I guess I'm kinder than you are about it. Some of them 'think he can do no wrong'; some of them, as usual, thought he was the 'least worst' of two choices, and many of those are now regretting it, but keeping their heads down and their mouths shut, because they don't want to deal with it. Then there's some who thought he could be controlled, and they're finding out how wrong they were, too. HIs approval rating is currently 39% and dropping. As the reality sinks in it'll just get worse, and when all his promises and schemes are shown to be nonsense, the bottom will drop out. My greatest fear at this point is when they inevitably find the allegations of collusion are true and have to start removing the administration. I don't know what provisions we have in our system of government to handle something on that scale. Guess we'd have the Speaker of the House as POTUS?
If Ryan thought he could pull it off, I'm sure he'd go for it. But I suspect that Ryan doesn't think he has a realistic chance of getting rid of Pence, even if he could get rid of Trump. They're just thinking they can get their tax cuts passed with Trump; nothing else matters as much to them, though a few more right-wingers on SCOTUS is surely on their wish list.
There is no other way to put this: This is an ASSHOLE move by an ASSHOLE 'administration' being led by an ASSHOLE 'President' who continually demonstrates through actions that they don't give a flying FUCK about the average citizen, they only care about their agendas and their corporate and 1%-er cronies. Finding that they've been in bed with Russia the whole time and throwing the entire administration out on their ear can't come soon enough. 2020 elections can't come soon enough. How are you Trump-supporting idiots liking him and his minions now? You all like your privacy AT LEAST AS MUCH AS I DO, and they just took a BIG STEAMING DUMP all over the entire CONCEPT of your privacy, HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
I don't think you understand his supporters. Haven't you noticed by now that they think he can do no wrong. No matter how bad it is, they don't care. He, himself, had it right when he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and lose no voters. His supporters are just plain idiots and there's pretty much nothing you or anyone else can do about it.
By most estimates there are millions of people driving without a license in the USA today. Seems to me that they are likely some of the safest drivers out there because they don't want to get caught.
Um, no. Many people driving without licenses do that because their license was revoked - and for good reason, like being a habitual drunk driver and smashing into things all the time.
I imagine a large portion of the population don't even think much of the nonsense to show a driver license to get into a bar or buy a six pack at the grocery store.
I haven't shown an ID to buy alcohol in probably 25 years. Gray hair does that to you. Oh, and get off my lawn!
... if you are a government that feels the need to monitor it's citizens every move. But for them to come out and say that cash is bad would just tip their hand. So they brainwash a few people into spreading the propaganda for them. With reasons like "You'll get robbed" and "Cash is only for illegal transactions".
Pretty soon, enough weak-minded people will believe this and plead with the government to please come and take their cash and replace it with something that leaves an audit trail.
Says the paranoid. Cash is just a nuisance. I have to get it from the bank or ATM (staked out by robbers) and manage how much is in my wallet. When I use a credit card, I get "cash back" ranging from 1% to 5%. I often get cards with 0% financing for up to 18 months. When a CC is stolen, the bank does all the work - I've had bad charges on my cards many times and have never had to do more than call the issuing bank or fax in a receipt. I don't give a flying fuck what the government or anyone else says about using cash or CC; I know that with CC's I get: cash back on all purchases, interest-free short-term loans; no unscheduled stops at the ATM.
Welcome back to cash. That's the only way I roll. If someone steals my cash, that's all they've got; if someone gets my credit card, I'm not so sure. What really makes me wary are those card-not-present transactions that involve handing over that oh-so-secure CVV2 code printed right there on the back of the card.
As others have pointed out, I'm big on the online-bill-pay service at my bank. My payees get their money via ACH transfers and never see my credentials.
If they are getting ACH transfers, they have all the credentials they need.
Here in the US, you have to get a decent car. Last year, I actually worked at a place where the boss chose candidates on what they drove -- e.g. "This guy drives a BMW, he is well organized and has pride in himself, lets take him over the bloke with the pick-em-up truck." (They knew what people drove from the parking garage cameras.)
Maybe for the shit jobs. I'd never want to work for someone who made decisions on such shitty, irrelevant information.
The nice part of paying in cash is that the transaction is over. I have been overcharged on my CC many times. Waiters giving themselves larger tips, fraud and other problems. If you do not keep all your CC receipts and check them against your CC bill and contest any discrepancies then how do you know you are not loosing money when you use your CC?
First, always keep all your CC receipts and always dispute any questionable charges. I've had many reversed and a few that were legit that I forgot about. Second, it's spelled "losing" you loser.
At any rate, those rich aren't really paying much in the way of taxes even if this particular tax is allowed to take effect.
For someone making $250k, that's a $6k tax. It's not bankruptcy but it's like buying the city two venti mochas at Starbucks every day. Just so they can play Social Justice and throw money out the window on misguided programs. Fuck that.
No, it's not. For someone making $250K, it's a $0 tax. It's called a "marginal tax" - one that applies ONLY to income OVER $250K. Educate yourself.
Of course it's bullshit. I'm betting she means if she asks you to think of "either Gangster Rap or Classical Music" she can tell which 80% of the time. I guarantee that if I'm thinking of a band that my brother played with 40 years ago in high school that existed for only a few months, there is no fucking way she can name it!
Your opinion of the president is a deflection of the question, which is accomplishments.
He has accomplished more than Obama ever thought of, and all things that his base voted him into office for.
If you don't like it, well, tough titties.
Not sure what color Kool-Aid you're drinking, but Chief Cheeto has accomplished zero so far.
Dec. 10, 2015
Lt. Gen Michael Flynn is part of a panel discussion in Moscow for the 10th anniversary of government-backed Russia Today, for which he receives payment (The Washington Post, Aug. 15, 2016). Officials notice an increase in communication between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, following the Russia Today event (CNN, May 19, 2017).
Late 2015
British intelligence agencies detect suspicious interactions between Russia and Trump aides that they pass on to American intelligence agencies (The Guardian, April 13, 2017).
March 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is sent an email that encourages him to change his email password, likely precipitating the hack of his account (CBS News, Oct. 28, 2016).
March 21
During an interview with The Post, Trump lists Carter Page as part of his foreign policy team. Page had been recommended by a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox (WP, March 21, 2016).
March 28
Political veteran Paul Manafort is hired to help the Trump campaign manage the delegate process for the Republican National Convention. He is recommended by Trump confidante Roger Stone (New York Times, March 28, 2016). Before joining the campaign, Manafort lobbied on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. That deal followed a memo from Manafort in which he offered a plan that could Ãoegreatly benefit the Putin Government.Ã His relationship with Deripaska ended in 2009 (Associated Press, March 22, 2017). Manafort also worked on behalf of the Russia-friendly Party of Regions in Ukraine, helping guide the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, to the country's presidency. Yanukovych would later be ousted. (WP, Aug. 19, 2016)
April 27
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) may have met with Kislyak at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington before a foreign-policy speech given by Trump (CNN, May 31, 2017).
June
At a closed-door meeting of foreign policy experts and the prime minister of India, Page praises Putin effusively (WP, Aug. 5, 2016).
June 15
A hacker calling himself ÃoeGuccifer 2.0Ã releases the Democratic National Committee's research file on Donald Trump (Gawker, June 15, 2016). News reports already link the stolen data to Russian hackers (WP, June 14, 2016).
July
At some point this month, the FBI begins investigating possible links between the Russian government and Trump's campaign (Wired, March 20, 2017).
July 7
Page travels to Moscow to give a lecture (NYT, April 19, 2017). The Trump campaign approved the trip (USA Today, March 7, 2017). This trip was likely the catalyst for the FBI's request for a secret surveillance warrant to track PageÃs communications (WP, May 25, 2017).
July 11 or 12
Trump campaign staffers intervene with the committee developing the Republican Party's national security platform to remove language call arming Ukraine against Russian aggression. (July 18, 2016).
July 18
At an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation as part of the Republican National Convention, Sessions and Kislyak have a brief conversation (WP, March 2, 2017).
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd's ÃoeLock her up!à chant. ÃoeIf I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did,à Flynn said, ÃoeI would be in jail todayà (C-Span, July 18, 2016).
July 22
Wikileaks releases emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (WP, July 22, 2017).
Boomers didn't solely elect Trump and his policies - the American people did. I'm at the tail end of the boomers and I have never voted Republican. You might as well blame your being screwed on white people or men or rural states. It wasn't the boomers as a group.
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I guess I'm kinder than you are about it. Some of them 'think he can do no wrong'; some of them, as usual, thought he was the 'least worst' of two choices, and many of those are now regretting it, but keeping their heads down and their mouths shut, because they don't want to deal with it. Then there's some who thought he could be controlled, and they're finding out how wrong they were, too. HIs approval rating is currently 39% and dropping. As the reality sinks in it'll just get worse, and when all his promises and schemes are shown to be nonsense, the bottom will drop out. My greatest fear at this point is when they inevitably find the allegations of collusion are true and have to start removing the administration. I don't know what provisions we have in our system of government to handle something on that scale. Guess we'd have the Speaker of the House as POTUS?
If Ryan thought he could pull it off, I'm sure he'd go for it. But I suspect that Ryan doesn't think he has a realistic chance of getting rid of Pence, even if he could get rid of Trump. They're just thinking they can get their tax cuts passed with Trump; nothing else matters as much to them, though a few more right-wingers on SCOTUS is surely on their wish list.
There is no other way to put this: This is an ASSHOLE move by an ASSHOLE 'administration' being led by an ASSHOLE 'President' who continually demonstrates through actions that they don't give a flying FUCK about the average citizen, they only care about their agendas and their corporate and 1%-er cronies. Finding that they've been in bed with Russia the whole time and throwing the entire administration out on their ear can't come soon enough. 2020 elections can't come soon enough. How are you Trump-supporting idiots liking him and his minions now? You all like your privacy AT LEAST AS MUCH AS I DO, and they just took a BIG STEAMING DUMP all over the entire CONCEPT of your privacy, HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
I don't think you understand his supporters. Haven't you noticed by now that they think he can do no wrong. No matter how bad it is, they don't care. He, himself, had it right when he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and lose no voters. His supporters are just plain idiots and there's pretty much nothing you or anyone else can do about it.
By most estimates there are millions of people driving without a license in the USA today. Seems to me that they are likely some of the safest drivers out there because they don't want to get caught.
Um, no. Many people driving without licenses do that because their license was revoked - and for good reason, like being a habitual drunk driver and smashing into things all the time.
I imagine a large portion of the population don't even think much of the nonsense to show a driver license to get into a bar or buy a six pack at the grocery store.
I haven't shown an ID to buy alcohol in probably 25 years. Gray hair does that to you. Oh, and get off my lawn!
Pretty soon, enough weak-minded people will believe this and plead with the government to please come and take their cash and replace it with something that leaves an audit trail.
Says the paranoid. Cash is just a nuisance. I have to get it from the bank or ATM (staked out by robbers) and manage how much is in my wallet. When I use a credit card, I get "cash back" ranging from 1% to 5%. I often get cards with 0% financing for up to 18 months. When a CC is stolen, the bank does all the work - I've had bad charges on my cards many times and have never had to do more than call the issuing bank or fax in a receipt. I don't give a flying fuck what the government or anyone else says about using cash or CC; I know that with CC's I get: cash back on all purchases, interest-free short-term loans; no unscheduled stops at the ATM.
Welcome back to cash. That's the only way I roll. If someone steals my cash, that's all they've got; if someone gets my credit card, I'm not so sure. What really makes me wary are those card-not-present transactions that involve handing over that oh-so-secure CVV2 code printed right there on the back of the card.
As others have pointed out, I'm big on the online-bill-pay service at my bank. My payees get their money via ACH transfers and never see my credentials.
If they are getting ACH transfers, they have all the credentials they need.
Here in the US, you have to get a decent car. Last year, I actually worked at a place where the boss chose candidates on what they drove -- e.g. "This guy drives a BMW, he is well organized and has pride in himself, lets take him over the bloke with the pick-em-up truck." (They knew what people drove from the parking garage cameras.)
Maybe for the shit jobs. I'd never want to work for someone who made decisions on such shitty, irrelevant information.
The nice part of paying in cash is that the transaction is over. I have been overcharged on my CC many times. Waiters giving themselves larger tips, fraud and other problems. If you do not keep all your CC receipts and check them against your CC bill and contest any discrepancies then how do you know you are not loosing money when you use your CC?
First, always keep all your CC receipts and always dispute any questionable charges. I've had many reversed and a few that were legit that I forgot about. Second, it's spelled "losing" you loser.
Then those pennies that you put in the give a penny.
You PUT pennies in those things? I only TAKE them.
But can they get around that with a tax on GROSS income?
At any rate, those rich aren't really paying much in the way of taxes even if this particular tax is allowed to take effect.
For someone making $250k, that's a $6k tax. It's not bankruptcy but it's like buying the city two venti mochas at Starbucks every day. Just so they can play Social Justice and throw money out the window on misguided programs. Fuck that.
No, it's not. For someone making $250K, it's a $0 tax. It's called a "marginal tax" - one that applies ONLY to income OVER $250K. Educate yourself.
"It's not the dumbest idea I have ever heard, but it's pretty close," Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina, said of the plan
Of course not! Graham has heard other Trump ideas.
This is all a #FakeNews method of flooding the internet with anti-Trump stuff. Bet you CNN has a stake in this method!
Because anything that paints Trump in less than a glittery glow is fake news in the eyes of the Trump fan.
Of course it's bullshit. I'm betting she means if she asks you to think of "either Gangster Rap or Classical Music" she can tell which 80% of the time. I guarantee that if I'm thinking of a band that my brother played with 40 years ago in high school that existed for only a few months, there is no fucking way she can name it!
You were voted up by fraudulent moderators.
Yes, I have. A class action against the owner of a gas line that bordered my property in WV netted me several thousand dollars.
Your opinion of the president is a deflection of the question, which is accomplishments.
He has accomplished more than Obama ever thought of, and all things that his base voted him into office for. If you don't like it, well, tough titties.
Not sure what color Kool-Aid you're drinking, but Chief Cheeto has accomplished zero so far.
They've got the best temperatures - the highest. Nobody has higher temperatures.
Pro tip: fake news isn't news you don't like.
Donald Turmp hates the Washington Post because it accurately reports on his treasonous crimes.
I'm sorry that the Washington post documented your carelessly executed treason, Moscow Donald.
Before the election
Dec. 10, 2015 Lt. Gen Michael Flynn is part of a panel discussion in Moscow for the 10th anniversary of government-backed Russia Today, for which he receives payment (The Washington Post, Aug. 15, 2016). Officials notice an increase in communication between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, following the Russia Today event (CNN, May 19, 2017).
Late 2015 British intelligence agencies detect suspicious interactions between Russia and Trump aides that they pass on to American intelligence agencies (The Guardian, April 13, 2017).
March 19, 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is sent an email that encourages him to change his email password, likely precipitating the hack of his account (CBS News, Oct. 28, 2016).
March 21 During an interview with The Post, Trump lists Carter Page as part of his foreign policy team. Page had been recommended by a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox (WP, March 21, 2016).
March 28 Political veteran Paul Manafort is hired to help the Trump campaign manage the delegate process for the Republican National Convention. He is recommended by Trump confidante Roger Stone (New York Times, March 28, 2016). Before joining the campaign, Manafort lobbied on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. That deal followed a memo from Manafort in which he offered a plan that could Ãoegreatly benefit the Putin Government.Ã His relationship with Deripaska ended in 2009 (Associated Press, March 22, 2017). Manafort also worked on behalf of the Russia-friendly Party of Regions in Ukraine, helping guide the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, to the country's presidency. Yanukovych would later be ousted. (WP, Aug. 19, 2016)
April 27 Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) may have met with Kislyak at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington before a foreign-policy speech given by Trump (CNN, May 31, 2017).
June At a closed-door meeting of foreign policy experts and the prime minister of India, Page praises Putin effusively (WP, Aug. 5, 2016).
June 15 A hacker calling himself ÃoeGuccifer 2.0Ã releases the Democratic National Committee's research file on Donald Trump (Gawker, June 15, 2016). News reports already link the stolen data to Russian hackers (WP, June 14, 2016).
July At some point this month, the FBI begins investigating possible links between the Russian government and Trump's campaign (Wired, March 20, 2017).
July 7 Page travels to Moscow to give a lecture (NYT, April 19, 2017). The Trump campaign approved the trip (USA Today, March 7, 2017). This trip was likely the catalyst for the FBI's request for a secret surveillance warrant to track PageÃs communications (WP, May 25, 2017).
July 11 or 12 Trump campaign staffers intervene with the committee developing the Republican Party's national security platform to remove language call arming Ukraine against Russian aggression. (July 18, 2016).
July 18 At an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation as part of the Republican National Convention, Sessions and Kislyak have a brief conversation (WP, March 2, 2017).
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd's ÃoeLock her up!à chant. ÃoeIf I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did,à Flynn said, ÃoeI would be in jail todayà (C-Span, July 18, 2016).
July 22 Wikileaks releases emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (WP, July 22, 2017).
Jul. 27 During his last news conferen
That's because 98% of lawyers give the other 2% a bad name.
I didn't even know that Phosphorus would bind with table salt.
... just like Target decided their stores were mostly for transsexuals.
Hyperbole meter pegged.
Well low tech technology certainly beats ...
I see what you did there (and TMI).
Boomers didn't solely elect Trump and his policies - the American people did. I'm at the tail end of the boomers and I have never voted Republican. You might as well blame your being screwed on white people or men or rural states. It wasn't the boomers as a group.