The US Hamster Wheel

[Slasher]

Socialists don't go down screaming without a brutal one-way fight to maintain wasting other people's money.


https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/tax-col ... tates.html


Note the source. This isn't from Fox which the left wing here love to hate.

[Boac]

Another stunning Foreign Policy success for the 'Deal Maker':

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47504723

Note he claims to be 'surprised' - says it all!

[nomorecatering]

Now that ensuring people don't cheat on their taxes is socialism, I wonder what spending far more money than you have, and not caring about it, is?
US federal deficit widens 77%

Director of the Office of Management and Budget and acting White House Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, said "nobody cares" about the deficit.
Nobody cares

Anyone who knows anything about Mick Mulvaney will remember that he very much cared about debt and deficits, before he didn't care. The same goes for most of the GOP.

[Undried Plum]

Another stunning Foreign Policy success for the 'Deal Maker':

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47504723

Note he claims to be 'surprised' - says it all!

The Military Industrial Compex knows how to make a chump out of a chump like Chump.

He is too stupid to recognise that he is being manipulated.

[John Hill]

Iraq replay.

[BenThere]

I would say the state of the North Korean situation remains much improved, from my perspective, to what we had before President Trump took charge of it. When he walked away from the table at the Viet Nam summit, he made it clear that current sanctions would remain in place and perhaps more were on the drawing board. At the same time, China is showing signs of an economic slowdown of some scope, and is likely to be quite amenable to a fair trade agreement in the near future, and perhaps even be nudged to press some screws on Kim's thumbs themselves..

Meanwhile the US is on the cusp of assuming the mantle of World's Largest Energy Producer. From what I read production is constrained by a shortage of pipeline rather than production capacity. I think we'll become a major energy exporter before long, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. Hopefully Germany will continue to shut down coal and nuclear production so as to continue solar and wind development, and UK and EU will continue to shun fracking, making lucrative markets for clean American energy, produced with exacting environmental standards.

As an aside, I just got my monthly home electric and gas utility bill, which included a week of polar vortex that saw temps at -15F, the coldest I've ever seen around Detroit. My gas (which heats the house, and I keep it at 72F when I'm present) was $112.22 and my electric, which runs the lights, tv's, my shoeshine machine, etc. was $38.88. They both were about double that a year ago. Now that Spring is upon us, I should be around $100/month total until November when the gales start lashing us yet again. That seems fair to me. Finally, I g0t my petrol at $2.39 USD/gallon, about $.70/liter yesterday, a bit higher than last month, but not punishing.

So where am I going with all this? Just making a point that for all the comments I see nearly every waking minute on the net about how awful life is under the Trump administration, from where I sit it's pretty good, though I confess I'm not a junkie, Socialist, welfare recipient, convicted felon, Jihadist, transgender or a few other demographics for whom I have the utmost compassion.

[John Hill]

I would say the state of the North Korean situation remains much improved, from my perspective, to what we had before President Trump took charge of it. When he walked away from the table at the Viet Nam summit, he made it clear that current sanctions would remain in place and perhaps more were on the drawing board.

Ben, I fear you have been misled. If you honestly recall the state of US DPRK relations at end of President Obama's reign and compare it with today how can you possibly say the situation is 'much improved'?

Tell us again just why the US sees a need to sanction the DPRK to the verge of starvation?

[Slasher]

This answers a lot of obvious questions.

[Boac]

Slasher - it would be more sensible to look at the CURRENT situation rather than some possible FUTURE situation. The Chump is the current situation. This woman is not. As far as recruiting an 'actress' goes, the Republicans appear to have recruited a Clown for POTUS!

Taking 2 of the '3 serious allegations' at 1:40:-
2) It is said the Chump is a puppet too - remember?
3) What of the people 'controlling' the Chump? Are they 'dangerous'?

[AtomKraft]

That bloke in the video is correct.

This is just the way things are bound to end up as "Democracy" twists like a whore in ever more desperate attempts to deliver what's been paid for.

I live in a country run by a benevolent dictator. In theory, I'd prefer democracy, but not this sort of it.

Democracy is like communism. A good idea, spoilt by the details.

This girl hasn't got a single principle.

[Seenenough]

The video of AOC is very much how the sewer of US politics works.I have no doubt that Soros money is indirectly behind AOC

It is all about funding selected chosen candidates and then being their puppet masters once they are in office as the video shows.The same thing also happens on the GOP side.

You only have to suck one c&%k to be a *oc#sucker for the rest of your life.

Trump did not take any money from any of the big GOP CPACs and nor did he seek any endorsement from the GOP establishment.Who can forget Trump telling Karl Rove to take his money and shove it as he did not need it.The resulting reaction from Rove was entertaining.Rove was one of the Never Trumpers as he had been a hard Jeb Bush supporter (funder/pupet master) in the primaries.It was loads of money spent with nothing to show for it.Rove regularly gave the impression that Trump could not become POTUS without Rove's CPAC funding.

[BenThere]

So why and how did a newly elected congresswoman, one of over 400, expressing radical views, become a superstar in the Democrat party? The only conclusion you can reach is that she had immense media support. My hope is that she does more damage to her Democrat and younger supporters than she does to America.

As has every election since 1976, the coming 2020 election is of critical importance, maybe the most critical ever from my perspective. The prospect of the US becoming Venezuela or Greece isn't appealing to me, though it seems to be gaining traction on the Left. Call me crazy, but I thought the EU policy of inviting millions of unvetted Muslim immigrants into its welfare states was not such a good idea either.

[Seenenough]

Pelosi today has finally realized that she has nothing that would leed to the Democrats succeeding in impeaching Trump.

The Dems are going to have to try and do it in 2020 by winning the elections.Adam Schiff has not got the memo yet and as long as AOC and crew are going on as they are she is Pelosi will find things a little challenging.

Spare a though for Cohen.Schiff and Lanny Davis (the Clinton's lawyer)set him up only to end up with Cohen referred for more charges for lying to congress once again.

[Sisemen]

As has every election since 1976, the coming 2020 election is of critical importance, maybe the most critical ever from my perspective. The prospect of the US becoming Venezuela or Greece isn't appealing to me, though it seems to be gaining traction on the Left. Call me crazy, but I thought the EU policy of inviting millions of unvetted Muslim immigrants into its welfare states was not such a good idea either.

[Boac]

The Dems are going to have to try and do it in 2020 by winning the elections

- I prefer to pin my hopes on the GOP finding a competent replacement for the Chump.

[Boac]

I'm seeking therapy! I find myself thinking the Chump has got something right! Is this the Stockholm syndrome?

"President Donald Trump on Tuesday complained that modern planes are becoming too complicated for pilots, as countries around the world ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 after a deadly crash in Ethiopia.

"Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better," Trump wrote on Twitter.

He continued: "Split second decisions are....needed, and the complexity creates danger. All of this for great cost yet very little gain. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Albert Einstein to be my pilot. I want great flying professionals that are allowed to easily and quickly take control of a plane!"

Any Trumpions with Airbus shares............................?

[AtomKraft]

Maybe he's not as crazy as we thought....

[Slasher]

Boac actually admitting Trump did something right?

BOAC??!!

This has to be an Ops-normal first.

Let's have a whip-around for a pissup of acknowledgement!

[Boac]

This has to be an Ops-normal first.

Yes - you heard it from me

I'm seeking therapy!

[Seenenough]

Bo,is the grounding of the worldwide Max fleet that Trump has ordered a good or a bad thing?