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Tim Cook, Tech CEOs and Top Republicans Attend Secretive Meeting About Donald Trump
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Yup. That's the best way to make sure protestors keep coming back. Which is what's happening, isn't it?
BTW, if acting like a spoiled child is grounds for being thrown out, Trump himself should be tossed out from nearly every one of his events.
As to "private functions", I had no idea Trump's rallies were invitation only. Is a tux required or is it suit and tie?
So there are no problems with cops shooting blacks without justification? Every cop is a saint, and every black victim is a devil?
Oh. Right. How's that going?
Seems to me they each had at least a few other jobs.
Well, I think we're about to have an election in which we can vote and determine if thinking that people should be accountable for their own actions and responsible for their poor life decisions makes you a racist, game on.
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Nice straw man. If the police do something illegal, they should be punished. From what I've seen that almost always happens. Oh wait, you say it doesn't happen? Could that be because you don't AGREE with a jury's verdict or a DA's willingness to prosecute based on the evidence available?
Here, I can play straw man too..... how about those college spoiled brat BLM protestors backing students up into corners and shouting in their faces that they need to agree to black solidarity under threat of violence? How about the "do you believe black lives matter" crowd of thugs who bullied a white veteran at a McDonalds and then beat the crap out of him for minding his own business and not buying into their racist bs?
See how that works?
What straw man? You're the one who was dismissive of BLM's concerns and switched the topic to personal responsibility.
And what makes your say on the issue the final one? Why is your take on the matter more valid according to you?
There's a huge gulf between "everyone's racist" and "racism is dead, and only used by people who want to feed their own victim complex", you know.
Of course, they fell for his "Make Germany Great Again" Slogan.
Feel like this post really needs an update/correction. Read a few articles today about how the meeting wasn't about Trump (according to Elon Musk and others ).
Probably a simple case of one blogger mentioning Trump being a subject - and the entire media world jumped on it without evidence.
Probably a simple case of one blogger mentioning Trump being a subject - and the entire media world jumped on it without evidence.
Yep, and on this topic, was it Scowcroft that said (re: Iraq II), "This is why we didn't march to Baghdad in 1991." (?) And I find it odd how quickly or "selectively" people forget about the no-fly zones in various "problem areas" and how well they worked under the HWB and Clinton administrations. It's equally as odd that OBL and his band of hipster-terrorist rich frat boys so conveniently forgot that NATO forces intervened heavily in Bosnia and Kosovo saving thousands of Muslim lives. Maybe if today's kids -and the Millennials don't want to peruse some Wikipedia NATO stuff about what happened when and who was for what, they could at least watch Zero Dark Thirty, a film about dedicated people making very difficult decisions so that we can all take snapshots of our food and live our Portlandia lifestyles -without a care in the world. And yes, Iraq is still a mess. One thing Trump is right about is creating inadvertent power-vacuums in shaky places. What's also interesting is that for the first time in (I don't know when...) China has a blue-water navy. That's a big deal.
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No they wouldn't. Net profit is what's left once all your other costs are taken into account, so you can pay for all of your R&D, you can handsomely reward your employees etc... You can generate as much revenue as you want, just make sure that 80% of it is going into the business!
As another poster said it's a virtuous cycle. Pay people more they spent more, which generates more demand, which means more workers who can be paid more etc... The only thing that stops is that the Waltons' and the Kochs' bank accounts stop getting exponentially bigger!
I'm not American, but from what I've read corporations, lobbying, government, they've all been merged into a nucelar cricket ball. There should be a separation of them all but do you think that could ever happen?
You and Liz got mopped up on that exchange.
At what point was jpage2 dismissive of BLM's concerns?
This, from someone who's glorifying Jon Voight's opinion on Trump. Were you not paying attention to that exchange?
When he chose to redefine the race problem as one of "victimhood" and "personal responsibility".
Clever, but you got smoked.
And victimhood? That's the province of Community Organizers and a major platform of the Progressive left.
No victim, no constituency.
It's as simple as that and as plain as day. So racial animus must be stoked. To hell with personal responsibility.
It's okay. We're used to conservatives not dealing with reality around here.
Well Hillary seems to think everything is going swimmingly
Except of course she wants to make America whole again. Which is weird as it implies that her and Obama did the opposite in the last 8 years
The irony of being a liberal .....
The funny/not funny part is that's literally the case!
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Yeah because building extermination camps to imprison and eradicate a people is JUST EXACTLY like building a fence to keep people out who aren't supposed to be here legally.
Mexico should pay for it because they are costing us millions of manufacturing jobs and illegal immigrants send billions back from the US to keep the Mexico economy afloat. The Mexican economy needs us being "nice" to them a heckuva lot more than the US economy needs to be nice to them.
Mexico should pay for it because they are costing us millions of manufacturing jobs and illegal immigrants send billions back from the US to keep the Mexico economy afloat. The Mexican economy needs us being "nice" to them a heckuva lot more than the US economy needs to be nice to them.
The funny/not funny part is that's literally the case!
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Up vote for Bill's sense of humor. The guy's great.
Not a chance in hell mate. I'm English and wonder if it should just read UK Corp on world maps. Governments and corporations are very much in each others pockets, but they provide jobs and services so what can you do? It is bad when the little people actually doing the work suffer for profits and shares.
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This isn't Europe, we don't throw people in jail for talking, even if people find what they are saying uncomfortable. It can be argued that Trump is simply saying what a lot of people are thinking, re: the US middle-class getting crushed so that plutocrats and oligarchs can line their pockets... and that one of the reasons for this is losing jobs to trade deals that only benefit the .1% and other countries.
Trump says a lot of stupid crap that people love to jump on. Trump also just says what he likes and doesn't require a teleprompter or prepared remarks for every time he opens his yap, like Obama.
It's the not-stupid crap that he's saying about trade and immigration that have gotten people's attention and are generating the amount of enthusiasm he gets.
I think it's you that needs to read a history book. A real one, not the ones your ilk likes to rewrite.
If Obama didn't have a TelePrompTer he would be stumbling through every public address. Google the few speaches he has given with no prompter, it's mostly unintelligible.
Our 1st Ammendment was written to protect OFFENSIVE SPEECH. Polite speech doesn't need protection. To think we could be thrown in jail for offensive speech is the pinnacle of "unamerican". If we could be thrown in jail for offensive speech then all the sick comedians (Louis C.K.) and hate mongers (Louis Farrakhan, David Duke) would have been locked up long ago.
Ah, my ilk
You mean the people who make fact based decisions
I can recommend it, seriously, you have much better outcomes in life
Unlike your angry ideological, nothing ever goes right ilk
Think about it