Sound Money,boglerdude wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:07 am But hes a libertarian who's going to restore sound money
Look where sound money got J.F.K.
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Sound Money,boglerdude wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:07 am But hes a libertarian who's going to restore sound money
It's not what he does, it's how he does it. As I said, I agree with a lot of his broad policy, but his style of implementation is so divisive and destructive that it is a net negative. Trump is undermining our ability to have calm rational debate and it is whipping both sides of political spectrum in hysteria. That is much more dangerous to the health of our nation than any particular issue you might agree with. He is cancerous to dialogue...and we need sane factually based rational dialogue if we hope to solve our issues as a nation.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:40 amWhat a politician does is much more important than what he says.
This is partly because they say a lot of things that they don't do.
Trump is considerably less guilty in this regard than typical politicians; he has actually tried to keep quite a few of his promises.
He wasn't President in 2016. Got anything from his actual Presidency?doodle wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:09 am To start, his bullying...calling people losers, pencilnecks, mocking them, drawing attention to their height or weight..making false accusations against people or statements about how they should be locked up without any regard for die process... go back and rewatch the Republican primaries from 2016. Basically, he behaves like a guest on Jerry Springer show.
You're kidding, right, tech?Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:07 pmHe wasn't President in 2016. Got anything from his actual Presidency?doodle wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:09 am To start, his bullying...calling people losers, pencilnecks, mocking them, drawing attention to their height or weight..making false accusations against people or statements about how they should be locked up without any regard for die process... go back and rewatch the Republican primaries from 2016. Basically, he behaves like a guest on Jerry Springer show.
I'll give those to you, no problem!Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:00 pmJohn McCain helped the "Russian collusion" hoax out quite a bit. If someone had tried to destroy your life by spreading lies about you to the FBI, would you be charitable toward him even after his death? I wouldn't.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:19 pmYou're kidding, right, tech?Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:07 pmHe wasn't President in 2016. Got anything from his actual Presidency?doodle wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:09 am To start, his bullying...calling people losers, pencilnecks, mocking them, drawing attention to their height or weight..making false accusations against people or statements about how they should be locked up without any regard for die process... go back and rewatch the Republican primaries from 2016. Basically, he behaves like a guest on Jerry Springer show.
One of a million sites cataloging Trump’s mocking, bullying, belittling tweets.
https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-t ... an-9211061
I know you’ll say those people attacked first. Well, how about dead John McCain? Still goes after him!
That is also a hoax. Here's what he actually said:Cortopassi wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:19 pm How about the very fine people on both sides in Charlottesville?
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“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
After another question at that press conference, Trump became even more explicit:
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/artic ... 39815.html
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I'll assume that you are a victim of this hoax rather than intentionally spreading it while knowing it is a hoax. Therefore you should be grateful to be disabused of this incorrect belief.
Right?
Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:28 pmI'm shocked that someone with a known bad temper who was fired from his job would criticize his prior boss.Ad Orientem wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:50 pm John Bolton: Donald Trump asked Theresa May if Britain had nuclear weapons, said invading Venezuela would be 'cool' and it was 'really part of the U.S.,' and thought Finland was in Russia
Source...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ussia.html
And of course someone like that always tells the truth!
It’s The Swamp protecting its way of life.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:53 amExactly. And it's not just Bolton. The generals who are attacking Trump (which by the way is illegal even for retired officers) are probably also animated by the same motives.stuper1 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:49 pm I don't think the DOJ can shut down a publication for having false claims. We have this thing called the First Amendment. It's a pretty high bar to get over.
Bolton will say anything that will advance militarism. If he's against Trump, that's a very good sign that Trump is doing something right.
Exactly! It's not just one senior official, it is literally dozens of them. Including Michael Cohen and people that worked for him in a non governmental capacity prior to taking office. His entire career is full of lawsuits. As I said , I worked with honest contractors who he literally told to take a hike after they spent months working on his projects. The man is a f*#*#*# scumbag. How much more evidence do you need? It's like he's the OJ Simpson for angry white men. But I guess it like he said, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters,” ...that's not a fake quote, he actually wrote that shit...why would you think that anything else that John Bolton, or the thousand of other people suing him are saying is outlandish? Trump is literally the Messiah for angry disgruntled outraged people everywhere....and there is plenty of anger. It's like his outbursts provide some catatonic vicarious release for grumpy people everywhere who have had a wife cheat on them, or a boss take advantage of them, or their friends stop calling them. Trump will take your anger, give it voice and set you free. The Messiah has returned...and he is not black or white...he is orange !Ad Orientem wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:54 pmLibertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:28 pmI'm shocked that someone with a known bad temper who was fired from his job would criticize his prior boss.Ad Orientem wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:50 pm John Bolton: Donald Trump asked Theresa May if Britain had nuclear weapons, said invading Venezuela would be 'cool' and it was 'really part of the U.S.,' and thought Finland was in Russia
Source...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ussia.html
And of course someone like that always tells the truth!
The problem is that this is not an outlier. Trump has by far the highest turnover in senior staff of any president and a lot of them are saying the same or similar things. I am not a fan of Bolton at all. But I don't for one second think he is making things up. The man maybe a hardcore neo-imperialist warmonger, but he is not a liar. He has mountains of notes and memoranda that he took and kept to back his claims up. It's also telling that the DOJ is trying to shut down the publication of the book on grounds of divulging classified information, not that his claims are false.
You still haven't answered about the masks.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:50 am There is indeed a problem. You now know you have been lied to about some very significant facts.
When someone does that to me, I don't believe anything else they say.
Have you stopped believing the people who have been lying to you?
I'd rather just have the honey roasted peanuts that Carter enabled, maybe even some Iranian flatbread with a healthy dose of garlic and poppy seeds. And watch Top Gun. Or a Halmark movie. Or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Or Platoon, or Gone With the Wind, or Full Metal Jacket, or Ben Hur. This reality TV-like stuff that constantly shows us our sin, and the sins of others (which is far easier to swallow rather than peer into the mirror at ourselves and realize we are the problem), is for the unrepentant, the numb of mind, those with TDS or BDS, and the utopian desires of many. I think I'll have a beer now. It's 5 o'clock somewhere.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 11:43 am I just went through a Zoom meeting for marching band last night. The kids are still prohibited from practicing, even though we can easily be social distanced, and for much of the practicing can be masked. Football? Half Time? Competitions? All in limbo, likely not to happen.
Yet protests and the upcoming Trump rally can happen with basically a shrug. All a load of bullshit. Double, triple, quadruple standards, inconsistent standards, etc. This is getting really old.
He's not off the rails. He's just mentally wired different from most of us. Some people like that. I have learned to hate it. I want a smart, humble, compassionate president. He might be smart in certain respects, but he is certainly not the other two.
Yes, dammit, at this point I want Jimmy Carter.
The fact that there have to be gyrations at all to convince people Trump wasn't actually talking about the neo-Nazis is a problem by itself.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:52 pm
I just demonstrated that you personally have bought a completely false narrative about his statements about Charlottesville.
And that is far from the only example. There are literally dozens of times that the media have taken something he said and made it sound terrible, where if you read or listen to what he actually said you would realize they are deceiving you.
I hope that helps.
My opinion:MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:37 pmPlease elaborate: Are you saying that you don't now think masks are necessary? Why not? And what has changed your mind over the last 3 months?Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:23 am
Let me put words into your mouth -- the virus is overblown and masks aren't necessary? I do not differ significantly from that position! I have evolved over the past 3 months.
.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:27 pm I would like to ask any mask wearers who wear the masks around with their nose exposed -- what's the point of that? I see it all the time in stores. If you're going to bother with a mask cover your nose too!
Isn't this virus at least one or two orders of magnitude more infectious than common flu and isn't at least a couple of orders of magnitude more deadly? From what I've heard from some people who've caught it, it's been a much more arduous recovery.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:25 pmMy opinion:MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:37 pmPlease elaborate: Are you saying that you don't now think masks are necessary? Why not? And what has changed your mind over the last 3 months?Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:23 am
Let me put words into your mouth -- the virus is overblown and masks aren't necessary? I do not differ significantly from that position! I have evolved over the past 3 months.
--The virus is bad, but as with some years of flu that hit young more sometimes and old others, this one seems to hit older people with underlying conditions more. So far, in total numbers, (please correct me if I am wrong) this virus is about as bad as a pretty bad flu year. And considering the flu has vaccines every year, you could probably extend that to say it might not even be as bad as a bad flu year would be if a vaccine didn't blunt some of that flu. ***If I offend anyone and you think I'm talking out of my ass here, sorry.
--Given that, for whatever reason, we decided to overblow the response. Instead of safeguarding those most at risk, we locked everyone down. That is going to be shown to have been a mistake.
--Barring all that, I have no problem wearing a mask. If it makes others more comfortable, it is a small price to pay. I am not being trampled on by the state, and having my freedoms removed one by one by being asked to wear a mask. Those who equate this with prying my gun out of my cold dead hands are overblowing that aspect.
--As a side benefit, no one in my family has been sick since before March. That is really atypical. So the masks must be doing something.
I think what has mainly made me evolve is the BS shifting of the goalposts by government officials. Setting numbers for groups and spacing that seem generally pulled out of asses. Seeing the breathless reporting on the states where cases are increasing but not a peep about IL for example, where we've crushed it down. Saying we have to get to an "effective" treatment or vaccine to fully open again (what is effective? Pretty nebulous)
The engineer in me finds all this shifting and ass pulling of numbers very disturbing. We wanted to flatten the curve. We did. Now open the eff back up.
I went from scared, to scared for my parents, to depressed, to pissed that my kids had their spring semesters screwed to super pissed it is still possibly affecting fall semesters.
As for Trump, I would be more inclined to be positive about his position on masks if he came out and gave some solid reasons (which as least somewhat exist) on why masks aren't really that effective. And I would reference this terribly long Denninger piece: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=239530
doodle, I don't want to downplay the severity. I want to question the response of lockdowns. See the graph below. For the 1957 and 1968 flu seasons, if you normalize to current population, the 1957 one would have killed about 230,000 people and the 1968 one about 159,000. I don't pretend to know the history, but I assume we did not lock down the economy during those times.doodle wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:15 amIsn't this virus at least one or two orders of magnitude more infectious than common flu and isn't at least a couple of orders of magnitude more deadly? From what I've heard from some people who've caught it, it's been a much more arduous recovery.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:25 pmMy opinion:MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:37 pmPlease elaborate: Are you saying that you don't now think masks are necessary? Why not? And what has changed your mind over the last 3 months?Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:23 am
Let me put words into your mouth -- the virus is overblown and masks aren't necessary? I do not differ significantly from that position! I have evolved over the past 3 months.
--The virus is bad, but as with some years of flu that hit young more sometimes and old others, this one seems to hit older people with underlying conditions more. So far, in total numbers, (please correct me if I am wrong) this virus is about as bad as a pretty bad flu year. And considering the flu has vaccines every year, you could probably extend that to say it might not even be as bad as a bad flu year would be if a vaccine didn't blunt some of that flu. ***If I offend anyone and you think I'm talking out of my ass here, sorry.
--Given that, for whatever reason, we decided to overblow the response. Instead of safeguarding those most at risk, we locked everyone down. That is going to be shown to have been a mistake.
--Barring all that, I have no problem wearing a mask. If it makes others more comfortable, it is a small price to pay. I am not being trampled on by the state, and having my freedoms removed one by one by being asked to wear a mask. Those who equate this with prying my gun out of my cold dead hands are overblowing that aspect.
--As a side benefit, no one in my family has been sick since before March. That is really atypical. So the masks must be doing something.
I think what has mainly made me evolve is the BS shifting of the goalposts by government officials. Setting numbers for groups and spacing that seem generally pulled out of asses. Seeing the breathless reporting on the states where cases are increasing but not a peep about IL for example, where we've crushed it down. Saying we have to get to an "effective" treatment or vaccine to fully open again (what is effective? Pretty nebulous)
The engineer in me finds all this shifting and ass pulling of numbers very disturbing. We wanted to flatten the curve. We did. Now open the eff back up.
I went from scared, to scared for my parents, to depressed, to pissed that my kids had their spring semesters screwed to super pissed it is still possibly affecting fall semesters.
As for Trump, I would be more inclined to be positive about his position on masks if he came out and gave some solid reasons (which as least somewhat exist) on why masks aren't really that effective. And I would reference this terribly long Denninger piece: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=239530