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Any chance that this could be because his children are adults with lives of their own rather than children and also hold positions in the administration?

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Of course there is a chance of that. In fact, here is neat chart of the breakdown by group. As you can see, Trump's travel decreased slightly from Obama, however Trump's family traveled nearly 10x the rate of Obama's.


Regarding the "hold positions in the administration" line, that may be true of Jared and Ivanka, but dumb & dumber don't travel on US business.

From the source article, which I explicitly hadn't quoted since it is fairly biased with its assertions, but bias or not this information is 100% verifiable and true:

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In February 2017, Eric and Don Jr. flew to Dubai to open a Trump-branded golf club, which cost the Secret Service more than $200,000. The same month, Eric flew to the Dominican Republic to potentially relaunch a failed Trump-branded resort project, which cost $20,000. Eric Trump has visited Uruguay twice for Trump Organization business, costing taxpayers $97,830 in 2017,and $80,786 in 2019.

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Does it particularly matter how much they travel? I don't know, that is up to you. I personally don't really care about how much they travel - that's a perk of being president - but what bothers me is they are using taxpayer money to enrich themselves. The Secret Service travel budget nearly doubled, $60m to $140m, to accommodate the travel extra travel which is mostly to Trump-owned properties.

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but it is relevant to the social rhetoric around the case (whether he was hunted, whether it was a lynching, etc.).

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I wouldn't say he was hunted, but they definitely intended to trap him given the way they veered the car. That alone is assault. The fact that they brought guns and had them at the ready (I won't say aimed them at him for the guys here who like to count pixels and pretend it matters) means it was premeditated. But obviously I don't believe their intention was to commit murder.

Would he have died if he just submitted completely to their will? No, I don't think so.

Was he justified in attempting to defend himself from two guys that trapped him with guns? Absolutely.

They cannot use self defense as they premeditated & initiated the confrontation (brought guns, trapped him using their car) and they cannot claim citizens arrest as they didn't witness him commit a felony (some are saying they thought they did - that doesn't matter - no felony was committed so they didn't witness one).

Of course the liberal national media will spin it as a lynching, etc.

Exactly the same way the conservative national media spins every illegal immigrant as a rapist and drug trafficker.

I will say I personally know many, many more vehemently racist, hateful, violent white men than I know mexican rapists, but that is neither here nor there.

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It might be painful in the short term but at least this state has a strong underlying economy fueled by various industrial sectors. I'm grateful for the forward thinking leadership we've blessed with who were able to attract those industries to this state.

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:lol: :lol:
I feel bad for LA folks as I still have family down there, but MAN. You guys constantly bitch giving tax breaks to any sector not O&G, then go full shocked-pikachu face when the budget plunges with the price of oil.

Don't bath in oil then be surprised you're burning when it gets hot.

EDIT: for everyone blaming JBE not cutting spending and raising taxes, where you upset when Jindal sucked the federal Katrina money dry giving O&G $200 million in cash?

It all centers around one question: should the postal service be in the business of making money, or should it be a government-subsidized service designed to let Americans quickly, cheaply, and reliably send letters and packages to anywhere in the world.

Either one will require an act of congress as they are not allowed to make their own rules.

If you want them to make money they need to be able to set their own prices - as it is USPS charges almost HALF of what UPS/FEDEX do for smaller packages and letters.

A key talking point for Dems is the USPS has to "fund retirement and benefits for the next 75 years, even for workers not born yet." This is a complete myth. The USPS has to fund their employee's benefits the same exact way a private company does - the biggest difference is that a private company could cut/change health coverage to save money and USPS can not.

Essentially the biggest issue with the USPS is that they're forced (by congress) to act as though they are a private, money-making business that cannot set its own prices. Its baffling and asinine but what isn't in DC.

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It's designed to challenge Americans to start learning critical stuff

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Why don't we challenge those coal miners and assembly line workers then? Coal is beyond dead: NatGas is cheaper, more efficient, safer, cleaner, and already being extracted alongside oil.

The ONLY ONLY ONLY reason coal power still exists is to pacify the few states whose economy's are entirely based on it such as WV and KY.

Coal gets around $5 BILLION a year from the government to remain viable - its a government hand out on an industrial scale and its absolutely disgusting. NatGas is the future. The coal miners need to adapt or die.

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What the frick are you on about, mijo?

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In the other thread it seemed to be the consensus that the "armed protestors" were actually planted by the Sheriff so he could roll in his army tank - which was of course overkill - for a photo op and show of force over the people.

Been reading some horror stories from Drs.

If you get this thing - and get it bad - not only does it make breathing harder, it also raises your heartbeat to something ridiculous like 170-180...resting. Your body goes into shock fighting it and stresses the heart out.

Yeah her heart probably wasn't pristine or healthy in the first place, but still. Sad.

And if you survive all that, you're still at risk for a cytokine storm which will basically rip the interior of your lungs out.

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Government teet, correct?

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Actually yeah, a lot of my company's products are R&D using government funds. All we pay for is ramping up production and they let us keep the billions in profit. GD I love our lobbying firm. :nana: :nana:

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They're practically begging for an armed revolt

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:lol: :lol:

Whatcha gunna do against that tank?

You guys demand we spend $$ on military, then when the military has too much stuff, you guys have no problem with local police buying it, because hell they're cops, they're the good guys!

But yeah, your AR-15 packin gun club is gunna revolt and do something about it.
Gimme a break.

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Mikovits appears to be a total lune.

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Seems the new funds would have gone pretty quickly if it was as bad as everyone said. Seems that any small business that wants to apply and get funded has had a fair shot.

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Hopefully these mega-corps that gobelled up the first round then got shamed into returning them learned their lesson.

All they had to was call up their bank and say "get me that money," and the bank had an inside lane to do so. No waiting on the phone like small businesses had to do.