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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
They're Running the Asylum, or trying to. They're part of the reason the GOP is in so much shit right now, they primaried-out the moderates who wouldn't toe their line, and then a lot of their base went to Trump since the Tea Party weren't tearing down Washington fast enough for their liking.
edited 5th Aug '16 2:21:32 PM by Elle
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Oh, SHIT! Is he actually learning something? Will he actually not turn on this later? Is this the official turnabout of Trump's campaign?
...Hope not.
edited 5th Aug '16 2:46:49 PM by fredhot16
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.This ought to be good. Trump is so petty, thin-skinned, and too honest for his own good. I don't trust him to turn around and endorse Paul Ryan like this without cocking it up somehow.
"Paul Ryan is, Paul Ryan, you see Paul Ryan is the kind of senator that you might, uh, might support if you don't want to upset your party leadership. I mean, the thing about Paul Ryan, here's the thing, the thing is that Paul Ryan is definitely not a sleeper agent for the Muslims. Can we say that about his opponent? Don't know. We don't know."
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.US debt to top WW2 peak within twenty years
How is this not a concern again? When China gets into debt people yell all about how a crisis is imminent.
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I think Trump would have some kind of existential meltdown after he loses by a landslide. He's deluded himself into believing that he's a perennial winner, despite the fact that every single one of his previous ventures has failed miserably.
This might be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. Personally, I can imagine Trump in a straitjacket, locked up in a padded cell, ranting and raving about his latest "can't lose" scheme and the (nonexistent) multitudes of adoring fans who all worship him...
edited 5th Aug '16 4:37:56 PM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.The reason the debt doesn't matter is because the US's credit is still good. We can keep borrowing forever and it doesn't matter until people stop lending us money (which in this case, means buying bonds). That's nowhere near happening, and not likely to happen in the foreseeable future unless something changes dramatically. Remember, the one thing that has damaged the federal government's credit rating wasn't going deeper into debt, it was threatening to not pay off said debts (back when the Tea Party was holding up budget bills from passing). And because the US's national debt is in US dollars, and the US federal government controls the US dollar, we can literally print as much money as we need to pay off the debt whenever we want. In certain circumstances, expanding the money supply this way (by printing more of it) would cause inflation, which can cause problems itself, but inflation rates right now are extremely low and the circumstances for inflation problems don't currently exist.
edited 5th Aug '16 4:38:08 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Correct. The United States could issue a trillion dollars every week for the rest of the year and it would have little effect on the economy unless we did something CRRRRAAAAAZZZYYY like give it to actual consumers to spend. Heaven forbid.
China's problem is partly its demand inflation, but it also has massive investment bubbles, much of which are tied up in real estate. Its private sector has borrowed heavily in dollars to hedge against the weakness of the renminbi, meaning that it's subject to a deflationary crisis if the renminbi depreciates to the point where those businesses can't repay those debts. It is highly dependent on its trade surplus to finance its growth, so if that dries up (say, if the U.S. has a massive fiscal crisis), it's up shit creek.
edited 5th Aug '16 4:41:13 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"On debt don't forget that a lot of US debt is owned to the US itself, either within the US goverment itself or to private individuals and groups within the US.
Nobody can collect on the US' debt, not legally and not practically, nor does anyone want to.
The US debt relative to WW 2 means little, the US economy is also much bigger than it was during WW 2, the US population is larger, GDP is higher, ect...
My debt in my 50s with likely be higher then it is today, but I'll also be earning a lot more then I am today, so it's okay, the same logic applies.
edited 5th Aug '16 4:45:51 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThis might be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. Personally, I can imagine Trump in a straitjacket, locked up in a padded cell, ranting and raving about his latest "can't lose" scheme and the (nonexistent) multitudes of adoring fans who all worship him...
I think he's fully ready to lose. In some way the election is basically a win/win scenario. Hell, I'd argue he WANTS to lose. He's already set up the scenario of his defeat (talking how the elections will be rigged) so when he loses, his supporters keep their loyalty and their Trump hats and flags and shirts and ties. They'll become to them a monument to what could've been. The media will for years rush to Trump whenever something political happens to see what insane or racist thing will come out of his face hole. He's already got new editions of his book printed for a waiting public, and him losing the election will open the way for another book about how Trump explains how the election was stolen from him. Really, why would he even want the trouble to be President? This has been the single greatest publicity tour of his entire life, win or lose he'll have legions of fanatically dedicated followers, the media at his beck and call.
edited 5th Aug '16 5:32:27 PM by Ghilz
Why document leakers are not heroes
. I know lots of us already agree with the sentiment in the article, but I thought it summed it up well.
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I think their saying it's higher relative to GDP than it was at the end of WW 2
Voting 3rd party in a non-swing states means that Stein and/or Johnson are one vote closer to getting a more prominent platform to spew their respective flavors of garbage and/or (especially in Stein's/the Greens' case) make a more effective attempt to draw votes away from the Dems (which will only help the GOP unless you completely reject FPTP first) in 2020 or beyond.
edited 5th Aug '16 6:55:07 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.@Ambar: I agree with the article but this example used is just a piss-poor one.
Ugh, this is shaping up more and more to be an election that I'd love to see a "None of the Above" option listed, as the French company, LaFarge, is currently under investigation for supplying weapons to ISIS, and there's allegations that Clinton (who'd served as Director in the '90s) might be directly tied to it
. It might be Assange pointing that particular allegation at her, but he's also promising more leaks that prove the allegation.
It wouldn't be the first time high-level functionaries in an administration has done that. Iran-Contra was the illegal one, the proxy-war in Afghanistan in the '80s was the above-board (but still covert) one.
What happens if a Presidential Candidate gets formally indicted in criminal court? We all know Trump won't back out as a result of his being taken to civil court over Trump U., but this could bode poorly. And while the criticism I've seen (both here and from the DNC itself) is that "It's the Russians trying to undermine the US!", that finger-pointing does jack-all to address the underlying issue that the DNC did collude with the Clinton campaign, and there's evidence that certain articles came directly from Clinton-affiliated Super PACS
, similar to how we've criticized ALEC for literally drafting legislation for legislators to propose.
edited 5th Aug '16 7:30:17 PM by ironballs16
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Saying that someone is an atheist when they are, in fact, an atheist, doesn't really hit the level of discrimination. The fact that being non-religious is Not Okay for a politician in America is problematic, but stating a fact is not. Cynical and arguably dishonest, maybe, but so it claiming to be religious when you're actually atheist. Certainly pointing out that someone is an atheist isn't anti-semitic, though, which is what the article was getting at.
Clinton was on the board of a company twenty years before ISIS was a thing, therefore she's responsible that they may have negotiated with ISIS in order to continue doing business in Syria? Sure, sounds reasonable.
edited 5th Aug '16 7:21:50 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

They're around, I think that a bunch of them just lost their primaries due to having run a state (Kansas?) into the ground by actually implimenting their nutty ideas.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran