would undoubtedly screw me over. If they want to be shown quarter than can ask Mexico or Guatemala for it.

Make sure you look CA's SigForum membership square in the eye when you say that ok. I can also FaceTime my father in law in who is paralyzed from the neck down from an accident while in service to our country. How about you say that to the guys you served with from CA.

I hate CA and their leadership as well as 70% of their population, but not everyone in the state has contracted liberalism yet. Either way, yes they are your countryman.

I'm with skins. Hate the sin, not the sinner.

flashguy

Let's move on, please.

too good to pass up

Putting this article in this thread because I FULLY believe President Trump is responsible for perpetuating the prosperity in this country. I shudder to think where this nation would be if that dilapidated, pant-suit wearing, moronic, fainting, brain-dead, nit-wit had taken the election. Miss Ahlgren seems to be wise beyond her years. I believe President Trump has at least one vote from a "hipster" in 2020...

https://alphanewsmn.com/though...hipster-coffee-shop/

I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”

Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.

With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.

My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?

Good for President Trump!

“Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will retaliate against the United Kingdom's ambassador in Washington by freezing him out of American diplomacy, as punishment for harsh language about him in secret cables leaked to The Mail on Sunday…”

https://mol.im/a/7225871

Great article, erj!

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We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.

I try to stay out of political threads, but this summation of the problem is spot-on.

Trump plans to use executive order to lower prescription drug prices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ture=player_embedded

Joey D 7/8/19



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INTERVIEW - JOE DIGENOVA - legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia – discussed the legal fight over the 2020 citizenship question on the census and Jeffrey Epstein’s legal woes.

2020 CENSUS CITIZENSHIP QUESTION:
DOJ announces legal team shift over citizenship question on 2020 census (Fox News) - The U.S. Justice Department said Sunday it is seeking a new legal team in its efforts to add a citizenship question on the 2020 census after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked its inclusion. James Burnham, the current deputy attorney general in the DOJ’s civil division and former White House lawyer, will no longer be heading the department’s efforts in the census case. A senior DOJ official told Fox News that Burnham had no objections to handling these cases going forward, but thought it made sense to have a new legal team at this stage of the litigation. The DOJ is expected to file court papers on Monday showing that a new team of lawyers will take over, said department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec. “As will be reflected in filings tomorrow in the census-related cases, the Department of Justice is shifting these matters to a new team of Civil Division lawyers going forward,” she said. The change comes days after the department vowed to continue finding a legal path forward to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
DOJ says it will continue to explore path for citizenship question as Trump considers executive order (Politico) -- The Trump administration confirmed Friday that it will press forward with efforts to add a citizenship question to next year's census, with President Donald Trump saying he’s exploring the possibility of reviving the question via executive order and government lawyers telling a federal judge that they've "been asked to reevaluate all available options." “We’re thinking about doing that. It's one of the ways,” Trump said of the prospective executive order as he prepared to depart the White House for his New Jersey golf club. “We have four or five ways we could do it. It’s one of the ways and we're thinking about doing it very seriously.”
Wall Street Journal OpEd: How to Put Citizenship Back in the Census. By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Gilson B. Gray / (WSJ) -- The Trump administration said Wednesday it will attempt to add a citizenship question on the 2020 census while complying with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Department of Commerce v. New York. Five justices held that the Census Act allows the question, but a separate five-justice majority found the rulemaking that added the question was procedurally deficient. There is a way forward. The Constitution itself requires the collection of citizenship information. Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that if a state denies the franchise to anyone eligible to vote, its allotment of House seats shall be “reduced in the proportion which the number of such . . . citizens shall bear to the whole number of . . . citizens . . . in such state.” This language is absolute and mandatory. Compliance is impossible without counting how many citizens live in each state. The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, and this provision meant to secure the voting rights of newly freed slaves. But it wasn’t limited to that purpose. An earlier version of Section 2, introduced in 1865, specifically referred to limits on suffrage based on “race or color,” but the Senate rejected that limitation. The amendment forbids state interference with the rights of all eligible voters (then limited to males over 21). Section 2 also applies to every state, a point Rep. John Bingham, the amendment’s principal drafter, emphasized during the floor debate: “The second section . . . simply provides for the equalization of representation among all the States in the Union, North, South, East, and West. It makes no discrimination.” Congress has dealt with suffrage-abridgement problems through other constitutional and statutory means, especially the Voting Rights Act. But that doesn’t change the constitutional obligation to obtain citizenship data. A future Congress could decide to rely on Section 2 to enforce voting rights, particularly as the VRA’s core provision, requiring Justice Department approval when certain states change voting procedures, becomes irrelevant because of changing attitudes and Supreme Court precedent. Significantly, the last time the Supreme Court addressed Section 2, it emphasized the need to give effect to both Section 1, which includes the Equal Protection Clause, and 2 of the 14th Amendment. That case, Richardson v. Ramirez (1974), involved an equal protection challenge to California’s policy of disfranchising felons. The president should issue an executive order stating that, to comply with the requirements of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, the citizenship question will be added to the 2020 census. In addition, he can order the Commerce Department to undertake, on an emergency basis, a new Census Act rulemaking.
Jeffrey Epstein Is Accused of Luring Girls to His Manhattan Mansion and Abusing Them (New York Post) Federal prosecutors appear to have resurrected a federal sex crimes case against the billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein by focusing on accusations that he sexually assaulted girls at his mansion in Manhattan — more than a decade after a widely criticized plea deal shielded him from similar charges in Florida. Federal prosecutors are expected to unseal the new charges on Monday accusing Mr. Epstein, 66, of running a sex-trafficking operation that lured dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14, to his Upper East Side home, according to three law enforcement officials. He was arrested on Saturday at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, after arriving on a private flight from France, two law enforcement officials said. The sex trafficking charges carry a combined maximum sentence of up to 45 years in prison.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/0...ob-johnson-says.html

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Democrats have moved ‘too far to the left,’ says BET network founder Bob Johnson
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America’s political establishment is riven with partisanship that has become “very wicked and very mean,” said entrepreneur and media mogul Robert Johnson
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America’s political establishment is riven with partisanship that has become “very wicked and very mean,” said entrepreneur and media mogul Robert Johnson, who added that the Democratic Party has become too liberal for his liking.

“The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the left,” Johnson, the founder of cable network BET and RLJ Companies business network, told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble Tuesday.

“And for that reason, I don’t have a particular candidate (I’m supporting) in the party at this time,” he said. “I think at the end of the day, if a Democrat is going to beat Trump, then that person, he or she, will have to move to the center and you can’t wait too long to do that.”

Johnson described himself as a long-time centrist and Democrat. He publicly supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. However, he has since expressed admiration for some of Donald Trump’s policies, particularly those related to the economy.

“I think the economy is doing great, and it’s reaching populations that heretofore had very bad problems in terms of jobs and employments and the opportunities that come with employment … so African-American unemployment is at its lowest level, ” Johnson said.


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Johnson became the country’s first African-American billionaire after selling Black Entertainment Television in 2001, according to Forbes.

“I give the president a lot of credit for moving the economy in a positive direction that’s benefiting a large amount of Americans,” he said. “I think the tax cuts clearly helped stimulate the economy. I think business people have more confidence in the way the economy is going.”

Despite the U.S. dispute with China over trade, Johnson said that “overall, if you look at the U.S. economy … you got to give the president an A+ for that.”

‘No give or take’
Johnson expressed concern that there is “really no give or take in terms of trying to come to an understanding of how best to run the country” between President Trump and the Democratic Party.

“If business people are concerned about anything, it’s the clear, clear partisan politics that’s become very wicked and very mean. And that’s not helping the American people, and it’s not helping America as a global nation.”

Asked about Trump’s style of leadership —considered divisive by many in America and beyond — Johnson remarked that Trump has “got his own style,” though he perhaps needs to “step back a little bit from some of his showmanship.”

“A lot of people are not going to like that style,” he said, “but when he says he’s going to try to do something economically, you have to give him credit for taking some specific steps to do that.”

“At the end of the day, the American people are looking for someone who can deliver economically and deliver on opportunities,” he said

Britain's jackass ambassador to the US has resigned after jamming his foot into his oh so proper Limey maw.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48937120

"You are the best of us"?? Then, you are fucked, old boy. Fucked, and most thoroughly, eh, wot?

Posturing, snobbish, self-important, elitist douchebag. Yeah President Trump is ineffective on the world stage. Just ask Iran and North Korea. Freaking blind-ass fool. Maybe you'd rather have the Krimson Kenyan back in office, so he can give the Iranians another mountain of cash, huh? Fool.

Elitist snobs make me want to puke. They think they're better than anyone who is not in their precious country club.

"Sir Kim"? Sounds like the stage name for a third-rate rapper.

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Britain's jackass ambassador to the US has resigned after jamming his foot into his oh so proper Limey maw.

But he didn't. He expressed an opinion in what he expected to be private email. Somebody, with the intent to embarrass either the Ambassador, Trump, or both leaked it.

I'm generally supportive of the President, but I feel he handled this one poorly. If he indeed felt he could no longer work with Kim he should have signalled that quietly to his counterpart in the U.K. or via Pompeo and his counterpart in the U.K.

This is one time I feel Trump's brashness was over the line. This is not how you treat friends, and the U.K. are our closest friends in the world.

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Posturing, snobbish, self-important, elitist douchebag. Yeah President Trump is ineffective on the world stage.

Agreed, and this from a guy in the government that can't seem to figure out how to Brexit, 3 freaking years after its citizens voted to Brexit - talk about ineffective. They should look in the mirror before they blabber on.

Theresay May and gov. could have easily figured out how to finish Brexit. However she had no plans to do that, and dragged things out as long as humanly possible. She was fully effective, just did not follow what the people voted for.

ensigmatic, I don't give a shit. He said it. Those are his words, so he can just fucking eat them, and anyone who supports the guy can take a bite, too.

The criticism of the President is undeserved. He's actually effective, and this kind of snobby fucking elitest shit is what he gets or his daily efforts. People like the ex-ambassador are part of the problem, and that is all they are. They aren't helping matter sat all. Wat's important to these country club elitists is to maintain the status quo, and oh, my, old rough around the edges Donald Trump has somehow gotten into the clubhouse. Remove that man, Jeeves! Remove him, I say!!

I won't tell tell you what I wish to happen to 'Sir Kim' , but you can guess.