“The United States has been taken advantage of for decades and decades,” Trump said at a press conference on the second day of a two-day summit in Canada.
He said he had suggested to the other G7 leaders that all trade barriers, including tariffs and subsidies, be eliminated.
“You go tariff-free, you go barrier-free, you go subsidy free,” he said. “I did suggest it and people I guess were going to go back to the drawing board.”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-blows-up-g7-summit-then-offers-olive-branch/
Yinz want “Free Trade”?
There it is…
ROTFLMAO Every other nation on earth wants “Free Trade” with the United States of America right up until the United States makes that “Free Trade” universally equal.
Trump says… Take your damn thumb off the scale or we are putting ours on exactly the same. Now we will see what everyone else has to say…
That’ll be interesting. The US will need to cut a few regulations & taxes but I’m fine with that.
@ right_wing2:
regs & taxes?? Think SUBSIDIES. Our agricultural subsidies are bad enough, you should SEE what they’ve got under the Common Agricultural Policy. Hell, about 15% (I think) of the Prince of Wales’ income is from that.
And fisheries? oh, my…..
Before he’s done Trump will have these people talking about a barter system and they won’t even realize it.
@ eaglesoars:
And that’s true too. I’m not sure how I feel about some subsidies or some way of helping out family farms (my dad’s side of the family farmed, but not for a long time), but I sure don’t support subsidies to corporate farms & seed companies (Monsanto).
yinz have to see this. It looks like – no joke – Trudeau has been wearing fake eyebrows. Watch this
https://twitter.com/stephen_taylor/status/1005518821942161408
right_wing2 wrote:
How dare you suggest tax and regulation cuts. Where do you think all of the worlds utterly useless, intolerably and insufferably arrogant buerocrats salaries come from?
The New York Slimes is still suffering from EPIC Butthurt…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/%E2%80%98drama-action-emotional-power%E2%80%99-as-exhausted-aides-eye-the-exits-trump-is-re-energized/ar-AAyrQmA?li=BBnbcA1
Why am I not surprised
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In the middle of directing the difficult task of transferring the historically important records of the Obama administration into the National Archives, the archivist in charge, David Ferriero, ran into a serious problem: A lot of key records are missing.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/10/crisis_at_the_national_archives_137241.html
@ doriangrey:
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Several high-profile aides, including John F. Kelly, the president’s chief of staff, and Joe Hagin, a deputy of Mr. Kelly’s, are said to be thinking about how much longer they can stay. Last week, Mr. Kelly told visiting senators that the White House was “a miserable place to work,” according to a person with direct knowledge of the comment.
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I’ve been hearing about Kelly’s imminent departure and dissatisfaction for a year
sarah sanders “pow”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/09/sanders-cnn-producer-you-are-wrong/
@ eaglesoars:
sup,
the girl is off for her 2nd week of camp
I am seriously ill. I must be.
Tonight all I crave and desire is a salad.
Do not worry, salad is in the fridge waiting to be eaten.
I’ve found when I delivered pizza that hardcore socialists, both advocates and beneficiaries, never tip. One of them actually laughed in my face when I told where he could write in a tip on a credit card slip. Another actually took his time to count out the exact amount of the transaction, and not one penny more, while I was standing outside the door in cold pouring rain.
I’m too ill informed to comment, but I did find this at smalldeadanimals:
“Any independent country tries to deal from strength. Repeated Canadian administrations have failed to establish a diversified economy. Quite simply a $1 of Canadian GDP does not equal a $1 of USA GDP. Canada is a price taker in a huge % of the economy. Americans are valued added producers. Harper, to his credit, was doing more to diversify the Canadian economy than had been seen in many decades. Harper was a threat to the status quo, particularly the USA, Russia and OPEC. I am convinced foreign money was put to work to ensure his defeat.
Investment in a diversified economy takes money and time for which Canadian governments have not seriously attempted. The concept of delayed consumption for future benefit does not fly for ‘progressive’ governments who not only deficit finance but encourage their citizens to do the same. Turdeau’s closing G7 comments were self serving and incredibly naive.”
We do not have an appropriate allocation to military forces. Paladin Phil can speak to that. Progressives are not serious people wrt to our outsized national/provincial/city debts. Yet we give Syrian migrants $3,000 per month (at least) for the first 2 years along with free education & medical services. THE WHOLE COUNTRY apparently cannot do arithmetic. However, we are about to legalize weed. Turdeau is a nasty greedy barely average IQ child. I blame the voters.
rain of lead wrote:
You & momcat lonesome yet?
Here’s a summit summary
https://www.alternet.org/sites/default/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/donald_trump_justin_trudeau_2017-02-13_02.jpg
rain of lead wrote:
very busy. all is well. hugs to you momcat and that magnificent creature God entrusted to your arms
@ The Other Les:
This is why I always overtip. Even when service is less than good.
My wife hates it, but I spent quite a few years on the other side of the transaction.
@ eaglesoars:
Here’s what Ben Garrison said about Трюдо’s eyebrow!
Trump’s G7 Rebalancing Act
I’d say the Soi Boi from Ottawa got his ass handed to him!
Magnificent bastard.
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/06/10/what-really-happened-at-the-g7-summit/
eight? EIGHT???
This is a good piece on California’s water issues. (I read elsewhere this morning that they lose 30% just to leakage.)
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And through this crisis, California has spent enormous resources to protect the delta smelt, a 3-inch fish that appears to be going extinct despite enormously wasteful environmental projects.
“To protect smelt from water pumps, government regulators have flushed 1.4 trillion gallons of water into the San Francisco Bay since 2008,” according to a 2015 report in The Wall Street Journal. “That would have been enough to sustain 6.4 million Californians for six years. Yet a survey of young adult smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta last fall yielded just eight fish, the lowest level since 1967.”
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/jarrett-stepman/californias-crazy-left-wing-politics-responsible-water-rationing?utm_source=sumome&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sumome_share
Armstrong’s observation of the day:
I live on the beach and am in awe of the sunsets every day. This is a photo I took on one stunning day. Observing the universe and how everything functions in a choreographed play is amazing. I have often said that my physics teacher said nothing is random. God does not play dice with the universe. My economics professor emphasized that everything was random and therefore the government was needed to manipulate the chaos to smooth everything out so we have a better life. I realized right then and there that one of my professors was lying. I followed the path of order; not the one of chaos and randomness. I am always amazed at how precise things really are.
@ eaglesoars:
“Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21” by Rosa Koire
Global tyrants seen through the eyes of a woman fighting for property rights in Northern California. She sees the larger agenda that is really behind the ‘sustainability’ movement eroding every human freedom on Earth. People are lead to conflate pollution and climate change. The latter is a tax grab as well as an attempt to depopulate the planet. Water is essential for survival.
well…
Turkey Threatens Austria With Holy War Over Mosque Crackdown…
yeah, blah, blah, blah, but…
have we got all our heavy duty stuff out of Incirlik? For some reason I thought we had/have nukes there
https://www.weaselzippers.us/387596-turkey-threatens-austria-with-holy-war-over-mosque-crackdown/#disqus_thread
yenta-fada wrote:
they’re managing to depopulate California, apparently
I give it 2 more election cycles before the place collapses completely or people finally get a clue and start throwing people out of office
I need a nap
@ eaglesoars:
We do. As far as I know, we still do
Unnamed but my guess…Kellyanne Conway
The best distillation of the Trump Doctrine I heard, though, came from a senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking. I was talking to this person several weeks ago, and I said, by way of introduction, that I thought it might perhaps be too early to discern a definitive Trump Doctrine.
“No,” the official said. “There’s definitely a Trump Doctrine.”
“What is it?” I asked. Here is the answer I received:
“The Trump Doctrine is ‘We’re America, Bitch.’ That’s the Trump Doctrine.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/a-senior-white-house-official-defines-the-trump-doctrine-were-america-bitch/562511/
The b in IHOb stands for burgers?
You idiots.
I can’t count the number of new “upscale” burger joints and chains that have sprung up over the past 10 years, not to mention the chains that ALREADY sell burgers.
Nobody’s gonna buy your burgers.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
IHOP already sold burgers. My memory is failing me but I think I shared a IHOP burger with a friend in 2014.
Link to wayback machine 2014 IHOP burger menu.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140701130944/http://www.ihop.com/menus/main-menu/the-hamburger-bar
I think we split a bleu cheese and bacon and a mushroom and swiss.
That is what we would probably do if we did it tomorrow.
Anyway the burgers were AWESOME!!!!!!
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
how is your pup?
@ eaglesoars:
MUCH better, thanks!
Only thing is I started making her fresh shredded chicken from the Crock Pot to try and get her to eat, and now that’s ALL she’ll eat.
I’m literally between jobs right now so it’s not a huge problem but we need to get her back to her food soon. Glad I’m home for recovery.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I often wonder who trains who, ya know? No, actually, I don’t
https://www.chicksonright.com/2018/06/11/europe-is-committing-suicide-we-need-to-learn-from-their-mistakes-not-copy-them/
eaglesoars wrote:
Why, how can this be? There was not a hint of scandal in that administration, not a hint.
AZfederalist wrote:
Well, yeah, if you destroy all the evidence
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/nature/hawaii-volcano-lava-flowing-into-the-sea-spectacular/
Speaking of Armstrong, well I was. One of his clients must have sent these short vids of fiery lava bursting into the waters surrounding Hawaii.
lobo91 wrote:
I saw some bullshit article about how Trump’s aides keep TELLING him that tearing up letters from congresscritters into teeny tiny pieces is a violation of the Federal Records act BUT HE WON’T LISTEN!!! So the poor schlubs are reduced to spending their weekends on the floors of their offices piecing them all back together with tape or something. uh huh.
That article came out the day after the article about the Library of Congress I linked to.
There’s more than one reporter schtupping a source.
@ yenta-fada:
Holy…that 2nd one especially is breathtaking
eaglesoars wrote:
I watched that 3 times. Meantime, would yinz have imagined Trump & Kim?
“In a meeting that seemed unthinkable just months ago, the leaders met at a Singapore island resort, shaking hands warmly in front of a row of alternating U.S. and North Korean flags. They then moved into a roughly 45-minute one-on-one meeting, joined only by their interpreters, before including their advisers.
For all the upbeat talk, it remained to be seen what, if any, concrete results the sit-down would produce.
“We are going to have a great discussion and I think tremendous success. We will be tremendously successful,” Trump said before their private session.
Kim said through an interpreter: “It wasn’t easy for us to come here. There was a past that grabbed our ankles and wrong prejudices and practices that at times covered our eyes and ears. We overcame all that and we are here now.”
eaglesoars wrote:
I just had to watch that again. Those guys filming on the boat got closer than I would have.
yenta-fada wrote:
when you guys kept giving us food, but now you’ve got us by the short and curlies.
Kim was educated most of his life in Switzerland. It’s not as tho he just landed on another planet. Somebody or something has convinced him it’s a different world and I don’t think it was China.
yenta-fada wrote:
Which Pliny was it that watched Vesuvius from a ship, Elder or Younger, I don’t recall. I watched that and wondered why they weren’t concerned about the air quality. Maybe they weren’t as close as the lens made it look.
@ eaglesoars:
Which Pliny? You will have to ask cold warrior. He probably actually knows.
The volcanic ash would not hit the air if the lava is boiling in the sea, right? Do we have any Vulcans around here. /
@ yenta-fada:
it’s not the ash, it’s the poisonous gases, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, etc. I forget the other ones
If you watch CNN, this could happen to you.
Jeff B.Verified account @EsotericCD · 2h2 hours ago
Dennis Rodman, standing in Singapore, talking live on CNN, just shouted out to Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam in thanks for his support in Rodman’s North Korean diplomacy efforts.
I’m tripping balls, aren’t I?
@ yenta-fada:
I’m telling you…Rodman is the key. He gave Kim Trump’s book The Art of the Deal. This has all been done with a book cipher, next to a one-time pad almost unbreakable. Rodman went on CNN just to punk Chris Cuomo who seriously did not know whether to shit or go blind (you should hunt down the video, it’s hilarious).
This is so much fun………..
eaglesoars wrote:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Dennis%20Rodman%22&src=tren
@ yenta-fada:
yep. And I PROMISE you Cuomo thought he was talking about weed……….
Phillipe Reines on Fox re Trump: “I’d like him to take ONE day when he didn’t say ‘I told you so’ ”
suck it, Phil
eaglesoars wrote:
Interesting. Trump tweeted out this afternoon that Larry Kudlow had a heart attack & is in Walter Reed Hospital.
@ yenta-fada:
Wife says it was minor and that he’s doing fine at Walter Reed.
eaglesoars wrote:
The Trump haters out there are a mob of jackals. The constant hatred in the face of history making moves by Trump is surreal.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Good to know. Trump needs all the help he can get. I’m not a Kudlow fan, but he is very smart & could not be bribed if Trump trusts him.
Good news about your gourmet food loving dog. 🙂
yenta-fada wrote:
One of these days, one of them is going to go spittle-spewing, desk-chucking, carpet-munching batshit crazy on the air and we will all laugh and cheer.
What nobody remembers: Nixon went to China. Nixon told Trump he could be POTUS. dots connected by nobody.
@ eaglesoars:
https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-left-wants-their-country-to-fail-as-long-as-trump-takes-the-blame
@ yenta-fada:
The Left wanted the country to fail under Obama, too, only they called it success.
They’re consistent tho – as long as the plebes are poor and shackled, they’re happy.
@ eaglesoars:
Remember how buzzsawmonkey constantly referred to the far left as ‘revanchist’? It’s all about having their own way or setting the world on fire if they don’t get it.
I miss Buzz. Hope he is doing very well.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well said.
@ yenta-fada:
He’s at Zip’s just about every day
lobo91 wrote:
Hi! Thanks. I don’t usually get to wz, but Buzz must be pretty darned pleased.
I can’t stop anyone from supporting a mass murdering psychopath who makes Richard Nixon look honest. I can deal with them as the anti-human garbage they are.
yenta-fada wrote:
I see him now and then at zip’s. I don’t know how he feel about Trump but he’s still making some great puns……
@ The Other Les:
define’supporting’
two heathen beagles are on the bed staring at me.
I’m out
eaglesoars wrote:
*waves* me too,
yenta-fada wrote:
Buzz went stark raving carpet munching dingleberry flinging #NeverTrump #Resist. No, I very seriously doubt that Buzz is pleased.
@ eaglesoars:
I define “supporting” as voting for.
Bike challenge update: I’m over half way to my goal of 75 miles by the end of the month. And thanks to a very generous marsupial, I’m at my fund raising goal.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) any donations up to a total of $500,00 will be matched.
In total, nearly $3.9 million has been raised this year, and over 1.3 million miles ridden by over 51,000 cyclists.
https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/BruceRoepke
The Other Les wrote:
What are you ranting about Les.
doriangrey wrote:
thanks, me too. Les, who/what are you talking about?
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-last-nights-nuclear-war/
@ doriangrey:
I don’t think the “North Korea Summit” had as much to do with North Korea as people seem to be thinking.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
That assumes an awful lot.
@ doriangrey:
@ eaglesoars:
A former friend who now supports Hilary Clinton.
@ The Other Les:
Lots of those around these days, Les.
We can laugh at TDS, but it’s real and has sadly cost a great many relationships.
I find that among the Republican NeverTrumps, there’s an underlying fallacy that upon a great majority of them hang their incredible hatred of Trump voters.
It’s the fallacy that one or more other GOP candidates could have defeated Clinton in the 2016 general.
For me, Trump has been a pleasant surprise – even as an early supporter. I was an early supporter because it was very clear to me that he was the only candidate that had a prayer.
Federal Judge Approves AT&T Time Warner Merger
AT&T scored a major triumph in its scheme to become a telecom-media behemoth Tuesday when a federal judge gave the green light to its $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner.
The decision by Judge Richard Leon is a setback for Makan Delrahim, President Trump appointee to the top spot in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, challenging his view of antitrust laws in the digital era. Most analysts believe that the decision is likely to set off a wave of takeovers and consolidation in tech, telecom, and media.
The merger was approved without any conditions, a stunning rebuke of the government’s case. Judge Leon even went so far as to urge the government not to seek a stay of his decision pending a possible appeal.
“The case stands as a testament to the wisdom of the combination of these two great companies,” Daniel Petrocelli, the lead trial attorney for AT&T, said after the judge’s ruling. “This decision was a sound and proper rejection of all of the government’s arguments to stop this merger.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/12/att-time-warner-merger/
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I see a lot on Twitter about how evil, stupid, dishonest, perverted and liberal Trump is. Yikes!
@ right_wing2:
Do ANY of them explain how or why?
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Most of the explanations I have seen basically amount to… “Because Shut Up you Nazi misogynist racist white supremacist poopyhead”.
eaglesoars wrote:
Like the often-touted release of the IG’s report. I love these “unnamed” sources.
Report from the beach…
I got the gig I interviewed for. Have caught two sharks and a blue.
Check in later!
So, its official, Millennial’s are Stooopid… Who would have thunk it?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/dumb-and-dumber-why-we-re-getting-less-intelligent-80k3bl83v
coldwarrior wrote:
I believe congratulations are in order. (doesn’t actually have any Tokillya or a good cigar) Tip’s shot of fine tequila and Hammer and Sickle stogie at coldwarrior, good on ya man…
@ coldwarrior:
Great news!
Carry on…
Damn shame, damn shame I tell ya… If all their damned houses didn’t burn to the f’ing ground…
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/fire-homes-benedict-canyon-beverly-hills-celebrities-1202843597/
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
@ doriangrey:
I forgot traitor, Putin’s puppet, sucking up to dictators and crapping on our allies…
AVENATTI: THE RUSSIANS ARE AFTER ME!
Michael Avenatti told The Daily Beast Tuesday that he believes the Russian government is trying to plant damaging stories about him in the press, without any evidence to support this claim.
Avenatti, the media-friendly attorney representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump, claims two members of the media and a “high ranking American intelligence official” informed him of the Russian plot.
“They’re doing it because they see me as a threat, a considerable threat,” he told The Daily Beast. “If we weren’t a threat, none of this would be happening.”
Avenatti also told The Daily Beast that members of the Russian government are trying to spread a story that he once traveled to Moscow and had sexual relationships with several women during his trip.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/12/avenatti-russia-conspiracy/
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Damn it, its starting to look like I’m the only man in America who didn’t travel to Moscow to have sex with several women.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Grab ‘em by the p-ssy, not releasing tax returns, multiple golf trips, making money off of staying at Trump properties etc, etc.
@ right_wing2:
I just ignore them.
Literally NONE of that stuff bothers me, and I won’t be open to a primary challenge from ANYONE in 2020.
@ right_wing2:
Of course he’s going to be impeached any day, just ask helmet hair.
right_wing2 wrote:
Don’t forget, “And frogmarched out of the Whitehouse in chains”. Because that is their biggest wet-dream.
doriangrey wrote:
There are two of us. Get yourself to Houston by Saturday! I will pay the airfare. British Airways
A week in Moscow, I will ask Calo if she will feed my cats while I am gone.
Seriously, just over $2000 each for a week in Moscow. (yeah plus hotels and food but I can sleep rough… )
So McCabe is suing the FBI and DOJ because he was ‘unfairly fired and he can prove it”
Discovery is going to be a hoot.
And Rosenstein has been threatening to subpoena intel committee members email, etc., and start investigating THEM.
Fire his ass.
Possum wrote:
ROTFLMAO…
oh, congrats CW!
@ doriangrey:
When do they start fantasizing about the death penalty? Or have they?
@ doriangrey:
So you’re talking about academic types, then…
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lobo91 wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34
One for Barbarian.
In Texas the appellant brief quotes songs.
What I am living through is not real.
Expecting the apellee to show a three hour video of a Nightwish concert in reply.
doriangrey wrote:
Yeah, and the people who wrote the article must be from that generation:
maths? Really people?
@ AZfederalist:
British term. Notice that it’s an article from a UK paper
lobo91 wrote:
Bloody shame those damned Brit chaps never did learn how to speak English. Little Johnny didn’t learn his maths, because he went to Hospital instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY
Holy crap. Canada just voted to cease restoration of ties w/Iran, Justine Trudeau leading the way
https://www.weaselzippers.us/387873-stunning-trudeau-follows-trumps-lead-votes-to-denounce-iran-regime/
And L’il Kim has accepted Trump’s invite to D.C.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/387869-kim-jong-un-accepts-trumps-invitation-to-washington-report/
bedtime
lobo91 wrote:
Ah, missed that part.
doriangrey wrote:
Two peoples separated by a common language
A bit lite on the documentation, but I believe he has it correct.
right_wing2 wrote:
They don’t care how many dead bodies there are as long they’re seated firmly on top.