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Today's test is multiple choice.
What is the most outstanding trait of Donald Trump?
A: Trump stinks!
B: Trump really, really stinks!
C: Great God Almighty, Trump stinks!
D: All of the above.
Stumbled into an article in the WAPO mentioning the taller Coffman. She got around to filing suit against an opioid making corporation.
Good she's on the case — given that "In federal court in 2007, three top current and former employees for Purdue pleaded guilty to criminal charges, admitting that they had falsely led doctors and their patients to believe that OxyContin was less likely to be abused than other drugs in its class."
No explanation in the article of the 11 years between the federal court admissions and the Colorado action. Or why after three years and 8 months of her occupation of the AG office, there is a suit now.
The release does say, no doubt without irony,
Better late than never, JiD.
Possible item for Get More Smarter: Article in Denverite about Crow and Coffman doing classic retail politics with Aurora’s Ethiopian and Eritrean communities.
https://denverite.com/2018/09/11/coffman-crow-ethiopian-vote/
For those who were wondering about my math around Amendment 73 (nee Initiative 93), here's the final math from the state about the effects of the property tax cuts and income tax increase. This is a more refined district-by-district amount (mine was based on the fiscal statement's statewide average) and $50 million more in expected corporate tax revenue than in the original fiscal statement– still a $90 million tax break for corporations.
2019 residential property tax increase: $255.3 million
2019 non-residential property tax decrease: $317.8 million
2019 increased corporate income tax revenue: $229.4 million
The state also provided a map so that you can see property tax impacts on residential and nonresidential properties around the state.
Still leaves me as a no– I won't pay more while businesses pay less. Nice to know the giveaway may be smaller than I originally thought, though.
How to talk about Trump being odoriferous (if we must):
1. Have actual information showing this to be the case. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. Not everyone has facts and figures to back their opinions.
The lowest common denominator of facts is the opinion poll. It turns crap (opinions) into something resembling compost (facts) by piling up enough opinions together so they can tell a story. (Sort of.)
According to 538 Trumps net approval this Tuesday after averaging the polls is -13.7%. When I posted about the polls last week on the 4th he was at -14.1%. That looks like a big difference because of the roll over between numbers, but his improvement in popularity is 0.4%. Well within noise or randomness and though this still worse than the -12.0% of the two weeks ago there does not yet seem to be a real trend developing. Unless his net approval is bellow -17% by October it seems like the convictions of his associates does not matter to his core of support.
2. Better than analysis of opinions would be pointing to an article or research showing why Trump pongs like a bog. Maybe something like John Oliver's extended piece on trade showing how the erratic and badly planned trade war with China is hurting American workers. Ten minutes in, after lots of background on why we should care, he points out that the tariffs on aluminum are going to create about 26,000 jobs while destroying 400,000 others. There, net bad for America with facts and figures. And funny graphics to make it all go down easier.
3. Best of all would be to find a bit of good news in what otherwise is like sitting in a bog commenting on the pong. For example: Washington Post: Voter backlash to Trump, bathroom law has put conservative N.C. legislature in play.
Good reporting on the on the ground efforts of the Democratic Party to flip a state legislature with the usual scenes of shoe leather powered vote seeking. And facts, "The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is pouring $35 million into state legislative races across the country, twice as much as in 2016, with hopes of flipping 15 chambers nationwide, according to a spokeswoman."
Trump quote on New Jersey radio station WWOR literally on the afternoon of 9/11: "…when they built the World Trade Center, it (Trump owned 40 Wall Street building) became known as the second tallest. And now it's the tallest."
Is that enough "actual information" that Trump is odoriferous?
It is about 1,000% (actual fact from Dept. of Justmadethisup*) better than just repeatedly posting variations on "Trump Stinks" like some sort of chat bot programed by the Green Party in memory of the Wizard of Id "The King is a Fink!" bit.
* Really I could have written infinitely better because the difference between 0 information and even 1 point is infinite. But 1,000% is funnier.
Bottom line: Trump stinks!
The Lone Haranguer rides again! To bravely, boldly, bluntly announce that, "The King is a Fink!"
Truly, what amazing wit, what command of debate, what a point!(?)! This verbal blow will surely bring down his evil reign!
The #snowflakes in my part of the world seem to have caught a severe case of amnesia. Making the rounds in the 51st-state this afternoon (with two members of my immediate family posting, neither of them old enough to remember Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon).
Here's one Trumper that opened his eyes and let reality in:
Maybe the poster, quoted by Michael, might have a point if the Trump family wasn't apparently a crime cartel. How many legal investigations are underway now concerning Trump? And let's not forget the federal law suit on alleged violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
If the poster thinks Trump should be respected, Trump must first show that he is deserving of respect. I guess the poster has forgotten Trump’s public mocking of the reporter with cerebral palsy during the campaign.
And this part is really rich — you know, Chelsea, Michelle, Malia and Sasha might, just maybe, have a slightly different view:
🙄I get this from some of my old friends, too. This is the current talking point: 1. Trump's being picked on by "the media, Dems, etc. 2. He's not perfect, but Bill Clinton/ Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama was worse because emails/ Benghazi/uranium one. 3. Shut up and be loyal.
I've pushed back on it gently, but their opinions seem pretty entrenched. What I asked was if Obama getting 30+ death threats per day could be considered equivalent to the "unfair treatment" Trump is getting. (BTW, Trump gets about 8 death threats per day)
Yup, a friend I've known for 40 years found #ProsperityJesus about 10 years ago (Ok, well 30 years ago it was Werner Erhard's "est" movement too). He tut-tutted one of my posts while sending me similar claptrap just last week. We exchanged our views, then he erased the entire thread.
I haven't bothered to check if he unfriended me as well.
I’m getting this from people of whom I shared an occupation of a particular womb (but not at the same time).
Commentary in the New York Times column by Thomas Friedman — your wombmate is helping to destroy our democracy:
What amazes me is MJ's reference to "Uranium 1."
I keep seeing it come up on Yahoo threads. I always reply like this: "Don't you watch Fox News? Shep Smith totally debunked the whole uranium issue on his Fox show months ago."
Just curious … what would the person use as a description of the *resident's job?
selecting "the best people" to serve?
Conducting foreign policy?
Domestic policy?
*resident Trump HAS been able to get in more golf, more visits to his properties, and more campaign appearances. So there is SOME activity going on. Are those the hallmarks of MAGA?
One additional data point …. international approval of the US *resident. Pew Research has accumulated a bunch of national polls, and you can see the impact of the change in Administration to Sad!-ministration in numeric form here.
Pretty pictures, based on over 40,000 interviews, can be found here.
One illustrative slide, among the pictures, is this one, showing responses in France, Germany, Spain, and the UK.
Huh. Spain is not as happy with us in comparison to other countries no matter who is President, it seems. Difference on reporting in the Spanish language press?
So what Bush took 8 years to achieve, Trump accomplished in 18 months?
So, in summary, you're saying: Trump stinks!
The Lone Haranguer gentlebeings! One again riding forth to give the news that, "The King is a Fink!"
In summary: your posts stink.
Your posts are pompous and ponderous, Denny Pedant. And Trump stinks, pedant boy.
Would you rather hear me go off about Jill Stein?
I spent yesterday in Detroit with a veterans group who help with emergency preparedness and have been working with the community (centered around the community of Redford; the birthplace of Ted Nugent).
We spent part of the afternoon touring city block after city block of what looks like a war zone; vast swaths of once-middle-class America that looks like a third-world country. The great American pretense is communism is to blame for bread lines in Havana, but capitalism isn't to blame for poverty in Detroit.
As we reflect on this day, of human and capital treasures we've plundered as a response, let's hope we've learned enough not to do this again. We funded both sides of this War on Terror for far too long.
So today I'll remember the extreme sacrifices made by our fellow soldiers and the Iraqi civilian lives lost, all in the name of liberty. Lest we not forget that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from a country we didn't invade.
See how easy this is? Who needs gummit when you can have thoughts and prayers. The best part? If they don’t do the trick, KKKrazy Uncle Pat can just blame the gay agenda.
Anything to avoid talking about the hard realities of climate change….we’re losing coastline at the rate of ~.3 mile/year . Wonder how uncle Pat can put a Biblical spin on that?