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		By: JLM		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 22:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/trump-rust-belt/#comment-3734&quot;&gt;Anthony Medel&lt;/a&gt;.

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I think the rule may be limited to failed and vanquished political opponents, who knows? I would personally pardon HRC.

I think recent events indicate Pres Trump will be more particular about some threats to the nation. No?

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<p>.<br />
I think the rule may be limited to failed and vanquished political opponents, who knows? I would personally pardon HRC.</p>
<p>I think recent events indicate Pres Trump will be more particular about some threats to the nation. No?</p>
<p>BRC<br />
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		By: Anthony Medel		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 22:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/trump-rust-belt/#comment-3401&quot;&gt;JLM&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;She&#039;s so yesterday&quot; so we can forget about prosecuting her?  I thought she was a dangerous threat to our nation.  Is Trump going to have this attitude with all threats to our nation?]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s so yesterday&#8221; so we can forget about prosecuting her?  I thought she was a dangerous threat to our nation.  Is Trump going to have this attitude with all threats to our nation?</p>
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		By: Anthony Medel		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2017 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/trump-rust-belt/#comment-3401&quot;&gt;JLM&lt;/a&gt;.

CEOs are not politicians.  Do you really think billionaire CEOs have working class interests at heart?  They represent their corporations, and that&#039;s IT.  This is basically the same as being a lobbyist except now they&#039;ve got the keys to the kingdom.  They didn&#039;t give a damn about the working class as CEOs and they sure as hell won&#039;t give a damn as wannabe politicians.  This is why a government should NEVER be run like a business; they exist for totally different reasons.  It makes no sense to elect a billionaire to hire other billionaires to fix the system that made them billionaires.  

HRC is so yesterday?  Tell that to the thousands of Trump supporters who screamed &quot;Lock her up&quot;.  He said he would, now all of a sudden he can just dismiss the idea.  Conservatives painted Hillary as being a criminal, a clear and present threat to our nation.  Is THIS how he plans to deal with such threats? Forget about them as soon as they aren&#039;t expedient for him?  He&#039;s either a bald-faced liar, or a weak leader.  Which is it?

I&#039;ve never seen such a thin-skinned crybaby in office.  Every time someone criticizes him, he gets into a Twitter war.  OUR PRESIDENT acts like a teenage girl.  With all the mud slung at Obama the last 8 years, he never once took to Twitter to whine and get into personal grudge matches.  Trump just can&#039;t let any criticism go without a Twitter fight over it, whether it&#039;s with a gold star parent or a beauty pageant contestant.  This man is no president.  

Now he&#039;s sitting out important security briefings.  SECURITY briefings.  What would he rather do?  Have a photo op with Kanye West.  THIS is what his priorities are vs. what they should be.  If Obama had done such a thing, right wingers would have crucified him.

Funny how &quot;fiscally conservative&quot; Republicans balk at any mention of spending money on education (a REAL investment in our future) but think it&#039;s a good idea to borrow $25 billion from taxpayers with the hope that some day Mexico will pay it back.  Trump said he would get Mexico to make a one time payment of $5-10 billion to keep it legal to wire money there.  Oops, didn&#039;t work out that way, now WE have to front the cash for this utterly pointless, ridiculous wall.  Cash that could be spent on our lagging infrastructure.

Working class Americans are already suffering under Trump.  He gave Carrier $7 million in corporate welfare at the expense of the taxpayers, all to save less than half the jobs that were leaving. 

THESE are the kinds of &quot;great deals&quot; Trump is making, and it&#039;s just the beginning.  It will be you who are surprised, and probably sooner than we think.]]></description>
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<p>CEOs are not politicians.  Do you really think billionaire CEOs have working class interests at heart?  They represent their corporations, and that&#8217;s IT.  This is basically the same as being a lobbyist except now they&#8217;ve got the keys to the kingdom.  They didn&#8217;t give a damn about the working class as CEOs and they sure as hell won&#8217;t give a damn as wannabe politicians.  This is why a government should NEVER be run like a business; they exist for totally different reasons.  It makes no sense to elect a billionaire to hire other billionaires to fix the system that made them billionaires.  </p>
<p>HRC is so yesterday?  Tell that to the thousands of Trump supporters who screamed &#8220;Lock her up&#8221;.  He said he would, now all of a sudden he can just dismiss the idea.  Conservatives painted Hillary as being a criminal, a clear and present threat to our nation.  Is THIS how he plans to deal with such threats? Forget about them as soon as they aren&#8217;t expedient for him?  He&#8217;s either a bald-faced liar, or a weak leader.  Which is it?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve never seen such a thin-skinned crybaby in office.  Every time someone criticizes him, he gets into a Twitter war.  OUR PRESIDENT acts like a teenage girl.  With all the mud slung at Obama the last 8 years, he never once took to Twitter to whine and get into personal grudge matches.  Trump just can&#8217;t let any criticism go without a Twitter fight over it, whether it&#8217;s with a gold star parent or a beauty pageant contestant.  This man is no president.  </p>
<p>Now he&#8217;s sitting out important security briefings.  SECURITY briefings.  What would he rather do?  Have a photo op with Kanye West.  THIS is what his priorities are vs. what they should be.  If Obama had done such a thing, right wingers would have crucified him.</p>
<p>Funny how &#8220;fiscally conservative&#8221; Republicans balk at any mention of spending money on education (a REAL investment in our future) but think it&#8217;s a good idea to borrow $25 billion from taxpayers with the hope that some day Mexico will pay it back.  Trump said he would get Mexico to make a one time payment of $5-10 billion to keep it legal to wire money there.  Oops, didn&#8217;t work out that way, now WE have to front the cash for this utterly pointless, ridiculous wall.  Cash that could be spent on our lagging infrastructure.</p>
<p>Working class Americans are already suffering under Trump.  He gave Carrier $7 million in corporate welfare at the expense of the taxpayers, all to save less than half the jobs that were leaving. </p>
<p>THESE are the kinds of &#8220;great deals&#8221; Trump is making, and it&#8217;s just the beginning.  It will be you who are surprised, and probably sooner than we think.</p>
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		By: JLM		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/trump-rust-belt/#comment-3400&quot;&gt;Anthony Medel&lt;/a&gt;.

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Anthony, fair play on GS but more form than function.

Complete whiff on his Cabinet. Former CEO of Exxon, Mad Dog -- not insiders. High marks on appointees.

Hold tight on HRC. Politically the right move. He used that rhetoric to win. He won. She is so yesterday.

He will get the WALL built and get Mexico to pay through tariffs.

It is not hard to know what the man believes in. Now, the challenge is to see what he can get done.

I think we are all going to be surprised. Favorably.

Stay warm.

BRC
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<p>.<br />
Anthony, fair play on GS but more form than function.</p>
<p>Complete whiff on his Cabinet. Former CEO of Exxon, Mad Dog &#8212; not insiders. High marks on appointees.</p>
<p>Hold tight on HRC. Politically the right move. He used that rhetoric to win. He won. She is so yesterday.</p>
<p>He will get the WALL built and get Mexico to pay through tariffs.</p>
<p>It is not hard to know what the man believes in. Now, the challenge is to see what he can get done.</p>
<p>I think we are all going to be surprised. Favorably.</p>
<p>Stay warm.</p>
<p>BRC<br />
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		By: Anthony Medel		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2017 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/trump-rust-belt/#comment-3127&quot;&gt;JLM&lt;/a&gt;.

Change? He crucified Hillary for giving speeches to Goldman Sachs, saying GS destroyed the working class; now he&#039;s hiring them for his cabinet. He said he was gonna drain the swamp of lobbyists, now he&#039;s filling his staff with lobbyists and D.C. insiders. He promised to appoint a special prosecutor to lock Hillary up and now he&#039;s not interested in pursuing that. Now we are going to spend $25 billion of our own money to build this utterly pointless wall with the hope that maybe we can get another sovereign nation to pay for it. But wait, he said parts of it could be a fence. Who knows what this man really believes. 

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<p>Change? He crucified Hillary for giving speeches to Goldman Sachs, saying GS destroyed the working class; now he&#8217;s hiring them for his cabinet. He said he was gonna drain the swamp of lobbyists, now he&#8217;s filling his staff with lobbyists and D.C. insiders. He promised to appoint a special prosecutor to lock Hillary up and now he&#8217;s not interested in pursuing that. Now we are going to spend $25 billion of our own money to build this utterly pointless wall with the hope that maybe we can get another sovereign nation to pay for it. But wait, he said parts of it could be a fence. Who knows what this man really believes. </p>
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		By: JLM		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/trump-rust-belt/#comment-3131&quot;&gt;sigmaalgebra&lt;/a&gt;.

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He under performed even his own low expectations.

BRC
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<p>.<br />
He under performed even his own low expectations.</p>
<p>BRC<br />
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		By: sigmaalgebra		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Obama was never intended to be a good POTUS.  We knew who he was, his background, his friends and mentors.  It looked like he hated the US, and he did.

But for some reason the mainstream media (MSM) fell totally in love with Obama.  It seemed that the MSM somehow believed that if we could only have a Black POTUS, then all the Blacks would enter the middle or upper classes and all the tension between the races would disappear.  Nope.  At least not with Obama who hated the US.

Good medicine for tough problems is usually tough to come by.  Snake oil was not good medicine, either.

Typically, good solutions to tough problems require a lot of good work.  If ObamaCare had been a tall building, it would have fallen over in the first high wind; a long bridge, collapsed with the first traffic; an airplane, crashed and burned during takeoff.

ObamaCare was never expected to work.

AFAIK:

Obama -- Enjoyed sticking US health care in the gut.

Nancy Pelosi -- Enjoyed exercising &lt;i&gt;girl power!&lt;/i&gt;

Barney Frank -- wanted a step to the public option and then to single payer.

The Health Insurance Companies -- were hoping to get some nice subsidies.

Republicans -- smart enough to see silly, dirty, bad politics and put a time out data on it (IIRC), timed to die just after Obama left office.

Hillary?  Baggage enough to sink an aircraft carrier.  Good grief, the woman belongs in court and then jail for massive violation of section (f) of the US Espionage Act.  That fact seemed to be of relatively little concern to a lot of voters.  Amazing.

It looks like the MSM was doing their thing again -- pushing for an affirmative action POTUS, this time for women instead of the Blacks.

So, this time, the MSM fell totally in love with Hillary.  It seemed that the MSM somehow believed that if we could only have a woman POTUS, no matter what her baggage, then all the women would no longer feel frustrated in their lives balancing education, love, marriage, motherhood, cellulite, and career and become welcome in the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.

Hillary came awfully close, close enough to scare me.

Now with Trump, we can get back to actually doing good work to do good things in and for our country.

So, an annual trade deficit of $700+ billion is a bummer.  So, turn that around.

95 million people in the US able to work but not in the labor force is a bummer.  So, turn that around.

We have long standing laws, policies, and procedures on immigration that we have set aside -- bummer.  So, return to what we used to have plus some.

Long wars in shit pit countries are dumb.  So, don&#039;t do that anymore.

Lots more good stuff that is obvious.

For the MSM news, I don&#039;t know any solution except just to let it die out.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama was never intended to be a good POTUS.  We knew who he was, his background, his friends and mentors.  It looked like he hated the US, and he did.</p>
<p>But for some reason the mainstream media (MSM) fell totally in love with Obama.  It seemed that the MSM somehow believed that if we could only have a Black POTUS, then all the Blacks would enter the middle or upper classes and all the tension between the races would disappear.  Nope.  At least not with Obama who hated the US.</p>
<p>Good medicine for tough problems is usually tough to come by.  Snake oil was not good medicine, either.</p>
<p>Typically, good solutions to tough problems require a lot of good work.  If ObamaCare had been a tall building, it would have fallen over in the first high wind; a long bridge, collapsed with the first traffic; an airplane, crashed and burned during takeoff.</p>
<p>ObamaCare was never expected to work.</p>
<p>AFAIK:</p>
<p>Obama &#8212; Enjoyed sticking US health care in the gut.</p>
<p>Nancy Pelosi &#8212; Enjoyed exercising <i>girl power!</i></p>
<p>Barney Frank &#8212; wanted a step to the public option and then to single payer.</p>
<p>The Health Insurance Companies &#8212; were hoping to get some nice subsidies.</p>
<p>Republicans &#8212; smart enough to see silly, dirty, bad politics and put a time out data on it (IIRC), timed to die just after Obama left office.</p>
<p>Hillary?  Baggage enough to sink an aircraft carrier.  Good grief, the woman belongs in court and then jail for massive violation of section (f) of the US Espionage Act.  That fact seemed to be of relatively little concern to a lot of voters.  Amazing.</p>
<p>It looks like the MSM was doing their thing again &#8212; pushing for an affirmative action POTUS, this time for women instead of the Blacks.</p>
<p>So, this time, the MSM fell totally in love with Hillary.  It seemed that the MSM somehow believed that if we could only have a woman POTUS, no matter what her baggage, then all the women would no longer feel frustrated in their lives balancing education, love, marriage, motherhood, cellulite, and career and become welcome in the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.</p>
<p>Hillary came awfully close, close enough to scare me.</p>
<p>Now with Trump, we can get back to actually doing good work to do good things in and for our country.</p>
<p>So, an annual trade deficit of $700+ billion is a bummer.  So, turn that around.</p>
<p>95 million people in the US able to work but not in the labor force is a bummer.  So, turn that around.</p>
<p>We have long standing laws, policies, and procedures on immigration that we have set aside &#8212; bummer.  So, return to what we used to have plus some.</p>
<p>Long wars in shit pit countries are dumb.  So, don&#8217;t do that anymore.</p>
<p>Lots more good stuff that is obvious.</p>
<p>For the MSM news, I don&#8217;t know any solution except just to let it die out.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/trump-rust-belt/#comment-3127&quot;&gt;JLM&lt;/a&gt;.

You&#039;re a great manager.  A manager must go to the people and find out what they need to be better.  I believe Trump will do that.  What can I do to help you?]]></description>
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<p>You&#8217;re a great manager.  A manager must go to the people and find out what they need to be better.  I believe Trump will do that.  What can I do to help you?</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/trump-rust-belt/#comment-3126&quot;&gt;Ronnie Walleck&lt;/a&gt;.

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By Day Two, Trump has met with the Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, the outgoing President -- things are getting ready to change. I can feel it.

BRC
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<p>.<br />
By Day Two, Trump has met with the Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, the outgoing President &#8212; things are getting ready to change. I can feel it.</p>
<p>BRC<br />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;The Deplorables,&quot; &quot;The Swamp full of Crazy&quot;, and &quot;those who cling to guns and religion&quot; ruled the day.  The political and cultural elite failed once more.  Great Article.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Deplorables,&#8221; &#8220;The Swamp full of Crazy&#8221;, and &#8220;those who cling to guns and religion&#8221; ruled the day.  The political and cultural elite failed once more.  Great Article.</p>
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