Phil1111

There’s stupid ideas floated in private and then there’s talk of engaging militarily with a foreign country in private. Both are not equal. Beyond that, why send a single US soldier to a place where there are NO US national interests. Actually, the disaster of Venezuelan declining oil exports. Helps the US.

2100 years is a long time ago. But wasn't that family persecuted by Italians, or Romans, or something?

Sounds like the Best of the Best.

He is mocked worldwide as a total wit. Why has the UK not got the message.

The Mind of the Mass Murderer Posted May 30, 2014 "He also notes that most perpetrators are young males who act alone after carefully planning the event. They often have a longstanding fascination with weapons and have collected large stores of them. The shootings usually occur in a public place and during the daytime. Individual case studies involving psychological autopsy and a careful analysis of the often copious communications left behind suggest common psychological themes. The mass murderer is an injustice collector who spends a great deal of time feeling resentful about real or imagined rejections and ruminating on past humiliations. He has a paranoid worldview with chronic feelings of social persecution, envy, and grudge-holding. He is tormented by beliefs that privileged others are enjoying life’s all-you-can-eat buffet, while he must peer through the window, an outside loner always looking in. Aggrieved and entitled, he longs for power and revenge to obliterate what he cannot have. Since satisfaction is unobtainable lawfully and realistically, the mass murderer is reduced to violent fantasy and pseudo-power. He creates and enacts an odious screenplay of grandiose and public retribution. Like the child who upends the checkerboard when he does not like the way the game is going, he seeks to destroy others for apparent failures to recognize and meet his needs. Fury, deep despair, and callous selfishness eventually crystalize into fantasies of violent revenge on a scale that will draw attention. The mass murderer typically expects to die and frequently does in what amounts to a mass homicide-personal suicide. He may kill himself or script matters so that he will be killed by the police. The frequency of mental disorders in mass murderers is controversial because it is not clear where to draw the line between "bad" and "mad." The paranoia exists on a spectrum of severity. Some clearly do not meet criteria for any mental disorder and often may justify their acts on political or religious grounds. Others have the frank psychotic delusions of schizophrenia. Many perpetrators are in the middle, gray zone where psychiatrists will disagree about the relative contributions of moral failure versus mental affliction." https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/saving-normal/201405/the-mind-the-mass-murderer Above from a study: Dr Knoll writes: In 2013, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report on public mass shootings. The CRS used as its working definition incidents “occurring in relatively public places, involving four or more deaths.” The CRS identified 78 public mass shootings in the U.S. since 1983 that had resulted in 547 deaths and 1, 023 casualties.

IMO there must have been some chemical residue misplaced from the original attack. Just speculation of course. But I'm confident that the UK will figure it out based upon the reconstruction of contamination's from the original attack.

We should help Marc get a job with Fox news. He is a natural at sidestepping questions. Avoiding real answers with any meat in the equation and spinning trump lies. Go for it Marc.

Some Americans just don't get it. When trump says such stupid stuff it helps Maduro. The country is a disaster and nothing will rally his base of support like a US bully, bogeyman. Talking such nonsense does nothing but make the US look stupid and bad in all of South America. The government has blamed its problems on the US for decades. Now it has statements from a US president to show it has malicious intent.

Great Barrier Reef will suffer recurring coral bleaching by 2034, report says https://www.dw.com/en/great-barrier-reef-will-suffer-recurring-coral-bleaching-by-2034-report-says/a-44533027 Great Barrier Reef: 30% of coral died in 'catastrophic' 2016 heatwave https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/19/great-barrier-reef-30-of-coral-died-in-catastrophic-2016-heatwave '"By 2034, the extreme ocean temperatures that led to the 2016 and 2017 bleaching events may occur every two years," the report said, warning that "such a short period between bleaching events is not sustainable as the development of coral assemblages takes at least a decade." The Great Barrier Reef's bleaching event of 2016 and 2017 resulted in the death of 30 percent of corals overall and as much as 75 percent in some areas."

With the exception of Russia and Israel, displaying a US identity outside US territories may be problematic. See option #5 in the "Sarah Sanders, Feed her, or boot her? " thread. Further stories about the shunning of trump supporters: Alan Dershowitz says ‘friends on Martha’s Vineyard’ are shunning him for defending Trump http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180704/alan-dershowitz-says-friends-on-marthas-vineyard-are-shunning-him-for-defending-trump "It looks suspiciously like travellers are voting with their feet and turning their backs on the US. The potential loss in revenue for the country is significant: Euromonitor figures show British travellers numbered some 4.5 million in 2015 while other fast-growing markets, notably the Chinese (2.5m) and German (2.2m), also look vulnerable. And now there are calls from around the world for tourists to boycott the US. So, should we?" https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/feb/01/should-travellers-boycott-the-us-trump-america I'm sure that the UK will provide trump with an appropriate welcome. We Brits are renowned for our politeness – but even we can't stomach holding a state visit for Donald Trump https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-state-visit-travel-ban-the-queen-theresa-may-protest-a7553486.html

Ted Cruz: ‘Vote for the Democrat’ over the GOP Nazi https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/ted-cruz-arthur-jones-vote-democrat-688743 It seems like being a Nazi Holocaust Denier would be a contradiction. Nazi's in America believe that the holocaust really happened? I think that most of them deny that the holocaust ever occurred.

8 reasons why Trump's tariffs may push the U.S. into a recession https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-trumps-tariffs-push-the-economy-into-recession/ Trump’s proposed tariffs will lead to ‘deep recession’, say World Trade Organisation https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-recession-us-imports-aluminium-steel-world-trade-organization-warning-a8240941.html Increased threat of a trade war is ramping up fears of a 'full-blown recession' https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/22/increased-threat-of-a-trade-war-is-ramping-up-fears-of-a-full-blown-recession.html Wilbur Ross, "As the U.S. bubble began to burst, Ross decided he wanted to invest more and advise less. On April Fools’ Day 2000, the 62-year-old banker raised $450 million to plunge into fallen companies. Excellent timing. The 2000–1 rolling stock-market crash, 9/11, and a globally synchronous recession pushed scores of companies into bankruptcy. New Economy highfliers like Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing went bust. But so did Old Economy stalwarts in industries like steel and textiles—victims of excess capacity, global competition, and generous union contracts." http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/columns/moneyandmind/10279/

A trump supporter looking for a SC appointment. Federal judge dismisses suit over literacy rights in Detroit A federal judge has dismissed an unprecedented civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Detroit students fighting to establish literacy is a U.S. constitutional right. In the suit filed in 2016 through a California public interest law firm, the youths alleged the conditions of their schools are so poor and inadequate they had not received the best education and were denied access to literacy on account of their races, violating their rights under the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/06/29/federal-judge-dismisses-suit-over-literacy-rights/747738002/

I for one would fight registration with everything I have. What do you have? The power of prose, intelligent use of fact and logic. Ain't one. So stock up: https://www.shtfblog.com/burying-guns-ammo-with-mono-vault-burial-tubes-master-cacher-joe-nobody-the-preppers-guide-to-caches/

Perhaps this will help understanding the mind,...er mindlessness of trump supporters. President Trump told Lesley Stahl he bashes press 'to demean you and discredit you so ... no one will believe' negative stories about him https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/22/trump-told-lesley-stahl-he-bashes-press-to-discredit-negative-stories.html

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador - dubbed 'Mexico's Donald Trump' - set for election win The politician labelled "Mexico's Donald Trump" is expected to be elected the country's president this weekend - and head straight onto a collision course with its unpredictable neighbour to the north.... But they also want their new leader to confront a US president who has spent two years demonising them. In one of Mexico City's more troubled neighbourhoods, voters become most animated when discussing Mr Trump.... Karla Vasquez said: "Donald Trump is garbage. There is no other way to describe him. "Of course we want our leader to stand up to him because that is why he is our president, so he can defend us, from him or anyone else." https://news.sky.com/story/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-dubbed-mexicos-donald-trump-set-for-election-win-11421521 "Amlo has already said that Mexico will not “do the United States’ dirty work” by stopping Central American migrants headed north.... As far as the United States is concerned, if the Trump era has strained relations with Mexico, Amlo’s election could change the dynamic even more drastically. In the best of circumstances, both countries would continue to ignore each other. In the worst, Trump would continue alienating Mexico in a way that will take generations to repair." https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/mexico-obrador-election-trump-nafta-pena-nieto/563993/ "The Trump Administration has been similarly concerned. Roberta Jacobson, who until last month was the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, told me that senior American officials often expressed worry: “They catastrophized about AMLO, saying things like ‘If he wins, the worst will happen.’ ”... Ironically, his surging popularity can be attributed partly to Donald Trump. Within days of Trump’s election, Mexican political analysts were predicting that his open belligerence toward Mexico would encourage political resistance. Mentor Tijerina, a prominent pollster in Monterrey, told me at the time, “Trump’s arrival signifies a crisis for Mexico, and this will help AMLO.” Not long after the Inauguration, López Obrador published a best-selling book called “Oye, Trump” (“Listen Up, Trump”), which contained tough-talking snippets from his speeches. In one, he declared, “Trump and his advisers speak of the Mexicans the way Hitler and the Nazis referred to the Jews, just before undertaking the infamous persecution and the abominable extermination.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/25/a-new-revolution-in-mexico

Fixed it for you.

Politics and life is about compromise. Some honesty and integrity goes along with that. trump is a loser in all those respects. The backstabbing and leaks within the WH show that. This week the only bank in the US left that would lend to trump failed a US FED stress test: "WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, June 28 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG’s U.S. subsidiary failed on Thursday the second part of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s annual stress tests due to “widespread and critical deficiencies” in the bank’s capital planning controls. The Fed board’s unanimous objection to Deutsche Bank’s U.S. capital plan marks another blow for the German lender, sending its shares down 1 percent after hours. Its financial health globally has been under intense scrutiny after S&P cut its rating and questioned its plan to return to profitability. " https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fed-stresstests/update-2-deutsche-bank-fails-fed-stress-test-while-3-us-lenders-stumble-idUSL1N1TU21A Mysterious triangle: Donald Trump, Deutsche Bank and the Kremlin 'cookie jars' https://www.smh.com.au/world/mysterious-triangle-donald-trump-deutsche-bank-and-the-kremlin-cookie-jars-20171219-h07afc.html "Trump's outrageous behaviour vis-a-vis Deutsche Bank might have been anticipated. He was, after all, someone who had been through a slew of corporate bankruptcies. His Taj Mahal casino, his other casinos in Atlantic City, his Plaza Hotel in NYC all filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the early 1990s. After those failures, US banks that had previously advanced the capital to Trump for building projects, believing them to be sound investments, stopped lending. Chase Manhattan, Citibank, and other burned Wall Street houses declined further credit and refused his calls.... According to an analysis by Bloomberg, by the time he became the 45th president, Trump owed Deutsche Bank around $US300 million. ... During the same period Deutsche was doing something abnormal - something that would provoke the interest of regulators, and in turn lead to punishment. The bank was laundering money. Russian money. Not small amounts but many billions of dollars. This dubious tide flowed from Moscow to London, and from London to New York." Donald Trump’s debt to Deutsche Bank Deutsche faces various legal proceedings in the US, including an investigation by the Department of Justice into a Russian money-laundering scheme for which the bank paid about $600m of fines to other regulators in January. It is also facing a probe by the DoJ into whether Deutsche’s traders, and those of other banks, manipulated the prices of US Treasuries. https://www.ft.com/content/8c6d9dca-882c-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787 trump can't even get phone calls returned by most major US banks. The one bank that does lend to him is convicted of Russian money laundering and is under investigation for other crimes. Now its the sole US bank that failed the FED stress test. For the OP of this thread: trump enjoys a VERY substantial part of his current support because of the current US economy. Unemployment is at historic lows and the stock market historic highs. As president he gets credit for that. The recovery in jobs, wage growth and the markets was well underway during the last two years of Obama's government. The problem is debt, rising rates and the end of the economic cycle. Soon all the federal stimulus in the world won't be there to help trump and his supporters. Sure, going through life telling everyone to go Fu*k themselves is going to be successful. Keep telling yourself that.

"Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped for the second year in a row, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. The new average life expectancy for Americans is 78.7 years, which puts the U.S. behind other developed nations and 1.5 years lower than the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average life expectancy of 80.3. The OECD is a group of developed countries that includes Canada, Germany, Mexico, France, Japan, and the U.K." http://fortune.com/2018/02/09/us-life-expectancy-dropped-again/ Unemployment rate for US dropped .8% over the first 11/2 years of all of trumps collective actions. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 Overall unweighted US wage growth has slowed .3% to 3.2% (same 11/2 year period). GDP growth 2% A full 4% less than trump forecast. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=4810077;page=95;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25; https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/06/trump-defies-data-with-6-percent-gdp-growth-forecast.html CBO projects grim budget outlook under Trump "To keep the debt burden at its current level, Congress would have to cut spending or increase revenues by a combined 1.9 percent of GDP every year. ... In 2019 alone, that would amount to a tax increase that would add $1,300 in taxes for people in the middle of the tax distribution, or, alternatively, a Social Security cut that would reduce payments by $1,800 for people in the middle of the lifetime earnings distribution." http://thehill.com/policy/finance/394142-interest-payments-to-exceed-social-security-cost-by-2048-cbo Rising debt, slowing wage growth, rising mortality rates, slowing economy at 1/3 the forecast growth rate. MAGA trump style. Meanwhile: "U.S. companies are carrying about $4 trillion in debt that needs to be refinanced over the next five years, according to a new analysis from Wells Fargo Securities. That’s about two-thirds of all outstanding corporate debt, and some analysts are worried about what could happen to businesses if interest rates keep rising over that period. “Corporate America partied like never before on cheap money over the past decade, and now comes the hangover,” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/4-trillion-debt-coming-due-211424604.html Consumer debt is set to reach $4 trillion by the end of 2018 Up from $1 trillion in 1995 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/21/consumer-debt-is-set-to-reach-4-trillion-by-the-end-of-2018.html http://www.usdebtclock.org/

mmmm As usual Fox has forgotten to include some "news". "The wisdom of Wisconsin offering $3B in subsidies to persuade Foxconn to build a display factory in Racine County is being further questioned today. It’s been revealed that taxpayers are now coughing up an additional billion dollars in sweeteners not long after it was reported that Foxconn may not be investing the full $10B it promised … Critics had already complained that the tax subsidies would cost at least $231k per job created by the plant, before Foxconn’s reported plan to scale back the facility to focus on smaller displays. The incentives offered by Wisconsin and its municipalities to Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group since it announced a $10 billion megaplant in the state have gone up by nearly $1 billion […] In an effort to land the plant, municipalities months later added their own sweeteners. The town and the county where the facility will be built, Mount Pleasant and Racine County—south of Milwaukee—offered a $764 million incentive package. And Wisconsin added another $134 million to the tab to improve state highways and local roads in the area around the Foxconn site. The state is on the hook for 40% of the public bonds that finance the local expenses if the project flops. https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/27/foxconn-wisconsin-subsidies/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/analysis-trump-supporters-has-identified-5-key-traits https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-rsquo-s-appeal-what-psychology-tells-us/ I like this one: https://www.britac.ac.uk/blog/trust-people-how-psychology-can-help-us-understand-rise-donald-trump and the "In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is." https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-supporters-dunning-kruger-effect-213904 So build walls, initiate tariffs, rule by decree and "gut instinct". Its all good, including the lying, for his Fox news followers.

HD is expanding Asian production because the US dicked around so much in failing to sign the TPP agreement. EU production would not be necessary if they were in the same trade agreement. That Canada just made (last year) to have a free trade agreement with the EU. Many other companies are going through the exact same decision making because of these tariffs. At a minimum there will be retained earnings and a hold-back on Capex. Why invest when there is uncertainty on return?

Yes, but no one is going to beat Trump by out Trumping him. Maxime Waters needs to own her mistake. And it was clearly a mistake. She wasn’t trying to out Trump him, no democrat would sink that low. “Pushing back” is not a call to violence and she doesn’t owe anyone an apology, I think most trump followers and Fox News just don’t like upitty colored folk. Especially one mimicking trump language, manners and stupidity. Imagine if Obama had suggested it. Don't forget it was trump calling out in public that it was OK to assault opponents. Did Donald Trump Encourage Violence at His Rallies? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-incitement-violence/

Liberals lose when they act like Donald Trump http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article213778174.html "It might seem satisfying to liberals to see members of Donald Trump's administration fleeing from restaurants after being shamed by patrons or booted by the owner. That happened to three of Trump's people last week, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was asked to leave the Red Hen in Lexington, Va., by its owner Friday night. Earlier, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Trump adviser Stephen Miller were shouted out of Washington restaurants.... But such behavior shouldn't feel satisfying, and it's not necessary. It's liberals trying to beat Donald Trump by becoming Donald Trump." Stephen Miller...mmmm..... thats a different equation?

I think she had the right to deny service. However I would have served her party. She's hungry and out with friends, why interject politics everywhere. Her job is no different than that of a lawyer representing a child molester. trump is another story. If the opportunity came about to shake his hand. I'd be tempted to squeeze his little man-child hand so hard he's need a cast for a year. But realistically, I just refuse to shake his hand and call him out as a Nazi-scumbag.