re: CNN, NY Times, others blocked from WH Press gaggle

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Let's try to keep it to major policies, not some sub-part of a rule issued by an agency.

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Do you consider EPA regulations as major or not so much? They have impacted US companies from drilling in international waters in gulf and other areas, but it hasn't stopped China and other state run oil companies from drilling.

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This is rich given how you guys talked about Obama.

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But a political board trashing Obama is not the same as all media outlets

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Investment money is how some startups and even some existing companies grow and continue to grow. Discouraging that investment is not being pro business.

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I'm skeptical that people will curb investing just because their realized gains are 5% smaller.

Also, I chafe a bit at the notion that just b/c a policy might marginally reduce the profits of a corporation, that it is anti-business. Business doesn't always respect the consumer or the environment. There's a balance to be struck w/r/t regulation.

I agree that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence but you know if trump REALLLY got a question, they'd be blasting that everywhere.

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In an economic sense, it was heavy government involvement in industry. Tight controls. Heavy regulation, picking winners and losers. Basically a planned model which were seeing with industries targeted and others promoted based on perceived social interests.

"Reining in Wall street" is also in your platform.

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So national socialism just means strong regulatory bodies? That seems a little bit like the definition trying to fit the condition. Or a way to shoehorn in the epithet "socialism" into a rather benign conversation a/b protecting consumers.

Also, I don't think there's a planned model for any industry. Very heavily regulated industries might appear that way, but I can't say I've ever been under the impression that a politician I was voting for was advocating the selection of winners and losers or deciding how much profit, employment, etc a particular industry could have. And to be clear: I'd be against that.

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There's a balance to be struck w/r/t regulation.

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I agree with you wholeheartedly. But the three knuckleheads who headed up the EPA under obama were not looking for balance.

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Also, I don't think there's a planned model for any industry. Very heavily regulated industries might appear that way, but I can't say I've ever been under the impression that a politician I was voting for was advocating the selection of winners and losers or deciding how much profit, employment, etc a particular industry could have. And to be clear: I'd be against that.

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Might want to pay attention to regulations and payoffs to particularly the energy and transportation industries. They are definitely planned

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But when it comes to not even stopping for one second to think about the victims of human trafficking- no. I'm sorry but that is just wrong.

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Of course it's wrong. But it's still nothing new. And human trafficking is terrible, but it's not like some stupid twitter trolls doesn't make it any more terrible by comparison.

Maybe I'm just used to it, or I realize that attention-seeking behavior is best ignored, and twitter is a great place to not be ignored, especially when replying to Trump.

When a news organization outright lies or does not fact check their sources in a rush to put out dirt on the President, why should he do them any favors? They do this in a mean-spirited effort to denigrate him and demean his efforts when he does what he said he would do. They are doing this intentionally and all too frequently. These same clowns went all in for the most corrupt presidential candidate in recent history, and they are dismayed that she lost. This has impacted their credibility, so they set out to destroy the winner. It's sad and funny at the same time, and pathetic as well.

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Stomping all over the bill of rights one day at a time

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Trump and Obama are a lot alike in that regard