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President Trump: Part II

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Craig B said:
That's a very strange site with lots and lots of articles entitled " ... 5 facts you need to know". Are you convinced that this is a dependable source of information?
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Blame google. It was the first hit.

I live in Detroit, which is reasonably close to Bowling Green.. I remember when the news story broke, so when I saw KellyAnne refer to the Bowling Green Massacre, I knew exactly what she meant.

Yes, the administration lies, but not this time.
 
Meadmaker said:
Blame google. It was the first hit.

I live in Detroit, which is reasonably close to Bowling Green.. I remember when the news story broke, so when I saw KellyAnne refer to the Bowling Green Massacre, I knew exactly what she meant.

Yes, the administration lies, but not this time.
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A reference to something that never happened :confused:
 
The Don said:
A reference to something that never happened :confused:
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It really doesn't help that she did this on the same day Sean Spicer falsely claimed a US ship was attacked by Iran.

Major Garrett of CBS News quietly corrected him, saying “a Saudi vessel,” and Spicer then responded almost inaudibly: “Sorry, thank you, yes a Saudi vessel. Yes, that’s right.” He did not in any way address his false claim that it was an Iranian attack, however.
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I'm starting to get the Maine idea of what they're Tonkin about.
 
Meadmaker said:
This was such a weird year. Hillary made a few verbal missteps and got raked over the coals, just like a normal politician.

Trump made a complete ass of himself over and over, and got almost as many votes, and just a few more of the ones that counted.
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Yeah she should have lied to those folks like any good politician should have. I mean she could have promised them millions of new jobs in the coal industry and these slack-jawed hicks would've voted for her in droves.
 
Meadmaker said:
Blame google. It was the first hit.

I live in Detroit, which is reasonably close to Bowling Green.. I remember when the news story broke, so when I saw KellyAnne refer to the Bowling Green Massacre, I knew exactly what she meant.

Yes, the administration lies, but not this time.
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That is called lying.
 
Meadmaker said:
I live in Detroit, which is reasonably close to Bowling Green.. I remember when the news story broke, so when I saw KellyAnne refer to the Bowling Green Massacre, I knew exactly what she meant.
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There was no massacre nor was any actual massacre planned at all.

Hammadi and Alwan both admitted, in FBI interviews that followed waiver of their Miranda rights, to participation in the purported material support operations in Kentucky, and both provided the FBI details of their prior involvement in insurgent activities while living in Iraq. Both men believed their activities in Kentucky were supporting AQI. Alwan admitted participating in IED attacks against U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and Hammadi admitted to participating in 10 to 11 IED attacks as well as shooting at a U.S. soldier in an observation tower.

Court documents filed in this case reveal that the Bowling Green office of the FBI’s Louisville Division initiated an investigation of Alwan in which they used a confidential human source (CHS). The CHS met with Alwan and recorded their meetings and conversations beginning in August 2010. The CHS represented to Alwan that he was working with a group to ship money and weapons to Mujahadeen in Iraq. From September 2010 through May 2011, Alwan participated in ten separate operations to send weapons and money that he believed were destined for terrorists in Iraq. Between October 2010 and January 2011, Alwan drew diagrams of multiple types of IEDs and instructed the CHS how to make them. In January 2011, Alwan recruited Hammadi, a fellow Iraqi national living in Bowling Green, to assist in these material support operations. Beginning in January 2011 and continuing until his arrest in late May 2011, Hammadi participated with Alwan in helping load money and weapons that he believed were destined for terrorists in Iraq.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...travel-ban/?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.87145accebaf

She lied and you are abetting her.
 
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These are all minor distractions. The real question we should be asking the Trump administration - where we ought to hold his feet to the fire - is "What about Benghazi?"

Didn't he promise some kind of investigation?
 
Meadmaker said:
Blame google. It was the first hit.

I live in Detroit, which is reasonably close to Bowling Green.. I remember when the news story broke, so when I saw KellyAnne refer to the Bowling Green Massacre, I knew exactly what she meant.

Yes, the administration lies, but not this time.
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Considering her track record, I'm not giving her the benefit of the doubt.
 
marplots said:
These are all minor distractions. The real question we should be asking the Trump administration - where we ought to hold his feet to the fire - is "What about Benghazi?"

Didn't he promise some kind of investigation?
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Yea, I think after the fiasco in Yemen they're probably going to stay as far away from anything that can be investigated as much as possible.
 
Gary Cohn, White House Economic Council director, told the Wall Street Journal the administration would also move against a regulation designed to force retirement advisers to work in the best interest of their clients, the “fiduciary rule,” set to take effect in April and designed to eliminate conflicts-of-interests among professionals dealing with those enrolled in qualified retirement plans and IRAs.
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Does this mean what I think it means? Hard to believe. Wasn't this put in place after it developed some retirement advisers would get people to buy financial products that were risky but ones their firm wanted to sell? In other words, retirement advisors were working against their client's best interests.

On top of it already being hard to believe Trump appointed the CEO of Goldman Sachs to be his top economic adviser. But at least the Trumpmeister didn't give any paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, right?

Meanwhile, I saw James Jeffrey interviewed on the PBS NewsHour last night. Jeffrey is a career foreign service officer, and ambassador under President George W. Bush. He was mildly supportive of president Trump but he too mentioned Trump's emerging confrontational style with other (smaller) nations. Jeffrey said it was as if Trump is trying to roll back the clock to an era when a super power like the U.S. could dictate to other, less powerful nations, with the implicit threat of military retaliation always in the background. Besides the fact most rational people do not want to go back to that era, Jeffrey said, that doesn't work in the 21st century. Nations will not allow themselves to be bullied, the leaders will resist and the citizens will demonstrate. It's not 1917.
 
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newyorkguy said:
Does this mean what I think it means? Hard to believe. Wasn't this put in place after it developed some retirement advisers would get people to buy financial products that were risky but ones their firm wanted to sell? In other words, retirement advisors were working against their client's best interests.
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US consumer protections have never been great.

I think now it's caveat emptor all the way.
 
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Bob001 said:
Yep, if the Trumpets get what they want.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...of-wall-street-reform/?utm_term=.7ab9b9043924
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Their defense of it is mindboggling.

The new rule was supposed to take effect in April. But now the*Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump is planning to reverse this rule. Trump advisor Gary Cohn says the rule "limits consumer choice."

Cohn says it's "like putting only healthy food on the menu, because unhealthy food tastes good but you still shouldn't eat it because you might die younger."
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