Most think that it's more important to show party unity than to stand by their ideals or use their brain.
This isn't even party unity (or ideological unity). It's merely fealty to a degenerate bully, because secretly, being a Republican means yearning to be dominated by a daddy. That's why Putin is so popular.
Trump derangement syndrome in action. A completely unrelated topic, and a sufferer just *has* to jump in and change the topic to Trump.
I don't want it to be easy for you to pretend that you didn't support this degenerate president. You're going to try. A day will come when you'll probably even pretend that you never really liked Trump. But I'll be right here to remind you. This is a stain that does not wash out.
20 months vs 2 years ? Any reason you felt the need to change units there ? 20 months vs 24 makes it much easier to see the difference.
You may be right. I should not have assumed that Trump supporters could figure out that 20 months is less than 2 years.
And the reason I changed units is because Trump hasn't been president for two years yet, but Obama was president for eight. Trump's time in office is often spoken of in terms of months and Obama's is only spoken of in years. I suppose I could have said, "1 year and eight months vs 2 years", but again, I'd probably lose the Trump supporters.
Jeff Flake, John McCain, Ben Sasse, the two Koch brothers, none of whom seem mythical.
Three retiring senators that are hated by their own party and a pair of oligarchs.
It's not a very robust group of resisters to the Trump regime from the conservative sphere, now is it? I'd be more impressed if you could name someone who was actually running for re-election.
Sounds to me like they want to get a ruling to prevent the next liberal "rule by fiat"
Say, did you know that Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in the first 20 months of his presidency that Barack Obama did in his first two years?
If you don't like "rule by fiat", then you should really be uncomfortable with the degenerate Trump regime.
So the majority of "all of us" that are not "the best of us" do need such things to differentiate our selves from others in the majority that are not "the best of us"
Just because you're not in my league doesn't mean I don't feel some sympathy for your plight.
So the best among us are the most successful at getting laid? I never realized you thought so highly of President Trump!
Paying for it doesn't count. Especially when you pay way over market value. You really think $130k is a well-negotiated price for sex with a washed-up porn star? What counts is the quality of your offspring, and on that count, President Trump fails the test. Tell me if you think any of the Trump children would be able to support themselves without trading on their daddy's celebrity.
The best among us don't need falsely-inflated consumer goods to do this.
Which is strange, seeing as it's usually the rich who showers their trophy wives with trinkets, setting the example for rest of society to follow/mimic
You are so close to a breakthrough. Could it be possible that the rich are not the best among us? The Christians have a whole religion based on this. You may have heard of it.
Are you sure these findings aren't just looking at wealthy white guys somewhat interested in health vs. the great unwashed cheetoh-eating masses?
First, the lead author of this study is Dr. Jari Laukkanen of the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. I assure you that it's not only wealthy white people who use saunas in Finland. Although now that I think about it, Finland is a very white, very prosperous society, since they represent the "Nordic model" of hybrid socialism which makes for the happiest, most prosperous countries.
So maybe you're right. The unwashed, cheetoh-eating Trump voters aren't really made for the sauna. Sweating isn't going to help type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity. Further, I've been to Finland on several occasions, once for a summer, and I don't remember seeing cheetohs in the stores. Lots of booze though. The Finns can drink. A lot. I tried to keep up with some Finns once and almost got alcohol poisoning. And these were pretty well-respected academics, knocking back hard liquor like it was gatorade.
Second, the states where there are the highest rates of student indebtedness are South Dakota and West Virginia. Those sound like places where a lot of people major in gender studies? Oh, and California has the third lowest student indebtedness score.
Also, the states with the highest rates of student default are (in order) Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Nevada. Do those sound like places where students are clamoring to get basket-weaving degrees? And, the kicker is that the state with the lowest rate of student loan delinquency? If you guessed "Massachusetts" (and I know you didn't) then you would be right.
HornWumpus, you know, sometimes the thing that feels so much like it should be real...just isn't.
Find the majors that are (complaining about/defaulting on) student loans the most, defund those.
So, you want to do away with law schools, medical schools, engineering schools and most of the sciences?
I'm on a college campus practically every single day and deal primarily with graduate students and post-grads. I know very well who is complaining about student loans and who isn't.
You and I are old, and sometimes forget that when we went to school, it was relatively cheap. I paid for an undergraduate education with summer jobs and grad school by driving a cab and playing in bar bands. To do that today, your summer job would have to be as a CEO or cabinet member of the Trump administration.
Don't use the world you dimly remember to judge the world you live in today.
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This isn't even party unity (or ideological unity). It's merely fealty to a degenerate bully, because secretly, being a Republican means yearning to be dominated by a daddy. That's why Putin is so popular.
I don't want it to be easy for you to pretend that you didn't support this degenerate president. You're going to try. A day will come when you'll probably even pretend that you never really liked Trump. But I'll be right here to remind you. This is a stain that does not wash out.
Yes, that would be a better solution than electing it president.
You may be right. I should not have assumed that Trump supporters could figure out that 20 months is less than 2 years.
And the reason I changed units is because Trump hasn't been president for two years yet, but Obama was president for eight. Trump's time in office is often spoken of in terms of months and Obama's is only spoken of in years. I suppose I could have said, "1 year and eight months vs 2 years", but again, I'd probably lose the Trump supporters.
Three retiring senators that are hated by their own party and a pair of oligarchs.
It's not a very robust group of resisters to the Trump regime from the conservative sphere, now is it? I'd be more impressed if you could name someone who was actually running for re-election.
Barack Obama signed over 275 executive orders. Nine of them got overturned. So, it looks like he was good at Constitutional Executive Authority.
I have to ask though, do you believe a president has the "Constitutional Executive authority" to declare a $100 billion tax cut?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
I know that. You know that. We all know that it was all about skin color.
Oh, and by the way, DACA is back in business.
http://www.sandiegouniontribun...
They sure are quiet about their disapproval. Who are these mythological Republicans who are now uncomfortable with Trump's rule by fiat?
Say, did you know that Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in the first 20 months of his presidency that Barack Obama did in his first two years?
If you don't like "rule by fiat", then you should really be uncomfortable with the degenerate Trump regime.
Just because you're not in my league doesn't mean I don't feel some sympathy for your plight.
I, like God, am what you call an unreliable narrator.
Paying for it doesn't count. Especially when you pay way over market value. You really think $130k is a well-negotiated price for sex with a washed-up porn star? What counts is the quality of your offspring, and on that count, President Trump fails the test. Tell me if you think any of the Trump children would be able to support themselves without trading on their daddy's celebrity.
Pretty soon private corporations will be able to do what NASA's been doing for half a century. Let's all pretend this matters.
Believe the Earth is flat to own the libs.
You are so close to a breakthrough. Could it be possible that the rich are not the best among us? The Christians have a whole religion based on this. You may have heard of it.
Successful frauds are still frauds.
The best among us don't need falsely-inflated consumer goods to do this.
That's not because of a "primal urge". It's because of marketing.
First-world problems.
First, the lead author of this study is Dr. Jari Laukkanen of the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. I assure you that it's not only wealthy white people who use saunas in Finland. Although now that I think about it, Finland is a very white, very prosperous society, since they represent the "Nordic model" of hybrid socialism which makes for the happiest, most prosperous countries.
So maybe you're right. The unwashed, cheetoh-eating Trump voters aren't really made for the sauna. Sweating isn't going to help type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity. Further, I've been to Finland on several occasions, once for a summer, and I don't remember seeing cheetohs in the stores. Lots of booze though. The Finns can drink. A lot. I tried to keep up with some Finns once and almost got alcohol poisoning. And these were pretty well-respected academics, knocking back hard liquor like it was gatorade.
I really don't think you want me to look up those delinquency stats. You've made some assumptions without facts to back them up, old friend.
First the students most likely to be in default are the ones who borrowed the least
https://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/0...
Second, the states where there are the highest rates of student indebtedness are South Dakota and West Virginia. Those sound like places where a lot of people major in gender studies? Oh, and California has the third lowest student indebtedness score.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best...
Also, the states with the highest rates of student default are (in order) Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Nevada. Do those sound like places where students are clamoring to get basket-weaving degrees? And, the kicker is that the state with the lowest rate of student loan delinquency? If you guessed "Massachusetts" (and I know you didn't) then you would be right.
HornWumpus, you know, sometimes the thing that feels so much like it should be real...just isn't.
So, you want to do away with law schools, medical schools, engineering schools and most of the sciences?
I'm on a college campus practically every single day and deal primarily with graduate students and post-grads. I know very well who is complaining about student loans and who isn't.
You and I are old, and sometimes forget that when we went to school, it was relatively cheap. I paid for an undergraduate education with summer jobs and grad school by driving a cab and playing in bar bands. To do that today, your summer job would have to be as a CEO or cabinet member of the Trump administration.
Don't use the world you dimly remember to judge the world you live in today.
Trump does not have a good record when it comes to telling California what to do.
Putin must be laughing his head off after convincing 304 American electoral delegates to put a degenerate in power.
And an exploding deficit and falling wages since the beginning of the Trump regime.
You do the math.
Maybe. But does it matter?
Wait, you mean Canada isn't part of the US? I thought they were like a colony or something.