Trumped

[red321]

[Adam]

Whoa! You were at our first practice?

[red321]

I've been working on my downtrodden street scenes portfolio

[gotbeer]

2 hours ago, Adam said:

I'm coaching my kids t-ball team. That is pretty much the equivalent. 

No, prison is much better.  With T-Ball, you are stuck with it for the entire duration.  Prison seems to last at most 11 days for gangmembers.

[Tank]

13 hours ago, arch stanton said:

Did I post something that seemed gay? The ads I get now want me to buy tickets to see Cagney at the Westside Theater

wait, you mean you're not gay? huh, whaddaya know.

[Amazing Larry]

Interested to see if this happens. 

 

[Glen]

When I think of journalistic integrity, Hannity and O'Keefe immediately come to mind. As examples of the complete opposite. Chances are very good that O'Keefe will release yet another heavily edited video.

[mtangelsfan]

Great, instead of focusing on policy and how that is going to effect the country we get dueling news networks.

I don't agree with Trump about the press, but I do believe they are not doing their job.  

[mtangelsfan]

The title is stupid but the interview is solid.  He doesn't give Trump a full pass on the immigration ban and makes some good points about oversight.

[Amazing Larry]

1 hour ago, Glen said:

When I think of journalistic integrity, Hannity and O'Keefe immediately come to mind. As examples of the complete opposite. Chances are very good that O'Keefe will release yet another heavily edited video.

I just want some more dance moves from Wolfie.

[Jay]

1 hour ago, Lawrence said:

Interested to see if this happens. 

 

Should be good for ratings...

[Jay]

5 hours ago, Glen said:

When I think of journalistic integrity, Hannity and O'Keefe immediately come to mind. As examples of the complete opposite. Chances are very good that O'Keefe will release yet another heavily edited video.

Except those guys aren't journalists so...

 

[Glen]

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/516712980/trumps-plan-to-hire-15-000-border-patrol-and-ice-agents-wont-be-easy-to-fulfill?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170223

 

Shrinking the government, republican style. 

Edit to add some math: if those 15k new government employees average 60k a year, that's $900 million in new spending on salary alone.

[Taylor]

6 minutes ago, Glen said:

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/516712980/trumps-plan-to-hire-15-000-border-patrol-and-ice-agents-wont-be-easy-to-fulfill?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170223

 

Shrinking the government, republican style. 

Edit to add some math: if those 15k new government employees average 60k a year, that's $900 million in new spending on salary alone.

Don't worry. I'm sure we'll give Mexico the bill to reimburse us.

[Amazing Larry]

1 hour ago, Glen said:

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/516712980/trumps-plan-to-hire-15-000-border-patrol-and-ice-agents-wont-be-easy-to-fulfill?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170223

 

Shrinking the government, republican style. 

Edit to add some math: if those 15k new government employees average 60k a year, that's $900 million in new spending on salary alone.

As I've said before, defending our borders is what I expect our federal tax dollars to be used for. They're not for deciding which bathroom Caitlyn Jenner can take a shit in.

[Glen]

How does that cost taxpayer money?

That $900 million is just in salary.  No cost for new buildings, equipment, support staff, etc.  The bathroom decision doesn't cost anything.  No new bathrooms have to be made.  Your argument is baseless.

[Glen]

By the way, is this the most popular thread in AW history?  It has to be in the running at 284 pages, and by the end of this year it should be #1 by a long shot.

[Kevin]

If this thread doesn't reach 2000 pages by 2020, I will consider the Trump presidency a failure.

[Thomas]

1 hour ago, Glen said:

By the way, is this the most popular thread in AW history?  It has to be in the running at 284 pages, and by the end of this year it should be #1 by a long shot.

I do worry that this isn't exactly healthy for the database.

[Ordos]

By database, you mean country, yes?

[Thomas]

5 minutes ago, Ordos said:

By database, you mean country, yes?

Countries are more resilient. Databases, they just die painful deaths.

[Ordos]

But they can be changed to new servers, costing us the glory of the ghost shark, et al.

[Spirit]

3 hours ago, Glen said:

By the way, is this the most popular thread in AW history?  It has to be in the running at 284 pages, and by the end of this year it should be #1 by a long shot.

 

You're all welcome!

 

 

 

[Taylor]

This article is a good and important read: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/rumana-ahmed-trump/517521/

[mtangelsfan]

Interesting read.  I find it interesting that she brings up a couple of incidents of Muslims being attacked but doesn't bring up the Boston Marathon bombing or the San Bernadino shootings.

I also find it interesting that she found Obama "inspiring" while he has killed more Muslims than anyone but Bush.  

In other words I find her article to be self-serving and completely lacking in any self-awareness whatsoever.