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When unions get higher wages for their members by restricting entry into an occupation, those higher wages are at the expense of other workers who find their opportunities reduced. When government pays its employees higher wages, those higher wages are at the expense of the taxpayer. But when workers get higher wages and better working conditions through the free market, when they get raises by firm competing with one another for the best workers, by workers competing with one another for the best jobs, those higher wages are at nobody's expense. They can only come from higher productivity, greater capital investment, more widely diffused skills. The whole pie is bigger - there's more for the worker, but there's also more for the employer, the investor, the consumer, and even the tax collector.

That's the way the free market system distributes the fruits of economic progress among all people. That's the secret of the enormous improvements in the conditions of the working person over the past two centuries.


-- Milton Friedman

Posted by: CBD at 12:30 PM




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1 Nice bridge

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2018 12:31 PM (LiyEm)

2 It is known.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 12, 2018 12:31 PM (yQpMk)

3 I've seen that bridge somewhere before.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 12, 2018 12:31 PM (mpXpK)

4 I read the content. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 12, 2018 12:31 PM (yQpMk)

5 I like the comment section here. The quirks keep the riff raft out. Or at least confuses them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2018 12:31 PM (wdmm9)

6 And the unions who push for Scamnesty really don't represent their existing workers; those unions just hope to import a larger underclass.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (ujg0T)

7 We call this the Guild-ed Bridge. You can only use it if you belong to the Guild.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (ULoJS)

8 Top 10.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (GVzpW)

9

Poor Ace.

He needs a prescription for sleeping pills to get his rhythms back in order.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (fceHP)

10 Is this another art thread?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (wdmm9)

11 Unions and incompetent Democrat government have killed Detroit.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (mpXpK)

12 So what have we learned so far from the Strzok hearing?

Posted by: itsacookbook at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (yPxXc)

13 Page was Strzoked.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2018 12:33 PM (wdmm9)

14 I spotted the troll. And what appears to be its coat hanger.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2018 12:33 PM (p+Wdc)

15 "12 So what have we learned so far from the Strzok hearing?
Posted by: itsacookbook"


When Gowdy is good, he's real good.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 12, 2018 12:33 PM (OD2ni)

16 Nice bridge
Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2018 12:31 PM (LiyEm)

The jungle thinks so, too, and is staking a claim.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2018 12:34 PM (bNb8V)

17 Where's that confounded bridge?

Posted by: random lurker commenter at July 12, 2018 12:34 PM (FnLXY)

18 First!

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at July 12, 2018 12:34 PM (hMwEB)

19 I told the others.

It's not just a duty, it's a responsibility.

Earn it, people.

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 12:34 PM (8k/Um)

20 11 Unions and incompetent Democrat government.....

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM



Vic, I think that is redundant.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2018 12:34 PM (0tfLf)

21 in my doggie's heart

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at July 12, 2018 12:34 PM (hMwEB)

22 Its a Bridge too Far....

Posted by: Don Q. at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (NgKpN)

23 "12 So what have we learned so far from the Strzok hearing?
Posted by: itsacookbook"


Elijah Cummings is still a drama queen asshole.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (OD2ni)

24 >>He needs a prescription for sleeping pills to get his rhythms back in order.


He's probably got the Rockin' Pneumonia.


That shit gets your humours all out of whack.

Posted by: garrett at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (VS6hf)

25 So what have we learned so far from the Strzok hearing?

That the Democrats are Everything for The Party and that the Republicans are failed lawyers who never have a coordinated plan for questioning perps or even an idea of how to use their own committee rules when they are in the majority.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (yQpMk)

26


Ms. Lofgren sounds like a dope.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (fceHP)

27 "When Gowdy is good, he's real good."Yeah, Strzok should have worn a cup.

Posted by: itsacookbook at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (yPxXc)

28 OK, now do public sector unions, where the revenue (taxes) has no bearing on the quality of the worker output. Further, where the unions are actively using their dues to elect the people with whom they will be "negotiating" their salaries and benefits.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (W+vEI)

29 Except when the anarcho-capitalists import workers who are willing to work for wages that depress citizens' wages. Then you get Trump.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (RD7QR)

30 Love the Milton Friedman quote.

That's basically my religion.

I have loved basically everything the Trump has done except for the protectionism. That is not going to go well.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (fuK7c)

31 12
So what have we learned so far from the Strzok hearing?


Posted by: itsacookbook at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (yPxXc)

Peter Strzok is a dick. Lisa Page likes dick. Only thing accomplished was some great soundbites were made, the rule of law was shit on and we as a nation are poorer for it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (jxbfJ)

32 Sure seems like Trump's enemies eventually tip like dominoes, including Stormy's saggy fakers. HA HA!

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (+dsLj)

33 9. He needs to just slap hot iron to it.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (fA1SL)

34 Oooh, wait, I know this bridge....!

Posted by: VOX at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (W+vEI)

35 20 Vic, I think that is redundant.



Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2018 12:34 PM (0tfLf)

Not really. The unions have driven out the auto factories and the incompetent government is driving out the remaining people who work and pay taxes. All that is left is the skeleton of the auto industry and the FSA.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (mpXpK)

36 12>> I think we can confirm that congress in general consists of a bunch of posturing parasites and that democrats in particular don't give two shits about anything except being in power, whatever the cost.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (XMGl9)

37 Unions have always relied on screwing your neighbors who aren't in a Union. They have to pay higher prices for the stuff the Union makes while they pay the productivity price for their neighbors work.

It's always been a scam/ripoff.

Tell that to a Union guy. Watch their head explode!

Posted by: jakee308 at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (ricI7)

38 If you want a good primer on how the government distorts the market, read The Myth of the Robber Barons.

Every government-backed scheme is loaded with bribes, kickbacks, and inefficiency, and the only way they can defend those schemes is to project onto the businessmen who defeated them in the free market.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (7ZVPa)

39 So who told you to change the the words dickhead?


Some random DOJ lawyer just whispered it into the air and you dutifully changed it?



This is absolutely aggravating.


Apparently the GOP is incapable of getting to the heart of the matter.


THE GOP IS A USELESS PILE OF DOG SHIT!!!!

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (UfMVm)

40 We have a bridge like that near my town. It doesn't cross anything though, except the locals. They built a new one and the old one was not disassembled buy just put on blocks to the side of the road. Been there for a couple of years now.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (0tfLf)

41 Cummings: "numerous people have been indicted in Mueller's Russia probe."

None for colluding or doing anything with Russia. But that is the point of this investigation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (wdmm9)

42 14 I spotted the troll. And what appears to be its coat hanger.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2018 12:33 PM (p+Wdc)

---

Rick Wilson?

Where?

Posted by: SMH in amusement at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (n2LT3)

43 I crossed that one before I came to it.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (QUpVW)

44 except for the protectionism. That is not going to go well.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (fuK7c)

I think that the bluster works, but the actual tariffs are a bad idea. Push to decrease others' tariffs....don't add our own.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (wYseH)

45 I have loved basically everything the Trump has done except for the protectionism. That is not going to go well.

I disagree. Despite our fallen state, we remain the big dog who can force a level playing field by simply not buying other's products.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (yQpMk)

46 That looks like a bridge I just bought. I haven't received it yet...hopefully soon.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (PFy0L)

47 I don't think I ever saw it answered:

Could Bush legally send a single bottle of water as aid to New Orleans residents before the state's officials requested federal assistance?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Support My Anti-Bullying Programs Or Else at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (YPqbH)

48 Posted by: VOX at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (W+vEI)

It's a railroad bridge. There's a zillion of them all over the country.

They all look alike.

Posted by: jakee308 at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (ricI7)

49 It's nonsensical to think that transcripts aren't in the hands of all of the conspirators.


The Democrats on the committee have leaked it to all of them already.


Agree to release the transcript tomorrow after Page testifies and be done with the Democrats stupid talking point.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (UfMVm)

50 So what have we learned so far from the Strzok hearing?
Posted by: itsacookbook at July 12, 2018 12:32 PM (yPxXc)


I just flicked it on recently, and so far nothing. Strzok is lying every time he opens his mouth. But it doesn't matter does it? He's not under oath is he?

Anyway, grandstanding by both sides.

Nothing will happen.

Cowards and imbeciles.

Clinton must have a little black book because otherwise I don't get it.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (fceHP)

51 How long will Mueller go on ? He can't stop because then they will lose the "ongoing investigation" beard.

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (STPlW)

52 I've seen that bridge somewhere before.


Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 12, 2018 12:31 PM (mpXpK)


Me too.

Posted by: Billy Joe McCallister at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (kqsXK)

53 Fuck Unions.

They are nothing more than a Bastion of Thieves and Criminals.

Never met a Union worker that was worth 1/2 of their pay.

Posted by: garrett at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (VS6hf)

54 >>It's a railroad bridge. There's a zillion of them all over the country.

They all look alike.






So you're saying it's not the bridge to the Gaza strip we wrote about?!?

Posted by: VOX at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (W+vEI)

55 >>So what have we learned so far from the Strzok hearing?

Well one thing we learned is that Peter Strzok said under oath that it was James Comey and possibly other superiors who told him to prioritize the Trump/Russia investigation over the Hillary email investigation.

Let's see what Comey has to say about that.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (/tuJf)

56 Strzok almost brought out the "I would have told her anything to keep her putting out" defense when he said the texts were sent late at night.

Posted by: itsacookbook at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (yPxXc)

57 I posted this at the end of the last one but I hope Ace does a post on "male feminist" Dr. Eugene Gu. That has been hilarious to follow. Those assholes are all the same.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (OD2ni)

58 When Gowdy is good, he's real good.
Posted by: Benji Carver at July 12, 2018 12:33 PM (OD2ni)


darn, missed him.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:39 PM (fceHP)

59 That bridge is a metaphor for Trump's America, olde, rusty, and racist.

Posted by: Rick Wilson, MAN. at July 12, 2018 12:39 PM (4e+hS)

60 I have loved basically everything the Trump has done except for the protectionism. That is not going to go well.

*******************************

Sure, let's keep going with our trillion dollar trade deficits then and exporting our entire manufacturing industry so nobody in the heartland can get a job. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at July 12, 2018 12:39 PM (+dsLj)

61 Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (fuK7c)

Trump has offered every country 0% tariffs if they will do 0% too.

Including the Euros.

They rejected his offer. The Fake News Media neglects to tell anyone this.

Posted by: jakee308 at July 12, 2018 12:39 PM (ricI7)

62 The first liar in this hearing hasn't got a chance. Now Zoe is saying she hopes Trump is cleared

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2018 12:39 PM (STPlW)

63 The Dems are living in an alternate reality. Half the stuff tweeted/said makes no sense whatsoever. Like Cuomo suing the Supreme Court.

I don't know if Cuomo is this stupid, or just figures the base is, so he can say whatever will rile them.

What a shit show.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 12:40 PM (hQDvN)

64 This is why most government spending plans do not work. Say you win a bid as a contractor to clean out 5 miles of ditch with a prevailing wages clause. You need a backhoe op, two dump truck drivers, and 3 laborers. If it is firm fixed price you need it done fast and right. Call around hire 2 good drivers and a great backhoe operator. They are already working on a private project so your prevailing wages most likely higher and the private work will be postponed or not done. Zero new jobs created. and the 3 laborers are going to be a crew you already know and like.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2018 12:40 PM (JFO2v)

65 Never met a Union worker that was worth 1/2 of their pay.

Posted by: garrett at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (VS6hf)

I have.

In fact I would say a solid 3-5% of the union workers I had were excellent.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2018 12:40 PM (wYseH)

66 30 I have loved basically everything the Trump has done except for the protectionism. That is not going to go well.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:35 PM (fuK7c)

Actually it is doing quite well according to the reports. And it is not really "protectionism". It is righting unfair trade practices that the US has been saddled with due to incompetent assholes negotiating shitty trade agreements.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 12, 2018 12:40 PM (mpXpK)

67 I think that the bluster works, but the actual tariffs are a bad idea. Push to decrease others' tariffs....don't add our own.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo



*shoves beer through the USB thing*

Hey, it's almost Friday.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:40 PM (fuK7c)

68

Strzok questioning, a bridge to nowhere.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:40 PM (fceHP)

69 Every government-backed scheme is loaded with bribes, kickbacks, and inefficiency, and the only way they can defend those schemes is to project onto the businessmen who defeated them in the free market.

Well there's another kind: where established, powerful, rich corporations use government schemes to crush any potential competition or innovation that might threaten their riches

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:40 PM (39g3+)

70 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 12:41 PM (Y5LDn)

71 @15

For every time Gowdy is good he has a similar bad pronouncement as well, he of the, "If the President has nothing to hide he should act like it."


I'm still completely flummoxed by his pass declaration during the roll call.


What the fuck does that even mean?

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 12:41 PM (UfMVm)

72 Love the Milton Friedman quote.

That's basically my religion.

I have loved basically everything the Trump has done except for the protectionism. That is not going to go well.


Bandy, I used to LIVE the whole Comparative Advantage, free trade thing. It does make sense and certainly a free market would pretty much demand it. It was hammered incessantly during my college time, in fact.

I have revised my thinking/education on it since I think such things depend greatly on good faith from all parties. If a trading partner is taking advantage, then free trade just doesn't work to the benefit of both parties.

With that, I'm actually fine with Trump playing hardball with our trading partners. We have a pretty big economy, with lots of potential customers. I'm OK with denying access to our market to people who don't play nice.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 12, 2018 12:41 PM (PFy0L)

73 Like Cuomo suing the Supreme Court.

I don't know if Cuomo is this stupid, or just figures the base is, so he can say whatever will rile them.


Posted by: platypus

--

Cuomo might be that stupid, but his current job title proves his base is.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2018 12:41 PM (7ZVPa)

74 They built a new one and the old one was not disassembled buy just put on blocks to the side of the road. Been there for a couple of years now.

Paint it copper and it'll be gone by next week.

My nephew takes metal in. If I recall correctly, he got 5¢/lb of mild steel last week. (Catalytic converters were much more lucrative at $1/lb).

Posted by: t-bird at July 12, 2018 12:41 PM (R+Cqa)

75 Nood at <100 comments = a STOMP

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 12:42 PM (8k/Um)

76 Duncan quoted Sharyl Attkison. Strzok just wrote jotted something down.

Probably her name and a target symbol.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:42 PM (fceHP)

77 I don't know why people keep saying we're losing trade wars or Trump is making things worse. We've already seen multiple concessions by nations to reduce tariffs, change their policies, and agree to President Trump's ideas.

He didn't start a trade war. We've been in one for decades, we just haven't been fighting back. We've been the French in the trade wars for many presidents in a row. Finally we have one with a spine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:42 PM (39g3+)

78 52
I've seen that bridge somewhere before.





Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 12, 2018 12:31 PM (mpXpK)



Me too.



Posted by: Billy Joe McCallister at July 12, 2018 12:38 PM (kqsXK)

Not me. I hate bridges.

Posted by: Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy at July 12, 2018 12:42 PM (jxbfJ)

79 I've repeatedly tried burning that bridge.

Posted by: itsacookbook at July 12, 2018 12:42 PM (yPxXc)

80 I think the only thing that will get these schmucks to turn are charges. And that is where Sessions has been the greatest disappointment in the Trump administration to me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 12, 2018 12:42 PM (yQpMk)

81 Trump has offered every country 0% tariffs if they will do 0% too.


That's not how it works. Protectionism hurts the protectionist side.

If they want to hurt themselves, let them. Let's not do it to ourselves.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:43 PM (fuK7c)

82 Adam Smith also wrote how corporation (gilds) limited labor and expertise to benefit a few in the community at the expense of others. The churches also worked to slow the free movement of labor from market to market also lowering property and depressing wages for many for the sake of a few.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2018 12:43 PM (JFO2v)

83

Ace post came and went....

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:43 PM (fceHP)

84 Mike Dukakis --

"My friends, That's baloney, that's baloney"
Cue of Jerry Williams and the tuesday edition of 'the governors'.
Ha!

Posted by: micky at July 12, 2018 12:43 PM (dF9Lb)

85 Stop with the false noods! It's like cock-blocking your roommate!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 12, 2018 12:43 PM (RD7QR)

86 My first introduction to unions was years ago when I started a new job. The office was non-union, the warehouse and shipping were Teamsters. I was informed that the union had just settled after a strike, but not before the office workers had their tires slashed in the parking lot the week prior. So all of these warehouse/shipping people who were warmly introduced to me were actually back-stabbing union thugs. Similar events ensued.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (Kcf2u)

87 upcoming Ace post (yeah, he's up!) is a doozy!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (fceHP)

88 Nood no more!

Posted by: VOX at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (W+vEI)

89 And there went a post ... Did Ikea have anything to do with this?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (MeS8s)

90 The great disappearing thread!

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (Y5LDn)

91 Wow, he's playing the victim card now.

good Lord

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (fceHP)

92 Un-nood

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (7ZVPa)

93
Could Bush legally send a single bottle of water as aid to New Orleans residents before the state's officials requested federal assistance?


Posted by: Moron Robbie - Support My Anti-Bullying Programs Or Else at
July 12, 2018 12:37 PM (YPqbH)


Distribution and logistics would be near impossible without the state making an official request and coordinating the effort with the fed

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (10vO4)

94 77
I don't know why people keep saying we're losing trade wars or Trump is
making things worse. We've already seen multiple concessions by nations
to reduce tariffs, change their policies, and agree to President
Trump's ideas.



He didn't start a trade war. We've been in one for decades, we just
haven't been fighting back. We've been the French in the trade wars
for many presidents in a row. Finally we have one with a spine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:42 PM (39g3+)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (jxbfJ)

95 And just like that, it was gone.

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (8k/Um)

96 That's not how it works. Protectionism hurts the protectionist side.

Only if their competition fights back and leverages that protectionism. If they, like the USA, just roll over and grease up the brown starfruit, then it doesn't hurt them at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (39g3+)

97 Whoa. Dude. And I was reading the content.

Posted by: auscolpyr at July 12, 2018 12:44 PM (suO/a)

98 I read the whole thing, but now it's gone!

Posted by: Chris M at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (eAZVt)

99 40
We have a bridge like that near my town. It doesn't cross anything
though, except the locals. They built a new one and the old one was not
disassembled buy just put on blocks to the side of the road. Been
there for a couple of years now.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2018 12:36 PM (0tfLf)

Could that be the original Puyallup river bridge? Drove by it a couple of days ago. Yep, still there. Lots of life left for somebody. It would be cool watching them try to move it with trailers/trucks, etc.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (UsCnO)

100 Someone should ask Strzok if he knows of any instance where a person has applied their personal bias on a matter has admitted it later. Applying bias is only the first part of the wrong. The denying of bias is the second part

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (STPlW)

101 72 I have revised my thinking/education on it since I
think such things depend greatly on good faith from all parties. If a
trading partner is taking advantage, then free trade just doesn't work
to the benefit of both parties.



With that, I'm actually fine with Trump playing hardball with our
trading partners. We have a pretty big economy, with lots of potential
customers. I'm OK with denying access to our market to people who don't
play nice.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 12, 2018 12:41 PM (PFy0L)

The problem is that we have never had "free trade" and we have had really shitty agreements.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (mpXpK)

102

The GOP asks Strzok questions.
The Demoncrats only attack the GOP for asking questions.

That is it in a nutshell.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (fceHP)

103 what is this, Twitter? Where'd the other post go?

Posted by: not the mama at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (t2AQi)

104 >>That's not how it works. Protectionism hurts the protectionist side.

>>If they want to hurt themselves, let them. Let's not do it to ourselves.

Take a look at the trade deficit we had with Europe in the mid 1970s and what it is today after 40+ years of EU sanctions.

The maths don't support you on this one. We've gone from a significant trade surplus with Europe to a significant trade deficit.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (/tuJf)

105 My writing group friend (who is 72 and really should know better than to be a Bernie-Bro) always grumps, when I point out that the economy is booming under Trump, that "It just benefits the rich!"

I cock an eyebrow at him. "That's who provides the jobs. When was the last time you were hired by a homeless person?"

He still doesn't get it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (yrE3y)

106 Petey wants to be a victim?

Have Joey Bidet shoot him with a shotgun

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (MeS8s)

107 It came and went in a flash.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 12, 2018 12:46 PM (QLvwG)

108 What nood? There is no nood.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 12, 2018 12:46 PM (a0IVu)

109 I remember when the GOPe tried to pass a bill that would reward union workers who applied themselves and worked harder than their union brothers and sisters with bonuses.

Democrats clutched their pearls, met at the fàinting couch and killed the bill. In their feeble minds all workers must be paid the same and it doesn't matter if they're productive or not.

Posted by: I'm Tucker Carlson and I will destroy you at July 12, 2018 12:46 PM (HgEWy)

110 That's not how it works. Protectionism hurts the protectionist side.

If they want to hurt themselves, let them. Let's not do it to ourselves.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:43 PM (fuK7c)


Riddle me this, Batman - if it only hurts the protectionist side, why do they get mad when we threaten tarriffs?

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 12:46 PM (8k/Um)

111 Has anyone asked him about his wife's promotion at the SEC in October 2016, or his brother's wife's father (his brother's FIL) being pardoned by Obama on his last day in office?

Posted by: VOX at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (W+vEI)

112
I saw Brown Starfruit open for Jefferson Airplane at The Indy Speedway in 1972.


I was appalled.

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (8XRCm)

113 There was a new thread up with lots of content.

Treytor Gowdy exemplifies the worthlessness of the GOP.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (y7DUB)

114

Maloney props!
She's using props of Manafort Indictment.

What a piece of ...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (fceHP)

115
The GOP asks Strzok questions. The Demoncrats only attack the GOP for asking questions.


Democrats must protect their institutions just like they were saying back in 1964.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (10vO4)

116 85 Stop with the false noods! It's like cock-blocking your roommate!
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 12, 2018 12:43 PM (RD7QR)

It's our raison d etre

Posted by: Santa Monica Observer at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (STPlW)

117 Lord Humungus is going to have one hell of a hood ornament collection when the burning times come.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (9Om/r)

118 what is this, Twitter? Where'd the other post go?
Posted by: not the mama at July 12, 2018 12:45 PM (t2AQi)



Ace is shadow banning his own posts.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (hQDvN)

119 What the ever lovin' fuck? Didn't I just see a post about the crooked FBI agent?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (o2MD2)

120 >>Treytor Gowdy exemplifies the worthlessness of the GOP.

Did you even watch his questioning? He hammered Strzok into flat shit.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (/tuJf)

121 Thought it was Brown Acid that opened for Starship?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (MeS8s)

122 Comment on that nood at your own petrol.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Support My Anti-Bullying Programs Or Else at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (YPqbH)

123 Hmm Stormy Daniels story gets more interesting.

She was busted while doing her, um, act because she was violating local ordinances about sexual contact on stage (basically rubbing her plastic sweater puppies on some guy she pulled up there) but apparently that's not all that was going on

http://tinyurl.com/y9ueqy7s

Police in Ohio's capital city say the arrest of porn star Stormy Daniels was part of a long-term human trafficking investigation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (39g3+)

124 Hm, I can see the nood just fine.

Which reminds me, time for my medication.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (PFy0L)

125 117. We're very nearly done with the run up to that.

Go long on guzzoline.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (fA1SL)

126 How long is this hearing going to go on for? At some point, even Storzk will run out of creative ways to lie..

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (a0IVu)

127 There is no nood.


Posted by: IC,


--

Whoah!

Posted by: Keanu Reeves as Neo at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (7ZVPa)

128 Where mood go?

Posted by: Grad School Fool at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (swEzU)

129 Riddle me this, Batman - if it only hurts the protectionist side, why do they get mad when we threaten tarriffs?

'Cause they are Keynsians and don't know better?

Actually don't have an opinion either way, just providing an obvious answer.....

Posted by: Grey Fox at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (bZ7mE)

130 >>Did you even watch his questioning? He hammered Strzok into flat shit.


It was impactful.

Posted by: Shep Smith at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (VS6hf)

131 Schroedinger's post. By observing it we made it disappear.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (QLvwG)

132 Ace disappeared his post? But it had content!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2018 12:49 PM (wdmm9)

133 Test

Posted by: Surfperch at July 12, 2018 12:49 PM (AY3OR)

134 jakee's right...the Midwest is littered with bridges like that. Every so often some enterprising soul attempts to sell one. Haven't heard of any yet that actually got bought. Lotta scrap metal in one of those bridges but dismantling one takes weeks or even months for a small operator.

And so they quietly rust away.

Posted by: creeper...not sinister, just slow at July 12, 2018 12:49 PM (EUw/L)

135 Lord Colander-Face will need a Rolls Royce Phaeton bonnet for all the skulls.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 12, 2018 12:49 PM (MeS8s)

136 Police in Ohio's capital city say the arrest of porn star Stormy Daniels was part of a long-term human trafficking investigation.
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What? A whore can't sell her own wares anymore??!?!

Posted by: Stormy at July 12, 2018 12:49 PM (vg8iE)

137 Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:43 PM (fuK7c)

????

That's what he offered. They do 0 and we do 0.

NO protectionism for anybody.

what there is NOW is they have higher rates than we did so he's raising tariffs to force them into lowering theirs.

Posted by: jakee308 at July 12, 2018 12:49 PM (ricI7)

138 There's that confounded bridge

Posted by: Robert Plant at July 12, 2018 12:49 PM (oGRue)

139 I do love that bridge. Prolly 1940s.

I was big into model railroading as a tyke and it's things like this that gave me my first understanding of physics.

You build this out of triangles because they're strong. You put cables and turnbuckles under you carriages to hold them up. Practical physics. How to keep stuff from falling apart.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (fuK7c)

140 Looks like weed growing under that bridge. Seize it!

Posted by: J. Sessions at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (r9UYA)

141 All my witty but willowed last-thread comments, lost forever, like tears in the wind, or dust in the rain, or smoke on the water, or something.

We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - in the back of the classroom, clowning at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (Cd8NC)

142 132
Ace disappeared his post? But it had content!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2018 12:49 PM (wdmm9)

Content schmontent. This thread is good to go.
On that Kaboom roller coaster on the rant thread, well done, dad.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (5jVnA)

143 When I was a young man (22 or so) I had a heavy breasted stripper grab me by the ears and pull my face twixt those magnificent orbs and slap my cheeks with same. I didn't mind

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (o2MD2)

144 >>Police in Ohio's capital city say the arrest of porn star Stormy Daniels was part of a long-term human trafficking investigation.



Huh.

Even if it was just for the contact, I feel that someone like Dinesh D'Souza, Gibson Guitars or the Bundy family might want to comment on how much it sucks when laws are applied unevenly for political purposes.


Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (W+vEI)

145 Ace is shadow banning his own posts.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (hQDvN)

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Shadow Banning.?? I never cared for Andy Gibb.

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (8XRCm)

146 Is that Madison County? Because that would suck.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (HgMAr)

147 Police in Ohio's capital city say the arrest of porn star Stormy Daniels was part of a long-term human trafficking investigation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (39g3+)


I was positing last night that for undercover cops to be at that club something illegal must be happening.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (hQDvN)

148 The Russians have attacked Ace's blog.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (PvFoN)

149 This encapsulates why I hate lefties: they are stupid mothers, every last fucking one of them.



Katy Tur, granted, is especially dumb-as-a-rock but her view the Constitution is, like, old, and therefore we should simply wish it away is commonly expressed. Hell, even SCOTUS judges say shit like this, though dressed up using three syllable words. I hate these smug people for their blithe ignorance with a raw passion. Read a book you twerps.


https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb2dmgpq

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (ULoJS)

150 Don't squeeze the Charmin whore's melons.

Posted by: Vice Police at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (QLvwG)

151 The sniper billy goat is behind the tree

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (7ZVPa)

152 Trump has offered every country 0% tariffs if they will do 0% too.


That's not how it works. Protectionism hurts the protectionist side.

If they want to hurt themselves, let them. Let's not do it to ourselves.
Posted by: Bandersnatch



What's it called when we have 0 tariffs and other countries have high tariffs and we STILL get our asses stomped?

Because that's whats happened with a bunch of presidents now.

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (Y5LDn)

153
When I was a young man (22 or so) I had a heavy breasted stripper grab me by the ears and pull my face twixt those magnificent orbs and slap my cheeks with same. I didn't mind


Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (o2MD2)


That's when a dollar meant something

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (10vO4)

154 @100


But here's the thing, looking at statements like those in his texts would be the exact thing an investigator such as himself would use to establish a criminal mind and connect it to action and intent.


So his bullshit, this was merely pillow talk and nothing more is preposterous.


He would laugh himself silly if a target of an investigation tried that shit.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 12:52 PM (UfMVm)

155 Meadows sets a trap!

i think.

Posted by: Derptastic at July 12, 2018 12:52 PM (DB16e)

156 The Russians have attacked Ace's blog.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (PvFoN)

COLLUSION!1!!!11

Posted by: Bob Mueller at July 12, 2018 12:52 PM (AY3OR)

157 Bridges just like the one pictured, many listed on the Historic American Engineering Record, are being demolished at taxpayer expense because some pissant traffic engineers have a stalking-horse of an argument: if a semitruck/trailer rig was bizarrely over height and took out the top chord of the structure, the remaining truss would be so compromised that it would collapse immediately.

And they are replacing them at insane expense with plane-plate bridges like the one that killed all those people in Minneapolis. I'm touchy about that one because I had driven across it the day before.

Through-truss bridges are monuments to ingenuity, and they get kids to thinking about engineering problems. They need to be preserved. There are ways to do this without bankrupting the polis.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 12, 2018 12:52 PM (8ZmvG)

158 Drebbin, "Oh nice melons!"

Stormy Daniels, "Why thank you!"

Drebbin, "Yeah only $2 for a dollar and fresh."

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 12, 2018 12:52 PM (MeS8s)

159 Did you even watch his questioning? He hammered Strzok into flat shit.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 12:47 PM (/tuJf)


Were you watching a different hearing than I was?

Really, the whole 100 million - zero thing was a fiasco. It got way wrapped around that axle. And the whole questioning was like that.

You will never get him to admit to bias affecting his work, that is a worthless rabbit hole.

Get him on record on the shit you know he is lying about, like the dossier's provenance and being friends with the judge and all of that.

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (8k/Um)

160 How long is this hearing going to go on for?

Until he gets bored and walks away, because there's absolutely zero consequence for treating congress with contempt. You can lie, reverse yourself, mock them, show up naked smeared with feces, simply refuse to honor a subpoena, nothing happens.

If congress wants to be treated with respect, they have to do more than just talk. Its time to use their power of the purse and legislation to make things happen, not these idiotic and pointless hearings. If congress is utterly toothless, why even bother showing up to a hearing unless you have a lot of free time and are bored?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (39g3+)

161 Did you even watch his questioning? He hammered Strzok into flat shit.

You and I differ on the significance of what he accomplished. I hope you're right but history is on my side.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (y7DUB)

162 Anyone know the status of the waters under that bridge?

Posted by: Art G at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (oGRue)

163 >>Katy Tur, granted, is especially dumb-as-a-rock but her view the Constitution is, like, old, and therefore we should simply wish it away is commonly expressed.



Someone needs to ask her if she wants to amend her hot-take on how to make the Constitution more current.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (W+vEI)

164 >>When I was a young man (22 or so) I had a heavy breasted stripper grab me by the ears and pull my face twixt those magnificent orbs and slap my cheeks with same. I didn't mind


Friend of mine has a story about something just like that...
except he was in Amsterdam.
And there was a Banana involved.
But, no orbs.

Posted by: garrett at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (VS6hf)

165 Meadows sets a trap!

i think.


Oh, you are correct.

Posted by: Ackbar at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (PFy0L)

166 Stormy Daniels arrested for sexual assault.

Robert Mueller admits he has ZERO evidence of Russian collusion in Manafort case.

Peter Strzok is proving what a bag of dicks the FBI has become in front of Congress.

Kavanaugh nominated for the Supreme Court by President Trump.

Is this a dream?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (ATVNj)

167 That's when a dollar meant something
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (10vO4)

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Yeah. A dollar meant it has spent some time in the crack of some strippers ass.

Go a head. Go thru your billfold now.

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (8XRCm)

168 That's not how it works. Protectionism hurts the protectionist side.



If they want to hurt themselves, let them. Let's not do it to ourselves.
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If that were actually true, than why does every other country on the planet prefer to do it to us.

You'd think one or two would have figured it out by accident.

The truth of the matter is that free trade only helps those who are directly involved in the transactions that occur as a result. My life is not any better because you got a cheap refridgerator from Mexico. It may well be worse if I used to make refridgerators. But you and the guys in Mexico who made it are better off.

Posted by: Methos at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (XQvuQ)

169 Stormy Davis is a cartoon character representation of a real woman, and I'd no sooner pay her to smack my face with those silicone balloons as let someone put that impenetrable armor on me and start shooting. She is one hugely unattractive woman.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (ULoJS)

170 Competent sniper. I'm still looking for him.

Posted by: Bosk at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (fjMEv)

171 Take it to the bridge!

https://youtu.be/3gOHvDP_vCs?t=15

Bringin' Sexy Back.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (/qEW2)

172 Riddle me this, Batman - if it only hurts the protectionist side, why do they get mad when we threaten tarriffs?


Who said "only"?

There are two ways to protect. Tariffs and quotas.

Quota limits number of imports. Prices go up. Exporting nation sells fewer cars, but at higher margin. Importing nation pays too much for cars.

Tariff is a tax on imports. Raises prices for the importing nation. Some tax revenue to the government but citizens either pay more or buy less of the shit.

Neither scenario helps the importing nation's side.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (fuK7c)

173 And those bridges are so old, you can't use them anywhere. Too rusty, too narrow.

Maybe use it on private property but even then, zoning laws may prevent.

Not worth cutting up.

That's because they closed a lot of single track extensions with the trains being consolidated and going out of business.

I don't think you could even use it for a RailTrail.

Posted by: jakee308 at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (ricI7)

174 I worked one time at a place with collective bargaining.

I absolutely hated it. I overproduced in my job and my managers always recognized it when it came to responsibilities. They would task me with overseeing important duties that hapless co-workers would FUBAR.

But when evaluations came, they would always tell me that they would give me more, but they couldn't because they had to give everyone the same.

It didn't take me long, about 2 years IIRC, before one of my managers asked me to take on a task to which I refused noting that it's not really my job. I reasoned that everyone else was making the same as me, I should only do what they do. In fact, because the company gave percentage raises, they actually gave bigger raises to employees that were making more than me already, whose job duties I was handling and whose life I was making easier.

I became very jaded and ultimately wound up quitting within the year.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (YCS0l)

175 What's it called when we have 0 tariffs and other countries have high tariffs and we STILL get our asses stomped?

I used to be a consistent Libertarian. I stuck to what should work in the face of all evidence. Then I realized two things: our citizens are more important than foreigners and that good enough is good enough. Perfection is always attempted through coercion.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (yQpMk)

176 162 Anyone know the status of the waters under that bridge?
Posted by: Art G at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (oGRue)
______________________________________________

Maxine.

Posted by: EM WIGGIFY FOADDY_FI!!! at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (ATVNj)

177 148 The Russians have attacked Ace's blog.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (PvFoN)

Is pointless. Like trying to nail honey to wall.

Posted by: Suspicious Russkie Types at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (RD7QR)

178 Have you considered the sniper might be a SEAL and is in the water?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (MeS8s)

179 Police in Ohio's capital city say the arrest of porn star Stormy Daniels was part of a long-term human trafficking investigation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:48 PM (39g3+)
............

CNN hardest hit.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2018 12:55 PM (HgMAr)

180 Someone needs to ask her if she wants to amend her hot-take on how to make the Constitution more current.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (W+vEI)

==================

Exactly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 12:55 PM (ULoJS)

181 Then too there's the supports which look pretty used up too.

Posted by: jakee308 at July 12, 2018 12:55 PM (ricI7)

182 >>Were you watching a different hearing than I was?

Apparently not.

I've been saying here for months that Congress was not the place where we were ever going to get total satisfaction because all they do is investigations and oversight. They do not do prosecutions.

So take today for what it's worth, the ability to show the world that Strzok and the Democrats are lying scumbags and not to be trusted. That's all this is about and Strzok and the Dems are delivering. Bigly.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 12:55 PM (/tuJf)

183 a stalking-horse of an argument: if a semitruck/trailer rig was bizarrely over height and took out the top chord of the structure, the remaining truss would be so compromised that it would collapse immediately.


Posted by: Stringer Davis

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Wouldn't putting up a cross beam 50 feet from the bridge at the same height be a cheaper alternative? Oh, sorry, you said taxpayer money.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2018 12:55 PM (7ZVPa)

184
Stormy Davis is a cartoon character representation of a real woman, and I'd no sooner pay her to smack my face with those silicone balloons as let someone put that impenetrable armor on me and start shooting. She is one hugely unattractive woman.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (ULoJS)


Easy to say when you don't have three pitchers of over priced beer in you.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:55 PM (10vO4)

185 What's it called when we have 0 tariffs and other countries have high tariffs and we STILL get our asses stomped?



Because that's whats happened with a bunch of presidents now.

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (Y5LDn)

The playing field would still be uneven with 0% tariffs on both sides.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 12, 2018 12:56 PM (UBzPO)

186 rail tail - when you're so desperate you date the hobo's sister.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2018 12:56 PM (r+sAi)

187 They cranked those bridges out in the '30's '40's 50's

Like they had a kit or something.

Posted by: jakee308 at July 12, 2018 12:56 PM (ricI7)

188

hmm, this guy is p*ssed off
calling him a liar

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:56 PM (fceHP)

189 "148 The Russians have attacked Ace's blog.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (PvFoN)"


No, I have evidence that Ace is Putin.

Posted by: Louise Mensch at July 12, 2018 12:56 PM (OD2ni)

190
LMAO at Stormy's arrest in Ohio. See the Drudge headlines for details. Two other strippers were arrested as well.

It's under a "no-touch" ordinance for strip clubs.

I love the wording of these vice-squad reports. Stormy was grabbing boobs and buttocks, mashing her boobs in patrons faces, both male and female, and did that to undercover vice cops.

So Stormy likes to grab 'em by the pussy so to speak herself. Goose, meet gander.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 12, 2018 12:56 PM (8O3HH)

191
If congress wants to be treated with respect, they have to do more than just talk. Its time to use their power of the purse and legislation to make things happen, not these idiotic and pointless hearings. If congress is utterly toothless, why even bother showing up to a hearing unless you have a lot of free time and are bored?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (39g3+)

Congress needs to pass a law that says they can fire Public employees for not testifying... and when fired the lose all Retirement as well.

Posted by: Don Q. at July 12, 2018 12:56 PM (NgKpN)

192 Ratcliffe is bringing the heavy lumber. Helps to have a career prosecutor doing the questioning.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 12:57 PM (/tuJf)

193 Strozk just called out Hannity.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 12:57 PM (UfMVm)

194

10 O'Clock Talk Show, he just flagged Laura I

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 12:58 PM (fceHP)

195 I'd go a step further -

If you are a public employee, when being questioned about your job and activities thereof, the 5A should be OFF LIMITS.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 12, 2018 12:58 PM (PFy0L)

196 Ouch, chairman I'm done with this witness. lol

Posted by: wrg500 at July 12, 2018 12:58 PM (Bdeb0)

197 That's when a dollar meant something

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (10vO4)

Threadwinner nominee.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 12, 2018 12:58 PM (5jVnA)

198 There was a post, than poof, there wasn't.

Posted by: Bigins Johnson at July 12, 2018 12:58 PM (8X9tr)

199
Every hearing ever is going to be this way now. Can't recall, doesn't mean what is seems, out of context, just kidding, referring to something completely different, at this point what difference does it make.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2018 12:58 PM (r+sAi)

200 "Anyone know the status of the waters under that bridge?"

Troubled. . Very troubled.

Posted by: creeper...not sinister, just slow at July 12, 2018 12:58 PM (EUw/L)

201 Who said "only"?

There are two ways to protect. Tariffs and quotas.

Quota limits number of imports. Prices go up. Exporting nation sells fewer cars, but at higher margin. Importing nation pays too much for cars.

Tariff is a tax on imports. Raises prices for the importing nation. Some tax revenue to the government but citizens either pay more or buy less of the shit.

Neither scenario helps the importing nation's side.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 12:54 PM (fuK7c)


You said we should not be concerned about the other side's tarriffs because they hurt the protectionist side. If you are making the case that tarriffs do not ONLY hurt the protectionist side, then them imposing tarriffs IS hurting us, and it is incumbent on us to get them to lower or eliminate tarriffs on us.

Stands to reason, right?

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (8k/Um)

202 If congress wants to be treated with respect, they
have to do more than just talk. Its time to use their power of the
purse and legislation to make things happen, not these idiotic and
pointless hearings. If congress is utterly toothless, why even bother
showing up to a hearing unless you have a lot of free time and are
bored?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (39g3+)

I mentioned earlier in a willowed post that I was reminded of Congress' steroid hearings where Mark Mcgwire clammed up, Rafael Palmeiro lied through his teeth and Sammy Sosa pretended not to speak English.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (UBzPO)

203 That bridge is as rusty as my memory.

Posted by: J. Sessions at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (r9UYA)

204 RUSSIA, CHILDREN IN CAGES, STORMY DANIELS... oops, er... RUSSIA!

Posted by: CNN at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (HgMAr)

205 If congress wants to be treated with respect, they have to do more than
just talk. Its time to use their power of the purse and legislation to
make things happen, not these idiotic and pointless hearings.
---
Further legislation is useless as the progs in the deep state will just ignore it.

0 out the budget for the DoJ and transfer their pension funds to pay for the wall (yes, I know there are no savings funds and the government just prints what it needs, but say so anyway).

Posted by: Methos at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (XQvuQ)

206 Let me just lob this out there and everyone contemplate the signifigance:

ALL OF THIS STUPIDITY, TREASONOUS BEHAVIOR, AND BIGOTRY FROM THE LEFT, INCLUDING THE MALEVOLENT NITWITS IN THE MFM and...Trump's approval rating is the same as Obama's at the same point in his presidency.

Part of me wants to laugh, part of me wants to weep for the country.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (Boy/L)

207 Ratcliffe is bringing the heavy lumber. Helps to have a career prosecutor doing the questioning.
Posted by: JackStraw


He can have Strozk arrested or fired?

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (Y5LDn)

208 I love the 2 minutes of hate per conservative media personality we are getting for our tax dollars.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (7ZVPa)

209 Stormy Davis is a cartoon character representation of a real woman, and I'd no sooner pay her to smack my face with those silicone balloons as let someone put that impenetrable armor on me and start shooting. She is one hugely unattractive woman.


Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 12:53 PM (ULoJS)
***************************
I'm sure
some city in California will soon be naming a school after her. They've already given her the keys, and a day in her honor.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (PvFoN)

210 "So Stormy likes to grab 'em by the pussy so to speak herself. Goose, meet gander.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear"


I read it was undercover female cop that she gave a face full of boobs to, which is kinda hot.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (OD2ni)

211 I'll always miss Milton Friedman's clarity. He was an economic genius. If only I had enough maturity to appreciate his entire legacy. Being only 29, I missed hearing most of his best work.

Think of how well his assertions could carry through something like Twitter now. They'd be like titles for chapters in a book. IOW, totally #hashtagable.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (6eEQ+)

212
Strozk just called out Hannity.


Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 12:57 PM (UfMVm)



Trump has sublet space in their heads to Hannity

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (10vO4)

213 185 What's it called when we have 0 tariffs and other countries have high tariffs and we STILL get our asses stomped?



Because that's whats happened with a bunch of presidents now.

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (Y5LDn)

The playing field would still be uneven with 0% tariffs on both sides.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 12, 2018 12:56 PM (UBzPO)

Actually.... tariffs were how the Founders of our country funded the Federal Government.

Of course, the unfair application of that policy was one driving force for the Civil War...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 12, 2018 01:00 PM (NgKpN)

214 If you are a public employee, when being questioned about your job and activities thereof, the 5A should be OFF LIMITS.
Ha, good one.... they just gave the TSA diplomatic immunity to sexually assault people.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2018 01:00 PM (r+sAi)

215 The anti-tariff argument is the equivalent of arguing that we should finance NATO in perpetuity regardless of whether or not other member states do their part BECAUSE RUSSIA, BECAUSE SECURITY. Likewise, we should not impose tariffs, even if other trading partners do so or subsidize their own industries etc., BECAUSE ECONOMIC PURITY.

No thank you.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 12, 2018 01:01 PM (iys0/)

216
Shelia Jackson Lee


THIS oughtta be good.

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 01:01 PM (8XRCm)

217 I have revised my thinking/education on it since I think such things depend greatly on good faith from all parties. If a trading partner is taking advantage, then free trade just doesn't work to the benefit of both parties.

With that, I'm actually fine with Trump playing hardball with our trading partners. We have a pretty big economy, with lots of potential customers. I'm OK with denying access to our market to people who don't play nice.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
.............

Same here..

Our trading "partners" have been taking advantage of us for far too long.

It is no longer "free trade". The EU's VATs, China's tariffs, etc. etc have made American made goods too expensive in those countries.

Trump is smart in this regard.. playing hard ball with tariffs will likely result in agreements with these countries making it easier to sell American goods.. Trump is thinking long term here.. He needs to make them sweat for a while.

As you said, our big economy is where every country wants to sell their goods.. They'll either pay the tariffs or reduce the barriers to American made goods.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 12, 2018 01:01 PM (so+oy)

218 Cat Ass Trophy: "Is this another art thread?"

Only if the bridge was covered in urine.

Posted by: NEA at July 12, 2018 01:01 PM (6eEQ+)

219 That bridge is as rusty as my memory.

Posted by: J. Sessions at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (r9UYA)

Ditto.

Posted by: Peter Strzok, Lying through his Teeth at July 12, 2018 01:01 PM (AY3OR)

220 So some undercover lady cop motorboated Stormy then arrested her ass?
lol

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2018 01:01 PM (HgMAr)

221 NEWS FLASH!! JACKSON-LEE hates no one!!

Posted by: wrg500 at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (Bdeb0)

222 Strozk just called out Hannity.

I'm sure Hannity will call right back this afternoon.

Seriously, Strzok, you little creep, did you think we 'smellers' would take shit off a fluffed-up little Nazi like you?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (oVJmc)

223 Sheila Jackson Lee talking about Putin and the illegals. Russia, Russia, Russia.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (PvFoN)

224 I've been saying here for months that Congress was not the place where
we were ever going to get total satisfaction because all they do is
investigations and oversight. They do not do prosecutions


Well, we sure fell flat hoping the Justice Department IG would ride to the rescue, and Huber is still prosecuting bank robberies in Salt Lake (so he's not to be seen in Washington either). The DOJ continues to evade, lie, and mock their oaths every single day they go to work.


Congress is perhaps our last peaceful hope, (so I sure hope you're wrong), and it's thanks only to them we know as much as we know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (ULoJS)

225 >>Think of how well his assertions could carry through something like Twitter now. They'd be like titles for chapters in a book. IOW, totally #hashtagable.



Next best thing?

https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell

*Created by a fan, Sowell is retired.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (W+vEI)

226 Ouch, chairman I'm done with this witness. lol
Posted by: wrg500 at July 12, 2018 12:58 PM (Bdeb0)


And then walked out, lol.

I would too.

Worthless. He's just lying.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (fceHP)

227 I'll always miss Milton Friedman's clarity. He was an economic genius. If only I had enough maturity to appreciate his entire legacy. Being only 29, I missed hearing most of his best work.

Think of how well his assertions could carry through something like Twitter now. They'd be like titles for chapters in a book. IOW, totally #hashtagable.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (6eEQ+)

------

First off, get off my lawn.

Second..... I thought his series "Free to Choose" is out there on Yoobtoob.

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (8XRCm)

228 That Friedman cat is a pretty savvy dude.

Posted by: Sponge at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (F4u7C)

229
First there is a nood
Then there is no nood
And then there is

Posted by: mindful webworker channeling early Donovan at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (Cd8NC)

230 There are two ways to protect. Tariffs and quotas.



Quota limits number of imports. Prices go up. Exporting nation
sells fewer cars, but at higher margin. Importing nation pays too much
for cars.



Tariff is a tax on imports. Raises prices for the importing nation.
Some tax revenue to the government but citizens either pay more or buy
less of the shit.



Neither scenario helps the importing nation's side.
---
Have you heard of opportunity costs?

The resulting nation, if there is still demand for the stuff, than has to produce it within it's borders, which means employment for some people who otherwise sit around voting for free shit.

Posted by: Methos at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (XQvuQ)

231 Ha, good one.... they just gave the TSA diplomatic immunity to sexually assault people.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2018 01:00 PM (r+sAi)


It would be great if PDT would get the FEDs out of the TSA. A privatized TSA would care about coustomer.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at July 12, 2018 01:02 PM (aVYsC)

232 I read it was undercover female cop that she gave a face full of boobs to, which is kinda hot.
Posted by: Benji Carver at July 12, 2018 12:59 PM (OD2ni)


It is not, you sicko. She was using them as a way to humiliate the detectives. You guys see or hear boobs and can't think straight. Well, not all of you...some of you guys have class.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (hQDvN)

233 If you are making the case that tarriffs do not ONLY hurt the protectionist side, then them imposing tarriffs IS hurting us, and it is incumbent on us to get them to lower or eliminate tarriffs on us.

Stands to reason, right?



Yes. But us using self-hurt to get them to stop doing self-hurt is dicey.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (fuK7c)

234

lulz, Jackson Lee might trip him up, wouldn't that be sweet

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (fceHP)

235 140
Looks like weed growing under that bridge. Seize it!



Posted by: J. Sessions at July 12, 2018 12:50 PM (r9UYA)


But leave the 35 illegals next to the weed.

Posted by: J. Sessions at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (UsCnO)

236 Even Greenspan admitted he made a mistake on the whole "trade deficit don't matter" baloney.

This is a short explanation of some of the fallacies the "free traders" operate under. Comparative advantage works within some pretty strict restrictions, like "only good and services are traded, not assets and debt."

The H1bs don't make for higher wages, they make wages lower. Same with importing third world "slaves" and subsidizing them with welfare, AND on top of it, having them send local profits back to the NarcoState home.

If the world was a purely economic place under strict one world government with all laws under on heavenly body, and humans reduced to mere widget status ... maybe all these theories could work well across borders. We don't have anything close.

this are the simple flaws in the globalist myth (which has made them trillions and put us trillions in debt)

https://tinyurl.com/y85x7gfw

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (bT8Z4)

237 No such thing as "free trade". "Fair trade" is the operative terminology and the USA has been getting reamed for decades. We needed Trumpism many Administrations ago.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (6eEQ+)

238 I saw Faceful of Boobs open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Sleazepit in '05.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (+y/Ru)

239 And again we have seen that certain subjects of investigation can act as their very own "taint" team and decide on their own what will and won't be turned over to investigators.


Like Strozk was going to turn over incriminating texts and emails.


This is all a multi-act production of The Aristocrats.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (UfMVm)

240 Trumps about to meet with Putin and get his annual performance review - SJL

lol

Posted by: Derptastic at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (DB16e)

241 OT: Sidebar: Scott Adams gets to the heart of #walkaway, but only in the fifteenth minute, by asking this question regarding the 'fear' issue: Lefties, do you think that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are as fearful of the future as they have made you?

I thought that was insightful.

Posted by: t-bird at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (+cu3S)

242
If congress wants to be treated with respect, they have to do more than just talk. Its time to use their power of the purse and legislation to make things happen, not these idiotic and pointless hearings.

The power of committee chairs to threaten recalcitrant agencies - or even their own committee members - vanished in the mid-'70s. Another great Democratic initiative.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (BWL+E)

243 >>NEWS FLASH!! JACKSON-LEE hates no one!!




Except whoever is on her current staff, the airline she uses to go back to Texas, Trump....

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (W+vEI)

244 That's when a dollar meant something

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (10vO4)

We've been rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell ever since.

Posted by: Zombie Merle Haggard at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (QLvwG)

245 Sheila Jackson Lee is a piece of shit.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (UfMVm)

246
Wow.... Stozk is distancing himself from SJL's comments.

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (8XRCm)

247 >>Well, we sure fell flat hoping the Justice Department IG would ride to the rescue, and Huber is still prosecuting bank robberies in Salt Lake (so he's not to be seen in Washington either). The DOJ continues to evade, lie, and mock their oaths every single day they go to work.

>>Congress is perhaps our last peaceful hope, (so I sure hope you're wrong), and it's thanks only to them we know as much as we know.

You mean not including the team of prosecutors that started working with Horowitz a year ago.

Just because they aren't talking about it, and at least 4 times today I've heard people state longtime DOJ policy of not commenting on ongoing investigations, does not mean it's not happening.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (/tuJf)

248 I cannot imagine how a constituent of Lee is not embarrassed to have her as a representative.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (7ZVPa)

249 Here is the Ohio law:

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2907.40

Note that is exempts family members. Family members can touch or be touched. So incest is allowed? This applies to those "employees" who are nude or semi-nude. So, if they're fully clothed, you can touch 'em?

Touching "specified anatomical areas" bumps the charges up to a 1st degree misdemeanor.

Specified anatomical areas are BBV. Boobs, butts, and vulvae. Well, dicks too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (8O3HH)

250 Charges against Stormy Daniels have been dropped.

I guess the prospect of having that bus stop attorney Michael Avenutti holding press conferences in their town was too much for them to endure.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (ATVNj)

251 Personally, I would like a video of Strzok being led up to a crossbeam with 4 feet of piano wire attached and formed into a loop just big enough to accommodate his swelled head. The expression on that sniveling little bastards face would be without price.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (o2MD2)

252

Oh, props again. Holding up the Manafort prop again.

Good Lord. This is really a sh*tshow.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (fceHP)

253 Haven't seen any testimony but it seems, from the ongoing comments, that Strozk is trying to do an Olly North. Strozk should know that Olly has actually killed a number of people in his life. This fact brings a lot of gravitas to a chat session. Also, North never attempted treason.

Posted by: Gumby at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (2LelM)

254 Congress needs to pass a law that says they can fire Public employees for not testifying... and when fired the lose all Retirement as well.

Well aside from separation of powers issues, that's a great step in the right direction: put teeth behind their hearings. A better version would be a law that waives and negates all union and contractual protections from your job if you refuse to testify or commit contempt of congress. So the president is free to fire you at will.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (39g3+)

255 I've been saying here for months that Congress was not the place where we were ever going to get total satisfaction because all they do is investigations and oversight. They do not do prosecutions.

So take today for what it's worth, the ability to show the world that Strzok and the Democrats are lying scumbags and not to be trusted. That's all this is about and Strzok and the Dems are delivering. Bigly.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 12:55 PM (/tuJf)


But you also just said that Strzok was hammered flat in the Congress. I watched it, I don't agree. Gowdy made it about opinions, and I think that Strzok made a fair rebuttal to a question about opinions - that everyone has one.

Gowdy is good at asking questions he knows the answers to. I don't think he did a good job of it in his window with Strzok.

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (8k/Um)

256 This is all word salad from Sheila Jackson Lee.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (UfMVm)

257 Remember last week how the "trade war" was going to kill the economy?

Tofay Dow is back within spitting distance of 25k and Nasdaq is at a new record.

If that is the result of a trade war, I never want trade peace again.

Posted by: #neverskankles at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (atHZi)

258 Easy to say when you don't have three pitchers of over priced beer in you.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 12, 2018 12:55 PM (10vO4)

===========================
Ok, that's true. Very true.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (ULoJS)

259 Trump is smart in this regard.. playing hard ball with tariffs will likely result in agreements with these countries making it easier to sell American goods.. Trump is thinking long term here.. He needs to make them sweat for a while.

As you said, our big economy is where every country wants to sell their goods.. They'll either pay the tariffs or reduce the barriers to American made goods.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 12, 2018 01:01 PM (so+oy)

Hmmm.... interesting question...

'Could' the US survive as a closed economy?

I know most other countries could not...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (NgKpN)

260 252

Oh, props again. Holding up the Manafort prop again.

Good Lord. This is really a sh*tshow.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette

Well it is Jackson-Lee

Posted by: wrg500 at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (Bdeb0)

261 Sheila Jackson Lee is a piece of shit.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (UfMVm)
**************************
I wish I lived in her district just so I could give her grief.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (PvFoN)

262 Trump is smart in this regard.. playing hard ball
with tariffs will likely result in agreements with these countries
making it easier to sell American goods.. Trump is thinking long term
here.. He needs to make them sweat for a while.



As you said, our big economy is where every country wants to sell
their goods.. They'll either pay the tariffs or reduce the barriers to
American made goods.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 12, 2018 01:01 PM (so+oy)

I don't disagree but the only way Trump's strategy works is if the other side(s) blink first and do so quickly. If this drags out we're all in trouble. I'm of the mind that China and Germany need us a lot more than we need them short-term so I'm optimistic.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (UBzPO)

263
That's the bridge Billie Jo jumped off.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (BWL+E)

264 Charges against Stormy Daniels have been dropped.



Wow.
So much for that whole sex & human trafficking investigation.

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (Y5LDn)

265 245. As are her voters.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (fA1SL)

266 I don't know why people keep saying we're losing trade wars or Trump is making things worse. We've already seen multiple concessions by nations to reduce tariffs, change their policies, and agree to President Trump's ideas.

He didn't start a trade war. We've been in one for decades, we just haven't been fighting back. We've been the French in the trade wars for many presidents in a row. Finally we have one with a spine.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 12:42 PM (39g3+)

Yes!
Well said. As usual.

Posted by: LASue at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (Z48ZB)

267 [i[
Like Strozk was going to turn over incriminating texts and emails.


lololol

I'm embarrassed for the people that still STILL think anyone will be indicted and sent to prison.


Posted by: Under Fire at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (r9UYA)

268 >>240 Trumps about to meet with Putin and get his annual performance review Posted by: Derptastic at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (DB16e)

"Exceeds; must promote."

Posted by: Zod at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (Bdeb0)

269 Dow is up 234 points to 24,934.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (ATVNj)

270 >> Charges against Stormy Daniels have been dropped.

Now, are they gonna drop the charges against the other two strippers they arrested?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (8O3HH)

271 Oh, props again. Holding up the Manafort prop again.

Good Lord. This is really a sh*tshow.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette

Well it is Jackson-Lee

Posted by: wrg500 at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (Bdeb0)
***********************
Waiting for them to bring in the hand puppets.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (PvFoN)

272 Charges against Stormy Daniels have been dropped.

Faster than my weiner.

Posted by: guy watching her show at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (HgMAr)

273 A conservative union man my whole life
Better training, safety awareness , a fair wage.
Companies will pay as little as they can when they can.
We work hard for our money everyday
Have no sweetheart deals

Posted by: BFD at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (IoEU2)

274 Sheila Jackson Lee is a piece of shit.

That's unfair to shit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (oVJmc)

275 >>But you also just said that Strzok was hammered flat in the Congress. I watched it, I don't agree. Gowdy made it about opinions, and I think that Strzok made a fair rebuttal to a question about opinions - that everyone has one.

Take a gander around the intertubes. Strzok is not coming off well anywhere and neither are the Democrats trying to run interference for him.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (/tuJf)

276 The power of committee chairs to threaten recalcitrant agencies - or even their own committee members - vanished in the mid-'70s.

Yeah stuff like that has to be reinstated. And congress has to sack up and start using their power to punish agencies who are violating the law but are essentially self-regulating.

If the FBI is bent, who's gonna investigate or bust them? Who watches the watchmen?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (39g3+)

277 Charges against Stormy Daniels have been dropped.

I guess the prospect of having that bus stop attorney Michael Avenutti holding press conferences in their town was too much for them to endure.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (ATVNj)


So this was a big nothingburger and the human trafficking was fake news? Wtf.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (hQDvN)

278

They are reconvening at 2pm.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (fceHP)

279 And the Clown Show recesses.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (UfMVm)

280 The left insisted we stop detaining families at the border because that is what Nazis did. Said we had to go back to Obama's catch and release with ankle monitors. So now, according to Oliver Willis, catch and release with ankle monitors is just like the Nazis forcing Jews to wear yellow stars.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (wdmm9)

281 It's probably worth a post, discussing the Missouri Prop A ballot issue, which is scheduled for a vote on August 7. Prop A will enact the Right To Work law, that has already been passed and signed into law.

This was POSSIBLY the issue around which Eric Greitens, the now resigned Missouri Governor, was attacked and ultimately driven from office.

The unions are pouring shedloads of money into this ballot issue, and they are desperate to stop it from becoming law. I don't know if anyone else in the country cares about this, but they should.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (9chmE)

282 The "tariffs are bad" meme comes from people that think they caused the Great Depression. They didn't. It was way more complicated than that. Remember how we used to think that FDR saved the country after the Depression? Some day, some one will show that there's nothing wrong with tariffs. It's one of our negotiating tools and we would be fools not to use it.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (JKNZq)

283 Touching "specified anatomical areas" bumps the charges up to a 1st degree misdemeanor.

Specified anatomical areas are BBV. Boobs, butts, and vulvae. Well, dicks too.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (8O3HH)

Any law against touching feet? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Ohio Foot Fetishists at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (AY3OR)

284 One thing that is never stated in coverage of Trump and Europe is that the purpose of an EU was to create a protected market for Europeans to shut out American and Asian business from the European market. Not a bad idea, but they missed two things - a European Defense Force and a Common Currency. It seems they want us to defend them and give them $151B per year trade surplus. And, oh yeah, feel superior to us Yokels.

Posted by: Gumby at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (2LelM)

285 Hmmm.... interesting question...

'Could' the US survive as a closed economy?

I know most other countries could not...
Posted by: Don Q

Used to, when we manufactured tvs & washers & dryers & fridges & stoves and and and , yeah, we could have.

Now? Not so much.

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (Y5LDn)

286 259. Nah, bro. No way. It'd be as crazy as suggesting that we could, with half the current population, industrialize fast enough and on a big enough scale to fight a worldwide war while supplying allies on the other side of the world, and then rebuild the devastated areas while going into space and......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (fA1SL)

287 Oh, props again. Holding up the Manafort prop again.



Good Lord. This is really a sh*tshow.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette



Well it is Jackson-Lee



Posted by: wrg500 at July 12, 2018 01:05 PM (Bdeb0)

***********************

Waiting for them to bring in the hand puppets.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (PvFoN)

Waiting for the papier mache heads.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 12, 2018 01:09 PM (QLvwG)

288 Yes. But us using self-hurt to get them to stop doing self-hurt is dicey.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 01:03 PM (fuK7c)


No no no no no.

Are you now saying that it ONLY hurts the protectionist side again?

Come on, pick one.

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 01:09 PM (8k/Um)

289 Stormy Daniels is like a Golden Girls Stripper.
Leave to the younger generation there grandma.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2018 01:09 PM (r+sAi)

290 They are reconvening at 2pm.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette

--

Matlock reruns must be on right now

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2018 01:09 PM (7ZVPa)

291 277
Charges against Stormy Daniels have been dropped.



I guess the prospect of having that bus stop attorney Michael
Avenutti holding press conferences in their town was too much for them
to endure.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (ATVNj)





So this was a big nothingburger and the human trafficking was fake news? Wtf.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (hQDvN)

Perhaps it was the chief of police who was doing his impression of Evinrude motors against her breasts?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 12, 2018 01:09 PM (jxbfJ)

292 Well, I suppose we will be treated to a post bout all of our favorite slime sucking RINO never-trumpers extolling the impeccable virtue of crooked agent's testimony.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 12, 2018 01:09 PM (o2MD2)

293 185
What's it called when we have 0 tariffs and other countries have high tariffs and we STILL get our asses stomped?





Because that's whats happened with a bunch of presidents now.



Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 12:51 PM (Y5LDn)

That's called subsidizing socialism abroad at the cost of our domestic manufacturing jobs. I wonder how happy all those happy socialists would be if they had to give up the tariff money and raise domestic taxes to support all the wonderful "freebies" of socialism.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 12, 2018 01:10 PM (5jVnA)

294 >>Sheila Jackson Lee is a piece of shit.



Yale undergrad, U. of Virginia law degree
Think it's important to note those fine institutions when remaking on her intelligence.

Also: "I AM A QUEEN AND I WILL BE TREATED LIKE A QUEEN!" --- Sheila Jackson Lee to an airline representative

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 01:10 PM (W+vEI)

295 Take a gander around the intertubes. Strzok is not coming off well anywhere and neither are the Democrats trying to run interference for him.
Posted by: JackStraw


Big fucking deal. Has he lost his job and been arrested yet?

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 01:10 PM (Y5LDn)

296 Take a gander around the intertubes. Strzok is not coming off well anywhere and neither are the Democrats trying to run interference for him.

Trouble is, the Internet isn't everyone. It's not even a majority of everyone.

We talk about this stuff here, and we are fairly well informed as to everything that's happened/happening. But we are not in the majority. The majority works, goes home, has dinner, and watches network news.

And they aren't reporting on this.

Which is why I've always been frustrated with Mitch McConnell's continued strategy to get Democrats "on record." They are "on record" only to those who are actively looking. For most of the Teeming Millions out there, they either aren't, or they accept what they're told by Katie Couric.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 12, 2018 01:10 PM (PFy0L)

297 Take a gander around the intertubes. Strzok is not coming off well anywhere and neither are the Democrats trying to run interference for him.

Well not exactly true. If you check out lefty social media they're orgasming over his shining heroism in the face of Nazi Rethuglikkkans. He's a regular Deitrich Bonhoeffer to them, if they knew who he was.

So much for that whole sex & human trafficking investigation.

Well here's how I think it worked. Cops were in there to bust the place for having underage kids trafficked to them up on stage and back in the VIP rooms. Stormy yanked an undercover on stage and bashed him with her falsies, and they kinda had to take action. Probably at that point they figured out there wasn't anything going on there they could act on and grabbed who they could to make it not a complete waste of time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:10 PM (39g3+)

298 ...See the Drudge headlines for details...

Anybody sees anything on Durdge that seems worth noting, note it here, because I (and apparently others) won't be giving Dordge no clicks no more not for long time thanks bye.

Posted by: mindful webworker channeling random cartoon character maybe at July 12, 2018 01:10 PM (Cd8NC)

299 Charges against Stormy Daniels have been dropped.




-----


Wow.

So much for that whole sex human trafficking investigation.

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (Y5LDn)


Likely money changed hands. I would say she offered to blow everyone, but really, I can't imagine why anyone would want that skank's lips around their privates.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2018 01:11 PM (9chmE)

300 And the Clown Show recesses.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM (UfMVm)
********************
And while we wait Stormy will be performing a pole dance for your entertainment.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:11 PM (PvFoN)

301 Jackson-Lee haven't done shit since Chancellorsville.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 12, 2018 01:11 PM (+y/Ru)

302
Anyone know the status of the waters under that bridge?
Posted by: Art G


Not tribbled at all.

Posted by: LCDR Scott at July 12, 2018 01:11 PM (IqV8l)

303 And while we wait Stormy will be performing a pole dance for your entertainment.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:11 PM (PvFoN)
That is what Lisa Page plans to do tomorrow.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 12, 2018 01:12 PM (a0IVu)

304 >>292 Well, I suppose we will be treated to a post bout all of our favorite slime sucking RINO never-trumpers extolling the impeccable virtue of crooked agent's testimony. Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 12, 2018 01:09 PM (o2MD2)

I like to think of Stzrok as the Hud Bannon of the FBI--fightin', drinkin', and fuckin' his way through the Bureau.

Posted by: Zod at July 12, 2018 01:12 PM (Bdeb0)

305 fixerupper: "Second..... I thought his series 'Free to Choose' is out there on Yoobtoob."

Yeah, I saw some portions of it years ago, probably before FaceBook. I've not seen the whole of it, though.

I just think in contemporary politics, what with our debt, our deficit, the nutcases clamoring for flavors of Socialism, and the political polarism set on 11, Friedman's snippets responding to current economic dynamics would carry further, faster with like-minded economists and persons who could amplify his message. Hard to do that with stale, grainy broadcast legacy material that, while wholly valid, true, and timeless, must compete in the Idiocracy of today.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 12, 2018 01:12 PM (6eEQ+)

306 Just because they aren't talking about it, and at
least 4 times today I've heard people state longtime DOJ policy of not
commenting on ongoing investigations, does not mean it's not happening.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 01:04 PM (/tuJf)

=================
JackStraw, you know I hope you're right and I always endorse these sentiments, but some day the ship has to fucking dock. This shitshow is a political problem and a serious one, and the politics (which might run in our favor right this minute) only need one little piece of bad news to burn down the Trump presidency. The GOPe and the Democrats never combine on anything but they would gleefully join together to exile Trump to the furthest reaches of Patagonia if they could. This thing will be long over by the time the "quiet professionals" you speak of get around to doing their thing.
Though I do look forward to watching the Podesta perp walk. Clinton-in-Cuffs will be nice to see. And Comey. And Holder. And Rice. And Lynch...

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 01:12 PM (ULoJS)

307 She-Jack
did you not not the knot, and the lint, on the back of my skull
I'm embarrassed that some of the left have seemed, of some semblance of something.
Everyone gets a cane upon entry to these meetings.
I divulge myself. Pfft.
More big fuses, strongly, evermore strongly worded, 'strenuously' object.....
I have yet to see anyone indicted, nor prosecuted.
And this is what it is.
Big, fat nothing.
You're free to go...

Posted by: micky at July 12, 2018 01:12 PM (M2T30)

308 I am completely ticked off right now. Completely.

What a waste of my time.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 01:12 PM (hQDvN)

309 And while we wait Stormy will be performing a pole dance for your entertainment.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:11 PM (PvFoN)


I could tolerate being beaten silly via some ample boobage. Been a long time.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 12, 2018 01:12 PM (o2MD2)

310 Hopefully we can get an altered copy of the transcript to be helpfully 'leaked' before tomorrow's testimony, because you know there are plenty of embeds left.

Posted by: t-bird at July 12, 2018 01:13 PM (/lkI0)

311 In an ideal world there would be no tarriffs. But we live in a reality where every country has them and 90% of the the time the US is fucked over by them. We can't be the world's doormat any more. This is like the principled conservative bullshit. The left is ready for civil war while Jonah G and Egg McMuffin as using debate club rules and saying tsk tsk if anyone so much as raises their voice.

Posted by: #neverskankles at July 12, 2018 01:13 PM (atHZi)

312 I don't disagree but the only way Trump's strategy works is if the other side(s) blink first and do so quickly. If this drags out we're all in trouble. I'm of the mind that China and Germany need us a lot more than we need them short-term so I'm optimistic.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (UBzPO)

We still have the wealthiest and strongest economy in the world...

We have a lot more depth to take a little pain, than most economies do... they will blink first, because they will HAVE to.

Short term pain... long term gain...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 12, 2018 01:13 PM (NgKpN)

313 "And while we wait Stormy will be performing a pole dance for your entertainment.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:11 PM (PvFoN)
That is what Lisa Page plans to do tomorrow.
Posted by: IC,"


Eww. She looks like Joey Ramone in drag.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 12, 2018 01:13 PM (OD2ni)

314 We might be able to withstand either the current trade policy or the current immigration situation, but I don't think both.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 12, 2018 01:13 PM (oVJmc)

315 I think Gowdy is preparing for either AG or FBI director

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2018 01:14 PM (3sJj8)

316 Dig if you will this Notorious RBG quote:

"Frankly, at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
--Ruth Bader Ginsburg

From 2009 New York Times interview.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:14 PM (39g3+)

317 Take a gander around the intertubes. Strzok is not coming off well anywhere and neither are the Democrats trying to run interference for him.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (/tuJf)


Again, you must be looking at a different internet than I am.

Strzok is viewed by partisans in a partisan fashion. People like you and me are pissed off. The other side think he's a BIG DAMN HERO.

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 01:14 PM (8k/Um)

318 263
That's the bridge Billie Jo jumped off.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2018 01:06 PM (BWL+E)

Pass potatoes please.

Posted by: Suspicious Russkie Types at July 12, 2018 01:14 PM (RD7QR)

319 Watching Awan skate pretty much destroyed any hope I have in the DoJ.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 12, 2018 01:14 PM (oVJmc)

320 Hmmm.... interesting question...



'Could' the US survive as a closed economy?
---
Probably.

I think a more interesting question is: If no, how much bigger would we have to be in order to make trade unnecessary, unappealing, or useless?

Obviously a global empire of America would make the question pointless, but short of that. Like where would we be if we controlled all of North America (and could do so without the problems inevitably caused by giving current Mexicans and Canadians voting privileges)?

Posted by: Methos at July 12, 2018 01:15 PM (XQvuQ)

321
"Frankly, at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
--Ruth Bader Ginsburg

-----

Awwwwwwwww. A Sanger Eugenics disciple. Isnt that cute.

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 01:15 PM (8XRCm)

322 >>"Frankly, at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."


Where in the Constitution does it say the law is to be informed by current population concerns?
SMH

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 01:15 PM (W+vEI)

323 Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (/tuJf)



Again, you must be looking at a different internet than I am.



Strzok is viewed by partisans in a partisan fashion. People like
you and me are pissed off. The other side think he's a BIG DAMN HERO.

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 01:14 PM (8k/Um)


And congress will bluster and blow, and nothing will happen.


The show must go on.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2018 01:15 PM (9chmE)

324 Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC

Strzok claims that he does not remember who he was referring to in a text saying that someone needed to be "locked in" soon in a "formal chargeable way." The denial defies belief.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 01:15 PM (fceHP)

325 I don't disagree but the only way Trump's strategy works is if the other side(s) blink first and do so quickly.

And they have been. Its going to take a few years to get this straight and frankly the benefits of doing so greatly outweigh the short term discomfort. Sort of like deporting illegals: yeah, my farm products go up in price, but in the long run, better for us all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:15 PM (39g3+)

326 When asked how she felt about having the charges dropped as she exited the prosecutor's office, Daniels said "Argle, bargle, argle, bargle."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2018 01:15 PM (ATVNj)

327 Take a gander around the intertubes. Strzok is not coming off well anywhere and neither are the Democrats trying to run interference for him.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 01:07 PM (/tuJf)

Again, you must be looking at a different internet than I am.

Strzok is viewed by partisans in a partisan fashion. People like you and me are pissed off. The other side think he's a BIG DAMN HERO.
Posted by: blaster



And it matters not one fucking iota if he doesn't go to jail.

So who's arresting him and when?

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 01:16 PM (Y5LDn)

328 This week on "how to do it" Jackie is going to tell you how to build Box-Girder Bridges. But first Susan will give us a five minute talk on how to reconcile the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 12, 2018 01:16 PM (37IEG)

329 @306

Spot on.


The gold standard is indictments and prosecutions.


For Gods sake, Strozk still has a job.


So not only is this piece of shit breathing the air of a free man, he's home collecting a salary, that we are paying for.


I'd say that's incredible but it's par for the course with what passes for justice.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:16 PM (UfMVm)

330 315
I think Gowdy is preparing for either AG or FBI director

Please no.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 12, 2018 01:16 PM (r9UYA)

331 Strzok is viewed by partisans in a partisan fashion. People like you and me are pissed off. The other side think he's a BIG DAMN HERO.

And people in the middle are saying "who? Is he a hockey player?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:16 PM (39g3+)

332
It was sting. The female vice cops asked Stormy if they could motorboat her, according to that sleazebag lawyer Avennatti.

Now, I'm worried about those other two no-name skank strippers. Are they gonna still prosecute them, while letting Stormy go?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 12, 2018 01:16 PM (8O3HH)

333 >>Trouble is, the Internet isn't everyone. It's not even a majority of everyone.

Then how has public opinion turned sharply against the Mueller investigation? I think you are vastly underselling how the American people are seeing what is happening.

Yes, we talk a lot about it here and the vast majority opinion is doom and gloom and nothing is every happening because people don't like the pace of the investigation of the biggest political scandal in US history.

I honestly don't care if people are happy or unhappy with the pace. It was never going to be wrapped up like a case of DC CSI. The tide has definitely turned against the coup plotters, against Mueller and we are just at the beginning of payback season.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 01:16 PM (/tuJf)

334 RBG has also hired only 1 or 2 African American clerks. Interesting note, that.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (wGbBR)

335 One thing that is never stated in coverage of Trump and Europe is that the purpose of an EU was to create a protected market for Europeans to shut out American and Asian business from the European market.

No. Not at all. That's not how any of this happened.

The EU started in the 50s as the Common Markets (note the plural). The belief was that a common market in coal and steel would (i) benefit both Germany and France, and (2) discourage them from going back to war with each other.

It evolved to include other counrties and other goods and services until 1992 when the Maastricht Treaty laid the foundations of the EU.

The Brits wisely opted in to that but out of the Euro.

Europe now is several things. It's the EU, the Euro, the Schengen Zone, and NATO. It's a lot of Venn diagrams.

The origin of the EU was please keep Germany and France from fighting.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (fuK7c)

336 And, oh yeah, feel superior to us Yokels.
Posted by: Gumby at July 12, 2018 01:08 PM


Well, since you smell of elderberries and Hillary!'s used Depends, of course we do.

Now go away, or we shall taunt you again!

Posted by: French Castle Guards with zee outrageous accent at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (ctuyM)

337 298
...See the Drudge headlines for details...



Anybody sees anything on Durdge that seems worth noting, note it
here, because I (and apparently others) won't be giving Dordge no clicks
no more not for long time thanks bye.

Posted by: mindful webworker channeling random cartoon character maybe at July 12, 2018 01:10 PM (Cd8NC)

There is a link to Yahoo news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen. Nothing about not grabbing her mish though.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (jxbfJ)

338
YEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!


WHAT THE FUCK IS JEFF SESSION *DOING* ?!?!?!?!

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (8XRCm)

339 It was sting. The female vice cops asked Stormy if they could motorboat her, according to that sleazebag lawyer Avennatti.

I think I found your problem.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (oVJmc)

340 Is that Alec Guinness on the bridge?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (OLCnA)

341

Melissa Francis @MelissaAFrancis

Strzok just answered he is the actual person who erased "grossly negligent" "and typed "extremely careless."

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (fceHP)

342 >>I just think in contemporary politics, what with our debt, our deficit, the nutcases clamoring for flavors of Socialism, and the political polarism set on 11, Friedman's snippets responding to current economic dynamics would carry further, faster with like-minded economists and persons who could amplify his message.




You could set up a twitter account just like the person who is tweeting daily snippets of Thomas Sowell's.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 01:18 PM (W+vEI)

343
Ali Watkins will be performing for leaks on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 12, 2018 01:18 PM (8O3HH)

344 saw the racist cummings with the posters and thought that paper mache' heads would be the bomb. Hat tip to the Count de Monet.

Posted by: d9 at July 12, 2018 01:18 PM (WX+x0)

345
Melissa Francis @MelissaAFrancis



Strzok just answered he is the actual person who erased "grossly negligent" "and typed "extremely careless."

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (fceHP)


But he's not partisan. Not partisan at all. Merely a patriot.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2018 01:18 PM (ptqGC)

346 Are you now saying that it ONLY hurts the protectionist side again?

Come on, pick one.


The fuck? I said it hurts the protectionist side. I didn't say only. I agreed with you in part. What do you want?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 01:18 PM (fuK7c)

347 @319


Not only did he skate, his entire crew of family members were given immunity.


He was also given immunity from prosecution from any crimes that were discovered from other investigations.


Complete and utter bullshit.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (UfMVm)

348 335
One thing that is never stated in coverage of Trump and Europe is
that the purpose of an EU was to create a protected market for Europeans
to shut out American and Asian business from the European market.



No. Not at all. That's not how any of this happened.



The EU started in the 50s as the Common Markets (note the plural).
The belief was that a common market in coal and steel would (i) benefit
both Germany and France, and (2) discourage them from going back to war
with each other.



It evolved to include other counrties and other goods and services
until 1992 when the Maastricht Treaty laid the foundations of the EU.



The Brits wisely opted in to that but out of the Euro.



Europe now is several things. It's the EU, the Euro, the Schengen Zone, and NATO. It's a lot of Venn diagrams.



The origin of the EU was please keep Germany and France from fighting.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (fuK7c)

And now it is a collection of unelected bureaucrats drafting dictates that impacts not only EU member countries, but the world as well. See GDPR.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (jxbfJ)

349 "Frankly, at the time Roe was decided, there was
concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations
that we don't want to have too many of."

--Ruth Bader Ginsburg



From 2009 New York Times interview.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:14 PM (39g3+)

============================

Freakonomics made her meaning crystal clear, simply by quoting Margaret Sanger, Woodrow Wilson and current abortion statistics.
RBG is a raging racist.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (ULoJS)

350 The non-war "trade war" thing has several aspects, tariffs are just one. And tariffs are hardly always useless or self-destructive things - a cartoonish concept of them, historically - as so many seem to think.


Junking massive multi-lateral deals that greatly dilute US leverage (and historically produce bad results, see WTO enforcement) for bilateral deals was an obvious and unassailably sensible thing.


The largest player engaging in some of the pushing and shoving that its largest trading partners have engaged in - non-stop - for decades is not the end of the world.


Posted by: rhomboid at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (QDnY+)

351 Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 01:12 PM (ULoJS)

concur, the damage to public confidence in the system, is getting worse.


And once the public perceives that the rule of law is no longer in force...

Well... lets look at... oh... Calif... where only 14,000 of the Hundreds of thousands of 'Assault Rifles' here, have been registered as the law now requires.


Lets look at... oh... the totally inept way we enforce border law... especially by not enforcing the 'Aiding and Abetting Illegal Alien' Law.


Now, we see this shit show in DC... where Trump and his people are being Hunted by the very same people who gave immunity to Clinton...


America will never fall to an outside force, but it very well could fall if the Citizen decides it is no longer working... if they decide the Social Contract called the Constitution is no longer in effect.

Posted by: Don Q. at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (NgKpN)

352 Frankly, at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
--Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Then why did we open our borders to a bunch of people? What populations did we not want too many of? Obviously Mexicans are fine.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (hQDvN)

353 337 298
...See the Drudge headlines for details...

Anybody sees anything on Durdge that seems worth noting, note it here, because I (and apparently others) won't be giving Dordge no clicks no more not for long time thanks bye.

Posted by: mindful webworker channeling random cartoon character maybe

There is a link to Yahoo news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen. Nothing about not grabbing her mish though.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
-----

No thanks. Dredge is nothing more than click bait these days. There are many other options out there to get your fix on vice Dredge... IJS

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (9B/d8)

354 311
In an ideal world there would be no tarriffs. But we live in a reality
where every country has them and 90% of the the time the US is fucked
over by them. We can't be the world's doormat any more. This is like
the principled conservative bullshit. The left is ready for civil war
while Jonah G and Egg McMuffin as using debate club rules and saying tsk
tsk if anyone so much as raises their voice.
Posted by: #neverskankles at July 12, 2018 01:13 PM (atHZi)

There is no historical precedent for the economical tightrope the world is walking right now. The fuse was lit in 2008 when the US decided to print $10 trillion out of thin air and give it to a bunch of criminal bankers instead of putting them in prison, and its only gotten worse since then. Right now DeutschBank has almost $60 trillion in derivatives sitting on their books - that's the GDP of the entire fucking planet, at one bank. When it finally blows, oh boy.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (UBzPO)

355 So in 2009 RBG was cool with the Khmer Rouge approach to governing. No surprise here.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (37IEG)

356 YEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!





WHAT THE FUCK IS JEFF SESSION *DOING* ?!?!?!?!

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2018 01:17 PM (8XRCm)


SSSSSSHHHH!!! It's time for his afternoon nap. You want to wake him up, you insensitive, you?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (9chmE)

357 335. Greater Eurasian Co-Prosperity Sphere plan ensures lasting peace between Fritz and the Frogs, while resolving the problems of the Middle East, and ending the many problems south of the Rio Grande.
End the fear. Speed the Sphere.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (fA1SL)

358 RBG has also hired only 1 or 2 African American clerks. Interesting note, that.

While I don't give a crap about that (maybe there weren't any qualified or available) their rules state this is blatant racism, so...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:20 PM (39g3+)

359 >>WHAT THE FUCK IS JEFF SESSION *DOING* ?!?!?!?!

Making holes in his jerk sock. Then napping.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 12, 2018 01:20 PM (r9UYA)

360 Could' the US survive as a closed economy?

I know most other countries could not...
Posted by: Don Q

Used to, when we manufactured tvs & washers & dryers & fridges & stoves and and and , yeah, we could have.

Now? Not so much.
Posted by: rickb223

It would take a few months to retool. Their are a few critical items, OSDs MANTECH office keeps a list. It's been a few years since I looked, but the big issues were power transformers, oil, and rare Earth's. Oil we fixed.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2018 01:20 PM (3sJj8)

361 Remember, boys and girls. It is only July.

The time to draw blood is in October right before the mid-terms.

Right now, Republicans are resuscitating the convict for the eventual execution.

Right now, they are showing the Democrats the instrumentality of their demise. which is the critical first step in torture.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2018 01:20 PM (MnkFD)

362 redridinghood: "I wish I lived in her district just so I could give her grief."

You have more stamina than me. I couldn't bear living in a district that repeatedly appoints Jackson-Lee as the representative. Holy moley that would be depressing.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 12, 2018 01:20 PM (6eEQ+)

363 Dreamy, even.

Posted by: micky at July 12, 2018 01:20 PM (dF9Lb)

364 >> news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen.

They better be careful. The sure-fire way to get Trump to do something is to tell him he can't.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 12, 2018 01:21 PM (8O3HH)

365 saw the racist cummings with the posters and thought that paper mache' heads would be the bomb. Hat tip to the Count de Monet.

Posted by: d9 at July 12, 2018 01:18 PM (WX+x0)

Thanks!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 12, 2018 01:21 PM (QLvwG)

366 "WHAT THE FUCK IS JEFF SESSION *DOING* ?!?!?!?!

Posted by: fixerupper"


Come on I 29 and N 43.

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at July 12, 2018 01:21 PM (OD2ni)

367 RBG is a raging racist.

To be fair, when she was born in 1836 this was not an uncommon position to take.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:21 PM (39g3+)

368 RBG has also hired only 1 or 2 African American clerks. Interesting note, that.

They don't like kale. Sniff.

Posted by: Justice Ruth Baader-Meihof at July 12, 2018 01:21 PM (Tyii7)

369 RBG is a raging racist.

That quote needs to get shoved in the face of the Reeeeeeee! Squads on Tweeeeter.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 12, 2018 01:21 PM (oVJmc)

370 Hard to do that with stale, grainy broadcast legacy material that, while wholly valid, true, and timeless, must compete in the Idiocracy of today.


Alas, true.

I taught an Economic class to high schoolers a few years ago. I go nowhere with the Friedman shows. They're too dated.

The rap thing of Hayek v. Keynes was a massive hit, though, and let me explain a lot of concepts.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (fuK7c)

371 RBG has also hired only 1 or 2 African American clerks. Interesting note, that.

Well she's been killing millions of them, she didn't to seem hypocritical.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (3sJj8)

372 What we are witnessing today is the result of having a non-functional Attorney General for 18 months.


Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (UsCnO)

373 It would take a few months to retool. Their are a few critical items, OSDs MANTECH office keeps a list. It's been a few years since I looked, but the big issues were power transformers, oil, and rare Earth's. Oil we fixed.
Posted by: Jean


Might take more than just a few months to get the steel plants are ore freighters back up and running.

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (Y5LDn)

374 >> news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen.


You're also not to hug or grab her.


Of course, Mooch put her big ol' "toned" arm around the Queen's shoulder. And the left didn't make a peep.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (ptqGC)

375 #341. See?!?! No bias in his work

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (OLCnA)

376 So Strzok said "We'll stop him" 9 days into an investigation, that has gone on for about 2 years, never touching Trump--and SUSPICION about 9 days after you START LOOKING at something is NOW "patriotic" to these assholes!!

Who knew that SUSPICION--resulting in fuckall so far--was Patriotic?!

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (vDqXW)

377 I am not for racial quotas for clerk hiring.

But, for a liberal justice, who has been on the bench for decades, to only have one or two AA clerks is a bit odd in my opinion.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (wGbBR)

378 news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen.

This is really the only valid purpose of the state department: protocol and cultural advice.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:23 PM (39g3+)

379 Ace is up. Also, he's awake.

Posted by: Suspicious Russkie Types at July 12, 2018 01:23 PM (RD7QR)

380 378 news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen.
________________________________________________

Oh. Elton John is going to be there?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 12, 2018 01:23 PM (ATVNj)

381 America will never fall to an outside force, but it very well could fall if the Citizen decides it is no longer working..

Exactly my concern too

Posted by: Huck Follywood, moar coffee at July 12, 2018 01:23 PM (ULoJS)

382 Then why did we open our borders to a bunch of people? What populations did we not want too many of? Obviously Mexicans are fine.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (hQDvN)

Last I checked, RBG is not in charge of the border.

Posted by: Surfperch at July 12, 2018 01:23 PM (AY3OR)

383 @372


We have a functional AG his name is Rod Rosenstein.


He's just functioning in a contrary manner that would produce justice.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 12, 2018 01:23 PM (UfMVm)

384 That quote needs to get shoved in the face of the Reeeeeeee! Squads on Tweeeeter.

Useful for distraction from the continual screaming about Kavanaugh.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:23 PM (39g3+)

385 >> news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen.





Meanwhile, Michelle Obama broke protocol and side-hugged the queen. MSM thought it was charming, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 12, 2018 01:24 PM (W+vEI)

386 He thought it sounded better, stickler for prose he is.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 12, 2018 01:24 PM (37IEG)

387 364 >> news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen.



I'm pretty sure everyone is warned not to kiss the Queen. Geez.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 01:24 PM (hQDvN)

388 RE-NOOD

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2018 01:24 PM (8k/Um)

389 Oh, the BBC is showing the Brit diver who found the Thai boys wheeling his stuff through the airport. Such a normal, unassuming guy.

It's awesome.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 12, 2018 01:24 PM (fuK7c)

390 37 when trade unions arose is this country they were as much or more about safer/better working conditions as higher wages. That part was useful.
Later, as with everything run by humans power corrupts.

Posted by: Le Garde Vieux at July 12, 2018 01:24 PM (E4NQ0)

391 Gandalf:

*eyes bridge*

"You cannot pass!"

*Whooosh! Train runs over Gandalf*

--Excerpt from the Books of Tales That Should Have Been Left on Editing Room Floor, Volume I

Posted by: Christopher "Cha-Ching" Tolkien at July 12, 2018 01:25 PM (iys0/)

392 Then how has public opinion turned sharply against the Mueller investigation? I think you are vastly underselling how the American people are seeing what is happening.

Yes, we talk a lot about it here and the vast majority opinion is doom and gloom and nothing is every happening because people don't like the pace of the investigation of the biggest political scandal in US history.

I honestly don't care if people are happy or unhappy with the pace. It was never going to be wrapped up like a case of DC CSI. The tide has definitely turned against the coup plotters, against Mueller and we are just at the beginning of payback season.


I think you can first stop banging the CSI drum. It comes across as condescending and patronizing.

Next, attention span is a thing. People are more likely getting bored with the Mueller thing. The MSM is just short of the line of making things up with regards to it, and with no results being reported to them, people just don't give a damn and thus disapprove. Do not assume that people answering polls are in command of all the facts.

As for the rest, you keep harping on how DOJ golly just doesn't comment on investigations. But that rule never really stopped the Holder DOJ. The Left understands that the battle here isn't limited to a legal one - it's political. And that battle is something the GOP is losing, badly.

BTW, "doom and gloom" is actually realism. I've seen crap like this happen time and again, and I've seen nothing to persuade me that somehow, some way, this time will be diff'rent. This is not a watershed moment. It is a same show, different day.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at July 12, 2018 01:25 PM (PFy0L)

393 >>360 Could' the US survive as a closed economy?

Situational expeditionary conquest; parasite protectorates. Go in, kill everything, take what we need, embed some Toynbee tiles for laffs, leave.

Posted by: Zod at July 12, 2018 01:26 PM (Bdeb0)

394 >> news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen.



They better be careful. The sure-fire way to get Trump to do something is to tell him he can't.
----
Just as long as he doesn't hug the queen.

Because how embarrassing would that be for everyone involved?

Posted by: Methos at July 12, 2018 01:26 PM (XQvuQ)

395 "Tofay Dow is back within spitting distance of 25k and Nasdaq is at a new record.
If that is the result of a trade war, I never want trade peace again.Posted by: #neverskankles

It MIGHT happen that the markets go down one day (they are due) but US jobs stay strong. It MIGHT be that cheap labor in China lowers our cost for some tech BUT raises many other problems, like the cost for our military and the cost of unemployment.

So many profit margins take a hit for the conglomerates, but middle America gets stronger. That would be good. There has been SO MUCH (paper) wealth acquired via easy money policy for decades, and a lot of debt and QE and accepting slave labor and pollution as OK ways to increase profit (as long as it happens in China).
Financial Services shouldn't be the biggest part of our GDP (not sure if it is) ... as many conglomerates make most profit off their finance division, lending to their buyers. NINJA loans was a culmination of that, then TARP and bailouts ... a long road back to sanity. There may be some market hiccups.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2018 01:26 PM (bT8Z4)

396 Right now DeutschBank has almost $60 trillion in derivatives sitting on their books - that's the GDP of the entire fucking planet, at one bank. When it finally blows, oh boy.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans

Their version of nukes.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2018 01:26 PM (3sJj8)

397 Don Q.: "America will never fall to an outside force, but it very well could fall if the Citizen decides it is no longer working... if they decide the Social Contract called the Constitution is no longer in effect."

Nikita Khrushchev set history on fire with that thought. The long march through the institutions.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 12, 2018 01:26 PM (6eEQ+)

398 So far the Lord has been taking down the Democratic party. I have to trust that he has more.

My trust has to be that something will be exposed that will shame the Dems for this behavior, Lord willing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2018 01:27 PM (vDqXW)

399 Frankly, at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
--Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Then why did we open our borders to a bunch of people? What populations did we not want too many of? Obviously Mexicans are fine.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 12, 2018 01:19 PM (hQDvN)
************************
Rumor has it that she has a portrait of Margaret Sanger above her bed.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2018 01:27 PM (PvFoN)

400
"I wish I lived in her district just so I could give her grief."

No. Believe me, no. You don't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2018 01:28 PM (BWL+E)

401 The US is 325m people and 3k miles wide. We have everything....oil, gas, mining, farms of all types, fresh and salt water, tech, auto, aerospace. You name it. We could close the border tomorrow to trade and be just fine.

Posted by: #neverskankles at July 12, 2018 01:29 PM (atHZi)

402 But, for a liberal justice, who has been on the
bench for decades, to only have one or two AA clerks is a bit odd in my
opinion.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 12, 2018 01:22 PM (wGbBR)


RBG was probably confused those 2 times and thought she was hiring a maid.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at July 12, 2018 01:30 PM (aVYsC)

403 news about Trump being warned not to kiss the queen.
---
Or grab her crotchal area.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2018 01:31 PM (vDqXW)

404 It would take a few months to retool. Their are a few critical items, OSDs MANTECH office keeps a list. It's been a few years since I looked, but the big issues were power transformers, oil, and rare Earth's. Oil we fixed.
Posted by: Jean


Might take more than just a few months to get the steel plants are ore freighters back up and running.

Posted by: rickb223

I don't recall steel on the list, some types of wire. It's been a few years.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2018 01:32 PM (3sJj8)

405 It would take a few months to retool. Their are a
few critical items, OSDs MANTECH office keeps a list. It's been a few
years since I looked, but the big issues were power transformers, oil,
and rare Earth's. Oil we fixed.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2018 01:20 PM (3sJj

We're not just talking finished goods though. The entire supply chain is global now. It would take years, not months to rebuild a US manufacturing base.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 12, 2018 01:33 PM (UBzPO)

406 It was never going to be wrapped up like a case of
DC CSI. The tide has definitely turned against the coup plotters,
against Mueller and we are just at the beginning of payback season.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2018 01:16 PM (/tuJf)

That's the same thing the left responds with when pointing out Mueller is turning up bupkis. Just remarking about the similarities.

Mueller, at the pinnacle of his Manafort prosecution, admits, he has nothing on Russia "collusion" to offer in the Manafort case, the closest associate of Trump under indictment. Here, however, we are still just getting started.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 12, 2018 01:34 PM (5jVnA)

407 Rumor has it that she has a portrait of Margaret Sanger above her bed.
Posted by: redridinghood

Lid of her coffin.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2018 01:34 PM (3sJj8)

408 358 RBG has also hired only 1 or 2 African American clerks. Interesting note, that.

While I don't give a crap about that (maybe there weren't any qualified or available) their rules state this is blatant racism, so...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 12, 2018 01:20 PM (39g3+)

That was even brought up during her confirmation hearing by some GOPe Senator - he posed the question if a certain business operating in a place with x% AA population only hired y% AA to work there, would you (Ginsberg) day they were racist? Then told her that was what her firm did.

His name escapes me, but I'm pretty sure he still voted to confirm her anyway.

Posted by: josephistan at July 12, 2018 01:35 PM (7HtZB)

409 Lizzy: "https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell

*Created by a fan, Sowell is retired."


I'll have to check that out. Thx. WRT contributing to Twitter... it'll never happen. I wouldn't dare Twit. Too untrustworthy and unsafe.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 12, 2018 01:48 PM (6eEQ+)

410 "those higher wages are at nobody's expense." Ahhh, yes they are. The consumer will pay more to support the very good workers, worker benefits, pay raises, managers bonuses and OUTRAGEOUS RETIREMENT GOLDEN PARACHUTES. I understand the concept of free market, which, I like. Just don't blow smoke in my face and tell me it's a beautiful Bermudian breeze with a Pina Colada coming my way.

Posted by: Ripley at July 12, 2018 02:44 PM (fVGR3)

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