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Jester Debunker

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12/08/16 at 9:46 AM CST

 

 

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By Jam ok

 

Re: OT - Obviously I don't 'get it'

Only the "good" stuff is bought: that Trump isn't as bad as feared, and that his anti-GOP spending plans will all go ahead, possibly leading to more QE to pay for it. The "bad" stuff is ignored: that he's in way over his head as shown most recently with the Taiwan debacle, that his cabinet isn crony capitalism and conspiracy theorists, and inexperienced for the job, etc.

It's good to be king, right? Did you hear that all those billionaires in his cabinet get to sell their assets tax free, to ensure they are conflict-free for the job. How convenient! At some point in the future they would have paid taxes on that, either when sold or via estate tax, and now it's all tax free for them. Don't get me started on Trump's conflicts of interest being blatantly shown with multiple countries recently, including Ivanka jumping in on a call between the Argentine leader and Trump, and guess what, the Trump resort in Beunos Aires is suddenly no longer mired in red tape!

That was some deal for Carrier. Before, there were 1K jobs and no tax credits. After, there are 1K jobs with $7M tax credits, which will pay for nearly half the $16M they plan to spend to increase automation to reduce jobs later. Brilliant! When Sarah Palin is talking sense against something, you know it's bad.

2.65M votes ahead and still loses. I don't get it. I've seen this electoral college explained and it still makes no sense. Something about giving more weight to lower population areas? But isn't that the same as giving less weight to votes in denser population areas? Aren't all votes supposed to be equal? And on a State level, someone in rural NY or CA or IL sees their vote ignored by those "big city folk" dictacting where all of the State's electoral votes go, which is the same thing they want to avoid on the national level. Also those electoral votes can be sent wherever by some "faithless elector", whoever the hell that is, just deciding to do what he wants. Bizarre.

Idiocracy in action.

 

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