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Belz... said:
It's quite simple: this speculation is from people who have no idea who might be nominated, so saying Ivanka could be the next ambassador is misleading.
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Sure it's all speculation. Nobody's stating it as a fact. But Ivanka is already an official federal employee as an Advisor to the President.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/people/ivanka-trump/nd
https://www.politico.eu/article/ivanka-for-un-ambassador-why-not/

And hubby Jared, of course, is a Senior Advisor appointed to bring peace to the Mideast in his spare time.
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-does-jared-kushner-do-in-trump-administration-2017-4

Trump has never stopped running a family business.
 
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Belz... said:
Did you mean that you thought I meant he wanted to start a war? It certainly wasn't.
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I thought you meant that he would start a war, if given half a chance.

You were doing just fine up to that point!
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I was doing fine right up to the point where I disagreed with your assessment?

You were doing fine right up to the point where you didn't bother to read or respond to my reasoning.
 
Bob001 said:
Sure it's all speculation.
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No it's not. As I've pointed out a hundred different times across a dozen different topics "speculation" isn't just random guessing hiding behind "Well it's technically not impossible..."

Unless it's anchored to some real world objective factor it's not speculation, it's writing fan fiction.
 
JoeMorgue said:
No it's not. As I've pointed out a hundred different times across a dozen different topics "speculation" isn't just random guessing hiding behind "Well it's technically not impossible..."

Unless it's anchored to some real world objective factor it's not speculation, it's writing fan fiction.
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She is already a senior administration official who has represented the U.S. at multiple global conferences. If she were not Ivanka, someone in her position would be a plausible candidate for the UN job.
 
Bob001 said:
She is already a senior administration official who has represented the U.S. at multiple global conferences. If she were not Ivanka, someone in her position would be a plausible candidate for the UN job.
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She's not a plausible candidate, but that didn't stop you from citing a bunch of speculation from people who are at least pretending she is.

Why would you even want to be associated with that particular MNSBC article? Or MSNBC in general, really?
 
Bob001 said:
She is already a senior administration official who has represented the U.S. at multiple global conferences. If she were not Ivanka, someone in her position would be a plausible candidate for the UN job.
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After the fact excuses why it's might not not her isn't the same thing as a reason it might be her.
 
TheSupermeerkat said:
Any Trumpers our there want to defend this?
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The Trumpers I know are convinced it is all part of a master plan that Trump laid out during his campaign. Basically, deficit spending at first to fire up the economy, then using all that increased productivity to pay down the debt over a course of years.

I think that assumes a level of understanding of the economy that Trump does not possess. But it seems to play with his base.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
The Trumpers I know are convinced it is all part of a master plan that Trump laid out during his campaign. Basically, deficit spending at first to fire up the economy, then using all that increased productivity to pay down the debt over a course of years.

I think that assumes a level of understanding of the economy that Trump does not possess. But it seems to play with his base.
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And it assumes no federal reserve. You know, since their job is to restrain the type of growth that would be required for such a plan to work.
 
Let's pull hair off the elephant in the room and split it, at this point shouldn't we just drop the pretense that the debt is something we ever plan on paying off?
 
JoeMorgue said:
Let's pull hair off the elephant in the room and split it, at this point shouldn't we just drop the pretense that the debt is something we ever plan on paying off?
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It would have been paid off by now if we had kept the tax policy of Bill Clinton. Not that paying off the debt in its entirety is a good idea.
 
acbytesla said:
Let's pull hair off the elephant in the room and split it, at this point shouldn't we just drop the pretense that the debt is something we ever plan on paying off?
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It would have been paid off by now if we had kept the tax policy of Bill Clinton. Not that paying off the debt in its entirety is a good idea.
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And even if the debt isn't paid off, there is a difference between maintaining a small debt (with little, or even no deficit) which may not totally disappear, and the type of wild, ballooning deficit and debt that the republicans have saddled the U.S. government with.
 
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