The First 100 days

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by theiioftx, Nov 10, 2016.

  1. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Who lauded him? He was crazy and attention-seeking before just as he is now. It's the inconsistency I'm pointing out.
     
  2. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    I give Trump credit for this. Mark down the date/time.
     
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  3. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    This chud was Obama's personal choice on National Security

    It's funny to watch them try and pretzel their positions. From "Trump is going to drive North and South Korea to war, and get us all nuked" to "Trump had no influence on ending the Korean War"
    Cognitive dissonance should not be a life slogan

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  4. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  5. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    The taunts are the reason for Kim's movement to peace? I'd argue they were anti-productive but Trump's relationship with Xi was the likely reason for success. Trump deserves credit fo that. Still waiting to see what Kim's ask will be to negotiate "denuclearization".
     
  6. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

  7. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

  8. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    If reports are true about that site, it makes Chernobyl look like a toy glow-stick by comparison.
     
  9. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  10. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  11. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Kim has agreed to meet Trump in the DMZ
     
  12. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Kanye in a TMZ interview. This is "woke", I guess.

    WTF? This dude is a musical genius but out to lunch on anything other than music. He talks to hear himself talk or garner notoriety.

    This was a good response by another person in the room.
     
  13. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    It makes me wonder if he's just a trying to start controversy. The whole idea of him going his own way on politics is fine. But to suggest that slavery was a choice is absurd. A choice for whom? The actual slaves? Not likely.

    A musical genius? Yep, right to there with Mozart, Beethoven, and the guys who did "The Humpty Dance."
     
  14. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    So shut up and rap, then?
     
  15. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    I think that those black people today, who make the historical fact of slavery central to their lives and identities, are most definitely making a choice, and are most definitely imprisoned by that choice.

    It's not 100% clear to me that this is what Kanye is driving at, but to the extent he is telling people to "let it go" and get on with the life you have, I am 100% on board with him.
     
  16. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Of course, his remarks were borderline incoherent, so it's hard to figure out exactly what he said. However, if he was trying to make the point that blacks shouldn't consider themselves limited or tied down because of slavery (which is a perfectly fair point to make), he could have done so without saying that slavery for 400 years was a choice. That one dumb comment overshadows whatever greater point he was trying to make.
     
  17. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    I have previously written about how the Courts rejected DAPA (see above). And how DACA was built on even shakier legal ground than DAPA. At one point, the states had a lawsuit pending which, IMO, would have undone DACA completely, in a similar fashion. However, the states dropped that action in a nod to political concerns (they were asked to do so for the time being by the Rs and White House). Basically Trump was willing to yield on DACA, even though it was an unconstitutional use of power by Obama, if Trump could get concessions on a bigger immigration deal.

    In hindsight, this was a bad move. The states should have just let the original lawsuit matriculate through the federal system. It would have saved much drama and cut off Hawaii and San Fran district court judges at the knees.

    Anyway, 7 states (including Texas) have now renewed the legal challenge to DACA.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/daca-lawsuit-challenge-texas/index.html
     
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  18. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    That's what I mean. Where did 400 years come from? Slaving has been around much longer than that, but colonial slave trading didn't have a 400 year lifespan. That's a gratuitous comment that obscured whatever point he was trying to make. I'd say it's pretty clear Kanye hasn't been trained in elucidating and framing an argument, as lawyers and debaters have.
     
  19. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    CNN has had the Porn Star's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, on 59 times in less than two months
     
  20. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  21. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Poor SF local news guy has to make an admission he didnt want to have to make

     
  22. militaryhorn

    militaryhorn Prediction Contest Manager

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  23. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I think it's far too early to seriously consider this. However, the Nobel people set the bar so incredibly low with Obama that they have no room to argue against it. Obama got the award in 2009 and had no foreign policy accomplishments to his credit. He basically got the prize for not being George W. Bush. (I think the Cairo Speech was the big factor, but come on, he read something off a teleprompter. He didn't do anything.)

    Well if that's the standard now, then of course Trump should get it. In fact, he should have gotteng it months ago. Hell, what President shouldn't get it?
     
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  24. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  25. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    It was a premature award in 2009 just as it would be for Trump now. If he can achieve denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula Trump warrants consideration along with Xi.

    With that said, nominations don't occur until September so this claim of a nomination is a political stunt, nothing more, at this point.
     
  26. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Lowest monthly avg for jobless claims since Nixon

    " ..... After hitting the lowest level since 1969 the week before, new claims for unemployment benefits rose just 2,000 to 211,000 in the last week of the month, the Department of Labor reported Thursday morning. That number was well below the 224,000 that forecasters had expected.

    The past two weeks' very low readings drove the monthly average for claims down to 221,500. That's the lowest since early 1973.

    Then, during Richard Nixon's presidency, the labor force was about half the size it is today.

    Low new claims mean that few people are getting laid off, and consequently that net job creation is high....."

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...s-claims-running-at-lowest-levels-in-45-years
     
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  27. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    UE Rate below 4% for the first time since 2000
    Third-lowest unemployment in the last 48 years
    And we're very close to #1 and #2
     
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  28. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    More on the April jobs report: Average earnings rose by 4 cents an hour and are up 2.6 percent over the past year.
     
  29. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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