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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#266201: Jan 8th 2019 at 10:19:02 PM

I'm hoping it was just a typo.

CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#266202: Jan 8th 2019 at 10:27:41 PM

Soviets are also Asian, not just White. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan were all part of it, not to mention native Siberians.

Edited by CookingCat on Jan 8th 2019 at 10:35:50 AM

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#266203: Jan 8th 2019 at 10:40:13 PM

I think the salient point is that Trump would hold the bigoted perspective that Russia = white.

TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#266204: Jan 8th 2019 at 10:46:51 PM

Who says he's being bigoted there? It's entirely possible he doesn't KNOW.

No I don't know which'd be worse.

Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Jan 8th 2019 at 1:49:26 PM

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#266205: Jan 8th 2019 at 10:49:39 PM

I imagine post people think "Russia/Eastern European = White".

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#266206: Jan 8th 2019 at 10:50:40 PM

Russia is generally considered to be an (Eastern) European country, culturally.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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#266207: Jan 8th 2019 at 11:00:37 PM

Fair enough. I don't expect Trump to have any sort of informed knowledge of national-racial diversity anywhere.

Edited by nombretomado on Jan 8th 2019 at 11:02:01 AM

DS9guy Since: Jan, 2001
#266208: Jan 8th 2019 at 11:53:20 PM

You would think Fox News would be trying everything to make Trump's border speech look good. So why did they get Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace to cover it? Those two are the few people on the network who are critical of him and guess what? They fact checked his speech after it was over and called him out on his crap. Were they the only ones available on short notice? I just find it hilarious.

Edited by DS9guy on Jan 8th 2019 at 1:55:08 PM

TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#266209: Jan 9th 2019 at 12:08:24 AM

It might be intentional. Trump is too stupid to know when to stop, but Fox isn't. They know the longer this goes on, the worse Trump is going to look. They may be laying the ground work to get him to fold.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#266210: Jan 9th 2019 at 12:14:16 AM

Well, among Republicans there is not much support for a border wall because a) it's expensive and b) probably not very effective either. Perhaps the Fox folks think so as well.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#266211: Jan 9th 2019 at 12:22:00 AM

It's not exactly "fiscally conservative", that's for damn sure. Especially once you add those $84,000 beds to the mix.

Disgusted, but not surprised
TechPriest90 Servant of the Omnissiah from Collegia Titanica, Mars, Sol System Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#266212: Jan 9th 2019 at 1:05:40 AM

Well, if some people can sell toilet seats to the government for $640 dollars apiece, them scamming the government out of money for bedding is hardly far-fetched.

Still, eighty grand for one cot is ridiculous. Even if you're planning to line your pockets, you have to be slightly less brazen about it.

Unless you own the Police, the Judiciary and the Executive. Then by all means, go and be as brazen as you like while you steal everything.

NOTE - Please do not indulge in corruption.

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archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#266213: Jan 9th 2019 at 1:13:13 AM

Number of beds is a generic way to refer to capacity. That number means they’re looking for detention facilities capable of holding 52,000 people, not just 52,000 individual beds.

Of course, that’s awful in a different way.

They should have sent a poet.
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#266214: Jan 9th 2019 at 3:08:34 AM

I had an idea earlier today: should there be a 100% tax bracket over $100,000,000 for individuals? I can understand corporations making that much, but in my opinion, there is no reasonable justification or practical use for any person to have money in the range of the triple-digit millions, much less anything in the billions.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jan 9th 2019 at 4:09:10 AM

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#266215: Jan 9th 2019 at 3:20:59 AM

[up]Since companies are, in fact, people... <shrugs>

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#266216: Jan 9th 2019 at 3:21:38 AM

[up][up]That asshole Melenchon actually proposed this in the last French election.

No. It's not going to happen. Telling people there's a hard cap on what they can earn? Not going to fly.

Edited by M84 on Jan 9th 2019 at 7:21:49 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#266217: Jan 9th 2019 at 4:18:01 AM

Thats the purpose of some taxes if I'm not mistaken, instead of a cap some taxes are based upon how much you earn so while there's no limit to how much you can earn your wealth will be adjusted after tax's are deducted

Edited by Ultimatum on Jan 9th 2019 at 12:19:17 PM

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#266218: Jan 9th 2019 at 4:46:12 AM

Putin's Russia is all about revising history to make the Soviets look less awful.

Why The Death of Stalin was banned.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#266219: Jan 9th 2019 at 4:46:49 AM

ARIA: Congress Makes Its Mark on US Asia Policy

The genesis of the United States’ Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) was a series of hearings in 2017-18 held by Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO), the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cyber Security.

ARIA, approved by the Senate on December 4, 2018, and approved by a voice vote in the House of Representatives on December 12, after amendment, has now become law. The Senate approved the amendment on December 19, after which U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed the bill into law on December 31.

ARIA has the objective of requiring the Trump administration “to develop a long-term strategic vision and a comprehensive, multifaceted, and principled United States policy for the Indo-Pacific region…” It complements and, in many respects, advances the more general U.S. National Security Strategy released by the White House in late 2017 and the National Defense Strategy released by the Pentagon in early 2018. But it also includes new initiatives and priorities in the Indo-Pacific region.

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CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#266220: Jan 9th 2019 at 5:29:06 AM

"I had an idea earlier today: should there be a 100% tax bracket over $100,000,000 for individuals? I can understand corporations making that much, but in my opinion, there is no reasonable justification or practical use for any person to have money in the range of the triple-digit millions, much less anything in the billions."

You'd run into the issue of most people thinking that they have the potential to earn that much and therefore protest removing the incentive for those kinds of earnings. How many people actually make this much money as income? I doubt it's enough to contemplate a 100% marginal bracket, given the huge backlash it would create. EDIT: Just did a check, this would apply to like a few hundred households nationwide. Better to just create like a 90% bracket for them. The commons are less likely to support their grousing about tax when they keep something than if all of it is taken.

Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Jan 9th 2019 at 8:33:54 AM

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#266221: Jan 9th 2019 at 5:37:41 AM

Really, I just want to take almost all their money away from billionaires. They have the wealth to literally change the world, and they do nothing with it. They don't deserve the exorbitant amounts of money they have.

The hundred-millionaires, too, but they're an afterthought compared to the billionaires.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#266222: Jan 9th 2019 at 5:48:42 AM

Honestly, that's a grossly ignorant statement and basically ignores the fact billionaires are billionaires because they have a dollar investment attached to functional bases of infrastructure.

They don't have Money Bins.

I say that as someone who hates the 1% problem of society but John Q. Richman is a billionaire because he owns Google, not because he has a big pile of cash.

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#266223: Jan 9th 2019 at 5:54:22 AM

Reuter's sources: Rosenstein set to leave after William Barr is confirmed as US Attorney General.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#266224: Jan 9th 2019 at 6:01:59 AM

[up][up][up]You have to remember that a big chunk of their fortunes is not actual cash. It includes things like investments. Stock shares.

Billionaires don't keep huge piles of cash that don't grow any interest lying around. They keep a bunch of stock certificates. The actual liquid assets they have (cash on hand) tends to be much lower (though still a fortune compared to most of us).

That's how Elizabeth Holmes went from the first female tech billionaire to practically nothing once she and her company were revealed as frauds. The value of her total shares went from $4.7 billion to zero.

Edited by M84 on Jan 9th 2019 at 10:06:23 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
She/her
#266225: Jan 9th 2019 at 6:15:53 AM

Yeah, but one person owning a business that big is a problem. Jeff Bezos shouldn’t be able to control the fate of this many people all by himself based on his whims. That’s why I like the proposal where employees would get to own 40% of the company they work at.


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