jakee
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Do you think it's appalling that Trump is pushing all that false info just to 'prove' himself right, without offering any solutions?
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Oh come off it, you know the problem with that remark. He's an Economics graduate of Harvard attacking Keynesian economics. Who was Keynes? An Economics graduate of Cambridge. So if we're judging purely on qualifications, who wins? Why would you subtract that value from GDP? He's leading you on a dance, talking about whether or not standards of living improved then segueing into GDP as if it's the whole measure of it. The jobs that the war effort created were jobs. The money those workers were paid was money. You can't wish it away, or even say it was negative jobs and negative money simply because it is idealogically inconvenient for you. No-one's saying that.
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A mass of painful logical contortions?
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To be honest, no. You're being quite boring. Sorry.
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Serious discussion is one thing, but you're satirising your own views and admitting they're baseless... yet they're still your views. It's strange.
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It's kinda fascinating that you know the argument you're presenting is a strawman, you won't even attempt to defend it, yet you still seem to believe it.
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So ask her if she'd be happy to see a higher tax rate on people in her wealth bracket. The answer would probably be 'yes'. Assuming that's the case, what's your point?
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
jakee replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
Ok. Who was? And why? And so what? -
Clif notes version: Oh shit!
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
jakee replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
Well, since Rich has aid that warmer temperatures and rising sea levels aren't a problem anyway, that's pretty much exactly what he's saying. -
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
jakee replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
Sulfur coal is not manmade, and sulfur dioxide pollution from burning it is not exclusively manmade, yet you agree that it is a pollutant and it had a drastic effect on the environment. I'm struggling to see what your point is here. -
Now there's a thought - with all the cities and counties that can't afford to rebuild their flood defences, can they just complain to the White House about immigration and get Trump to build them a sea wall?
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But why break the habit of a lifetime?
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
jakee replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
So... eight major fires listed, and six of them happened within the last 16 years? Ok, it's not necessarily a representative sample, but still. The problem with your stance here is that it discounts any change in freqency or intensity. The wind has always facilitated wildfires, so that's all there is to it. There are significantly more fires now? Doesn't matter, it's just the wind. The fires are significantly bigger now? Doesn't matter, it's just the wind. It's like if a known violent drug gang moved to your town and the murder rate spiked but you say hey, we've always had murders in this town so it's nothing to do with the gang! -
I assume you're using speech to text software now, which is definitely a good idea - but you still have to proofread the result if you want it to make any sense.
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Oh these guys. Where did the idea that the world was flat come from? Not science. How did we find out the world wasn't flat? Science. Using scientific techniques a guy with a stick, a calendar and a sunny day was able to not only prove the earth was round, but have a damn good go at saying how big it was. So for some reason, thousands of years later some people still thought the earth was flat but that wasn't anything to do with scientists, it was because of all the Baxleys
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I wouldn't worry about it too much. No doubt the answer would simply have been 'because I'm normal'.
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Makes sense. Conversion therapy must be a great way to meet guys...
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Michael Cohen, campaign finance violations and tax evasion in 2016. Paul Manafort, conspiracy against the US, failure to register as a foreign agent and money laundering from 2006 to 2015. Rick Gates, as above from 2006 to 2015. Richard Pinedo, ID fraud 2014 to 2017. Internet Research Agency LLC (the Russians), conspiracy to defraud the US and ID fraud from 2014 to 2016. Twelve GRU officers, conspiracy to commit an offense against the US, ID fraud and money laundering in 2016. You do realise when the Mueller investigation started, don't you?
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Weaselly fucking douchebag. Even if Trump did nothing objectionable except constantly use the phrase "many people are saying..." it'd still make him the worst president ever.
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"The official, Carl Kline, is a former Pentagon employee who was installed as director of the personnel security office in the Executive Office of the President in May 2017. Kushner's was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline overruled career security experts and approved a top secret clearance for incoming Trump officials despite unfavorable information, the two sources said." Am I reading this right - Kline is a political appointee who works directly for the President, and he gets to overrule career security specialists in favour of people his boss wants to have clearance? Regardless of the specific Kushner case, that's a very, very bad system. (Although I have no doubt the Trump loyalists will see this as a case of liberal Deep State saboteurs being thwarted by the righteous Trump administrator. Because everyone knows the civil servants are biased and the political animals are independent.)
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I'm pretty sure Ron's just a paper tiger in that respect.
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
jakee replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
He actually said the exact opposite. Seriously, go back and look. If the rest of your gargantuan post was based on that false premise, you might wanna go ahead and apologise... -
Then you'll have to explain why - because that is absolutely the result of Bill's position. Bill has specifically clarified that he doesn't think access to an attorney or a jury trial is a right, yet the US Constitution and the Declaration of Human Rights both call these government supplied things (among others) rights. They are consistent with my position, not yours. I think the confusion comes from Bill explaining his position poorly and (as shown above) you misunderstanding what he's saying. But please, tell me what you think is confusing about my position?
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That you don't have the right to an attorney? That you don't have the right to a fair trial? That you don't have the right to justice beyond that which you get when you are dealing with simple matters and reasonable people? Why do you think the definition of the word 'rights' is so limited? Why do you think the authors of documents like the US Constitution, or Universal Declaration of Human Rights are using the wrong word?
