Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Bloomberg Television"
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The first, stifled, laugh was a clear laugh at him.
The second, larger, laugh was more serious. After Trump's try at a recovery line, the big smile and the "I didn't expect that reaction," came a larger and more generous laugh. Here's the kicker: it was laughing "with" him, but sympathy at that point was the feeling "Poor Donnie, he just can't help it," or "Oh, the poor guy, he just doesn't have a clue."
Sympathy is not the nicest thing in the world when it's compassion for you as a wounded, incompetent, lost baby.
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It's really simple: Trump's impeachment must be an event which brings Americans together again. This means it will have to be bipartisan.
Republicans at the moment are wandering around in a Fox-filled bubble of unreality. Quite literally, the truth will set them free. What they need is a solid year of hard investigation by enough different committees to cover the waterfront -- and to involve a large enough number of Republicans to make a difference.
Not right away, and not by a narrow squeak, but over the long run, on the basis of fact, and by a huge bipartisan majority, then Trump needs to be thrown out on his ass.
After that, there will no doubt be bankruptcy courts, his tax trials, and probably a number of criminal trials. These should be allowed to play themselves out, and then whoever's in power should pardon him. He'll be broke, and he will have lost his generous government pension.
Then we'll see if any of his "friends" will rent an apartment for him, to supplement his Social Security.
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Not true, Frederick. The wee bit of apparent truth in your claim is that business corporations, most of which are small, received the largest cut in nominal top marginal tax rates. Since nominal top marginal rates are paid by almost nobody this is lovely sounding rodomontade, but means almost nothing in dollars and cents.
Its only small virtue is that it's good housekeeping to make your nominal rates reasonably close to the actual rates people pay after all the deductin's done.
What you're presenting here is a very popular line at your Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce dinners. These are hard-working folks, and they deserve a pat on the back from time to time. Pity you choose to do it with flattering half-truths. If you were a wee bit more responsible you would tell them that Trump is a half-wit robbing and wrecking the joint. It wouldn't make you the hardy-hardy-har hero of the moment. It will build the reputation for sense, perhaps even wisdom, on which the long-term success of your practice depends.
Do you want to be popular now, or do you want to build a professional practice to pass on to your children? Do you want applause now or your name on a firm that will be respected for thought, good judgement and vision a generation from now?
Trumpism will give you the first of these. Thinking it through is harder work, but it gives you a shot at the second.
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Timothy,
Half right. but the source of the rot is the Statehouses -- which are responsible for the gerrymandering. right now Democrats in the House represent over four million more votes than the Republicans do, but the GOP have the majority of the seats. Why? Fix at the State level.
There have to be redistrictings every ten years on the basis of each new census, which means the lines will be redrawn in 2021. Whoever wins the 2020 State elections gets to draw the lines until 2030.
It gets worse. ALEC, a right-wing policy shop has hugely disproportionate influence in the States because it puts out legislative templates which lazy legislators just love. a lot of this stuff is just boilerplate. Here's how you finance highways, here's what you do about school superintendents' pensions, and so on and so forth.
If it's highways, Joe State committee Chairman just has to cut and paste in the names of his biggest contributors wherever he feels like it, and deliver it to the floor. work saved, and everybody's happy.
The problem is that ALEC is also screwing the unions, overtaxing the poor and undertaxing the rich, and doing all the usual cheapo disgusting stuff.
If the Greens and the Socialists would pay a little bit of attention where they live, down there in the State elections, they could probably get a few people elected. Instead, they waste a lot of time, money, and votes on primping on TV in the Federal elections. Occasionally they do real harm, as in 2,000.
Long story short: all politics is local.
Good luck and best wishes,
-dlj.
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Sorry, Raymond, credibility lost is gone forever. Every American Administration for a hundred years will be paying a credibility premium in every agreement they manage to reach, simply because Trump has shown that the US cannot be trusted.
In London there's a group called the 1837 committee, I think it is. I forget the exact year, but it's named for the year that Mississippi defaulted on its bonds, back before the Civil War. Today this open, voluntary, and completely happy-go-lucky committee meet every time a Mississippi bond issue comes to market. They knock off a few bottles of good red, remind each other that Mississippi is paying, and come to a consensus on how many basis points they'll tack on the new round of funnypaper. Needless to say, that few basis points, over many decades, has cost Mississippi far more than that original bond issue was worth.
Trump is going to be the same thing, only gold plated.
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Allowing capital gains to be discounted by inflation is a perfectly reasonable idea -- provided they be treated like all other forms of income. Tax them yearly on a January to December year, and on a progressive scale.
As things stand, though, this is a glorious example of the carnage Trump and his fellow gangsters want to wreak on the Republic. The calculation of capital, which is often reflected in both capital gains and in the resale price of companies, is already weighted very heavily in the owners' favor because it treats "depreciation," a bookkeeping entry, as though it were a valuation of capital goods, which it isn't. This means that a prudent manager can happily make money both from running machinery on the books at zero, which makes ratios look sweet, and from buying used machinery that is heavily discounted because it's been largely paid for by the taxpayer. What the hell, if it's unfair, the intelligent people behind this dope Trump will find a way of making it more unfair.
Taxing capital gains as income, the sound Canadian standard of "a dollar is a dollar," is highly unlikely to happen under Trump, but the guy has done us all one more favor. He has shone his bright golden light on one more thing that needs to be fixed.
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+Race Card'Over'Played
You lose. Your own article proves you wrong.
If you want to prove a point with a Fact Checker quote, maybe you should read it first. The article you send me above proves conclusively that your point is false, and that Trey Gowdy and his committee are wandering around in a fog of misinformation, if we look at things charitably.
The money paragraph is the second one:
"As usual, Trump wildly exaggerated the figure. A key point that Republicans on the committee have tried to make was that Ambassador Chris Stevens — who perished in the 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities that left three others dead — did not directly communicate with Clinton on her private email system. (Generally, ambassadors would send messages through the chain of command.) So none of these came directly from Stevens to Clinton, “asking for help,” as Trump put it."
The rest of the Fact Checker's report then goes into how badly the press also reported things, how deluded Gowdy is, and so on.
You simply have no excuse for deluding yourself, and trying to put one over on me and anybody else who might be reading here.
-dlj.
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Race Card'Over'Played
I assume the word you're looking for is "bitch" or perhaps "Bitch." Very fashionable among 4-chan half-wits, I gather. While you're figuring out how to correct your spelling, you ought to work on controlling your caps-lock key as well.
Don't worry. You'll be able to use a computer in a couple of years if you pay attention.
The 550, or 600, or whatever number Trey Gowdy's meth-head staff have pulled out of their asses this week, is the total number of e-mails about all maintenance -- new light-bulbs, tires for the sub-consulates' cars, home-leave for translators, and so on, over the previous six or eight months. You would have known this if you had read your own story.
The idea that there were hundreds of e-mails about the terrorists' attack is simply a stupid invention of rightwing propagandists and random assholes like yourself.
Now, go back to thinking about how your keyboard and your fingers might work together.
Cheers,
-dlj.
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He and I lived in the same little "village," Ookayama, Meguro-ku, a section of Tokyo, in 1972. I was on the north side of the station while he was on the Institute of Technology side of the tracks, but we had acquaintances in common, so I've followed him over the years -- approvingly for the most part.
I only know what I've read in the papers, but it does seem to me he did some genuinely dumb things in recent years so I don't think it's all going to come back.
Net net, though, Jess, I agree with you. The majority of his bets are sound and they'll come back. He's a smart and decent man, and he'll be able to figure out where he made mistakes, I'm pretty sure.
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North Korean denuclearization is a big problem here, but the real problem is this "Korean Peninsula" thingie.
When I lived in Japan I had an acquaintance who commanded a Spruance class destroyer home-based to Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo. He once said "Look, I'm just a 35-year-old kid driving a boat for the Navy -- but I've got more shit here than everything dropped in WWII."
Denuclearization of "the Korean Peninsula," what Dear Leader Trump has signed off on, implies Li'l Kim's inspection and verification of every American shipyard, airbase, and other installation -- all those artillery pads with the 100-ton TNT equivalent tank-busters -- in South Korea.
I sorta doubt that Donnie Fats has talked that one through with Secretary of Defence Mattis, nor with National Security Advisor Bolton. Nor, of course, with Kim. Yet.
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