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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.b36012845916

  • #2
    Originally posted by firstfloor View Post
    The Russia thing may just be a bit too distracting.
    Any news about Trump that doesn't have to do with his collusion with Russia is nothing more than a distraction from the true problem.
    I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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    • #3
      Trump's budget seems a bit of a joke. Everyone, except apparently Trump's people, have noticed that the math is out by ~$2 trillion. The "fiscal conservatives" () are going to blow a massive hole in the deficit and put the country into much more debt, like they did under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II...

      US-national-debt-GDP.png

      The party of stupid can't do basic math and they keep plunging the country into massive debt because they insist on starting expensive wars without checking if they can afford it and keep cutting taxes for the ultra-wealthy far more than the budget can handle, while sanctimoniously and hypocritically talking about debt ceiling and fiscal responsibility. They're just moronic losers.
      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Zymologist View Post
        Any news about Trump that doesn't have to do with his collusion with Russia is nothing more than a distraction from the true problem.
        The issue is seldom the issue.
        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          The party of stupid can't do basic math....
          Ah, so the Democrats will never catch on, eh?


          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #6
            Yay! Charts!!
            That's what
            - She

            Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
            - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

            I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
            - Stephen R. Donaldson

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
              Yay! Charts!!
              I have developed my own chart to prove that Trump is guilty and stealing all of our money.

              chart.jpg

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                Yay! Charts!!
                It's classic deception to make his hated enemies look bad. Clinton was president during economic boom times so of course the percentage is going to look lower, even if spending went up and likewise Bush started off during an economic downturn so of course the percentage will go up. As always, it's about how you frame the facts you are given.
                "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
                  It's classic deception to make his hated enemies look bad. Clinton was president during economic boom times so of course the percentage is going to look lower, even if spending went up and likewise Bush started off during an economic downturn so of course the percentage will go up. As always, it's about how you frame the facts you are given.

                  You mean like that old adage, "figures lie and liars figure"?
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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