Everything you didn't want to know about Trump and were not afraid to ask

[Tero]

The Economy’s Not Booming. Predatory Capitalism’s Eating Itself

But wait — what happens if those jobs are, well, not very good ones, because corporations don’t really have to compete, because its made of gigantic monopolies now, not mom-and-pop soda shoppes? If instead of being something more like stable middle class careers, with upward mobility, benefits, retirements, security, stability, meaning, belonging, and so forth, they are something more like jobs only in name — in reality, hollowed out? What happens if all that’s left in a “job” is the chance to work harder and harder every year, for shrinking income, opportunity, savings, a declining quality of life?
That’s exactly what’s happened in America. The “jobs” that are being created are not high quality ones. Like more or less everything else predatory capitalism creates, they are of astonishingly low quality. Not only are they concentrated in low-growth sectors, they’re composed of menial tasks, and they offer dead ends, not paths upwards, outwards, or forwards.

https://eand.co/the-economys-not-boomin ... 663d94498e

[pErvinalia]

But the stock market is up!

[laklak]

Why do the hillbillies want to vote for the asshole? Oh yeah, so they can be above foreigners.

Gracie Slick asked "don't you want somebody to love?" A more appropriate question might be "don't you want somebody to shit on?"

[Brian Peacock]

He's actually a liberal.

We all know that violence against Trump is justified self-defense, so if the Dems win big in the mid-terms we'd expect a comeuppance for the evil, racist, white supremacist Trump and his evil, racist, white supremacist supporters. It would be a moral imperative to mete out justice.

Come now, don't sell Trumplodytes short. In addition to being evil and racist, they're also misogynist, xenophobic, homophobic, religiously bigoted, nationalistic, vindictive, and backwards as fuck.

...which, of course, means that they should be punched and driven out of polite society like the pariahs they are. They are the oppressors - mostly white male - oppressor class, and so they are by definition racist, misogynistic and the rest, and as such it is a moral imperative to commit violence against them. It's defensive and Progressive to do that.

You're wilfully conflating a low opinion with violent intent - deliberately so I think. What would you rather have - if people aren't prepared to profess their support for Trump then they should limit themselves to submissive silence?

While the right obsess over finding fault in the manner and the means of other people's expressions of dissent they deliberately ignore what is actuallt being expressed. The idea that a single political dogma is not only true and righteous but also a necessary national obligation is totalitarianism - as is the notion that holding contrary or dissenting views automatically invalidates and disqualifies them.

[Sean Hayden]

I'm tired of the pipe dreams. The idea that you can have something like never ending growth to support good jobs for all is stupid. None has a solution to this. Just pipe dreams. Good jobs must disappear, and that's going to happen whoever happens to be in power.

[Tero]

Trump fires Sessions in November
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/30/poli ... index.html

[JimC]

I'm tired of the pipe dreams. The idea that you can have something like never ending growth to support good jobs for all is stupid. None has a solution to this. Just pipe dreams. Good jobs must disappear, and that's going to happen whoever happens to be in power.

You know you're just feeding Crumple and Galaxian...

[Sean Hayden]

I'm not worried.

[Forty Two]

He's actually a liberal.

We all know that violence against Trump is justified self-defense, so if the Dems win big in the mid-terms we'd expect a comeuppance for the evil, racist, white supremacist Trump and his evil, racist, white supremacist supporters. It would be a moral imperative to mete out justice.

Come now, don't sell Trumplodytes short. In addition to being evil and racist, they're also misogynist, xenophobic, homophobic, religiously bigoted, nationalistic, vindictive, and backwards as fuck.

...which, of course, means that they should be punched and driven out of polite society like the pariahs they are. They are the oppressors - mostly white male - oppressor class, and so they are by definition racist, misogynistic and the rest, and as such it is a moral imperative to commit violence against them. It's defensive and Progressive to do that.

You're wilfully conflating a low opinion with violent intent - deliberately so I think. What would you rather have - if people aren't prepared to profess their support for Trump then they should limit themselves to submissive silence?

Nobody who opposes Trump feels constrained to limit themselves to submissive silence, lol. Quite the opposite - voicing support for Trump gets the mob after people. Look at In and Out Burger, for a recent example. Boycotts for donating to Republicans. Do people really want to play that game? It can cut both ways.

But, anyway, I was reciting the rationale given in support of violence by many far left folks, and their more moderate enablers. That's the exact argument many folks make for it being justifiable to do the violence that we've seen happen to Trump supporters and mere conservatives, and even libertarians, under the rubric of "punching Nazis" and the like. When you broadly define all white men as racist, misogynists - which is a view of a fair number of leftists, then they all start blending into the violence-worthy category.

As an aside, you should know by my previous posts that I have no overarching problem with any Trump opponents saying anything they want. Float whatever Trump-in-a-diaper balloon you want - burn him in effigy - curse him - write - speak - publish anything as hateful as you wanna be or as thoughtful as you wanna be -- I'm against violence, by whoevever would mete it out.

While the right obsess over finding fault in the manner and the means of other people's expressions of dissent they deliberately ignore what is actuallt being expressed. The idea that a single political dogma is not only true and righteous but also a necessary national obligation is totalitarianism - as is the notion that holding contrary or dissenting views automatically invalidates and disqualifies them.

Both sides find fault in the manner and means of other people's expressions of dissent. You can't have forgotten the "civility" movement of the early Obama administration, calling for an end to "martial rhetoric" in political campaigns and claiming that boisterous campaign rhetoric was inspiring violence.....

...and as for only a single political dogma being true and righteous, again, there are factions of both the right and the left that do that. You cannot ignore the left's present day censorious attitude, and the categorization of anything and everything as hate speech (which they say ought not be free speech). There are plenty on the left who think those who hold contrary or dissenting views are automatically invalidated. Just look at some of the ways people address me here on this page. I'm not just advancing other views - I have a moral defect, because of the viewpoints I hold, some say here.

[Forty Two]

Trump fires Sessions in November
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/30/poli ... index.html

....queue the Democrats worship of Jeff Sessions, in the same manner as suddenly all things McCain became good, honorable and just.... meanwhile rewind a few years, and see what they really thought of both of them while they were alive....https://www.therebel.media/ezra_levant_ ... st_28_2018 When he opined against something the left liked he wasn't just opposed - he was vilified -- a vote in the left direction, though, and he rises to saintly levels.... https://freebeacon.com/politics/liberal ... hn-mccain/

Bottom line - the media fawned over McCain at the end because of his feud with Trump. It's patently obvious. If instead of dying, he was running for reelection against a democrat, he'd be a major villain whose evil had to be stopped at all costs.

[Sean Hayden]

I don't care. I just thought you should know that not all democrats give a shit about politics. I vote dem because I think they represent the best chance for sane, compassionate policy. I don't care about any of them or republicans individually.

[Forty Two]

I'm tired of the pipe dreams. The idea that you can have something like never ending growth to support good jobs for all is stupid. None has a solution to this. Just pipe dreams. Good jobs must disappear, and that's going to happen whoever happens to be in power.

Low unemployment, low inflation, low interest rates, rising stock market, high worker participation rates, expanding industrial base, expanding business sector overall, reduced regulations, renegotiated trade deal with Mexico, lower taxes, no new wars and more peace talks ..... but, the president is an uncouth cad who cheats on his wives and pays for nondisclosure agreements, and lacks grace, poise and overall presentation, the orange bastard with the funny hair.

I'll take that deal, any day of the week. http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/ ... great-2018

President Donald J. Trump has had a great 2018 but you would not know it if you listened to cable talking heads obsess about Roseanne Barr’s latest tweet or the latest “breaking news” coming from a White House press briefing. The media seems obsessed with gossip and conjecture about what is going on at the White House staff level while they ignore the growing number of landmark achievements of the Trump administration. This has been a great year so far and Americans can expect much more in the months to come.

When Mike Pompeo was confirmed to be secretary of State recently, he had already achieved much in his talks with North Korea to leverage a historic summit to discuss peace for that region of the world. Secretary Pompeo ended up garnering the support of many Democratic senators who are looking over their political shoulders this fall like Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). Even these Democrats know that they must support the president or lose their jobs.
Historic tax cuts kicked in this year and Americans have more money to spend on housing, travel and food. On April 17, 2018, also known as “Tax Day,” President Trump wrote an editorial in USA Today promoting his tax cuts for all Americans: “ I signed one of the largest tax cuts in history and the most sweeping tax reform in a generation.” The corporate tax reform will keep jobs at home and make sure that more Americans are working this year.

April also saw the president reform welfare and end the practice of releasing illegal immigrants upon capture at the border. Early in April, the president issued an executive order on welfare reform promoting economic mobility that will encourage more people to enter the workforce. The president ordered a report to end the practice of “Catch and Release” with illegal immigrants and deployed the National Guard to the border to enhance border security. Both of these actions had to be taken by the executive branch because Congress has failed to take decisive action on reforming entitlement programs and fixing our broken immigration system.

The stealing of intellectual property by foreign governments was a hot issue in March, yet comparatively little was written about that issue by the media obsessed with palace intrigue. In March, the president announced steps to stop China from stealing American intellectual property. Also, in that month, President Trump announced efforts to protect America’s schools, including partnering the Department of Homeland Security with states to harden at-risk schools. The months of March and April were loaded with achievements that were largely ignored by journalists

More Americans are back at work this year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 2018’s average monthly job growth was the strongest since 1997 with 2.5 million jobs added to the U.S. economy. The most important issue for Americans is the creation of new jobs and stopping American jobs from going overseas. The U.S. economy is booming, yet one would have to go right to the White House website to read about this news, because the mainstream media is ignoring historic job growth enabled by President Trump’s business- and worker-friendly government policies.

After years of past presidents promising, while running for office, to recognize Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, President Trump did it. In February, the State Department announced that the opening of an interim embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the modern state of Israel. This was yet another foreign policy promise kept.

Infrastructure was front-and-center this year, with the president announcing his detailed framework to rebuild American roads and bridges. In addition, the Trump administration rolled out an FY 2019 budget that saved $3 trillion over the next ten years for American taxpayers. During President Trump’s State of the Union, he spoke of his first-year accomplishments and provided a vision for a safe, strong and proud America going forward.

The president kicked off the year by going to Davos, Switzerland, to announced that “America is open for business” and gave a strongly pro-America message to the world. This is a president who has accomplished much so far this year, yet you would not know it if you only got your news from the mainstream media. It is obsessed with gossip, yet the American people know better and the polls indicate that the American people are feeling great about the future.

President Donald Trump is leading America to a more peaceful world and a prosperous America with his “America First” policies.

[Animavore]

Christian pastor: Women who dress provocatively are committing sexual assault on men

http://deadstate.org/christian-pastor-w ... lt-on-men/

“Men are visually stimulated and unwanted stimulation should meet the basic definition of assault,” Shoesmith told Gallups, adding that women who dress in a sexy manner are “guilty of indecent visual assault on a man’s imagination, which does cause mental anguish and torment.”

“When a man sees a naked or partially dressed woman, a chemical reaction happens in his brain,” he continued. “Neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin are released, giving him an involuntary surge of pleasure. Notice the word ‘involuntary’ … Men are in a state of constant sexual assault by women who either don’t understand the severity of what they are doing, because it’s cute and they like the attention, or worse, they do know the feelings it stirs and like the control they have over men.”

Gallups chimed in, saying that if a man paraded around the workplace in a “sexually suggestive outfit,” he would immediately be accused of sexual harassment.

[Tero]

I don't care about Sessions. it's just firing him, then Mueller is manipulation. Nixon would have resigned.

[Scot Dutchy]

Fake news of course. He has used the phrase too much. It has little effect now.

Donald Trump's approval rating sinks to lowest of his presidency

New survey shows first time the national displeasure rating has exceeded 50%, and a majority of support for Mueller’s Russia investigation

Does he use the same crowd at every meeting bussing them around.