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The Trump Presidency VII

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Segnosaur said:
All I can say is... HA HA!

From: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/22/trump-millennial-supporters-washington-dc-218833
...we interviewed more than 30 millennial staffers from the Trump White House and across the administration...They told us their horror stories about being heckled on the street and their struggles to get a date.
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“Trump supporters swipe left”—meaning “don’t even bother trying”—might be the single most common disclaimer on dating app profiles in Washington. One beleaguered 31-year-old female administration official described at length her “very, very frequent” scraps with her matches on dating apps. “You do the small talk thing, and you have a very good conversation, and then they might say, ‘You didn’t vote for Trump, right?’” she says. “As soon as I say, ‘Of course I did,’ it just devolves into all-caps ‘HOW COULD YOU BE SUCH A RACIST AND A BIGOT?’ And ‘You’re going to take away your own birth control.’

Who knew that being happy that there's an unrepentant con-artist bigot in the white house would make someone less desirable?

It reminds me of earlier articles that showed similar experiences, not with Trump staffers but with the general population, with Trump supporters usually getting the brush-off from people who don't like racism.
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This isn't news, either - except the part about how "Washington is a hipper city now than it’s ever been", which identifies the article's writers as white political wannabes. Washington may be "hiP" now, but there's always been much to celebrate in DC...

But their boss specifically and repeatedly insulted literally everyone in the area - either they're swamp monsters, rapists, or mysteriously "not American". And he specifically promised to make all of their lives worse - and has acted on those promises in many cases. And you moved from wherever specifically to help him do this. How're you going to go out of your way to show everyone that you hate them, and then expect them to like you for it?

But there is hope on dating sites like okkkupid and plentyoffacsists - or they can just go **** themselves.
 
Donnie's open bigotry against immigrants of all stripes is beginning to remind me of Daniel Day Lewis in "Gangs Of New York".
 
Mumbles said:
This isn't news, either - except the part about how "Washington is a hipper city now than it’s ever been", which identifies the article's writers as white political wannabes. Washington may be "hiP" now, but there's always been much to celebrate in DC...

But their boss specifically and repeatedly insulted literally everyone in the area - either they're swamp monsters, rapists, or mysteriously "not American". And he specifically promised to make all of their lives worse - and has acted on those promises in many cases. And you moved from wherever specifically to help him do this. How're you going to go out of your way to show everyone that you hate them, and then expect them to like you for it?

But there is hope on dating sites like okkkupid and plentyoffacsists - or they can just go **** themselves.
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Just substitute "Irish" for "Hispanics" and it's little different then the Know Nothings of the 1850's.
 
Trebuchet said:
Nitpick: That's not a sales list, it's a list of the cars with the highest percentage of American content.
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You are correct. And I apologize for framing it improperly.

I had to look to make sure you were considering Chrysler as a foreign company, since it hasn't been an American one in a very long time. You were.
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Nitpicks aside, the general point remains the same, and valid. Lots of "foreign" cars are made in the U.S. And lots of "American" cars aren't, quite so much.

Making Trump's efforts to protect American car companies from foreign competition by using tariffs rather problematic. Are Fiat and Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, Mercedes, and BMW American companies by virtue of having production facilities in the U.S.?

It is an interesting question, and not one addressed by Trump's trumpeting of the efficacy of his tariffs to protect American companies.

Viewed from the perspective of how much of the vehicle is actually American made the question becomes much more uncomfortable for the Nativist demagogues preaching protectionism.
 
Absolutely. The nitpick even make it more ridiculous.
I've probably got the window sticker somewhere from our 2016 Pilot. I should look for it and see how much US content it says.
And the Europeans needn't retaliate against American cars, since they have better sense than to buy those anyhow. They can just hit Boeing airplanes. Or Trump wine.
 
Is this a surprise?
Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election was greatest in the counties with the highest rates of chronic prescription opioid use, according to a new study published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.

The study found that Trump received about 39 percent of the 2016 vote in the 638 counties with the lowest rates of long-term (90-day supply or more) Medicare opioid prescriptions but about 60 percent of the vote in the 693 counties with the highest rates of long-term opioid use. All told, on a scale from zero to 100, where zero indicates no correlation and 100 indicates perfect correlation, the relationship between chronic opioid use and the 2016 presidential vote scored a 42.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-of-painkiller-use-study-finds/?noredirect=on
 
NoahFence said:
I think it's pretty clear, isn't it?

Brown = bad. Must PUNISH!
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Probably not. It's probably more along the line of "We shouldn't have been helping those people in the first place, our tax dollars should be helping us!" which I've definitely heard before.

Trump is absurdly bad when it comes to even maintaining foreign influence, either way.

Craig4 said:
No one smart enough to understand the complexities of the immigration issue still works in the Whitehouse.
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That's an unlikely and rather hard to support statement. That Trump probably doesn't listen very well to or care about any who do, on the other hand, is much easier to defend.

Skeptic Ginger said:
"feature"?:confused:

You mean promoting Trump?
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Looked like "Embarrassment" was the unsupported feature to me.
 
Aridas said:
Probably not. It's probably more along the line of "We shouldn't have been helping those people in the first place, our tax dollars should be helping us!" which I've definitely heard before.

Trump is absurdly bad when it comes to even maintaining foreign influence, either way.



That's an unlikely and rather hard to support statement. That Trump probably doesn't listen very well to or care about any who do, on the other hand, is much easier to defend.



Looked like "Embarrassment" was the unsupported feature to me.
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Oh come on. Look at the scum in that building. Do you really think any of the best and brightest are still associating themselves with the administration. They went to recruit at a *********** job fair last week. Who ever heard of a presidential administration recruiting at a job fair? https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/13/white-house-hill-job-fair-645592

Presidential administrations have to fight off job seekers with a stick (the real ones anyway). No one with any talent wants to be associated with this administration. You're right that he wouldn't listen to sound advice but there is no sound advice to be had anymore.
 
Segnosaur said:
Although I wonder if it can hint at something more serious; the comments from Cohen's wife, the suggestion that Cohen acted 'tired' of dealing with Trump...
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Yeah, it's a little more evidence of the same kind that's been coming out for a month or two. Basically, the more independent stories there are along the lines of Cohen being willing to go against Trump, the more likely it is that there's some basis of truth to them.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
George Will is one of the few conservatives that actually uses his brain and hasn't gone for the mindless version.
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There's nothing wrong with being a conservative. It just means you have a different idea of the role of government in society. You can be a conservative and still be loyal to your country. You just can't be a Trump supporter and be loyal to the country.
 
Craig4 said:
Who cares? If he can produce the long hinted at "N" word video and drop it in the last week of October, I'll buy him the coolest hookah pipe I can find.
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At this stage I fear it would enhance his popularity. The racists will openly applaud it, and many more may not be happy but will "respect" his plain speaking :mad:
 
Craig4 said:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...-apologizes-for-barron-trump-tweet-newday.cnn

Okay this is just wrong on every possible level. Physical violence should never be part of politics in this country. I recognize people get emotional about Trump but the minor children and family members not part of the campaign/administration should be off limits. Let Trump be the one using force to break up families.
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The issue has already been discussed on this forum (here or in another thread). Most posters said the same thing: it was a wrong thing to say, but Fonda is a private citizen with no political power (who ended up apologising).

Compare that to (for example Ted Nugent) who has said some truly contemptible things: calling Obama subhuman mongrel, Hillary a toxic (lady part), yet campaigned with trump, represents the NRA, and visited the Whitehouse (honors never given to Fonda). Perfect illustration of hypocrisy.

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The Don said:
At this stage I fear it would enhance his popularity. The racists will openly applaud it, and many more may not be happy but will "respect" his plain speaking :mad:
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But you have to look at the swing states. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Those were thin margins. You don't have turn off his base; it's the lesser of two evils voters and Obama voters who didn't show up for Clintom you have to speak to.
 
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