Too bad for Trump the Iran situation is only going to exacerbate the potential for world petrol spikes...of course, this admin doesn’t realize that also affects jet fuel rates.

Edited May 12, 20187 yr by caulfield12

Trump spending money studying building more coal plants. Sweet.

 

also on Fox and Friends one of the hosts put on a skit yesterday looking through the “failing, fake news”NYT. Saying he couldn’t find a story about the 5 ISIS leaders that were captured. He was correct, there was no story in Friday’s paper. They reported it Wednesday, even before Supreme Leader tweeted it. You have to love State News.

Big problems at the VA as Jared-backed health-care project gets ‘devastating’ review

ARTHUR ALLEN SCOOP -- “Kushner-backed health care project gets ‘devastating’ review”: “The first stage of a multibillion-dollar military-VA digital health program championed by Jared Kushner has been riddled with problems so severe they could have led to patient deaths, according to a report obtained by POLITICO.

“The April 30 report expands upon the findings of a March POLITICO story [https://politi.co/2G8MJOV] in which doctors and IT specialists expressed alarm about the software system, describing how clinicians at one of four pilot centers, Naval Station Bremerton, quit because they were terrified they might hurt patients, or even kill them. Experts who saw the Pentagon evaluation — it lists 156 ‘critical’ or ‘severe’ incident reports with the potential to result in patient deaths — characterized it as ‘devastating.’

“‘Traditionally, if you have more than five [incident reports] at that high a level, the program has significant issues,’ a member of the testing team told POLITICO.

“The project’s price tag and political sensitivity — it was designed to address nagging problems with military and veteran health care at a cost of about $20 billion over the next decade — means it is ‘just another ‘too big to fail’ program,’ the tester said. ‘The end result everyone is familiar with — years and years of delays and many billions spent trying to fix the mess.’” https://politi.co/2jOZs0m

 

Joking about McCain’s (impending) death is the “new normal”

 

The issue with all of this is that it bastardized a very legitimate issue -- the growing income (and everything else) gap between the rich and the poor -- for Trump's own political purposes. He drove the divide for political reasons and, in his language, made it totally OK to say whatever you wanted about people you disagreed with because they had been out to get you for years. This was just payback. And man did they deserve it.

 

Nuance went out the window. Speaking hard truths that the country needed to hear -- as McCain has done throughout his career -- became indistinguishable from calling Sen. Ted Cruz's wife ugly or suggesting that we need to ban Muslims from entering the country. Political incorrectness became a crutch to justify racist and xenophobic views. 

 

And in the middle of it all was Trump. When he wasn't engaging in these behaviors, he was refusing to condemn them -- an example of his abdication of the idea of the President as moral leader. Who am I to say who is right and who is wrong in the Charlottesville violence, Trump asked. Who am I to judge who is telling the truth -- Roy Moore or the multiple women who said he had pursued relationships with them when they were teenagers?

 

That view has trickled down. When CNN's Chris Cuomo asked State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Friday to comment on the "joke" about McCain's death, Nauert responded: "I'm not familiar with what you're familiar with." Really? Nauert hadn't heard about the story? I find that very, very hard to believe.

 

That collective shrug from the President of the United States and his allies coupled with the extant factors of our internal divisions and the sort of campaign he ran in 2016 created the toxic stew from which comments like the one Thursday by Sadler grow. 

 

No one is standing up and saying "We can't treat people like this." And sadly, that vacuum in moral leadership means that the better angels of our nature are being drowned out by our demons.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/politics/donald-trump-john-mccain-death/index.html

What has the world come to when people are publicly mocking people for the fact they're going to die soon? Geez. Get some class, government officials!

1 hour ago, greg775 said:

What has the world come to when people are publicly mocking people for the fact they're going to die soon? Geez. Get some class, government officials!

 

It is what was voted for.

Not feeling sorry for John “bomb Iran” McCain 

 

On 5/12/2018 at 8:36 AM, Dick Allen said:

Trump spending money studying building more coal plants. Sweet.

 

also on Fox and Friends one of the hosts put on a skit yesterday looking through the “failing, fake news”NYT. Saying he couldn’t find a story about the 5 ISIS leaders that were captured. He was correct, there was no story in Friday’s paper. They reported it Wednesday, even before Supreme Leader tweeted it. You have to love State News.

The people on that show just arent very sharp.

Cant hardly believe the outbreak of violence happening right now in israel/Palestine as a result of the Embassy moving.  Nobody could have seen this coming

The United States on America-

Ivanka Trump. She went to Wharton too. She's like really smart.

With Trump in office, Israel doesn't even have to pretend they care about killing Palestinians. 

Trump is a chump no doubt, but what do the haters say about the economy?? You can't just simply say the booming economy is a result of Obama. At some point doesn't Donny get credit for that at least?

12 minutes ago, greg775 said:

Trump is a chump no doubt, but what do the haters say about the economy?? You can't just simply say the booming economy is a result of Obama. At some point doesn't Donny get credit for that at least?

Considering that most of the policy he's put in place is straight out of the "How to Cause a Recession in America" economic playbook, I'm going to go with a "no" on that, Greg.

Just talked to a hispanic guy who owns a wood cutting business. He told me that Trump is the best president since FDR and may go down as the greatest of all time. 

3 minutes ago, Whitesoxin2019 said:

Just talked to a hispanic guy who owns a wood cutting business. He told me that Trump is the best president since FDR and may go down as the greatest of all time. 

What policies or actions did he cite for saying this? 

6 minutes ago, Quinarvy said:

What policies or actions did he cite for saying this? 

Just a quick, casual conversation about business and the economy. 

10 minutes ago, Whitesoxin2019 said:

Just a quick, casual conversation about business and the economy. 

It's just that's a pretty high bar. I think everyone can agree that Eisenhower was a phenomenal president and I don't see any way someone can justify Trump over him.

7 hours ago, Quinarvy said:

It's just that's a pretty high bar. I think everyone can agree that Eisenhower was a phenomenal president and I don't see any way someone can justify Trump over him.

Dude, you are so easy

 

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Jared/Ivanka for President of the United States on America in 2024 over Pence/Lieberman, lol...

Okay, Pence/Ryan, although I’m not sure if he can stomach being a VP on another ticket.  He’ll undoubtedly go after the nomination himself against Pence.

For the Dems, Chelsea Clinton and Amy Schumer (just to get Greg’s goat).

Edited May 15, 20187 yr by caulfield12

No matter what side you're on, there is no way you can say so-so is the greatest president ever after 1 year. C'mon

6 minutes ago, Brian said:

No matter what side you're on, there is no way you can say so-so is the greatest president ever after 1 year. C'mon

I asked a Greek restaurant owner and he told me James K Polk is by far the greatest president ever

54-40 OR FIGHT!!!

8 minutes ago, RockRaines said:

I asked a Greek restaurant owner and he told me James K Polk is by far the greatest president ever

In four short years he met his every goal.

 

 

I surveyed 29 people at a Chinese Hooter’s and they all said Trump is an orange buffoon with strange hair...and they also said he’s ADDING alligators to the swamp instead of draining it.

21 minutes ago, RockRaines said:

I asked a Greek restaurant owner and he told me James K Polk is by far the greatest president ever

Has a Chicago high school named after him. A guy back in the day once scored 4 touchdowns.