***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Based Jesus]

Morally defunct and ethically deficient.

 

[elpablo21]

 

[hipstermike]

So to be clear

Ted Rafael Cruz is a product of chain migration

So is Donald Trump

Both want to end said immigration

This is where we are at now

 

[RustyShackleford]

What a **** show.

 

[whywesteppin]

mini-thread:

 

[IATT]

 

[rexanglorum]

It's really hilarious, a trade war that could significantly harm the global economic order is being started...


because the president doesn't understand how trade works.

When my students ask me about all of this, my short answer is "I disagree with President Trump because I believe that global trade is beneficial, on balance"

My longer answer is, I feel uncomfortable to be part of a consensus that includes grandees from Goldman and contributors from the Cato Institute. I feel uneasy at the prospect that my words could be taken as a defense of trade deals, from recent History, which were designed, largely, to eviscerate labor at the hands of the capitalist class. However, Robert Reich assuaged by concerns when he said that we can disagree on the details of trade agreements but anyone who claims to understand economics knows that trade is not a zero-sum game.

When Trump claims that every penny of a trade deficit with a another country represents a loss, I think that every economist, from up and down the political spectrum, can laugh at his buffoonery.


With that said and since we are talking about trade, everyone, who is interested, should check out Ha-Joon Chang, my favorite heterodox economist.

 

[noskey]

If libbies knew anything about real life American science, they would know you fight FIRE POWER with FIRE EXTINGUISHERS. Can't fire if your power is extinguished. Think about it, libtards.

 

[fargin]

I really need to go get me a gold Casio and some leathers.

 

[dreamer23]

nothing wrong at all...

 

[IATT]

 

[flyeed]

 

[osh kosh bosh]

while tucker is a reactionary troll the wagw gap number id more complex than the 75 cents to the dollar number than gets floated out there.

 

[IATT]

 

[wavycrocket]

 

[Belgium]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/world/asia/us-trump-tpp-signed.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
U.S. Allies to Sign Sweeping Trade Deal in Challenge to Trump

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...bassador-to-mexico-out-of-meeting-with-mexico
Kushner leaves US ambassador to Mexico out of meeting with Mexico president: report

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[elpablo21]

"too ethnic"

 

[RustyShackleford]

I know his bigoted base would live this nonsense. The (((Globalist))) dog whistle.
Framing it like if you are not a vile nationalist like him you dislike America.

 

[elpablo21]

 

[Based Jesus]

Russia been fresh out of damns. Been getting away with habitual line stepping for awhile now.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

What does the term globalist even mean?

 

[Belgium]

GOP biblethumpers gonna biblethump
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/377367-tennessee-gop-kill-ban-on-child-marriage
Tennessee GOP kill bill to ban child marriage
State House Republicans in Tennessee on Wednesday effectively killed a bill to ban child marriages in an effort to bolster a conservative lawyer’s case against the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.
The bill called for the state to ban marriages where one of the parties is under 18 years old.

House Majority Leader Glen Casada (R) was convinced to send the bill to summer study in the House Civil Justice Subcommittee after an email from attorney David Fowler, a former state senator, The Tennessean reported on Wednesday.

Summer study is a place where bills often die before they return for debate, effectively killing the bill’s chances to be passed.



Fowler’s email said he is preparing a lawsuit to counter the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage in the 2015 case of Obergefell v. Hodges.

Fowler is arguing that the Supreme Court’s ruling essentially nullified all Tennessee marriage licenses when it opened the spectrum of legal marriage beyond just between a man and a woman, The Tennessean reported.

If Tennessee were to ban child marriages by modifying state marriage law, lawmakers would be acknowledging the existence of same-sex marriage, according to Fowler’s legal theory.

Rep. Darren Jernigan (D), a co-sponsor of the bill, found a state loophole in February that gave a judge the ability to grant marriages to minors with no minimum age limit, The Tennessean reported.

In 2016, 42 men and 166 women under the age of 18 were married in the state, The Tennessean reported.

Nonprofit group Unchained at Last says it has found at least three marriages in Tennessee involving a child as young as 10 years old, but state officials have disputed that claim.

Jernigan and other supporters of the bill say the loophole led to female minors being married to significantly older men, where they face higher chances of being abused.

Fowler is the president of the Family Action Council of Tennessee, a Christian-based advocacy group against same-sax marriage.

Jernigan said it was disgraceful that Casada was citing Fowler’s theory to fight same-sex marriage as the reason to block the child marriage ban.

"Basically, what has happened is the Family Action Council wants to continue to let 13-year-olds get married in the state at the sake of their court case against same-sex couples," Jernigan said. "It's disgraceful. I'm embarrassed for the State of Tennessee, and I can only pray that we bring this back next year and not let them get in the way."

 

[Nike Jordan]

What does the term globalist even mean?

It's code for "the Jews secretly control the global economy".

 

[chao7]

Has Trump implemented those sanctions yet? Starting to look awfully suspicious.

I was listening to some podcast or video the other day and someone mentioned it was not a good thing to prod Trump into a nuclear showdown with Russia, and point taken, I guess.