Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

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ponderingturtle said:
Does it talk about punishing the kids of alcoholics by cutting off health care to their sick children?
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If those kids hadn't let their parents become alcoholics in the first place, they'd have nothing to worry about.

ETA: Sorry forgot about that episode. As in most episodes it was settled out of court.
 
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US President Donald Trump has declared the nation's painkiller-addiction crisis a public health emergency.

The president has previously promised to declare a national emergency, which would have triggered federal funding to help states combat the drug scourge.

The move instead redirects grant money to be used in dealing with the crisis.

Mr Trump is signing a presidential memorandum directing his acting health secretary to declare a nationwide public health emergency and ordering all federal agencies to take measures to reduce the number of opioid deaths.

The order will also ease some regulations to allow states more latitude in how they use federal funds to tackle the problem.

But the White House plans to fund the effort through the Public Health Emergency Fund, which reportedly only contains $57,000 (£43,000).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41756705
 
Captain_Swoop said:
US President Donald Trump has declared the nation's painkiller-addiction crisis a public health emergency.

The president has previously promised to declare a national emergency, which would have triggered federal funding to help states combat the drug scourge.

The move instead redirects grant money to be used in dealing with the crisis.

Mr Trump is signing a presidential memorandum directing his acting health secretary to declare a nationwide public health emergency and ordering all federal agencies to take measures to reduce the number of opioid deaths.

The order will also ease some regulations to allow states more latitude in how they use federal funds to tackle the problem.

But the White House plans to fund the effort through the Public Health Emergency Fund, which reportedly only contains $57,000 (£43,000).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41756705
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Ooh, does that mean he'll end the war on drugs, too?
 
BobTheCoward said:
Even more silly, that is based on increased capital investment caused by lower corporate tax rates.
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Thirty-five years of abject failure and still the same projections. As Galbraith said, in economics being wrong doesn't matter as long as you're wrong in the conventional way.

In my opinion (and I suspect yours) these tax-cuts will result in yet more conspicuous consumption, asset inflation at the luxury end, corporate expansion by acquisition rather than capital investment, and accumulation.

Trump's Gilded Age : best Gilded Age ever.
 
Spindrift said:
What disputes between Trump and the Republican party were there?

And I said "besides the election" which does include the primaries but if that's all you've got please give examples.
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I only have one : to get accepted as a candidate Trump pledged not to run as an independent if he lost the primaries, and then during the primaries promised to do just that. He could have been removed from contention at that point if the GOP had any gumption, but wasn't.

This is not surprising given the GOP's pansy-assed response to blatant entryism by the Kochs and Murdoch through the Tea Party, let alone their mealy-mouthed commitment to Christian Values because it brings in the votes.

The GOP is a decrepit institution : any capable businessman presented with it would break it down for parts and move on.
 
Armitage72 said:
I guess we know who's next on the chopping block. An underling more popular than he is? Completely unacceptable.
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Kelly stepped-up to defend Trump against that Gold Star family, which accounts for 38 of his 42%, and the other Four, just four, hardly any, is down to the military vote, and Trump would so have been in the military if it hadn't been for prolapsed heels or ankle-bite or what ever it was he had, not VD though, anyway he's standing by this guy.
 
CapelDodger said:
Kelly stepped-up to defend Trump against that Gold Star family, which accounts for 38 of his 42%, and the other Four, just four, hardly any, is down to the military vote, and Trump would so have been in the military if it hadn't been for prolapsed heels or ankle-bite or what ever it was he had, not VD though, anyway he's standing by this guy.
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Goldstar families only matter if they are white.
 
Trump says the drug crisis is caused by cheap Chinese Fentanyl.
He will mention it when he is in China next week and Xi Jinping will do something about it.

So, that's all right then.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
[sidetrack] From Google search
Imply and infer are opposites, like a throw and a catch. To imply is to hint at something, but to infer is to make an educated guess. The speaker does the implying, and the listener does the inferring. {/quote]
It's a bit tricky. It requires I think about it a bit more.
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That's a good analogy. Thanks, SG.
 
Spindrift said:
It was a very special episode of Mr. Trump Destroys America where he tells us about his poor unfortunate brother Fred the alcoholic and how if we can just get people not to start taking opioids then we wouldn't have a problem. This episode was brought to you by Purdue Pharma, makers of Oxycontin Nancy Reagan.
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I think that is a better analogy. But it's a dumb statement, what ever analogy you use.
 
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