Highly vivid and awesome speculation.

Disaster relief aid is generally based on ecological and economical impact surveys and seldom political.
Being a good, bad or indifferent Governer isn't going hinder a grant of aid to The People.

What you fail to realize is that kind of maneuvering (corruption) you're illustraitin, is more ascribed to the insidious nature of the Dems than the Republicans.

Yep, it sets a dangerous precedence for the future.

Not only that, but witnesses can be forbidden to testify by the executive branch, ensuring that justice has been truly blinded.

https://youtu.be/2rNwSCKf2U0

Really? I don't think so. After four years of hearing the liberals and Dems moan and groan, I'm just not looking forward to hearing another four years of the same thing IF a Democrat happens to be voted President -
"🎶 Oh, the laws are too strict and candid, our President may as well be bound and gagged! Damm those Conservitives and Republicans, look at how harsh they've made the laws!
It's not fair!🎶"
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.....Because, as we all know, the truly high and mighty crimes will begin (once again), the instant a Dem is voted in.

its called politics.. do i care.. no but i will vote the lesser of 2 evils.

lol well played

Uhh, I'll let you know when you're qualified to couch me. In the meantime -
Seriously? I seem to recall not long ago that you wanted nothing to do with the historical facts of anything I brought up because your stiff neck only insisted on looking at what was presently going on (and that's all good and well). However, you seem to be a shame to those great men who said things like; "Those who ignore history are bound to repeat its mistakes."
What good does mentioning 'biasism' to me, do any good for the intellect of your life, considering your very stance?
And, it is the mindset of a socially inclined politician (Dem) that is generally corrupt. That is a historical fact.

Policy is THE very thing I listen for when it comes to voting for a candidate. This is why I did not vote for Obama in '08 nor in '12. Because his policies stank to high heaven AND (regardless of what you think), his seat was nothing less than evil as he also served a position on the UN council PLUS a host of other factors that are too far spun to delve into here - I just clarifying my view when it comes to policy.
That is the concern, isn't it? To know what kind of country you live in and it's spirit. The U.S. was founded as a Constitutional Republic. A REPUBLIC.
And, when it comes to policy there are two kinds of people -

a) A People who wants a country that serves the best interest of the People.

b) People who want to get out of it what they can through social means.

a) = A Republican's veiw.
b) = A Democratic view.

If you want socialism, there's a planet full of countries to choose from. Go.

Well, it delights me to HEAR that you are starting to see things from a sensible Republican's point of view. Yes - there's no shame to admit ones awakening, it takes strength indeed....
No? No change of view?
Didn't think so.
Dems usually speak in one lane terms, for others, yet exceptionalize themselves when it comes to drinking their own prescriptions.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cleor41/hydra...

The Democratic Party doesn't frustrate me more than the liberal/democratic society who gravitate to and vote these delegates in. They operate this country in a fashion that is counter to the spirit of it's founding - like a social kiosk handing out free money and resources at the cost of debt at taxpayers expense. And who are the taxpayers? Responsible people who work for a living to rightfully provide for their own as they see fit. They don't have to share, but, it's taken from them in the guise of "fair representation."

Correct.

It is futile, Lano, to call Trump corrupt.... You can't call Trump corrupt when the corruption of politics transcends both time and man.
The only thing that keeps things fair and balanced is whose turn is next.... That was an issue settled 2016....
Y'all had a magical president back in '08, shaking and grooving to the funky-funky beat. He gave the bail out money, he popped the cork from the t!t of social welfare and let the cream flow like a river. Trillions of dollars in expenditures - and that was before his half time.
It was a nightmare ride that needed to an end. And the libs hate it -
😖 "It's over! And now I haftah grow up and start doing things for myself!"
😕.....Or you can just moan and complain for the next four years.....
😦😦😦😦...."Uh, really? Okay."

And, what are you basing "the long haul" on, Lano? Let me help with that -

I'm gonna borrow ten million dollars in your name. This makes you responsible for it. Then, I'm gonna flush it all down the sink of ghetto laden projects and turn my homies into gangstas livin in paradise.
Now, you may not be able to repay all that money in your life time, but the best ray of sunshine you have is knowing how short your life is and looking forward to its ending day. That, plus the generations of your kids in *******bondage to repay those good times with money you never got part of.
Yes, we have very different views of short/long term ideals. Including degrees of corruption.

You see, when you and the land of liberal socialists were enjoying the Democratic mosh pit for eight years, I (and a country full of people that I represent), was getting slammed from head to toe.
Who held Obama accountable then? You? The Dems? The Libs? The Socialists?

How do you justify asking of me something of which you never did when the time came?

I like Trumphs corruption.
It IS the lesser of two evils.

Why are any of you even bothering paying attention to the impeachment trials? They're just a tv show and politics always has been some form of entertainment or another.

Haven't you figured out by now no one gives af? And even if they did when they promised to serve you as an elected official, once they get in office they stop giving af.

You don't matter, your opinions don't matter. Clearly they do what they want. Especially now that laws can changed just because someone powerful enough says they do.

We're ******fucked. Can at least respect Mulvaney for being blunt. "Get over it."

Either the politicians aren't listening to us. Or there's something wrong with us. Either way it's unwinnable. This ****shit hole should just start over. It's time to give up and try again.

They say if you have an issue to "call your congressman"

LOL

6 months later the motherfucker sent out a generic autogenerated robo-mail response that said nothing. Yeah so what now? lol

SOL!

👆I will somewhat give this to you. Obama was a great mechanic - he used the right tools to dismantle as much infrastructure of the U.S. that he could wrench out.
Simply put, his policies were agenda based - and before you go touting "conspiracy theorist," why not consider the fact that no one is going to tell you they're going to destroy your home when they come knocking at your door. They do that once you open the door and let 'em in.
A Trojan is made to corrupt the system.

Trump is an antivirus and he has been doing what should be rightfully done - no one said that it was going to be pretty every step along the way. He's not corrupt but he may have to do some corrupt things to get certain jobs done. At least he's not hiding his actions under a formal veil of process.
It is my hope that he can rewind the business end of the U.S. back to the 90's and destroy NAFTA and continue to provide incentives for companies to come back (from whence they originally sprang) when the Clinton administration scattered them to the seven winds.
Hopefully, by that point, the voting booth will elect another Republican who will continue the work of restoring this countries economic balance.
Lives depend on the freedom of individuals to flourish in the economic workplace.

https://youtu.be/5OFJaP3ouDw

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Because, Lano....the algorithm of the site is Republican - lol (jkng)

Cudos for the vid, Lano.
I'm actually a bit surprised that it was moving to you.
I was impressed with his proclamation of faith. That's not something that's very popular these days regardless of what side of the aisle you stand or sit.
The speech was well crafted. It gave the vibe that something had happened but said without conviction.
High crimes and mistomeners.

When he said that, my memory recalled the 2012 race after Obama had been re-elected for the second time.

I still find it funny -
Trump was accused of using a foreign body to investigate or inspect his opponent....
While it may be odd to me to go about it in that way it just makes good campaign sense to know the weaknesses of who you run against.

But, what does that have to do with the 2012 re-election of Obama???

Simple. Every U.S. vote was counted by a foreign body - in this case it was France.
According to the count of France, Obama won the election.....
Nobody, and I mean nobody that I've talked to ever heard about this. Secondly, the same people that I mention wouldn't know just how unpresidented that is.

U.S. votes counted and numbers determined, by a foreign government politic...

I really can't think of a crime of the Trump administration that is as criminal, treasonous or high compared to the vote count of 2012....

Anyway...we'll see how it looks in 2020.

The one thing that I'm highly familiar with is, we live in a land of accusations every day. He said, she said, double speak.... It doesn't always make it so.

So....what do you think about former/late President John F. Kennedy?

Here's what's up:

Trump is a businessman. Let me explain, from the ground up.
(I typed this in another post but it bears repeating)

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Business:
/ˈbiznəs/

noun: the practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce.
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What is it we make for a living? We make MONEY. What is we make money for? A LIVING:
/ˈliviNG/

noun:
an income sufficient to LIVE.
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It is an inherent attribute of business to drive down costs and drive up productivity.

Business is inherently greedy. We have based our self worth on the amount of money we can have. The U.S. government officially recognizes how much money you have, as equal to how much freedom you have. More money equals more freedom.

Think about that for a minute...

By driving down costs and increasing productivity you're basically saying "I will not pay a single cent more of cost than I have to."
An employee's income and the benefits they're offered are a cost for the company.
So based on this logic why pay American workers dollars, what you can pay someone pennies doing the same work across the ocean? Some American workers may see that company as greedy for outsourcing middle to high income paying jobs to countries where they can pay a fraction of the cost.

At the same time you have acts in government passed that allow business to have a much more influential outcome on elections that control the very government that have made these things the way they are. Acts that have spawned movements like End Citizens United:

wiki:
End Citizens United (ECU) is a political action committee in the United States. The organization is working to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which deregulated limits on independent expenditure group spending for (or against) specific candidates.

That in other words, allow very rich business owners to have 0 limits on donations made to political election campaigns.

The catch-22 here is:

If you started a business you would want it to be this way. It would increase your companies profit and you would be making more money.

You would suddenly become an advocate for this model of behavior. Because it is now in your self interest that your business be as successful as possible. Reducing costs, and increasing productivity.

This inherent attribute of business, is part of the backbone of many variables that affect YOU DIRECTLY from the top down. We are a capitalist society and that means we are all about our money. Every, single, one of us. It is, whether we like it or not, how we determine our own "freedom."

This president is all about making Americans a blue collar worker. Meanwhile all the white collar jobs are getting shipped out of the country. In Chattanooga TVA just shut down hundreds of software jobs and moved them out. If you want to be a factory cog this president is definitely your guy. He's happy to make you all mindless drones operating a machine doing mundane simple tasks over and over again. Have fun with that! NOTHING against blue collar jobs at all! But I'd rather aim higher just to be honest. If my fellow Americans weren't so easy to distract, I'd be surprised at the low bar we're allowing this president to set for ourselves.

I feel like it makes sense, and that I can reasonably conclude based on the best data available to me, that this country is not heading in the direction of wealthier workers. White collar jobs are going and low skill labor is the thing. The demand for low skill, low wage jobs is currently increasing beyond the amount of total people entering the workforce annually. They're trying to fill the lower skill, lower wage positions to meet this demand and all of these fools are licking it up and applauding job growth?? We're not cutting edge, we're cutting out the best jobs to lower costs. A win for corporate America and a loss for the American worker. They want lever pulling, button pressing, cashiering, line working, food service, janitors to be their cogs.

Freelance contracting is on the rise because American business will never work in the interest of American workers, but rather in their own self interest - it is in their nature. What makes it even worse is that they no longer even need American workers. America is no longer a country of opportunity. At least not for those who cannot make their own opportunity. In the end, 0 companies will choose to pay more costs to operate than they absolutely need to. It is a natural business interest to pursue lowering costs and increasing productivity. Here's a nifty chart: https://tinyurl.com/qtvg7an

The approach to running our country should not be the same as running a WalMart. They will keep getting paid and we will be hanging up our four year degree/equivalent experience jobs to become blue collar cogs.

The endgame will look like this: You'll either be a rich business owner, or you'll be a low paid cog in the business owners business/chain of businesses. And it will probably be a career of jumping from one temporary position to another at that. ....maybe from one of the rich owners businesses to ...another one of that same owners businesses.(Don't get fed up at taco bell and go over to kfc you'll still be making the same owners rich)

Trump will run on his "job growth" "industrial productivity increases", and it will be true: He and those like him, will give us more jobs, and those jobs may end up with higher wages(and I mean a few dollars an hour higher) afforded by the gutting of the middle of the corporate ladder. Trading middle and upper income positions for outsourcing cheaper high skill labor(and will be temporary), and lower(but raised slightly) income menial labor. They won't be the jobs we want. Don't let them trick you with these salesman gimmicks and pitches. Don't let them trade your middle and upper income paying jobs to turn you into a factory worker to fill the 3m jobs in the lower skill, lower wages positions coming available. Be cutting edge. Not cutting quality. Go for a qualitative economy not just a quantitative one. It will be healthier and it will make us all happier.