What Did President Trump Do Now?

Chula Vista · 02-05-2017, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Can we ban Chula?

Have you actually seen SPY? The scenes between her and Jason Statham are pee inducing.

The Batlord · 02-05-2017, 03:26 PM

Is that the setup for the funny part?

Anteater · 02-05-2017, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Keep this on topic pls

I need at least a few more good laughs from Nea and Anteater posts

Bringing up "small business" in regards to Dod-Frank is the kind of stuff that makes my day

You've made it very clear since I started posting on this thread months ago that don't know anything (or care much in general) about the problems small businesses face, much less why Dodd-Frank doesn't help them. Therefore, why have such a smug and dismissive attitude?

Anteater · 02-05-2017, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Small business is the GOP's new catch phrase because it finally became too hard to sell hand-outs to Corporations and Banks

Small businesses are the bedrock of pretty much any major city in the U.S., including New York City and L.A. Hell, when I was developing my business years ago I never got a letter from the state nor federal government offering one iota of anything. They just hold their hand out waiting for tax season.

Anteater · 02-05-2017, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Right but you're terribly naive if you think the GOP is out to help a Mom and Pop shop

Especially someone like Trump

They're for a Walmart on every block and a McDonald's on every corner

We'll just have to see what happens to ol' Dodd & Frank won't we?

Lucem Ferre · 02-05-2017, 05:32 PM

I don't know, I didn't think Trump would pull us out of TPP for the same reasons, but he did. I was shocked. Trump loves buying foreign made goods for his business.

Anteater · 02-05-2017, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

The cool thing about understanding politics is you don't have to wait and see

Sorry Nostradamus, but everything is assumption until X actually happens and you can observe factors in real time you likely never considered. If politics and business were that simple, everyone would come to the same conclusion when presented with all available information...and yet that never happens. For example, people "assumed" Trump would lose just because the media "assumed" there was no possible way he would win states like Pennsylvania. There were countless articles backed by historical data and poll data that deemed a Trump win impossible...and yet it happened nevertheless.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 02-05-2017, 06:53 PM

can we go back to Chula actually calling Melissa McCarthy funny??? that's low man, even for your tastes.

Trollheart · 02-05-2017, 07:25 PM

Lucem Ferre · 02-05-2017, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Not shocked by that at all it's an act of Nationalism the fact that it might accidentally be good for American workers doesn't make it surprising

The intended reason is the same reason anybody opposed TPP, according to what he had to say in the debates. I just didn't think he'd go through with it because it implied he gave a **** about anything other than himself and his business. I'm still not fully convinced he won't use his position to corrupt politics in favor of larger businesses but it's a step in the right direction.

Though, I have been reading some shady **** about them trying to get rid of a few areas of government dedicated to investigating corruption.

And I heard he wants to reverse the gay marriage laws. Don't know if it's really true or not because people take the slightest inkling of anything that could imply that and run with it.

And I think the Muslim ban is both dumb and extremely cowardly.

And I think him signing that deal to build that pipeline is absolutely the horrible corrupt decision making I was expecting. It will create a few temporary jobs that will vanish quickly and is moving in the opposite direction the we need to go in order to start preventing catastrophic climate change.

And I absolutely think him putting a hiring freeze on government jobs is completely detrimental to actually creating jobs and is really him trying to push jobs towards different companies that will probably pay you less, give you less benefits, follow less safety regulations and work you harder.

But I could be wrong again, we have to wait and see. I mean there's not much else we can do except wait, see, complain and I guess start voting Democrat on a local level. Perhaps now Democrats will stop being little pussies and realize that the time of playing fair with Republicans is over if they want to get anything actually done.

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