pacino wrote:Matt Yglesias calls it 'playing president'. Trump wants to play president while Bannon and Priebus be president. That governing stuff is too complicated.

“This was a mission that was started before I got here. This was something they wanted to do,” Trump said. “They came to me, they explained what they wanted to do ― the generals ― who are very respected, my generals are the most respected that we’ve had in many decades, I believe. And they lost Ryan.”

JUburton wrote:im just really happy to be here with you guys on the day that terrorism ended by calling it radical islamic terrorism.

The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trump’s political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work, according to several people familiar with the arrangement. The agreement to compensate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele came as U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election by orchestrating hacks of Democratic Party email accounts. While Trump has derided the dossier as ‘fake news’ compiled by his political opponents, the FBI’s arrangement with Steele shows that the bureau considered him credible and found his information, while unproved, to be worthy of further investigation.

thephan wrote:One thing that did surprise me was the return of 94M people out of work statement. 88.5M indicate that employment is not an option as they are students, stay at home parents, or retired. Maybe the message is that things are going to get so bad that they will all need jobs to cover basic necessities when entitlements disappear and taxes sky rocket. The 94% difference to get to the true number tells a wildly different story, right? Statistical magic to a very small degree but the 6% unemployment number pops right up there (what are we at, like 4.6% corrected?).

thephan wrote:One thing that did surprise me was the return of 94M people out of work statement. 88.5M indicate that employment is not an option as they are students, stay at home parents, or retired. Maybe the message is that things are going to get so bad that they will all need jobs to cover basic necessities when entitlements disappear and taxes sky rocket. The 94% difference to get to the true number tells a wildly different story, right? Statistical magic to a very small degree but the 6% unemployment number pops right up there (what are we at, like 4.6% corrected?).

pacino wrote:drip:

The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trump’s political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work, according to several people familiar with the arrangement. The agreement to compensate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele came as U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election by orchestrating hacks of Democratic Party email accounts. While Trump has derided the dossier as ‘fake news’ compiled by his political opponents, the FBI’s arrangement with Steele shows that the bureau considered him credible and found his information, while unproved, to be worthy of further investigation.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

thephan wrote:One thing that did surprise me was the return of 94M people out of work statement. 88.5M indicate that employment is not an option as they are students, stay at home parents, or retired. Maybe the message is that things are going to get so bad that they will all need jobs to cover basic necessities when entitlements disappear and taxes sky rocket. The 94% difference to get to the true number tells a wildly different story, right? Statistical magic to a very small degree but the 6% unemployment number pops right up there (what are we at, like 4.6% corrected?).

If that's the message, it's fundamentally idiotic. That would actually worry me far more than if they were simply lying/spinning, which would simply be politics as usual. The former would demonstrate unprecedented levels of economic incompetence and/or malevolence IMO.

Soren wrote:

pacino wrote:drip:

The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trump’s political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work, according to several people familiar with the arrangement. The agreement to compensate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele came as U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election by orchestrating hacks of Democratic Party email accounts. While Trump has derided the dossier as ‘fake news’ compiled by his political opponents, the FBI’s arrangement with Steele shows that the bureau considered him credible and found his information, while unproved, to be worthy of further investigation.

And yet Comey felt the need to leak some more email nonsense.

pacino wrote:Matt Yglesias calls it 'playing president'. Trump wants to play president while Bannon and Priebus be president. That governing stuff is too complicated.