The USA Political Thread

[lennco]

Here you can spout your USA political views.

Rules:
1. Keep it clean
2. No fighting
3. Respect the views of others.
4. US Political views, No Religious views
5. Have fun

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[enlytend]

BTW, Creepy AF is just an abbreviation for creepy as f*ck. Everyone knows what you mean.

No. You know what I wrote - that’s a fact. The rest is your assumption.

Fish are pretty creepy.

If you actually read my posts, I’m not the one who “emotes”here. But there are certain ways I won’t tolerate being spoken to.

And now you’re just doubling down on the disrespect and name calling. There’s no way to have a rational discussion with that. I’m out.

 

[mr-x]

I guess we can stop waiting for you to point out an error or non factual assertion in the Sinclair mission statement then.

No. You know what I wrote - that’s a fact. The rest is your assumption.

Fish are pretty creepy.
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If you actually read my posts, I’m not the one who “emotes”here. But there are certain ways I won’t tolerate being spoken to.

And now you’re just doubling down on the disrespect and name calling. There’s no way to have a rational discussion with that. I’m out.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=AF
AF acronym stands for 'as fuck.'
That dinner was good AF.
Translation: That dinner was good as fuck.

 

[enlytend]

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

 

[JB Lions]

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

One of the points I've been making:

"There are projects underway along parts of the border to improve or replace fencing, but none of that includes any of the eight border wall prototypes ordered by the Trump administration. In fact, U.S. Customs and Border Protection told PolitiFact this week that a prototype has not been selected."

"$1.6 billion is for fencing, not border wall
Trump reluctantly signed a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill on March 23 that he threatened to veto in part because his promised border wall was "not fully funded." The bill included $1.6 billion for some projects at the border, but none of that can be used toward the border wall promised during the presidential campaign."

The rest of the article gives a thorough breakdown:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...-trump-wrongly-claims-border-wall-under-cons/

 

[johname]

Talking about feuds, check out the Kimmel Hannity one lol I never watch either so first I am hearing of this



Sean Hannity fuels feud with Jimmy Kimmel by labeling him a ‘pervert,’ ‘Harvey Weinstein junior’

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...s-jimmy-kimmel-pervert-feud-article-1.3918752

I read something about Jake Tapper regretting he call his date Monica Lewinsky "Chubby" in the 1990s So I don't think Kimbels 1990s Man Show would work today

I bet he is the only news host (opinion or otherwise) that didn't graduate from college

I didn't know what a MAGA shirt was so I wouldn't know what AF would mean

 

[offthehandle]

We'll see if this is true:

"ABC7 News: Nasim Aghdam has an alleged website with a manifesto that targets YouTube for censorship and demonetization of her video content"

But I was actually thinking it would be somebody like that. Some people today want to do YouTube for a living and some are and some were probably on their way up, then their content gets demonetized. If you were living on this income and then got zapped, and didn't save up, it might stress some out. Years ago, I could have lived just off my income from ebay, then they made change and boom, just killed my ebay income, big drop. Luckily, that wasn't my only stream. Also, years ago, I posted about a dog and 3 legs, it actually made it into some affiliate marketing book. This person borrowed a lot from what people said on forums and didn't give credit, made a lot of people mad, but I didn't care. Basically I remember early affiliates just living on the free traffic from Google. Knew this one lady that was making 10k a month from free Google traffic. Started spending it, building a new house etc. Then overnight she got zapped with 1 Google update, wrecked her. She used to say Google was her base. It's not really any kind of base/foundation, I said it was more of a leg. Think of a dog that loses one of it's legs. It can still manage to get around on 3 legs. If you were a one legged whatever and lost that 1 leg, it's over for you. Making money online, develop many legs. If you have a site, it could be free organic traffic, PPC, traffic from social media, that alone many options. Press releases used to work for me back in the day. etc. Then you can get into offline marketing, many options there.

So we'll see if this is the actual case with this person but I know a lot of YouTubers were getting hit.

That’s one of your best posts I have seen. Anybody who relies on the FANG to support them needs to have their head examined.

However, like what is going on with consumers behavior change like not supporting local small retailers, with Amazon and Walmart the market might turn retail into a 2 legged dog. Need to reutilize all the soon to be empty retail space and shopping malls, turn them into free taxpayer subsidized homeless shelters with free universal basic income. Lol.

A new shooting!!!! Hey, wheres the MSM story drumbeat,?

Need laws now to start banning 9mm pistols from female video bloggers!

Need free mental health services and screening for all Youtube creators.

Need laws to provide govt subsidized armed guards to protect silicon swamp workers from the public.

Need to arm all silicon valley business managers to protect their workers against angry artists and content creators.

Need laws to protect video producers and blogger people from Youtube and Google revenue cutbacks based on random deindexing and censorship, more laws now!

Need more 1st amendment protection Laws on private industries who accept government funds for covert spying, more of them now!
We demand a march to San Bruno government protection!

 

[johname]

I dont feel like starting a thread on this so I will post it here

FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized for Sex-Related Ads

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-se...ite-criticized-for-sex-related-ads-1523048024


https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontg...e-disruption?utm_term=.sy2YQjj0ok#.oyr91YYMRb

 

[JB Lions]

However, like what is going on with consumers behavior change like not supporting local small retailers, with Amazon and Walmart the market might turn retail into a 2 legged dog.

For me, stuff like that, you need to do more than just be a local small retailer. I'm all for supporting local business, but a lot of local business think that's all they need to do. Just buy from us because we're local, without actually getting out there and competing. As I posted in the other thread, where I ordered a new Ten Unit at 11:30 at night, and it was at my doorstep 12 hours later. Can a local small retailer compete there? Do they have a site that sells that product with competitive pricing? I was just thinking since I'm hungry, how most pizza places deliver. I can order a pizza and have it here within an hour. Why don't more local retailers do that? Less crying, more competing. With 44% of online sales thru Amazon, that's a lot of happy customers. There is a reason why they're getting all that business. And lots of small businesses can leverage their platform as well, and sell there too. I saw this comment on Trump's FB page:

"Dear Mr. President... I am a Mom and Pop business and I sell via Amazon...There are 2 million of us! Don't forget those of us that are making our living thanks to Amazon."

 

[offthehandle]

For me, stuff like that, you need to do more than just be a local small retailer. I'm all for supporting local business, but a lot of local business think that's all they need to do. Just buy from us because we're local, without actually getting out there and competing. As I posted in the other thread, where I ordered a new Ten Unit at 11:30 at night, and it was at my doorstep 12 hours later. Can a local small retailer compete there? Do they have a site that sells that product with competitive pricing? I was just thinking since I'm hungry, how most pizza places deliver. I can order a pizza and have it here within an hour. Why don't more local retailers do that? Less crying, more competing. With 44% of online sales thru Amazon, that's a lot of happy customers. There is a reason why they're getting all that business.

Sure small retailers should find another way of competing. But the google “only” search usage by most users makes it difficult to rank. I made my living years back on a great niche, and having stock and Fed Ex next day air, early AM. Now, I could never compete the same way, though it was not retail sales. The adwords bills kept getting way too high, ranking kept dropping, market changed due to China dumping product, and more. I never cry about it, probably never once said that. Its life.

The other factor was the “Paint ball distributor” example we both talked about. Amazon is cloning high volume niche products, and studies everything to a science. How can a small company compete with teams of researchers. Now, with that being said I discovered some non commodity niche products, and was unable to find any of them listed for Amazon Affiliates as I thought I might reverse roles. Those companies refuse to sell on Amazon and protect their niche, for now. Rely on traditional trade publication media, local reps, etc. lol. Smart.

I wanted to buy a part on Amazon for a photo tripod awhile back. Could not find an exact match, lots of customer complaints. So used their search to determine the OEM.... ha. Discovered it was a company that Walmart sold a lot of. Looking further, I find that Amazon renumbered it, and virtually identical as Walmart copied it first and assigned a generic model number and made their own private label for themselves.

So, tripod manufacturer—-> copied by walmart—->copied by Amazon. All same price.

 

[JB Lions]

Sure small retailers should find another way of competing. But the google “only” search usage by most users makes it difficult to rank. I made my living years back on a great niche, and having stock and Fed Ex next day air, early AM. Now, I could never compete the same way, though it was not retail sales. The adwords bills kept getting way too high, ranking kept dropping, market changed due to China dumping product, and more. I never cry about it, probably never once said that. Its life.

The other factor was the “Paint ball distributor” example we both talked about. Amazon is cloning high volume niche products, and studies everything to a science. How can a small company compete with teams of researchers. Now, with that being said I discovered some non commodity niche products, and was unable to find any of them listed for Amazon Affiliates as I thought I might reverse roles. Those companies refuse to sell on Amazon and protect their niche, for now. Rely on traditional trade publication media, local reps, etc. lol. Smart.

I wanted to buy a part on Amazon for a photo tripod awhile back. Could not find an exact match, lots of customer complaints. So used their search to determine the OEM.... ha. Discovered it was a company that Walmart sold a lot of. Looking further, I find that Amazon renumbered it, and virtually identical as Walmart copied it first and assigned a generic model number and made their own private label for themselves.

So, tripod manufacturer—-> copied by walmart—->copied by Amazon. All same price.

End of day, consumers love them. They seem to get just about everything right. Trump could learn from them, good hiring practices. And again, small businesses can open up shop on their platform. Local companies may struggle in search but go back to what I posted about not being reliant on 1 form of traffic. There are plenty of opportunities advertising elsewhere, locally. Just social media alone. When I need some type of service around here, I simply get recommendations from locals via Facebook, where there is a community page setup. Help, my AC is out, I need my pool screen repaired, anybody know of a good lawn service etc. There are local companies that are doing great just from that page alone. Almost 12,000 members - https://www.facebook.com/groups/conwaycommunityorlando/

I love them because they have great selection, lowest prices, fast shipping, great customer service when I've used them.

I've even tried this a few times, not available in all cities:
https://primenow.amazon.com/

I can pick a time for delivery, 2 hour window, let's say 2-4 and the 3 times I've used them, they seem to deliver right in the middle. Order frozen pizza, they pack it in reusable freezer packaging. Just a great experience.

 

[offthehandle]

http://theweek.com/articles/765276/how-china-win-trade-war-1-move

Another Clinton caused problem, and Government and Globalist agenda F U of elected officials to protect the US taxpayer and jobs.

China arrives in US, learns and buys out technology company, moves it to China.

 

[enlytend]

“I was ordered to do man-on-the-street interviews that were clearly politically biased. ... It was disguised as real journalism.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jonathan-beaton-sinclair-suing_us_5ac60f6fe4b09ef3b2441237

Dictionary word du jour:

Note the word “lie” isn’t in there.

 

[mr-x]

“I was ordered to do man-on-the-street interviews that were clearly politically biased. ... It was disguised as real journalism.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jonathan-beaton-sinclair-suing_us_5ac60f6fe4b09ef3b2441237

Dictionary word du jour:
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Note the word “lie” isn’t in there.

" I approached management about getting out of my contract, citing mental and physical fatigue, but they wouldn’t budge, demanding tens of thousands of dollars from me. I couldn’t pay, and couldn’t work in that environment anymore, so I left."

Sounds like a local station with poor management.

By your definition, every corporate mission statement is propaganda. But liberals are only outraged by one corporation. If Sinclair had a motto like "Lean Forward", you could have slept through it and not been bothered.

Again, if you can find a factually incorrect or biased meaning in Sinclair's on air statement, please quote it.

Truth by definition isn't biased.

 

[mr-x]

Finally, another survivor calling out Sheriff Israel and schools superintendent for their failures. My guess is this gets about 15 seconds of air time on CNN

 

[enlytend]

Speaking of things potentially as creepy as fish...
https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-security-to-compile-database-of-journalists-bloggers/

If you’re fine with that now, would you have been had the previous administration implemented it? Lots of opportunity for misuse, regardless of who you believe most likely to do so.

 

[mr-x]

Speaking of things potentially as creepy as fish...
https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-security-to-compile-database-of-journalists-bloggers/

If you’re fine with that now, would you have been had the previous administration implemented it? Lots of opportunity for misuse, regardless of who you believe most likely to do so.

Lots of social media marketers already do this. Don't like the idea of Gov doing it though.

 

[Kate]

There’s a New Problem With Trump’s Attacks on Amazon
The president’s own online store reportedly only collects taxes in two states.

 

[enlytend]

There’s a New Problem With Trump’s Attacks on Amazon
The president’s own online store reportedly only collects taxes in two states.

Oops ...

 

[johname]

Trump before he was elected, said he would not pay any tax that he didn't legally have to pay. So his hat business (or whatever it is) paying taxes only in the two states it has a physical presence in is not an oops.

Ist more that he thinks Amazon has it too easy for the possible monopoly they have and he would like to see them change themselves (preferred) or change the laws.

Once again not going to debate in this thread just throw my post and move on lol

 

[enlytend]

It's an oops if his business address is listed as NY.
And people in glass white houses ...