Balta1701

Daily Stormer publishes article praising trump for putting out statement on Friday that ignored the Jewish "science fiction" of gas chambers and ovens. I'm not adding the link.

So, this morning in-between talking about how "everyone" suffered during the Holocaust, White House Chief of Staff Preibus strongly suggested that other countries would be added to the restricted list soon. The DHS also is issuing statements saying that they will continue enforcing the executive order regardless of the court-issued stay. There are some suggestions that efforts are underway to declare parts of the Customs/Border agency in contempt of a court order.

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QUOTE (spiderman @ Jan 29, 2017 -> 12:31 AM) Even if there is interest in him, hard to believe teams would be willing to give up much more than a middling prospect. if money is not an issue for the white sox, they can hold out and see if 2 of their 5-6 veterans become really valuable at the deadline due to strong first halves, and just pay out the ones who are decent or worse. If they are really wanting to move salary, they can take a middling prospect back at any point and shed Robertson's payroll. Team decision.

QUOTE (Con te Giolito @ Jan 29, 2017 -> 12:28 AM) Giolito's ceiling is almost incomprehensible. Like in terms of raw potential he could replace Sale all by his lonesome. He's got the frame, the velocity and the hook. Kopech I suppose could come close to that ceiling just because he has that peak-Verlander veloxity, but Hansen has a ways to get there. Right now we have 3 guys in our system who could replace Sale by raw stuff, 2 of them by trades this year. On top of that, we have perhaps the best college pitching prospect since Stras already in our rotation and several other guys who could be really good. This rotation should be the best rotation in baseball in 2020 already. With no additional starters added. I am content with this starting point.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 29, 2017 -> 01:19 AM) Mr. Gorbachev, BUILD THAT WALL!!! A former head of one of the Mexican Communications directorates replied to a tweet by the Israeli Prime Minister praising wall construction, with pictures of the walls at Bergen-Belsen. A classic example of walls working.

Goodnight.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 29, 2017 -> 01:01 AM) I. f***ING. LOVE. THIS. FIGHT. New York is making me fall in love with it all over again. Punchin' Nazis on the daily. Nothing better than that. I hate this fight. We won this decades ago. Americans decided to be better than this. Then the Republican Party decided they weren't. And I'm still waiting for them to say that this isn't them. Remember that whole "Muslims don't deserve the right to religion if it's in lower Manhattan" gag from the 2010 election? Congrats Republicans. Stand up! Tell us how religious freedom is only fine as long as you are a certain religion. Here's what you stood up for over YEARS. Where are the comments to support this? They're ISLALMIC. Sure my friend models Moon formation, but HE MIGHT BE EVIL HE'S FROM AN EVIL RELIGION LOOK AT HIS NON WHITE FACE. Tell me why he should be blocked from this country. I'm waiting. If he went to NEW YORK he'd be EVIL. I don't want this fight. We shouldn't be fighting that certain religions or facial features are worse than others. I shouldn't be sitting here wondering why "Congress should be making laws prohibiting certain religions" is a thing. We figured out this before we figured out slavery. But it is. I can debate whether or not Americans should provide health insurance for the lowest 10% of its income brackets. I can debate 20% versus 27% federal tax rates. I can debate corporate tax reform. I do not love any fight over whether or not Americans should jail people because they come from the wrong county. I do not love any fight over whether or not we are letting the wrong people into this country because of their birth. This is a fight WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER REACHED AND YOU ALLOWED IT FOR YEARS.

@yashar POTUS signed an order this afternoon which removed the Director of National Intelligence from National Security Council + added Steve Bannon Congrats. Our Joint Chiefs now have an anti semite.

QUOTE (New Era on South Side @ Jan 28, 2017 -> 10:55 PM) How can the average American man help the legal system? Donate to the ACLU? Pay legal fees for immigrants? Just curious. Right now the ACLU seems to be the best money you can spend. They just won. What we know right now…

Ditto goes for the Congresspeople but they're just confirming my opinion at this point.

So far, out of 290+ Republicans who are currently serving in Congress, 3 of them have condemned this evil. Please remember that the next time you think that they'll actually impeach him over any of this.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 28, 2017 -> 05:43 PM) It's just a vacation so technically yeah, but they love going there so much I wouldn't bring up the topic to them. They're from Poland so that's one of the few countries that might actually be on the Donald's good side. Not even sure if they were allowed to keep that passport, have been US citizens as long as I can remember. I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem as of now but we have no idea what other crazy ideas Bannon will force on Trump next. At the very least, I'd ask them to make sure they were sure and to contact an attorney before departing so that if they were detained there would be someone who knows where they are and who can act if they don't come back on time. Like seriously, people who have lived here for 20 years are now being detained at airports and aren't being allowed contact with attorneys. This is evil. At the least, being too careful seems intelligent.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 28, 2017 -> 03:52 PM) Honestly...Can they avoid going? Edit: Apparently having passports may not be enough. They're blocking dual-citizenship people from those countries as well. Do they have an immigration lawyer they've worked with previously? Some are suggesting that a good advance step prior to traveling overseas is to have contacted that attorney beforehand so that they can give advice and respond if they are detained.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 28, 2017 -> 04:28 PM) My parents are going to Dubai in two weeks. While they are immigrants, they do have passports and are white so they should be fine coming back home. But who knows what can change in two weeks, they will have spent time in a Muslim country and they have accents. Honestly...Can they avoid going? Edit: Apparently having passports may not be enough. They're blocking dual-citizenship people from those countries as well.

Apparently one of the colleagues of my friend at UNLV made the mistake of going to Canada last week and is now stuck. Tenured professor, has a green card, no longer allowed in the US because comes from the wrong country. Several others are rapidly trying to cancel plans to go present at conferences overseas to avoid being stuck or are similarly trying to remove reservations for conferences here.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 27, 2017 -> 12:27 AM) Are we talking about the four highly-experienced senior level staff forced out (resigned, but under threat)? Or this is something different? They're on there as some of the 2 dozen vacancies, but that's only part of the issue - they haven't bothered coming up with nominees for many of the other positions on that graphic, many of whom require Senate confirmation. So basically, right now the State department is leaderless, there's no one to make the basic day-to-day decisions that happen when you're doing things like dealing with trade and visitation from foreign leaders, and it's not the fault of the Senate.

Acadia is incredible. There are tons of family-like places both in Bar Harbor and on the roads around there. Do not get an ice cream dish called a "cannonball". It's way bigger than you think it will be. Can add more specific recommendations if you head there, although that ice cream one might seem rather specific.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 12:26 PM) The train wreck continues. The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8">

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 08:43 PM) Yeah, except Ventura didn't even manage to completely lose his lockerroom or his player respect. Talk to me when Butler destroys team gear?

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 06:27 PM) GM and Toyota are in big trouble. Ford and Honda will have a big advantage in this situation. QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 06:41 PM) Ford has a ton of production in Mexico still, most of their small car production either is there or will be there. Again, you guys have missed this: That's the exchange rate for the Mexican Peso to the U.S. Dollar over the last 90 days. Due to Trump, the Peso has fallen by just under 20%. That means right now it costs 20% less to make a car in Mexico than it did last October, give or take. If you raised a 20% tariff, that would push car manufacturing costs back to - basically exactly where they were in October. The problem is that the more you do this, the more you launch a trade war with Mexico, the more the peso would fall. That doesn't give US manufacturers an advantage - rather it's the opposite. You keep needing higher and higher tariffs to make up for the dropoff in the currency. Right now, it is 20% cheaper to build a car in Mexico than it was in October due entirely to currency markets. That is the major story here. I believe former Harvard President Summers described it as a "dagger pointed at Ohio" a few weeks ago. Anyone who manufactures cars in Mexico is doing just fine now and a tariff won't change that, because the currency markets will fight back.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 04:09 PM) They played A role, I don't think they played a significant one. People try to argue it swung the election and they use pre-election data for support. But that pre-election data was proven wrong on election night. Why can't Dems just accept Hillary was a less than stellar candidate, she did a poor job picking key battleground areas and there was a huge movement that she (and others) didn't account for? The swings in the polling data of several percentage points directly associated with James Comey's announcement are clear as can be, as is the clear lead amongst people who say they made up their mind who to vote for during that weak. It's the equivalent of several percentage points, vote numbers nationally over a million. Donald Trump does not win without that.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 01:57 PM) I read this and literally imagine you as Trump complaining about his media coverage. Just a bunch of sour grapes. There were actual crimes committed to support one Candidate and the government believes those happened due to a foreign power. The FBI director personally intervened in the election on behalf of one candidate with a story that had nothing whatsoever behind it, while having a similar story that he could have leaked about the other candidate and chose not to. There are supposed to be laws against that too. You want to call that sour grapes? You're bloody right. You remove James Comey and Donald Trump does not win that election.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 03:39 PM) The problem is the idea that all of the factors that apparently beat the Democrats were unrelated to anything involving their Democrats, their policies or their candidates. The primary factors for their election's results are Hillary CLinton and Donald Trump. Well yeah. Substantially more people voted for the Democratic Candidate. By definition that means that there must be a major factor not involving the candidate.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 01:41 PM) What is a non-partisan rationale for voter suppression laws and opposition to them? Is the idea that the requirement to show an ID disproportionately affects the left? I have never put any time into learning this stuff. Perhaps it's more than having an ID and I don't understand it but that seems like not much of an issue. Everyone I know has an ID. I can give you a personal story here. We just moved to Texas. In order for my spouse to get a voter ID, I had to drive her to the DMV in the next city over. We got there 10 minutes before it opened. We had to get there on a weekday, when normally I'd be working if I had a job that didn't have days where I don't teach. We waited more than an hour in line. She had all the correct documents and it still took them more than 30 minutes to figure things out and process it. It was a 30 minute drive each way. Altogether, while owning a car and counting the wait, getting that ID was a 3 hour trip for me. There is bus service in this city, but it comes once every few hours and to get to that would require 2 buses based on what I've read. So, without owning a car, this is a 5 hour effort on a weekday when people are normally expected to be at work. And that's in a city that has bus service - there are larger cities in this state that have none. Rural communities would have to cross the entire county - maybe they're more likely to have cars, but the trip is even longer. So you've got a selection - people without drivers licenses, people who don't have cars, people who have jobs that they can't call off from, people who have kids they can't just leave behind for 6 hours. All of those hit - poor, elderly, and particularly minorities - hence major democratic dropoff. If they had any interest in actually doing this fairly, the states doing this would bite the billion-dollar cost and make sure everyone has an ID on their own, and they'd be sending people out to find the residents who can't get to those addresses. Otherwise, you've got the 105 year old woman who voted in every election since 1918 who gets denied the vote because she can't spend 6 hours at the DMV. In 2012 there's a Pennsylvania Legislator on tape saying that they did voter ID and it will "Deliver Pennsylvania for Mitt Romney". There's a reason why the Republicans did this. I feel fairly confident in saying that Wisconsin in particular remains in Hillary Clinton's column without that voter ID law. The margin there was only 22,000 votes and there was a dropoff of more than 2x that amount from Milwaukee alone compared to 2012. Whether another of the states would have gone over is the reason I won't say I'm as confident about that swinging the election as I am about Comey where statistically it's undeniable he won that election for Trump.