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From a democratic and anti-Trump perspective I'm enjoying watching his and the R party's support plummet like a rock. And elections with strong D turnout. Did you see the Obama Trump comparison Pole today? Trump's support level is it the exact same level that Obama's was at the same time in his presidency. The Republican support is not dropping it's a democratic delusion that it is Do you mean this "pole"? "Gallup poll: Obama is 'most admired man' for the 10th year in a row" Former President Barack Obama is America’s “most admired man” for the 10th consecutive year, according to new survey data from Gallup. The annual poll has been taken every year but one since 1946 and asks respondents to name their most admired man and woman, as well as their second choice.... Trump is one of few incumbent presidents who have not been named the most admired among all Americans. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366561-poll-obama-is-most-admired-man-for-the-10th-year-in-a-row Or this poll?: "US president Barack Obama will leave office with an approval rating of 57% according to a survey from the polling firm Gallup taken from Jan. 9-15, 2017. Obama’s exiting approval rating is 23 percentage points higher than former US president George W. Bush’s when he left office, ... Donald Trump’s favorability rating sits at 40%. This is extremely low for an incoming president—each of the last three presidents entered with favorability ratings above 60%. Upon Trump’s inauguration, the US will move from having a generally well-liked leader to having one that is historically unpopular. https://qz.com/889644/obamas-approval-rating-from-his-first-day-to-his-last-in-charts/ Underlined and bolded in red... Say what? Did Trump win re-election? ????? of an official or regime) currently holding office. "the incumbent president had been defeated" synonyms: current, present, in office, in power; reigning "the incumbent president

The Spin: Trump: US could use some ‘good old Global Warming’ to heat up cold states http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366734-trump-us-could-use-some-good-old-global-warming-to-heat-up-cold The reality, costs in 2017 are over $400 billion dollars: Megadisasters devastated America this year. They’re going to get worse. Storms, fires, floods, and heat caused unprecedented destruction in 2017. Why? "2017 is about to become the most expensive disaster year in US history, costing nearly $400 billion in damages." https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/28/16795490/natural-disasters-2017-hurricanes-wildfires-heat-climate-change-cost-deaths[url] "A common feature of the hurricanes and the wildfires is that there have been many warnings from scientists and others," explained Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "With climate change, one slows or stops the problem (mitigation) or adapts to the problem (builds resilience) or suffers the consequences. In Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, and Santa Rosa, it is clear that the people have chosen the last option."... "The three storms—Harvey, Irma and Maria—were all enhanced," Trenberth said. "Bigger, stronger and longer lasting because of climate change as manifested through exceptionally high ocean temperatures." [url]https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/28/16795490/natural-disasters-2017-hurricanes-wildfires-heat-climate-change-cost-deaths

You're referring of the propensity of people to moderate their views when answering polls and talking to strangers. Most polls have sophisticated quantitative modeling as the basis of the poll. It factors race, incomes, sex, etc. It also factors non responsive answers, hang-ups , etc. Obama had his lowest popularity about one year into his Presidency. About the time he was bailing out wall street bankers, etc. You can't govern based upon polls and trump dosn't. I'll give trump credit for the N. Korea sanctions and for the sale of arms to Ukraine this last week. IMO he's the bad cop and Tillerson the "good cop". The anti-tank guided missile sales to Ukraine are bound to piss off Putin. Because there are Russian special forces and "volunteers" fighting with the rebels. All paid for by Putin.

From a democratic and anti-Trump perspective I'm enjoying watching his and the R party's support plummet like a rock. And elections with strong D turnout. Did you see the Obama Trump comparison Pole today? Trump's support level is it the exact same level that Obama's was at the same time in his presidency. The Republican support is not dropping it's a democratic delusion that it is Do you mean this "pole"? "Gallup poll: Obama is 'most admired man' for the 10th year in a row" Former President Barack Obama is America’s “most admired man” for the 10th consecutive year, according to new survey data from Gallup. The annual poll has been taken every year but one since 1946 and asks respondents to name their most admired man and woman, as well as their second choice.... Trump is one of few incumbent presidents who have not been named the most admired among all Americans. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366561-poll-obama-is-most-admired-man-for-the-10th-year-in-a-row Or this poll?: "US president Barack Obama will leave office with an approval rating of 57% according to a survey from the polling firm Gallup taken from Jan. 9-15, 2017. Obama’s exiting approval rating is 23 percentage points higher than former US president George W. Bush’s when he left office, ... Donald Trump’s favorability rating sits at 40%. This is extremely low for an incoming president—each of the last three presidents entered with favorability ratings above 60%. Upon Trump’s inauguration, the US will move from having a generally well-liked leader to having one that is historically unpopular. https://qz.com/889644/obamas-approval-rating-from-his-first-day-to-his-last-in-charts/

Yes. History is full of groups that actually believed their own propaganda. Most of them lost. Only 25% of the hard core left. "But less than a quarter of Americans think Trump has made good on the pledges he made to voters while running for president, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research."... As 2017 comes to a close, the majority of Americans painted a broadly pessimistic view of Trump’s presidency, the nation’s politics and the overall direction of the country. Just three in 10 Americans said the United States is heading in the right direction, and 52 percent said the country is worse off since Trump became president — worrisome signs both for the White House and Republicans heading into a midterm election year where control of Congress will be at stake. Along with the 23 percent who think Trump has kept his promises, another 30 percent think he has tried and failed and 45 percent think he hasn’t kept them at all.... In a second AP-NORC poll conducted this month, Trump’s job approval rating sits at just 32 percent, making him the least popular first-year president on record. A quarter of Republicans say they’re among those who disapprove of the president.... Just 25 percent of Americans think the country is better off since Trump took office — and only 20 percent say they personally are doing better. By contrast, an AP-NORC poll conducted a year ago found that Americans were more likely to think the country had become better off over the course of Barack Obama’s presidency than worse off, 46 percent to 33 percent. " https://apnews.com/9079eca84bc542a7bdd79b65fae1e53f Furthermore, "52 percent of Americans feel the U.S. became less respected worldwide over the course of 2017, the poll found. ..., but the poll also showed 52 percent of Americans either strongly or somewhat disapproved of the way Trump is handling his presidency, putting his overall approval rating at roughly 38 percent. Only 39 percent approve of the job Trump is doing when it comes to foreign policy. The poll also showed a majority of Americans, 57 percent, believe Trump is fairly or very likely to get the U.S. into a war—and 55 percent feel he doesn't have the temperament to be president. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-start-war-us-less-respected-worldwide-760931 The Russian plan is working. In the face of a skyrocketing stock market in which only 25% feel better off. Most Americans are very worried about Americas future.

Don't take this personally. But I've always thought that golden retrievers are the smartest dogs.They have a natural best demeanor of all dogs. Fastest dogs to learn something. Furthermore I've always been of the opinion that the people that get them have an above average IQ in general. Having said that the smartest dog I've ever known was a German Shepard that my brother adopted when the dog was about 8 years old. The only bad habit he had was chasing deer. He would not stop chasing deer. Beyond that he had every behavior down to a T. He had a nose like a bloodhound. Ferociously protective and loyal. Knew how to read a person like a book to get what he wanted.

Because they are inherently powerful a bite can have more consequence. They are not as intuitive as some other breeds. In the absence of abuse and the hands of a knowledgeable canine psychology owner. They should be as safe as the average dog. I have only owned a German Shepherd and a mix of indeterminable breed. I personally like dogs and cats equally.

Do you want to ban guns, too? Care to compare how many people are accidentally killed by guns vs killed by pitbulls? I'm not quite sure of the point,or analogy you're trying to make. Certainly Ms. Stephens, 22 years old, didn't deserve the somewhat disrespective title of this thread. Pitbulls have the title today that dobermans did in the 1960's. While I agree most all dogs can be rehabilitated given the proper training, time and a owner/trainer who knows animal psychology. Just saying it can be done. Dosn't mean every combination of animal and trainer/owner can make it happen. Pitbulls, German shepherds, etc. have been bred for certain characteristic over the last 500 years or so. People have raised lions, cougars, grizzly bears, etc. as pets and circus performers. For just as long. Just as trained elephants occasionally "go berzerk" and for no logical reason kill their trainers. Certain breeds of dogs can get aggressive and attack. Just as cross breeds can. In India cobras are incorporated into snake charming acts to put food on the table. Dosn't mean they should be pets. To date there has been no logical motivation put forward as to why a millionaire, white, 64 year old man,no history of abuse, no criminal history and a concealed weapons license. Would act worse than this pitbull. But one did in Las Vegas. Thats another thread.

I see so many owners of pitbull pups dragging their dogs on leashes. Or having the dogs pulling on the leashes such that the owner is leaning back against the leash with all their force. I feel bad for the dogs but what can you do against stupidity. The owners don't have a clue. Not to say that there are not other stupid dog owners. But as mentioned already. Too many stupid people get pitbulls because of their reputation. Then the prophecy gets fulfilled. Because the owners can't be bothered to train, teach obedience, or even love their pets. They are merely a macho tool to show off how tough they are.

I rate things for danger based on how quickly people start yelling "it could happen with any (insert thing that's killing people left and right) at any time". You can tell they've had a lot of practice defending whatever it is. One of the first stories I saw today was a woman killed by a pitbull and I assumed it was the same story but no, a woman was killed and her husband chewed up by one in Kentucky last night. I think Joe hit the nail on the head. trashy people seem drawn to pitbulls. Montreal just went through a big pitbull affair. "Leader Lionel Perez said the city's own data suggests the number of dog bites related to pit bulls accounted for 40 per cent of the total bites reported in 2016 and 2017, even though they represent just three per cent of canines in the city." So they were banned then the ban just rescinded. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-pit-bull-ban-1.4458038 The license should be required for all the owners of that breed.

Belgium is not the Netherlands. Thats like saying the US is the same as Mexico. I am sure you wouldn't want to have anything to do with them? For the record, nothing this ambassador said is even remotely true. Sure, we have some problems, but nothing like this idiot was claiming he never said. You must be wrong or a "spreader of Fake News". 1. November 2, 2017 FOX news reported: "BRUSSELS – A Belgian mayor is banning Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders and Belgian anti-immigrant politician Filip Dewinter from holding a rally in the Molenbeek, a Muslim-majority Brussels neighborhood. Francoise Schepmans said the two men had described their planned visit on Friday to Molenbeek as an "Islam Safari" in the "Jihadi capital of Europe." http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/02/belgian-mayor-bans-far-right-rally-in-flashpoint-quarter.html and FOX news uses the current "Fair and Balanced" slogan together with “Most Watched. Most Trusted.” 2. President drumph of the United States of America has stated that "Brussels as a "living hellhole". http://www.dw.com/en/brussels-district-molenbeek-fights-terrorist-label/a-19048396 After all America has a. 16% more crime. b. 2.5 times the murder rate. c. 3 times the violent crime rate. d. 72 times more violent murders. e. 40% less physicians per 1000 people. http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Belgium/United-States f. 1-2% shorter life expectancy. g. 50% greater health care costs. h. 13% worse health care results. http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Belgium/United-States/Health

In a world where lying has become normalized, what is the future of honesty? We are told from childhood that it is wrong to lie, but every day we see evidence that not telling the truth is the way to achieve power and success. For examples, you only have to look at America’s current state of political affairs. “Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication,” reads a recent New York Times headline. Russian lies may have not only influenced the 2016 US presidential election, but also international events from Brexit to this week’s Catalonian referendum. Most recently, fake news proliferated in the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre “as people looking for information read and shared bogus reports and hoaxes without even realizing it.” The political, financial, and personal havoc and pain created by these lies is immeasurable, yet nothing seems to stop them—and, ultimately, no one seems to care terribly much. As Politifact writes, Trump takes “a bold approach to truthfulness—essentially saying: Catch me if you can—and even if you do, it doesn’t matter.” https://qz.com/1096562/donald-trumps-lies-in-a-world-where-lying-has-become-normalized-what-is-the-future-of-honesty/ Why Is Donald Trump Still So Horribly Witless About the World? Max Boot, a lifelong conservative who advised three Republican Presidential candidates on foreign policy, keeps a folder labelled “Trump Stupidity File” on his computer. It’s next to his “Trump Lies” file. “Not sure which is larger at this point,” he told me this week. “It’s neck-and-neck.”... “The sheer scale of his lack of knowledge is what has astounded me—and I had low expectations to begin with,” David Gordon, the director of the State Department’s policy-planning staff under Condoleezza Rice, during the Bush Administration, told me.... Trump’s policy mistakes, large and small, are taking a toll. “American leadership in the world—how do I phrase this, it’s so obvious, but apparently not to him—is critical to our success, and it depends eighty per cent on the credibility of the President’s word,” John McLaughlin, who worked at the C.I.A. under seven Presidents, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, and ended up as the intelligence agency’s acting director, told me. “Trump thinks having a piece of chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago bought him a relationship with Xi Jinping. He came in as the least prepared President we’ve had on foreign policy," McLaughlin added. “Our leadership in the world is slipping away. It’s slipping through our hands.”... https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-is-donald-trump-still-so-horribly-witless-about-the-world

Are you kidding? To equate the statement above about Molenbeek with the statement from the idiot: is a hell of a stretch. To claim that there are "no-go zones" where even the police won't enter is ridiculous. The fact that there are "ghettos" where minorities are clustered, where crime is elevated, where unemployment is high, where there are disaffected youth who are ripe for recruitment by terrorists is very true. But to equate the two is utterly false. All part of the racist, misogynist, bigoted trump administration. "Trump suggested Haitian immigrants to US 'all have AIDS ...Nigerians who gained entrance to the U.S. would never "go back to their huts" in Africa, and that Afghan immigrants came from a terrorist haven." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366304-report-trump-suggested-haitian-immigrants-to-us-all-have-aids Of course there is "Trump called Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists in a 2015 speech announcing his candidacy." http://thehill.com/homenews/news/328200-trump-organization-settles-restaurant-lawsuit-with-second-celebrity-chef

Fox News website beefs up and ‘goes a little Breitbart’ As competition surges on the right, Fox’s website increasingly follows the path of its prime-time hosts. A sleeping media giant may be about to wake up: Fox News’ website — known for its high traffic, but not strong identity —is staffing up and sharpening its voice in hopes of equaling the impact of its increasingly pro-Trump television partner. A website that had been more closely identified with Shepard Smith’s brand of reporting has now moved closer to the mold of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, according to former staff members. “The approach has gone much more the way the prime-time programming works,” said one, “where it feels more agenda or opinion driven, or combative.”... Yochai Benkler, a Harvard Law School professor, was part of the group with MIT that studied how readers consumed news online during the 2016 election, and said that Fox News has an incentive to move to the right. Analyzing linking and sharing patterns of 1.25 million stories, his group found that Fox News and Breitbart formed the heart of “a relatively insular and self-referential” online news ecosystem. In other words, people reading, sharing and linking to Fox News and Breitbart were, for the most part interacting only with other right-wing news sites, and not mainstream outlets like The New York Times, Washington Post, or even Wall Street Journal. That means, Benkler said, that conservatives are Fox News’ only potential audience. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/23/fox-news-website-breitbart-312326 Welcome to 2018 America. Take no prisoners. Accept no dissent and forget any middle ground.

Dude the numbers are there in black and white. The average Joe is going to get a small tax reprieve for a few years and then their taxes will go up. The wealthy will get a BIG tax cut that doesn't expire. And it's going to cost over a trillion taxpayer dollars. How on earth can you consider that a win, are you mental??? Yes. The numbers are very clear. You need to find the real numbers. No tax cut in history lowered the dollars received by the treasury. That is fact. Spending is the issue. I have quoted your post but you need not reply directly as the quote reference was made solely for reference purposes. What we learned from Reagan’s tax cuts David Wessel Friday, December 8, 2017 Q. Did the 1981 Reagan tax cut spur enough economic growth that it paid for itself? A. When Ronald Reagan arrived in Washington in 1981, circumstances were very different than they are today. Inflation was nearly 10 percent. The Federal Reserve had pushed interest rates into double digits. The federal debt was about half what it is today, measured as a share of the economy. The Reagan tax cut was huge. The top rate fell from 70 percent to 50 percent. The tax cut didn’t pay for itself. According to later Treasury estimates, it reduced federal revenues by about 9 percent in the first couple of years. In fact, most of the top Reagan administration officials didn’t think the tax cut would pay for itself. They were counting on spending cuts to avoid blowing up the deficit. But they never materialized. Q. So the spending cuts never materialized, the deficit increased, and then what? A. As projections for the deficit worsened, it became clear that the 1981 tax cut was too big. So with Reagan’s signature, Congress undid a good chunk of the 1981 tax cut by raising taxes a lot in 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1987. George H.W. Bush signed another tax increase in 1990 and Bill Clinton did the same in 1993. One lesson from that history: When tax cuts are really too big to be sustainable, they’re often followed by tax increases." https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/12/08/what-we-learned-from-reagans-tax-cuts/ "The Brookings Institution is a century-old American research group on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C.[1] It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.[2][3] Its stated mission is to "provide innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and secure a more open, safe, prosperous, and cooperative international system."[1]... Brookings states that its staff "represent diverse points of view" and describes itself as non-partisan,[1][15] and the media sometimes describes Brookings as either "conservative",[16] "centrist"[17] or "liberal."[18] An academic analysis of Congressional records from 1993 to 2002 found that Brookings was referenced by conservative politicians almost as frequently as liberal politicians, earning a score of 53 on a 1–100 scale with 100 representing the most liberal score.[19] The same study found Brookings to be the most frequently cited think tank by the U.S. media and politicians.[19]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution

While under a trump administration they certainly don't. 1. President Trump's Budget Proposal Calls For Deep Cuts To Education https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/22/529534031/president-trumps-budget-proposal-calls-for-deep-cuts-to-education 2. Final Tax Bill Cuts State and Local Deductions http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/12/gop_tax_bill_teacher_deduction_deductions_state_local_deductions.html Reducing the amount of state and local taxes people can deduct could exert significant pressure on some states and communities to reduce their own taxes, and therefore reduce revenue available for funding for schools. We discussed this on a recent episode of Education Writers Association radio. "We lost a policy fight. Our schools and students lose more," said Noelle Ellerson Ng, the associate executive director of AASA, the School Superintendents Association, which along with other state and local groups sought to keep the current deductibility of state and local taxes. 3.Unqualified and Dangerous Betsy DeVos is uniquely unprepared to run the U.S. Education Department. https://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowledge-bank/articles/2017-02-07/5-reasons-to-reject-donald-trumps-education-pick-betsy-devos 4. The Significance of Betsy DeVos's Speech in Baltimore The education secretary, who’s been accused of wanting to privatize public education, gave a university commencement speech in a city whose district schools are struggling to stay afloat. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/12/betsy-devos-goes-to-baltimore/548963/ 5.Betsy DeVos limits debt relief for defrauded students Some students who were defrauded by their colleges will no longer be granted full debt relief. Instead they will receive partial debt relief based on their income, the Department of Education said Wednesday http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/21/pf/college/devos-borrower-defense-debt-relief/index.html 6.First by For-Profit College, Now 'Screwed' by DeVos as Trump's DOE Rolls Back Debt Relief for Defrauded Students While saying "no fraud is acceptable" in one breath, DeVos announces government will continue demanding debt payments from defrauded students... The Corinthian Colleges chain was shut down in 2015, weeks after Obama's Education Department slapped the business with a $30 million fine for inflating students' job placement rates. An estimated 20,000 former Corinthian students with pending claims against the school will be affected by DeVos's deicsion. DeVos's proposals for changing student loan forgiveness programs have come under attack this year, with critics noting that the secretary has held investments in a student loan collection ageny and hired the CEO of a private student loan company to head the Office of Federal Student Aid. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/21/first-profit-college-now-screwed-devos-trumps-doe-rolls-back-debt-relief-defrauded The above is of particular interest. because it was trump himself that defrauded students in his infamous "trump university". Judge approves $25 million settlement of Trump University lawsuit https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-university-lawsuit-settlement-233772 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-university-lawsuit-must-pay-approved-payment-a7661026.html No Sir, you are the bible thumper. Hobbling children with someone so unqualified, politically biased and devoted to republicans, as DeVos. Rather than education. Cutting the states ability to fund schools in order to prepare them for future jobs. That will require good fundamentals in quality education. Is short sighted. Beyond that the Ivanka has never, never and not once. Voiced dissent with her father on the aforementioned education issues. Finally it will be the uneducated and poorly educated children that will be forced to pay off the Chinese Billions in debt. That the latest trump tax bill will dump in their laps.

Kick ass and take names.

This is by far the best analysis of the new tax legislation. It should be required reading. Two days before Congress gave final approval, a group of 13 tax law experts released the most incisive critique of the tax bill to date, a 30-page document called “The Games They Will Play: An Update on the Conference Committee Tax Bill.” News Posted on December 15, 2017 Professor Shanske’s Tax Reform Paper Draws Massive Downloads, Coverage in Forbes, New Republic, Wall Street Journal A research paper co-authored by Professor Darien Shanske and other leading tax law scholars has been downloaded more than 29,000 times since being published online on December 7 and drawn extensive media coverage including articles in Forbes, New Republic, McClatchy News Service, Slate, Bloomberg BNA, Politico, CALmatters, the Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among many others. https://law.ucdavis.edu/news/news.aspx?id=8769 ^^^^^^^^^ This link will take you to a review of this 30 page report which in turn has links to about a dozen news analysis of the tax reports. With all kinds of tips on how to avoid tax and prepare for the new legislation. The paper, “The Games They Will Play: Tax Games, Roadblocks, and Glitches Under the New Legislation” is already among the most downloaded of any paper published during 2017 on the Social Sciences Resource Network (SSRN), an online repository for scholarly works. In the paper, Shanske and his co-authors criticize the bill as the product of a “rushed and closed process, without adequate regard for the intricacies of the tax law and the risk of unintended consequences.” They point out potential loopholes that are likely to result in reduced revenues and increased deficits. The primary authors of the report — Ari Glogower, David Kamin, Rebecca Kysar, and Darien Shanske — describe the legislation as “a substantial blow to the basic integrity of the income tax” that will “advantage the well-advised in ways that are both deliberate and inadvertent.” This is the abbreviated NYT story link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/opinion/republican-tax-bill-trump-corker.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region This is the whole 30 page report link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089423

You understand the concept of prepping the political battlefield. trump JR. is busy: "Donald Trump Jr., the oldest son of President Trump, on Tuesday reportedly argued that the Russia investigation shows there are individuals “at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America.” In comments reported by CNN, Trump Jr. slammed what he perceives as a bias within the FBI and the special counsel's office, which is conducting a probe into Russia’s election meddling and any potential ties between Trump campaign staff members and Moscow." http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/365761-trump-jr-people-at-the-highest-levels-of-government-conspiring All the while regular news agencies look onto the story and wonder? Savannah Guthrie to Paul Ryan: ‘Are you living in a fantasy world?’ http://thehill.com/homenews/house/365745-savannah-guthrie-to-paul-ryan-are-you-living-in-a-fantasy-world All part of how trump and his GOP allies are preparing for 2018 while regular America looks on is bewilderment.

That would be kinda hypocritical though, since it why they put him on the show in the first place. They know he's a nut, but he's their kinda nut. FOX knows their shrinking audience, stupid white bigoted men. This is the feature story on FOX news, TODAY: Hillary Clinton popularity hits all-time low, poll shows Hillary Clinton’s approval ratings have hit an all-time low, reflecting the sustained scrutiny the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee continues to face even after her election loss. According to a new Gallup Poll measuring Clinton’s favorability from Dec. 4 through Dec. 11, Clinton’s rating is down 5 points since June -- to just 36 percent. Her unfavorable rating is at 61 percent, a new high. President Trump's numbers are in about the same place. The survey show Trump's favorability at 35 percent during the same time period. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/20/hillary-clinton-popularity-hits-all-time-low-poll-shows.html On other news: Trump’s Popularity Is Plummeting—Even Among Fox News Viewers President Donald Trump loves Fox News, but fans of the conservative-leaning network are starting to like him a lot less. In June, 90 percent of respondents in a Suffolk University poll who said they trust Fox over other news networks viewed Trump favorably, but by October, approval had fallen to 74 percent, The Washington Post reported Thursday. It then plummeted to 58 percent in December. That’s a 32-point drop in six months. http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-popularity-plummeting-even-among-fox-news-viewers-748765

What exactly does the term "pitch a baby bitch" mean? And where did you get it from? A Breitbart source no doubt. The right wing sure does get creative in finding words to denigrate people. Too bad they have so much trouble with honesty and decency. The phrase pitch a bitch has been around way longer than Breitbart. So I'll just let you wallow in your ignorance Here is one for you and your friends. Just a little x-mas spirit. The Mooch rips ‘loser’ Steve Bannon at Hanukkah party "Mooch also described the “kill or be killed” atmosphere in the White House: “The first pill you take is the ‘anti-friendship’ pill. You can be my friend for 30 years, but I’m gonna stab your eyeball out with an ice pick if it gets me more power. The second pill you take is the ‘power is aphrodisiac’ pill. Students of history know that power corrupts and it corrupts absolutely.” https://pagesix.com/2017/12/19/the-mooch-rips-loser-steve-bannon-at-hanukkah-party/?_ga=2.194070061.1827498190.1513778311-1715498884.1513778311

Nope, I got it right. By removing the state tax deductions from the federal income tax those in the Democratic states such as California and New York will now have to pay their fair share of federal taxes. About time So you're saying that: "New York sent nearly $41 billion more to Washington than it received back in federal spending — more than double the gap four years ago, according to a report released on Tuesday." https://nypost.com/2017/10/03/new-york-gives-billions-more-than-it-gets-in-federal-spending/ "That same year, California paid about $369 billion in total federal tax -- or about $13 billion more than it received -- according to the Internal Revenue Service Data Book, 2014. Another widely-cited study from 2007 says California received only 78 cents for every dollar it paid in federal taxes. http://www.politifact.com/california/article/2017/feb/14/does-california-give-more-it-gets-dc/ Just 14% of CEOs surveyed by Yale University said their companies plan to make large, immediate capital investments in the United States if the tax overhaul passes. Capital investments, like building plants and upgrading equipment, can lead to hiring... Only a slim majority of the CEOs, 55%, said the Republican tax package should be signed into law.... Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who leads the Yale CEO Summit, said in an interview that it's "astounding" how few companies plan to reinvest their tax savings. He called the idea of a jobs boom from the tax plan "a lot of smoke and mirrors," especially because the unemployment rate is just 4.1% and companies already have plenty of cash to make investments. Sonnenfeld declined to name the CEOs who participated in the poll. He said it included "Trump supporters" and former members of the president's now-defunct advisory councils of business leaders." http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/19/investing/tax-plan-jobs-trump-ceo-yale-survey/index.html What is most interesting about the above story. Is that 45% of CEO's that took place in the aforementioned survey. Took the position of US national interests are more important than their own companies. That their own stock bonuses, options and corporate profits are less important than the US national interest. In rejecting this tax "relief" bill. Since fact matters so little to you, FOX and Breitbart. Perhaps you could work part time for them as a fact checker?

Merry Christmas to you Ron and your family. Best wishes in the new year. And the same to everyone else!

So? It's not like they can't deduct all their expenses (and knowing a lot of small business owners, I'm pretty sure they deduct a lot of personal expenses too). It's way past time for the federal government to stop subsidizing Democratic states High tax rates Sure, that makes perfect sense. Money spent on education, roads,LE and other infrastructure. Is better spent on deductible breaks for billionaire property developers. While borrowing billions more from China to pay for it. Then passing the debt onto American children. Americans should be stupid,afraid of crime, in the dark, digging coal and hiding behind walls.

A recent report in The Washington Post, quoting intelligence sources, said Putin may have spent less than $500,000 to hack our last election and help Donald Trump become president. And Putin’s payoff is Trump’s first year: a president who is simultaneously eroding some of our most basic norms, undermining some of our most cherished institutions and enacting a mammoth tax bill that will not make America great again.... On norms, we’ve grown numb to a president who misleads or outright lies every day. Different newspapers measure this differently. The Washington Post says Trump has averaged 5.5 false or misleading claims every day in office, putting him on pace for 1,999 in his first year. According to The Times, Barack Obama told 18 “distinct falsehoods” over his entire eight-year presidency, while Trump, in his first 10 months in office, “has told 103 separate untruths, many of them repeatedly.”... Given the power of the president to shape our public discourse, it’s chilling to imagine what four years and 8,000 lies or misleading statements from Trump will do to trust in government in America — and how deeply that will filter into society, giving permission to anyone and everyone to lie with impunity. In terms of institutions, Trump has personally disparaged the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Justice Department. His head of the Environmental Protection Agency has turned the E.P.A. over to the fossil fuel industry. Ditto at Interior. His I.R.S. is being starved of funding to do its job. And his secretary of state is gutting the State Department, shedding our most experienced diplomats and replacing them with … no one.... Instead, this bill will spend money preserving unfair tax breaks for hedge fund billionaires and shrinking the inheritance tax on their heirs. Second, we invested in the best infrastructure — roads, rail, ports, airports, telecom. This tax bill not only makes no provision for that, it actually erodes such investments in many states. With a limitation on the deduction for state and local taxes, and the deficit’s ballooning by $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, many cities and the federal government will have fewer resources for new schools and bridges. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/opinion/merry-christmas-vladimir-your-friend-donald.html?mabReward=TS2&recid=0xyKl35fVkFyEkvG1TJ6Q8J4VQr&recp=1&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine