POLITICAL THREAD

[Wildcats1st]

Uh, those financial regs HURT the recovery... they didn't help. I know, I've worked in this business for 32 years.

His regs choked off the IPO market... which is how newer, younger companies get access to capital markets.

And allowing the DOL to gain oversight over our industry... well, let's just say there's a reason his regs have been rolled back lol.

The average Joe has no idea as to the incompetancy of the Obama regime.

Ok. Lol. The economy was in an unprecedented free fall. There was no recovery when those regulations were put into place. You can’t say that recovery was hurt when at the time there was no recovery there was economic free fall. Besides I’m not siding with Obama’s economic policies.

Earlier you said Obama did nothing now you’re saying he did too much. I’m not going to debate you on his policies bc ultimately there is no right answer. McCain could have been elected and made things worse than Obama or maybe better. I don’t know; however, you’re contention that Obama did nothing is incorrect.

Please though in this respect be genuine and tell me what the republican plan was to thwart the free fall? Bush spent like the wind, government grew under him more than anytime in the last 50 years. Be thankful to gd that you have an economy to even conduct business in bc the USA was on the brink of a total financial collapse. Regulations, QE, spending all of it helped stabilize things so there would be an economy to recover. Again I’m not backing Obama’s policies but the republicans were doing the same shit, spending, TARP certainly with a rep President he wouldn’t stop QE. Regulations are no friend to the free market but sometimes they are needed to protect the free market. It all balanced out in the long run and now there is a president who has taken the shackles off.

Your view of things deals with one sector of the economy and is very narrowly focused. The street is not the US economy.

 

[ymmot31]

Yep, I remember O'bama saying "don't worry Americans, all your jobs are coming back" then he said "I'm going to create an environment where America can drill itself out of oil dependency". One of the most encouraging things he said was "if you create a business, then that is YOUR business, YOU created it".

Look at that chart up above and tell me who had help with the economy and who was being throttled back.

 

[Platinumdrgn]

Completely real story. Last week I ordered a package and the company I ordered it through had USPS ship it. I was in my living room working when I hear the USPS truck pull up. No lie, the girl pulls up slides her door open, tosses a note out of the truck and begins to pull down my driveway. I ended up running out of my house and down my driveway to flag her down. She handed me my package and said, "oh I didn't think anyone was home." I walked back up and pickup the note she left. The note was the "no one here to sign, pickup package at closest USPS". First of all didnt need to sign for the package, 2nd of all she didnt even get out of her car and walk up my stairs and knock on my door to see if anyone was home. Literally pulled up, through the note out the door and drove off.

And you wonder why the USPS loses a ton of money every year while FedEx and UPS make profits. Whenever I hear about people wanting the government to run something (banks or internet), I always just think to myself, who actually prefers the USPS over FedEx or UPS? No one does because it sucks because its run by the least efficient corporation there is, the government.

USPS charges .50 for a letter and ups charges $20. The rates on small packages are not quite as apart. USPS daily volume is 187 million and UPS daily volume is 18 million. Congress essentially forces USPS to operate at a loss. Both use union driver's. Now take a guess why USPS is terrible.

 

[jameslee32]

 

[barbourfor3]

The radicalism in the Middle East started long before the Cold War ended, where do people come up with this shit?

 

[jameslee32]

 

[TCPUKChamps]

Looks like Bishop is going to win NC-9.

And in more ironic joy...

 

[jameslee32]

 

[Bill Cosby]

Lefties are right. Anyone present in the Bahamas during the hurricane should immediately be transported to the US with no documentation or records.

 

[AustinTXCat]

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You can deal with immigration without turning into Nazi POS. His base love this shit. But the majority of the country and the world think it's an embarrassment.

 

[Joerules19]

This professor at Maryland wants us to believe she was at a baseball game surrounded by white men who have probably noticed her and her skin color yet still are making remarks about her son of the same skin color and his name right there where she can hear it...doesn't pass the smell test, nothing she tweeted about happened. What is it about libs they have to make up these tales?

As opposed to all the conservative, dumb@ss memes and tweets that get posted on this site on a daily basis? When are you guys going to realize, there are idiots, losers and liars on both sides?

 

[Bill Derington]

He has a cult like following who think he was the greatest president in history when in fact he wasn’t. Reagan neither was no great president. People thought he was at the time but history is showing that ending the Cold War was the worst thing to happen to this planet from a geopolitical standpoint.

Come again? You’re discrediting Reagan for ending the Cold War and liberating millions of people from Communism. Your rationale is because the leaders that followed screwed up?

 

[ymmot31]

Lefties are right. Anyone present in the Bahamas during the hurricane should immediately be transported to the US with no documentation or records.

It's the right thing to do. I do think we should take measures to ensure they will be good actors when they get here. Maybe make them pinky swear.

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

 

[ymmot31]

As opposed to all the conservative, dumb@ss memes and tweets that get posted on this site on a daily basis? When are you guys going to realize, there are idiots, losers and liars on both sides?

When are YOU going to realize that the righties here do call out the idiots losers and liars on our side. The left will never admit they have done anything wrong. How many times do you dumbasses have to be proven wrong before you think "hey, maybe I should wait and see how this plays out before I lose my everlovin snowflake mind"?

You're not the first idiot to come here and pretend to be above it all.

 

[Bill Derington]

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The whole story is Shit, when the IG report comes out detailing how it was all BS this unknown informant from Russia will be the fall back.
They’ve already started filling the narrative. His info was so top secret that Clapper didn’t include it in briefings, he slipped it to Obama privately in letters.

 

[UK82]

Looks like Bishop is going to win NC-9.

And in more ironic joy...

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MSM 6 hours ago: This will be a bellwether for the Trump campaign.

MSM 1/2 hour ago: Oh this means nothing.

 

[KRJ1975]

When are YOU going to realize that the righties here do call out the idiots losers and liars on our side. The left will never admit they have done anything wrong. How many times do you dumbasses have to be proven wrong before you think "hey, maybe I should wait and see how this plays out before I lose my everlovin snowflake mind"?

You're not the first idiot to come here and pretend to be above it all.

There are some here who have Trumps dick so far down their throats (well, In their mouths) that they never say anything but glowing things about him. Granted, I have most of them on ignore and the board is much more enjoyable without them.

 

[Joerules19]

When are YOU going to realize that the righties here do call out the idiots losers and liars on our side. The left will never admit they have done anything wrong. How many times do you dumbasses have to be proven wrong before you think "hey, maybe I should wait and see how this plays out before I lose my everlovin snowflake mind"?

You're not the first idiot to come here and pretend to be above it all.

Classic bullshit; if you truly called out the losers and liars, you would be all over Austin, Sawnee and Warrior (false). 80% of what they put out on a daily basis is crap. Weren't you the guy who a few days ago that had the meme of the people doing stupid things claiming they were all liberals? Rich coming from you MPR

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Hey look it is the guy who was part of an attempted coup giving his thoughts on whether our system can survive a bad man...

 

[TheFrontRunner]

 

[screwduke1]

Libs lose twice in one night.

 

[screwduke1]

Hey look it is the guy who was part of an attempted coup giving his thoughts on whether our system can survive a bad man...

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Ha, Comey would've been hanging from a noose back in 1867.

 

[Mashburned]

 

[ymmot31]

Classic bullshit; if you truly called out the losers and liars, you would be all over Austin, Sawnee and Warrior (false). 80% of what they put out on a daily basis is crap. Weren't you the guy who a few days ago that had the meme of the people doing stupid things claiming they were all liberals? Rich coming from you MPR

I thought you were talking about calling out elected officials. None of those 3 is an idiot, loser, or liar. Just because you don't understand the meme's that Austin posts and their relevancy, doesn't mean they're crap. Say's more about you than it does him. Care to show me one time that Warrior posted "false", when it was true? Do you not realize how often you guys are wrong? He's got better than an 80% chance of being right even if he didn't read the posts.

As I said before, you would have laughed at those gifs if a dumbass like platindumb had posted them. It was a joke, boy.

 

[screwduke1]

 

[BBUK]

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BUT, it was close, it is really a win. (I did not hear any reporting but I bet that statement was made.)

 

[BBUK]

Heck, Al Gore himself blocked that guy from the internet when he created it. I call this fake...

 

[ymmot31]

Ha, Comey would've been hanging from a noose back in 1867.

He should be hanging from one now along with O'bama, Clinton, Clapper, Brennen, Strok, Page, Mueller...and all the others involved in an attempted coup of our government. We gonna need more rope.

 

[Platinumdrgn]

Lefties are right. Anyone present in the Bahamas during the hurricane should immediately be transported to the US with no documentation or records.

They don't have documents you dipshit because the entire island was destroyed. A much better plan is to leave 100k people on an island with no water or electricity so thousands can die like Puerto Rico. Republicans have become the most heartless POS. And the most pathetic part is they like to claim Christianity. I'm sure God would leave them all there to die because he was worried about documents.

 

[Platinumdrgn]

Trump thinks NC 9 is a YUGE victory. That seat was +16% in 2016 and +1% 2 years later in a heavily gerrymandered district. If he doesn't understand that is a huge problem for him then he isn't very bright. Looking at the county returns it seems like the low income Dem leaning counties had very low turnout which made it not as close as in November. Poor people don't got time to vote again. And in 2020 they will be using new non gerrymandered maps and the GoP will lose many seats.

 

[BBUK]

Trump thinks NC 9 is a YUGE victory. That seat was +16% in 2016 and +1% 2 years later in a heavily gerrymandered district. If he doesn't understand that is a huge problem for him then he isn't very bright. Looking at the county returns it seems like the low income Dem leaning counties had very low turnout which made it not as close as in November. Poor people don't got time to vote again. And in 2020 they will be using new non gerrymandered maps and the GoP will lose many seats.

Who shows up to a special election. Just the hard corps. That Jerry Mander you speak of MUST be that he/she/it picture in post 226528 above....

And "Po people" "gots" the same 24 hours that rich people do. Rich people "don't got time either..."

 

[ymmot31]

Trump thinks NC 9 is a YUGE victory. That seat was +16% in 2016 and +1% 2 years later in a heavily gerrymandered district. If he doesn't understand that is a huge problem for him then he isn't very bright. Looking at the county returns it seems like the low income Dem leaning counties had very low turnout which made it not as close as in November. Poor people don't got time to vote again. And in 2020 they will be using new non gerrymandered maps and the GoP will lose many seats.

You continue to lose because you continue to democrat. How can you dumbasses earlier today say that this was a bellweather election that would prove how Trump will lose in 2020, and then tonight, say that since the Rep won it proves that Trump will lose in 2020?

 

[Platinumdrgn]

You continue to lose because you continue to democrat. How can you dumbasses earlier today say that this was a bellweather election that would prove how Trump will lose in 2020, and then tonight, say that since the Rep won it proves that Trump will lose in 2020?

I haven't seen one person on here even mention the NC election besides making fun of the GoP for voter fraud. This is a seat the GoP has won easily by 15% or more for the last 60 years. If Bishop had lost Republicans would be panicking. He won and they are still panicking because it was a 15% downward swing in a special election. They didn't gain anything from this. They barely saved a seat by holding a dozen rallies and spending 8million on a district that won't even exist in the next election. If you want to call it a victory go for it. The smart Republicans understand that they have a huge problem shown in the midterms. They lost by almost 9 million votes, 6 million more than in 2016.

 

[Bill Derington]

I haven't seen one person on here even mention the NC election besides making fun of the GoP for voter fraud. This is a seat the GoP has won easily by 15% or more for the last 60 years. If Bishop had lost Republicans would be panicking. He won and they are still panicking because it was a 15% downward swing in a special election. They didn't gain anything from this. They barely saved a seat by holding a dozen rallies and spending 8million on a district that won't even exist in the next election. If you want to call it a victory go for it. The smart Republicans understand that they have a huge problem shown in the midterms. They lost by almost 9 million votes, 6 million more than in 2016.

That’s not accurate. A midterm election doesn’t have the turnout of a Presidential election year.
2018 was a historic turnout, and it was still 11% below the 2016 turn out.

 

[BBUK]

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Yep Dan, you're cherry picking. For you though it does come natural and you say it with such conviction...

 

[Platinumdrgn]

That’s not accurate. A midterm election doesn’t have the turnout of a Presidential election year.
2018 was a historic turnout, and it was still 11% below the 2016 turn out.

And that has to do with what? It's still all proportional, that's how math works. If trump loses even half a percent of support he loses WI, PA, MI. Or if Dem turnout is even the tiniest amount higher than 2016. He won the presidency by 70,000 votes and has not expanded his base at all. He has no margin of error to work with. That is why he is freaking out about the wall right now. He understands the situation even if he won't admit it on Twitter.

 

[DwayneMeighan]

 

[BBUK]

You continue to lose because you continue to democrat. How can you dumbasses earlier today say that this was a bellweather election that would prove how Trump will lose in 2020, and then tonight, say that since the Rep won it proves that Trump will lose in 2020?

It is so easy to change the narrative. They've had a lot of practice.

 

[BBUK]

And that has to do with what? It's still all proportional, that's how math works. If trump loses even half a percent of support he loses WI, PA, MI. Or if Dem turnout is even the tiniest amount higher than 2016. He won the presidency by 70,000 votes and has not expanded his base at all. He has no margin of error to work with. That is why he is freaking out about the wall right now. He understands the situation even if he won't admit it on Twitter.

Are you trying to scare President Trump, or convince yourself?