Lets see if we can keep this thread a little more civil.

I found this interview very interesting.  A lot of soft balls thrown at Trump, he explained his back pedalling on his more extreme issues as a lot of his claims as opening bids for negotiation purposes.  Which .. whatever .. I still think that those are insincere claims he used to get elected.

He does now come across way more presidential then he did prior to the election.  A lot of his noise, yelling, and rhetoric has been scaled back.

Do respect this one though:

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Lesley Stahl: Are you gonna take the salary, the president’s salary?

Donald Trump: Well, I’ve never commented on this, but the answer is no. I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But it’s a -- I don’t even know what it is.

Donald Trump: Do you know what the salary is?

Lesley Stahl: $400,000 you’re giving up.

Donald Trump: No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/

13 minutes ago, Mark F said:

The craziness in America. spectacular.

now anti maskers are picketing schools, harrassing kinds and parents.

masked kids are telling them to F off.

looney bin.

Why do I see a headline in our future “school shooting as student guns down anti-vax protester who who harassing them over mask wearing”?

Edited May 4, 20214 yr by TrueBlue4ever

Citing Worker Shortage, Montana To Stop Federal Unemployment Benefits

Montana will cut off federal unemployment benefits nearly three months early and offer “Return to Work Bonuses” as a favor to employers, Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) announced Tuesday. 

Gianforte said he hears “from too many employers throughout our state who can’t find workers” and added that the state’s suffering from a “labor shortage” made worse by the benefits. 

Starting June 27, Montana workers will lose the extra $300 per week the federal government has been paying since December. The state will also cancel federal benefits for gig workers and the long-term jobless.

Montana is the only state saying it will forgo federal benefits, which are scheduled to expire in September, though it’s possible Congress could extend them again. It’s also possible other states could follow Montana’s lead. 

With Montana’s unemployment rate at 3.8%, compared with 6% nationally, the “vast expansion of federal unemployment benefits is now doing more harm than good,” Gianforte said. 

Across the country, employers and Republicans are complaining of a worker shortage, even though the unemployment rate remains high and wage growth hasn’t accelerated. Economists say if workers are truly hard to find, the scarcity should be reflected by rising wages.

Did people really think that Trump was going to start his own new online platform or news network, considering he has no real money except the money that he has grifted from rubes he will now become a blogger on his website, be interesting to see if Facebook let's him back on tomorrow

32 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Citing Worker Shortage, Montana To Stop Federal Unemployment Benefits
Across the country, employers and Republicans are complaining of a worker shortage, even though the unemployment rate remains high and wage growth hasn’t accelerated. Economists say if workers are truly hard to find, the scarcity should be reflected by rising wages.

This should be the case... if you are having trouble finding workers... maybe pay them a fair wage?

23 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Did people really think that Trump was going to start his own new online platform or news network, considering he has no real money except the money that he has grifted from rubes he will now become a blogger on his website, be interesting to see if Facebook let's him back on tomorrow

I checked it out and it GLORIOUS in it's shitty laziness... it's basically a blog with comments turned off... add in a "contribution button that leads to the grift with the check box to stop recurring "contributions"... it is amazing how far that toad shaped man-baby has fallen. 

 

46 minutes ago, Mark F said:

The craziness in America. spectacular.

now anti maskers are picketing schools, harrassing kinds and parents.

masked kids are telling them to F off.

looney bin.

Here is a thread of HS students trolling anitmaskers/vaxxers

 

8 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

This should be the case... if you are having trouble finding workers... maybe pay them a fair wage?

What are you a filthy socialist? How will the rich get richer doing that?

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Citing Worker Shortage, Montana To Stop Federal Unemployment Benefits

Montana will cut off federal unemployment benefits nearly three months early and offer “Return to Work Bonuses” as a favor to employers, Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) announced Tuesday. 

Gianforte said he hears “from too many employers throughout our state who can’t find workers” and added that the state’s suffering from a “labor shortage” made worse by the benefits. 

Starting June 27, Montana workers will lose the extra $300 per week the federal government has been paying since December. The state will also cancel federal benefits for gig workers and the long-term jobless.

Montana is the only state saying it will forgo federal benefits, which are scheduled to expire in September, though it’s possible Congress could extend them again. It’s also possible other states could follow Montana’s lead. 

With Montana’s unemployment rate at 3.8%, compared with 6% nationally, the “vast expansion of federal unemployment benefits is now doing more harm than good,” Gianforte said. 

Across the country, employers and Republicans are complaining of a worker shortage, even though the unemployment rate remains high and wage growth hasn’t accelerated. Economists say if workers are truly hard to find, the scarcity should be reflected by rising wages.

Montana 's minimum wage is $ 8.75. an hour.  Or if your business has under $ 110,000 in sales  $ 4.OO , Yes $ 4.00 a friggen hour.  I wonder why they have trouble finding workers ?

 

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Montana will cut off federal unemployment benefits nearly three months early and offer “Return to Work Bonuses” as a favor to employers, Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) announced Tuesday. 

they elected that creep after he assaulted a reporter, in public, and on camera.

going to be hard for his voters to blame Biden, but theyll find a way

dipsh$ts elect a dips*****, get bad governance

sad.

Edited May 5, 20214 yr by Mark F

1 hour ago, Mark F said:

they elected that creep after he assaulted a reporter, in public, and on camera. going to be hard for his voters to blame Biden, but theyll find a way

dipsh$ts elect a dips*****, get bad governance. sad.

We are all masters of self-deception but many Americans are masters of the art. Here in Canada, a good friend who is not stupid believes that Trudeau is single-handedly responsible for forcing all of the premiers and doctors for installing unnecessary bans on gatherings. 

12 hours ago, Tracker said:

We are all masters of self-deception but many Americans are masters of the art. Here in Canada, a good friend who is not stupid believes that Trudeau is single-handedly responsible for forcing all of the premiers and doctors for installing unnecessary bans on gatherings. 

Yes sadly I know many smart people who believed Jason Kenney could somehow make oil great again. People get stupid about politics very easily.

10 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

Yes sadly I know many smart people who believed Jason Kenney could somehow make oil great again. People get stupid about politics very easily.

That, and religion.

Well... let's hope something comes from this... maybe not too late. Barr did lie to a judge....

 

 

24 minutes ago, Tracker said:

That, and religion.

Given the people in charge of conservative parties these days is there a difference between the two?

2 hours ago, 17to85 said:

Given the people in charge of conservative parties these days is there a difference between the two?

The right wing has successfully managed to conflate the two to their core base. This despite repeated and overwhelming evidence that they are being treated like all-day suckers. This is what happens when you delegate your thinking and turn your moral compass off.

Very serious people on the right. 

 

 

The thing that concerns me most, as the US crumbles, is that they have significant weapons of mass destruction and have zero qualms taking what they want and invading countries for "peace". 

1 hour ago, JCon said:

Very serious people on the right. 

 

 

The thing that concerns me most, as the US crumbles, is that they have significant weapons of mass destruction and have zero qualms taking what they want and invading countries for "peace". 

No matter what is found or not found in the ballot recounts, the right-wing fascists in the US and Trump will never accept their losses.

maybe going to find hillaries emails hidden in a microchip on a cheating biden ballot.

 

Trump's kids are still soaking the American taxpayer for travel, hotels and secret service details, as a parting grift from the Emperor himself before high tailing it out of Washington.

5 hours ago, Mark F said:

maybe going to find hillaries emails hidden in a microchip on a cheating biden ballot.

 

A ballot printed off of Hunter’s laptop, which was purchased for him  by George Soros from a pizza place fronting a child sex trafficking ring. Did we miss anything?

4 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

A ballot printed off of Hunter’s laptop, which was purchased for him  by George Soros from a pizza place fronting a child sex trafficking ring. Did we miss anything?

children are from benghazi I assume?

2 minutes ago, Mark F said:

children are from benghazi I assume?

And all are illegal immigrants wearing tan suits who are secret crisis actors to fake a school shooting so they can take away our guns. 

TINFOIL HAT: Tucker Carlson Makes BS Claim ‘30 People Every Day’ Are Dying From Vaccines. Here’s the Truth.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson continued his reckless mission to mainstream vaccine skepticism on Wednesday night by dangerously speculating that thousands of Americans have died from COVID-19 vaccinations, citing a faulty open-sourced database that has become a haven for misinformation.

Over the past few months, the Fox News star has repeatedly used his top-rated primetime show to cast doubt on both the efficacy and safety of the coronavirus vaccines. Despite the fact that countless clinical trials and real-time studies have found the shots to be overwhelmingly safe, Carlson has told his viewers not to trust the vaccines while questioning if they even work.

Carlson ramped up his vaccine fear-mongering on Wednesday night, kicking off his program by asking his audience the following questions: “How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine? That’s not Americans that will be killed by the virus, that is a huge number. It’s how many Americans have died after getting the vaccine designed to prevent the virus? Do you know the answer to that question?”

Making sure to point out that he has “been completely in favor of vulnerable people taking the vaccine”—a disclaimer he regularly tosses out in these vaccine skeptical segments—Carlson pointed to the Center for Disease Control’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System to insinuate that dozens of people a day are dropping dead from the vaccines.

“Between late December of 2020 and last month, a total of 3,362 people apparently died after getting the COVID vaccine in the United States,” Carlson exclaimed. “That is an average of roughly 30 people every day. So, what does that add up to? By the way, that reporting period ended on April 23, and we don’t have numbers past that.”

“Not quite up to date, but we can assume another 360 people at that rate have died in the 12 days since,” he continued. “You put it all together, that is a total of 3,722 deaths, almost 4,000 people who died after getting the COVID vaccine. The actual number is almost certainly higher than that, perhaps vastly higher than that.”

Claiming that “fewer than 1 percent of vaccine adverse events are reported by the VAERS system,” Carlson then pondered that the actual number of deaths from the vaccines must be severely underreported.

Tucker Carlson Makes BS Claim ‘30 People Every Day’ Are Dying From Vaccines. Here’s the Truth. (thedailybeast.com)

20 minutes ago, Tracker said:

TINFOIL HAT: Tucker Carlson Makes BS Claim ‘30 People Every Day’ Are Dying From Vaccines. Here’s the Truth.
 

 

Not sure if its been posted here already, but apparently the nut-fringe GOPers are demanding that every ballot cast in the last election be tested for bamboo fibers because they are certain that millions of ballots were printed up in China and slipped into ballot boxes everywhere to skew the election in favour of Biden. It just keeps getting crazier and crazier. What will be next- testing for soy sauce residue?

46 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Not sure if its been posted here already, but apparently the nut-fringe GOPers are demanding that every ballot cast in the last election be tested for bamboo fibers because they are certain that millions of ballots were printed up in China and slipped into ballot boxes everywhere to skew the election in favour of Biden. It just keeps getting crazier and crazier. What will be next- testing for soy sauce residue?

chinese restaurants, every small town has one!..... it's all starting to make sense. 

chicken guy Q anyone?

Edited May 6, 20214 yr by Mark F

I find it funny that Trump during 2016 ran his election on saying that America's infrastructure was in shambles and need huge investment and since he was a builder he would get it back to being world class. Now the republicans are fighting Biden over a major investment in infrastructure.