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I doubt A President DJT or his administration would engage in lawfare. I suspect there will be other targets he will be busy dealing with. But I would bet a large amount of money that the Democrats will escalate their lawfare to try to obstruct a DJT presidency, even more so than in his first administration.
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Daily update on Biden tanking america
Pooky replied to Nature Boy 2.0's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
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I never took Mark Cuban as a fool before his latest pronouncements. Sleepy Joe is indeed a traditional politician. On the world stage and in domestic politics, that makes him predictable, which keeps the political class and world leaders comfortable that things will continue along a path that can be relied upon. DJT is not a traditional politician. He is a disruptor, working in a transactional world. That takes away the predictability and prevents an adversary preempting his moves. In the current, finance and trade-heavy world market, the transactional has the advantage over the traditional. For all the bleating over oil sanctions against Russia, their income is still booming. When DJT sank oil prices below $0 a barrel, Vlad the Imputint was terrified as their major source of revenue evaporated. Everyone bleated about the compensatory measures needed to mitigate the trade tariffs imposed against China. No-one noticed the imbalance in the return tariffs from the Chinese, who understood they were going to take a kicking. No-one mentioned the repatriation of manufacturing by other nations (I was in Japan at the time and it was big news there) out of China, knocking their domestic growth down by between 2 and 3% even as the measures were ramping up. Cuban, as a businessman, should be in a prime position to note things like this. It lessens my opinion of him that he doesn’t.
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Happiest States in America (2024)
Pooky replied to TBoneTX's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
Doesn’t skipping take longer than driving? 🤔 -
All of them did. In a unanimous opinion, SCOTUS agreed that Democrats and Never-Trumpers, in their bid to preserve Democracy and prevent the presumed wannabe Dictator from even getting on the primary ballot, were, in fact, acting in a pseudo-dictatorial manner themselves and attempting to destroy Democracy. ☠️ Oh, the irony.
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Happiest States in America (2024)
Pooky replied to TBoneTX's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
Because on the Western side, there are no roads, spaces for roads, or even things like trails and whatnot. There are trees. And undergrowth. And Meese. And Bears. Maine is also the only state in the U.S. with a land border ton only one other U.S. state - New Hampshire. -
Happiest States in America (2024)
Pooky replied to TBoneTX's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
If I had to choose an actual State, it would have to be Maine. Lived there for a while, the people are great, the pace of life suits me (after a stint working in Manhattan), the food is good, you can go swimming in the Atlantic last week in August and first week in September and not get frostbite and it’s still mainly too cold for Great White Sharks. The only downside is that I never found where they hid the Red October. 🤔 -
Happiest States in America (2024)
Pooky replied to TBoneTX's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
Happiest state in the U.S.? Inebriation Closely followed by … Obliviousness -
And yet the last poll I saw had her beating Joe Biden by 16 percentage points!! in a comparative matchup. Meanwhile DJT only held a 2 point advantage. There may come a day when the GOP asks itself whether it was wants to get at least some of what it wants, or risk getting nothing, even if Trump is reelected.
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Apples and chalk. General labourers can be unskilled, but they don’t earn anywhere near the money a skilled trade does and that’s where we have issues. Plumbers, electricians, carpenter, masons, Ironworkers, etc., all require specialist training. Apprenticeships and on-the job training provide the skills without the debt and set you up with a career and good money for life. That’s where this country is short. But the mantra is to get a college degree, not to work in the field, in the trades, especially for females. Cheap labour cannot answer this shortfall, no matter how many illegal economic migrants we let pour through our open Southern Border.
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You have a fixation with Donald Trump that is wholly unhealthy and probably bad for your acne. My issue with universities is that they create an unrealistic expectation in their prospective students and the mantra that you must get a college education to get ahead is destroying the work ethic this country used to possess. We are some 650,000 skilled tradesmen short in the construction industry in this country. Rather than incurring a mountain of debt and struggling to find employment with a modern arts degree that is not worth the paper it’s printed on, a trades apprenticeship can leave you debt-free and earning well upward of $80K annually, with secure employment and good job prospects. Where is the encouragement to pursue a career in the skilled trades? The drive to get a college degree is about money for the colleges, money and indoctrination. The efforts to pay off college debt by this administration are a blatant attempt to buy votes, with taxpayer money. it’s just one big scam right now. Education has got nothing to do with it.