Individual-1, a joke or a threat? (talk Trump)

[Cunt]

It's not that tough. The US is awesome, and I feel very privileged.

I'm just giving you some facts so that you don't continue going around saying things like Americans should share their wealth because they own cellphones.

Isn't that what is happening, with foreign aid, and increasingly responsible corporate practices?

There's very little a global 1-0.1 percenter can do about it. Other than getting together and wheeling out the guillotines again.

So you DO acknowledge that it IS our responsibility (though it may be difficult)

For most of the inhabitants of any nation most of what goes on beyond their national boundaries is so blurred, they are hardly even aware of goes on elsewhere. How many Canadians ($48,141 GDP PPP per capita*), Australians (49,882), US (59,495) citizens, Great Britons (43,550 ) etc, do you estimate could even put a pin into an unmarked world map to indicate they know where Burkina Faso (1,884) is?

Would you buy another cell phone, if you knew that doing so caused some foreign country to be invaded/exploited/damaged?

I mean, I would, but I wouldn't pretend it wasn't partly my doing.

[Animavore]

The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things.

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/f ... YnQ5YY77Cs

And that, my friends, is the Trump supporter in a nutshell.

[Hermit]

For most of the inhabitants of any nation most of what goes on beyond their national boundaries is so blurred, they are hardly even aware of goes on elsewhere. How many Canadians ($48,141 GDP PPP per capita*), Australians (49,882), US (59,495) citizens, Great Britons (43,550 ) etc, do you estimate could even put a pin into an unmarked world map to indicate they know where Burkina Faso (1,884) is?

Would you buy another cell phone, if you knew that doing so caused some foreign country to be invaded/exploited/damaged?

What has that to do with my explanation as to why global poverty is irrelevant to poverty within one nation? I spent the post you quoted part of as well as my previous post, which you ignored in its entirety, trying to tell you why that is irrelevant. Reply to those.

As for buying mobile phones made by factory workers in near slavery conditions, the usual reply by right wing nuts is that those workers are better off than subsistence farmers who regard owning two cows, seven goats and living within a few minutes' walk of a well as being more wealthy than the average of their compatriots. In that case buying a mobile phone contributes to lift at least some of the inhabitants of poor countries out of poverty.

[Tero]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/f ... YnQ5YY77Cs
He is not hurting the people he needs to be hurting! (Democrats)

Wedged near the border with Alabama and Georgia, Marianna’s 7,000 residents depend on the federal medium-security prison to employ nearly 300 people in good-paying jobs with attractive benefits.
Though Mr. Trump said on Twitter over the weekend that “most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats,” that is far from true in places like Jackson County, Fla., where Marianna is the county seat. It is a Republican bastion so deeply conservative that it was illegal to sell liquor by the drink until November 2017.
“I hate the shutdown,” said Joseph Sims, 37, a corrections officer of six years. “Sometimes you’ve got to do stuff to get stuff done,” he said of Mr. Trump’s stance, “but now it’s starting to take a toll on everybody at work.”
Crystal Minton, accompanied her fiancé to a friend’s house to help clear the remnants of a metal roof mangled by the hurricane. Ms. Minton, a 38-year-old secretary, said she had obtained permission from the warden to put off her Mississippi duty until early February because she is a single mother caring for disabled parents. Her fiancé plans to take vacation days to look after Ms. Minton’s 7-year-old twins once she has to go to work.

The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things.

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

[Tero]

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https://twitter.com/P_Lepinkainen/statu ... 9374391296

[Sean Hayden]

It's not that tough. The US is awesome, and I feel very privileged.

I'm just giving you some facts so that you don't continue going around saying things like Americans should share their wealth because they own cellphones.

Isn't that what is happening, with foreign aid, and increasingly responsible corporate practices?

This is not the point you were making before. Please let the facts influence your thinking. Now that you know Americans complaining about the 1% have nothing to share, even though they have cellphones, you can stop thinking they're being hypocritical.


You should feel better!

[Animavore]

More incomprehensible stupidity from Criminal Trump's incompetent administration.

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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
It’s a mistake to keep parks open during the shutdown
Former National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says the Trump administration is violating the park’s stewardship mandate.
Jonathan B. Jarvis OPINION Jan. 4, 2019 LIKE TWEET EMAIL PRINT

This article was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here with permission.

When I was a ranger at Crater Lake national park in the 1980s, the average snowfall at headquarters was 500 inches a year, and snow could accumulate at 2 inches an hour. One of my jobs as ranger was to shovel out the fire hydrants every day, so that if there was a fire in the hotel, headquarters or housing, we’d be able to fight it. Our maintenance staff plowed roads for safe visitor access and rangers patrolled on skis, regularly performing rescues. This was all part of ensuring that, in accordance with the National Park Service’s founding charter, the parks are “unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”

Leaving the parks open without these essential staff is equivalent to leaving the Smithsonian museums open without any staff to protect the priceless artifacts. Yet as a result of the government shutdown, which furloughed most park staff, this is what has happened. It is a violation of the stewardship mandate, motivated only by politics. While the majority of the public will be respectful, there will always be a few who take advantage of the opportunity to do lasting damage.

Author Wallace Stegner said that “National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.” Now left unattended and gathering trash and human waste, the Trump administration has let them reflect us at our worst.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/national-p ... wXnYnCxsXI

[Animavore]

A few pre-emptive facts to address Trump's lies tonight.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2 ... 503981002/

[Cunt]

For most of the inhabitants of any nation most of what goes on beyond their national boundaries is so blurred, they are hardly even aware of goes on elsewhere. How many Canadians ($48,141 GDP PPP per capita*), Australians (49,882), US (59,495) citizens, Great Britons (43,550 ) etc, do you estimate could even put a pin into an unmarked world map to indicate they know where Burkina Faso (1,884) is?

Would you buy another cell phone, if you knew that doing so caused some foreign country to be invaded/exploited/damaged?

What has that to do with my explanation as to why global poverty is irrelevant to poverty within one nation? I spent the post you quoted part of as well as my previous post, which you ignored in its entirety, trying to tell you why that is irrelevant. Reply to those.

As for buying mobile phones made by factory workers in near slavery conditions, the usual reply by right wing nuts is that those workers are better off than subsistence farmers who regard owning two cows, seven goats and living within a few minutes' walk of a well as being more wealthy than the average of their compatriots. In that case buying a mobile phone contributes to lift at least some of the inhabitants of poor countries out of poverty.

You insist that your nations borders protect you from responsibility for actions taken on your behalf beyond those borders. I understand very well.

I also understand you blame your elite class, but will not enter the realm of politics yourself. How about investigating all this evil? Is that also beyond your responsibility? I don't mean making paragraphs on an echo of feral off-topic, but collecting real evidence and having people arrested for crimes.

Of course, it's a lot easier if you pretend you haven't anything to do with it. Taking responsibility for this stuff doesn't feel very good.

[Cunt]

A few pre-emptive facts to address Trump's lies tonight.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2 ... 503981002/

No matter what he says, you would consider it lies.

I wonder if you have Trump Derangement Syndrome...

[Sean Hayden]

You're starting to sound like bin Laden man. Should we be worried?

[Animavore]

What a thick cunt.

The Trump administration’s shutdown of the federal government over the last two weeks is a synecdoche for the way it has run the federal government over the last two years. They blundered into it almost by accident, without any understanding of what they are doing nor any plan for success.

Just as Trump did not expect to win the election and neglected to plan for his transition, he shut down the government on a whim, after right-wing media complained about his plan to approve a government funding bill. Nobody in the administration had a clear understanding of just what a shutdown would entail. Two devastating reports in the Washington Post over the weekend detail the horrifying scope of their ignorance. The administration did not realize that 38 million Americans lose their food stamps under a shutdown, nor did it know that thousands of tenants would face eviction without assistance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Administration officials “recognized only this week the breadth of the potential impact,” reports the Post, and was “focused now on understanding the scope of the consequences and determining whether there is anything they can do to intervene.” First Trump shut down the government, and then the Trump administration started looking into what effect this would have.

It’s likely the administration was lulled into complacency by a previous, abbreviated shutdown that took place in early 2018. This interruption in funding lasted only a few days and had barely any effect. Perhaps the administration assumed a longer shutdown would work the same way, but, you know, more of it. The reality is that the effects of a shutdown compound over time. Government agencies can creatively stretch their budgets to mask gaps in funding, but at some point, their capacity to maintain services snaps. The relationship between the length of a shutdown and its impact is not linear. A 30-day shutdown is not ten times as damaging as a three-day shutdown. It is probably 100 times as damaging.

The impending reality of millions of Americans going hungry and homeless is just one aspect of the horrors that await us. At some point, the shutdown will impinge upon Trump’s C-suite constituency. Employees of the Transportation Security Administration have had to work without pay, but that cannot continue indefinitely. Already, employees at some airports have begun staging sick-outs. At some point, air travel will grind to a halt, and with it large segments of the economy. By next month, tax refunds will be in jeopardy.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/ ... DM9xNc4YwQ

[Cunt]

How many times have the democrats used the 'shutdown' to forward their political agendas?

How many times have the republicans used the 'shutdown' to forward their political agendas?

Add those numbers together, and they should show that both sides are pretty fucking cavalier when considering this issue.

[Animavore]

There is "no question" that President Donald Trump is a racist, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview that aired Sunday night.

Speaking on CBS's "60 Minutes," Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, told Anderson Cooper that Trump "certainly didn't invent racism. But he's certainly given a voice to it and expanded it and created a platform for those things."
"Do you believe President Trump is a racist?" Cooper asked.
"Yeah, yeah, no question," Ocasio-Cortez replied.
"When you look at the words that he uses, which are historic dog whistles of white supremacy. When you look at how he reacted to the Charlottesville incident where neo-Nazis murdered a woman, versus how he manufactures crises like immigrants seeking legal refuge on our borders, it's night and day," she continued.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/07/poli ... ium=social

She has Trump pegged. I love how she shit stirs his racist supporters too. Including the ones here.

[Animavore]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday defended fellow Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), from outrage over her call to "impeach the mothef---er," referring to President Trump.

“Republican hypocrisy at its finest: saying that Trump admitting to sexual assault on tape is just ‘locker room talk,’ but scandalizing themselves into faux-outrage when my sis says a curse word in a bar,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

“GOP lost entitlement to policing women’s behavior a long time ago. Next,” she added.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4240 ... _Nc9L42IVA