Hatred? Nope. How many times do I have to inform you that hatred requires passion, and Trump ain't worth?

Pity? Of course. It's always sad to watch the rubes bent over by the con artist who sold out the United States.

If you still have a landline, and you get a call from a guy with a Russian accent telling you the manufacturer's warranty on your Toyota has expired, and you should renew it with him, I'm betting that's really a coded message to vote for Trump in 2020!

Heheheheheheh

These guys are COMICAL in their hysterical Trump/America hatred, eh? :^D

I like the way you think!

And it’s funny that you are now commenting how mean and hateful everyone who disagrees with you are — one of Trumps bad habits.

I know, right!? What kind of moron would spend an inordinate amount of time on a board full of majority Democrats telling them over and over how hateful they are while spewing his hate toward them in every comment box? Self-awareness is indeed not his strong suit, and projection is his daily hallmark.

You are such a fanboi!

That was such a nice way of calling Michale a "Trump Hump"... which he demonstrably and indubitably happens to be. :)

Re: "Russian hackers penetrated some Florida voter lists . . ."

I've heard that they used to scour American telephone directories before everybody got cellphones. Think how scary that is!!

If you still have a landline, and you get a call from a guy with a Russian accent telling you the manufacturer's warranty on your Toyota has expired, and you should renew it with him, I'm betting that's really a coded message to vote for Trump in 2020!

Noted....

So, you Democrats will join with a foreign enemy and fight against your own President..

How is that any different than what you accuse Trump and his supporters of??

But it's noted that you support China in hurting America to push your Trump/America hating agenda...

"China Loses More From This Trade War
It is vulnerable because it is a much poorer country with more fragile political institutions.

As I said.. China needs us more than we need China.."

China has one ace in the hole. Trump faces re-election. Hear that Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota soybean farmers etc.? Xi Jinping does not.

As I said.. China needs us more than we need China..

No, you really don't..

So, the Russians got a peek at voter lists..

How does that change a single vote???

What did they do with it once they hacked it??

Any FACTS that shows what they did with it??

No, there aren't.. You NEVER have a single FACT to support your hysterical bullshit claims..

NEVER... A.... SINGLE..... FACT....

Yer just another Birther, screaming that the sky is falling..

Russian hackers successfully penetrated the election systems of two Florida counties in 2016

I think that's enough, but I suggest way more investigation. Unlike you, I care.

But why is this? Suddenly, there isn't a Russian that Republicans don't like. It's weird, like you're all hallucinating.

JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday after a meeting with FBI officials that Russian hackers successfully penetrated the election systems of two Florida counties in 2016.

And then what...

What did the "hackers" do once they "penetrated" the system???

Do you have ANY facts that shows what they did??

No, you do not..

As usual, you are big on hysteria and fear-mongering..

And not a SINGLE fact to be found...

Why is that ALWAYS the case????

As opposed to YOUR "whataboutisms" now that you have been thoroughly and utterly DISGRACED on yer Russia Collusion delusion!??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOITkxy18dY

And SHE knows what she is talking about! Because she said we only have 12 years before the planet is destroyed!!!

Gods, the fact that ya'all think Occasional Cortex has ANY credibility??

"Fascinating..."
-Spock, STAR TREK

Joe Biden Defends His Record on Climate Change, Tells Critics to ‘Calm Down’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/14/joe-biden-defends-his-record-on-climate-change-tells-critics-to-calm-down/

Uncle Joe isn't long for the race.... The hysterical radicals of the Left will eat him alive...

Constable Willie West
Lowndes County Constable's Office - Precinct 1, Mississippi
End of Watch: Thursday, May 9, 2019

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Of course, it's a factual statement.

I *ALWAYS* deal in facts..

Unlike ya'all (NEN) who only deal in hate, bigotry, intolerance and bullshit..

And what is so hilarious is that, even though ya'all have **ALWAYS** been wrong in **ALL** your hysterical Trump/America hating predictions..

Ya'all actually believe ya'all have an IOTA of credibility!!

BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOITkxy18dY

Hilarious!!!! :D

Once again, you are completely wrong and the facts PROVE you completely wrong..

Yer simply another Birther who hates without facts or reason...

You know what? This is actually a true statement. You don’t speculate because you do not bother to directly answer most questions posed to you. Instead, you throw up your “what-about-isms” and false comparisons, claim that everyone but you is a slave to party propaganda, and do your best to not actually defend Trump’s actions.

But, once again, you miss one vital point.

Ergo, everything you say and think is suspect..

So everything you say and think about Obama must be suspect, correct? I mean you do not ever refer to him using his actual name. I know you will say that you only do it because everyone does the same thing with Trump...a pussified response if there ever was one, but even as a group we do not come close to doing it to the degree that you do.

And it’s funny that you are now commenting how mean and hateful everyone who disagrees with you are — one of Trumps bad habits. You are such a fanboi!

I don't know and, unlike you, I don't speculate without facts..

But, once again, you miss one vital point.

You hate President Trump with every fiber of your being..

Ergo, everything you say and think is suspect..

I actually read that article. Pretty good, too, if you ignore the author's politics. The author, in fact, gets one thing right off the bat:

To millions of Americans, President Trump is an outlier, an anomaly of sorts. His inflammatory Tweets and extemporaneous “speeches” are troubling, to say the very least. Trump, in the eyes of his detractors, is an atypical assemblage, an erratic unicorn “put together” by a disgruntled populace. To them, the septuagenarian is a jumped-up vulgarian with all the class of a seedy strip club.

Which is spot-on, save for one telling passage. Trump is an "erratic unicorn “put together” by" a team of seasoned professionals, and sold to "a disgruntled populace". There. Fixed it.

Because, for all the hero worship, there is one inconvenient fact here: Trump, from the beginning, was surrounded by guys like Robert Mercer, who has messed around in British politics as well.

Answer this: Kellyanne Conway, former Mercer employee, is still in the White House. Why?

You people are really intent on re-electing President Trump.. :D

Once again.. Do you have any FACTS that says otherwise??

No you do not...

As usual..

No, they're not. There's no evidence of this anywhere in the left media, because they're not worried.

No, there are no facts in the Left Media because they refuse to report it...

But just keep yer head in the sand, Birther.. It will make the frogmarch of the Democrats that much more enjoyable..

What exactly defines an "election system"? Voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet, and are therefore immune to 'hacking'.

My guess is that it likely refers to the registration rolls. So what do you think happened? Maybe the Russians emailed or called the voters and told them not to vote for Hillary? Actually, a helluva lot of people called me and told me to vote for Trump, but I don't recall any of them having Russian accents!

The answer to that question could be awfully embarrassing to the Republicans, in fact.

Good going...

No, they're not. There's no evidence of this anywhere in the left media, because they're not worried.

Sure there wasn't. That's why the FBI is involved. The Russians went in, didn't find anything, and left.

Sure.

BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"This is the investigation that the president has been calling for and that the president has promised," he said. "Who and how, and under what circumstances, did the whole thing get started?"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-napolitano-trump-barr-investigation-us-attorney

Democrats are crappin' their pants.. :D

Bookmark THAT, Birthers.. :D

Of course, you ignore the ONLY relevant part..

NO votes were changed and the outcome of the election was not affected in any way

Do you know how many voter databases were hacked in 2012?? In 2018??? Tons...

Do ya'all care??? Not a bit..

You only care about it in 2016 because YOUR shitty candidate lost..

JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday after a meeting with FBI officials that Russian hackers successfully penetrated the election systems of two Florida counties in 2016.

What would you say?

I'de say if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is...

You ever play the PC Game HOMEFRONT-THE REVOLUTION? :D

BIG downside... HUGE....

Because it was a bad deal... Putting the US in a subservient role to foreigners...

Because it was Obama's deal.

And you don't like the tariffs because they are Trump's tariffs.. YOu LOVED Odumbo's tariffs..

And though it's likely to be just a distraction from what's really going on in the world (see Iran), it's gonna hurt us right before the election.

Facts to support???

We had the TPP. Every Pacific Rim country except China signed it. Over time, China would have had to change or be boxed out of trade.

But Trump tore it up without even looking at it.
Because it was Obama's deal.

Now, see, Trump's trying to accomplish the same without a TPP. Much tougher.

And though it's likely to be just a distraction from what's really going on in the world (see Iran), it's gonna hurt us right before the election. Think about that.

I understand about the "screwing" thing, that means that they buy less from us than we buy from them (an 'unfavorable balance of trade' in economist's lingo), but I've always claimed that attitude makes no sense.

What the 'imbalance' amounts to is , they send us high-quality, relatively inexpensive manufactured goods, representing great expense of labor and material to them, in exchange for little green pieces of paper (dollars) that we can print essentially for free.

That's another way of saying, we can now afford to consume far more hi-quality manufactured goods than we would otherwise have to use, which clearly, raises out standard of living. If that's the kind of screwing you're talking about, I'm saying, "Way to go China, keep ON screwing us every chance you get"!!!

What would you say?

While everyone likely loses the BATTLE, if the battle alters the behavior of one country to the benefit of the other, then I would submit that the WAR is won...

China has for too long been able to screw the US over time and time again and previous Presidents, both D and R let China get away with it..

Thar's a new sheriff in town.. :D

Happy to help.

That's what I like about you.. You clear out all the BS and make economics even someone like me can understand.. :D

And as Adam Smith pointed out 300 yrs ago, the tailor does not produce his own shoes, and the shoemaker does not sew his own suits.

China has an abundance of labor, but a scarcity fertile farmland. The U.S. has a much smaller population, but an abundance of farmland.

From an economist's standpoint, anything that inhibits trade is detrimantal to everybody. Nobody wins trade wars, everybody loses. Law of economics.

Things like 'national defense' issues can complicate the practice of free trade, but nothing changes the laws of economics.

Would you agree that the POTUS imposing the tariffs has NO bearing on the cost/benefit analysis??

Potential harms and benefits need to be carefully weighed against each other before tariffs are imposed. These could include showing disapproval of social or commercial practices, knowing that this disapproval will have a cost.

Not over 2 years, it doesn't.

When are we going to see ANY of the catastrophes ya'all have been promising???

Just because something is slow (according to your perception of it), doesn't mean it is not inexorably and awesomely destructive.

And just because it's President Trump doesn't mean it's awesomely destructive..

Ya'all have ZERO credibility...

"I thought all taxes had to originate in the house. What makes tariffs subject to executive authority?"

[5] Michale wrote:

"I thought all taxes had to originate in the house.

Which explains why Tariffs are not taxes.. :D"

[9] Michale

"No michale, tariffs are indeed taxes.

Well, apparently, they are a different kind of tax. Because, as you say, taxes must originate in the House.."

Tariffs are indeed a TAX.

1) The "Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917" allows the president to hit a nation with tariffs as high as he wants. Under the law, the president can restrict all types of trade "during time of war." That definition is very loose though.

America doesn't have to be at war with a particular nation -- it just has to be "at war" somewhere in the world in order to apply tariffs against other countries.

For example: In 1971, President Richard Nixon used this act to impose a 10% import tariff (not directed at any particular nation) citing the Korean War, which had ended nearly two decades prior. Technically, America was still in a state of emergency which had not lifted.

2) The International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.

It gives the president authority to use tariffs on another country during a "national emergency." Again, defining an emergency is vague. Losing manufacturing jobs to China would suffice as one. Also, courts have never rejected a president's reasoning.

3) The Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Ronald Reagan used this one. It allows the president to slap targeted tariffs on certain industries, like steel. It's not as broad, but Trump can raise tariffs as high as he wants on specific things.

"YAAAWWWNNNNNN

Ya'all have been making the same stale bullshit argument for years now..

AARRRGGGHHHH!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!

And yet, NOTHING ever comes of it.."

Glaciers and Ice Ages, as well as Tsunamis, all take a while to reach their destination, but they all have one thing in common, they overcome and eventually destroy any object in their path, given enough time. Just because something is slow (according to your perception of it), doesn't mean it is not inexorably and awesomely destructive.

Well, apparently, they are a different kind of tax. Because, as you say, taxes must originate in the House..

And it still leaves the unanswered question as to why no one here complained when Obama imposed tariffs on China...

Odumbo imposted tariffs on Chinese tires..

Where was all yer hysterical fear-mongering then??

Here, let me help ya'all out..

"Oh.. well.... er... uh... THAT's different!!"

It always is with Party slaves... :D

And yet, NOTHING ever comes of it..

I mean, think about it people..

For the last 2 plus years, every time Trump imposed tariffs ya'all would scream hysterically about the end of the world..

And it NEVER happens.. There is some short term pain, to be sure, but it's simply undeniable that the US is in a stronger position vis a vis China than Odumbo EVER was able to put us in...

President Trump is doing a GREAT job!!

Which explains why Tariffs are not taxes.. :D

His inquiry is the third known investigation focused on the opening of an F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign into possible ties between Russia’s election interference and Trump associates.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/barr-assigns-us-attorney-in-connecticut-to-review-origins-of-russia-inquiry/ar-AABjF9U

Democrats are running scared... :D

The coming takedown of the Democrat Party is going to be glorious..

Ya'all have been making the same stale bullshit argument for years now..

AARRRGGGHHHH!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!

And yet, NOTHING ever comes of it..