Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

[Garrison]

I wonder how much of the information his company offers is supplied by the "products" of the National Weather Service he is complaining about?

'Want to know if your in danger from Hurricane X? Sign up to our alerts for a mere $10 a month and live!"

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Why would he consult Hannity, who is barely able to understand how to form coherent sentences?

Read what you wrote while thinking about Trump's ability to communicate.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure the highlighted bit alone ensures that Hannity is Trump's intellectual superior.

 

[jimbob]

What are the chances that Manafort is willing to go to prison for Trump? I say very low.

Why would he be worried? Trump could just pardon him... as long as he remembers, and as long as he isn't bearing a grudge against him, and as long as he isn't charged under state not federal law?

 

[Apathia]

I know most people say trickle down economics doesn't work but I disagree. The problem is that most people don't think of the meaning of the word "trickle". Say a rich person starts to make $100 dollars more because of tax cuts, and from that $100 a single dollar $1 "trickles" down to the rest of the economy, you can say with a straight face "See trickle down economics works".....

A friend of mine always makes the point that it's obvious "Trickle Down" works.
Every home can now afford such luxuries as air conditioning, TV, and a refrigerator.

 

[Stacko]

.@realDonaldTrump says going to instruct intel agencies to go back and do thorough analysis of Iran behavior /compliance and report back​

"Go back and check again." That sounds so familiar.

 

[Trebuchet]

.@realDonaldTrump says going to instruct intel agencies to go back and do thorough analysis of Iran behavior /compliance and report back​

"Go back and check again tell me what I want to hear." That sounds so familiar.

FTFY

 

[Delphic Oracle]

A friend of mine always makes the point that it's obvious "Trickle Down" works.
Every home can now afford such luxuries as air conditioning, TV, and a refrigerator.

Your friend can't tell the difference between the impact of domestic tax policies and post-WW2 U.S. hegemonic dominance?

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[The Great Zaganza]

A friend of mine always makes the point that it's obvious "Trickle Down" works.
Every home can now afford such luxuries as air conditioning, TV, and a refrigerator.

let me know when "trickle down" achieves a huge mansion, a yacht and private island for every home.

 

[Stacko]

let me know when "trickle down" achieves a huge mansion, a yacht and private island for every home.

Just keep the faith and trickle down will deliver security and prosperity to everyone. We just need to keep cutting rich people's taxes.

 

[Tony Stark]

It is telling that the President feels he has to lie about the fact that his tax cuts will mainly benefit the rich.

 

[Lurch]

About the AccuWeather thing.

I used to work for Environment Canada as a weather tech and briefer, so this hits a bit close to home. Governments the world over set up weather observation networks and forecasting services, pooling data internationally. For decades theirs was the only game in town. Then along come the private firms, initially at least utilizing purely public data paid for by the taxpayers.

I don't know how many private outfits have their own weather station networks (although this is trivial enough nowadays for automated surface observation), radiosonde (balloon) stations and weather satellites. But it's safe enough to say that the bulk of the fundamental data is taxpayer funded.

For these Johnny-come-lately firms to boldly assert some right to claim unfair competition when their product *relies* on said competitor's data riles me mightily.

And once again, Trump installs as agency head an individual who demonstrably has either a conflict of interest or a desire to hamstring the entity ostensibly under his care.

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removed breach of rule 10

 

[Blue Mountain]

I don't know how many private outfits have their own weather station networks (although this is trivial enough nowadays for automated surface observation), radiosonde (balloon) stations and weather satellites. But it's safe enough to say that the bulk of the fundamental data is taxpayer funded.

I also wonder if AccuWeather has any supercomputers for running their weather and forecasting models. Those things are expensive to build, program, run, and maintain.

 

[WilliamSeger]

I also wonder if AccuWeather has any supercomputers for running their weather and forecasting models. Those things are expensive to build, program, run, and maintain.

Nope, the supercomputer models are operated by the U.S. and other governments and institutions, including an EU consortium that has a more accurate model than the one currently produced by NOAA. There are models simple enough to run on a workstation, but they aren't very reliable.

 

[Jim_MDP]

It is telling that the President feels he has to lie about the fact that his tax cuts will mainly benefit the rich.

Worse... that he stridently claims it will be of no benefit, or might even hurt him personally. He's being magnanimous... it's all for "the little guy".

Go ahead, pull the other one.. it's got bells on.

 

[Apathia]

Your friend can't tell the difference between the impact of domestic tax policies and post-WW2 U.S. hegemonic dominance?

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Nope. It's all very simple. The rich get richer and the poor get the Dollar Store.

 

[Apathia]

let me know when "trickle down" achieves a huge mansion, a yacht and private island for every home.

Do you have a smartphone? Praise St. Reagan!

 

[Bob001]

Larry Flynt offers $10 million for the goods on Trump:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ch-trump-larry-flynt-will-pay-you-10-million/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2017/10/LarryFlyntAd.pdf?tid=a_inl

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Do you have a smartphone? Praise St. Reagan!

VERY bad example.
All communication systems rely from the get-go on mass adoption. As Kevin Kelly said: the first fax machine was useless. It only became functional once the second one was bought.
The PC was always aimed at the wider market, not just the very rich or huge companies.

There are very few cases were early adopters paid for products that later became mainstream.
High end photography might be an example, as would be some car parts adopted from proffesional racing (turbo charger).

 

[a_unique_person]

Do you have a smartphone? Praise St. Reagan!

Please explain.

 

[Hlafordlaes]

How about we don't cut taxes to "stimulate the economy" but do it because taxes are theft?

Oh, so true! Time to dismantle the US military. No more State Dept., so no one to ape Big Oil's next "harmless" leaded gasoline scam, either....

Let's speed up this latest libertarian revolution and finally get the freedom all strive for. Private militia, bunkered wealth, and the inevitable return to feudal monarchy we all so dearly wish for.... Wait, didn't those boys tax all their subjects, too? Let me get this right: taxes by the people to support general public welfare (not "charity," rather goods and services) are an evil, while taxes by wealthy landowners on the general public to finance greater privilege are fine and dandy. Yeah, yeah, let's have us a dandy libertarian nightmare, like the one Greenspan lived when he realized all the Objectivist pap he'd sucked up was crap, and those fine self-regulating markets were melting down, needing, OMG, public money. It seems "enlightened free individuals acting in pure self-interest free of all constraint" tend to be complete and utter ********.