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I would suggest all Republican leaders have had their brains replaced with alien parasites. Case in point...

The Wrongest Man in Washington

How Larry Kudlow has taken the Trump administration's dysfunction to a new level

https://newrepublic.com/article/148050/wrongest-man-washington

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But now that he’s there, Kudlow’s errors, misstatements, and exaggerations are wreaking havoc on U.S. policy. In the case of the Russia sanctions and TPP, there are serious domestic and foreign policy repercussions when an entire administration—not just a Twitter feed—makes whiplash-inducing changes. The decision on Russia went from the Treasury Department announcing sanctions on Sunday, to reports that the White House had reached out to the Russian embassy on Tuesday to declare that no sanctions were planned. The administration reversed itself on TPP in six days.

 

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Trump made McConnell’s wife Trasportation Secretary and they were planning to spend a bundle on roads and bridges, with Trumps graft expertise...

Guiliani knows people in the NY FBI and probably the group that will probably find, I’ve  heard, corruption in Cohens activities, and likely Trumps too.

Guiliani is a good distractor to take the heat off, he’s loud and over the top.

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4 minutes ago, HoodedCrow said:

Trump made McConnell’s wife Trasportation Secretary and they were planning to spend a bundle on roads and bridges, with Trumps graft expertise...

Guiliani knows people in the NY FBI and probably the group that will probably find, I’ve  heard, corruption in Cohens activities, and likely Trumps too.

Guiliani is a good distractor to take the heat off, he’s loud and over the top.

Guiliani likely had a hand in those NY FBI leaks during the election.

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7 hours ago, HoodedCrow said:

Trump made McConnell’s wife Trasportation Secretary and they were planning to spend a bundle on roads and bridges, with Trumps graft expertise...

"McConnell's wife" is Elaine Chao, who has one of the most impressive resumes in DC.  I don't really get what this post is accusing her of, nor (almost) ever agree with her, but let's call people by their names.

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17 hours ago, Martell Spy said:

Republican Campaign Message: We Had to Jack Up Your Insurance Premiums to Help the Poor

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/gop-plan-were-spiking-obamacare-premiums-to-help-the-poor.html

 

Sorry ass Republicans doin' sorry ass stuff.

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More on Republicans being a bunch of sorry asses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/04/18/the-republican-plan-to-tighten-food-stamp-work-requirements-is-advancing-without-a-single-democrats-vote/

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House Republicans pushed forward Wednesday with a plan to strengthen work requirements for food stamps, even as Democrats excoriated the proposal as an “ideological crusade” that would hurt the poor, burden state governments and endanger the passage of major food and farming legislation.

Okay now conservative sorts of people this isn’t very hard. SNAP benefits peaked at about 80 billion dollars (which is an extremely small part of the overall budget) at  2013. And it has been declining ever since. In 2017, it’s at about 68 Billion dollars.

Here conservative sorts people. I assume you learned how to read a simple table from listening to Rush Limbaugh or maybe you learned it by paying your 9.95 per month to Glenn Beck U or whatever.

By golly its almost like when the employment situation improves people get off SNAP benefits. 

And you know conservative sorts of people, given the US has lower labor force participation rates than many other advanced economies, its hard to make the argument that the US overly generous welfare state is the problem.

And conservative sorts of people if you're really just worrying your little old conservative heart out about unemployment- though I doubt it, as I think this is really about some conservative sorts of people blowing dog whistles for other conservative sorts of people- then you know just spend the money for job training and job search programs. It will be  a lot cheaper, than conservative sorts of people’s beloved corporate tax cuts and actually do some good.

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I consider myself to be a free trader and have pro internationalist sympathies. I support for free trade for probably three key reasons.

1. There are some productivity gains to be made for trade.

2. Free trade can help to lift people in poor countries out of humiliating poverty.

3. And because I think free trade helps facilitate world peace.

But, I’m not a mindless free trader or globalist. And globalization done badly can have some bad results. The worst case is probably when the international gold exchange standard of the 1920s malfunctioned and lead to economic depression and probably played a part in launching World War 2. Bad stuff. And I consider the Euro, in it’s current form, to be a case of globalization done badly.

And some of the US own policy choices over the last 20 years are cases of globalization done badly. The progressive left, at least in the US, has always had a difficult and contentious relationship with free trade and not without reasons. And of course globalization done badly, can help to create a space for con men like Trump.

Of course, Trump’s actual policies aren’t helping matters much. And lets hope people catch on.

And let's hope the left can come up with and implement actual real solutions, rather than the "multi-stake holder solutions" (whatever in the hell that actually means, nobody knows) of the Davos bunch.

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/4/19/17254322/trump-china-trade-war-economics-middle-class-democrats

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President Donald Trump’s threats to levy sweeping trade tariffs on China and other countries have provoked near-universal condemnation, from Democrats as well as Republicans. These critics say tariffs will raise prices and invite foreign countries’ retaliation while doing little or nothing to bring back the glory days of bountiful middle-class manufacturing jobs.

 

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2 hours ago, dmc515 said:

"McConnell's wife" is Elaine Chao, who has one of the most impressive resumes in DC.  I don't really get what this post is accusing her of, nor (almost) ever agree with her, but let's call people by their names.

She was also the answer to a trivia question we were able to get this last Tuesday (name one of two Cabinet members in the current Administration who are ineligible to become President in the unlikely event the line of succession gets to them).

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I thought I knew Kimba Woods but it went back to Clinton when I thought it was something with Obama.

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 One of the more amusing ironies of the Michael Cohen case, which involves Cohen’s role in arranging hush payments to two Playboy models and a porn star, is the fact that it’s being heard by federal judge Kimba Wood, who was Bill Clinton’s 2nd botched choice for attorney general, her nomination doomed by failing to make SS payments for her Nanny and Republican mock-shock at the fact that she’d spent five days training to become a …. Playboy bunny.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/20/roaming-charges-mother-of-war/

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Question for the Legal Eagles:

If I have an affair I need to cover up, and I approach you, and ask you to make a NDA, and say use a pseudonym for me, and don’t pay you for the specific legal service, but contribute equal or greater funds to you in another way, are you my lawyer and have I paid you for legal services?

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20 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

Listening to NPR, they just said that the IRS is still using some mainframe computers that were built in the 1960’s.

:o

I'm not even mad, that's amazing.

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17 hours ago, IamMe90 said:

For Christ's sake, do we really need to make pornography consumption a partisan issue? Talk about polarization. It seems pretty ubiquitous to me, and there are probably a bunch of better demographics one could use to accurately delineate its consumption than political affiliation. 

All I know is red states consume more porn then blue states from any study I've seen. There seems to be a small but measurable effect where there conservative and religious consume more porn on average.

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14 hours ago, SpaceChampion said:

Wait, why are trumpists taking Rudy Giuliani joining Trump's legal team as a good sign?  Isn't he some sort of anemic vampire clown?  Oh, I get it, must be approaching the last dungeon of their larp.  Geez, someone explain to them he's just an NPC.

The point of Giuliani is not to be a lawyer. He's a shitty lawyer. The point is his tons of personal connections within the FBI, especially the NY branches.

Giuliani was one of the main sources of leaks during the campaign from the Clinton-haters within the FBI (tons in the NY branch from what we know from reporting) and he pushed that stuff into the media all the time.

His now self-admitted role in Trump's defence will be to get information about the Cohen case especially to Trump's people and to try and use his personal connections to influence and stymie the investigation.

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How the orange squash lied his way onto Forbes's richest list:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-lied-to-me-about-his-wealth-to-get-onto-the-forbes-400-here-are-the-tapes/2018/04/20/ac762b08-4287-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?

Roy Cohen is in the article too, fully part of the orange bs.

New Yorkers have always known all this, at least in broad outline, as orange has always been notorious among even just 'little' tax-paying NYers, as well as the movers and shakers and bankers as nothing but a bser poseur, the lousy bidness dork that he is.  How the entire country swallowed his orange bs we still can't quite comprehend, beyond -- tv.  Is the country as a whole that gullible?  Really? Don't they seem complicit more than gullible, really?  If so, then the only answer is white supremacy, anti-intellectualism and just plain meaness.

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 Trump, through this sockpuppet, was telling me he owned “in excess of 90 percent” of his family’s business. With all the home runs Trump was hitting in real estate, Barron told me, he should be called a billionaire.

At the time, I suspected that some of this was untrue. I ran Trump’s assertions to the ground, and for many years I was proud of the fact that Forbes had called him on his distortions and based his net worth on what I thought was solid research.

But it took decades to unwind the elaborate farce Trump had built to project an image as one of the richest people in America. Nearly every assertion supporting that claim was untrue. Trump wasn’t just poorer than he said he was. Over time I have learned that he should not have been on the first three Forbes 400 lists at all. In our first-ever list, in 1982, we included him at $100 million, but Trump was actually worth roughly $5 million — a paltry sum by the standards of his super-monied peers — as a spate of government reports and books showed only much later.

 

Yowza!  That's less even than his o-so-loathed nemesis, Obama:

 

 
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What is President Obama's net worth?
President Barack Obama Net Worth: $12.2 Million. Estimating the exact personal wealth of Barack Obama — or any U.S. president — is difficult. With certainty, Obama's salary for his day job as president is $400,000 a year. But from there, hard numbers are more difficult to come by.Aug 4, 2016

 

 
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34 minutes ago, Shryke said:

All I know is red states consume more porn then blue states from any study I've seen. There seems to be a small but measurable effect where there conservative and religious consume more porn on average.

They also have more divorces than blue states, and more red state citizens are swingers than in blue states.  Which always is always sooperdooper hilarious! :D:D:D

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Republicans really try to put a spin on the worst news, don’t they? Comey said in his book that when Trump talked about arresting reporters he laughed.

”Look at that! Comey’s reaction to arresting reporters was laughter! And he’s your media darling! Are you laughing now, reporters? Eh? Eh?”

What idiots. Can’t tell the difference between laughing at and laughing with.

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