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Stacyhs said:
Geez. Stephen Miller is claiming Mattis is "retiring" and not quitting. He is everything I detest in a right wing *******.
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I'm not in the habit of listening to white nationalists' opinions on other people, but does he still have that spray-on hair?
 
From Trump's tirade today:

Every nation has not only the right, but the absolute duty, to protect its borders and its citizens. A nation without borders is a nation not at all. Without borders, we have the reign of chaos, crime, cartels, and — believe it or not — coyotes. I will not surrender this nation to the whims of criminal organizations who prey on the vulnerable, who hurt women and children, and who spread human misery and suffering.
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It is clear from context ("believe it or not") that Trump honestly thought real, literal coyotes are a problem that a wall would stop. He really does not appear to know that "coyote" in this context is one who smuggles immigrants over the border.

Maybe the speechwriter tried to explain it to him, maybe not, but in any case, it didn't stick.
 
phiwum said:
From Trump's tirade today:



It is clear from context ("believe it or not") that Trump honestly thought real, literal coyotes are a problem that a wall would stop. He really does not appear to know that "coyote" in this context is one who smuggles immigrants over the border.

Maybe the speechwriter tried to explain it to him, maybe not, but in any case, it didn't stick.
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I'd say it's a 50-50 chance with Trump. Hmmmm...make that 60-40 that he thinks they're real coyotes.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Trump claiming that the tariffs on China are bringing in tons of money is, shockingly, false:



Linky.
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The tariffs are a ******** all the way around. They clearly were not through through and the implementation is horrendous.

I've spent more than 40 hours going through the paperwork and compiling to submit exemption requests for aluminum, instead of performing audits and improving the QMS system or doing material analysis in the lab. We have to submit an exemption request for every aluminum we buy. Not just every kind of aluminum; every form factor and material change has to be submitted separately. This means that when we get foil in a coil that is .123mm* thick by 107.12405mm wide in our propriety aluminum based on 3003-O, we have to submit a separate form for the one that is .12305mm thick. They might even make us do different ones for different lengths of coil.

This is even true once we have shown that our aluminum is proprietary which is not produced in the US. We even have letters from US manufactures saying that they won't make some of these even if they could, and they can't because it was done with agreement with the Chinese plant.

Did I mention that they are requiring the exact composition to be submitted too? Which, of course, is a trademarked corporate secret. These documents get publicly posted on the docket. I didn't used to know some of the exact compositions of some Nissan steels, but I do as of last Friday! (I want to know how they got away that much manganese, maybe a mistype?)

I have been able to submit twenty requests, out of somewhere between 200-1000 requests we have to do. They didn't do the form well, so I can't even copy/paste most of the information that remains the same (but clever saving gets around that). I figure I'll get them done just in time of the tariffs to change.

*I don't know why I'm using fake numbers here; the real ones are ending up on the docket anyway...

phiwum said:
From Trump's tirade today:



It is clear from context ("believe it or not") that Trump honestly thought real, literal coyotes are a problem that a wall would stop. He really does not appear to know that "coyote" in this context is one who smuggles immigrants over the border.

Maybe the speechwriter tried to explain it to him, maybe not, but in any case, it didn't stick.
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The silly, 'if you're against putting kids in cages and border walls, then you're against absolutely all border controls' thing comes up constantly, but it's just a dumb argument. It doesn't convince most people, but I guess GOPers are down with rule by 25% of the vote...
 
phiwum said:
From Trump's tirade today:



It is clear from context ("believe it or not") that Trump honestly thought real, literal coyotes are a problem that a wall would stop. He really does not appear to know that "coyote" in this context is one who smuggles immigrants over the border.

Maybe the speechwriter tried to explain it to him, maybe not, but in any case, it didn't stick.
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No, he's referring to real coyotes. He's thinking about those dangerous ones with access to Acme bombs and rocket-powered roller skates.
 
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Is it just me, or are some of the rest of you suspicious of Trump's decision to ignore America's allies, America's military and foreign service experts and follow the wishes of Erdogan, the dictator Flynn sold out to and Russia, the country he lied about?

Every time I turn around Trump is doing things for dictators who backed his campaign and crapping on countries that have been our allies for decades.
 
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