Common Dreams reports:
In yet another reminder of how corporate-friendly the Trump administration has been—despite campaign pledges to defend American workers and "buy American, hire American" rhetoric—a new study out [April 25] reveals that the president continues to reward U.S. companies who ship jobs overseas.
According to the analysis (pdf), conducted by Good Jobs Nation along with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, "the flow of federal contract awards to major offshorers has continued unabated since Trump's inauguration."
The outsourcing of American jobs to other countries is a major issue for American voters, and helped propel President Donald Trump's victory in a number of economically distressed rust-belt states.
Despite this, as many as "56 percent of the top U.S. firms awarded the largest taxpayer-funded contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2016 engage in offshoring", the report notes. Further, 41 of the top 100 federal contractors--which in 2016 received a combined $176 billion in taxpayer dollars--have shipped jobs overseas and "many continue to do so today".
[...] "Even though he's signed over 60 executive orders during his first 100 days, he has yet to use the power of the pen to stop corporations that receive taxpayer dollars from shipping American jobs overseas", said Joseph Geevarghese, director of Good Jobs Nation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:20PM (1 child)
People voted not only for American jobs but against Clintons foreign policy which is now being enacted by Secretary Exxon-Mobil.
Iraq splintered because of American involvement, Libya splintered because of American involvement, the plan for Syria was to balkanize it into warring sectarian regions.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:05AM
taxpayer-funded contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2016
I'm not a Trump supporter or anything but still, wasn't some completely different guy the president when these contracts were awarded?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:20PM (2 children)
Justify the crap out of this one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:41PM (1 child)
Maybe wait for a better source than the ultra-liberal Common Dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @02:35PM
Like breotbart? Been loving that source........
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:24PM
he has yet to use the power of the pen to stop corporations that receive taxpayer dollars from shipping American jobs overseas
Never mind that. He has yet to use the power of controlling his own family's contracts to stop from shipping american jobs overseas.
April 25, 2017: Workers at Ivanka Trump’s clothing-maker in China earn about $62 a week [mercurynews.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:26PM (18 children)
I mean, I despise Trump and his policies, and his general hypocrisy, but so many signs right now are pointing to yet another recession about to start in a year or two(eyes on energy costs as OPEC changes course and the Silicon valley investment bubble). More Americans will lose their jobs from that than any poorly-implemented protectionism could possibly save.
And I won't really blame him for it, unless his stupid tax cuts pass and the crash essentially ends up bankrupting the federal government through piss-poor financial planning.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:19PM (15 children)
Again? Lololol! Double dip Greatest Recession gonna be HUGE.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:30PM (14 children)
I'm gonna blow your mind here, but it's been a decade since the last one. Lehman was mid-fucking '07. Big crash was late '08.
The one before that was dotcom in '00, and before that was savings and loan in like... 90? 91? I was too young for it. But we're duuuuuue.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:39PM (10 children)
What do you think will set it of this time?
Over priced stocks?
Saving and loans?
Specific sector bubble?
Financial services firm?
Economic depressions are great because then you can buy many assets cheaply.
Oh well.. if you got money..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:46PM
Uber fires all the drivers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:06PM (3 children)
I told you the two big ones I had my eye on: Silicon Valley(we learned nothing from dotcom, nothing) bullshit startup speculation, and the fact that we're riding a wave of overproduction from OPEC that's going to end soon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:09PM
We learned two things from dotcom: Open Source is free labor! and Cloud scale means we can build it bigger!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:55PM (1 child)
So a stock market downturn but how bad? and high oil prices soon then?
Any idea on how soon this will occur?
I know it's all probability so it's hard to make deterministic answers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:39PM
The ground hog DOES see his shadow
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:39PM (4 children)
Student loan bubble bursts.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:54PM (3 children)
The education industry hasn't imploded yet? Students are young and naive as ever.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:00PM (2 children)
Ah they will sue the university if the compiler dears to output a ERROR which will break their safe space? ;-)
But then employers don't need anyone. They can just google all of it! :p
Let's hope the naivety is limited to non-STEM subjects.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:08PM (1 child)
Python coders love their safe spaces.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:12PM
Is it that indentation nazigrammar that gives them a hardon? ;-)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:43PM (2 children)
Sure technically the recession ended but it was a jobless recovery. Employment seems high only if you deliberately neglect to count the permanently unemployed who don't participate since the economy just doesn't need as many employed people anymore. If you look at the state of the workforce today, the Great Recession is ongoing. It's the entire decade of 2007-2017 much like the Great Depression was the entire 1930s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:11PM (1 child)
Jobs for all! Build a wall!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:43PM
That's the plan. Still a repeat of the 1930s
1) Have the Hugest War
2) Wait up to 16 years
3) Build wall to divide people
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:56PM
The terms "depression" and "recession" gauge how The Speculators' Market is doing.
That has nothing to do with the actual economy and hasn't for a long, long time.
USA's GDP growth has been flat for ages and the Labor Non-Participation Rate has been 23 percent for years.
It's time we started ignoring the folks who use the meaningless terms and start paying attention to the stuff that reflects how The Working Class is doing.
Not only has there been no "recovery' for Joe Average, with each passing week, more and more Joes are becoming part of The Precariat (hanging on by their fingernails).
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @08:07PM
fuck the federal government. they're lucky they're not shot in the streets.
(Score: 5, Informative) by edIII on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:26PM (32 children)
You mean he is fucking over all his rabid bigoted White Nationalist supporters once he got into office? But...but...but... he wasn't supposed to turn out like crooked Hillary! :D
The rest of the country, the majority of which didn't vote for this retarded hamburgler, would like to deliver an I-Told-You-So to that portion of America too busy investing in hate and fear to figure out that they were electing a professional con artist to office.
It's the most corrupt Pay-To-Play administration in our nation's history, and we aren't even a tenth of the way through to surviving it. About the only saving grace we have is that it is so inept and stupid that it can't even get some of the most egregious things accomplished because they are war with themselves. Which is so deliciously ironic! The Party Of No can't even agree with itself when it finally has dominion over the country.
If were lucky, it will turn out to be a light raping of this country.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Lagg on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:49PM (25 children)
and then once it's all over we'll learn to stop calling concepts that we don't like rape, racism and sexism so societal reactions like that stop happening so much.
Heheheheheh nah we won't learn shit
(I do agree with the spirit of your post for what it's worth, I just find it hard to not poke fun at both sides and in general be a shithead because they are each other and deserve each other)
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:01PM (17 children)
No they aren't, and the one who says the loonie left and the loonie right are equally wrong is wronger than both of them. The loonie left is smaller, weaker, less invested in causing widespread misery, and far more educable than the loonie right, who are basically the Christian version of the Taliban, but too fat and too low-testosterone to grow facial hair.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:49PM (8 children)
If you grew up in the United States you can be forgiven for having little contact with actual loonie leftists. I went to graduate school and delved in a lot of anthropology in my course of study, and there are a handful of actual, un-reconstructed Marxists still in that field; afterward I was active in the Green Party. Loonie leftists like to read and study a whole lot, sure, but they're not at all educable and they are certainly not interested in input from you or anybody else. They know the truth, and all the reading and study and thinking is their attempt to reconcile the inherent contradictions in material dialecticism and to prove that they're right, and the entire rest of the world which has moved on from marxism/socialism/communism is wrong, wrong, wrong. Occasionally one of them sneaks onto some organization like a PTA or community board, and the first thing they move to do is amend bylaws or rules of procedure so that inputs are eliminated and discussion is cut off. They're very sneaky about it because they are well aware that if they are upfront about their Marxist motivations that everyone else will block them reflexively.
Honestly, there isn't much difference in how it feels to interact with them versus interacting with the loonie right, as measured by spittle-flecked invective. They don't give a fuck what anybody else thinks and even compete with each other to reach new heights (lows?) of craziness.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:07PM (3 children)
That thing with input elimination and discussion cut off seems all too familiar. ;(
Any idea how to enable a life without the need to handle loonies in any great amount?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:27AM (2 children)
There is no way to eliminate loonies because there is no one definition of what constitutes such. Loonies are certain they are the sane ones. The rest of us are fools, dupes, or evil. I've been screamed at by people who were mad that all of us buy the wrong kind of peanut butter, that only peanut butter made from nuts grown in a certain valley in Peru are acceptable. I've been called a Stalinist because I didn't think everyone should drop everything to fight for handicapped accessible cabs in NYC. Tonight at a PTA meeting a parent called me a "sugar fascist" because I didn't think we should ban treats when kids celebrate their birthdays with their class. And those are the non-right wing, non-Marxist loonies in the progressive paradise of Park Slope, Brooklyn. I've heard equal madness on the other end of the spectrum from my relatives out West where I grew up.
The only thing I'm reasonably sure of with respect to loonies and crazy talk is to answer them and their invective with firm, sharp reason. Answering them with platitudes, non-committal half-agreement, or canned talking points only makes things worse. In short, call people on their bullshit every time, and occasionally they can rise to the challenge and do or say something useful.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:43AM (1 child)
Which valley is that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:41PM
The uncanny one.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:26PM (3 children)
I'd still rather deal with an unreconstructed Marxist than, say, a Dominionist. They're wrong, and I know why they're wrong, but they're less wrong and less self-contradictory than, for example, Rushdoony was. Which is to say, both are equally nutty in economic terms but the Marxist is usually going to be a decent person aside from that.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:30AM (2 children)
Sure. I grant you that at least they try hard. Know-nothings and their heirs don't try at all. It's a pity they don't, because theirs could be a useful input into the public discourse if they tried to back it up with thought.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:46AM (1 child)
No it couldn't, because, as you just said, they are know-nothings. I am speaking here of the kind of habitual urinator-in-the-meme-pool that thinks aid to Israel should be the US's number one priority specifically because Armageddon will, in his lifetime, begin there. Not only do they know nothing, they can't know anything, because they won't know anything.
That kind of mind has been so completely poisoned over so many years that only the kind of existential shock that can only be truly put into words in literary Russian is going to change them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:51AM
That's an excellent characterization. I'm going to steal this.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:03AM (7 children)
Your post, the thread following your post and the score of your post all confirm to me that the binaries are functionally identical in their insanity :)
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(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:09AM (6 children)
Welp that came out looking like I took issue with your post being modded insightful. Sorry, meant because of:
Flamebait=1, Insightful=1, Interesting=1, Informative=1, Touché=1
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:49AM (5 children)
And as I've said before, no, the two sides are *not* identical, functionally or otherwise. They are equally wrong about economic theory, and both ironically for the precise same reason: they do not take human nature into account. The unreconstructed Marxist is likely to be more or less a decent person in other facets of his or her life, though, while the Theonomist is going to be more or less the Baptist version of Achmed the Dead Terrorist but suffering from type II diabetes and the effects of three generations of incest.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday April 27 2017, @05:21AM (4 children)
Can we just assume now that you are on the left? Conflict of interest... tinted glass... ingroups and outgroups...
You are obviously wrong, btw. There is no metric of who is 'decent' and who is 'deplorable', there is no research which quantifies that into a single number, and there is no way any method to device such a metric is not going to be biased.
Carry on...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 27 2017, @09:15PM (2 children)
Fuck you and die. There is one very obvious metric and that is "is this person trying to literally bring about Armageddon with his or her policies?" Leftists, as nuts as some of them may be, aren't.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:45PM (1 child)
The false equivalence is staggering. Both groups suffer from emotionally based ideologies and have similar reactions when criticized, but as you pointed out they are very different. Loony rights usually base their ideology from fear and anger, loony lefts are usually base their ideologies on compassion and hope. Anger creeps in from all the loony rights trying to destroy the people they don't like.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 28 2017, @01:16AM
Well...as it is said, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but surely the direct borehole to it is drilled with those of evil. Would heaven i could give everyone the insight to stop and ask themselves, "am I putting ideology above people?" Kantian thinking can be a dangerous thing...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @09:25PM
I didn't believe it was possible to be both smug and butthurt at the same time.
But you just proved me wrong.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday April 27 2017, @04:59PM (6 children)
and then once it's all over we'll learn to stop calling concepts that we don't like rape, racism and sexism so societal reactions like that stop happening so much.
Grabbing someone's pussy because you can because you're rich IS rape. If you are fined for racial discrimination not once but twice, you ARE a racist. If you saw shit like "blood comeing out of her... whatever", you ARE sexist. Those are inarguable FACTS.
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(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday April 27 2017, @06:32PM (5 children)
and you're the second person that proved my point about you guys being the exact same as each other. Happily weaponizing quotes out of context to further your agenda. Lying. Being counter-intuitive on purpose. You are precisely the same as Trump in your hypocrisy and shamelessness.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday April 27 2017, @08:18PM (4 children)
How can you possibly take "grab them by the pussy", and everything else he said in that conversation, out of context? Weaponizing it? No, sir. It was not weaponized to be pointing that out. Trump "hoisted himself up by his own petard" and no other weapon was required.
Just what fucking context is there that makes that okay? He was literally talking about walking up and performing the act of sexual assault.
I don't buy it as locker room talk. It's disgusting beyond measure to have trivialized the acts of sexual assault in the ways that he did. He perfectly described a despicable act of sexual assault upon a woman, of which, many women have claimed he literally performed upon them.
Not sure how you weaponize the truth against a man and take it of context, when it came out of his own mouth and was not vague in its description.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:51PM (3 children)
Are you guys really this partisan to not see the issue here? At no point did I refer to Trump in any capacity. You're continuously re-proving the point and have your head too far into your own parties to understand that what I'm criticizing is the system of politics that allowed Trump to be elevated to his current position. Are you really not seeing how it was your partisan bullshit that enabled him to fuel this hysteria against liberals and democrats in the first place. They. Are. All. The. Fucking. Same. How is this not obvious.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:16PM (2 children)
I think you need to step back a bit. Nothing to do with partisan anything. Perhaps you should try to explain yourself, and the overall point a bit better.
In the context of the thread we were speaking about Trump:
How did I weaponize a quote out of context? Perhaps it furthered my agenda, but it was not out of context and any weaponization is explicitly and entirely Trump's own fault. He has hoisted himself by his own petard as a career. It's just interesting that he continually escapes the consequences. Ask Billy Bush about that.
Lying? Ummm, he said it on video. No lying required. We didn't create "fake news" (nudge nudge) by continually bringing up the verifiable truth.
Another way to put your next statement is deliberate and willful ignorance to achieve a goal. Nobody is saying anything other than he is a misogynistic sexual predator and a piece of shit. Which is not only self-evident, but backed up by actual evidence. There is no misinformation being imparted, and no deliberate obfuscation of information, and no unbiased analyses or predictions. Just the facts.
The last one is fighting words :) I am not same as Trump. I'm not hypocritical because I've never even considered walking up to an attractive girl and grabbing her by the pussy. Just a bit slightly arrogant that she would be receptive, and certainly not the behavior of a gentlemen interested in romance. Although, I am shameless about bringing it up :) You got me nailed there, buddy.
While you may have some point hiding around in there, you are way off base in those statements as it relates to the sexual predation of Mr. Trump. That is most certainly a bipartisan activity, and the fact that it isn't, is exceptionally shameful of the Trump supporters. It's more important that they get there way than it is to fight sexual predation and decidedly ungentlemanly conduct.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Friday April 28 2017, @12:05AM (1 child)
You may actually have a point about failure to explain myself.
You mean he is fucking over all his rabid bigoted White Nationalist supporters once he got into office? But...but...but... he wasn't supposed to turn out like crooked Hillary! :D
If were lucky, it will turn out to be a light raping of this country.
Stuff like this is from the outset is counter-intuitive, oversimplifying and quite untrue about quite a few of Trump's voters. And exactly the same shit that conservative speakers, trump's twitter tantrums and supporters do while telling the other team they're doing it. Always an assumption of alignment and always horrible dehumanizing simplification of a population. Understand that much of his support comes from TV. TV where this kind of blabber is repeated in cycles day in and out. Fighting sound bytes. All parties are keeping people ignorant as a result of it.
And that's also where blabber like you posted is at its absolute worst. But you're not recognizing your own blabber because if I take issue with it then clearly I'm one of those groups or think that his bragging about sexual assault is anything but gross. I'm not. I just think it's a hilarious tragedy that 45 years later we've got computers and internet and still doing the whole "Don't call me a crypto-nazi you queer" thing. It shows how far removed from reality people are that they think the "Crooked Hillary" crap is even a thing outside twitter. I am being 100% sincere when I say it's only my uncle that thinks Michelle Obama is a man that I have ever heard use that term in real life.
To be absolutely clear on my position towards Trump: Most of my soylent news journal usage have been recording random thoughts and questions for the community about just how much of a joke and budding dictator he is. You can safely assume I'm not a white nationalist or anything. I also know that he has emboldened bigots. But given that I am rural I have tried to understand the reasoning of his voters on a local level from friends, acquaintances and family.
To whittle it all down to white nationalism is just the same old shit that caused such a reaction in the first place and in my eyes registers pretty much the same way "libtard" does. People on all sides of this - the ones that think a side is a necessary - fail to understand that because of their media and social bubble.
I've been forcefully exposed to super liberal/progressive states and super-conservative ones alike. They themselves are different from super-conservative bible belt states. Something which appears to have flown right over the heads of people.
If my equally bad tl;dr to your bad tl;dr was insufficient. Lemme try a hypothetical. We have an understanding of where your above quotes came from and what you were trying to express with them. But how easy would it be to screenshot and crop that and post it on twitter as an example of "the regressive left" or whatever their counter-blabber is to being called white nationalists? Now remove the respectful understanding that fox, cnn and co. are incapable of possessing and spin it in a negative tone above a silly looking picture of yourself and hey look at that edIII said the whole murika ever is RACIST AND JUST SAID ALL WHITES ARE GOING TO RAPE THE COUNTRY.
I will agree that my points are well hidden. It's not intentional. But I fail terribly at explaining my position and dig myself in deeper trying to expand my posts with explanations. Which make them more muddled. Like right now. So I'll stop.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday April 28 2017, @12:40AM
Ahhh, you're just wrong about my statements then.
1) The "light raping" is not counter-intuitive, oversimplifying, or untrue. I mean that in a literal sense, just like how Genghis Khan literally raped the world for awhile. Perhaps the word pillage would be best, but that doesn't quite capture what is happening with the yet again massive wealth transfer to the top 1%. It IS a form of rape against our country when no representative democracy exists, and those in power abuse it to amass and hoard wealth. The people are just as victimized. The term rape is actually the correct term when referring to land resources and our activity with nature. Maybe that's wrong, but it's grammatically correct with its usage having precedent. Like how Abraham Lincoln participated in the mass raping of our lands and resources with the robber barons of old.... which he used to work for... as a lawyer...
Trump is just repeating a known working formula.
2) White Nationalism is the absolutely most perfect phrase to describe the primary motivating factor of Trump's rise to power. I'm not apologetic about that, and I'm deeply fucking pissed that I woke up one day to find out that most of my fellow white guys are fucking bigots and racists that were just being silent for years. At least seemingly so, otherwise how did Trump get elected on a platform of pure nationalistic hate*? It IS White Nationalism that played a very significant part, and many of the values they espouse are fucking abhorrent. Instead of calling it White Nationalism, some people are being more intellectual and calling it racial security/insecurity. Yes, I tease these racially insecure people and enjoy their pain. Perhaps me not taking the high road, but fuck it, there are no high roads left in America. They are the "basket of deplorables", and they can kiss my fucking ass.
Yes, there is chunk of Trump supporters that are not like that. I realize that, and to them I do apologize. However, much like moderate and loving Islam, they're fucking silent right now. The moderate Trump supporters that I know? They are all fucking pissed off too and greatly disappointed in their choice. So Trump supporters as a group are contracting, not expanding.
3*) Crooked Hillary is most certainly a thing outside of Twitter. I was calling that absolute cunt crooked before Twitter took off. She IS crooked. She's the reason why we have Trump. She's the reason why I couldn't vote for Sanders, or at least she made sure it wasn't a fair fucking fight. I'm somewhat down for locking the bitch up. Just prove her corruption with her foundation and the pay-to-play bullshit that happened with her and the Saudi's IIRC. Not crooked outside of Twitter? Surely you misspoke....
I'm not recognizing my own blabber because we both got confused over context, who was replying about what, etc. :) Honestly, I was very puzzled by that response and thought it was purely in reaction to the "pussy grabbing" comments.
Your post makes a lot more sense when connected with my original comments, and no, I don't misconstrue you taking me to task for that with your support of sexual predation.
I apologize if you thought I did.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:27PM (1 child)
Trump! Trump! Trump!
#MAGA!!!
(Make America Grotesque Again!)
(Score: 2) by arulatas on Thursday April 27 2017, @02:18PM
Now the plan is ship the jobs to China...
Make America Great In China (MAGIC)
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:31PM
The rest of the country, the majority of which didn't vote for this retarded hamburgler, would like to deliver an I-Told-You-So to that portion of America too busy investing in hate and fear to figure out that they were electing a professional con artist to office.
Don't bother. They are prepared to make the sacrifice. They still love him. His approval rating is holding steady in the 40% range. [gallup.com] Its the shittiest approval rating of any president at this point in the term. But its practically unchanged since the day after the election. Votung for trump wasnt about helping themselves, it was about hurting everyone outside of their group who have humiliated them and their group identity. Just look at lagg's response to your post, he's complaining that people call him the r-word. As if it is an insult equivalent to the n-word, a meaningless epithet with no rational basis.
The strongest predictor of a voter switching from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 [thenation.com] was racial insecurity. The strongest predictor of a 2012 romney voter switching to clinton: racial confidence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:33PM
The point with Trump is that he halts the covert Muslim invasion, femnazi, enforced diversity, safe spacing bullshit etc. Maybe he's a greedy bastard but crooked Hillary is surely isn't better. Besides her foreign police almost came to a dangerous direct conflict with Russia in Syria.
As Michael Moore said, it's a big fuck-you to the smooth talking lying lips in Washington. To have any change. It's time to have completely other candidates. As long as the election is about the money you got ie donations and a binary party system. What happened will be repeated.
The system has lost it's true function through donations, manipulated media, winner takes all system, gerrymandering etc.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:41PM
It's not yet clear that it's the most corrupt administration in history. That's a pretty high bar, and they've got a ways to go. But they seem to be trying to clear it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:06AM
You mean he is fucking over all his rabid bigoted White Nationalist supporters once he got into office?
I'm sure both of them are heartbroken.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Lagg on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:42PM (3 children)
This doesn't surprise me in the least (I wrote about his backpeddling in my journal, and if I can spot this shit it must be obvious) but the exact numbers kind of do.
Of the top 50 awarded companies, 56% engage in offshoring. 41 of them received over $176 billion.
The top 5 companies in award amount:
Lockheed Martin Corporation $43
Boeing Company $26
General Dynamics Corporation $14
Raytheon Company $13
Northrop Grumman Corporation $11
Lockheed Martin employs 953 jobs with Boeing having 1238. But the most interesting one in terms of job count is not in the top 5:
General Electric Company $1,890,301,997 - 8736 positions
Total offshored: 58K
Mighty interesting that the biggest users of offshoring get the 176 billion but the ones who don't got 60 billion. But that might be a matter of scale more than any sort of specific incentive baked into law.
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:49PM (2 children)
Shining stars of the military industrial complex.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:48PM (1 child)
People seem to be forgetting that those don't count as offshoring.
Because of their sensitive business and (gasp!) government regulations, their "offshoring" is essentially in western democracies (and the authorized kinds of Semites), not Evil Brown and Yellow People.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:52PM
(and the authorized kinds of Semites)
How else do you expect them to defend the land (which god deeded them) from the evil semites who were originally living there?
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:24PM
Looking at the phrase in the headline "Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs," I'm really struck by how that phrase can be used to justify a particular point of view. As in "We don't want welfare, that rewards people for not working." It might be economically true that certain policy decisions provide an economic reward to people for particular actions, but that doesn't mean that the motivation of those making the policy is to reward these things. It almost sounds like any time one uses the word "reward" talking about politics, they are using it to help paint someone as a bad guy with no sense. To be sure I am inclined towards the view that Donald Trump actually is a bad guy with no sense, but I'm not sure he's intentionally trying to reward companies for exchanging US workers for non-US.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by bradley13 on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:38PM (3 children)
Look, I have no idea what Trump's policies will turn out to be, if he even has a consistent policy. But TFA is just stupid.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to award a major federal contract?
It takes years. RFAs, RFPs, negotiations, challenges from competitors, challenges to the challenges. In his first 100 days in office, Trump has had exactly zero effect on any major contract awards. He may influence the selection process for new awards, but there will be no observable effects for at least 2-3 years. Not even then, unless he really puts the screws to the bureaucracy, because Congress writes the checks, and therefore has a lot more influence here than the executive branch.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:00PM (1 child)
Anti-Trump points failures that are Obama's at Trump, and successes that are Trump's at Obama.
Nothing new. These types of headlines are D&C clickbait intended to divide Trump's supporter base. Too bad we've completely lost faith in the ability of the MSM to present facts with only a slight bias.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:10PM
I thought MSM died out 65 million years ago when a huge cluebat hit their poor heads? ;-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:26PM
Hey, Donnie Tiny Hands:
You stood up before and stated a policy.
Now it's time to stand up and point out which corporations are acting contrary to your policy.
It's called The Bully Pulpit. Use it, you two-faced piece of crap.
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