Posts by Gary Stewart 392 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jul 2020
It's kind of weird that capitalist-socialist states tend to be the ones with the happiest citizens. Communists states, dictator states, fascist states not so much. I just wish the capitalists with all the capital in the US would quit trying so hard to get more.
A somewhat paraphrased version on my favorite scene in Key Largo:
What do you want Rocky?
I don't know.
You want more don't you?
Yea, that's it I want more.
Will you ever get enough?
Well I haven't so far.
"Because they're sore losers and can't come up with rational arguments. Or often even creative insults. "
And you think Trump can? This is just one example of and almost endless supply of Trump's diarrhea of words and constipation of ideas:
Donald Trump was asked today if he would commit to prioritizing legislation to make childcare affordable, and if so, what specific legislation he would advance.
This is an unedited transcript of his response:
"Well, I would do that, and we're sitting down, and I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so, uh, impactful on that issue. It's a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about, that, because, look, child care is child care is. Couldn't, you know, there's something, you have to have it – in this country you have to have it.
But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I'm talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they're not used to — but they'll get used to it very quickly – and it's not gonna stop them from doing business with us, but they'll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Uh, those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we're talking about, including child care, that it's going to take care.
We're gonna have - I, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with, uh, the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I'm talking about, including growth,
but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just, uh, that I just told you about.
We're gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care, uh, is talked about as being expensive, it's, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we'll be taking in. We're going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we'll worry about the rest of the world. Let's help other people, but we're going to take
care of our country first. This is about America first. It's about Make America Great Again, we have to do it because right now we're a failing nation, so we'll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question.
Thank you."
Can this man think and orate or what? /s
"Orange man bad! "
Why do you feel the need to state the obvious?
"Trump putting 100% on all Chinese goods"
And rising, all the while lying about conducting trade talks with the Chinese. It is a sad day indeed when you are better off trusting the Chinese more than Trump. The only saving grace is that it is a close call. But the safe bet is still that Trump trumps Trump and everybody else when it comes to pork pies.
I've read your posts and no it is not a lie within the limits I previously stated
"However the goal should be picking those who align with your desired outcomes and the aggregate is an election."
While I basically agree that most politicians are in it for themselves your idea of desired goals leaves a lot to be desired.
"You say it backfired then followed with some people performed critical jobs and were rehired immediately. Sounds fairly effective when dealing with bureaucracy that doesnt want change and obfuscate problems/waste. Such as funding covid labs which brought us the pandemic! Or aids criminals against the US!"
Not nearly as effective as figuring out who not to fire first. Some of these are so obvious that it is hard to understand how stupid they had to be to do it in the first place.
"What was the claim and what was the timeframe?"
I don't claim anything, its was all recorded on video. Google, probably Youtube too. I don't have time to point out well know facts that you want to pretend you don't already know.
"Does this include finding 'friendly' judges to try and block the President or DOGE doing anything? Which then costs time and money to get permission to do their very job?"
Quite a few of these judges are well know conservative judges, some appointed by Trump. They can't "pick" judges, they are assigned depending on where they cases are brought and either randomly or depending on how busy they are.
"I am not a fan of Elon and dont particularly expect DOGE to hit whatever target but they are doing something necessary even if you dont like how they are going about it."
Please reread my original post as it clearly explains why the way they are going about it is by far the worst way to do so. But in a nutshell it doesn't do anything they claim it does, probaly costs more money than it saves which defeats the whole purpose, and it puts peoples lives at risk for no reason other that the people doing it have no idea what they are doing.
"Especially in government where they are being scrutinised finally."
There are/were fully qualified people that already do this job. They are called Inspectors General. They report to congress. Many if not most of them were fired by Trump.
"Such as Trump being a felon over an accounting issue (outside the statute of limitations I will add) yet the treasury cries when held to any standard for accounting codes."
Not according to the 12 jurors that indited him and the 12 jurors that convicted him beyond a reasonable doubt on ALL 34 COUNTS. It's called trial by jury. Prosecutors use evidence to attempt to prove the case and defense attorneys try to prove the prosecutors evidence does not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. Both have a say in selecting the jury to head off that old whine. By the way, these things are usually taught in school, that is where I learned them.
"Or funding covid labs and illegal invasions into the US."
All countries study viruses. That's how we develop medical knowledge about how the develop, mutate, and spread. That's how we find their weaknesses and develop vaccines that are effective against them (and no vaccines do not cause autism). Illegal invasions? Nice of you to top off a stupid argument with something even more stupid. Does that take practice or do you come by it naturally?
"Hell if it was so easy to just scalpel out the waste and such then why did they not already do it? "
It's called pork barrel politics and the responsibility to reduce waste rests entirely with congress, which by the way makes any action by DOGE that reduces or eliminates funding or departments illegal. And wile you're at it why don't you ask Trump why he added $8 trillion to the deficit just so he could give people that already have more money than they can spend in several lifetimes even more money, huge corporations massive tax breaks so they could buy back stock instead of investing in their future and "bring manufacturing back to America /s", and tinkle down on every day working Americans.
"DOGE cut funding for the creators of the Covid pandemic that people thought was a bad thing and inflicted huge global harm!"
"And the worms ate into his brain", RFK Jr. is that you?
Lets see, the people working for DOGE had zero experience looking for fraud or waste. I'll just skip abuse because it is a complete non sequitur. They spent almost no time actually gathering the information they needed to make good decisions before they fired thousands of people just to fire people and make Elon and Trump look good. Boy did that every backfire. Some of the people fired were long time professionals that preformed critical jobs and had to be rehired immediately after the stupidity of the of firings became known. They fired people doing cancer research, bird flu research, climate research, weather research, food safety, drug safety, humanitarian aid, cyber security, and on and on and on.
Elon claimed, clearly with no basis in reality they would save $2 trillion before that lie was exposed and it became $1 trillion. When it became obvious that this was yet another lie it magically became $150 billion, an order of magnitude less that the original BS figure and even that was wildly wrong. They posted "receipts" of their savings almost all of which were exposed as gross exaggerations or out right lies that were taken down by DOGE when they were discovered. All in all DOGE probably cost US taxpayers more that they saved although the total cost of this fiasco financially and to the people they fired may ever be known because no one can know how much it will cost to repair the damage. Some of it can never be repaired. Since no fraud has been claimed and no charges have been filed even though fraud is against the law in the US it looks like they failed to find any fraud either. With the current "Justice Department" filing frivolous charges at the drop of Agolf Twitler's hat one would expect something, anything would have been announced by now. FYI the real Justice Department is the people's lawyers not the president's, until recently of course.
So people hate DOGE for many good reasons. Currently 70% of the American people have a negative opinion of DOGE and I have no idea why anyone would like it since it has been a complete failure in all respects. Although the percentage of positive opinions does compare nicely with the estimated number of true MAGA believers.
Full disclosure I stole Agolf Twitler but it is just too good a description to not pass on.
"I just honestly can't fathom how there are people so stupid (on either side)."
The other side is not stupid enough to unilaterally raise tariffs on all land masses and uninhabited islands in the world.
The other side is not stupid enough to fire essential government workers only to have to attempt to rehire them when their stupidity is discovered.
The other side at least makes an attempt to discover where spending can be cut and not resort to slash and burn.
The other side is not stupid enough to cut funding for basic research.
The other side knows that government grants to colleges are mostly for basic research that corporations will not do because there is not profit in it in the short term.
The other side believes in science, well mostly.
The other side does not use government law enforcement for revenge. Yeah I know you think they do but multiple jury convictions show that laws were broken which is why they were prosecuted.
The other side does not blindly follow a lying leader even when they know he is lying about almost everything.
The other side believes that only qualified people should be confirmed for all cabinet posts.
The other side listens to doctors not conspiracies and their spreaders, again well mostly.
The other side does not believe that the cruelty is the point.
The other side does not believe that proven corrupt supreme court judges should not be held accountable for their corruption.
The other side does not believe that the rich elite should pull the strings to run government, yet again well mostly.
The other side does not believe that corporations are people too.
These are just the most obvious, the full list is longer. I am on the other side although I became an independent when Clinton made it OK for democrats to be corporately funded. Luckily some of them have seen the error of that way and renounced it in thought and deed. To which I say to them, welcome to the other side.
The current estimate, take this with more than a grain of salt, is $900 million dollars. Previous service missions using the shuttle of course were around $205 million.
The estimated cost of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, see above caveat, is $4.3 billion.
The estimated cost of the Webb space telescope is $10 billion.
" The Hubble Space Telescope was originally estimated to cost about USD 400 million, but the total cost, adjusted for inflation and including the 1st servicing mission to correct the optics of the telescope was about $5.8 billion dollars"
So the assertions that "Each servicing mission cost over a billion dollars - which would have been enough to build and launch an additional Hubble" are more than a little bit off.
A new servicing mission to the Hubble would require new equipment that would have to be developed and tested as well as many months of astronaut training. As far as I know the "Starship" is probably the only space vehicle that could carry enough equipment and astronauts to do such a mission without requiring multiple launches and it is obviously several years away from being able to safely perform it. So any useful repair mission is probably not feasible and when it reaches the end of it's useful life it will be time to bring this wonderful astronomical instrument back to Earth in a blaze of glory. Hopefully the republicans in congress will grow a new set (Trump has the current set "safely" tucked away in a bathroom at Mar a Lardo) and fund the Nancy Grace Roman telescope. I will not be holding my breath.
USAID, NOAA, NASA, FEMA, Parks and Recreation, and many more. In other words just about every government agency that actually helps Americans. Well average Americans to be exact. I have no doubt that cuts can't be found in every government agency, looking at you $1 trillion dollar Pentagon, but the chainsaw approach can only severely damage these agencies, some beyond repair. I'm not so sure that without added income that they can "fix" the budget deficit. So that leads me to the conclusion that "the cruelty is the point".
Not only space weather but Earth weather as well. With the number of violent weather events that occur throughout the US cuts to NOAA threaten human lives and property almost every day. And thanks to the "mythical" human assisted/instigated climate change the number of these events has been increasing every year.
A much more comprehensive list. I've got this one saved for obvious reasons.
The Trump Network - MLM scam
Trump University - Fraud
Trump foundation/charity Fraud
Trump Tampa - failure & fraud
Trump Soho - bankrupt
Trump golf Aberdeen - scam
Trump golf Puerto Rico - Bankrupt
Trump Chicago - default 40 million
Trump Panama - lawsuit corruption
Trump Baja Mexico Fraud & failure
Trump Fort Lauderdale Scam & failure
Trump Vodka - business failure
Trump Wine - business failure
Trump Steaks - business failure
Trump Shuttle - loan default failure
Trump Air & Trump Pac business failure
Trump Taj Mahal - 4 bankruptcies
Trump Marina/Trump Castle - bankrupt
Trump Plaza - Bankrupt
Trump Indiana Riverboat Casino - bankrupt
Trump IPO ticker DJT failure
Trump Atlanta - failure
Trump Jupiter - lawsuit
Trump Waikiki Hotel - scam lawsuit.
To be continued.
You obviously never had a taco in Texas. They actually do TexMex seasoning of the meat using chili powder, cayenne powder, onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper, and salt. The exact ingredients of the seasoning do vary but those are usually the basics. Some of us top the toppings (lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, this can also vary), with a variety of salsas that can range anywhere from very mild to burning down the house. As far as I know your comment about hard shell corn tacos being "gringo" (which by the way is a racial slur) tacos is correct. So if you want a real "gringo" taco, come to Texas. Top them with some habanero salsa or grim reaper salsa or even no salsa and enjoy.
"There's a reasonable argument to be made that the US taxpayer shouldn't be picking up the tab for this"
Could you please elaborate. If your answer is, as it appears to be privatization I would argue that this is an area where the government could take advantage of the vast resources already invested in security TLAs to produce superior results. While I'm not a big fan when those TLAs do things outside of their responsibilities (spy on citizens, overthrow governments, smuggle drugs, etc.) I do recognize the expertise they have on intercepting intelligence information. The biggest problem with that is they don't like to share it. The lack of sharing between the FBI/CIA is a prime example of this and was partly responsible for the ability of the 9/11 attackers to pull off the biggest terrorist attack in US history. Using CISA (RIP) to coordinate, interpret, and act on that intelligence seems to be an excellent idea. Given the size and number of threats I don't think 3000 people is by any means too many.
"Seriously, though: drop the honorifics. This is not an honorable person."
Yeah, I have too much respect for the office to call him President. I prefer just Trump, or on occasion when he does something horrifically stupid, I call him Moronodon I. I seem to be using the latter a lot more often recently.
I usually at least scan their responses to see just how "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" they are. Which leads me to the conclusion that there are some first class nut jobs in here. And of course I sometimes read them when they are aiming something at me. If they respond to my response, i usually ignore that as it is a massive waste of time that has no chance of a positive result.
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