While I do think Trump has been acing it internally, I believe the Middle East debacle continues as a mess. Not good at all Not sure how much power he has over that crap honestly.
Really, did they think he'd calm down and take all of the violent assassination threats in stride like Bush did? These reactions of disbelief never get old.
(Today 11:36 AM)LEMONed IScream Wrote: While I do think Trump has been acing it internally, I believe the Middle East debacle continues as a mess. Not good at all Not sure how much power he has over that crap honestly.
He needs time to gain control from the deep state. If he can make Fake News fall, that one lest pillar of the the deep state that he has to fight.
While it's a blast calling Trump the God Emperor because it drives lefties nuts, the more appropriate title for him would be Batman. A billionaire playboy who using nothing but his wits, will power, and wealth to buy equipment (in his case a massive media and cultural presence, not the Batmobile), is taking on evil head on to defeat it.
The thing about Batman is that when he goes up against his enemies he takes a real beating. He has to chose his punches wisely and spend much of the time blocking and buying time. And even in victory he is usually quite bloodied, bruised, and has a few broken ribs.
My point is that I'm willing to give Batman until at least the midterms the benefit of the doubt and understanding that sometimes he's going to have to take some punches in order to win.
Some of you are missing the entire show. And I'm not talking about the entertainment. Especially if you don't see what's been really going on here (beyond the funny memes).
Quote:1. Tea Leaves posts DNS logs last year for mail1.trump-email.com. Claims Russian connection. Reports show FBI got FISA warrant based on those logs.
2. Nobody knew who Tea Leaves was. Tea Leaves has now been exposed as April Lorenzen. People are hammering @ljean on Twitter to get her shook that we know who Tea Leaves is.
3. Lots of skepticism about the DNS logs, but nobody had hard proof of forgery. Blog post shows multiple flaws in logs that stick out like a sore thumb. Here's the blog:
Regarding the RAISE act and reducing legal immigration from a million to half a million a year - that still seems like way too much.
Half a million? What industries in the US are struggling so hard to fill up skilled labor positions that the country still needs half a million legal immigrants per year.
I figured 100K would be a way more reasonable number. But shit, I guess the 30 to 60 million illegal immigrants are the bigger fish to fry.
No industries are struggling to find workers. They're struggling to find workers who will work for shitty wages or under other unreasonable conditions.
I want zero immigration except for vetted spouses of US citizens. If companies need workers, they can raise their wages and train people. Or go out of business. Can't compete? Too fucking bad. There is a huge cohort of unemployed people in this country and replacing them with foreigners to keep the market numbers up is not a solution. It's suicide.
All the illegals need to go back too. Fuck off back home, parasites. Maybe without a huge contingent of freeloaders we could start paying down some of the national debt. Maybe? We absolutely could.
But sensible immigration reform is obviously not going to happen.
I don't think it even matters anymore. It's obvious the GOP has no will to fix any of the problems we have. Maybe they're corrupt, maybe they're frightened of their own shadows, who knows. It's just a matter of time before this out-of-control train derails because these dumb fucks are arguing over the proper arrangement of silverware in the dining car instead of figuring out how to hit the brakes.
How insane has the left and the media gotten when Alan Dershowitz is the voice of reason? This is the guy who said that the 2nd amendment has "no place in modern society". Yet he's been schooling the media on their crackpot Trump/Russia nonsense.
(07-13-2017 02:17 AM)weambulance Wrote: No industries are struggling to find workers. They're struggling to find workers who will work for shitty wages or under other unreasonable conditions.
I want zero immigration except for vetted spouses of US citizens. If companies need workers, they can raise their wages and train people. Or go out of business. Can't compete? Too fucking bad. There is a huge cohort of unemployed people in this country and replacing them with foreigners to keep the market numbers up is not a solution. It's suicide.
All the illegals need to go back too. Fuck off back home, parasites. Maybe without a huge contingent of freeloaders we could start paying down some of the national debt. Maybe? We absolutely could.
But sensible immigration reform is obviously not going to happen.
I don't think it even matters anymore. It's obvious the GOP has no will to fix any of the problems we have. Maybe they're corrupt, maybe they're frightened of their own shadows, who knows. It's just a matter of time before this out-of-control train derails because these dumb fucks are arguing over the proper arrangement of silverware in the dining car instead of figuring out how to hit the brakes.
As long as they get their 6 figure and in some cases million dollar kickbacks from rich political donors for favors they don't care what happens. All of these representatives and senators are crony capitalists in my eyes until they prove otherwise. Doesn't help that the other half of the congress would rather see the country crumble than settle for any less than 100% implementation of their ideology or get any type of bipartisan reform done. Fuck them all. Self serving pieces of trash.