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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
“...he is dumber than the dumbest person I know...”
Makes it all the more amazing how he’s a real-life Lex Luthor who concocted the Crime of the Century stealing an election and bettering the FBI, CIA, NSA and every intelligence agency in the Western World. But yeah, sure darling, he’s dumber than the dumbest person that any Stuff editorialist has ever met. They’re a MENSA crowd over there.
I think it really gives the far left snowflake some sort of bizarrely misguided and inaccurate moral high ground by pointing out how supposedly dumb the US president is.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
Tariffs Are Not Raising Consumer Prices.
Could it be that the Chamber of Commerce owned politicians + the Trump hating media lied again?
Could it be that it was always about their profit margins and exec bonuses?
Sorry @Frank but that Breitbart article is spinning a line that the economic analysis just doesn’t support. You can’t just cherrypick the data that you think helps your argument. I find it interesting that he claims “economists and journalists alike often assume that the price of tariffs gets passed through to consumers but neither economic theory nor data support that assumption”. I can’t speak for the journalists but economists generally don’t “assume” it. The economic theory and the data reinforce it, time after time, just as it does here. Because the author can make a plausible sounding argument to the contrary doesn’t change the data or where it leads.
If you’re really interested in an independent analysis, here’s an article, with the supporting peer reviewed research paper which comes to quite a different conclusion. FYI, the NBER is about as authoritative and independent as you can get in the world of economics.
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@MN5 said in US Politics:
I think it really gives the far left snowflake some sort of bizarrely misguided and inaccurate moral high ground by pointing out how supposedly dumb the US president is.
They are forever underestimating him. They end up looking foolish, time and again, and their response is to point a finger at him and go, look, he’s really stupid. It’s all projection.
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So now there are reports of Congolese illegal migrants coming through the Southern border.
Congo which on top of a civil war is currently having issues with what is very likely to be the largest Ebola outbreak ever. These particular migrants have come via Brazil and made their way north. Ebola itself has an incubation period of 21 days so unlikely to be an issue however this does highlight the extreme danger of illegal migration when it comes to introducing or reintroducing disease into a society. -
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
So now there are reports of Congolese illegal migrants coming through the Southern border.
Congo which on top of a civil war is currently having issues with what is very likely to be the largest Ebola outbreak ever. These particular migrants have come via Brazil and made their way north. Ebola itself has an incubation period of 21 days so unlikely to be an issue however this does highlight the extreme danger of illegal migration when it comes to introducing or reintroducing disease into a society.Umm?
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Oooh. Sorry. Southern US border. Gone from Congo to Brazil and then all the way up to US.I get it now.
Yeah. On the face of it potential to spread Ebola right through South America
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@booboo Ha yeah I thought the same when I saw the vide footage of them being escorted through San Antonio at night. They don't look south American, how on earth?
Trump proven right again. For a supposed idiot he's getting a lot of things on the money.
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This is something of a polemic but gee it's hard to argue with alot if it.
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This is pretty damning:
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I like this one as well.....
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Pretty huge news.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/48517/breaking-trump-announces-ice-begin-removing-ryan-saavedra
This will trigger all sorts of hysterics.
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Another indicator we are nearing peak Trump Derangement Syndrome.....
One of the biggest knitting websites in the world, which claims to have more than 8 million members, has announced that it will ban users from expressing support for Donald Trump, saying that to do so constitutes “white supremacy”.
The knitting and crochet community has played a prominent role in the anti-Trump movement in the past, with women wearing homemade pink “pussy” hats to demonstrations around his election and inauguration becoming a distinctive symbol of protest against his presidency.
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This is hilarious. More weasels.
House's pay raise in doubt as GOP wavers
The bipartisan attempt to raise salaries for members of the House of Representatives is in doubt as GOP leaders are finding little support for what would be a difficult political vote, according to Republican sources.
House Democratic leaders have been preparing to move ahead with the move this week, but only if they received GOP support. [...]
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/06/24/house-pay-raise-gop-1378917
House Dems have been in office six months, accomplished SFA and want a pay raise, while GOP is seeing pitchforks from their base. The world has been turned upside-down.
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