Phil1111

The BEST people get suspended, demoted and transferred. If they are so naive to imagine the trump swamp will be drained. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/381870-multiple-epa-officials-demoted-after-questioning-pruitt-spending

Criticizing the president about the national debt isn't a winning strategy. Campaigning on what he spent it on could be. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-knows-what-too-many-democrats-don-t-voters-don-ncna858496 President Trump has led the Republican Party in surprising directions – away from a balanced federal budget being only the latest. A recent poll indicates that's not a concern to most voters. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2018/0212/Why-GOP-is-largely-silent-over-Trump-s-deficit-heavy-budget The tea party is over. Now the tea is spiked with bourbon. trump put a knife in the back of the tea party because deficits are nothing but a obscure unimportant issue.

You have a very fundamental misunderstanding about how trade works. Start by understanding this: http://www.industryweek.com/trade/how-trump-wrong-about-trade "For the Chinese steel manufacturers, however, the news was inconsequential. Although China is the world's largest steel exporter, it is only the 11th-largest source country to the U.S., accounting for just 2 percent of total U.S. imports last year." https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/if-trump-thinks-hes-taking-steel-tariff-war-to-china-hes-wrong.html There are some major factors that influence corp. decision making with regards to locating head offices and manufacturing. Taxes: https://taxfoundation.org/2017-international-tax-competitiveness-index/ Access to capital markets: http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/view/430 Rule of Law and Governance: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/17-best-governed-countries-world-a7417096.html The above list doesn't include the US because its 18th https://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/documents/ROLIndex_2016_US_eng%20%282%29.pdf Education of workers: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading US ranks 14th. etc. trump is right about one factor. Theft of intellectual property. Which is discounted by all the statements he makes around trade that is wrong. Or just a plain lie to pander to his base. http://www.industryweek.com/intellectual-property/what-could-be-done-about-chinas-theft-intellectual-property But before ANYONE jumps to the remedy in the above story they need to understand the first quoted Industryweek story. About how trump is wrong on the trade war campaign.

You're just being silly now. trump has all sorts of top quality people working for him that he can plug into government jobs. "Six years after George Gjieli left federal prison, where he’d been sent for trying to break out a triple murderer, Donald Trump gave him a job running Trump Tower, where the billionaire businessman lived and worked. For a decade the Albanian immigrant, whom federal prosecutors had described as having “utter disdain for the laws of our country,” was the live-in residential superintendent of Trump’s most prized Manhattan high-rise. Meanwhile, he was accused in court papers of coordinating a cash-for-jobs racket inside the building, an Associated Press review has found. Trump’s decision to entrust responsibility of his namesake Fifth Avenue skyscraper to Gjieli adds to a growing public accounting of men with questionable backgrounds whom Trump has hired or partnered with. The AP and others have reported they include a Mafia-linked government informant whom Trump named as a senior adviser and a convicted cocaine dealer whom Trump supported in a letter to a federal judge." https://apnews.com/84436a9fcb104bfd96c40fe9e2045cae

For those who have not seen the story: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/31/598484688/kentucky-lawmakers-limit-black-lung-claims-reviews-despite-epidemic "In an interview with NPR, Koenig said he "relied on the expertise of those who understand the issue — the industry, coal companies and attorneys."" Holy fuck. Let's hire the foxes to guard the hen house while we're at it As if the workers themselves know nothing about the equation. Which begs the questions. Should one feel sympathy for coal country which voted for trump? Obviously there are those that didn't vote trump. Those disposable workers who health and welfare is but oil for the coal industry machinery. Those that can be cast aside in a little shack down a side road. Deep in Appalachia country to die as a sacrifice to coal profits and well paying jobs.

and the parents of everyone involved.

Defying Trump, China Slaps Tariffs on 128 U.S. Products https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/world/asia/china-tariffs-united-states.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news "put tariffs as high as 25 percent on imports of 128 American-made products, including pork and seamless steel pipes... The Ministry of Commerce said then that it could impose tariffs in two stages: first, a 15 percent duty on 120 products, including fruit and wine, and then, after further assessing the impact of the United States’ tariffs, a 25 percent tariff on eight other products, including pork, an important moneymaker, especially in farming regions in states that voted for Mr. Trump.... “Many members of the public voiced their support for the measures and the product list through telephone calls, emails and other means,” the ministry said. “After an assessment, it was decided to implement the measures described on 128 products imported from the United States.”

This right here is probably the most dangerous aspect of Trump's presidency. It started well before trump. Right wing media, aka Fox, Breitbart, etc. selects targets for disinformation. Targets like Soros, CNN, Hillary, etc. Then like the FSB and RT they fabricate stories and ideas. Weak gullible minds fall victim to these stories and ideas. Like heroin and crack addicts. https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/why-does-the-right-hate-soros-044343 People like Byron Williams,_______ listen to Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, etc. then grab their AR-15's and go postal. I can't use the term "wacko" to describe __________ otherwise I'd get the "final warning". But its easy to see the pattern of mindless zombie acceptance.

Some use the church for other marketing: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/381037-prominent-pastor-charged-with-defrauding-seniors-in-investment-scheme

USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/ Trump Is the Richest President Ever, But He Doesn’t Want to Pay His Lawyers http://www.newsweek.com/trump-richest-president-lawyers-pay-636828 Troubled Deutsche Is One of the Few Banks That Still Lend Donald Trump Money https://www.thestreet.com/story/13837506/1/troubled-deutsche-is-one-of-the-few-banks-that-still-lend-donald-trump-money.html

Uh...riiiiight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvI6eIRaJAw I have read most of the books by ex-CIA agent Robert Baer. He commented in one that when he encounters people overseas whom he met while stationed there as an agent, they never believe him when he tells them he is no longer with the CIA. The implication was that for an agent to actually cut ties with an intelligence service, is unusual among foreign nations. IMO about 40% of people are programed to tell the truth and about 40% to lie. Its similar for salespeople that when they want to persuade someone they go into sales mode and sell a position. If you think about a spy, be it an ordinary intelligence gatherer, or whatever. If they run across something interesting. Of course they will drop a dime. Its like the Australian diplomat Alexander Downer who first reported the trump /Hillary e-mail/ drunken disclosure. Or trump, even when he dosn't have to lie he does. Even when he dosn't have to exaggerate, he does.

Cool. I can trace where you got that specific lie, too. ***Poor guy, being used by the media to promote their anti-gun agenda. Given all the lies you've been fed, and eagerly believed - I don't think that Hogg is the one who is being used. Its almost a losing cause to compete with the FSB, Fox news, Breitbart, etc. They work 24/7 to supply the uninquisitive with brain numbing drivel. Which the target audience laps up like Pavlov's dogs. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/david-hogg-on-campus-rumor-hoax/

Uh...riiiiight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvI6eIRaJAw

Agree. I think everyone understands that there is advertising as a cost. Sales of psychological profiles of the user and anyone associating with them to third parties is an issue. "The turmoil has blown about $90 billion of market value out of Facebook stock in the past 10 days, after reports that Cambridge Analytica, the data-analysis company that helped with President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, kept data from 50 million users even after telling Facebook it had destroyed the information. The shares dropped 2.4 percent to $155.55 at 12:49 p.m. in New York, extending this year’s decline to 12 percent, the fifth-worst performance among 70 companies in the S&P 500 Information Technology Index." https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/03/26/facebook-turns-toxic-for-some-esg-funds-as-shares-sink-again To date a $90 billion US dollar issue.

She, and the others like her, have grown up in the shadow of Columbine. They know that these kids can change the 2nd amendment one day. They should be scared, it's coming. Jerry Baumchen Latest Gallup polling: http://news.gallup.com/poll/229562/preference-stricter-gun-laws-highest-1993.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=TOPIC&g_campaign=item_&g_content=U.S.%2520Preference%2520for%2520Stricter%2520Gun%2520Laws%2520Highest%2520Since%25201993 Poll: Most voters say gun policy will be major factor in midterm vote http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign-polls/375230-poll-most-voters-say-gun-policy-will-be-major-factor-in-their-vote-in

I'm going to disagree with Wendy. (rare event) Business has always been done this way, and capitalism can only work this way. It is up to the customer to choose wisely. I have to side with Wendy. When you buy, consume or otherwise consume a product there are mutual expectations in the transaction. Personal exploitation is not one of them. Imagine addictive food agents placed in a candy bar. Trackers in your cell phone to sell your travel history to third parties. Recording devices in new cars to pass your conversations onto third parties. This Is So Much Bigger Than Facebook Data misuse is a feature, not a bug—and it’s plaguing our entire culture. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/data-misuse-bigger-than-facebook/556310/ If you substituted the state(government) for facebook. Civil war would break out. Certainly a search warrant is required to get personal phone numbers, calls, personal data, names of friends, there phone numbers, their browsing history, etc.

Don't feel bad because you and Rushmc both get your news feed from Fox. See the separate thread for Fox accuracy statistics. Fact-check: did Obama really remove a Churchill bust from the Oval Office? "The bust in question, by British sculptor Jacob Epstein, was given to President George W Bush by the British government in 2001 and was placed in the Oval Office. But the statue was not donated, it was simply on loan for Bush’s term in office (a loan which the British government decided to extend when Bush was re-elected in 2004). Churchill disappeared from the White House in 2009, when the loan ended at the same time that Obama moved in. So how was the White House able to claim in 2012 that the bust was still there? When writing the blogpost, the then communications director Dan Pfeiffer simply neglected to mention the fact that there are two Churchill busts – the one on loan to Bush from 2001 to 2009, and a second bust which the White House has had since the 1960s and still has to this day – a fact which Pfeiffer later had to clarify in an update at the end of the post. " https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/22/barack-obama-winston-churchill-bust-oval-office-britain

Facebook collected phone call, text message data: report Facebook collected users' phone call and text message data for two years, according to a report from Ars Technica. The news outlet cites various Facebook users who discovered the social media platform scraped metadata from their Android smartphones. The data reported included the names of contacts, phone numbers, call lengths, and SMS and MMS metadata. http://thehill.com/policy/technology/380247-facebook-collected-phone-call-text-message-data-report

You never cease to disappoint or fail to reveal bias. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-received-debate-questions-week-before-debate/

Fox News is running the country Trump is known to be a frequent viewer of the network, particularly “Fox & Friends,” and often tweets in response to what the show’s hosts have been discussing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=CZerzpM-j30 http://thehill.com/homenews/media/380060-maher-fox-news-is-running-the-country

No, it isn't symmetrical. Despite both being substandard, CNN is both less biased and more reasonable in their interpretations of the news, compared to FOXNews. Its always amusing to hear trumpateers to rail against CNN because the relentless coverage they offer of trump. Unprotected sex with porn stars and playmates. Payoffs and pandering by trump supporters. Well trump needed another distraction from the playmate expose' this week so last night it was transgender military personnel. When the Mueller firing or indictments come down. It will be a war with Iran. "MSNBC host Joe Scarborough mocked President Trump on Friday night after the White House announced that the administration would move to ban most transgender people from serving in the military. The "Morning Joe" co-host sent a tweet accusing Trump of issuing the decision in an attempt to distract from the massive spending bill he reluctantly signed Friday and an upcoming "60 Minutes" interview with adult-film star Stormy Daniels." http://thehill.com/homenews/media/380055-scarborough-trolls-trump-transgender-ban-will-surely-distract-from-stormy

Fact-checking Fox, MSNBC and CNN: PunditFact's network scorecards Each of the news networks that we routinely follow -- ABC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC and CNN -- has a scorecard that breaks down that network’s performance on the Truth-O-Meter. The scorecard tallies each statement we fact-check on that network and groups the rulings by percentage.... Right now, you can look at the MSNBC file, which also includes NBC, and see how that network’s pundits and on-air talent stand. For instance, currently 45 percent of the claims we’ve checked from NBC and MSNBC pundits and on-air personalities have been rated Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire. At Fox and Fox News Channel, that same number is now 58 percent. At CNN, it’s 22 percent. The comparisons are interesting, but be cautious about using them to draw broad conclusions. We use our news judgment to pick the facts we’re going to check, so we certainly don’t fact-check everything. And we don’t fact-check the five network groups evenly. CBS, for instance, doesn’t have a cable network equivalent, so we haven’t fact-checked pundits and CBS personalities as much. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2014/sep/16/fact-checking-fox-msnbc-and-cnn-punditfacts-networ/ CNN is despised by trump supporters because it uses a low operating cost news format. That means it has Atlanta, NY and Washington offices with lots of journalists. But none anywhere else. No operating system is cheaper for a news service than having one journalist interview another. Its focus for the last year is domestic politics. Focus trump. trump is therefore 24/7 with the odd break. BBC is the sole remaining objective news service with worldwide coverage. i.e. journalists and offices over most of the world. The only other comparable news gathering organizations are the NY Times, Bloomberg and possibly Reuters. But Reuters operates as more as a delivery franchise for independents. For the posters that equate CNN with FOX I would just point out that FOX is proven to lie about the news. Lie about facts. Two point six three times as much as FOX. According to the above story. There are other news fact checking studies that have come to that exact same conclusion. Including the chart in this thread. Lies designed to project ideology. As such the title of this thread is entirely appropriate. Where CNN goes off the tracks is the salacious coverage of trump's sexcapades. Pandering to the baser instincts of car chases, etc. A full days coverage of some small political intricacy of WH misstep. IMO is where CNN grates the craw of some possible viewers.

But you're also unwilling to listen to the students who ACTUALLY got shot at or were ACTUALLY shot. Did you Actually get shot at? Or are you just trolling. No, I'm just calling you out for saying these students are pawns and shouldn't be taken seriously. How seriously you take these children? http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/03/20/student-planning-abortion-protest/ Now that you-tube is banning gun video's. Where are you going to learn about shooting, guns, etc.? YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/youtube-bans-firearm-sales-and-how-to-videos-prompting-backlash YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U.S. gun-control debate. YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire faster. Additionally, YouTube said it will prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms. The video site, owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has faced intense criticism for hosting videos about guns, bombs and other deadly weapons.

Well its all too much for trump's former head council he has just resigned. Evidently rats jumping from a sinking ship is a reality. John Dowd, President Donald Trump's head lawyer in the special counsel's investigation, has resigned, he confirmed to NBC News. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/John-Dowd-Resigns-Trump-Lawyer-Russia-Probe-477641243.html Just another slow news day for trumpateers.

Usually its a dead ecosystem. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/22/florida-retrieving-700000-tires-after-failed-bid-to-create-artifical-reef https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/02/microplastics-killing-fish-before-they-reach-reproductive-age-study-finds https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/microplastics.html "Stretching from inland rivers and bays to the edge of the continental shelf, the coastal ocean accounts for about 10 percent of the ocean’s surface area. Yet this relatively small sliver of ocean contains about half of all the microscopic plants adrift in our seas. With satellites we can see what fishermen find with their nets: Coastal waters are the most biologically productive portions of the world’s oceans. Acre for acre, the coastal ocean is as productive as a prosperous Midwestern farm. This is not necessarily a surprise. Microscopic plants, or phytoplankton, form the base of most of the food webs in the ocean. Microscopic animals (zooplankton) eat the phytoplankton, and are in turn eaten by other, larger animals. Increased biological activity by plants enhances animal activity." https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/the-grass-is-greener-in-the-coastal-ocean