Yes, Trump's MOVE was moronic and irrelevant..

Not the Transgendered themselves..

You tried to make it looking like I was calling the TGs moronic and irrelevant and you failed miserably...

which are Don Jr.’s and Eric’s Secret Service codenames, BTW

Facts to support??

Of course you don't.. Just more bullshit from you..

, which there is no evidence that he did that intentionally, served as a distraction

The evidence is ya'all's reaction... Ya'all were HYSTERICAL about it and talked about it for WEEKS!!!

It was the subject of SEVERAL commentaries..

So again, how are my comments a straw man response?

With extra froth!!! :D

Now if they could just enjoy an icy cold pint of shut the fuck up and stay on subject... things would be peachy.

yea.. if only.. :D

But I addressed your on topic question and you ignored it..

So, I axe you?? Why bother???

Now if they could just enjoy an icy cold pint of shut the fuck up and stay on subject... things would be peachy.

You don't care when DumboBots change the subject..

Awesome job...CW had picked a boring subject anyway, so why not change it.

None..

How many times did Republicans tell their supporters to organize an angry mob and find Obama officials where ever they are and harass them...

ZERO...

Face reality.. Your Democrats are out of control and are exercising the HODGKISON option..

And you frakin' support that!

Shame...

Your Democrat Party is on the ropes and are so desperate the ONLY action they can take is to encourage Democrat drones to organize angry mobs and attack government workers whose SOLE crime is doing their jobs..

How utterly pathetic has your Demcorat Party become..

Live with that...

Oh what a complete load of bullshit..

That is all ya'all DID during the Odumbo years is blame Republicans for YOUR Democrat Party failures...

Yer not even TRYING to hide yer bullshit anymore.. :D

And yet managed to still pass all of Obama's Great Recession recovery bills, including TARP, the Auto bailout, the Ledbetter Act and then top it with the American Care Act, just to name a little of the better-known legislation that passed during those days. They accomplished alot.

You must be talking about the post-2010 Obama years, after the Republicants took the Senate, and progress was reduced to naming Post Offices, all thanks to "Senator No", and I don't even have to name him because it's that obviously true.

Sen. No apparently thinks that nothing has to happen during this administration either, although I've heard that the WH isn't exactly helping, pushing congress to focus on the backlog of confirmations, rather than waste their time legislating, which will hence be done from Trump's Laz-y-boy in the morning.

Democrats aren't blaming Republicans for democratic failures. We're blaming Republicants for their own failures, both to themselves and to the rest of their countrymen, who have been seriously misled and endangered by this administration.

Just like when Odumbo had a complete LOCK on the government, including a Filibuster proof Senate, Democrats STILL blamed all their failings on Republicans..

What's yer point??

This is why your Democrats are going to lose and lose big.. :D

1. Complete misuse of the word 'pinko' in the first sentence, which term originally refers to communist sympathizers. Or he's oblivious to the fact that most of the Russians Trump loves so much are former Communist apparatchiks. I think he thinks it means 'gay', since he also refers to 'sissies' later.

2. the First Amendment has hitherto unknown asterisks - As usual, Schlichter has it backwards: it's conservatives who have bent the first amendment to suddenly include corporate entities and Christian wedding cake bakers in its penumbra of protection.

3.that a bunch of other rights that aren’t in the Constitution actually are - I can't think of any actual examples, and apparently neither can he.

4. that the Second Amendment stuff about not infringing on our right to keep and bear arms really means libs can totally infringe on our right to keep and bear arms - again, no examples because there aren't any. Unless he has a fear of background checks, wants a bump stock for his AR15, or has a history of mental illness, he has nothing to fear from liberals who have totally caved, for the most part, on the gun issue. We still have a mass murder and/or unarmed black kid shot every week. Winning!

5. Let’s leave aside our booming economy and crushing ISIS - good idea, since conservatives had little or nothing to do with either.

6. pulling out of the climate scam and maybe peace with North Korea... Quick: name two things Trump has done that have had absolutely no consequences in the real world. Oh, you just did.

7. Just these two Supreme Court picks makes Trump the most important and successful conservative president since The Big R. Reagan only seated one justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, and she turned out to be a moderate. Good comparison, though, because it looks like Gorsuch could become a moderate if he keeps drinking coffee with Roberts. Just sayin..

8. And we wouldn’t have any of it if that nattering pack of insufferable sissies had had their way. Thought that conservatives hate name-calling? Joking, of course - they love it when it isn't directed at them. I'd love to seem him call John Tester a sissy to his face, though.

And consider: even when Republicants control all of the U.S. government from the state level to the federal, they still blame their failure to launch legislation on the 'nattering sissies' they despise so much.

Maybe he should try a different derisive term.

WOW!! You must REALLY be tired from kicking the shit of the strawman you just created..

Hope you didn't strain something...

What FACTS? As usual, your facts aren’t factual.

He puts out something moronic and irrelevant (like the acronym, like coffeve, like transgenders in the military)

Transgender servicemen and servicewomen are moronic and irrelevant ??? Not even trying to hide how big of a bigot you truly are, are you?

Man Assaulted Secret Service Officer Outside White House After Immigration Rally: Feds
https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Man-Assaulted-Secret-Service-Officer-Outside-White-House-After-Immigration-Rally-Feds-487224761.html

Another hysterical Left Winger took Mad Maxine's advice to heart... :^/

Heh... It's funny cuz it's true.. :D

What was it that Mad Maxine Waters said??

Oh yea.. Get an angry mob together and push back against Trump supporters...

Well, looks like hysterical Democrats are doing just that...

Ahhh yes.. The peaceful and tolerant Demcorat Party...

Looks like desperation is seeping in to their equation..

Yea... That's your claim..

But the FACTS say otherwise..

I’m sure it was a well planned strike by terrorists even though Disney World was only 20 minutes away!

Yea.. And security at Disney World is identical to the security at the Pulse nightclub...

Jeeessuss... Do you give your brain when you become a Democrat???

Thank you so much for the articles on the #WalkAway movement! I had a bet going with some friends on who could find the best bullshit propaganda claiming that the gay community was moving towards supporting Trump, and you found it! The few remaining Log Cabin Republicans that I know don’t even support Trump, and he has done absolutely nothing to win anyone else in the gay community over. BTW, the whole “blame foreign Muslims for the Orlando shootings” is a riot! I’m sure it was a well planned strike by terrorists even though Disney World was only 20 minutes away!

Re your link to the "Your Roll as a Milk Cow" thing.

The author gets it all correct except the villain - He claims it's the doing of the evil banks/bankers. Not true at all. Currency inflation (resulting in price inflation) is wholly the doings of the federal government (by means of the central bank (what we in the U.S. call the "Federal Reserve" bank).

See Milton Friedman's analysis of all money-related stuff in his "Free to Choose" series, by far the most wisdom ever assembled in one place on the subject.

"Now, I don't care WHO you are, that right thar is funny as hell, I tell yooo waaat!!"
-Larry The Cable Guy

heh

This one is for you... :D

https://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gv062418dAPR20180625044539.jpg

Heh

If we had listened to Never Trump, we’d have voted for Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit and we would not only have Merrick Garland (or worse) on the SCOTUS but now she’d be picking another pinko who agrees with the lib bloc that the First Amendment has hitherto unknown asterisks that prevent conservatives from using it, that a bunch of other rights that aren’t in the Constitution actually are, and that the Second Amendment stuff about not infringing on our right to keep and bear arms really means libs can totally infringe on our right to keep and bear arms. Let’s leave aside our booming economy and crushing ISIS and pulling out of the climate scam and maybe peace with North Korea. Just these two Supreme Court picks makes Trump the most important and successful conservative president since The Big R. And we wouldn’t have any of it if that nattering pack of insufferable sissies had had their way.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/07/02/draft-n2496373

Ya just gotta love Kurt Schlichter.... :D

With the President grossly misusing ICE and the agency broken beyond repair, I'm proposing legislation to abolish the agency.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/02/opinions/we-must-abolish-ice-pocan/index.html

TONS of Democrats are calling to abolish ICE...

I get it.. I completely understand why ya'all would want to disavow that Democrats en masse are calling for ICE to be abolished...

It's a deal breaker that will cause Democrats to lose and lose BIG in November...

But make no mistake. The call to abolish ICE is mainstream Democrat Party...

"I proposed exploring a universal deal (involving) development projects that would create jobs in Mexico and, by doing so, reduce migration and improve security," he added.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexicos-amlo-offers-migration-cuts-trump-call-192528451.html

So... Sooo... SO... much winning.. :D

His assessment of the Democrats: “From immigration to everything, they are just a disaster. “They’re anti-American, anti-common sense, rational -- anything good, they’re against it.”
http://www.theepochtimes.com/viral-walk-away-videos-highlight-growing-movement-of-democrats-leaving-the-party_2578446.html

Every where Democrats turn, they are losing, losing and losing some more...

Democrats having a rosy outlook for November and still believing that a Blue Wave is in the works??? Well, that's just delusional...

Lea Anna Bright, in a mohawk, looks into the camera and says in a slow, simmering voice: “This is a Vice article I am reading right now. It says, ‘The activist left doesn’t give a shit about your calls for civility. Get ready for a summer of rage.’” She looks up. “This is where the party is going, and this is why I chose to walk away. Peace. Not for me. Bye.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/trump_is_winning_over_blacks_hispanics_millennials_and_even_gays.html#ixzz5KBIqLGGv

And, as is becoming extremely evident, Democrats can't even hold on to core Democrat voters!! They are all becoming part of the #walkaway campaign..

So, yea, Democrats.. Continue to attack and vilify and demonize swing voters and Trump supporters..

But don't come crying to me in November when Democrats are handed their asses.. AGAIN... :D

"Go and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitchin' to me.."
-Billy Joel, BIG SHOT

:D

But it's OK... Democrats don't need swing voters.. They'll get by and win with just Democrats voting.. :D

I honestly and truly hope Democrats believe that.. :D

I have ask....

If Trump... excuse me.. PRESIDENT Trump is so god-awful and totally and utterly incompetent...

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/89ab4d4c1677e2515dd6f6c5b3d32772ed56f3ffe6202fd5c6f65e4188ce10a4.jpg

Why are his poll numbers comparable, and oft times BETTER than Obama's???

And I KNOW ya'all won't dispute the polls because ya'all LIVE (and apparently die :D ) by the polls..

Heh

Yea.. They can have Venezuela help them!!!

BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

'nuff said.. :D

https://internationalman.com/articles/inflation-your-role-as-a-milk-cow/

Personally, I disagree with this analysis, because it isn't just the total number of "currency units" but the velocity of those units and other factors (i.e. the value of assets and the creation of new assets that also are measured in "currency units" which also affect the total number of "currency units" beyond just the total count of physical currency, etc.).

I also think that as human beings we have an internal mental ratchet that allows us to accept increasing prices, but are unnerved by decreasing prices. I believe this comes from our aversion to loss - the experiments of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman uncovered that it takes $2 of upside to compensate for $1 downside. If you are unfamiliar with the work of Tversky and Kahneman I recommend Kahneman's book "Thinking Fast and Slow" as well as “The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds,” by Michael Lewis (of "The Big Short" fame).

I believe we are programmed to be comfortable with gently rising prices, and so are comfortable with inflation (i.e. price increases in today's terms) but recoil from deflation - as the article I linked to above shows, if prices rise, but our income also rises, even if by the same or less, we feel richer, but if we have a pay cut, even if prices drop more and we are effectively better off, we don't feel it.

I analyze my spending, net worth, etc in spreadsheets that span 20 years into the past (to the dismay of my wife I know how just about every dollar has been spent) and I also run a mirror version of the spreadsheet adjusted for constant current dollars to remind myself of the real value of money. Few people are as detailed (my wife uses a very different word) as I am.

Confusing the picture even more is that people tend to anchor prices of key goods at particular points in their life, e.g. the price of a candy bar when they are 10, the cost of a gallon of gas when they are 18, the cost of a new car when they are 25 or a house when they are 35, etc.

Humans completely mess up the logical theories of great systems of ideas, and this is the core of my discomfort with both Communism and Libertarianism.

Mexico and the EU have been turning to South America to fulfill their needs. China is also following suit and coincidentally expanding the invites to play in RCEP.

As these contracts kick in and South America keeps prices low it is certain these commodities will not recover for quite sometime. I guess we can expect even further consolidation and even more subsidies for the big factory farmer.

In the meantime I guess we will end up paying for it in increased food prices, less selection, and the farmers will make even less as they condense into the factory system.

I used to have Harley-Davidson as a customer and I worked in the basement of the original factory where their IT department was based back in the day (you have to duck your head to avoid the pipes down there when you are my height). Great people and I loved working with them. I'm really sorry that they will suffer from this idiotic trade war and I hope they pull through intact.

Trump, and I suppose his supporters, think that might is right, and that our economy is the largest so we can push other economies around. This is so facile that it is absurd somebody who was voted in as President needs to learn this the hard way. There are plenty of actions we can take to level the playing field with China, and all of them involve isolating them by building partnerships.

1. Short term: Build partnerships with other large economies - the E.U., South America, and India to stop China from picking other economies and our companies off one-by-one

2. Mid-Term: Build a trade pact with emerging economies that can compete with China in their areas of strength (excellent internal supply chains and cheap labor) - the TPP was an excellent treaty, and also built in intellectual property protection to help the U.S.

3. Long-term: Invest in the poorest economies to bring them into the U.S. economic sphere - a little investment plus some preferential treatment for key local industries on generous terms today will pay us back 10x-100x in the future.

This is a very basic strategy that should be simple for Washington to develop.

Go back and re-read my first paragraph. Your response epitomizes my appraisal of the situation to the proverbial "T"!

Hell no, standard of living is not "determined by import/export ratio", it's determined by how much you consume!

Who defines "basic", and "comfortable"? Actually, every country in the world can "exist" without international trade, but when was anybody content with "exist"?

Standard of living being determined by import/export ratio? OK, I’ll play along:

Doesn’t this depend on what it is that you import and export? If a country has all the basic resources needed to live comfortably in excess, it can export what it doesn’t need and doesn’t have to rely on imports.

The very concept of a "balance of trade" being "favorable" if you export more than you import, or "unfavorable" if you import more than you export, has its origins in long-ago times when the world operated on what you could call the 'gold standard', meaning if your exports exceeded the value of your imports, you were entitled to collect the difference in gold from the debtor country, or if you imported more than you exported, you had to send some of your gold abroad to make up the difference.

For some unfathomable reason, it never occurred to anybody that if you exported more than you imported, you wound up with less goods to consume, meaning a LOWER STANDARD OF LIVING! What the hell is "favorable" about a lower standard of living???

As Milton Friedman pointed out, you cannot eat gold, but still everybody thought it was better to have less food to eat, less clothes to wear, etc. provided you had more gold in your vaults!

But for many years now, virtually nobody settles international accaounts with gold. That job has been taken over by and large by the U.S. dollar. Therefor, it should be obvious that the more we import AND export, with, hopefully, some degree of reasonable balance, the better off ALL nations are.

Nowadays however, the economically simple-minded worry about the displacement of workers (loss of jobs) that can arise from importing more than you export, but that is nonsensical. Erecting trade barriers to protect domestic jobs is insane. The whole nation would be better off putting a couple hundred displaced steelworkers on permanent unemploymnet rather than having all the rest of the 225 million of us paying more for everything we buy that contains steel.

Trump is WAY to dumb to grasp any of that. We have to hope that congress is not equally dumb.

I'm happy to report the stew did not burn - but it was near run thing.

This is one of those days.

:-)

-CW