The Trump Presidency :::

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  1. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

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    Sep 6, 2001
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    Too bad that joke is on us and the rest of the world.
     
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  2. The Jitty Slitter

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    Bayern München
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    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
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    Exactly.

    Krugman wrote some articles about this some months back and also advanced the suggestion that most business people don't get this.

    They tend to see it like the US is a company so in order to reduce the deficit they need to sell more and cut costs

    Also they don't understand the impact of inwards investment into the US and relation to balance of payments

     
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  3. appoo

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    Jul 30, 2001
    USA
    If anyone was going to debate my point, I had the zero-sum game argument all dialed up.
     
  4. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    And smugness.

    It can be agonizing.:cry:
     
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  5. The Jitty Slitter

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    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
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    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    This is the part Trump clearly does not understand

    https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company
     
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  6. The Jitty Slitter

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    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
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    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    This is of course why everyone in the EU would like German consumers to hurry up and start spending.
     
  7. roby

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    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    You're just being smug cuz the Windy City barely got a C+ for their pizza offerings. :coffee:
     
  8. Cris 09

    Cris 09 Trololololo

    Nov 30, 2004
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    Ugh...My bad. I should have linked the source at the bottom of the post but was ready to leave for work and the girlfriend wanted me to put the Netflix movie back in it's envelope so we could return it today in the mail. (Yes, we do the mail things - we get better section of latest releases that aren't available in streaming.)

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rding-to-donald-trump/?utm_term=.1a3ac4d6ea88

    5) Banking

    "Nobody knows banking better than I do" — February 2016
     
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  9. Boloni86

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    Trump thought he could be the Zlatan of politics. Just show up, little effort, no work and just keep banging in the goals.

    Except he's really the Edson Buddle of politics. Just show up, little effort, no work and no goals.
     
  10. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    We've been through this before. Chicago pizza is nothing special. Chicago hot dogs are where it's at. The rest of you shouldn't even try doing hot dogs, ours are so much better. But the pizza ... whatever.
     
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  11. Gamecock14

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    #6186 Gamecock14, Apr 28, 2017
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    20committee and louisemensch

    They seem to have been right on a lot of stuff so far. BTW, one is conservative and the other is right of center so some of their posts may not agree with your viewpoint.

    I also follow Rick Wilson and have for the last couple of years. He is pretty funny, even if you don't agree with the politics.

     
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  12. chaski

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    Cleveland has an NFL team?
     
  13. dapip

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    Or the Raposo of politics...

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(footballer)
     
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  14. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

    Fucklechester Rangers
    Jul 22, 2001
    Eastern Seaboard of Yo! Semite
    Recently promoted from the Big 10, yeah.
     
  15. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

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    Chicago, IL
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Browns could take Ohio State. Clemson might be another matter.
     
  16. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

    Fucklechester Rangers
    Jul 22, 2001
    Eastern Seaboard of Yo! Semite
    This year's Ohio State, I'm not sure. I'm pretty shocked OSU made the playoff last year with the fewest returning starters in all of college football.
     
  17. appoo

    appoo Member+

    Jul 30, 2001
    USA
    It amuses me that Urban Meyer has the exact same number of Big 10 titles as James Franklin does.
     
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  18. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

    Fucklechester Rangers
    Jul 22, 2001
    Eastern Seaboard of Yo! Semite
    It's not a surprise you're amused by very silly trivia.
     
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  19. stanger

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    Not surprised you pick the only stat Meyer and Franklin share.

    Maybe you should point to Franklin losing three times as many games in his first year than Urban has in his 5?

    But hey, congrats in tying for the league once. :)
     
  20. Hayaka

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    It was fun to see both Meyer and Saban get knocked down a peg or two by a man whose mother named him Dabo.
     
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  21. appoo

    appoo Member+

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    USA
    I'm actually sort of amazed neither O'Brien nor Franklin had a losing season.
     
  22. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

    Fucklechester Rangers
    Jul 22, 2001
    Eastern Seaboard of Yo! Semite
    While Dabo is a stupid name, his birth name is William - Dabo is a nickname. I also doubt OSU fans or anyone else sees it as Meyer being taken down a peg - he's lost big games before (the SEC title game to Bama, for example). It hasn't exactly hurt OSU's recruiting.
     
  23. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    #6198 Cascarino's Pizzeria, Apr 28, 2017
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    Hot dogs are what you shove into yer maw on a road trip or at a ballgame. Pizza is life, dude. Great pizza - which too many Chicagoland mooks round here have never had - is transcendent.
     
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  24. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

    Fucklechester Rangers
    Jul 22, 2001
    Eastern Seaboard of Yo! Semite
    No wonder Chicago has such a high murder rate then.
     
  25. taosjohn

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    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Actually, she named him William Christopher; the nickname came from his infant brother's inability to pronounce "that boy." Or so I'm told. Sad.
     

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