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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Bull. Trump publicly stated he'd bang his daughter if she wasn't related to him. Joking about her seducing him became fair game after that. Half the comedians in the world have made jokes about it, and no one outside the hard right has pitched a fit about it. There a reason we're suddenly holding Bee to a higher standard? Aside from the fact that she's a woman and some of us apparently have this urge to be "fair" to the right after they lost Roseanne?
Don't. An improving economy did not save Reagan, Bill Clinton, or Obama from having the alternate party take over at least one house of Congress their first Midterm. Combined with Trump's personality, and the Tariffs he's unilaterally forcing which will hurt Americans sooner or later, the Democrats are in a prime position to win at least the House (although they also are getting a better chance at taking the Senate every day).
edited 2nd Jun '18 12:03:52 PM by DingoWalley1
It absolutely would be a mistake to assume that 2018 and 2020 are lost causes because of this.
edited 2nd Jun '18 1:03:23 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangOn a side note, I've seen some Pro-trump stuff being put into the Moving the Goalposts real life section, about the electoral college. I don't think I can edit it out, but are there any other examples of this sorta thing?
Let the idiot who wrote that have his blurb.
Counting counties still amounts to valuing empty parcels of land more than actual people. The "3000 counties" Trump won may as well be rotten boroughs.
edited 2nd Jun '18 1:08:41 PM by CrimsonZephyr
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I assume you mean parts like these:
Because I'd agree that the reasoning here misses what Moving the Goalposts actually is.
edited 2nd Jun '18 1:12:05 PM by LSBK
There's also an unnecessary addition to Disease Bleach where it was simply added that trump said the presidency was a hard job. Now that, I'm considering removing.
Edit: Seems I remembered wrong. It's not there.
edited 2nd Jun '18 1:15:24 PM by fruitpork
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/steel-tariff-maple-syrup-toilet-paper-1.4686833?cmp=rss
So here is a list of the actual items that Canada is planning on putting tariffs on, which is a lot of seemingly random stuff that is mostly targeting certain State industries. Just in case you wanted the non-satire article version.
Re: The US economy, I'm not really surprised, he hasn't exactly done much with regards to it yet. Big tax cut to people who won't spend the money anyway, so that won't cause much economic stimulation other than blowing bubbles in the stock market, removal of a bunch of regulations that were only marginally useful, tiny and thus mostly irrelevant infrastructure program.
Personally I'm betting that the next crash will be China, not the USA, since they have a massive private debt bubble. The US and UK do too, but less of one and we've only just reached the levels of private debt we had pre-crisis. If deregulation causes a crash I doubt it will be so soon it actually hits Trump's first term. The tax cut is a rounding error, you can easily afford it and the actual impact will be a lot less than the amount it technically spends, since the rich have a low marginal propensity to consume and velocity of money is very low, so you don't get much of a multiplier.
Barring a massive escalation of this trade war things might even continue being good up to 2020, assuming he doesn't actually repeal Obamacare or an Outside Context Problem comes along and smacks us in the face.
edited 2nd Jun '18 1:33:44 PM by DeathorCake
Hilariously, the second part — that Trump won the Electoral College by a margin not seen in 30 years — is only true if you're ignoring Democratic wins. Both of Obama's wins and both of Bill Clinton's wins were by a larger margin than Trump's
. Both of George W. Bush's were less, though, so you have to go back to George H. W. Bush in 1992 to get a Republican Electoral College win larger than Trump's.
edited 2nd Jun '18 1:37:55 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.The follow-up to sex-trafficking laws which outlawed personals in the internet is devastating.
Oh, look, it's exactly what I said was going to happen. Criminalizing sex work causes more harm than good. It empowers sex traffickers, because when the entire industry is criminal, it becomes harder to separate the criminals in the industry from the other criminals in the industry.
When there is a demand for a service that cannot be met legitimately, it will be met illegitimately. And that means illegitimate providers become the number one source. Traffickers, pimps, and the like have the resources necessary to edge out their competition if it's all considered to be on the same playing field.
This is literally how Prohibition resulted in the mafia.
Criminalization of sex work hurts women and undermines efforts to fight sex trafficking. It makes victims of the people it claims to help and puts a legal haystack around the needles that actually need to be found. It is and always has been morally wrong, and it continues to be perpetuated by men in power who want an excuse to retain their control over women's sexuality.
edited 2nd Jun '18 1:45:09 PM by TobiasDrake
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The current projection for job losses is what, 150k? That's not going to cause a recession, it'll just sting a bit. I'm not saying this was a good idea, if you want to reduce Chinese imports then raise quality standards or devalue the dollar a bit, but it won't cost him that many votes given a good chunk of people who lose their jobs will either not connect it to the tariffs or blame it on "those damn other countries retaliating" rather than Trump increasing steel costs for every American buyer.
Look, if he banned all imports from everywhere you'd lose about 3.5% of GDP worth of stuff. That's a lot, and it would have serious ripple effects, but the US is too big for a tariff war to seriously screw it over in the middle of a cyclical upswing, especially when most of the US doesn't want one. What this MIGHT do is accelerate the debt bubble pop in China, which will cause immense misery and hardship to people who aren't Donald Trump, so who cares, right?

Whether you think that Ivanka deserves an apology or not, I do think illustrating the difference between someone like Bee, who just sincerely (sounding) apologizes and moves on, and the right who at best only offer half-apologizes while trying to downplay as much responsibility is important.
And, yeah, I do think a lot of people do notice the difference.