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Ayup, here's Trump buying

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:45:31 +0000

Ayup, here's Trump buying influence and Scott Walker working the big donors. New ballgame - get that Defoe fella on the phone...

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57da25b8e4b0071a6e05666b

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57e15070e4b0071a6e098cbc

Rememberwhen politicians had constructive answers to our problems? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dg6yfOpYYY

Trump really is concerned

NCD — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:38:50 +0000

In reply to Ayup, here's Trump buying

Trump really is concerned about your taxes and the deficit, that's why he makes sure his taxes are zero with every scam or tax dodge he can copy or invent.

Only the money has grown

NCD — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:55:47 +0000

In reply to Yeah, it's funny that the

Only the money has grown enormously in size, Daniel Defoe, 1720's:

We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days to spread rumours and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I have lived to see practised since.

Yeah, it's funny that the

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:51:34 +0000

In reply to I have often wondered why

Yeah, it's funny that the most insincere people get loads of credit, and any signs of true altruism or concern are torched. The amount of industrial attack methods generated over the last 15 years or so feels like walking into machine gun fire at the Marne. Public service literally = life in the trenches?

I thought year 2000 was bad enough, but the echo chamber of the internet makes it infinitely worse - there's 0 discussion of any real policy proposal beyond the glibbest terms, and we have this interminable equivalence between dissimilars - with the primaries, it was a first tier global candidate with multiple positions & policies & difficult decisions in positions of relative power over the years vs. a fringe candidate with an outsider's freedom; now it's a candidate with a variety of fraud payouts, bankruptcies, employee abuse, shady dealings, lies and outrageous statements vs. a diplomatic candidate who has a number of admirable achievements continuously assaulted with a myriad of steadily cascading but never verified what-ifs like playing whack-a-mole on an industrial scale. But to make the horserace more profitable (and for personal scorn), the media keeps its thumbs forever on the scales.

I have often wondered why

NCD — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:23:08 +0000

In reply to It must drive folks crazy to

I have often wondered why good people devote their lives to public service, 'public', not service to the Koch brothers. Not only running against the GOP organized crime mob, and even if successful, as with Obama, you must spend your career having insults, obstruction and lies thrown at you, while the TV punditry games the lies as 'both sides positions' to boost controversy, rating$$ and their enormous paycheck$, country be damned. Not only the corporate media, but the fringe internet nutjob media all thrive on controversy, with facts and effective government serving the people well, as the biggest threat to their big paychecks.

It must drive folks crazy to

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 06:12:47 +0000

In reply to 'Nobody got hurt' Libertarian Candidate Johnson on Attacks

It must drive folks crazy to try to please voters in a funk year. Here's the guy who's leading the anything-but-the-two-party-establishment disaffected vote (garnering 8% of the polls at this point):

When Johnson ran for president in 2012, he proposed a 43 percent, across-the-board, single-year federal spending cut, the worst idea proposed by any candidate running for president that year. Even the most ardent balanced-budget fetishists propose doing so over the course of five or 10 years. Johnson’s goal is to do it in one fiscal year, indiscriminately. The single-year spending cut he’s proposing in this year’s run isaround 20 percent, in line with lower annual deficit projections. A 20 percent single-year cut in federal spending would still be an absolute disaster—and yes, he would bring the budget into balance entirely through spending cuts, as he’s barred any tax increases. (Consider, too, what it would mean in the likely event of a recession to have a president who will refuse to enact anything but a balanced budget.) His tax reform plan, meanwhile, is much like Mike Huckabee’s beloved Fair Tax: replace the income tax and payroll taxes with a consumption tax. This would sharply reduce revenue and make the tax code more regressive— “simplify” it, as they like to say. Since we’re talking about young voters here, too, don’t ask Johnson for much help on college tuition. Same goes for your union drive.

Yes, the engineering guy who just pulled off Evil Knievel's Snake River Jump is less suicidal than the leading independent candidate for President. And unlike the Democratic nominee, he doesn't have to pretend to like the questionable free college for all idea - the list of petulant demands has a narrow focus - and if you're not in that rifle scope, planning to abolish the Department of Education does you no harm, along with the huge energy to abolish rich people's student loan debts - yay millennials! Yay disaffecteds!

And remember we were talking about which candidate had the best union support (hint: it wasn't Hillary, despite her endorsement by the leadership of almost every major unions - yep, the unhappy union supporters pivoted to the anti-union candidate. *THAT* will teach them a lesson. Whoever them is).

Is Hillary less trustworthy than the people she's trying to serve? Obviously not.

To quote Richard:

NCD — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:12:12 +0000

In reply to Poor "Marijuana doesn't make

To quote Richard: 'Hahahahahahahahaha'. That's a laugh.

Libertarianized from even short term 24 hour reality. Or maybe that's long term for him....and Trump.

The CNN guy may have been on the same stuff, or be following the MSM Prime Directive to never correct blatant falsehoods.

Poor "Marijuana doesn't make

ocean-kat — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:15:53 +0000

In reply to 'Nobody got hurt' Libertarian Candidate Johnson on Attacks

Poor "Marijuana doesn't make you stupid" Johnson, he's not much of an advertisement for sustained marijuana use. If this is an example of what he's like when he "stopped using marijuana to be knife sharp" one can only wonder what he's like stoned.