Red Mosquito

Self wrote:Massachusetts is what it is, but one of our proudest moments has to be that we made Curt beg to Rhode Island instead. Either that or Salem.

tragabigzanda wrote:Interesting article on the battle for the Senate, which it looks like will be decided by six states:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/s ... map-230173

BurtReynolds wrote:He doesn't look like he is going to live another 4 years.

TRUMP'S ANTI-CORRUPTION TO-DO LIST
1. Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress
2. Hiring freeze on federal employees to reduce the workforce through attrition
3. Requirement to eliminate two federal regulations for every new one
4. Five-year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists
5. Lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign governments
6. Complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections

TRUMP'S PLEDGES ON IMMIGRATION AND 'RULE OF LAW'
1. Cancel Obama's 'unconstitutional' executive actions, memoranda and orders
2. Pick a conservative replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
3. Cancel all federal funding to 'sanctuary cities' that harbor illegal immigrants
4. Begin removing the 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the U.S., and cancel visas to countries that won’t repatriate them
5. Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where incoming people can't be properly vetted.

TRUMP'S PLAN FOR JOBS AND TRADE
1. Renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement or withdraw from it
2. Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
3. Order the secretary of the treasury to label China a 'currency manipulator'
4. Use U.S. and international laws to end foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers
5. Lift restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of U.S. energy reserves including shale, oil, natural gas and coal
6. Approve the Keystone XL pipeline project and other 'vital energy infrastructure projects'
7. Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to improve U.S. water and environmental infrastructur

tragabigzanda wrote:One thing I don't understand: Why does the press claim that early voting could swing an election? For example, in Nevade they are seeing a lot of mail-in votes for dems, and saying the GOP can't rebound. Isn't that pretty speculative?

Bi_3 wrote:Summary of Trump's 100 day plan:

TRUMP'S ANTI-CORRUPTION TO-DO LIST
1. Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress
2. Hiring freeze on federal employees to reduce the workforce through attrition
3. Requirement to eliminate two federal regulations for every new one
4. Five-year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists
5. Lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign governments
6. Complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections

TRUMP'S PLEDGES ON IMMIGRATION AND 'RULE OF LAW'
1. Cancel Obama's 'unconstitutional' executive actions, memoranda and orders
2. Pick a conservative replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
3. Cancel all federal funding to 'sanctuary cities' that harbor illegal immigrants
4. Begin removing the 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the U.S., and cancel visas to countries that won’t repatriate them
5. Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where incoming people can't be properly vetted.

TRUMP'S PLAN FOR JOBS AND TRADE
1. Renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement or withdraw from it
2. Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
3. Order the secretary of the treasury to label China a 'currency manipulator'
4. Use U.S. and international laws to end foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers
5. Lift restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of U.S. energy reserves including shale, oil, natural gas and coal
6. Approve the Keystone XL pipeline project and other 'vital energy infrastructure projects'
7. Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to improve U.S. water and environmental infrastructur

Really not bad. Would never happen, but not bad.

McParadigm wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Summary of Trump's 100 day plan:

TRUMP'S ANTI-CORRUPTION TO-DO LIST
1. Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress
2. Hiring freeze on federal employees to reduce the workforce through attrition
3. Requirement to eliminate two federal regulations for every new one
4. Five-year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists
5. Lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign governments
6. Complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections

TRUMP'S PLEDGES ON IMMIGRATION AND 'RULE OF LAW'
1. Cancel Obama's 'unconstitutional' executive actions, memoranda and orders
2. Pick a conservative replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
3. Cancel all federal funding to 'sanctuary cities' that harbor illegal immigrants
4. Begin removing the 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the U.S., and cancel visas to countries that won’t repatriate them
5. Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where incoming people can't be properly vetted.

TRUMP'S PLAN FOR JOBS AND TRADE
1. Renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement or withdraw from it
2. Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
3. Order the secretary of the treasury to label China a 'currency manipulator'
4. Use U.S. and international laws to end foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers
5. Lift restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of U.S. energy reserves including shale, oil, natural gas and coal
6. Approve the Keystone XL pipeline project and other 'vital energy infrastructure projects'
7. Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to improve U.S. water and environmental infrastructur

Really not bad. Would never happen, but not bad.

Of course it would never happen. Most of it presumes a level of influence beyond what the presidency, or in some cases the United States, has.

A lot of it is also fantasy driven in a very reductionist worldview kind of way. Like the idea that we can just dictate reforms to other countries that will help our workforce...especially right after kicking over the apple cart if every trade agreement on the books (maybe he'll sue them into letting us be competitive), or that environmental issues are a national problem only, with national solutions...all of which are conveniently disassociatable from our (eye roll) energy problem.

"You have to remove two regulations to make a new one" is the most insanely arbitrary approach you could possibly take to government regulatory services, and a real red flag coming from someone who has already shown such an alarming lack of understanding of how some those regulating bodies help (or save!) American people. And on a side note, a lot of this is punitive, more about bullying people who haven't been doing what he thinks is best than finding solutions to the problems that cause them.

I don't know what anybody's seeing here that they think is "good." We will magically make immigration stop, cut funding to cities that actively harbor immigrants (what the fuck is he even on about), force the world to stop undermining any of our economic interests lol, put a blind freeze on federal employees (good luck, prison system and other understaffed segments!), and continue to do our best to avoid innovating around our very comfortable but unsustainable lifestyle.