Things They Say

“I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five deferment draft dodger, and I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you’d stop baiting Kim Jong-un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops and millions of innocent civilians in danger.”

Tammy Duckworth
 
“Maybe you do not much care about the Republican party. You should – conservatives will always be with us. When Conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, the will not abandon Conservatism. They will reject Democracy.”

David Frum

I think they have been rejecting it for quite a while. The GOP seems to have decided to got to the mattresses with Trump. Has the next civil war already begun?
 
"The laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother’s womb in the NINTH month. It is wrong. It has to change.” orange one in chief
 
“There’s a lot to come,” Simona Mangiante told The Washington Post. “He was the first one to break a hole on all of this.”

“I know what it means as a young person to do all the efforts you do to build your career and be dismissed as a coffee boy.”

Never belittle a man in front of his fiance.
 
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Jamie Dimon on American infrastructure
 
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mqt said:
We could replace/fix a lot of bridges and roads if we reduced military spending and legalized drugs.
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his point wasn't about funding... it was about the ridiculous regulation we have to go through to make things happen.

It took 1 year 45 days to build the Empire State Building... it took 11 years to build the new WTC tower, despite the ridiculous increase in technology
 
i agree

those things shouldn't take that long and we could still be safe in doing it

5 died building the empire state building which is crazy it was only that many honestly
 
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It's always perplexing to me that "regulations," in the abstract, are treated like an unalloyed evil. Something that makes private sector operation X more expensive and inefficient might also make X safer. Banking regulation Y might impose an opportunity cost on banks, but also make it less likely for them to fail and cause all kinds of societal harm. Dumping industrial byproducts in public waterways is definitely cheaper for industry than disposing of them safely, but it ****s up ecosystems and gives kids cancer. These are the kinds of choices we're making, and it seems like we could weigh costs and benefits more judiciously than we do when we decide in knee-jerk fashion that regulation is bad.

Is it too much to ask to look at the whole equation instead of just the company's bottom line?
 
Julio3000 said:
It's always perplexing to me that "regulations," in the abstract, are treated like an unalloyed evil. Something that makes private sector operation X more expensive and inefficient might also make X safer. Banking regulation Y might impose an opportunity cost on banks, but also make it less likely for them to fail and cause all kinds of societal harm. Dumping industrial byproducts in public waterways is definitely cheaper for industry than disposing of them safely, but it ****s up ecosystems and gives kids cancer. These are the kinds of choices we're making, and it seems like we could weigh costs and benefits more judiciously than we do when we decide in knee-jerk fashion that regulation is bad.

Is it too much to ask to look at the whole equation instead of just the company's bottom line?
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julio

it's one or the other

you can't be for a little bit of both

it's why he somehow thinks i hate capitalism etc etc
 
Runnin said:
“Maybe you do not much care about the Republican party. You should – conservatives will always be with us. When Conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, the will not abandon Conservatism. They will reject Democracy.”

David Frum

I think they have been rejecting it for quite a while. The GOP seems to have decided to got to the mattresses with Trump. Has the next civil war already begun?
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Has this not already started? Theres been numerous terrorist attacks by the religious right against abortion clinics and gays over the years. The Republican party already uses a lot of schemes to reduce the vote of people likely to vote against them. Voter ID isnt one of them. Thats just basic common sense. There are other real methods like gerrymandering, manipulating locations of voting stations, and of course arrest as many Negroes as possible. Lets be real, Republicans got less votes than Democrats in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections. The white demographic is shrinking while the minority demographic is growing. I think we are looking at the last hurrah of the Republican party. Maybe if this Trump presidency doesnt end in complete disaster they get another 20 years or relevance but in 20 years I dont see how they will be able to compete anymore. Their base are old religious white people with giant sticks up their butt and they are a dying breed. We will be a vastly different country once they go extinct.
 
“The ice caps were going to melt. They were going to be gone by now. But now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level.

I mean look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. Right? That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place.
 
"The time has come to bring that investigation and other investigations related to that matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough!"
-Richard Nixon SOTU Jan 30, 1974
 
“Tonight, I call on the congress to empower every Cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers—and to remove (purge) federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.”
 
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