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  1. 4 hours ago, Orca of Peace said:

    he's going to place tariffs on blue states. Bank it . 

    He's already raised taxes on the blue states for a good portion of the populace.  Why not take a dump on them again?  Teach them who to vote for!

  2. 3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Even Jimmy Carter wasn’t a wimp like Trump is. 

    Jimmy Carter honorably served his country in the military.  Trump cried about his bone spurs to avoid doing just that, even though he crows about what a great athlete he was in his youth.  Carter in his prime could have knocked Trump to the mat, as could most Presidents.  Hell, I'd wager FDR could give Trump some trouble.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    Government injecting itself into both education and medicine is one of the key factors driving the run away inflation in these  sectors over the last 40 years, but yeah, maybe the solution is more government involvement.  I do agree on military spending. 

    States cut funding for education over the years and tuition skyrockets.

    The US has perhaps the most "free market" healthcare system in the developed western world and yet we have by far the highest healthcare costs based on GDP.

    I agree that gov't can really waste money.  In the private sector they don't call it waste, they call it profit.  Regardless of the term, it's money out of peoples' pockets.

  4. 6 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    The tax cuts will pay for this.

    We'll just "take" their oil, you know, like we can load it up in Humvees as we're leaving.

  5. 37 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    I guess Boeing forgot to deliver their payoff to Michael Cohen. 

    The fact that Iran even considered buying US planes now surprised me.  If Iran ever considers buying US planes again in the future would absolutely shock me.  Another long term customer for Airbus and others.  MAGA!

  6. 1 hour ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I just don't understand what the possible motive for this is

    CA I believe is the largest car market in the US.  In addition about a dozen other states have voluntarily latched onto the CA standards making it a defacto standard for most of the country's citizens.  What Detroit does not want is to have to create two versions of every model in the US.  Since two versions is not an economic option, they can either 1.) make every car in the US adhere to the CA standard or 2.) lobby their new lap dogs in government to do their bidding.  Perhaps the automotive industry submitted an "action plan" to the government.

  7. 4 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    I thought the powers that be said there was no longer an arrest warrant on his head.  Does he like the Ecuadorian commissary that much?

    I think the charges in Sweden were dropped, but a warrant for jumping bail in the UK still stands.

  8. 2 hours ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:

    Does it bother you at all that all of the big corporations are pushing NN - more government control? It's pretty obvious what is going on, they want to charge people more for streaming 100% of their television though the internet. If they don't, everyone's internet goes up to pay for the people who constantly stream everything.

    Does it bother me that the government simply tells ISP's to treat all content equally?  No, that does not bother me in the slightest bit.

    Does it bother you all of the big corporations that want to charge more for access to some content than other content?  Or even more egregious, to throttle or potentially block content altogether for strategic or monetary gain?

    And NN doesn't allow an ISP to charge more for a person who "streams 100% of their TV through the Internet".  It does allow them to charge more for a person who streams more GB of data, regardless of where that comes from.

    Without NN it would be well within say Comcast's right to throttle your DirecTV Now stream for "technical reasons" even if the amount of data is well below your contracted rate.  Would that bother you?

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