Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

[zooterkin]

As if it wasn't blatant enough already...

Really? I’m pretty sure postal votes in the UK come with postage paid.

 

[Aridas]

Really? I’m pretty sure postal votes in the UK come with postage paid.

This is the US, though, unfortunately. In the primaries here in PA, the one I got did not have postage paid - and I simply didn't have any stamps on hand at the time, for that matter, because I hadn't actually needed any for... many years, honestly. Elsewhere, a state might handle the costs, maybe, but I can say that they weren't for me.

 

[gypsyjackson]

Really? I’m pretty sure postal votes in the UK come with postage paid.

They do. Except for overseas voters, who have to pay their own postage. Sadly my postal vote last December didn’t arrive here until the morning of 12/12.

 

[The Don]

Trump just claimed the record for the most new jobs ever created in three months. These weren't fricking NEW jobs, moron.

True, but this is what I've been saying for a little while, the recession is so deep and that the recovery will likely generate positive headlines like that. President Trump will take no responsibility for the "China Virus" recession and will try to claim all the credit for the recovery.

Just enough people may be gullible enough to believe that, and the October vaccine miracle I'm expecting to allow him to edge some key swing states and hence the Electoral College.

 

[Mojo]

The White House Has ‘Asked About the Process to Add a President to Mount Rushmore’



https://www.politicalflare.com/2020...process-to-add-a-president-to-mount-rushmore/

Have they asked how much it would cost to get it gold-plated?

 

[Lurch]

People who get sucked into Drumpf's tax cut bribes are just stupid. And there's an awful lot of stupid in the US and A when it comes to taxation. Idiots that can't make the connection between public funding of hard infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water service, etc., and provision of services like medical care for retirees and paycheck protection during a pandemic-induced recession/depression. The yankee psyche is warped into seeing taxation as some evil imposed almost from outside of society itself. They seem to think they can enjoy the fruits of a developed society without meaningfully contributing, as though the money for all this comes from some fantastical and never-to-be-contemplated vault, or the tireless, conscience-free printing of cash.

 

[Mojo]

People who get sucked into Drumpf's tax cut bribes are just stupid. And there's an awful lot of stupid in the US and A when it comes to taxation. Idiots that can't make the connection between public funding of hard infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water service, etc., and provision of services like medical care for retirees and paycheck protection during a pandemic-induced recession/depression. The yankee psyche is warped into seeing taxation as some evil imposed almost from outside of society itself. They seem to think they can enjoy the fruits of a developed society without meaningfully contributing, as though the money for all this comes from some fantastical and never-to-be-contemplated vault, or the tireless, conscience-free printing of cash.

“You never have to default because you print the money.”

 

[Ladewig]

People who get sucked into Drumpf's tax cut bribes are just stupid. And there's an awful lot of stupid in the US and A when it comes to taxation. Idiots that can't make the connection between public funding of hard infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water service, etc., and provision of services like medical care for retirees and paycheck protection during a pandemic-induced recession/depression. The yankee psyche is warped into seeing taxation as some evil imposed almost from outside of society itself. They seem to think they can enjoy the fruits of a developed society without meaningfully contributing, as though the money for all this comes from some fantastical and never-to-be-contemplated vault, or the tireless, conscience-free printing of cash.

I’m not sure exactly how many there are, but a certain number seem to subscribe to the DJT philosophy: I’ll be dead before the piper has to be paid, so let’s borrow money like there’s no tomorrow.

Although Cheney verbalized it long before Two-Week Donnie jumped into politics. “Deficits don’t matter.”

Are these folks so selfish that they unhesitatingly load an unplayable debt on their own grandchildren?

 

[Stacyhs]

Really? I’m pretty sure postal votes in the UK come with postage paid.

This is the US, though, unfortunately. In the primaries here in PA, the one I got did not have postage paid - and I simply didn't have any stamps on hand at the time, for that matter, because I hadn't actually needed any for... many years, honestly. Elsewhere, a state might handle the costs, maybe, but I can say that they weren't for me.

All our voting is mail in ballots in Oregon and it's all postage paid so no stamp needed. Nor should it be.

 

[MRC_Hans]

I’m not sure exactly how many there are, but a certain number seem to subscribe to the DJT philosophy: I’ll be dead before the piper has to be paid, so let’s borrow money like there’s no tomorrow.

Although Cheney verbalized it long before Two-Week Donnie jumped into politics. “Deficits don’t matter.”

Are these folks so selfish that they unhesitatingly load an unplayable debt on their own grandchildren?

Look, if you build up too much personal dept, they come and take your furniture, car, etc., but lots of people do that anyway. How can you expect them to understand national deficits, where there are no obvious consequences?

Hans

 

[KDLarsen]

I’m not sure exactly how many there are, but a certain number seem to subscribe to the DJT philosophy: I’ll be dead before the piper has to be paid, so let’s borrow money like there’s no tomorrow.

Although Cheney verbalized it long before Two-Week Donnie jumped into politics. “Deficits don’t matter.”

Are these folks so selfish that they unhesitatingly load an unplayable debt on their own grandchildren?

A philosophy trump without a doubt picked up from his mentor, Roy Cohn. According to Roger Stone (so take it with a heap of salt): "He was interested in power and access. He told me his absolute goal was to die completely broke and owing millions to the I.R.S. He succeeded in that."

 

[alfaniner]

It's barely back to the level it was in Jan 2014, when it was growing steadily in Obama's presidency.

That's gotta smart. Someone ask him about that first thing in the next press conference Trump rally lite. See if he will storm out BEFORE peddling the first line of his bull-****.

The trouble is, he has to go through all his lickspittles before he gets to any reporters who might ask him real questions.

 

[Belz...]

Seems like he was always senile.

 

[Delphic Oracle]

People who get sucked into Drumpf's tax cut bribes are just stupid. And there's an awful lot of stupid in the US and A when it comes to taxation. Idiots that can't make the connection between public funding of hard infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water service, etc., and provision of services like medical care for retirees and paycheck protection during a pandemic-induced recession/depression. The yankee psyche is warped into seeing taxation as some evil imposed almost from outside of society itself. They seem to think they can enjoy the fruits of a developed society without meaningfully contributing, as though the money for all this comes from some fantastical and never-to-be-contemplated vault, or the tireless, conscience-free printing of cash.

Our country was founded on the idea we shouldn't have to carry our own weight.

The numerous attempts to raise taxes on the colonies were to pay off debts incurred in American theater of the recently-concluded war with France.

Now, there was a decade of boondoggles and political ineptitude by those in power (also apt to this metaphor...), but our founding resolve as a nation does kind of boil down to "I want the benefits without paying the price."

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
1. President Trump had no choice but to issue the Executive Orders this afternoon, and given that Obama instituted DACA without legislation and John Roberts seemed okay with that, the president's DOJ will have strong grounds on which to defend them.


Noodle
@USNoodlesA
This amazing American @TheLeoTerrell is on FIRE
Leo on Bidens racist comments: “Blacks are INDIVIDUALS. We don’t vote based on color.”
”Black Americans are waking up. We are not going to vote dem just b/c you tell us!”
”I’m voting for Trump b/c ACCOMPLISHES THINGS!”

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted
I Have Not Yet Begun To Pounce - Brian Cates
@drawandstrike

ADDENDUM:This is 100% correct.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS HIMSELF OPENED UP THE DOOR FOR THIS WITH THAT DACA RULING JUST LAST MONTH.
Remember, TRUMP HIMSELF warned that this gives the President TOO MUCH POWER, if EO's **can't** be reversed by successors.
Quote Tweet

Rob Maness ret
@RobManess
When the Judicial branch didn’t rule the DACA EO unconstitutional they opened the door for today.

 

[Resume]

Sadly, all the people who voted for Trump because he'd "run the country like a business" are getting their wish. He's running it like a business all right, like one of his, which is to say, right into the ground.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Seems like he was always senile.

I think that's his inability to read, more than senility. There's also a clip where he's asked to read a document and he tries to weasel his way out of it with various excuses.

 

[Andy_Ross]

LARRY KUDLOW: The president felt he had to take action on an eviction moratorium.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But his executive order doesn't actually include an eviction moratorium.
KUDLOW: ... look, that's not entirely true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It is true. I just read it.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1292488759502671883. (vid in link)

Kudlow might want to read the Trump memo.
At no time did he State to halt evictions, he stated he would Look into it.

 

[Paul2]

Trump has long railed against colleges as 'indoctrinating' students in 'radical liberal' ideas and threatened to have their tax exempt status revoked. Last month he did so again. Why? Because college educated people are far more likely to vote Democrat than Republican. But why is that? It's not because they're 'indoctrinated' but because they are taught critical thinking skills and to use logic. They are exposed to a wider viewpoint of the world. To different ideas. Unless they go universities like Liberty University where they really are indoctrinated with the Evangelical Christian view.

I'm a college professor, currently teaching. I agree with you in the main, but allow me a few modifications from my standpoint.

Not much formal instruction in critical thinking and logic happens in college: actual classes in critical thinking and logic may be offered but are usually not required. Informally, a lot of instruction in critical thinking and logic (probably more applied, less theoretical) goes on, but there is some instruction in which the opposite of critical thinking happens.

I think the stronger impact comes from general education classes and the general broadening of one's outlook. Students are trained in *beginning* to understand how limited and parochial their perspective can be.