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13 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Imagine what would happen if all of the people who rally around the second amendment reacted similarly to threats to the amendment that comes right before it.

The first amendment doesn't compensate for small penises though. 

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We have elected a spoiled rotten moron to lead what is left of the rapidly crumbling Free World. This is a guy who got played by dudes with names like Carmine from places like Queens, and now he's in the Big Leagues, dealing with dudes with names like Boris from places like Odessa, Russia, who made chess sets out of their dead childrens' teeth and then mastered the game. These guys have the Angel of Death tattooed on their backs and they put it there themselves with homemade ink and dull shanks, using mirrors, giving themselves a reacharound. "I have nothing but time for you, Mr President," they tell him, stifling a laugh, as he offers his latest "deal."

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15 minutes ago, retread said:

 

From the article:

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In September 2017, House Speaker Paul Ryan traveled to a Harley-Davidson plant in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, to tout the Republican tax bill, which President Trump would sign later that year. “Tax reform can put American manufacturers and American companies like Harley-Davidson on a much better footing to compete in the global economy and keep jobs here in America,” Ryan told workers and company leaders.

In Ryan's defense, he didn't get the tax reform he was pushing for.  He was pushing for a border adjustment tax system.  I am against it for many reasons, including its regressive nature and inflationary likelihood, but the selling point is related to protecting American manufacturing.  (And, of course, removing tax burden from the wealthy.)

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Harley and other makers of cruiser and touring motorcycles have seen their sales tumble as the economy has weakened in some areas and interest in motorcycling, overall, hasn't been as strong.

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"For years, the North American heavyweight motorcycle industry grew at double-digit rates due to low interest rates, a strong economy, a rising stock market and ... the baby boomers. However in recent years, and going forward, we expect a much slower growth pattern for the U.S. motorcycle industry," said analyst Robin Diedrich with Edward Jones Co.

"As safety becomes a concern for aging baby boomers, domestic sales for the heavyweight motorcycle industry should slow. We expect certain international markets, particularly in Asia and South America, to have higher growth rates in heavyweight motorcycles than the U.S.," Diedrich said.

 And there is the rub.  There is no tax policy that compensates for lower sales volume.  There is no tax policy that compensates for improved efficiency, resulting in fewer workers being required to make the same product. 

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SCOTUS fucked us with Citizens United.

I’m reaching the conclusion that it’s going to be this century’s Dred Scott case...it’s going to make a complete shitshow inevitable.
Imagine what would happen if all of the people who rally around the second amendment reacted similarly to threats to the amendment that comes right before it.

You’re adorable. It’s a great and sad thought.
I do feel a bit sorry for Kim's interpreter.  "No, really, that's what he said.  I don't know what it means either.  Nobody does.  Please don't shoot me with an anti-aircraft gun."

Fuckin’ made me laugh out loud in the airport.
21:45 in video
 

But, you know, he’s not an authoritarian or anything like that.

Sorry, anyone who normalizes anything this gelatinous shitspewer does is a treasonous collaborator with evil. (Yep, I used the words, Anastasis. Because they fucking apply.)
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1 hour ago, retread said:

Trump just said something along the lines of 'lots of people are saying that the FBI spied on our campaign, and, if they did, it would be a total disgrace."

So depressing that 35% of Americans lap this up and believe his superlative word salads.

We should use the same argument that the police department bootlickers do:

"Hey, Trumps, if you weren't doing anything wrong you've got nothing to worry about"

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


I’m reaching the conclusion that it’s going to be this century’s Dred Scott case...it’s going to make a complete shitshow inevitable.

You’re adorable. It’s a great and sad thought.

Fuckin’ made me laugh out loud in the airport.

But, you know, he’s not an authoritarian or anything like that.

Sorry, anyone who normalizes anything this gelatinous shitspewer does is a treasonous collaborator with evil. (Yep, I used the words, Anastasis. Because they fucking apply.)

Doesn't even rate a 5/10, but your ranting gets scored on a sliding scale. 

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2 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

now pompeo is giving remarks and taking questions. he is so much more composed than his boss.

I liked his baldfaced lie that if any other Middle Eastern country sought nuclear weapons they would be treated the same way as Iran.  This admin lives on another fucking planet.

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I liked his baldfaced lie that if any other Middle Eastern country sought nuclear weapons they would be treated the same way as Iran.  This admin lives on another fucking planet.

yeah, he even brought iceland into the mix. it's refreshing, however, that he doesn't seem to despise the people asking him questions.

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It's a little surreal that there is this regional power sitting in the Middle East that armed itself to the teeth with nukes without asking anyone for permission, and we just kind of pretend that none of that happened.  

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1 hour ago, Chooky said:

We're banning media outlets from summits about contaminated water.  The fucking EPA is barring media coverage for discussions on allowing an acceptable ceiling on chemical levels that have contaminated drinking water across the country.  Welcome to Zimbabwe.

paging Army Brat and the conversation from this morning. While I tend to agree with you on party BS - the idea of my comment to you was we need you to call out this BS. this is BS. no way around it. I'd like to see everyone call this out for what it is.

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paging Army Brat and the conversation from this morning. While I tend to agree with you on party BS - the idea of my comment to you was we need you to call out this BS. this is BS. no way around it. I'd like to see everyone call this out for what it is.

Sorry, dude - “both sides.” Gutless cowards who use that to excuse their enabling of an anti-American admin shoulda told ya.
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Fuck them

 Fuck Harley-Davidson right uo the fucking ass.  Thailand?  Really?

 

Fucking cocksuckers.  "Made in USA" has been their singular identity for their entire existence. 

Of those 800 losing their jobs in KC, I wonder how many are/were trumpkins?  700 at least, right? 

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18 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Fuck them

 Fuck Harley-Davidson right uo the fucking ass.  Thailand?  Really?

 

Fucking cocksuckers.  "Made in USA" has been their singular identity for their entire existence. 

Of those 800 losing their jobs in KC, I wonder how many are/were trumpkins?  700 at least, right? 

Tate, from the steelworkers union, suggested the tax savings Harley reaped from the GOP bill might have actually freed up the cash for it to go ahead with the US restructuring plan now. “They have the capital now to move Kansas City, to shut it down,” he said. “All of that money really came from the tax cut plan, so it kind of had the opposite effect of what it was supposed to do.”

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35 minutes ago, shnsajax said:

If this is true, then I think he is done. Of course we all saw this coming.

Of course we will probably just talk about Clinton's emails instead

 

 

The implications, if true, just might do it. What is amazing to me is that the impregnation (shudder), would have had to have occurred while Trump was in office. Even if this was Broidy's affair, the sloppiness of it is just astounding. Same set up,  same lawyer, same pseudonym, same shell company (according to WIKI-article has this other company mentioned so not sure of Essential Consultants role, if any):

Just two days before that meeting, on November 30, Broidy wired $200,000 from his Bank of America account to Real Estate Attorneys’ Group, a California firm. On December 5, REAG transferred that money to attorney Keith Davidson. Davidson was at the time supposedly representing the legal interests of Shera Bechard, a Playboy model with whom Broidy now claims to have had an affair. 

 

From the wiki for those not interested in the literary flourishes:

Broidy resigned from his RNC role in April 2018 after the Wall Street Journal reported that he had admitted to being a party to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) between “David Dennison” and Playboy Playmate pornographic model Shera Bechard. When knowledge of Bechard’s NDA broke out to the public, it was hastily stated to the media that “Dennison” referd to Broidy. “Dennison” is stated to have had a sexual affair with Bechard which resulted in a pregnancy that she terminated. “David Dennison”, however, has since been confirmed to be a pseudonym used by Donald Trump in an NDA with Stormy Daniels that Trump long denied knowledge of and which had been drawn up by Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who is now under investigation for bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations. While Broidy arranged the payment of $1.6 million which was paid to Bechard, that payment was funneled through Essential Consultants LLC (the same LLC set up by Cohen to make payment to Stormy Daniels, which was reimbursed by Trump), claims have now been made by various legal scholars, legal analysts, lawyers including Michael Avenatti (current attorney for Stormy Daniels), and other legal commentators positing that Broidy might not ultimately be the “David Dennison” in the agreement with Bechard despite his apparent superficial admission.

Hush money payment to Playboy model[edit]

On April 13, 2018, The Wall Street Journal hastily reported that Broidy, who was married at the time, had a sexual relationship with the Playboy Playmate Shera Bechard, resulting in a pregnancy in late 2017.[34][35] The model later electively terminated the pregnancy. Lawyer Michael Cohen negotiated a deal to pay $1.6 million for the woman's silence. The settlement was falsely characterized at the time as a personal injury settlement.[36][37] Broidy resigned his post at the RNC the same day the article appeared.[38]

According to an article by New York Magazine, as Broidy has a history of high-figure bribes to public officials, including convictions for bribery, and being that Broidy himself has no public relations interest to pay off an affair of his own, and he has no previous history with Michael Cohen, it's likely that the agreement was falsely characterized to the media as being for Broidy himself. Rather, the person who really impregnated Bechard was a much higher profile politician with a history of soliciting Playboy models (and building tall buildings) who Broidy, with his payment to Bechard, bribed in a quid pro quo.

During court proceedings in an unrelated criminal matter against Cohen heard in the Southern District of New York (where the judge granted standing to Michael Avenatti for Stormy Daniels’ civil case against Trump), Cohen’s legal representatives were forced to admit under oath that Cohen had only three sole legal clients over more than a decade, including during the timeframe where Cohen drew up the agreement which they initially alleged in the media to have been for Broidy. Those three sole clients disclosed in court by Cohen, however, included Donald Trump, The Trump Organization, and political opinion pundit Sean Hannity, but noticeably did not include Elliott Broidy.

Broidy’s history of bribery includes paying off the mistresses of public officials as a modus operandi. Between 2004 and 2005, Broidy paid over $90,000 to the girlfriend of a high-ranking official of the New York Office of the New York State Comptroller to cover her living expenses, rent, hospital bills, in addition to $5,500 a month to a relative of hers totalling another $44,000 which was concealed through a sham loan agreement between Broidy and her relative.[39]

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Is Shera Bechard that much worse than Stormy just because of the abortion, or is it the cover-up too? Anything else?

I thought the timing of the Stormy shit was bad because his pregrant russian whore was stuck at home, but I realize that Stormy's fuck with Drumpf didn't end in a murder.

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59 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

 "Made in USA" has been their singular identity for their entire existence.

Oh, they said that? Its a 100% lie. They made bikes back in Japan before WW2. Made in USA, that's as big a lie as the MAGA bullshit.

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19 hours ago, bolverk said:
20 hours ago, Texas73 said:
I'm a baby boomer, UT class of '73. George H W Bush, a very moderate Republican, spoke at my commencement. I'm as pissed as you are the way evangelical "Christians" are voting. It is not the Christianity I grew up with in the '50 and '60's. I am from Van Zandt county, which went for Trump something like 85%. I'm sure my east Texas former classmates and relatives think I'm crazy. Most of them stopped their education at high school and think Trump is doing a great job.
I'm really hoping for a Beto victory so that my faith in the decency of our state is restored.

Here's to the Free State of Van Zandt!

All the Federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him hang around
Out of kindness, I suppose

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The implications, if true, just might do it. What is amazing to me is that the impregnation (shudder), would have had to have occurred while Trump was in office. Even if this was Broidy's affair, the sloppiness of it is just astounding. Same set up,  same lawyer, same pseudonym, same shell company (according to WIKI-article has this other company mentioned so not sure of Essential Consultants role, if any):
Just two days before that meeting, on November 30, Broidy wired $200,000 from his Bank of America account to Real Estate Attorneys’ Group, a California firm. On December 5, REAG transferred that money to attorney Keith Davidson. Davidson was at the time supposedly representing the legal interests of Shera Bechard, a Playboy model with whom Broidy now claims to have had an affair. 
 
From the wiki for those not interested in the literary flourishes:
Broidy resigned from his RNC role in April 2018 after the Wall Street Journal reported that he had admitted to being a party to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) between “David Dennison” and Playboy Playmate pornographic model Shera Bechard. When knowledge of Bechard’s NDA broke out to the public, it was hastily stated to the media that “Dennison” referd to Broidy. “Dennison” is stated to have had a sexual affair with Bechard which resulted in a pregnancy that she terminated. “David Dennison”, however, has since been confirmed to be a pseudonym used by Donald Trump in an NDA with Stormy Daniels that Trump long denied knowledge of and which had been drawn up by Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who is now under investigation for bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations. While Broidy arranged the payment of $1.6 million which was paid to Bechard, that payment was funneled through Essential Consultants LLC (the same LLC set up by Cohen to make payment to Stormy Daniels, which was reimbursed by Trump), claims have now been made by various legal scholars, legal analysts, lawyers including Michael Avenatti (current attorney for Stormy Daniels), and other legal commentators positing that Broidy might not ultimately be the “David Dennison” in the agreement with Bechard despite his apparent superficial admission.

Hush money payment to Playboy model[edit]

On April 13, 2018, The Wall Street Journal hastily reported that Broidy, who was married at the time, had a sexual relationship with the Playboy Playmate Shera Bechard, resulting in a pregnancy in late 2017.[34][35] The model later electively terminated the pregnancy. Lawyer Michael Cohen negotiated a deal to pay $1.6 million for the woman's silence. The settlement was falsely characterized at the time as a personal injury settlement.[36][37] Broidy resigned his post at the RNC the same day the article appeared.[38]

According to an article by New York Magazine, as Broidy has a history of high-figure bribes to public officials, including convictions for bribery, and being that Broidy himself has no public relations interest to pay off an affair of his own, and he has no previous history with Michael Cohen, it's likely that the agreement was falsely characterized to the media as being for Broidy himself. Rather, the person who really impregnated Bechard was a much higher profile politician with a history of soliciting Playboy models (and building tall buildings) who Broidy, with his payment to Bechard, bribed in a quid pro quo.

During court proceedings in an unrelated criminal matter against Cohen heard in the Southern District of New York (where the judge granted standing to Michael Avenatti for Stormy Daniels’ civil case against Trump), Cohen’s legal representatives were forced to admit under oath that Cohen had only three sole legal clients over more than a decade, including during the timeframe where Cohen drew up the agreement which they initially alleged in the media to have been for Broidy. Those three sole clients disclosed in court by Cohen, however, included Donald Trump, The Trump Organization, and political opinion pundit Sean Hannity, but noticeably did not include Elliott Broidy.

Broidy’s history of bribery includes paying off the mistresses of public officials as a modus operandi. Between 2004 and 2005, Broidy paid over $90,000 to the girlfriend of a high-ranking official of the New York Office of the New York State Comptroller to cover her living expenses, rent, hospital bills, in addition to $5,500 a month to a relative of hers totalling another $44,000 which was concealed through a sham loan agreement between Broidy and her relative.[39]


...because of the implication


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4 hours ago, retread said:

 

President Mad Libs quote from the article:

 

“I think you’re going to even expand — I know your business is now doing very well, and there’s a lot of spirit right now in the country that you weren’t having so much in the last number of months that you have right now,” Trump said. 

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