What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Camerus]

And Americans generally.  What degradation.   

[jimmy olsen]

Electing either Senator should embarrass Michigan residents.

Actually there's an incumbent dem senator there who will run for reelection, so sadly we will be denied the entertainment of Rock vs. Mathers.

[garbon]

And Americans generally.  What degradation.   

Nah, there are too many Americans to have to feel guilty about what happens in each individual state.

[dps]

Yeah. I want free trade austerity and balanced budgets. Thing the right are now militantly against.

WTF?

What is so what-the-fuckish about what Valmy said?

As a right-winger, I can definitely say that I care about free trade and balanced budgets.

[Savonarola]

Eminem should run against Kid Rock for senate

It would be just like the Rap Olympics, but somehow even more embarrassing for all participants.

Embarassing for Kid Rock maybe, he doesn't have a 20th of Eminems lyrical talent. It would be a massacre.

Well, yes, rap battles are Shady's specialty; he did take the silver medal at the 1997 Rap Olympics, after all.  I guess that's no worse a way to pick a leader than based on how well he can deliver a dis tweet.

[grumbler]

As a right-winger, I can definitely say that I care about free trade and balanced budgets.

You are one right-winger.  The right as a whole has been behind Donald Trump and the House Republicans, who believe in neither.  I do think the Senate Republicans remain broadly in favor of those issues, but they have no leadership whatsoever.

It is curious that the filthy-rich have so thoroughly dominated the Republican national agenda.  Six successive tax cuts for the rich should have proven by now that making the rich richer does not promote economic growth, but Trump and the House Republicans still are trying to implement the seventh, saying it will work this time, for sure.

[derspiess]

Make that two

[Ed Anger]

Taxation is theft

[Monoriu]

Taxation is theft

Robbery. 

[Razgovory]

Taxation is theft

Robbery.

3rd degree premeditated indecent exposure.

[dps]

Taxes are a necessary evil.  As I said to KAP years ago, I have a problem with people who don't think taxes are evil, but I also have a problem with people who don't think that they're necessary.

[grumbler]

I have a real problem with people who think that taxes are "evil."  Evil is a hysterically over-wrought word to use for something that is efficient sometimes and inefficient at other times.  Taxes can be used for "evil" purposes (like poll taxes to keep the poor from voting) but they cannot be evil in and of themselves, any more than, say, monetary policy is evil in and of itself.

[dps]

I have a real problem with people who think that taxes are "evil."  Evil is a hysterically over-wrought word to use for something that is efficient sometimes and inefficient at other times.  Taxes can be used for "evil" purposes (like poll taxes to keep the poor from voting) but they cannot be evil in and of themselves, any more than, say, monetary policy is evil in and of itself.

That's not an unreasonable opinion;  I can respect that even if I don't agree.

[CountDeMoney]

Crossposted from the TV and Movie thread, because it's that good

Anderson Cooper meets Kellywise the Clown...

https://youtu.be/Hlt3rA-oDao

[Tonitrus]

Crossposted from the TV and Movie thread, because it's that good

Anderson Cooper meets Kellywise the Clown...

https://youtu.be/Hlt3rA-oDao

HOTT