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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 0:16:08 GMT
trump...
”House just passed the 19.1 Billion Dollar Disaster Aid Bill. Great, now we will get it done in the Senate! Farmers, Puerto Rico and all will be very happy.”
NPR..
”The House of Representatives has approved a $19.1 billion disaster aid package despite earlier objections from Republicans.
The Senate approved the legislation 85-8 last week, and President Trump has said he supports the bill.”
CNN...
”The House passes the long-stalled $19 billion disaster relief package. It now goes to President Trump. cnn.it/2ERnJxx”
The man is a moron. He really is.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 0:58:07 GMT
This is the first I've seen of this video and I'm in shock!! Wearing your golf shoes, really??? And, didn't he realize that he was being filmed?? I've never seen him without his coiffed, elaborate fake hairdo!! He should skip the fake skina tone and the stupid flying saucer hairdo, but, gosh, he's so fvcking ugly!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 1:06:25 GMT
Feels like we need a People magazine-style "Who wore it better?"
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Post by dewryce on Jun 4, 2019 1:08:22 GMT
Awwww, takes me back. DH and his groomsman wore white tie.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 1:15:14 GMT
ETA - Melania looked beautiful but guess what ........her gown was sleeveless I suppose I'm one of the infantile Americans who cannot look at Melania with anything but disgust and embarrassment for our nation. I picture her early days in our country, doing subpar "modeling" (soft porn shoots) for tidbit agencies. I wonder how the hell she got that Einstein visa and how she wormed her way here, and now she's our First "Lady". I just picture her harsh no surgical looks, holding her vagina, posing totally nude. Sorry, but i don't give a damn how decent she might appear to look now, because it all seems like she's studying and trying to look the part of a demure and decent First Lady. I have no patience for her, just as I have no shots to give about any Kardashians. None of them can or will change and I long for the days of a supremely intelligent and caring First Lady, like Michelle Obama. Rant over.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 1:18:33 GMT
One of these things is not like the other....
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Post by PLurker on Jun 4, 2019 1:20:20 GMT
One of these things is not like the other.... besides the petty and obvious... joy/no joy.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 1:25:44 GMT
One of these things is not like the other.... besides the petty and obvious... joy/no joy. But don't you love Trump's lady's shrug? And that crystal sombrero is to die!
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Post by dewryce on Jun 4, 2019 1:26:13 GMT
ETA - Melania looked beautiful but guess what ........her gown was sleeveless I suppose I'm one of the infantile Americans who cannot look at Melania with anything but disgust and embarrassment for our nation. I picture her early days in our country, doing subpar "modeling" (soft porn shoots) for tidbit agencies. I wonder how the hell she got that Einstein visa and how she wormed her way here, and now she's our First "Lady". I just picture her harsh no surgical looks, holding her vagina, posing totally nude. Sorry, but i don't give a damn how decent she might appear to look now, because it all seems like she's studying and trying to look the part of a demure and decent First Lady. I have no patience for her, just as I have no shots to give about any Kardashians. None of them can or will change and I long for the days of a supremely intelligent and caring First Lady, like Michelle Obama. Rant over. You know, on the surface I have no issue with her soft porn shoots. Not a decision I would make, but whatever, you do you she wasn’t hurting anyone. It’s her body, if she wants to share those kinds of photos more power to her. I have a serious problem with her “Einstein” Visa, and that she is being held up as a paragon of virtue, a symbol of class and an excellent First Lady while the most recent First Lady was torn to shreds by these same people. Not only was Melania not very accomplished in her own right before the WH, she’s not done much as a First Lady either.
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Post by lizacreates on Jun 4, 2019 1:27:25 GMT
Feels like we need a People magazine-style "Who wore it better?" OMG, look at how young Obama was. And his signature toothy smile! God, I miss that guy with the big ears. I miss everything about him – his dignity, his smarts, his class…all of a sudden, I feel quite sad.
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Post by dewryce on Jun 4, 2019 1:30:11 GMT
Every single time I read a speech or watch a video or read an article about him.
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Post by PLurker on Jun 4, 2019 1:36:01 GMT
even before I saw the comment, this gave me the creeps.
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Post by Skellinton on Jun 4, 2019 1:48:53 GMT
even before I saw the comment, this gave me the creeps. WTF? Where is that pic from, and why? That is not normal.
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Post by PLurker on Jun 4, 2019 1:54:20 GMT
even before I saw the comment, this gave me the creeps. WTF? Where is that pic from, and why? That is not normal. Buckingham Palace. I think it's haunted now. or needs fumigating.
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Post by pjaye on Jun 4, 2019 2:01:44 GMT
Where is that pic from, and why? That is not normal. That was yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The report I saw said his children all tagged along (all paid for by US taxes!!) Hence my comment about his sycophantic children.
Nice to know that the average American is paying for the president's GROWN children to have meet and greets with famous people. and attend fancy dinners. Some of those taxpayers are probably struggling to keep food on the table for their own kids, but who cares about that? as long as Ivanka and Tiffany get to meet Kate...right?
*ETA Disgusting.
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jun 4, 2019 2:13:15 GMT
One of these things is not like the other....
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Post by lizacreates on Jun 4, 2019 2:21:20 GMT
This is probably the first time a banquet there had so many American swindlers at one time.
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Post by hop2 on Jun 4, 2019 2:24:22 GMT
linkWell duh. I think this is a “thanks trump”. LA Times.. “A devastating analysis of the tax cut shows it’s done virtually no economic good”From the article... “You may remember all the glowing predictions made for the December 2017 tax cuts by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration: Wages would soar for the rank-and-file, corporate investments would surge, and the cuts would pay for themselves. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has just published a deep dive into the economic impact of the cuts in their first year, and emerges from the water with a different picture. The CRS finds that the cuts have had virtually no effect on wages, haven’t contributed to a surge in investment, and haven’t come close to paying for themselves. Nor have they delivered a cut to the average taxpayer. The negligible (at best) economic impact of the cuts shouldn’t surprise anyone, the CRS says. “Much of the tax cut was directed at businesses and higher-income individuals who are less likely to spend,” its analysts write. “Fiscal stimulus is limited in an economy that is at or near full employment.” The CRS findings aren’t all that novel. The service, which is an arm of the Library of Congress, reports that the tax cuts contributed to a record-breaking surge in corporate stock buybacks, which has been documented by many other analyses. The continued stagnation of rank-and-file wages is visible in monthly data computed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Furthermore, the GOP’s claims that the tax cuts would create an economic nirvana were discounted by most qualified economic observers from the start. (“These statements,” the CRS says innocently, “were not supported by most of the published analysis.”) Let’s examine the Congressional Research Service report point by point. The report addresses predictions that the cuts would pay for themselves in economic growth. These forecasts were based on the notion that business investment would surge because the lowered corporate tax rate (to 21% from 35%) would increase investment from abroad, including the repatriation of U.S. corporate assets from foreign subsidiaries that had been stowed overseas. Among the big promoters of the idea were Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s chief economic advisor, and Stephen Moore, an economic commentator widely criticized as having a flawed grasp of economic reality. The CRS says that the cuts produced an increase of 0.3% at most in gross domestic product in 2018. For the cuts to pay for themselves, an increase of more than 6.7% would be necessary. In other words, the report says, the cuts produced less than one-twentieth of the economic gain needed to pay for themselves. The CRS also takes aim at claims from the Trump White House that tax revenues increased thanks to the cuts (i.e., that economic activity increased so much that more taxes were paid). The big promoter of this idea, again, is Kudlow, who has placed the increase at 10%. Not so, the Congressional Research Service says. Overall revenue fell in 2018, largely because of a $40-billion decline in corporate tax revenue. Individuals, particularly working- and middle-class individuals, haven’t been so fortunate. Although the legislation increased the standard deduction and child credit, whatever tax reductions those would produce for families were “largely offset” by the elimination of personal exemptions, and limitations on itemized deductions such as those for state and local taxes. Did the tax bill contribute to higher pay for the rank-and-file? The White House endowed the tax cuts with an almost magical capability to drive wages higher, estimating the result at anywhere from $4,000 to $9,000 a year per household. Those were long-term estimates, but even in the short term the administration predicted that workers would “immediately get a significant share (30%) of profits repatriated from abroad due to tax changes,” the CRS says. Its analysis, however, knocks the legs out from under these projections: “There is no indication of a surge in wages in 2018 either compared to history or relative to GDP growth.” Real wages (that is, adjusted for inflation) increased by only 1.2% in 2018. “Ordinary workers had very little growth in wage rates.” What may have obscured this dismal result was the spate of bonuses that big employers offered to workers, which was foolishly ascribed by some pundits (but not all) to the tax cuts. The CRS cites an estimate that the bonuses worked out to about $28 per U.S. worker. The analysts also observe that at least to some extent the bonuses reflected a tightening of the overall labor market and were “attributed to the tax cut as a public relations move.” Corporate shareholders, however, have made out great. The repatriated earnings mostly have been used for “a record-breaking amount of stock buybacks, with $1 trillion announced by the end of 2018.” As the CRS notes tactlessly, the same phenomenon occurred in 2004, when a one-time tax holiday allowed companies to bring back earnings stashed abroad at a lower rate. That tax holiday had been promoted as a spur to investment and wage growth too. Never happened. Indeed, government statistics show that shareholder dividends fairly exploded in the first quarter of 2018, immediately following the tax cut enactment, while reinvestments of those repatriated funds cratered. (Both figures returned to levels close to their historical averages soon afterward.) The bottom line, then, is becoming clearer with every quarter. The tax cuts did almost nothing for ordinary Americans and may even have cost them money. The apparent gains in their income were negligible and short-lived. Wealthy Americans reaped the benefits of lower taxes and higher dividends. The cuts had a negligible effect on U.S. economic growth while depriving the government of revenue. Put it all together and this massive restructuring of the U.S. tax system should prompt average Americans to ask Republicans in Congress and the White House that age-old question: Who are you really working for? It wasn’t meant to do the economy ‘Good’ it’s meant to further the Plutocracy they want. You know, the plutocracy where the ‘good ole boys’ are in charge.
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Post by hop2 on Jun 4, 2019 2:28:34 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 4, 2019 3:19:15 GMT
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Post by gar on Jun 4, 2019 7:28:58 GMT
I didn't see that about D of C gar was that this evening at the banquet?# It was as they were going in I believe - a sort of conspiratorial wink
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 8:01:01 GMT
I didn't see that about D of C gar was that this evening at the banquet?# It was as they were going in I believe - a sort of conspiratorial wink I missed that.
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Post by gar on Jun 4, 2019 8:12:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 8:45:37 GMT
Feels like we need a People magazine-style "Who wore it better?" More of who wore it right I would say. It looks as if he's borrowed the waistcoat from one and the jacket from someone else.....both of different height. The waistcoat shouldn't be below the jacket.Trump has an awful tailor. His clothes never fit him properly.
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Post by gillyp on Jun 4, 2019 9:49:20 GMT
Someone needs to tell Trump that he doesn’t need to have a permanent grimace on his face even if the occasion is formal. The difference between him and Obama is night and day.
I never thought I’d defend Ivanka and husband but in that photo of them at the window I think they were watching Trump inspecting the guard and as minor players in all this, they would not have been part of the official party. We have photos on other occasions of members of the Royal family standing at windows, watching ceremonial occasions.
I’m finding the coverage of all this fascinating although I am staggered at the support Trump has from some Brits. One woman was saying he is the best leader the world has ever had!!!
I hope The Queen gets to giggle at Camilla’s wink!
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jun 4, 2019 9:51:18 GMT
Being bigly best.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jun 4, 2019 9:55:32 GMT
And Steve Mnuchin is there. I’ll bet his wife is too.
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Post by gar on Jun 4, 2019 10:21:45 GMT
I’m finding the coverage of all this fascinating although I am staggered at the support Trump has from some Brits. One woman was saying he is the best leader the world has ever had!!! I did see that and I felt sure she was going to end it with “Just kidding 😉 “
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Post by gillyp on Jun 4, 2019 10:39:27 GMT
I’m finding the coverage of all this fascinating although I am staggered at the support Trump has from some Brits. One woman was saying he is the best leader the world has ever had!!! I did see that and I felt sure she was going to end it with “Just kidding 😉 “ How I wish!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 12:09:31 GMT
Did you see the American tourist ( from New York) that told the BBC reporter to wash his mouth out with soap when he asked her if she was there ( outside Buckingham Palace) to support President Trump.😂
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