keepthefaith

Iran has huge unemployment and huge inflation. Very hard to fix that. They're leadership is under tremendous economic stress. If we retaliate in a limited fashion, they will almost certainly escalate. Escalation won't mean an attack on U.S. soil but rather something in the region, Israel or Saudi Arabia or maybe Iraq. That's messy for us. As much as I'd like to see us blow Iran to bits, it doesn't seem smart. Better to protect our allies over there and the shipping lanes without confrontation and let the economic pressure endure. That said I wouldn't be at all surprised if we respond militarily in some small way.

Go for it Barack. Your performance as President resulted in Trump.

Best of luck to her but Patriotism as most Americans understand it isn't likely popular in that district. The witch Omar got 78% of the vote there in 2018.

Google lists George at 5' 5" which means he's probably 5' 3.5"

Crass

McCain........ Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

Liberal version: Workers forced to pay more in income taxes so corporations can pay less.

Post of the week right there

"of value" in the legal sense in this law might mean something of monetary value or a promise of a political favor. It might not mean "dirt" or information or evidence. I don't know, we'd need a legal interpretation. And for the record Mueller and his crew looked very hard at the Wikileaks thing, no charges to Trump or his campaign people regarding the email dump. That happened independent of Trump according to the investigation. According to Andy McCabe though, it's OK for campaigns for Americans running for office to hire American companies to hire foreign individuals and pay them to find "dirt" on political opponents.

Define "of value".

So assigning congressional seats and electoral votes based on the population of eligible voters in each state is in the mind of the ACLU, a conspiracy.

It seems that Joe is not the chosen one among the media and probably among the DNC as well (those two go hand in hand). Hard line for them to walk if true as they got hammered for their favoritism for Hillary in the last cycle so they'll have to be more subtle in their biased efforts this time around.

I've yet to hear any Dem talk about any sensible solution to the most obvious issues we have which are fiscal (budgets and deficits) and illegal immigration. Trump is nearly MIA on the fiscal stuff.

5 guys in the NCAA championships last week jumped between 26-27 feet, plus the U.S. has a stable of jumpers in the Olympic system. Marquise's best ever is just over 27'. He's probably not in top jumping shape and being a bit of an "older" guy now his chances of making the team are pretty thin IMO but he's a great American.

We're talking about the Dem primary. She has to win that before Trump detroys her and he would destroy her. She comes across as a prudish whiny lightweight which is exactly what she is. Dems might be more likely to go for the slutty angry Harris.

She may but I think Liz will have a low ceiling and won't benefit from greater exposure in debates and other events.

27 feet

It was a lie.

ouch!

Yeah and then they both got ***** at the drive through by Putin.

Yeah, it's very telling as mentioned. Party over country.

I think Trump's calculus was/is that Mexico would bow to the tariff threat. They did. Trump's end game isn't to deploy tariffs long term in any of the situations in which he's used them or threatened them. He has said so. He uses it as a stick. In this situation with Mexico regarding immigration/migration I'd rather he used other tactics than tariffs. Problem is, most would require Congressional input and he's getting no cooperation to fix the problem. Personally I don't like the tariffs being his go-to weapon for the border fight as that can disrupt many supply chains. His proposal of border law/security changes and merit based immigration in exchange for "dreamer" path to citizenship seems reasonable. Democrats during Obama years crowed about citizenship for dreamers but when faced with the choice now of getting that along with a border fix they are MIA. Very telling.

Hire a string quartet to play for them? The vast majority of them don't meet the legal definition for asylum claims if they're being honest.

Trump can certainly be criticized for a variety of things but on this issue, illegal immigration, he's the only adult in the room. People may not like his style or his tactics but It's a no-brainer that we need to once and for all stop the flow of people entering or staying in the country outside of our legal immigration process. It's ridiculous that this has gone on for so long. Decades. Trump has exposed the political opposition (including some Republicans) as unwilling to address the problem. Frankly the position of Democrats and again some Republicans is both outrageous and embarrassing. As for Trump not achieving anything new with his Tariff threat, B.S. Mexico did agree a couple months ago to some changes and didn't implement them to Trump's satisfaction hence the tariff threat which absolutely brought Mexico to the bargaining table. Meanwhile Trump's political opposition which is in a position to make changes to laws that can make a difference continue to sit on their hands and lob criticism at Trump. They're also in a position to support and contribute to diplomatic efforts which are also needed and instead sit on the sidelines. This, the immigration issue, more than almost anything else puts on full display the total dis-function in Washington and the party over country practices.

True but they're coming off a quarter of disappointing earnings, weak enough to make it difficult for them to grow earnings over last year and their bad press is on the uptick. That and a market that's pretty heated overall, I wouldn't touch it now.