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  • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

    Fox somehow reaches a new low.

    Given the eagerness with which the Trump campaign embraced the opportunity for collusion, and the number of previously unreported meetings that have already come out, it’s obvious that information produced since the Veselnitskaya meeting first emerged is only the tip of a very large iceberg.

    What’s below the surface? The apparent chaos surrounding the reveal of the June 2016 meeting may make it seem that the White House is huddled down, waiting for the next blow. But a closer look shows that Trump is involved in an active defense. Since the president is immune from most criminal prosecution, the only real threat to Trump is political. Which means that his only immediate threat is being discovered in something so irregular that even Republican lawmakers feel compelled to move.

    Which completely explains the program now underway to turn collusion from extraordinary to every day. From very near treason, to just good politics.

    It’s a coordinated program that includes statements across the Trump campaign, from select Republican politicians outside the administration, and from the right wing news media. And it’s been underway for weeks.

    Not only was Jarrett on the topic in May, he was joined by other Fox hosts.

    During a panel on Fox News Sunday, former Washington, D.C., managing editor Brit Hume echoed several Fox hosts and contributors who have spoken over the past month.

    People who work at the network have continued to raise the argument over whether such collusion would represent a crime.
    That’s very interesting timing and it raises a very interesting question: Who told Fox News to start a campaign against that idea that collusion was a crime, and how much was Fox told about the level of collusion in the Trump regime?

    Because it certainly looks as if Fox News was informed that evidence of collusion was coming out weeks before that knowledge became public. Then, instead of reporting on that information, Fox worked with the Trump regime to lessen the impact.
    That’s not reporting. It’s being part of the cover-up.
    Fox has always been a barely disguised arm of the Republican party. That's what Ailes' own unabashed mission statement was for the network: he claimed if he had had the propaganda arm working in the early 70s he could have saved Nixon from resignation. The Republican Pravda has always had the latent ability to f-ck with our democracy and now it uses its press protections to do so.
    Last edited by Kepler; 07-17-2017, 05:13 PM.
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    • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

      Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
      Seems people are losing faith in free markets!
      Free markets mean when businesses can't find people to fill their open positions, they offer enticements to make those positions more attractive, such as higher wages.

      But we can't have that, so much better to let them brig in more foreign workers who will work for minimum wage.
      What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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        Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
        Plenty of his voters will see no such tax cut, Kep.
        They dont know that...
        "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
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        • Originally posted by Handyman View Post
          They dont know that...
          Trickle.
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          Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
          Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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          • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

            Originally posted by rufus View Post
            Free markets mean when businesses can't find people to fill their open positions, they offer enticements to make those positions more attractive, such as higher wages.

            But we can't have that, so much better to let them brig in more foreign workers who will work for minimum wage.
            What better way to Make America Great Again then by bringing in Non-Americans to do it!
            "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
            -aparch

            "Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
            -INCH

            Of course I'm a fan of the Vikings. A sick and demented Masochist of a fan, but a fan none the less.
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            • Originally posted by rufus View Post
              Free markets mean when businesses can't find people to fill their open positions, they offer enticements to make those positions more attractive, such as higher wages.

              But we can't have that, so much better to let them brig in more foreign workers who will work for minimum wage.
              I know people that own a couple motels here in Bar Harbor. They couldn't get their usual Jamaican workers. They have a skeleton crew and have advertised statewide for over minimum wage plus end of summer bonus (think it works out to $15 an hour) plus free housing. They had multiple locals not bother to show up for scheduled interviews.

              Not sure they could get anyone but H2-Bs to agree to come to Bar Harbor for 4 months and clean motel rooms. It's ****ty work and when it's done you need to pack up and move somewhere else. Not many want to do that. Once upon a time Bar Harbor inns could get by on lobstermans wives for seasonal housekeepers (they didn't need year round work). Not anymore.

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              • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

                Originally posted by rufus View Post
                Free markets mean when businesses can't find people to fill their open positions, they offer enticements to make those positions more attractive, such as higher wages.

                But we can't have that, so much better to let them brig in more foreign workers who will work for minimum wage.
                That last part is also a product of a free market. If you can't find local people willing to do the job at the price you're paying, you broaden your search pool until you find others who will. Now, the question of whether or not they're as qualified as those locals not willing to do the job, but it's always been a market reality. Until someone legislated that it wasn't.
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                • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

                  Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                  They dont know that...
                  They will.

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                    Originally posted by BassAle View Post
                    I know people that own a couple motels here in Bar Harbor. They couldn't get their usual Jamaican workers. They have a skeleton crew and have advertised statewide for over minimum wage plus end of summer bonus (think it works out to $15 an hour) plus free housing. They had multiple locals not bother to show up for scheduled interviews.

                    Not sure they could get anyone but H2-Bs to agree to come to Bar Harbor for 4 months and clean motel rooms. It's ****ty work and when it's done you need to pack up and move somewhere else. Not many want to do that. Once upon a time Bar Harbor inns could get by on lobstermans wives for seasonal housekeepers (they didn't need year round work). Not anymore.
                    Didn't Maine just recently pass some laws about work requirements for welfare? How about looking in that direction?

                    One thing that would definitely help is eliminating (or reducing) all the red tape associated with employment. The paperwork involved is insane.

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                    • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

                      Other than getting rid of drug screens what exactly should they be doing to "eliminate red tape"?

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                      • Originally posted by BassAle View Post
                        I know people that own a couple motels here in Bar Harbor. They couldn't get their usual Jamaican workers. They have a skeleton crew and have advertised statewide for over minimum wage plus end of summer bonus (think it works out to $15 an hour) plus free housing. They had multiple locals not bother to show up for scheduled interviews.

                        Not sure they could get anyone but H2-Bs to agree to come to Bar Harbor for 4 months and clean motel rooms. It's ****ty work and when it's done you need to pack up and move somewhere else. Not many want to do that. Once upon a time Bar Harbor inns could get by on lobstermans wives for seasonal housekeepers (they didn't need year round work). Not anymore.
                        If $15 an hour doesn't work perhaps they should try $20 or $25 an hour. Not to be mean, but there is no God given right to cheap labor.
                        Originally posted by BobbyBrady
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                        • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

                          The Republicans own every inch of this Keystone Kop show we are watching week after week. That party used to mean something other than ignorance and fear. How did they decide to turn over the keys to the likes of Scaife, Ailes, Murdoch, Atwater, Rove, and Limbaugh?

                          Bannon is two rungs lower yet. ***?
                          Last edited by burd; 07-18-2017, 07:49 AM.

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                          • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

                            Originally posted by burd View Post
                            The Republicans own every inch of this Keystone Kop show we are watching week after week. That party used to mean something other than ignorance and fear. How did they decide to turn over the keys to the likes of Scaife, Ailes, Murdoch, Atwater, Rove, and Limbaugh?
                            $$$$$$$ <--------
                            "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
                            -aparch

                            "Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
                            -INCH

                            Of course I'm a fan of the Vikings. A sick and demented Masochist of a fan, but a fan none the less.
                            -ScoobyDoo 12/17/2007

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                            • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

                              Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                              $$$$$$$ <--------
                              Dumb question, wasn't it? I guess I need to face the Republican inside me.

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                              • Re: POTUS 45.13 - CNN is still Fake News

                                Speaking of Keystone Cop shows.

                                https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/u...imes&smtyp=cur

                                WASHINGTON — President Trump agreed on Monday to certify again that Iran is complying with an international nuclear agreement that he has strongly criticized, but only after hours of arguing with his top national security advisers, briefly upending a planned announcement as a legal deadline loomed.
                                This was the worst deal in history. Remember? Where are all the good deals? Where the **** is all the winning?
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                                Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                                Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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