President Donald J. Trump

[chefist]

136 said "it" would suck it's own penis/vagina if Trump won...prove it!

[Laurakinch]

Or like Great Britain got rich from the opium trade. Very noble way to make money indeed.

idiot

[136 or 142]

but he didn't kill any of his opposition
your bitch H. did. Many!

No, but he is covering up a murder ordered by his buddy Putin.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/putins-media-czar-was-murdered-just-before-meeting-feds?utm_term=.coQqGnYM2l#.rpjYVxaZXl

[136 or 142]

England was wealthy long prior to the opium trade.  Its wealth increased substantially during its age of industrialization.  However, England permitted the opium trade, which was literally the venture of a few shady businessmen because the English bought a lot of tea from China and the only thing the Chinese were really interested in buying from England was the opium that came from India. 

So, the English government felt it had no choice but to allow, and later defend, these opium business operations due to balance of trade.  Today, this would be done with the Chinese using the Pounds they received from the sale of the tea to invest in England.

[Dr. MD MD]

England was wealthy long prior to the opium trade.  Its wealth increased substantially during its age of industrialization.  However, England permitted the opium trade, which was literally the venture of a few shady businessmen because the English bought a lot of tea from China and the only thing the Chinese were really interested in buying from England was the opium that came from India. 

So, the English government felt it had no choice but to allow, and later defend, these opium business operations due to balance of trade.  Today, this would be done with the Chinese using the Pounds they received from the sale of the tea to invest in England.

No one believes your disinfo and attempts to rewrite history. It wasn't quite that laissez-faire. They went to war with China went their emperor tried to stop it.  :

[paladin1991]

troll

[paladin1991]

TROLL

[paladin1991]

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[paladin1991]

troll

[paladin1991]

troll

[paladin1991]

Trolling, trolling, trolling.  Gotta keep on trolling.  TROLL ON!

[paladin1991]

Hey Laurakinch,
I try to present myself as a human being.
Yet you know better.
Just let me take my own life. 

[paladin1991]

troll ...

[PB the Deplorable]

No one believes your disinfo and attempts to rewrite history. It wasn't quite that laissez-faire. They went to war with China went their emperor tried to stop it.  :

During the first Opium War, Britain seized Hong Kong Island, and shortly forced a treaty on China ceding HK Island to Britain in perpetuity.

After the Second Opium War, Britain expanded their holding to Kowloon Peninsula.  They later got a 99 year lease for Kowloon and additional islands and area.

[ZaZa]

I haven't seen him giving any terrorists 10 million dollar blowjobs like your PM does.  :

lol,
greatest comment on that very disgusting act by Canada slapping America and American soldiers on the face.

[136 or 142]

No one believes your disinfo and attempts to rewrite history. It wasn't quite that laissez-faire. They went to war with China went their emperor tried to stop it.  :

Yes, that's why I wrote "and later defend."  The Chinese Emperor ordered all the opium that could be found to be confiscated and sunk.  I believe he personally inspected the destruction of the opium,

[ZaZa]

idiot

Laurakinch, you are describing yourself as an idiot, well I tend to agree with you, yes you are an idiot.

It had nothing to do with his political leanings at all. I just found him to be an annoying, condescending know-it-all. And BTW, I suffer greatly most days with terrible tinnitus myself so I can attest to how much it sucks to have it but I cannot cut him any slack due to that.

Laurakinch, maybe that's why you have this terrible condition, because you are full of vile aggressive poison, that even you Palestinian husband
dropped you like a bag of cats litter. lol   
Enjoy your deep sad depressions...

[Kidnostad3]

1. Term limits
2. No exemptions for laws they pass
3. Criminal fraud charges if they break campaign promises.

4.  No unrelated riders to any piece of legislation.
5.  No exemptions for members of congress or staff to any provisions of legislation that apply to U.S citizens in general.
6.  All members of Congress to maintain an auditable account of time spent in the execution of official duties with the standard 40 hour work week/2080 work year being applied as the minimum level of effort
7.   Annual in-depth determination and publication of the net worth of all members of Congress to include the value of perquistes of office benefitting the member or his family and any form of personal enrichment gained from non governmental sources.

[albrecht]

4.  No unrelated riders to any piece of legislation.
5.  No exemptions for members of congress or staff to any provisions of legislation that apply to U.S citizens in general.
6.  All members of Congress to maintain an auditable account of time spent in the execution of official duties with the standard 40 hour work week/2080 work year being applied as the minimum level of effort
7.   Annual in-depth determination and publication of the net worth of all members of Congress to include the value of perquistes of office benefitting the member or his family and any form of personal enrichment gained from non governmental sources.

I have a few objections, mainly because Congress/Legislators doing nothing is often more important than them doing something. Gridlock, to me, is preferably than rapid change, increasing the amount of laws, further complicating the tax code, and generally passing stuff so that they look like they are 'doing something.' I would require MORE time spend back home (get a chance to complain to those rascals) and LESS time working for legislators and, more importantly, government bureaucrats at various regulatory agencies.

[Kidnostad3]

I have a few objections, mainly because Congress/Legislators doing nothing is often more important than them doing something. Gridlock, to me, is preferably than rapid change, increasing the amount of laws, further complicating the tax code, and generally passing stuff so that they look like they are 'doing something.' I would require MORE time spend back home (get a chance to complain to those rascals) and LESS time working for legislators and, more importantly, government bureaucrats at various regulatory agencies.

I take your point about the risk of developing an ivory tower mentality by spending too much time in Washington but I  consider time spent back home affording constituents face time to be an official duty wouldn't you?   

[albrecht]

I take your point about the risk of developing an ivory tower mentality by spending too much time in Washington but I  consider time spent back home affording constituents face time to be an official duty wouldn't you?

A good point.

I like this idea (that has been bandied about before both by the left and right) of making more of the administration, government services, etc have their main office and worker pool in various other parts of the country- not all in DC. Besides getting rid of, or curtailing, various departments why not move them to places where real estate is cheap, jobs are scarcer, and where the regulators are closer to the real people, environment, and business that they mess with? This also would help the economy in other places, less traffic in DC, help the local residents in DC area who have to deal with the crazy real estate prices and the evil 'gentrification,' and maybe get new ideas into bureaucrats heads since they would have to deal with non inside-the-beltway people in daily life. This also could be seen as a 'national security' issue because a more diverse, spread-out infrastructure is less likely for a 'decapitation' type of event.

[Gd5150]

4.  No unrelated riders to any piece of legislation.
5.  No exemptions for members of congress or staff to any provisions of legislation that apply to U.S citizens in general.
6.  All members of Congress to maintain an auditable account of time spent in the execution of official duties with the standard 40 hour work week/2080 work year being applied as the minimum level of effort
7.   Annual in-depth determination and publication of the net worth of all members of Congress to include the value of perquistes of office benefitting the member or his family and any form of personal enrichment gained from non governmental sources.

8. MAGA

[Kidnostad3]

A good point.

I like this idea (that has been bandied about before both by the left and right) of making more of the administration, government services, etc have their main office and worker pool in various other parts of the country- not all in DC. Besides getting rid of, or curtailing, various departments why not move them to places where real estate is cheap, jobs are scarcer, and where the regulators are closer to the real people, environment, and business that they mess with? This also would help the economy in other places, less traffic in DC, help the local residents in DC area who have to deal with the crazy real estate prices and the evil 'gentrification,' and maybe get new ideas into bureaucrats heads since they would have to deal with non inside-the-beltway people in daily life. This also could be seen as a 'national security' issue because a more diverse, spread-out infrastructure is less likely for a 'decapitation' type of event.

I recall that a certain amount of that was actually done in the late 80's and early 90's by relocating a number of military headquarters, systems commands  and large logistic support activities outside the Beltway to far flung locations in the U.S.   This involved thousands of of civil service jobs.  I think other departments of the executive branch did something similar but it was nothing like the scale of DOD repositionings.  I don't recall anything like that taking place in the Legislative or Judicial Branches but in the years I worked up there I was either on active duty or employed as a defense contractor so I probably wasn't as cognizant of happenings in those branches.  I can see how it would be more difficult to relinquish the the real or perceived advantages of being located at the seat of government in the cases  of those branches.

[Kidnostad3]

8. MAGA

Nice touch.

[ZaZa]

*** What the P stands for? ***

P Donald Trump
P Hillary Clinton

President Donald Trump
Prisoner Hillary Clinton


Let's hope the P for Hillary one day soon it will become reality.

[Kidnostad3]

This is a BFD!

https://youtu.be/uztCR9RqnFA

[Kidnostad3]

This is a VBFD.  Hey 136, how do you like them apples? 🍎 

https://youtu.be/fI6rhc2ilzw

[Kidnostad3]

Here's a Bernie Sanders Democrat's view of recent events.

https://youtu.be/7pzWDZSDvYo

[Kidnostad3]

Here's some more for the leftists among us to chew on.  As an aside, is Debora Wasserman Shcultz not the ugliest person of either sex in Congress?  If I had a dog with a face like that I'd shave its ass and make it walk backwards.  (Yes, I know--this comment is crass and unkind.)

Seriously, can anyone look at the below picture without it reminding them of Medussa's head? Where the hell is Perseus when you have a gorgon to slay?

https://youtu.be/bZfWik966S8


This is a bit long but you're not gonna believe the shit the brothers Awan were pulling off.


https://youtu.be/ZKzzyOsvajc

[Kidnostad3]

If one is smart, one will avoid  flying in and out of Miami International like it was a DNC fundraiser.  However, waiting for one's bag to catch up with one does give one a lot of time to shitpost in lieu of physically assaulting a fucking brain dead airline official which could cause one to have bothersome legal entanglements that one would have to deal with.