Donald Trump, the road that might not lead to the White House!

[Johnny Canuck3]

Interesting article on health care in the US.

Op-Ed: This is Trump's 'secret weapon' in the Obamacare wars

 

[weltweit]

ah yes, the art of the deal

Has anyone on here read that?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Interesting to hear from someone who reads the papers there every day. I seem to recall that the deficit grew during the Bush Administration; and of course it was the Bush govt that presided over the conditions that resulted in the 2008 crash.

It has happened with such regularity and predictability that I can't credit it to anything other than a deliberate plan:

Us Deficit By President

 

[J Ed]

Has anyone on here read that?

No but the author's words on Trump are interesting.

Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

 

[The39thStep]

This won't be popular but it makes a very challenging point which has echoes in why the left fails here as well
Blame the identity apostles – they led us down this path to populism | Simon Jenkins

 

[CRI]

Donald Trump is assembling the richest administration in modern American history

But, y'know, he's not the establishment, so it's okay.

 

[CRI]

Trump’s Top HHS Pick Thinks ‘There’s Not One’ Woman Who Can’t Afford Contraception

If he were to become secretary of health and human services, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) could lead the charge in rolling back the ACA’s birth control benefit, which requires employer-sponsored health insurance plans to cover contraception as preventive care at no cost to the consumer.

So expect to see more of this:

Tennessee Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Charges in Self-Induced Abortion Case

A Tennessee woman accused of using a coat hanger to try to terminate her pregnancy entered a plea of not guilty on Monday to felony charges filed November 12. Anna Yocca was charged in December 2015 with attempted first-degree murder. That charge was reduced in March to aggravated assault.

 

[weltweit]

No but the author's words on Trump are interesting.

Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

Yes, a very interesting read, ta!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Tennessee Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Charges in Self-Induced Abortion Case

A Tennessee woman accused of using a coat hanger to try to terminate her pregnancy entered a plea of not guilty on Monday to felony charges filed November 12. Anna Yocca was charged in December 2015 with attempted first-degree murder. That charge was reduced in March to aggravated assault.

In other news, the closing of Planned Parenthoods in Texas has led to a doubling of the maternal mortality rate.

Maternal deaths down globally, up in US, double in Texas - CNN.com

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The deal has widely been seen as a victory for Trump -- he mostly delivered on a campaign promise. But Sanders argues that Carrier and its parent company, United Technologies (UTX), are having the last laugh.


"In essence, United Technologies (parent of Carrier) took Trump hostage and won. And that should send a shock wave of fear through all workers across the country," Sanders said in an Op-Ed in The Washington Post on Thursday.

Sanders key point: If corporations want cushy tax cuts, all you have to do is threaten Trump and say "we're moving to Mexico."

"He has signaled to every corporation in America that they can threaten to offshore jobs in exchange for business-friendly tax benefits and incentives," Sanders wrote.

Bernie Sanders: Carrier took Trump 'hostage and won'

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

If Petraeus gets a job in Trump's cabinet, he'll have to notify his parole officer before he can move to Washington:

Retired Gen. David Petraeus, one of the remaining four candidates President-elect Trump is considering for secretary of state, would have to notify his probation officer of his new job if offered the position.

Petraeus, who also served as CIA director, was sentenced on April 23, 2015 to two years probation for giving his mistress, Paula Broadwell, classified information. Under the terms of his court-ordered punishment, he would have to alert his probation officer within three days of being offered the job.

"The defendant shall not leave the Western District of North Carolina without the permission of the Court or probation officer. Travel allowed for work as approved by U.S. probation office," according to the court order. "The defendant shall notify the probation officer within 72 hours of any change in residence or employment."

Petraeus would have to notify probation officer if offered State job

 

[CrabbedOne]

Donald Trump is assembling the richest administration in modern American history

But, y'know, he's not the establishment, so it's okay.

Very rich man hires other rich men in favours rich man shock. But this will in no way provide advantage to rich men as a demographic as zero sum games only exist with Mexicans etc. In Trump we trust.

 

[Yossarian]

Bernie Sanders: Carrier took Trump 'hostage and won'

Trump the mighty dealmaker probably shouldn't have opened negotiations by declaring at a rally in Indianapolis that he is giving a 100% guarantee that the plant will stay open.

 

[CRI]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Trump the mighty dealmaker probably shouldn't have opened negotiations by declaring at a rally in Indianapolis that he is giving a 100% guarantee that the plant will stay open.

Trump's about to learn a lesson about being President. He does something that he thinks is a success - then he catches flack about it from people on both ends of the political spectrum.

 

[CrabbedOne]

I don't know about the nepotism thing. You look at the out group hires like Flynn, Sessions and Bannon. Ivanka may be one of the few almost sane people around The Donald.

 

[Yossarian]

Trump's about to learn a lesson about being President. He does something that he thinks is a success - then he catches flack about it from people on both ends of the political spectrum.

Yep, the Carrier deal did at first sound like a victory and a vindication for Trump, but it's seeming a little less like one as the details and the ramifications emerge.

I guess this kind of behavior was how Trump managed to build a reputation as a business genius while losing billions of dollars of other people's money.

 

[J Ed]

I don't know about the nepotism thing. You look at the out group hires like Flynn, Sessions and Bannon. Ivanka may be one of the few almost sane people around The Donald.

Based on?

 

[bluescreen]

Based on?

you weren't asking me, but at a wild guess I'd say look at his other picks.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I don't know about the nepotism thing. You look at the out group hires like Flynn, Sessions and Bannon. Ivanka may be one of the few almost sane people around The Donald.

If she has more years of therapy than she's been alive.

 

[SpookyFrank]

This won't be popular but it makes a very challenging point which has echoes in why the left fails here as well
Blame the identity apostles – they led us down this path to populism | Simon Jenkins

For those too busy to read that, I'll summarise:

White men are the real victims here.

 

[Yossarian]

Holy crap, Trump and Pence are doing a "Thank You USA Tour" - if anybody in the future has invented time-traveling killer robots, now could be a good time to send them in...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Jesus is that Pence trying to look happy? Man look's like he's trying to pass a pine cone.

 

[Yossarian]

"Never mind bringing back waterboarding, I'll gouge their eyes out with my own thumbs."

 

[CrabbedOne]

On Informed Comment Pakistanis Baffled, Buoyant over Trump’s Fantastical Praise

More on Trump's tendency to gush praise on countries he's been very, very rude about. It a British politician did this they'd be assumed to be taking the piss.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

On Informed Comment Pakistanis Baffled, Buoyant over Trump’s Fantastical Praise

More on Trump's tendency to gush praise on countries he's been very, very rude about. It a British politician did this they'd be assumed to be taking the piss.

Does Trump ever meet anybody or any group who he's trying to get something out of and not that they're "some of the greatest people he's ever met" etc?

 

[belboid]

Does Trump ever meet anybody or any group who he's trying to get something out of and not that they're "some of the greatest people he's ever met" etc?

Women?

 

[Miss Caphat]

I read in some of the articles that Pakistan's broadcasting of the conversation may likely signal a disrespect for Trump, i.e. they're sort of mocking him.
Generally these phone calls are kept short, to the point, and the reporting afterwards is generally deliberately vague and neutrally positive.

Actual transcripts are not usually made public. The fact that Pakistan broke these rules of diplomacy may be somewhat worrying (and a sign of what's to come? more leaders openly disrespecting Trump?)

 

[hot air baboon]

Jesus is that Pence trying to look happy? Man look's like he's trying to pass a pine cone.

...whilst firing an invisible Browning .50 calibre machine gun...

 

[CrabbedOne]

Does Trump ever meet anybody or any group who he's trying to get something out of and not that they're "some of the greatest people he's ever met" etc?

I do suspect his first thought is: "How do I fuck this bunch of losers over?"