Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby traderdave » Tue Mar 05, 2019 14:42:07

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“The Democrats are more interested in pathetic political games and catering to a radical, leftist base than on producing results for our citizens,” said press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “The Democrats are not after the truth, they are after the president.”


I think one begets the other.

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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby traderdave » Tue Mar 05, 2019 18:10:28

It occurs to me that Congress may begin to be treated like a co-equal branch of government when they start acting like a co-equal branch of government. And that goes for both parties.

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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby thephan » Tue Mar 05, 2019 19:11:27

TV pointed me to a book called The Broken Branch that is about the surrender of congress as a functioning unit of Government.
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby pacino » Wed Mar 06, 2019 09:45:42

Bloomberg is not running for president.

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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby thephan » Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:06:37

The trade deficit with China is higher than it's been in a decade. Let's see who was president in the last decade? And who is president now? And which candidate said they were going to be doing something about it with tariffs?
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby traderdave » Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:21:59

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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby Bucky » Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:25:32

thephan wrote:The trade deficit with China is higher than it's been in a decade. Let's see who was president in the last decade? And who is president now? And which candidate said they were going to be doing something about it with tariffs?


and all the tariffs did was may me pay more for diet dew

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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby thephan » Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:25:05

stuff will literally kill you Bucky
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby thephan » Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:32:13

I am not too clued in to the insurance industry, but I do know that the NY State regulator is the gold standard for assessing insurers. If NY will let you practice then you are trustworthy. So if an insurer accept valuations without proof then it can degrade their rating, and they could be thrown out. If the basis is that the valuation is from a rich dude, then there are potential questions.
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby thephan » Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:33:40

roger stone just getting tossed in jail next week?
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby TenuredVulture » Wed Mar 06, 2019 13:12:21

thephan wrote:The trade deficit with China is higher than it's been in a decade. Let's see who was president in the last decade? And who is president now? And which candidate said they were going to be doing something about it with tariffs?


To be fair, trade deficits are at least in part a function of economic strength, not weakness. We have money to buy stuff--not just imports, but stuff that would be exported as well.

Of course, Trump doesn't understand that.

You could eliminate the trade deficit tomorrow by raising everyone's taxes so high they could no longer afford to buy imported goods. Or throwing everyone out of work. Or figure out some other way to make Americans as poor as Chinese people.

The very word trade deficit is misleading--it's not the same thing as a budget deficit, which accumulates and at least theoretically has to be paid back one day. Of course, Trump doesn't understand that at all.
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby thephan » Wed Mar 06, 2019 13:25:10

Humorous WaPo read about burying the president's academic records. He set off a 5 alarm fire to 'seal' his records after he attacked Obama's academia and admissions, and after he claimed to be the top graduate at Warton, which is provably false since he never showed as getting any academic accolades in his time there. The funny thing about the WaPo article is that they were pressured into burying records, something that they never did before, nor had been requested to. This request came a year after the school asked Trump for money to keep the doors opens, and he responded that the institution had had a good run. The school filed for bankruptcy, and was purchased by a Chinese national settling the $16M debt. I wonder who might have access to the records?
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby JFLNYC » Wed Mar 06, 2019 13:29:14

A critique of AIPAC, Netanyahu and Omar, the subject which brought our previous thread to a screeching conclusion.

I don’t like Aipac because I strongly believe in the right of the Jewish people to build a nation-state in their ancient homeland — a nation-state envisaged by its founders to reflect the best of Jewish and democratic values. And I believe Aipac for many years has not only become a rubber stamp on the right-wing policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which has resulted in tens of thousands of Israeli settlers now ensconced in the heart of the West Bank, imperiling Israel as a democracy. Aipac has also been responsible for making support for Israel a Republican cause, not a bipartisan issue, which poses a real danger to Israel’s support in America in the long run, and particularly on college campuses.

I dislike Aipac because I am devoted to Israel as a Jewish democracy and because I believe that only a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians can ensure that. Given how Aipac has let itself become the slavish, unthinking tool of Netanyahu, who opposes a two-state solution, I believe Aipac works against Israel’s long-term interests.

Aipac is a self-appointed lobby that does not represent my feelings as an American Jew. But neither does Representative Omar.


When I see that dual-loyalty charge coming from a congresswoman who first signaled opposition to B.D.S. and then support for it, when I see it coming from a congresswoman who has never been to Israel, when I see it coming from a congresswoman who, to my knowledge, has never criticized the Palestinian leadership for its corruption and failure — time and again — to seize on peace overtures from Israeli leaders who, unlike Netanyahu, actually wanted to forge a two-state solution, when I see it coming from a congresswoman who seems to be obsessed with Israel’s misdeeds as the biggest problem in the Middle East — not Iran’s effective occupation of four Arab capitals, its support for ethnic cleansing and the use of poison gas in Syria and its crushing of Lebanese democracy — it makes me suspicious of her motives.
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby JFLNYC » Wed Mar 06, 2019 13:35:18

thephan wrote:Humorous WaPo read about burying the president's academic records. He set off a 5 alarm fire to 'seal' his records after he attacked Obama's academia and admissions, and after he claimed to be the top graduate at Warton, which is provably false since he never showed as getting any academic accolades in his time there. The funny thing about the WaPo article is that they were pressured into burying records, something that they never did before, nor had been requested to. This request came a year after the school asked Trump for money to keep the doors opens, and he responded that the institution had had a good run. The school filed for bankruptcy, and was purchased by a Chinese national settling the $16M debt. I wonder who might have access to the records?


You make it sound as though the Wharton School filed for bankruptcy, and was purchased by a Chinese national.
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby thephan » Wed Mar 06, 2019 13:50:47

JFLNYC wrote:
thephan wrote:Humorous WaPo read about burying the president's academic records. He set off a 5 alarm fire to 'seal' his records after he attacked Obama's academia and admissions, and after he claimed to be the top graduate at Warton, which is provably false since he never showed as getting any academic accolades in his time there. The funny thing about the WaPo article is that they were pressured into burying records, something that they never did before, nor had been requested to. This request came a year after the school asked Trump for money to keep the doors opens, and he responded that the institution had had a good run. The school filed for bankruptcy, and was purchased by a Chinese national settling the $16M debt. I wonder who might have access to the records?


You make it sound as though the Wharton School filed for bankruptcy, and was purchased by a Chinese national.


Well SURPRISE PENN, not only did you do a crappy job and be a (Trump like) business school that files for bankruptcy (which would explain one thing) thus destroying your legacy, now you are also Made In China :!:

Sorry, the bankrupt school would be his Military school in up sate NY.
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby TenuredVulture » Wed Mar 06, 2019 15:34:46

thephan wrote:
JFLNYC wrote:
thephan wrote:Humorous WaPo read about burying the president's academic records. He set off a 5 alarm fire to 'seal' his records after he attacked Obama's academia and admissions, and after he claimed to be the top graduate at Warton, which is provably false since he never showed as getting any academic accolades in his time there. The funny thing about the WaPo article is that they were pressured into burying records, something that they never did before, nor had been requested to. This request came a year after the school asked Trump for money to keep the doors opens, and he responded that the institution had had a good run. The school filed for bankruptcy, and was purchased by a Chinese national settling the $16M debt. I wonder who might have access to the records?


You make it sound as though the Wharton School filed for bankruptcy, and was purchased by a Chinese national.


Well SURPRISE PENN, not only did you do a crappy job and be a (Trump like) business school that files for bankruptcy (which would explain one thing) thus destroying your legacy, now you are also Made In China :!:

Sorry, the bankrupt school would be his Military school in up sate NY.


Of course, FERPA already makes it illegal for any school to release academic records unless specifically requested by the student. (Like if you apply to grad school you request, indeed often pay a few bucks, for your school to send your transcript.)
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Warren Buffett on trade deficits

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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby pacino » Wed Mar 06, 2019 17:58:05

The US is closing the Jerusalem embassy because who cares what Palestinians think
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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby joboggi » Wed Mar 06, 2019 18:47:05

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/ ... el-1206147

Barr has to tell Congress every time Mueller was told no.

Interesting

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Re: Where the hell is the new POLITICS thread?

Postby The Dude » Wed Mar 06, 2019 18:49:02

Didn’t know Barr knew Mueller’s wife
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