Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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Segnosaur said:
Can't remember seeing this here:

Trump is 'planning' another round of tax cuts (these ones aimed at the middle class) for sometime before November (despite the fact that Republican party leaders don't seem to know anything about it.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...x-cut-plan-may-come-days-before-november-vote

A couple of notes:
- This certainly smells of desperation... they realized the original tax cuts were not popular and Trump wants to keep republicans from losing seats in the mid-terms.

- Of course no word on how exactly that will impact the deficit, which has skyrocketed. (Despite republican claims that the last round of tax cuts would "pay for themselves")
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There's also the part about Congress not being in session to pass said tax cuts. Not that that's stopping Trump from going on about it, even when this was pointed out to him:
REPORTER: You said “lower tax cuts.” You said that you wanted tax cuts by November 1st. Congress isn’t even in session. How is that possible?

TRUMP: No, we’re going to be passing — no, no. We’re putting in a resolution sometime in the next week, or week and a half, two weeks.

REPORTER: A resolution where?

TRUMP: We’re going to put in — we’re giving a middle-income tax reduction of about 10 percent. We’re doing it now for middle-income people. This is not for business; this is for middle. That’s on top of the tax decrease that we’ve already given them.

REPORTER: Are you signing an executive order for that?

TRUMP: No. No. No. I’m going through Congress.

REPORTER: But Congress isn’t in session though.

TRUMP: We won’t have time to do the vote. We’ll do the vote later.

REPORTER: Congress is out.

TRUMP: We’ll do the vote after the election.
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https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1054503698334969863

Another one for the "Trump has no idea how government actually works"-file.
 
KDLarsen said:
There's also the part about Congress not being in session to pass said tax cuts. Not that that's stopping Trump from going on about it, even when this was pointed out to him:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1054503698334969863

Another one for the "Trump has no idea how government actually works"-file.
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But credulous supporters lap it up. See here:
http://conservativepoliticalforum.c...-for-middle-income-americans-before-november/

With thanks to Ranb’s thread here:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=332728
 
KDLarsen said:
And no thanks to the US media who are running headlines of Trump promising tax cuts, with no mention of how he has no way of passing them. In the Twitter thread I linked to above, someone linked a collage of headlines.
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Further evidence, for anyone who's not blinding themselves, that the MSM isn't actually all that "liberal" and isn't rabidly anti-Trump, no matter how much the right-wingers like to scream about how biased they are because they don't swallow Republican party propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

Speaking of that, though...

Recently, a former “senior and executive producer of the 700 Club“ admitted in several national publications that with and through The 700 Club together with CBN News and “TV Journalism With A Different Spirit,” these Christian leaders systematically attacked and exploited the word “liberal,” in the 1980s (and I suspect in the late 1970s and 1990s as well). This former executive producer asserts that “we exploited attacking the press in order to insert ourselves to the right of everybody else in presenting a Biblical, a.k.a. Republican perspective on current events. We offered a daily news program that expressed Republican Party talking points that we marketed as a Christian worldview. Thus began the shifting of evangelicals to the GOP and the shifting of the GOP to the right. We served as the intellectual wing of the Moral Majority, although there was no theological love lost between Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.”
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Oh, and separately, it might be worth noting that a bomb was sent to George Soros' house.

Law enforcement officials responded to an incident at the home of liberal billionaire George Soros on Monday evening, an officer with the Bedford, New York, police department told HuffPost.

A Soros employee opened a package containing an explosive device and called police Monday afternoon, prompting bomb squad technicians to come detonate it, The New York Times reported.
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Also of some note, since I don't see it pointed out much...

While Soros foes cast him as an unabashed leftist, his defenders note that his focus has been on the rule of law. Conservatives, including his chief international critic Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, have benefited from his largesse.
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Chances of a "conservative" stirred up by moronic conspiracies being the one who sent the bomb? Pretty friggin high.
 
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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1054438586840506368

MIND BOGGLING STUFF

•Saudi Crown Prince’s Advisor Al Qahtani was beamed into a room of the consulate via Skype.
•Insulted at Khashoggi over the phone.
• Turkish intel source: At one point Qahtani told his men to dispose of him. "Bring me the head of the dog",

(Reuters)

The Arab source and the Turkish intelligence source told Reuters that the audio of the Skype call is now in the possession of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
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https://twitter.com/Baghdads0n/status/1054440446372470785

Just a reminder:

Al Qahtani affirmed he doesn’t do anything without orders from #MbS:

https://twitter.com/saudq1978/status/898273541367451648?s=21 …
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Slings and Arrows said:
What others (Antifa/Democrats) are saying:

"Everyone in the US: start shooting fascists now.

"I repeat: it's time to start shooting the bastards, America. You have reached the stage at which little time remains to stop the momentum and the humanitarian cost of civil war no longer clearly exceeds that of not doing so."

-- Andre (Oct 21, 2018)​


"That's what this new Democratic Party is about." -- Eric Holder
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Not bad, Slings. I have to give you points for trying to give the impression that the second quote is a response to the first.

Wake me up when this sort of vigilante sentiment becomes commonplace.
 
KDLarsen said:
And no thanks to the US media who are running headlines of Trump promising tax cuts, with no mention of how he has no way of passing them. In the Twitter thread I linked to above, someone linked a collage of headlines.
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And that's the problem with Trump: you can't ignore him, so you end up playing his game and making mistakes. He wins if you don't address him, and he wins if you do.
 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-reason-they-hate-trump-1540148467

Not that every leftist hates America. But the leftists I know do hate Mr. Trump’s vulgarity, his unwillingness to walk away from a fight, his bluntness, his certainty that America is exceptional, his mistrust of intellectuals, his love of simple ideas that work, and his refusal to believe that men and women are interchangeable. Worst of all, he has no ideology except getting the job done. His goals are to do the task before him, not be pushed around, and otherwise to enjoy life. In short, he is a typical American—except exaggerated, because he has no constraints to cramp his style except the ones he himself invents.
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He's not right, but he's not wrong.

Personally I do find people who embody the qualities described here to be insufferably grating. Their personal and professional lives being a flaming train wreck of insipid drama and otherwise easily-avoided calamities just tend to confirm my initial suspicions.

Also, gotta love an anti-intellectual screed from a Yale grad who writes for WSJ.
 
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