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Your reasoning is absurd (as usual). ANY accomplishment by anyone is more or less attributable to the contributions of others.

Lol, what, he didn’t do it entirely himself??? What a fraud! Seriously, dude...

Did you see the example of the Affordable Care Act? Take a look at my last post again if you missed the addition.

You can google all of Obama’s accomplishments yourself. You can also google all of Trumps failures yourself. By the way, they say it’s easier to destr...

Positions of power make or enforce the law. Also, if people like Trump supporters accept lies as a sign of solidarity with their tribe, it’s unlikely ...

Same here, they can’t serve a full pint if the ABV is too high. The hoppiness, and I suppose alcohol content, give IPA a bite that makes other beers t...

You guys don’t like IPA? They have it on draft just about everywhere in S. California. Double or triple gets up to 10%.

Nice. Photoshop? What does the character mean?

Speaking of Obama and lies, yesterday at a G7 news conference, Trump said: Putin outsmarted Obama by annexing the Crimea and Obama was so butthurt by ...

You say “mostly,” and given your penchant for hyperbole, this claim is rather meaningless.

The anti-trumpists are doing everything in their power to cause environmental and economic collapse, nuclear fallout, concentration camps, etc.? You a...

So if Trump had worked to improve the Affordable Care Act rather than damage it, not waste billions on a border wall, cared about the environment and ...

For reasons that shouldn’t need to be explained, markets and the economy in general doesn’t respond well to instability or unpredictability.

Yup. https://thumbor-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w820/s/thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/711x450/https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5d617...

Part of a Trump tweet today, “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China.” Dementia or a...

It's kind of adorable how hard he tries.

Poor pup has an Elizabethan collar. So he can’t lick his wounds, I imagine.

For whatever reason, Trump made a campaign promise to reduce the trade deficit.

We don't need to look at ancient history, unfortunately. All of Trumps meddling with foreign trade, damaging American industries and raising prices fo...

Okay, he's the second worst businessman in history. In any case, the act (as seen on The Apprentice) is that he's a great businessman.

It's hard to tell if he's liberal or conservative because he doesn't appear to actually stand for anything.

It's reported that in some of those years he lost more money than practically any American, which could make him the worst businessman in history. The...

The point of a leader is to lead. Trump only leads his base, which is not even half the nation. And let's not forget that Trump is a TV celebrity. He ...

So Trump should be condemned, as you condemn the media.

If a pope and a lawyer stand for high ethics and intelligence/competence, respectively, you're suggesting that a lack of these qualities leads to incr...

Yes, I too miss the good old days when the media was completely objective and honest. :love:

Why not?

Getting back to the example of Trump attacking the 'squad', in an interview Trump said, "The first lady thinks that it's horrible what they've said ab...

We were talking about propaganda techniques, that includes deception to some degree. It's unclear how you justify the President doing this but not the...

So, for example, the way Trump attacks the ‘squad’ should be condemned. Agreed.

From what I understand, Buddhism claims that all is empty and all sentient beings are Buddhas (enlightened), and it is only our ignorance (of our true...

Somehow it seems appropriate in a topic about Trump.

Over 12k lies since taking office is being transparent? Granted his lies are transparent and they appear to come as naturally to him as breathing. Wha...

Weren't you saying the other day that hyperbole is common speech, and repeating accusations of Orwellian thought policing that you got from Fox News?

Good point, I must admit.

You've handled the 'nastiness' directed at you and your unpopular views in this topic admirably, so it seems disingenuous to claim an understanding of...

Next weeks attention seeking headline: “Trump wants to sell Florida to Denmark”

I'm not sure that manufacturing jobs are better than consulting or "toiling in restaurants." In any case, you should be presenting an argument that Tr...

This doesn't make any real sense because Trump inherited an economy that was already going, as Baden just pointed out. Just looking at the unemploymen...

This just in: Trump says he is considering payroll tax cut amid economic concerns Looks like they are worried.

Compared with the Obama administration

I knew it :razz: The trade deficit is a significant part of the economy, my painfully predictable friend.

I thought you were going to say that his campaign promise to reduce the trade deficit was just words, and that all the self-aggrandizement about his b...

I was looking at some economic charts published in the Washington Post yesterday that show how the trade deficit is higher now than it was under the O...

I like Warren best, but I don’t know if she has the best chance of beating Trump.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PgpBJ9z0GsU

I believe in the Buddhist concept of emptiness and that directs and motivates my practice to some degree. Orthodox Buddhists would say such a stark vi...

The aim of secularity is to provide a safe space from irrationality, to put it bluntly. Not to claim that secular culture is entirely, or even majorly...

If you google how many religions there are, the first result listed, from Wikipedia, says there are 4,200. We know of course that there are several st...

Here’s one from Fox News: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYXwZDODkAI Earlier you wrote: Like Trump, you appear to take your cues from Fox News.