trump is serious!!!!!

[Lord Jim]

[Bicycle Bill]

Stolen from a comment on the latest Stone Kettle blog: It's not trickle down, it is tinkle on economics.

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Even as far back as when Ronnie Ray-gun was touting that particular brand of voo-doo economics there were already people who noted that 'trickle down' was just a more polite way of saying 'pissed on'.

-"BB"-

[Crackpot]

What did Jackie Coogan do to deserve such an unfavorable comparison?

[rubato]

Heyyyy it's The Kid.





yrs,
rubato

[Scooter]

[BoSoxGal]

I kind of hate to engage in looksism, but considering Sanders is operating as a Goebbels of sorts,I’ll make an exception and admit that every time I see her lying face on TV I experience schadenfreude over her having to operate in the world with a face like that.

[Scooter]

[Econoline]

He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake...

[RayThom]

Go into the light...

...there is peace and serenity in the light."

[Econoline]

From Slate:

The Trump Make America Great Again Committee, the president’s RNC-run fundraising group, sent out another one of its famous polls Friday afternoon, asking respondents to “cut through the media’s noise” and rate the first years of Presidents Trump and Obama.

Questions 1 and 2 of the three-question poll are below:

Surely this will yield the accurate assessment of each man’s tenure we have so eagerly awaited.

[liberty]

With all the things Obama did like using the IRS as a political weapon he was never hated. His supporters were never attacked and beaten on the streets. His head was never severed in effigy. Here is just one thing Obama did the Democrats may regret now:

“That spring, a group of Senate Republicans met with Obama over dinner to explore entitlement and tax-code reform. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) considered such an overhaul a priority, but he had a small side concern: He wanted to urge the president to use his influence with Democrats to prevent a change in the Senate’s filibuster rules. The change would strip the minority party — the GOP now, but maybe the Democrats next year — of its power to block or slow presidential nominations.
At the dinner, Alexander said, he handed Obama a one-page memo making his argument that this administration would not be justified in changing the rules because it had gotten as many nominees approved as previous administrations in similar circumstances.
Aside from a second request for the memo, Alexander said, he never heard back. He was disappointed, and he called the snub indicative of why the White House has trouble getting things done on Capitol Hill. “I would have liked for someone to show me where I was wrong or show me where I was right,” he said.”

[BoSoxGal]

He was burned and lynched in effigy dozens of times, and plenty more.

Fucking Trump snowflake.

[ex-khobar Andy]

With all the things Obama did like using the IRS as a political weapon he was never hated.

Obviously an idiotic comment. Just to take issue with the subordinate clause: Obama never used the IRS as a political weapon. He did however throw some IRS chiefs under the bus. There were accusations that the IRS in Cincinnati unfairly targeted non-profits of a conservative hue.

As the erstwhile long time treasurer of a 501c3 body (annual budget around $10,000 from member dues with about 100 members at $30 each plus donations; stated goal to improve public understanding and education about handling hazardous materials in the workplace and in public areas; books balanced to the penny every year) I know a bit about the requirements for typical non-profits who do not want to pay tax. The IRS and the state require you to file annually to make sure you continue to meet the regulations which have some monetary limits and also some specific limitations on what you are allowed to do. Broadly, you cannot make some types of political statements and at the same time maintain a 501c3 status.

The IRS was faced with a bunch of applications for this status from groups who claimed tea party allegiance and also tax reform as their focus. If I were at the IRS charged with protecting public dollars I would spend my time looking at a group who wanted tax free status in order to change the tax laws rather than one who wanted to make sure that puppies did not die in the streets. So I think the IRS made exactly the correct calls here. These tea party groups of course sued the IRS; and in a little observed Trumpian gesture of earlier this year, the IRS settled with these groups with $$$$.

I am not of course condoning IRS misbehavior. But they got it right here and should not have been pilloried for defending public money. And to a large extent I blame Obama for not sticking up for the guys who were ding the right think.

Spare a thought for the IRS who have to deal with this new tax code with no tim to get out guidance and fewer and fewer staff to do it with.

[liberty]

He was burned and lynched in effigy dozens of times, and plenty more.

Fucking Trump snowflake.

Well, I never heard about it. It didn’t make it to the radio news, if it were a few neo-Nazis who should care there are not enough those guys to affect anything.

And I am no one’s snow flake. As far as trump is concerned, I could care less about him; it wouldn’t bother me if he died tomorrow. But if he was to bring back good paying manufacturing to the country and I had more faith in the future of my children then I would care then. I have no illusions. If trump does anything it is for his own greatness not us, but I don’t I care I just want someone to do something. Obama had eight years and did nothing except quadrupling the debt. He even said forget about good paying factory jobs flip burgers, I am paraphrasing. I am not on trumps team he can join my team if he wants.

Remember Bill Clinton and his women accusers he was your team leader. I have noticed for years how liberals worship their politicians. I find it perplexing.

[RayThom]

... I have noticed for years how liberals worship their politicians. I find it perplexing.

Absolutely. You'll never find alt-right, conservatives worshiping their politicians.

[Scooter]

Have pity on the village idiot, that's what dozens of sequential generations of incestuous reproduction will render.

[BoSoxGal]

I’ve never worshipped a politician.

I had a lot of admiration for Barack Obama’s character despite having disappointment over a number of his policies once elected.

The only politician I’ve ever come close to revering is Robert Kennedy, and I presume had he not been assassinated he’d have ended up disappointing too - but I’d like to think it would’ve been because he couldn’t make things happen because of all the psychopaths and douchebags in D.C.

[liberty]

Ever wonder why he calls me village idiot? I have a son with Down syndrome that is what they and other individuals of low intelligence were called in the old days. It is not socially acceptable to call such people names now days, but cruel people are still around they just don’t do it much anymore.

[liberty]

I’ve never worshipped a politician.

I had a lot of admiration for Barack Obama’s character despite having disappointment over a number of his policies once elected.

The only politician I’ve ever come close to revering is Robert Kennedy, and I presume had he not been assassinated he’d have ended up disappointing too - but I’d like to think it would’ve been because he couldn’t make things happen because of all the psychopaths and douchebags in D.C.

I wasn’t talking about you or any other individual liberal. I try not to make things personal. And I admit that liberals have done good things for the society. Believe it or not I have voted against politicians because they were not liberal enough or too conservative. I vote against Mitt Romney.

I admired three presidents JFK, LBJ and Ronald Reagan. I was just a kid at the time but I admired JFK’s style and I admired LBJ courage fighting the communist even though his courage did fail him in the end, but the one I felt the closest to was Reagan. He had great courage and was the one closest to me in personality. And he was able to see the evil empire for the evil it was when others thought it was an outrageous speech. Everyone knows what I am referring to here.

But I considered none of them infallible, incorruptible or irreplaceable except for Reagan. Reagan was unique for his lack of ego.

[Burning Petard]

What's wrong with calling people insulting names? I concede 'douche bag' seems sexist now, along with 'bitch' [that one I class as a complement. I have known too many female canines with noble character] 'Psychopath' is a clinical description, just as much as 'Downs Syndrome'

Some times a gross, even vulgar, insult is entirely appropriate, specially when discussing particular politicians.

Even more, I am puzzled by Liberty's post further up that seems to assume President Obama had power and responsibility to maintain or change the rules for the way the US Senate does its business.

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