We need to talk about Donald: cursing and swearing allowed

[Sean Hayden]

-more like infantile

What he meant was that he'd like to bring manufacturing back to the US, not that he'd like to take a loss doing it. Jesus, what's wrong with you lefties?

What manufacturing jobs is he going to bring back that aren't going to necessitate a loss??

How the hell should I know? :

Sounds like the problem isn't us lefties then, eh?

The sole reason manufacturing left the developed world for the developing world is cost. You simply can't create most things for the same or cheaper cost in the west without tariffs and subsidies. No manufacturers are coming back unless he slaps up trade barriers. And if he does that prices for everything will go up.

I like poking at a certain kind of attitude among us lefties.

If I had to offer an opinion about manufacturing it would likely be along the lines of what I said before: mostly forget it, and seek opportunities elsewhere. But I really do feel like that may just be a pipe dream. Maybe the whole idea of a permanent middle class is a pipe dream, maybe we should get over it and seek some radical changes.

[Brian Peacock]

Revolution!!!

[Tero]

It was all going so well for GOP and McConnell. Nothing got passed. Republicans Love that, Nothing! Leave it to Trump to reintroduce Spending into government...

[Animavore]

I guess this sort of belongs here because this is one of Trump's favourite news sources, and this is a cursing and swearing thread.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/youre-a ... oung-girl/

Ah ha ha. What a loser.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/this-gi ... oung-girl/

[L'Emmerdeur]

The best thing he could have done would have been to just ignore the whole thing and move on. But then, he's apparently a guy that thought a job at InfoWars would advance his career, so, not particularly astute.

[L'Emmerdeur]

This ties into the 'First White President' article that Animavore posted a couple of pages ago:

'Study: Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man'

All it takes to reduce support for housing assistance among Donald Trump supporters is exposure to an image of a black man.

That’s the takeaway from a new study by researchers Matthew Luttig, Christopher Federico, and Howard Lavine, set to be published in Research & Politics. In a randomized survey experiment, the trio of researchers exposed respondents to images of either a white or black man. They found that when exposed to the image of a black man, white Trump supporters were less likely to back a federal mortgage aid program. Favorability toward Trump was a key measure for how strong this effect was.

The study is just the latest to show that racial attitudes are a powerful predictor for support for Trump — and the newest to suggest that such attitudes play a major role in Americans’ views toward public policy. Previous studies have found that racial resentment was a much stronger indicator of support for Trump than views about the economy. And other research has shown that priming people to think about race can make them more conservative on a host of issues.

...

[The study authors] found that the image of a black man greatly impacted responses among Trump supporters. After they were exposed to the black racial cue, they were not only less supportive of housing assistance programs, but they also expressed higher levels of anger that some people receive government assistance and were more likely to say that individuals who receive assistance are to blame for their situation.

All of these findings were heightened with greater favorability for Trump. In fact, there was an opposite effect among respondents who reported the least favorability toward Trump: They were less likely to oppose housing assistance, get angry at the program, or blame the recipients of such programs for their situation when exposed to the black racial cue compared to the white racial cue. (Luttig told me that this is likely a result of racial progressives viewing black people as disadvantaged in America due to structural racism, therefore requiring more aid.)

In contrast, favorability toward Clinton did not significantly change respondents’ views on any of these issues when primed with racial cues.

[Tero]

"I gave government money away and people like me!"
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pi ... him-2017-9

[Tero]

Trump's new old pals Pelosi and Schumer:

Trump’s campaign largess has benefited Pelosi, as well. In the 2006 cycle along, Trump donated $20,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, helping the Democrats win control of the House that year — and making Pelosi the first female Speaker in the country’s history.

[mistermack]

Trump's America. Florida Republican, in a bout of Trump-enabled, and encouraged, white supremacy, tells African constituents looking for reparations, to go home to Africa.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... to-africa/

Seems reasonable. If you want to turn back time, and cancel out the past, you have to take the rough with the smooth.

The people who were sold as slaves to the Americans wouldn't have been free if the Americans didn't buy them. They would just have been slaves of Africans. Slavery was a hot business back then.
Maybe they would have stood a better chance of dying, or of escaping. Who knows.

[pErvinalia]

True. The slavers did them a favour, amiright?

[mistermack]

Certainly did their descendants a favour.

[pErvinalia]

Too right. The blacks should be paying the whites, not the other way round!

[mistermack]

Too right. The blacks should be paying the whites, not the other way round!

They should all be paying the injuns and abbos.

[Tero]

One imagines a future scene in the Situation Room:

The president: Why don’t we bomb Guam so the North Koreans can’t?

The secretary of state: That’s part of our country, sir.

The secretary of defense: We have thousands of troops there.

The national security adviser: And 150,000 innocent civilians.

The chief of staff: It would be a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.

Ivanka Trump: Please don’t do this, Dad.

Jared Kushner: [Silence.]

The president: It’s settled. We begin bombing in five minutes. Let’s hit Hawaii, too. But not my hotel in Waikiki.

The unreliability of Trump has put an unusual burden on Congress, which is ill equipped to bear it.

http://www.newsadvance.com/opinion/colu ... 4961d.html

[Scot Dutchy]

Why cant they quietly move him to a clinic?