Trump: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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intojoy

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It's a colony. It's never had a real say in its own government.



So, I guess just let them die then? Is that the point?

Yeah sounds about right. What would they do if there was no America? People need to grow up.


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Town Heretic

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Sad..
I remember a stat that said 85% of college students couldn't point to the US on a world globe.

Funny/sad if true.

I believe there is also a difference in their taxes.
I think they only pay income tax federally if they work in the states.

Last I heard, it was about 50/50.
The 97% for statehood was from ballot cast earlier this year. Now the opinion polls may run differently, but those motivated enough to cast a ballot were 3% from perfect agreement on making the island our 51st state.
 

kmoney

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Bad: Trump decertifying the Iran deal

Bad: Trump trying to say nice things about Puerto Rico now
 

drbrumley

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Bad: Trump decertifying the Iran deal

Think you might find this interesting...

Trump Decertifies Iran Deal, Vows New Sanctions
President Tries to Link Iran to 9/11 Attackers

Jason Ditz
Posted on
October 13, 2017

President Trump started his long-anticipated anti-Iran speech by complaining about the 1979 hostage situation. What followed was an increasingly fantastical and absurd accounting of Iran’s history, before finally announcing he is decertifying the nuclear deal for “violations,” and announcing new sanctions.

The allegations against Iran went from things that happened a generation ago to treating things like the specious “Iranian plot” to attack a DC restaurant as not only the government’s fault, but absolute established fact. Beyond that, he blamed Iran for the ISIS wars in Iraq and Syria, repeatedly accused them of supporting al-Qaeda, and claimed Iran was supporting the 9/11 attackers.

The allegations were so far-fetched by the end, that even President Trump appeared cognizant that many won’t be taken seriously. Later in his speech, he insisted that the claims were “factual.”

When addressing “violations” of the P5+1 nuclear deal, Trump similarly played fast and loose with the facts, citing heavy water claims that are really more the international community’s violation than Iran’s (Iran was guaranteed an international market for the water, but after Congress got mad the US has refused to buy any more, meaning Iran’s totally non-dangerous stock grew), and accusing them of “intimidating” inspectors, insinuating that was the reason there aren’t investigations at Iranian military sites.

In reality, Iranian military sites are only subject to investigation in the case of a substantiated suspicion of nuclear activities, and there simply are none. The IAEA has in recent days clarified multiple times that they don’t need or want to visit any military sites right now. The only allegations about the sites are from the Mujahedin-e Khalq, which has been the source of repeated false accusations in the past.

And while this was supposed to be a speech about the nuclear deal, Trump closed it off with comments that very much sound like his goal is regime change, saying Iran’s people want to be able to interact with their neighbors (despite Iran being on very good terms with most of its neighbors already), and suggesting that whatever he’s going to do will lead to “peace and stability” across the Middle East.
 

Ktoyou

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Someone explain this to me. How does any health care plan change effect one who is already on Medicare, and has a Medi-gap plan?

Young people do not have these plans, loss of their income mean nothing, a far as I see to those over 65, so, how would it affect me?

Also, when they make media claims about 20 million LOSING healthcare insurance they are including all this young healthy persons who choose not to buy the healthcare policy. They mislead people by saying all these persons LOSE healthcare insurance.
 
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