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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Well, he's right to the extent that Ezra Klein is a liberal and Vox is a progressive blog.
    It's a leftist propaganda site. Doesn't mean that it's wrong all the time obviously, but the info they put out is often one side and at times highly misleading. And Ezra and his gang aren't idiots, so it's purposeful. There's a whole host of leftist propaganda sites out there that are basically Breitbart of the left. For whatever reason many leftists refuse to acknowledge the obvious bias on their own side. Makes it tough to have a reasonable discussion with the ones who refuse to acknowledge the bias. I don't really mind the bias, so long as there exists a counter balance on the other side. Something that worries me is that with the move towards censoring mainly right wing opinion, that eventually the leftist propaganda will go largely unchecked. Unfortunately the owners of a lot of social media are huge social justice warriors and ignore facts and logic presented by those in the center.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Man, if that money from overseas can find a way inside our country we could see a revitalizaton of the country.
    The money is already here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Donald J. Trump
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    Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico
    Did Ford ever say that anything from Kentucky WAS moving to Mexico?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    I don't like Romney at State, what about Treasury?
    To follow up on my post above, I wonder if Trump isn't going to try to score some points for magnanimity by "considering" these folks for cabinet appointments, enjoy the optics of their trips to Trump Tower to kiss the ring, then compound the humiliation by not offering them jobs.

    I'm only about 50% kidding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mqt View Post
    Are you one of those people who consider FDR one of the best Presidents of all time?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    To follow up on my post above, I wonder if Trump isn't going to try to score some points for magnanimity by "considering" these folks for cabinet appointments, enjoy the optics of their trips to Trump Tower to kiss the ring, then compound the humiliation by not offering them jobs.

    I'm only about 50% kidding.
    I more or less agree with your first point, but doubt that his goal is to ultimately humiliate them. It's kind of like mutually assured relevance.

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    Yes.

    Romney and Haley are particularly interesting.

    Romney gave an entire televised speech that was Anti-Trump. Haley spoke at rallies against Trump.

    I don't remember Rick Scott being anti-Trump but he probably kept his silence anyways since Trump was doing so well in Florida.

    I mean Trump basically said Mitt would have got on knees if he asked him to for the 2012 endorsement.

    The only other way I see Trump offering those two something is if he's trying to appeal to other parts of the party that haven't been in favor to him yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Did Ford ever say that anything from Kentucky WAS moving to Mexico?
    Not that I can find. Trump's next tweet inferred that he prevented it from moving. I guess the bigger fish here would be the Michigan plant, or Ford announcing they weren't going into Mexico at all (they said they still were, as of two days ago).

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Are you one of those people who consider FDR one of the best Presidents of all time?
    I hope he says yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Are you one of those people who consider FDR one of the best Presidents of all time?
    FDR is one of the best presidents in US history. He won WWII. Probably the second toughest task for a president after the Civil War.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    He won WWII.
    lolwut.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Are you one of those people who consider FDR one of the best Presidents of all time?
    Proud Keynesian here. You can take a guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    lolwut.

    Zito.
    FDR was the most or second most important Ally. Chruchill gets the press, but FDR's backchannel support kept England afloat, the US basically singlehandedly defeated Japan, and with the Russians were key in taking back Europe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
    FDR was the most or second most important Ally. Chruchill gets the press, but FDR's backchannel support kept England afloat, the US basically singlehandedly defeated Japan, and with the Russians were key in taking back Europe.
    I guess, first of all, do you believe toppling the Germans on the European front was a particularly difficult task?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    I guess, first of all, do you believe toppling the Germans on the European front was a particularly difficult task?
    Not compared to Island Hopping to take over occupied Japanese land.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mqt View Post
    Proud Keynesian here. You can take a guess.
    So installing internment camps was OK from a D, but a disastrous idea for Trump? Or are you going to say you don't agree with it when FDR did it, but still consider him one of the best? That would seem like an odd contradiction.

    For the record - I think the idea is despicable... and one of the many reasons FDR was a horrible President

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    So installing internment camps was OK from a D, but a disastrous idea for Trump? Or are you going to say you don't agree with it when FDR did it, but still consider him one of the best? That would seem like an odd contradiction.

    For the record - I think the idea is despicable... and one of the many reasons FDR was a horrible President
    No one said it was OK. Infact the US officially apologized and offered reparations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    So installing internment camps was OK from a D, but a disastrous idea for Trump? Or are you going to say you don't agree with it when FDR did it, but still consider him one of the best? That would seem like an odd contradiction.

    For the record - I think the idea is despicable... and one of the many reasons FDR was a horrible President
    Figured you were going there. Absolutely a black mark on our nation and his presidency. The only thing I'd really like to point out is that nearly every former President that people consider to be good had some sort of major issue, because our nation's history is pretty appalling from a human rights standpoint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mqt View Post
    Figured you were going there. Absolutely a black mark on our nation and his presidency. The only thing I'd really like to point out is that nearly every former President that people consider to be good had some sort of major issue, because our nation's history is pretty appalling from a human rights standpoint.
    Well... I happen to think that locking people in cages due to their skin color is racist, xenophobic, et all... that you're all screaming about Trump now.

    I wonder how the colleges reacted back then.

    It was a despicable that he did it. He is a dirt bag and a terrible President. Even if you ignored all of his horrible economic policies - that alone should disqualify him

    But I recognize that the left has different standards for their team

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Well... I happen to think that locking people in cages due to their skin color is racist, xenophobic, et all... that you're all screaming about Trump now.

    I wonder how the colleges reacted back then.

    It was a despicable that he did it. He is a dirt bag and a terrible President. Even if you ignored all of his horrible economic policies - that alone should disqualify him

    But I recognize that the left has different standards for their team
    The main difference to me is that we've evolved as a society. You could disqualify every President up to Lincoln from slavery alone and most if not all through the 19th Century from the nation's treatment of Native Americans. This does nothing to validate any policies being discussed today, because we've decided as a society that discrimination is something we should be working to eliminate.

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