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  1. So people in California aren't counted as American citizens? Is that what you are saying? That's literally what everyone says about the fraction of the US's GDP, population, and industrial growth that comes from the fly-over country of the Mid West. It's ironic that your east coast progressive arrogance is showing through. X + 3 Million > X. Sorry, you can't argue against basic math. Blah Blah. Is there anything in these two paragraphs that presents evidence of Trump's competence or an admission of Trump's incompetence? I claim you have position X because you've been defending position X. And position X is Trump is competent. Where the !@#$ ur evidence? I don't know. I don't see it in the two giant paragraphs above that says absolutely nothing. So I assume you think Trump is incompetent, otherwise you wouldn't be defending position X.
  2. Translation: X + 3 million > X. Hillary would have been a better president in the mind of the vast majority of Americans. So you admit Trump is not competent? Because that's what I thought you were defending. If you think Trump is a dumbshit who doesn't know what he's doing, I don't even know why we are having this conversation. You think me saying that Trump is incompetent and stupid is somehow related to me hating him, as if those two things are inherently mutually exclusive, and then not present anything that shows he's not an incompetent "!@#$ing moron." lol, sometimes I wonder if you know what you are even debating after a couple back-and-forths.
  3. To be entirely fair, VA hospitals are most often understaffed. The VA hospital that I am associated with has at least 50% of it's medical personnel borrowed from surrounding hospitals and clinics. I know for a fact that the VA (at least the one I'm familiar with and what everyone tells me about other VA hospitals) can't service all the vets, so they send them to private clinics to get treatment under the Veteran's Choice Program. The insurance claims under those private clinics are often complicated and unresponsive if those private clnics have any issues, so vets get billed and everyone gets pissed, throwing a wrench into the system. Honestly, the infrastructure for most VA hospitals are outdated as it is. The funding is nice, but can't really keep up with the demands of the facility, particularly with the insistence that VA affairs (and only VA affairs) takes care of ALL veterans, when it's quite obvious it sometimes cannot. Ironically enough, the democrat and republican positions on this issue is reversed: Democrats want increase funding for the VCP to have veterans start seeking care in the private sector, while republicans want to improve the state-sponsored position. It perhaps has something to do with the fact that the VCP was instituted under Obama. VCP runs through a 3rd party government contractor, which the Republicans do get right when they say 3rd party government contractors suck nuts. In all honesty, I think the future of the VA is really dependent upon both private sector care supplemented with VA primary care, though probably not dependent upon a 3rd party government contractor. By the way, if people are wondering the one thing Trump did right, it was putting 2 billion into the Veteran's Choice Program. It's pretty much the only piece of legislation he passed.
  4. Ok, so you are saying that polling data is useless, so we throw it all out. We are still back at counting votes here. lol. You don't have a case here. Oh please. Don't get all offended when you don't have anything to back yourself up anymore. After all that bark, I still don't see evidence of Trump's genius or basic competence and plenty to the contrary! Do you even have anything to justify Trump's position? Assuming we share the same reality and acknowledge facts, you don't. Even Republicans think he's just a child who needs adult supervision in the White House. It looks like you've just given up and, similar to Trump himself, are back to using the one time you got something right to nullify the fact that you've been wrong all other times. Again, I'm not saying you are stupid (though I am saying you are wrong). I know for a fact you are ahead of the curve compared to Lightning. I'm just saying that people who have to shout into the void about how intelligent or smart they are often tend to be very insecure about their intelligence or whatever they are shouting about.
  5. No.......................... Votes are not polls. They are votes. Are you really struggling with that concept? You honestly don't know the difference between projection statistics and actual voting numbers? It's a miracle you've gotten so far in life. "I'm not referencing Republicans! Look at me! I don't know what the !@#$ I'm talking about!" Only stupid people feel need to declare to everyone that they are smart. Smart people need only to demonstrate by evidence and argument. I think it's quite obvious which category you fall into, considering you haven't presented a case here. How does it feel to be a loser and wrong, Roz?
  6. LOL! So you criticize polling being inaccurate, and then immediately pull polling out of your ass to run against verified voter numbers? Do you realize how hypocritical that makes you look? WTF?! When did Republicans ever call Bush a "!@#$ing moron?" You don't have a single clue what you are talking about. Even if Bush was at one point called by his own Secretary of State a "!@#$ing moron," what does that say about Trump, when even Bush passed legislation? I didn't even mention Bush in the response above. Like, seriously, what the !@#$? And the three kingdoms shit, you are trying so hard to dodge the question! Sad. You don't even have any evidence to prove that Trump isn't a !@#$ing moron and can be competent at his job, and spent the last couple of posts talking out your ass. Perhaps over on your island across the sea, you and your enhanced perspective using your famed autocolonoscope must give you insight into how Trump is just so popular right now and only democrats think he's a !@#$ing idiot.
  7. And that's entirely irrelevant. Why do you keep talking about irrelevant things? Silly you, those aren't polls, those are voting figures. Polls are estimates. It's a fact that Clinton had 3 million extra votes than Trump. Unless you think there are 3 million illegal votes. Do tell. And why is that? Is it because he insulted McCain and gold star families? Is it because he sexually harassed women? Is it because he's a dumbshit idiot who keeps tweeting nonsense? That's called being an incompetent leader. Democrats don't like him because they don't agree with his policy and he's an idiot. Republicans don't like him because he's just a "!@#$ing moron." lol, goes to show how little you actually know about Republican politics. Tax reform is complicated, and the spectrum of nativism, traditional conservatism, moderates, and tea partists aren't going to help form a coalition without strong leadership. And let's face it, McConnell can barely pass his own stool, much less healthcare or tax reform. Paul Ryan has a spine of a jelly donut. So it's up to Trump. After all, if Republicans who control a majority in both congressional houses can't get their Republican code for tax cuts done because Trump pisses off a couple of his own senators through being an incompetent dipshit, what does that say about your undying faith in said incompetent dipshit?
  8. No, it's not relevant as an example. And it's a red herring. I'm sorry, I seem to recall that in a democracy the person who gets the most votes is the most favored to do a "great job." Trump may have won the presidency through a 18th century loophole in the constitution, but that doesn't mean the majority of the people thought he would do a "great job." Excuses, how pitiful. You do realize that Trump doesn't have to work with the democrats that despise him right? He does have a majority in the house, senate, supreme court, and white house. I seem to recall that Obamacare repeal failed at least 8 times when 3 Republican senators defected. If Trump was cognizant enough to realize what happened, he would be kicking himself for insulting half of the Republican senators. Also, this is coming from the guy who only 6 months ago was convinced that not only was a 30-foot 3000 mile border wall going to be built, but the Mexican government was going to pay for it despite NOT having a Republican majority in the Mexican government. I know how much this must hurt, considering that you worshiped him as an idol who would change the world, only to find out that he was an egotistical "!@#$ing moron" (not quoting the words of a democrat here) who couldn't pass a single bill through one of the most favorable political circumstances in US congressional/judicial history. Liberal hate or not, it's hard to argue the facts: Trump, despite controlling all branches of government, is simply too stupid and incompetent to get things done. Healthcare was suppose to be easy, you think he's going to get tax reform done? That's a rhetorical question, if you actually believe that you are as delusional and moronic (again, not the words of a democrat here) as Trump.
  9. I missed you for the last couple of days, presumably because you can't defend Trump's competence. So I decided to set out some bait for you. Welcome back.
  10. Okay. Well, I'm trying to give Trump a chance. Competence is obviously beyond him, I thought maybe class might not be. But you do make a good point. Referencing the three kingdoms doesn't make Trump more competent, it just shows that you have a pet red herring you like to show off all the time. You do realize that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. By like, 3 million people. Alternative facts here, buddy. Even Bill, the man you so despise, had his lowest approval rating above 40. Hell, he even left his office with 73%, and that's after he got a blowy from a Jewish girl and was about to get his ass impeached. Trump is objectively worse, even by your own standards. The fact that you think there are metrics here is cute. Hahahaha, Trump's own political party controls all three branches of government and can barely get a conservative judge nominated to the Supreme Court. Obama, the president you think is just so incompetent and stupid, only had 2 of the three branches and managed to restructure 1/5th of the American economy. Also, you seem to be flip-flopping here. I thought Trump was the master deal maker who was going to break partisan politics that stalemated the later half of the Obama administration. Are you withdrawing your support and admitting you were blindly following a man who, to the majority of everyone else, is obviously an idiot?
  11. Wow!!! There aren't any spelling errors in your meme!! Come on, you didn't actually make that meme, did you? Stop pretending like you are smarter than you actually are. I'm on to you Lightning.
  12. lol. It's ironic. It's like having a Secretary of Education who doesn't believe in public education. Or putting a neurosurgeon in charge of housing and urban development and a corrupt insurance stock trader in the department of health and human services. 2017 is turning out to be a very upside-down year.
  13. You're right. "Class" isn't necessary to be a good leader. But it's something helpful when you are the most powerful person in human history and representing the most powerful country in human history. This statement also implies that Trump, despite his crudeness and simplicity, is a good leader. Is that what you are trying to say? Because you do realize this guy is probably the most ineffective and corrupt president in recent history. Is class necessary to be the most powerful person in the world? Maybe you think it isn't. But it would sure help offset crippling incompetence.
  14. That's what I thought. And seeing as how you don't care if a world leader has any dignity when representing his country, I can see why you struggle with the concept of presidential.
  15. American leadership on the global stage has been around since the age of nuclear power, and it is American foreign policy to lead fellow democracies towards a more stable and prosperous world. I imagine it's a difficult concept for you to grasp, since Britain has never been a world leader interested in the preservation of peace and prosperity for fellow democracies, and probably has no idea what the !@#$ international leadership is considering that Britain has been America's lapdog since at least 1985. To clarify (see as how that is now necessary for you to keep up), WE (as in, Americans) didn't take NK seriously, because their missile technology is the rocket technology equivalent of a rubberband slingshot. Everyone else within rubberband slingshot range are collectively clenching their external anal sphincters every time NK does missile testing. My issue with Trump is not that he's telling NK to know their place (he's not really doing that), but that he doesn't know what the !@#$ he's talking about when he does it, and does it in a way that makes it obvious to everyone else in the world that he doesn't know what the !@#$ he's talking about. My first statement applies: you mentioning Clinton/Bush/Reagan as modern day examples of presidential behavior and equating that to Trump proves in itself that you have no conceptual understanding of what class is. The only way Clinton/Bush/Reagan were anywhere near the same as Trump would be if they raped slaves. And considering your knowledge and information on geopolitics, it made sense that you thought Clinton and Bush raped slaves. So go on, tell me Trump is a classy !@#$ing president. Tell me he's not marginally worse than slave-owning rapists.
  16. Oh shit! She's talking about me. Ouch.
  17. The fact that you think NK being a threat to global economic stability and NK not being able to nuke American cities is all somehow mutually exclusive goes to show that you don't know a god damn thing about what's happening in East Asia. You don't have to say something so stupid, your question of "Is NK a threat or not? Choose one!" demonstrates you have no idea what you are talking about. Let me help YOU out: I told you that if you thought Clinton/Bush/w/e was the same as Trump, you don't have a conceptual understanding of class. Then you asked if raping slaves was classy and presidential. I told you that if you had to go back to the late 19th century to find something that even comes close to what Trump is doing, then we obviously have a problem. So why don't you repeat back to me: "I'm sorry Caecus, I don't know what the #$%& I'm talking about half the time, and I don't understand what class is."
  18. It's not shameful to admit ignorance. It is rather shameful to keep pretending like you know what you are talking about when you obviously don't. lol. I can't say that position is considered progressive from where I come from. Then again, with free healthcare, gun control, and equal pay, I suppose you guys don't have anything else to work on in your society. Might I suggest your economy in the next two years? I love how you use quotations around the word "experts." Just by that, you dismiss an entire society of individuals who have devoted their lives to better understanding the topic you have no idea about. And then saying you don't care. That is a combination of arrogance and ignorance that is only matched by president! You should be proud of yourself. Ah yes. Because JFK, Clinton, and Bush raped slaves. And Hitler's great fleet was bombed at Pearl Harbor in 2015. Right. The fact that you think JFK, Clinton, and even Bush are comparable to Trump is the reason why I think you don't have a god damn idea what class is. So yeah, I ignored your tribble, because it would be the equivalent of explaining the concept of gravity to a newborn baby without object permanence.
  19. This is the statement that I referred to as ignorant. The fact that you can't wrap your head around NK being no threat to the US and NK having the ability to tank the global economy if war erupts shows that you have absolutely no understanding of the situation in East Asia. Well, it's more like "hahaha, look at your country doing Brexit, and you (in your infinite wisdom and clear understanding of multinational trade agreements) think it's a good thing." Are you? I don't recall you ever talking about that except when challenged on it. Ok. So you are a diseased-minded progressive. I apologize for confusing you with a simple, uninformed conservative. Well, yeah. More or less. When people who are experts in their field who study a certain aspect of policy for their work and life tell you that Brexit is a really bad idea, it is stupid to not only say they are wrong despite not having their expertise, but to have no evidence or sound reasoning to back it up. You know what that's called? Arrogance. So you admit Trump doesn't have class. And your best example of a comparison for on-par presidential behavior dates back to the late 18th century. Do you see the problem here? You do read the news, right? Specifically, the part where Donald Trump Jr. reached out to the Russians to coordinate on the election? And the part where Trump tried to hide it by fabricating his son's statement? Not to mention the fact that Mueller is now rolling down on pretty much half of Trump's campaign chiefs and advisers. But yeah, it's conspiracies. Like the moon landing. This is literally the reason why I think you are uninformed, and the fact that you are insistent on staying uninformed goes to show your arrogance in believing you know things when you don't.
  20. And I frankly don't particularly care what level of threat you believe NK to be. Your assessment is largely irrelevant given your ignorance of the topic. Again, the fact that you didn't understand my statement goes to show that you really didn't know what I was talking about. If you truly knew anything about the crisis, you wouldn't have made such an ignorant statement to begin with; unless you like the sound of smoke blowing up someone's ass? Trump is Satan if Satan was stupid and had an ego disproportionate to the size of his hands. Stupidity isn't evil, it's just stupidity. Unless we believe stupidity to be a crime. Sure, it's a vice, but I presume the stupid don't have the free will to stop being stupid. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Also, please. We all know you were a proponent of Brexit, so when I say Brexit is an irresponsible stupid mistake, by extension, your support of Brexit is an irresponsible stupid mistake. Trump may be my president, but I didn't vote for him nor do I support him. I can tease you for Brexit because you actually believe that was a good thing for your country. lol. No, from all of the positions you have taken, I'm quite confident you are a conservative. Presuming you know what social/economic positions conservatives take. And that everything you have posted here isn't full of shit. Oh wait. Are you a diseased-minded progressive? This would be an interesting way to cry for help if that is the case. No, I just didn't bother to answer because you obviously have no idea what class is, otherwise you wouldn't have made such a silly comparison.You don't even have a basic understanding of what you are asking about, how do I even reply to such a thing? Well, correct me if I'm wrong, it seems that those on the "Bernie train" are generally better informed than the Trump rabble that blabber on about how great their Dear Leader is, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Not to say that Bernie bros aren't irrational idealists who, by their strict adherence to the logical extremes, shoot themselves in the foot and elected a dangerous idiot to the presidency. I'm just saying that they are marginally better informed than the people who stick their head in the sand. Besides, I was just commenting on how ironic it is that "conservatives" tell other people what the world is really like with their head underneath all that sand.
  21. The fact that you are confused with my responses goes to show how little you truly understand the crisis in East Asia: The South Korean economy is 1.86% of the world's total GDP. South Korea is strategically located between the two other largest east Asian economies and not only facilitates trade worldwide, but has extremely close trade ties with US and her allies. The South Korean capital is Seoul, which alone commands 1.34% of the world's total GDP. To give you a comparison, London is only 0.87% of the world's total GDP. Seoul is located only 35 miles away from the North Korean border. On the other side of the border, there are hidden gun emplacements across the entire zone, all of them zeroed in on Seoul. A !@#$ing kid with a t-shirt cannon could launch something from the border and hit Seoul. North Korea is not a direct threat to the US. As much as people claim on TV, their ICBM technology is still in the 1940's. German V-2 rockets from the Second World War would have better accuracy and range than their sad 5th-grade science project. However, they do possess 1920's artillery, which is more than enough to level Seoul, again, a significantly larger economy than your sad capital of a city. Presumably, one of their crude nuclear warheads could be fitted into it and launched into the city. So, yes, North Korea can single-handedly screw with the world economy. That's excluding the fact that China and Japan could be involved in this as well. If a nuke goes off, the fallout alone will !@#$ with Beijing and the entire eastern seaboard (which collectively is worth at least 3 of your pathetic island), and, depending on the winds and the season, causes a major health crisis in Japan and other countries. Best case scenario, only a small NK "hydrogen bomb" goes off and all the fallout blows north towards Siberia. So, to conclude, a conventional conflict in East Asia will have a high probability of escalating to nuclear war. That nuclear war would tank the world economy and return us back to the dark ages. A conventional conflict alone would really put a wrench in a recovering world economy, and, mind you, really !@#$ with your own. Keep in mind that you guys just screwed yourselves through Brexit, so your only trading partner left after a regional conflict in East Asia is either us or UAE, a country you presumably haven't heard of until now. You're welcome for the free lesson on geopolitics and global economics. As much as you call "progressiveness" a diseases of the mind, I can't seem to help notice that those self-identified conservatives tend to be the most uninformed about pretty much everything. If knowledge is a disease, I assume you are a very healthy individual. Congratulations.
  22. If schools were ONLY about academic education and not building social skills or character, nobody would go to public schools, it would be a waste of taxpayer's money. You make it sound like all post-teen boys want only to !@#$ girls, and if you put in that sweet delicious meat in front of them, they can't focus on their education. But why stop there? Why have co-ed dorm rooms, or work with people of the opposite sex in the workplace, or have laws that let women show off more than those ankles? The logical extreme of "boys can't focus if there are girls around" (or vice versa, assuming that this isn't just a one-way sexist street) is that there should be a complete separation of genders at all levels of society, otherwise productivity would plummet. After recently seeing the Wolf on Wall Street, I may be starting to believe the logical extreme myself. Sex and productivity rarely go hand-in-hand. I can't exactly remember the last time anyone has ever told me "After 'studying' with my boyfriend for 4 hours, I totally have a better understanding of the course material!" I seem to recall all of them walking bow-legged for a while. Ah, yes. I'm aware, I just don't understand why people care. I suppose this is where my apathy for social policy is showing through. I mean, perhaps if you had kids in the programs, but even then, it's a free market and free world. I'm pretty sure that the Boy/Girl Scouts aren't the only summer youth program. Also, to be fair, that quote is from the Girl Scout's blog where they were trying to self-fellate themselves in order for people to join. I'd take it with a grain of salt when the source that claims they know what's best for your kid and how to develop those much-desired leadership skills is the same organization that wants your kid to join their ranks for that sweet, sweet mulah.
  23. lol, the difference is, when North Korea threatens to burn American cities, everyone knows its a !@#$ing joke because they literally can't. They have a 1940s bomb with a rubberband slingshot equivalent for a delivery system. The fact that North Korea made a missile that flew over Japan is impressive, given the high uncertainty in ICBM tech in terms of accuracy and delivery. On the other hand, when America throws the finger up in the air and says they will rain fire, the everybody knows there are 17 Ohio-class nuclear submarines prowling at unknown locations across the world, each armed with enough atomic warheads to turn the earth into a game of Fallout. As for the "hearsay," I've heard Trump say infinitely more stupid shit, so I'm reasonably confident it's a possibility he said that. Of course, we should probably measure his IQ before judging him to be stupid. I know who he would want to do his dick measuring against. Again, not that you would know anything about class and dignity of the presidency, but when you are the most powerful person in the world (to the point where the shit that comes out of your mouth affects the economy), it's classless to sound like a 5th grade schoolyard bully trying to take someone's lunch while speaking in front of the largest multi-national organization in human history about a geopolitical crisis that could turn into a nuclear holocaust.
  24. Just off the top of my head, the part where he threatened to annihilate North Korea in front of the UN with an American nuclear arsenal that he wishes were at least 10 times larger knowing full well that any military confrontation would level the South Korean capital and tank the East Asian economy (and thus the world economy) for generations, all while name-calling the leader of North Korea "Little Rocket Man." Yeah, Pence is a piece of shit, Bush is a piece of shit, but at least they aren't !@#$ing insane. Only Trump, in his infinite wisdom, would have members of his own !@#$ing party say he's capable of accidentally starting World War III.
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