There goes my Friday cheerfulness...
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good news from Dax power station today, they have captured a tonne of toxic emissions from wood burning boilers,first time its been done worldwide,not rocket science, smoke goes up the chimney, divert it clean it
Drax that should say,duh, have been on a tour round it as well
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 6 hours, 59 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 20 hours, 42 minutes ago
What's your view on human population over the next century or so?
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I think the predicted rates will be there or there abouts. Though we could easily see a shock to population particularly due to some of the densities seen in the modern world. The antibiotic crisis may manifest as predicted. Again nuclear war and conventional war wouldn't be unthinkable as the creaks are starting to appear in the current capitalism model.
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1800 one billion
Today over seven.
100 years.Admin me and hec looking for a lady to rebuild earth.
We have to reduce population or start a war.
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
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I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
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I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
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They are all corrupt, but trump is next level
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posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
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I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
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RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
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Get off the fence and say what you feel๐๐
China!
Declared peppa pig to be gangsta!
Year of the pig now.๐ท
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comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
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I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Her point was how the president is a 'bad guy' enriching himself at the expense of the american people which isn't true anyway, and ironic because Trump self funded a lot of his campaign and had much less funding from special interests than his opponents or past nominees from either side.
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comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
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I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Her point was how the president is a 'bad guy' enriching himself at the expense of the american people which isn't true anyway, and ironic because Trump self funded a lot of his campaign and had much less funding from special interests than his opponents or past nominees from either side.
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You should read up on his practices in construction. Withholding payments to sub contractors then offering them low ball deals which they have to except out of desperation as legal costs of pursuing the full amount would be too high.
Man of the people, draining the swamp
Sound argument dave
This is one of the issues with a lot of the left atm, always talking about fake news and the other side lying but a lot of your arguments, Trump is a good example, are based on exaggeration, taking things out of context and manipulating the facts.
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Her point was how the president is a 'bad guy' enriching himself at the expense of the american people which isn't true anyway, and ironic because Trump self funded a lot of his campaign and had much less funding from special interests than his opponents or past nominees from either side.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You should read up on his practices in construction. Withholding payments to sub contractors then offering them low ball deals which they have to except out of desperation as legal costs of pursuing the full amount would be too high.
Man of the people, draining the swamp
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Most people know he's not a great guy, but he's president not the pope. That doesn't expain how he became president to enrich himself. btw that's different from him becoming richer through policies that benefit the economy and people as whole.
comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Her point was how the president is a 'bad guy' enriching himself at the expense of the american people which isn't true anyway, and ironic because Trump self funded a lot of his campaign and had much less funding from special interests than his opponents or past nominees from either side.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You should read up on his practices in construction. Withholding payments to sub contractors then offering them low ball deals which they have to except out of desperation as legal costs of pursuing the full amount would be too high.
Man of the people, draining the swamp
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Most people know he's not a great guy, but he's president not the pope. That doesn't expain how he became president to enrich himself. btw that's different from him becoming richer through policies that benefit the economy and people as whole.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Come on, that is not an acceptable thing to do in any situation. We're living in such a bizarre era that people are accepting all sorts of purely because they agree with the ideology on offer
Or policies that specifically benefit large corporations and the super rich, like the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was opposed at the time of passing by the majority of Americans.
Or the legislation Trump has had through the Senate already proposing the *complete abolition* of estate tax.
This at a time when polls have demonstrated that both Democratic *and* Republican (54%) voters would rather see spending increases than further tax cuts.
Trump's tax policy isn't geared towards rebalancing the burden, and helping out the lower and middle classes by delivering them greater disposable incomes. Leading up to the election, we may see his middle class tax cut proposals reintroduced, but I doubt it given current evidence suggests doing so wouldn't win him any extra votes.
Look; nobody believes that trickle-down economics works anymore. Nobody, economists - including the father of Reagan's original model - or politicians. They might still use the argument, but they do so without believing it to be true.
Trump and his ilk are desperately looking for ways to prop the model up in order to protect their wealth and further stockpiling despite knowing full well that a healthy and prosperous economy requires the circulation of capital, and the best way to ensure that is to direct profit directly to those with smaller disposable incomes.
For a leader though the most important thing is their policies and what they do instead of anything personal. I'd rather have a who gets things done over a well presented well spoken fake politician who doesn't deliver. Trump said himself America needs a leader like him for a short period but they couldn't have someone like him forever.
I agree absolutely that policy and, more importantly, legislation, diplomacy and action are more important than personal matters.
That's why I brought up his tax agenda, which won't best serve 95%+ of Americans. That's why I'd also raise, to pluck three more important examples, his disastrously dangerous energy and environmental policies, the dismantlement of Obamacare, and the MERIT Act, which aimed to systematically strip federal workers of the most very basic employment rights (thankfully blocked in large part by federal judges).
Their economy is strong through, he's looking at it as a machine instead of morally but the result of him revving the economy helps normal people. Massive job creation, record unemployment, lowest women and ethnic minority unemployment, rising wages. Renegotiating trade deals and rebalancing their relationship with China will strengthen their economy. The Democrats should be celebrating all those things. Most critics said he'd crash the economy and cause a recession but the opposite happened, so how can we trust that they know what they're talking about or that they're policies would work or deliver similar results that trump has on those things.
I honestly don't know if the type of employment in the USA has improved or got worse under him but it's generally awful from most reports. With some of the worst employee rights in the developed world.
The low unemployment can be a positive but in the UK it isn't really, it's just fudged numbers based on low quality, low pay, low hour jobs that often offer a lower quality of life than was available in the past.
Agree with all that, we had the first fall in zero hours contracts and biggest rise in wages for 10 years since brexit and the drop net migration. the left won't talk about that because it's an uncomfortable truth.
Agree on workers rights over there but it's a different culture and thinking, we can't really criticise trump for that if he's taken over after 8 years of Democrats. If they didn't sort that out then he's not going to.
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posted on 8/2/19
There goes my Friday cheerfulness...
posted on 8/2/19
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
posted on 8/2/19
good news from Dax power station today, they have captured a tonne of toxic emissions from wood burning boilers,first time its been done worldwide,not rocket science, smoke goes up the chimney, divert it clean it
posted on 8/2/19
Drax that should say,duh, have been on a tour round it as well
posted on 8/2/19
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 6 hours, 59 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 20 hours, 42 minutes ago
What's your view on human population over the next century or so?
----------------
I think the predicted rates will be there or there abouts. Though we could easily see a shock to population particularly due to some of the densities seen in the modern world. The antibiotic crisis may manifest as predicted. Again nuclear war and conventional war wouldn't be unthinkable as the creaks are starting to appear in the current capitalism model.
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1800 one billion
Today over seven.
100 years.Admin me and hec looking for a lady to rebuild earth.
We have to reduce population or start a war.
posted on 8/2/19
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
posted on 8/2/19
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
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I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
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They are all corrupt, but trump is next level
posted on 9/2/19
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posted on 9/2/19
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posted on 9/2/19
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
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I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get off the fence and say what you feel๐๐
posted on 9/2/19
China!
Declared peppa pig to be gangsta!
Year of the pig now.๐ท
posted on 9/2/19
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posted on 9/2/19
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posted on 9/2/19
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Her point was how the president is a 'bad guy' enriching himself at the expense of the american people which isn't true anyway, and ironic because Trump self funded a lot of his campaign and had much less funding from special interests than his opponents or past nominees from either side.
posted on 9/2/19
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posted on 9/2/19
comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Her point was how the president is a 'bad guy' enriching himself at the expense of the american people which isn't true anyway, and ironic because Trump self funded a lot of his campaign and had much less funding from special interests than his opponents or past nominees from either side.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You should read up on his practices in construction. Withholding payments to sub contractors then offering them low ball deals which they have to except out of desperation as legal costs of pursuing the full amount would be too high.
Man of the people, draining the swamp
posted on 9/2/19
Sound argument dave
This is one of the issues with a lot of the left atm, always talking about fake news and the other side lying but a lot of your arguments, Trump is a good example, are based on exaggeration, taking things out of context and manipulating the facts.
posted on 9/2/19
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Her point was how the president is a 'bad guy' enriching himself at the expense of the american people which isn't true anyway, and ironic because Trump self funded a lot of his campaign and had much less funding from special interests than his opponents or past nominees from either side.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You should read up on his practices in construction. Withholding payments to sub contractors then offering them low ball deals which they have to except out of desperation as legal costs of pursuing the full amount would be too high.
Man of the people, draining the swamp
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Most people know he's not a great guy, but he's president not the pope. That doesn't expain how he became president to enrich himself. btw that's different from him becoming richer through policies that benefit the economy and people as whole.
posted on 9/2/19
comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ (U8398)
posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted about 12 hours ago
This is a fascinating insight in regard to self interest and Trump's presidency:
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/1093634176845139968?s=09
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't get her point, Democratic party is corrupt like anything most of those allegations could be for Hillary
----------------------------------------------------------------------
RAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I HATE people like you!
SHE REPEATEDLY TALKS ABOUT THE SYSTEM, NOT THE GOP.
SHE HAS ALREADY UPSET MEMBERS OF THE DEMS BECAUSE OF HER STANCE ON CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
Do you work for Fox News?
FECKING UTTERLY MORONIC WHATABOUTISM! "What about Hillary"
AND YOU START OFF SAYING YOU DON'T GET HER POINT!
I really try hard NOT to ever attack others' intelligence on this site, in life in general, due to the limits and balance between genotype and environment that makes our phenotype; however with you I'm going to make an exception.
If you're not a dumb moron like your post would suggest, you should be truly ashamed at what a brainless lemming you sound in your comment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Her point was how the president is a 'bad guy' enriching himself at the expense of the american people which isn't true anyway, and ironic because Trump self funded a lot of his campaign and had much less funding from special interests than his opponents or past nominees from either side.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You should read up on his practices in construction. Withholding payments to sub contractors then offering them low ball deals which they have to except out of desperation as legal costs of pursuing the full amount would be too high.
Man of the people, draining the swamp
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Most people know he's not a great guy, but he's president not the pope. That doesn't expain how he became president to enrich himself. btw that's different from him becoming richer through policies that benefit the economy and people as whole.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Come on, that is not an acceptable thing to do in any situation. We're living in such a bizarre era that people are accepting all sorts of purely because they agree with the ideology on offer
posted on 9/2/19
Or policies that specifically benefit large corporations and the super rich, like the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was opposed at the time of passing by the majority of Americans.
Or the legislation Trump has had through the Senate already proposing the *complete abolition* of estate tax.
This at a time when polls have demonstrated that both Democratic *and* Republican (54%) voters would rather see spending increases than further tax cuts.
Trump's tax policy isn't geared towards rebalancing the burden, and helping out the lower and middle classes by delivering them greater disposable incomes. Leading up to the election, we may see his middle class tax cut proposals reintroduced, but I doubt it given current evidence suggests doing so wouldn't win him any extra votes.
Look; nobody believes that trickle-down economics works anymore. Nobody, economists - including the father of Reagan's original model - or politicians. They might still use the argument, but they do so without believing it to be true.
Trump and his ilk are desperately looking for ways to prop the model up in order to protect their wealth and further stockpiling despite knowing full well that a healthy and prosperous economy requires the circulation of capital, and the best way to ensure that is to direct profit directly to those with smaller disposable incomes.
posted on 9/2/19
For a leader though the most important thing is their policies and what they do instead of anything personal. I'd rather have a who gets things done over a well presented well spoken fake politician who doesn't deliver. Trump said himself America needs a leader like him for a short period but they couldn't have someone like him forever.
posted on 9/2/19
I agree absolutely that policy and, more importantly, legislation, diplomacy and action are more important than personal matters.
That's why I brought up his tax agenda, which won't best serve 95%+ of Americans. That's why I'd also raise, to pluck three more important examples, his disastrously dangerous energy and environmental policies, the dismantlement of Obamacare, and the MERIT Act, which aimed to systematically strip federal workers of the most very basic employment rights (thankfully blocked in large part by federal judges).
posted on 9/2/19
Their economy is strong through, he's looking at it as a machine instead of morally but the result of him revving the economy helps normal people. Massive job creation, record unemployment, lowest women and ethnic minority unemployment, rising wages. Renegotiating trade deals and rebalancing their relationship with China will strengthen their economy. The Democrats should be celebrating all those things. Most critics said he'd crash the economy and cause a recession but the opposite happened, so how can we trust that they know what they're talking about or that they're policies would work or deliver similar results that trump has on those things.
posted on 9/2/19
I honestly don't know if the type of employment in the USA has improved or got worse under him but it's generally awful from most reports. With some of the worst employee rights in the developed world.
The low unemployment can be a positive but in the UK it isn't really, it's just fudged numbers based on low quality, low pay, low hour jobs that often offer a lower quality of life than was available in the past.
posted on 9/2/19
Agree with all that, we had the first fall in zero hours contracts and biggest rise in wages for 10 years since brexit and the drop net migration. the left won't talk about that because it's an uncomfortable truth.
Agree on workers rights over there but it's a different culture and thinking, we can't really criticise trump for that if he's taken over after 8 years of Democrats. If they didn't sort that out then he's not going to.
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