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Unbanned - BigScrub here to eat BigCrow
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:23 pm
Finally! That was brutal. I was banned early in the day on Election Day. Congrats to all of you who were on the Trump Train early and often. I certainly was abandoned at Conventional Wisdom Crossing.
A few thoughts/observations:
I now believe the single biggest issue in the entire world is Islam. Europe did it wrong. Trump has a chance to do it right. I agree with Sam Harris that if Clinton had simply been honest after Orlando, she would have won (if 1 in 100 Trump voters had voted for her, she would have won.) Instead, she talked about gun control and then lectured Middle America on so-called Islamophobia.
I will admit to having greedily drunk the tears of all the snowflakes in the Javits Center on Election Night. It was truly beautiful watching the melt in real time.
I still think Trump is an incurious egomaniac, but there are bright spots...Rex Tillerson for starters.
I think there's a chance that the media will be out of gas even before the inauguration. Almost every single headline/story I read comes breathlessly and trying to make every last thing seem as extreme as possible. It's a pace that just can't be kept. Tillerson is another good example. Any attempt to make it seem as if Tillerson "doesn't have political experience" immediately branded the writer as an ignoramus.
I think Trump is going to face way more opposition from a supposedly friendly Congress than is being assumed. I am deeply skeptical that any sizable infrastructure bill will pass.
I thought the buried lede of Election Night was California legalizing marijuana. I'm interested to see where this goes, although I don't like some of Trump's picks on this topic.
Trump's victory was very narrow, so you should be careful to treat it as some landslide mandate. He proves how quickly things can change.
A few thoughts/observations:
I now believe the single biggest issue in the entire world is Islam. Europe did it wrong. Trump has a chance to do it right. I agree with Sam Harris that if Clinton had simply been honest after Orlando, she would have won (if 1 in 100 Trump voters had voted for her, she would have won.) Instead, she talked about gun control and then lectured Middle America on so-called Islamophobia.
I will admit to having greedily drunk the tears of all the snowflakes in the Javits Center on Election Night. It was truly beautiful watching the melt in real time.
I still think Trump is an incurious egomaniac, but there are bright spots...Rex Tillerson for starters.
I think there's a chance that the media will be out of gas even before the inauguration. Almost every single headline/story I read comes breathlessly and trying to make every last thing seem as extreme as possible. It's a pace that just can't be kept. Tillerson is another good example. Any attempt to make it seem as if Tillerson "doesn't have political experience" immediately branded the writer as an ignoramus.
I think Trump is going to face way more opposition from a supposedly friendly Congress than is being assumed. I am deeply skeptical that any sizable infrastructure bill will pass.
I thought the buried lede of Election Night was California legalizing marijuana. I'm interested to see where this goes, although I don't like some of Trump's picks on this topic.
Trump's victory was very narrow, so you should be careful to treat it as some landslide mandate. He proves how quickly things can change.
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:25 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Trump's victory was very narrow
304-227
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:26 pm to Big Scrub TX
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(if 1 in 100 Trump voters had voted for her, she would have won
Depends on the state
quote:
Trump's victory was very narrow
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:26 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:Oh Hell yeah. Here we go
Unbanned
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:26 pm to Big Scrub TX
Any presidential election resulting in more than 300+ electoral votes is a landslide victory in my book
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:27 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Unbanned
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BigScrub
Who?
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:27 pm to Big Scrub TX
Why did they ban you?
I've disagreed with you quite a bit, but I think it's better to have a wider array of voices on here, so welcome back.
I've disagreed with you quite a bit, but I think it's better to have a wider array of voices on here, so welcome back.
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:28 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Trump's victory was very narrow, so you should be careful to treat it as some landslide mandate. He proves how quickly things can change.
Bitch is Dead, and All of the Government is Red!
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:29 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:BS, stop lying and just admit you ran from the board like a little chickenshit after being so hilariously wrong and SMUG in that wrongness.
I was banned early in the day on Election Day.
quote:Agreed. Islam is the story of western politics right now.
I now believe the single biggest issue in the entire world is Islam. Europe did it wrong. Trump has a chance to do it right. I agree with Sam Harris that if Clinton had simply been honest after Orlando, she would have won (if 1 in 100 Trump voters had voted for her, she would have won.) Instead, she talked about gun control and then lectured Middle America on so-called Islamophobia.
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:31 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Finally! That was brutal. I was banned early in the day on Election Day.
I was suspended for several days on Election Night right before Trump reached 270 Electoral votes because I posted "Tic...Tic...Tic..." several times to represent time running out on the Dumacrats.
A few posters RA'd me because it bothered them soooo much.
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:33 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Unbanned
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Finally
You got called out last night in that 74 thread and you magically get unbanned
Welcome back
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:34 pm to Big Scrub TX
Trump has proven he doesn't need mandates. He just gets shite done and keeps on rolling forward. I didn't believe it at first, and he still has to follow through. However, He eats the political establishment for breakfast and shits out Jobs, budget reform, and lots more to come.
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:35 pm to Big Scrub TX
Has that fever dream finally broke??
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:35 pm to Big Scrub TX
I was working for the Republicans on election day and couldn't follow along a lot until evening. What's you do to get banned?
This post was edited on 12/27/16 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:41 pm to Big Scrub TX
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I now believe the single biggest issue in the entire world is Islam.
It's hard to rectify that with this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:44 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
I think Trump is going to face way more opposition from a supposedly friendly Congress than is being assumed. I am deeply skeptical that any sizable infrastructure bill will pass.
Trump will face opposition from congress not due to how much he wants to spend but how little he wants to spend...they will be pissed at his frugality.
Infrastructure improvements can be done with the initial help of congress but appropriated and managed without congress.
Here's how:
Get congress to pass a repatriation bill that either brings back cash dollars from corporate profits (that's an estimated $2.5 trillion) at a 15% corporate tax rate OR a 0% corporate tax rate if those corporate profits are invested in municipal infrastructure bonds. (That's a two fold incentive...0% taxes on initial repatriation and 0% taxes on the bond yield and if you count that it feels good to help local and state infrastructure projects I suppose it's a three fold incentive.)
The bonds are payed by by local revenues and funded by multinational corporations.
This approach fulfills three main goals:
1. Puts an emphases on infrastructure improvements by repatriating corporate dollars where needed
2. State, counties/parishes, cities make the decision to take on a project...they know better than the federal government if they can afforded to pay back the debt with existing or future revenues.
2. Keeps infrastructure project debt off the federal balance sheet.
Posted on 12/27/16 at 1:45 pm to Big Scrub TX
You're still a cuck in my book, but welcome back fellow Texican
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