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Introvert
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biology]major
United States2253 Posts
On July 28 2016 10:49 Introvert wrote: How many times will Obama use "that's not who we are" tonight? I'm gonna go high single digits. How about Radical Islam? I'm gonna go with 0. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On July 28 2016 10:53 biology]major wrote: How about Radical Islam? I'm gonna go with 0. I bet there'll be more than 0 bombs dropped on radical islamists. | ||
CosmicSpiral
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xDaunt
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biology]major
United States2253 Posts
On July 28 2016 10:54 Doodsmack wrote: I bet there'll be more than 0 bombs dropped on radical islamists. I'd hope so, we can agree on that much | ||
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Introvert
United States5083 Posts
Donald Trump has made restoring American jobs a centerpiece of his campaign, a pledge he reiterated last week when he accepted the Republican nomination for president: “I’m going to bring our jobs back to Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York and Michigan and all of America,” he said. This month, Trump is bringing jobs to Florida, as he looks to hire 78 servers, housekeepers, and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and the nearby Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter. But instead of making sure those jobs go to Americans, he is seeking to import foreign workers for the positions, which pay $10.17 an hour for housekeepers, $11.13 an hour for servers, and $12.74 for cooks. He filed applications this month claiming he couldn’t find enough Americans to do that work, and is seeking temporary visas to bring in 65 workers at Mar-a-Lago along with another seven waiters and six cooks at the golf club. Source | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On July 28 2016 10:47 On_Slaught wrote: I def have liked the last 3 speeches. Key is that they are people that Trump will have trouble attacking personally. Man, I wish Biden was running. He would run over Trump I feel. Expect Obama to wreck face later tonight. biden has certain weaknesses (notably being creepy and saying dumb shit) but trump has them x100 | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
Obviously only people with billions in the bank need to pinch pennies on their cooks and servers. | ||
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oBlade
United States6678 Posts
Warren Buffett believes the wealthy's share of taxes should be higher. Warren Buffett doesn't voluntarily donate his fortune to the IRS to keep the government running for a few days. We can't conclude from that that tax reform is a bad idea. | ||
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farvacola
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Dan HH
Romania9256 Posts
On July 28 2016 11:13 farvacola wrote: Donald Trump is not Warren Buffett? He was making an analogy, playing by the current rules doesn't mean that wanting reform is hypocritical. | ||
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CosmicSpiral
United States15275 Posts
On July 28 2016 11:13 farvacola wrote: Donald Trump is not Warren Buffett? ...show me the birth certificates. | ||
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xDaunt
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Introvert
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On July 28 2016 11:12 oBlade wrote: Warren Buffett believes the wealthy's share of taxes should be higher. Warren Buffett doesn't voluntarily donate his fortune to the IRS to keep the government running for a few days. We can't conclude from that that tax reform is a bad idea. The difference is, this undercuts his argument. Or at the very least it makes him look bad. And he's running for President, optics matter. Edit: I don't blame people for using the laws that are available, but this example isn't merely a "oh, well I want the law changed." | ||
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oBlade
United States6678 Posts
On July 28 2016 11:13 farvacola wrote: Donald Trump is not Warren Buffett? If Warren Buffett ran for the presidency on a platform of tax reform, it wouldn't make sense to vote for the other person, who was advocating the opposite of what you wanted, based on the fact that Warren Buffett didn't personally volunteer his fortune to the IRS. | ||
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IgnE
United States7684 Posts
On July 28 2016 07:16 CosmicSpiral wrote: Bernie made it pretty clear that separation of powers isn't taken seriously as a concept these days. The fact that he outright stated it and people cheered hurt my soul. Maybe it isn't taken seriously because it's a fantasy? What exactly do you think it is other than the founding myth of an apolitical, utopian America? It's an ideal that comes from a bunch of deist hyper-rationalists who, in elevating the divine law of Reason, confused their lawmaking with something like the divine violence of Benjamin. You can't take the politics out of the decisions, it doesn't matter who the judge is. | ||
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GGTeMpLaR
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Garrl
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