jshore:
From the citation: “Arthur B. Laffer, the ‘Father of Supply-Side Economics,’ is one of the most influential economists in American history.”
Well, who can argue with that? The influence of his ideas is responsible for the looting of the federal treasury to the tune of several trillion dollars. That’s trillion with a T…Yup, if that’s not influential, I don’t know what is.
He also helped Sam Brownback and the rest of the GOP fuck over Kansas.
Sherrerd:
And a Navy that denies fearing to piss off the idjit(s)—but there seems to be evidence to the contrary:
Navy acknowledges request was made to hide USS John S. McCain during Trump visit
So the tarp and the barge were just there obscuring the name by accident?
I don’t know what’s worse: a branch of the military quaking in their boots lest they trigger the C-in-C’s tantrum, or a branch of the military doing the quaking, and then misleading the public about the matter.
The sailors in port were invited to visit the ship that Individual 1 was speaking on, but the sailors from the McCain were not allowed on the ship because of their designations on their uniforms.
When several McCain sailors tried to attend the speech anyway, they were turned away, a service member told The New York Times. A Navy official told BI that they were likely sent away because they were not dressed in appropriate attire.
A Navy official explained to BI that they were likely sent away because they were not dressed in the proper attire, suggesting that the sailors were wearing command ball caps with the McCain’s insignia rather than the eight-point covers and Type IIIs required of participating commands.
Underline mine. Translation: We were forestalling a tantrum from the Toddler-in-chief.
Unless there are photos of other sailors wearing their ship ball caps, I would accept the Navy’s explanation for this. Even when the CIC is an ass, when he shows up and holds a formal event, I imagine everyone wears their good clothes.
Monty
June 3, 2019, 2:38am
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Folacin:
Unless there are photos of other sailors wearing their ship ball caps, I would accept the Navy’s explanation for this. Even when the CIC is an ass, when he shows up and holds a formal event, I imagine everyone wears their good clothes.
That’s not necessarily the case. There are plenty of photos of presidents among service members, and said service members are wearing working uniforms instead of dress uniforms.
Sometimes the President wears a working uniform too. Like a flight suit, for example.
Kobal2
June 3, 2019, 11:08am
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Oh fuck you for making me imagine Trump in W’s flight suit photo, crotch bulge and all. That is not OK.
asahi
June 3, 2019, 12:52pm
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It’s not that Trump has pissed me off today; it’s that I have a newfound appreciation for Saddiq Khan, who is un-apologetically standing up to a bully. I’m not pissed at Trump, just embarrassed that so many people could still support this fuckstick.
The President of the US wants to interfere in private business because they’re mean to him. What a snowflake.
Trump calls for a boycott of AT&T to force ‘big changes’ at CNN – ‘It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News!’
President Trump calls for a boycott of AT&T to force “big changes” at subsidiary CNN.
“I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to @ATT , they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN , which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News!” Trump tweets from the U.K., misspelling “stopped.”
Trump has frequently attacked CNN’s coverage of him, dating to his time as a presidential candidate. On the campaign trail in 2016, he vowed to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner, which included CNN among its most prominent assets.
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Indeed, the Trump Justice Department did challenge the blockbuster $85.4 billion deal. A federal judge had ruled last June that the merger was legal, but the DOJ appealed the next month, after the deal officially closed. Then, in February, a federal judge again ruled in AT&T’s favor and the Justice Department let the matter go.
However, House Democrats are looking into whether Trump told his one-time top economic advisor Gary Cohn to use the Justice Department to block the AT&T-Time Warner deal. The White House in April denied lawmakers’ request for documents that might show whether Trump sought to intervene in the acquisition.
The Justice Department’s antitrust head said in 2018 that he never received orders, instructions or directions regarding the AT&T-Time Warner deal from Trump, White House officials or other DOJ officials.
Well, I guess it’s OK then that the DOJ was never instructed. We all know that they would never misrepresent anything to the public.
Nothing quite like insulting a member of the Royal Family and the mayor of your host’s biggest city almost as you step off Air Force One: Diplomatic etiquette shattered by Trump on eve of UK state visit | CNN Politics
Nobody does it like Donnie! :rolleyes:
Cross-posted to the “Clusterfuck” thread…
I think this is for real, but honestly who the hell knows anymore? It seems the Buckingham Palace band a
played Emperor Palpatine’s theme when Trump appeared.
https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/...818415617?s=19
Defensive_Indifference:
Cross-posted to the “Clusterfuck” thread…
I think this is for real, but honestly who the hell knows anymore? It seems the Buckingham Palace band a
played Emperor Palpatine’s theme when Trump appeared.
https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/...818415617?s=19
Bad link, try this one .
Alas, apparently not true. First, the Brits have too much class, and also the replies downthread have the source of the audio.
It would’ve been *awesome *if they’d done that. I remember an Australian military band played “The Colonel Bogey March” (made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai ) when some Japanese dignitary visited in the Seventies. Big controversy at the time.
Folacin:
Bad link, try this one .
Alas, apparently not true. First, the Brits have too much class, and also the replies downthread have the source of the audio.
Ah, crap. Thanks for both corrections.
Kobal2
June 3, 2019, 8:05pm
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Could have been worse. They could have played only the first 5 notes, pause then repeat. Try it at home, it’s torture.
I, for one, am not surprised:
Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
The owners of a 70-story Panama City hotel tower formerly managed by President Donald Trump’s companies are accusing them of stiffing the Panamanian government.
In a legal filing Monday in an ongoing lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, private equity manager Orestes Fintiklis and the company he leads, Ithaca Capital Partners, claimed that two Trump companies failed to pay Panamanian taxes equal to 12.5% of the management fees they drew from the hotel.
The Trump entities were allegedly supposed to withhold those fees in advance and pay them to the government regardless of whether the property was profitable or not. Instead, the Trump companies simply kept the money, the suit claims, “thus intentionally evading taxes.”
JohnT
June 4, 2019, 4:00am
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Holy shit, I’m doing it in my head and I already hate myself.
Here’s a photo of Trump and Edinburgh with their respective spouses. (Trump looks a little grim; is that because Edinburgh has decorations on his jacket but Trump doesn’t?)
My query is about white tie dress . I thought of posting in GQ or IMHO, but will first see if I can get an answer here.
Disclaimer: I know approximately zero about White Tie beyond my assumption that it involves wearing a tie that’s white in color.
However, does Trump look like a silly goose in that costume? Did his tailor pay a trick on him? Was he too cheap to go to a tailor, and just borrowed shirt and jacket from two different aides? Aides who were very different in size?
I Googled for white tie images. A minority had a small amount of white shirt exposed at the bottom, but none like Trump. Is this a new fashion?
All I can see is the caption: “Mommy, jacket doesn’t fit! And I don’t like the book you gave me!”