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Tarantula says

It seems as if folks around these parts are singularly obsessed with a particular first (and likely only) term congresswoman, to the point that I"m concerned for their mental well being.

She gets a LOL. We kind of love her for how many stupid things she says and how she drives people out of her own party and drives the party bosses to distraction with her Marxist ideas.

Your post, however, gets only a “meh.”

Yes, Elagtouno/ERRC.

We are terrified of AOC. Everytime she appears and opens her mouth, MAGA takes a deadly blow.

Keep rolling her out, repeatedly. And Beta, too.

He looks crazed.

Often his crazy noise is intended to get the media and us to move on from the last embarrassing ridiculous thing he said. It's a ploy he's been using since the 2016 campaign.

He's going to be working overtime for the next week to take our minds of the interview where he basically threatened violence against the media and democrats if they "go too far."

Tim Aurora says

First of all, I am not big on grades. Some people. however dedicated cannot score high and others who are good at taking exam.

So, then you're admitting grades really don't serve any point in the big picture.


Tim Aurora says

That said, before he mocks others grades and other failed enterprises, I would like Trump to show his taxes and his grades,

You just admitted grades won't tell you much. What do you think you can determine from Trump's tax return that the IRS hasn't figured out? Do you know more than the IRS?




What's your expertise in reading all those pages?

www.youtube.com/embed/UDz718_HhQI

www.youtube.com/embed/XgXwIIHAmaw

www.youtube.com/embed/I3oO6I56Guc

www.youtube.com/embed/fhbrjGUM2jw

HEYYOU says

How many Republicans will never be anything but takers?

A small amount compared to the number of Democrats

See, if the government hadn't gotten involved in funding education, they never would have been defrauded, and she never would have had to go through that. And tuition likely wouldn't be so unaffordable.

Once Again: The GOP Tax Cuts Are Not Paying for Themselves

A handful of supply-side enthusiasts are sticking to their claim that the Republican tax cuts are paying for themselves, with Art Laffer making that argument on CNBC just last week, but the overwhelming consensus is that the tax overhaul has pushed the federal government deeper into the red. William Gale and Aaron Krupkin of the Tax Policy Center revisited the topic Wednesday, and concluded once again that the tax cuts are neither increasing revenues nor paying for themselves:

“While some [Tax Cuts and Jobs Act] supporters are touting that nominal revenues were higher in fiscal year (FY) 2018 than in FY2017, that comparison does not address the question of TCJA’s effects. Nominal revenues rise because of inflation and economic growth. Adjusted for inflation, total revenues fell from FY2017 to FY2018. Adjusted for the size of the economy, they fell even more.”

As the table below indicates, federal revenues were lower in every category in fiscal year 2018 compared to the projected revenues without the tax cuts. And the revenue declines for the calendar year are even greater, since the fiscal year includes three months (October to December 2017) before the tax cuts took place.



“None of these findings should be surprising,” Gale and Krupkin write, since just about every major analysis – including those by the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Policy Center, the Penn-Wharton Budget Model and academic researchers Robert Barro and Jason Furman – concluded that the tax cuts would significantly reduce revenues. And there’s no reason to believe that economic growth will make up the loss, the authors say, since those same analyses concluded that higher economic growth sparked by the tax cuts would cover an average of just 20 percent of the overall cost.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2019/03/13/Once-Again-GOP-Tax-Cuts-Are-Not-Paying-Themselves

@TrumpingTits
"Who claimed the tax cuts would pay for themselves?"
Er, I can't tell if this is sarcasm, ignorance or fake news? Is this just an attempt by a Trumpturd to rewrite history to suit your delusions? If you really are asking this question, then I suggest either getting a high school diploma or a vasectomy. Either you are undereducated and that might help or you are too far gone and your genes should be removed from the gene pool.
You might look up Mnuchin, Trump, and dozens of other Republicans cunts who claimed the cuts would pay for themselves. And that they benefited the middle class. LOL.

@FortWayne
Keep spinning until you hit a lie that is irrefutable. That's the spirit!
Unemployment is not at a record low and employment rates are still extremely low. Real wages are stagnated. No one mentioned Obama. Why not bring up Hillary and Hitler while you are whining? Next thing you will tell us that the Democrats are to blame because they are secretly controlling America and stopping companies from hiring. Or it's the Muslims or Jews or some other minority.

Well I'm damn happy to have the tax cuts, I get $200 more in each paycheck and I still got a nice chunk of change in my return.
For those of you bitching about paying to much taxes, get a gal and have some kids, quit being a Liberal Homo.

The tax system is designed to support the Nuclear family, those Old ass people a long time ago were smart mother fuckers. Way smarter than your gay ass Jewish Commie Atheist teachers and professors. They set up our American system to avoid what China and Japan is going through right now.

Breed and get cheaper taxes and you'll then have a vested interest in resisting all things Liberals.

Have kids make America Americans again. Make the Liberal Soy Boy Metro Fools subsidize your family. Besides they are the idiots always calling for Socialist Shit and higher taxes. Shove it back up their poop shoot. Remember Kids, if Liberals aren't bitching and moaning, then you're doing it wrong.

Tim Aurora says

better be ready to show his taxes and grades.

Neither one of these is a requirement to be POTUS. Obama sure wasn’t releasing his grades.
Past Presidents have been statesmen or lawyers with little business to disclose. Trump’s tax returns would be absolutely gigantic with as many businesses and interests and investments as he oversees. As far as telling us whether or not he’s qualified to serve in that office, it’s irrelevant at this point. We’ve seen him perform for two years now. Make your judgements from that, as if you haven’t already.

Tim Aurora says

As always, the right hides behind excuses and hence conservatives need to be called out on double standard

Hmm, who excused Trump for this? I’m sure that I didn’t make any excuses for him. I just disagreed with your assertion that grades and tax forms are necessary for Presidential candidates to release.

It’s already a well-known fact that McCain was a dunce who graduated at the bottom of his class.

So did Trump ever hand in his Homework assignment the Liberal Trollmedia keeps giving him?

They want his, medical charts, bank records, his tax returns, his high school grades, his Home Depot receipts and his letter to Santa.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/17/donald-trump-john-mccain-peddled-fake-dossier-garbage-media-fbi/

Do grades matter in America even? Really people who get all A's, just end up working for those who got C's.

F's are on the street begging for handouts.

I suggest cutting taxes to 0, while increasing military spending to at least $1Trillion, exactly as Founding Fathers commanded.

What could possibly go wrong?

No one cares enough to bother answering. Permafrost!

Hitler references mostly come from the left.

Economy is great, jobs are plentiful. MAGA!!! That’s irrefutable.

Expat01 says

@FortWayne
Keep spinning until you hit a lie that is irrefutable. That's the spirit!
Unemployment is not at a record low and employment rates are still extremely low. Real wages are stagnated. No one mentioned Obama. Why not bring up Hillary and Hitler while you are whining? Next thing you will tell us that the Democrats are to blame because they are secretly controlling America and stopping companies from hiring. Or it's the Muslims or Jews or some other minority.

Who?

Assertion fallacies do not a pundit make.

MrMagic says

here hasn't been a full year yet of new tax policy

Blahahahahaa!

He's lucky Trump doesn't agitate a Right wing version of the Antifa and chase Socialist Jews out of Restaurants and show up at their house dressed as banana's and yell all night though bullhorns ville disgusting curse words about him and his family hole. I mean whole family.

But that would just be creepy wouldn't it?

Why don't they make cars people want? And why are they trying to get $80,000 for a fucking pickup truck?

Sounds like the company is ran by fucking retards. The faster the big three can finish destroying themselves, the faster my vision of mass produced custom ordered kit cars can come into fruission. Until then I'll continue to be a solid Mazda buyer. BTW a Ford collborating partener.
But Mazda makes cars that looks this..


While Ford squanders the opportunity to come up with bullshit like this.

Tenpoundbass says

Why don't they make cars people want? And why are they trying to get $80,000 for a fucking pickup truck?

This

Disgusting people!

jazz_music says

Chomsky Busts Trump As Distraction for GOP's Government Wrecking Crew

Sounds obviously correct to me.

"But, but, but noooo, you don't get it, it's about being real patriots and winning out over globalization."

Right. And also about how refreshing his lack of political correctness is. IT would be funny if it weren't so wholly and totally bad for this country.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/10/16/the-trump-manufacturing-jobs-boom-10-times-obamas-over-21-months/

And not by a small margin, but rather an order of magnitude. Maybe Ford had issues, but overall Trump has been extremely good for US manufacturing, exactly as he promised.

At a town hall in June 2016, President Obama famously said that some manufacturing jobs “are just not going to come back.” He went on to mock then-candidate Trump by saying he’d need a “magic wand” to make good on this manufacturing job promises.

Months later, as the shock of a President-elect Donald Trump was still being absorbed, New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman tweeted on November 25, 2016, “Nothing policy can do will bring back those lost jobs. The service sector is the future of work; but nobody wants to hear it.”

Well, a funny thing happened—Trump’s policies, and just as importantly, the expectation of Trump’s policies, ignited a manufacturing resurgence.

In the first 21 months of the Trump presidency, nonfarm employment grew by a seasonally adjusted 2.6%. In the same period, manufacturing employment grew by 3.1%, reversing the trend under Obama when overall employment grew faster than employment in the manufacturing sector.

Comparing the last 21 months of the Obama administration with the first 21 months of Trump’s, shows that under Trump’s watch, more than 10 times the number of manufacturing jobs were added.

Patrick says

At a town hall in June 2016, President Obama famously said that some manufacturing jobs “are just not going to come back.”

And that is what Ross Perot warned about and his supporters were claiming that "free trade" was just a transfer tax (or wealth transfer) from the USA to Mexico and other 3rd world countries.

I recall how many including Al Gore mocked Ross Perot for his warning.

It is interesting that the US manufacturing jobs peaked in 1979 right around when China opened up its economy, and then US manufacturing dramatically decreased when free trade agreements with Mexico, China, etc. started to take effect in the late 1990's and early 2000's.