That may have came across better than half dead looking chuck and nancy.
Society The Donald J. Trump Show - 4 more years editions
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Surely this will spell the end of the presidency.
You really hate white men huh?
Not as much as you love em, Fuðflogi.
Yeah, that’s why I live in Asia.
I think you took the wrong point from my post. My point is that occupational risk is not relevant to discussing labor distribution in the government. For the workers it is, but unfortunately their only recourse for altering those conditions is through political mechanisms. The US, Russia, China, and several countries around the world have used their defense industries as their largest government employer. This is due to a high level of investment in the industry as an employment sector, having less to do with the actual scope of mission or any of the rhetoric.
Western Pennsylvania is actually a great example. For decades the Democratic Congressman John Murtha steered pork belly funding to the region in the form of defense contracts. For years the region relied on these funds to stay afloat and his dealmaking to enlarge military spending and the labor force made him a major political powerbroker. Since his death, the region has lost most of those jobs. Several people there send their kids to the military, thinking of it as the best possible employer and a reliable way out of town. So in essence, the people of the area have just made a generational shift from one lower risk form of government subcontracting to a higher risk form of direct government labor. Owing to low enployment prospects in the area, a more significant percentage of people end up reliant on the state in other ways.
But they still believe in things like service and flag and country because that was the ladder to the middle class for many of them for a generation. They hold low regard for entitlements because they have to rely on them and they suspect others are using them when they may not have to. This is the part of Pennsylvania that has gradually flipped from blue to red over the past three election cycles.
When we think of the military as a military industrial complex, to quote President Eisenhower, with labor and a political economy, we can disentangle the purpose it serves in our society at home from the rhetoric and foreign policy that guides its risks and operations abroad.
Lol @ Taken by the Viking Prince, might have to hit up amazon.How bout that Galt, you are pretty much famous!
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Thailand shoulda built that wall to keep that trash heap out of the motherland.How bout that Galt, you are pretty much famous!
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I wonder why Ted Cruz or Gerg Abbott haven’t had anything to say about the state of emergencies playing out in their back yards?
The fact that they allowed these two to brutally counterpoint the president is pretty damning. I thought they only allowed that for State of The Unon speeches.
But everyone knows the Con is a prolific liar so fact check time...
Facing pressure, networks fact-check Trump speech
LaLa Pelosi and Lil Chucky Schumer couldn't shine Trump's shoes...lulz
The Pelosi / Schumer rebuttal was...odd
Is dedicated national TV time voicing opposition to the President going to be a thing now?
So after the president addresses the nation, we'll have a politician doing his best Cousin Vinny...
Very productive.
Is dedicated national TV time voicing opposition to the President going to be a thing now?
So after the president addresses the nation, we'll have a politician doing his best Cousin Vinny...
Very productive.
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That's been going on for years. It's really nothing new.The Pelosi / Schumer rebuttal was...odd
Is dedicated national TV time voicing opposition to the President going to be a thing now?
So after the president addresses the nation, we'll have a politician doing his best Cousin Vinny...
Very productive.
They do it after State of the Union - that's a thing and accepted as normal.
But other than campaigns - I don't recall anything like that. Opposing views are generally expressed via statements and interviews. Maybe I'm not remembering the other times an opposing viewpoint was granted a national TV audience immediately after the president addressed the country? I don't know - it felt weird.
That's also because the President generally doesn't address the nation like this unless it's a natural disaster or a declaration of war. Things where generally there's at least a projection of unity between the parties. This was Trump campaigning and naming enemies followed by two assholes looking like vampires.
Pure shit show all around.
Yeah. I guess Trump's addressing of the nation was more political than your typical situation, so that's a little odd in itself.
Defeated as in their control. There was a map that showed isis control before trump that was fully red with a little green and the other night the map was fully green with a little red. They have lost their control and lost all that they had. They are defeated. They are not eradicated and never will be. You can’t stop Muslim extremists. Trump is doing a great job and lots of great things have happened under his watch. I’m sorry you can’t see it, I’m loving it over here. Must suck to be on your side lol
It feels like we are settling in for a war of semantics.
Dems agree we need better borders, but want nothing to do with a "wall"
Trump has been talking about a "wall" for so long he will see it as a loss if he concedes to anything other than a physical barrier from the Pacific to the Gulf.
Unfortunately I don't know that there is a single adult in Washington that can mediate the issue so we can all move forward.
Dems agree we need better borders, but want nothing to do with a "wall"
Trump has been talking about a "wall" for so long he will see it as a loss if he concedes to anything other than a physical barrier from the Pacific to the Gulf.
Unfortunately I don't know that there is a single adult in Washington that can mediate the issue so we can all move forward.
I definitely want the UN human rights commission (whom they appointed to be headed by Syria ) investigating western nations to make sure everything's on the level.
Maybe they could settle on a border "solid-fence"
An aesthetic obstruction.