The [Current Year] General Political/Salma Hayek discussion thread, part 4!!!

[ghuns]

Thread title is misleading, there's not enough Selma Hayek in this thread.

IKR? Watched a little bit of Desperado on Saturday. That is prime Salma.

 

[nonobaddog]

A press that can put on something so one-sided is a press that has lost its objectivity.

Yes, the liberal swamp has completely polluted the press and turned it into a propaganda machine. And they are working hard on the judicial system. The Kalifornistan judicial system is almost completely politicized already. These are very tough times for the United States of America.

 

[actaeon277]

Thread title is misleading, there's not enough Selma Hayek in this thread.

So, maybe put some pictures up..

 

[churchmouse]

Yes, the liberal swamp has completely polluted the press and turned it into a propaganda machine. And they are working hard on the judicial system. The Kalifornistan judicial system is almost completely politicized already. These are very tough times for the United States of America.

When Trump states these facts about the MSM and the NRA holds them accountable the leftists screamers cry out and call us Brown shirts/NAZI's etc when in fact it is they who are marching in lock step to the Goose stepping.

 

[Jag3212323]

Yes, the liberal swamp has completely polluted the press and turned it into a propaganda machine. And they are working hard on the judicial system. The Kalifornistan judicial system is almost completely politicized already. These are very tough times for the United States of America.

The problem with all sides of the media is that it is being run as a business to turn a profit rather than inform. Back in the days of Cronkite, media wasn’t set up to turn a profit from advertising. Just like anything else, when money gets involved, things often go sideways.


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[Alpo]

Four posts with no Salma pic.

I'm done with this thread.

 

[nonobaddog]

There they are...

 

[Jag3212323]

There they are...

That’s a great bounce back from the brink. Late 90’s, early oughts were her best timeframes.


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[OakRiver]

Just a thought that occurred to me while I was working in the yard this evening; political commentators like to say that the Republican Party lost its way and some of its mainstream appeal when it more closely aligned itself with religious conservatives. Are we seeing the same pattern here as the Democrat Party adopts more and more social justice causes?

 

[nonobaddog]

I think the democratic party lost its way a little bit when they aligned themselves very closely with insane protesters. That might attract the fringe but it turns off mainstream.

 

[Alpo]

Just a thought that occurred to me while I was working in the yard this evening; political commentators like to say that the Republican Party lost its way and some of its mainstream appeal when it more closely aligned itself with religious conservatives. Are we seeing the same pattern here as the Democrat Party adopts more and more social justice causes?

In a word: yes.

Boutique cause celebre's have resulted in many of us long-time democrats wondering whether the Overton window has shifted us into RINO's. Not true conservatives, but clearly incensed with the direction of the party and it's historic values.

 

[jamil]

That’s a great bounce back from the brink. Late 90’s, early oughts were her best timeframes.


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“Bounce back”? Need an animated gif to show that.

 

[jamil]

In a word: yes.

Boutique cause celebre's have resulted in many of us long-time democrats wondering whether the Overton window has shifted us into RINO's. Not true conservatives, but clearly incensed with the direction of the party and it's historic values.

I think in terms of what the Democratic Party has morphed into from what it was, kinda shows the difference between liberals and progressives. The so called “intellectual dark web” refers to today’s progressives as illiberal. And I think it looks an awful lot like a religion. You hear Nancy Pelosi talk about immigration and she uses a lot of language that sounds akin to religion zealotry.

 

[Kutnupe14]

So much for Carrier. I feel sorry for those guys who bought into the idea that a businessman would look out for their interests rather than the interests of other businessmen.

In total, the company will be laying off more than five hundred employees as it moves manufacturing jobs to Monterrey, Mexico. Many of those employees voted for Donald Trump, who made saving Carrier’s “big, beautiful plant” one of his most repeated campaign promises.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news...-to-be-laid-off-feel-betrayed-by-donald-trump

 

[printcraft]

So much for Carrier. I feel sorry for those guys who bought into the idea that a businessman would look out for their interests rather than the interests of other businessmen.


https://www.newyorker.com/news/news...-to-be-laid-off-feel-betrayed-by-donald-trump

If memory serves... some people here were complaining that government (Trump) should not be picking business winners and losers anyhow. Cronyism and all that.

Come on it’s one or the other.

 

[Birds Away]

If memory serves... some people here were complaining that government (Trump) should not be picking business winners and losers anyhow. Cronyism and all that.

Come on it’s one or the other.

Welcome to

 

[Kutnupe14]

Harold Bornstein, who was Donald Trump's personal doctor for decades, acknowledges that his over-the-top statement about Trump's health in 2015 was not written by him — but by the then-presidential candidate.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...mp-dictated-glowing-rump-doctor-sa/572038002/

Are we shocked by this?

Here's the original letter:

[FONT=&amp]To Whom My Concern:
[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]I have been the personal physician of Mr Donald J. Trump since 1980. His previous physician was my father, Dr Jacob Bornstein. Over the past 39 years, I am pleased to report that Mr Trump has had no significant medical problems. Mr Trump has had a recent complete medical examination that showed only positive results. Actually, his blood pressure, 110/65, and laboratory test results were astonishingly excellent.

Over the past twelve months, he has lost at least fifteen pounds, Mr Trump takes 81 mg of aspirin daily and a low dose of a statin. His PSA test score is 0.15 (very low). His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary.

Mr Trump has suffered no form of cancer, has never had a hip, knee or shoulder replacement or any other orthopaedic surgery. His only surgery was an appendectomy at age ten. His cardiovascular status is excellent. He has no history of ever using alcohol or tobacco products.
If elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.
[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Harold N Bornstein, MD, FACG[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Department of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY[/FONT]

Lol

 

[Kutnupe14]

Welcome to

Government should not be picking winners and losers. There's criticism to be made when it does. And when it does attempt to pick winners and losers, and FAILS to keep up its end of the bargain, the there's even MORE criticism to be had, as it's engaged in something it should not have in the first place, and it's failure is evidence of why it should not have ever happened. That's completely consistent.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Marco Rubio weighs in on the tax cuts.

“There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers,” the Florida senator told the economist in a recent interview. “In fact they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there’s no evidence whatsoever that the money’s been massively poured back into the American worker.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-on-the-gop-tax-cuts/?utm_term=.6da0bd0c1439

 

[Kutnupe14]

Rubio was apparently thinking of Apple Inc, who has opened the floodgates at the bank, in the tune to $100B. ONE HUNDRED BILLION buyback from investors.

Apple Inc lavished cash on its shareholders like no company in history in the first three months of the year and it intends to keep doing so, making the iPhone maker’s investors the clearest winners yet from last year’s sweeping U.S. corporate tax cuts.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...cuts-into-record-share-buybacks-idUSKBN1I300U