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10mm is The
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Pocahontas & DNA Test...hilarious Big Grin


From Whatfinger...
Elisabeth Warren releases scathing comments regarding Trump calling for a DNA test.

https://imgur.com/ioZbir7

No self respecting tribe would ever claim her as a member.




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The oil situation seems manufactured.
 
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The oil situation seems manufactured.

Well OPEC is a cartel.




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How exactly are rising employment and wages akin to hollowing out the economy?

Pelosi is dumb as a brick.


The dems measure the economy by how many are on food stamps and welfare. The more, the better for democrats. Thus, people going to work and getting off of assistance is hollowing out their base and is seen as a bad thing.



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The economy is doing quite well, and inflation isn't an issue. Fundamentals that can't be ignored by any rational observer. Plus, more stock market gains could be at hand for ANYONE with a portfolio. Choke on it Dems.


http://video.foxbusiness.com/v...7001/?#sp=show-clips
 
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Trump is Transforming America

From CNN, believe it or not. Tim Stanley is an historian who writes for the UK Telegraph.

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Donald Trump's winning streak is transforming America
Timothy Stanley is a historian and columnist for Britain's Daily Telegraph. He is the author of "Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration Between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.

(CNN) — We can now say we're entering the age of Trump. It's been a long march to this moment. Around this time last year, the summer of Scaramucci, Donald Trump's staffing was an unholy mess, his poll numbers hit new lows and the GOP health care initiative died in Congress. Perhaps Trump could not govern, some speculated. But a year later, and just a few months before the midterm elections, Trump is most definitely in charge -- and he is changing the character of America step by step.

Timothy Stanley
Trump is advancing post-liberal politics in three key areas. First, a foreign policy that is marked by realism totally undisguised by platitudes or historical sentiments. NATO friends, for instance, have been warned they must contribute more towards the organization's budget. In the Middle East, the United States has thrown its weight behind the unexpected alliance of Israel and Saudi Arabia. And Trump has pulled out of deals that he says weren't working (Iran) or that he doesn't philosophically agree with (Paris climate accord). His withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is emblematic of his approach. We all know the UN is a joke on human rights (its membership includes dictatorships such as Cuba and China); critics accuse its members of turning the council into a platform to attack Israel. Trump is simply the first President to do the decent thing and walk away.
Democrats badly underestimated Trump
Second, Trump is pushing forward with what former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon once described as the "deconstruction of the administrative state." This is partly about a deregulation agenda -- everything from banking to the environment to repealing the Obamacare individual mandate. But it's also about reversing the tide of what conservatives deride as Obama's "you didn't build that" mentality, with its implication that a big state is an inevitable, benign feature of modern capitalism. Trump, by contrast, is pushing corporate tax down from 35% to 21%, and the majority of tax filers will see a saving this year. The irony is that Trump has proved you can create jobs in the United States with conservative free market remedies, and yet he still insists on imposing foreign goods tariffs that threaten the supply chains and markets of the very workers he wants to help. The age of Trump might be hypercapitalist, but it's also nationalist and traditionalist. Trump seeks to return to being a country that leads in exports, not imports.
The reshaping of US courts in the Trump era
The reshaping of US courts in the Trump era 03:03
He also wants to turn the clock back more generally, which brings us to his third assault on the liberal consensus: social policy. The Trump era will be marked by potentially violent conflict over cultural issues that lawmakers have failed for decades to resolve through compromise.

Immigration is a stark example. The administration's decision to separate families of migrants -- many who are refugees seeking asylum -- illegally crossing the border has triggered a profound moral backlash that has led to protests, mass arrests and the occupation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. Trump's supporters see fighting illegal immigration as a matter of enforcing the law; growing numbers of those on the left regard it as an incremental step toward fascism. Conservatives say to liberals, "You never complained when Barack Obama did this sort of thing," but liberals can point out that Trump has applied policy in such an aggressive way that it tips this whole debate into a war over foundational values. And if you think that's bad, just wait until Donald Trump announces his Supreme Court nominee.
'Abolish ICE' is a massive political mistake
The President is going to nominate a conservative who will presumably tilt the court against Roe v. Wade. The New York Times alleges that the Trump administration waged a "quiet campaign" to encourage Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire; it is widely reported that conservative groups, such as the Federalist Society, have been "instrumental" in deciding the list of replacements. And we know that Trump has remained loyal to those religious voters who backed him in spite of his dubious moral past.
Here then is perhaps the most dramatic way in which Trump could change America not just for the few years that he is President but for an entire generation, moving the energies of the judicial branch -- not only through the Supreme Court but countless federal appointments -- toward a more conservative interpretation of the law. My suspicion is that a future Trump-shaped Supreme Court will be more concerned with protecting religious freedom of expression than rolling back the legislation and judgments of the past 30 years. But the left, reasonably, will conclude it cannot take that risk, which may turn the nomination process into an almighty battle fought not just in the Senate but in the streets.
Trump should pick a woman for Supreme Court
Every President's first midterm contest is about the President; it's a referendum on how they're doing, a chance for the opposition to mobilize and throw congressional roadblocks in front of the executive's agenda. Few midterms, however, will be quite as angry or polarized as the upcoming one, and not because 2018 represents a vote in the context of Trump's failure. Because it's a vote at a moment of his success.

Trump continues his streak of surprises. First, he won the election, then he proved far better at manipulating the media, setting the issue agenda and exerting executive authority than might have been expected. He has slowly colonized the Republican Party, achieving a growing uniformity of opinion. The fact that all of this "winning" is not reflecting in his opinion polls -- which still put his job approval below 50% -- only demonstrates that for Trump to triumph in his own particular way, he has to alienate a lot of people on the other side of the argument, to divide the country in two and trust that there are enough of his people in the right number of congressional districts, or electoral votes-rich states, to keep him in authority.
Trump is not the President for all Americans, but he is finally redefining the country along lines approved of by those Americans who lent him their votes in 2016.


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Pelosi is dumb as a brick.

That’s unfair to bricks, they are useful objects.
 
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That’s unfair to bricks, they are useful objects.



Indeed. In 20 years Nancy will be bashing a rubber gavel in the retirement home demanding the other residents give their evening chow to the birds outside because "it's not fair!"....while she slurps up her portion of course...
 
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I had an odd idea. From a Keynesian perspective, the economy is showing signs of over-heating. According to the Keynesian theory this would be the time to raise interest rates, raise taxes, and cut spending. Only the the last of those would be palatable as far as I'm concerned.

But Trump, who is known to be a master of three and four dimensional chess, may have found another way. A trade war. Not only could it ultimately resolve long standing foreign trade barriers and imbalances thus making America great again. Tariffs imposed by the US are inarguably tax increases while tariffs imposed by foreign countries also reduce demand. Together they may help cool the economy just enough (but not too much) to keep things humming along nicely. It makes sense from a Keynesian perspective. Although I am not a fan of the Keynesian school, he wasn't wrong about everything.

Admittedly, a trade war is not a precision instrument and leaves much in the hands of foreign governments. But if you can't fight a trade war when the economy is starting to boom, then you can never fight one. At this time in the cycle, a trade war may actually have collateral benefits. How many wars can you say that about?

As I said, an odd idea.




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Decent thoughts, besides all the trade-war critics look at it as if it is a long term strategy "tariffs are bad" etc.

We are getting econo-raped on the world stage and have been for many decades. A short term trade war will end and we'll be in a much position after. Some short-term pain, long term gain.




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Some short-term pain, long term gain.
Not a Liberal/Progressive strong point.

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President Trump’s lawyers set new conditions on Friday on an interview with the special counsel and said that the chances that the president would be voluntarily questioned were growing increasingly unlikely.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, needs to prove before Mr. Trump would agree to an interview that he has evidence that Mr. Trump committed a crime and that his testimony is essential to completing the investigation, said Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s lead lawyer in the case.

His declaration was the latest sign that the president’s lawyers, who long cooperated quietly with the inquiry even as their client attacked it, have shifted to an openly combative stance.

Mr. Giuliani acknowledged that Mr. Mueller was unlikely to agree to the interview demands. Mr. Mueller could subpoena Mr. Trump to answer questions if he does not agree to voluntarily sit for an interview. Mr. Giuliani left open the possibility that the president, who has said in the past that he would be eager to sit down with the special counsel, would still agree to be interviewed.

The president’s lawyers want Mr. Mueller to explain how the Justice Department gave him the authority to investigate possible obstruction of justice by the president in what began as a counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s election meddling. The order appointing Mr. Mueller authorized him to investigate possible links between Moscow’s interference and Trump associates, as well as any matters that arose from the inquiry.

The lawyers also want evidence that the special counsel exhausted every other investigative measure before asking the president to answer questions, and that he is the only person who could provide them with the information they are seeking.

The gambit by Mr. Giuliani was the latest maneuver in an all-out assault by the president and his legal team in recent months to alter public opinion about the inquiry. They have come to believe that, if the Democrats win control of the House in November, the chamber will vote on whether to begin the impeachment process no matter the outcome of Mr. Mueller’s investigation. So they want to sway Americans — and by extension, lawmakers.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers are quietly more combative, too, contesting a request from the special counsel to interview John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff. Emmet T. Flood, the lead White House lawyer in dealing with the investigation, has demanded to know what investigators want to ask Mr. Kelly and has tried to narrow the scope of their questions. A month after the request was made, Mr. Kelly has not been questioned, though a White House official said he was willing to be.

“That’s the new position. If they had made the request eight months ago, they would have said yes because they thought there was a group of people on Mueller’s team who had an open mind and were objective,” Mr. Giuliani said of the president’s previous lawyers, most of whom have left the legal team.

in April, Mr. Trump concluded that Mr. Mueller and Justice Department officials were determined to find wrongdoing after federal investigators in New York, acting on a referral from the special counsel, raided the office, hotel room and home of Mr. Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen.

After the raid, Mr. Trump decided to double down on his more aggressive strategy, according to people close to him. He hired Mr. Giuliani to replace his lawyer John M. Dowd, who had convinced Mr. Trump of the value of the earlier, more cooperative approach

Mr. Dowd said that the public did not appreciate the damage the investigation had done to both Mr. Trump and the presidency over the past year. He said he had come around to Mr. Trump’s view, first voiced by the president last summer, that Mr. Mueller is acting in bad faith.

“That’s the way the president was at the beginning,” Mr. Dowd said, “and the president was right.”
 
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The Trump administration announced Saturday evening that it is temporarily freezing billions of dollars of payments to health insurance companies intended to help them manage higher-risk patients, sparking backlash from the industry’s lobbying arm as insurers continue to struggle to adjust to the administration’s repeated attacks on Obamacare.

The federal government provides Obamacare insurers risk adjustment payments, which are supposed to cushion insurers from taking steep loses on high risk patients in the Obamacare marketplace. The government paid out over $10 billion in these in 2017.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service announced the abrupt halt of these payments Saturday evening, citing a February 2018 ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico that invalidates them.

“We were disappointed by the court’s recent ruling,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a statement. “As a result of this litigation, billions of dollars in risk adjustment payments and collections are now on hold. CMS has asked the court to reconsider its ruling, and hopes for a prompt resolution that allows CMS to prevent more adverse impacts on Americans who receive their insurance in the individual and small group markets.”

The insurance industry is already speaking out against the administration’s decision, calling it a crucial blow during a time when insurance companies are trying to come up with premiums and packages for 2019.

“We are very discouraged by the new market disruption brought about by the decision to freeze risk adjustment payments. This decision comes at a critical time when insurance providers are developing premiums for 2019 and states are reviewing rates,” trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) said in a statement Saturday. “We encourage the Administration to reevaluate its decision and work with all stakeholders to make health care more affordable for all Americans..”

Insurers themselves are voicing concerns for market destabilization following the announcement.

“This action will significantly increase 2019 premiums for millions of individuals and small business owners and could result in far fewer health plan choices,” Blue Cross Blue Shield Association President and CEO Scott Serota said in a statement. “It will undermine Americans’ access to affordable coverage, particularly those who need medical care the most.”

Over the course of his first 18 months in office, the president has slowly targeted Obamacare with a series of moves intended to undermine the system and disrupt the marketplace.

The president has rolled back funding for a program intended to help individuals navigate the insurance marketplace, Obamacare’s navigator program, signed an executive order to allow for groups to purchase insurance across state lines, stopped federal funding for Obamacare subsidies, pushed for consumer access to more affordable short-term, limited duration health insurance plans, cut Obamacare’s open enrollment period in half and its advertising budget 90 percent.


http://dailycaller.com/2018/07...amacare-legacy-blow/
 
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Haha, that is some serious winning ^^^, like, Charlie Sheen level winning!




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Trump tweeted this today. You have to go to the link and watch the video Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin



https://twitter.com/realDonald.../1016079192604139520



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They have come to believe that, if the Democrats win control of the House in November, the chamber will vote on whether to begin the impeachment process no matter the outcome of Mr. Mueller’s investigation. So they want to sway Americans — and by extension, lawmakers.

Every time I hear this crap I respond with impeachment for what? What is the impeachable offense?? Somebody please tell me what the President has committed that can bring about impeachment?
Seriously, what has he done that they think they can go forward with any sort of legitimate impeachment procedures!

I'm sick of hearing and reading this nonsense!


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They have come to believe that, if the Democrats win control of the House in November, the chamber will vote on whether to begin the impeachment process no matter the outcome of Mr. Mueller’s investigation. So they want to sway Americans — and by extension, lawmakers.

Every time I hear this crap I respond with impeachment for what? What is the impeachable offense?? Somebody please tell me what the President has committed that can bring about impeachment?
Seriously, what has he done that they think they can go forward with any sort of legitimate impeachment procedures!

I'm sick of hearing and reading this nonsense!


High crimes and misdemeanors. Whatever a majority of Representatives say it is.

Of course, it takes a supermajority of Senators to accomplish anything.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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They have come to believe that, if the Democrats win control of the House in November, the chamber will vote on whether to begin the impeachment process no matter the outcome of Mr. Mueller’s investigation. So they want to sway Americans — and by extension, lawmakers.

Every time I hear this crap I respond with impeachment for what? What is the impeachable offense?? Somebody please tell me what the President has committed that can bring about impeachment?
Seriously, what has he done that they think they can go forward with any sort of legitimate impeachment procedures!

I'm sick of hearing and reading this nonsense!


High crimes and misdemeanors. Whatever a majority of Representatives say it is.

Of course, it takes a supermajority of Senators to accomplish anything.

I understand, but what high crime and what misdemeanors? I don't believe Mueller has a damn thing he can prove about collusion.
Do they have the slightest understanding of what impeachment of this President could bring about if there is not clear and indisputable evidence of some serious wrong doing?

Like Gowdy has said if you got something bring it or shut up and stand aside!


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https://twitter.com/realDonald.../1016079192604139520


Thanks that was awesome to watch and remember.





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https://twitter.com/realDonald.../1016079192604139520


Thanks that was awesome to watch and remember.


YES that was GREAT.
 
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