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    Quote Originally Posted by Poopymonster View Post
    But they are wrong. I don't care if the SCOTUS says it's Constitutional, it's wrong.
    The problem is that a lot of the constitution is like the bible ... it's open to interpretation. No one who wrote it is alive to tell us what they REALLY meant. So your "interpretation" is pretty much meaningless. The framers knew this, that's why they gave the supreme court the final say.

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    This Alaska thingy, when are u guys giving it back to us?? Soon, I hope, would be sweet.


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    Sorry Alaska will be mine, need new homelands for my future country... Skania the Mighty!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ihavewaffles View Post
    giving it back to us??
    This explains so much.

    Man, the Russian economy must be in real trouble if they've replaced Shackler with you.

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    Meanwhile, some more good news for Trump.....https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...ce-gallup-says

    New polling by Gallup reveals that President Trump's approval rating is at an all-time high, as he prepares to deliver his third State of the Union address Tuesday night and the Senate is expected to acquit him in his impeachment trial on Wednesday.

    Trump's job approval rating now sits at 49 percent, with a 94 percent approval rating among Republicans and a 42 percent rating with independents, both numbers being highs for Trump's presidency. The GOP itself is also seeing a significant boost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghostpanther View Post
    Meanwhile, some more good news for Trump.....https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...ce-gallup-says

    New polling by Gallup reveals that President Trump's approval rating is at an all-time high, as he prepares to deliver his third State of the Union address Tuesday night and the Senate is expected to acquit him in his impeachment trial on Wednesday.

    Trump's job approval rating now sits at 49 percent, with a 94 percent approval rating among Republicans and a 42 percent rating with independents, both numbers being highs for Trump's presidency. The GOP itself is also seeing a significant boost.
    That he's still sub-50% approval and that's his "highest" rating? Is this what we're left to "brag" about?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belize View Post
    This explains so much.

    Man, the Russian economy must be in real trouble if they've replaced Shackler with you.
    alaska is like russia's ex that married someone else and got prettier after being dumped.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghostpanther View Post
    Meanwhile, some more good news for Trump.....https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...ce-gallup-says

    New polling by Gallup reveals that President Trump's approval rating is at an all-time high, as he prepares to deliver his third State of the Union address Tuesday night and the Senate is expected to acquit him in his impeachment trial on Wednesday.

    Trump's job approval rating now sits at 49 percent, with a 94 percent approval rating among Republicans and a 42 percent rating with independents, both numbers being highs for Trump's presidency. The GOP itself is also seeing a significant boost.
    Interesting. I cant wait how elections in November will reflect it and how many black americans will vote for him. Trump likes to say that he did more for them than other presidents and that his approval among them is higher than what previous Republican presidents had.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    That he's still sub-50% approval and that's his "highest" rating? Is this what we're left to "brag" about?
    And it's a single poll. There is nothing to show this is anything other than an outlier. But this is coming from someone who takes rasmussen poling as gospel so it's not suprising.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cizr View Post
    Interesting. I cant wait how elections in November will reflect it and how many black americans will vote for him. Trump likes to say that he did more for them than other presidents and that his approval among them is higher than what previous Republican presidents had.
    If you think Trump is gonna get any significant amount of the black vote I got a bridge to sell you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghostpanther View Post
    Meanwhile, some more good news for Trump
    Oh look, FOX News has a good poll for Trump. Yawn. Wake me when you're done with the cherry picker.

    Aggregate polls strongly disagree. 43.6% is what he had today, he had it March 2017, and a few random-ass spots in between. He's below Obama, he's below Clinton, he's below W -- barely -- he's below Nixon and he's below Jimmy Carter.

    That's the "good news" for the rabid fanbase, ladies and gentlemen. He's not quite as shit as he was before, but he's still swirling the bowl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dontrike View Post

    No one wants to take anything. Why do you keep saying that?
    The best part about their whining is @derpkitteh is absolutely a net taker by a significant margin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Belize View Post
    This explains so much.

    Man, the Russian economy must be in real trouble if they've replaced Shackler with you.
    Not really, it's back on track, and I'm not Russian.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ihavewaffles View Post
    Not really, it's back on track, and I'm not Russian.
    Not sure why you'd consider spiraling around the drain to be a good thing. Usually back on track has positive connotations.
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    Rolling their eyes in obvious frustration, the FDA resumes asbestos testing after a fifty-year hiatus, because asbestos has started turning up in in things like baby powder.

    "Was this due to a Trump policy or something?"

    Trump didn't sign an EO or bill that loosened regulations on the medical or cosmetic industry, he just strongly implied it by, say, not testing products for asbestos until a court forced him to.

    The Trump administration unlawfully excluded millions of tons of some of the most dangerous materials in public use from a safety review, a federal appeals court ruled [August].

    A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must consider dangers posed by asbestos, lead and other toxins regardless of whether they’re still being manufactured.

    Millions of tons of those chemicals are in the marketplace, in products ranging from home insulation and fire retardant to house paint and plumbing pipes.

    The safety review was mandated by Congress and is the first step toward enacting potential new regulations to protect the public.

    Under President Barack Obama, the EPA said it would consider the risks of those older products since they result in some of the most common chemical exposures by people.

    But spurred by the chemical industry, the EPA under President Donald Trump sought to limit the review to products still being manufactured.

    EPA officials will review the court’s decision, agency spokesperson Corry Schiermeyer said.

    For asbestos, the EPA proposal would have meant gauging the risks from just a few hundred tons of the material that are imported annually — while excluding almost all of the estimated 8.9 million tons (8.1 million metric tons) of asbestos-containing products that entered the marketplace between 1970 and 2016.
    By the way, the EPA has until this coming summer to prove they're complying. For all we know, they're still not testing stuff they're required to.

    Plus that thing about Trump directly allowing coal sludge dumped into drinking water. Trump has proven he doesn't care about contamination.

    For anyone thinking of defending Trump on this one, let me ask this: do you really think it was a coincidence that, after Trump directly promoted asbestos and pollution and stopped testing products to the point of it being illegal, only now did we find a carcinogen in a product applied directly to newborn children? It's not like any company really wanted to be caught with the stuff anyhow, but only now after an anti-vaxxer climate change hoax conspiracy theorist who thinks noise causes cancer did a company say "well I guess it's okay if we get caught then"?

    You don't believe that's a coincidence. Nobody believes that. You're just watching Trump's words being called "toxic" go from figurative to literal.

    "If Trump is fine with asbestos, why did he order the White House evacuated when they were clearing out --"

    Hypocrisy.

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    Pentgaon flat-out says withdrawing from Iraq would cause ISIS to strengthen.

    Which is a tough spot to be in, on account of Iraq wanting to throw us out.

    A U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq would “likely” lead to an ISIS resurgence, according to an intelligence assessment revealed in an inspector general report Tuesday.

    “The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)’s analysis for the DoD OIG [Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General] indicates that without a U.S. troop presence in Iraq, ISIS would likely resurge in Iraq,” Pentagon Inspector General Glenn Fine wrote in an introduction to the report.

    The latest quarterly report from the lead inspector general for Operation Inherent Resolve comes as U.S.-Iraqi relations continue to reel from the fallout over the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad International Airport.
    Unrelated: the last batch of Trump's socialist farmer bailouts is on their way out right now. The money's gone.

    "But surely Phase One and NAFTA 1.0.0.2 -- "

    China won't buy more than they need, and they can back out on whim if, oh I don't know, Trump calls them idiots for the coronavirus or raises tariffs again. NAFTA 1.0.0.2 mostly affects auto parts. Neither of those are going to reverse the damage, such as the record-breaking number of Chapter 12 filings or the firm Brazilian soybean crop.

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    Continuing to ignore all laws in general and this law in particular, Jared Kushner found violating the Hatch Act by advocating Trump for President.

    "But he's a family member!"

    True, but he's also a WH employee. And in that official capacity, he's not allowed to do that. And he did. Sorry. I don't make the rules.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post

    Unrelated: the last batch of Trump's socialist farmer bailouts is on their way out right now. The money's gone.

    "But surely Phase One and NAFTA 1.0.0.2 -- "

    China won't buy more than they need, and they can back out on whim if, oh I don't know, Trump calls them idiots for the coronavirus or raises tariffs again. NAFTA 1.0.0.2 mostly affects auto parts. Neither of those are going to reverse the damage, such as the record-breaking number of Chapter 12 filings or the firm Brazilian soybean crop.

    .
    Only took one problem for the trump admin to use as an excuse that the goals set in "phase one" won't be met, shocked it took so long... lol

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/coro...al-kudlow.html

    Coronavirus will delay export ‘boom’ from US-China phase 1 trade deal, Larry Kudlow says

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post

    Unrelated: the last batch of Trump's socialist farmer bailouts is on their way out right now. The money's gone.

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    Serious questions, was this "bailout" in the form of loans or just straight up subsidies like most farm "help" is under the current farm programs?
    I am honestly too lazy right now to read the whole actual program

    https://www.farmers.gov/manage/mfp

    hmm, seems like its the standard free money grab
    Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zan15 View Post
    Only took one problem for the trump admin to use as an excuse that the goals set in "phase one" won't be met, shocked it took so long... lol

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/coro...al-kudlow.html

    Coronavirus will delay export ‘boom’ from US-China phase 1 trade deal, Larry Kudlow says

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    Serious questions, was this "bailout" in the form of loans or just straight up subsidies like most farm "help" is under the current farm programs?
    I am honestly too lazy right now to read the whole actual program

    https://www.farmers.gov/manage/mfp

    hmm, seems like its the standard free money grab
    And I had a Trumpkin on another site declare that the bailouts to farmers being strangled by Trumps failing trade policies wasn't socialism. I pointed out its cost something like twice the auto bailout and odds are we'll never see the money again and that most of the funds have gone to large corporate farms rather than small farmers the way Trump wants people to think. They never answered on that part.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghostpanther View Post
    Meanwhile, some more good news for Trump.....https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...ce-gallup-says

    New polling by Gallup reveals that President Trump's approval rating is at an all-time high, as he prepares to deliver his third State of the Union address Tuesday night and the Senate is expected to acquit him in his impeachment trial on Wednesday.

    Trump's job approval rating now sits at 49 percent, with a 94 percent approval rating among Republicans and a 42 percent rating with independents, both numbers being highs for Trump's presidency. The GOP itself is also seeing a significant boost.
    Bad week for the Dems.

    Iowa turnout not as high as expected + optics of disarray. Candidates still jawing at each other. SoTU and Senste acquittal which Trump will brag about nonstop, I'm sure.

    They need to get their act together, quick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Somewhatconcerned View Post
    Bad week for the Dems.

    Iowa turnout not as high as expected + optics of disarray. Candidates still jawing at each other. SoTU and Senste acquittal which Trump will brag about nonstop, I'm sure.

    They need to get their act together, quick.
    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...roval-ratings/ his numbers are, from all accounts, still dreadful.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zan15 View Post
    was this "bailout" in the form of
    Bulk of Trump's U.S. farm aid goes to biggest and wealthiest farmers

    Highlighting an uneven distribution of the bailout, which was designed to help offset effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the Environmental Working Group said the top 1% of aid recipients received an average of more than $180,000 while the bottom 80% were paid less than $5,000 in aid.

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