The Goat Pen

“If Trump is nominated, then everything we think we know about presidential nominations is wrong,”

Well, that was certainly true, at least for that moment in history...

eCat wrote:The Clive Bundy trial is interesting.

His son is found not guilty for taking over that park (which is a head scratcher) and now he gets a mistrial because the government withheld information showing the feds potentially acted illegally.

This actually has a little bit of Waco smell of it, as the Bundy's are claiming the FBI/BLM wanted a confrontation to turn violent in an effort to make the public side with the government.

Good article on that subject:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/e ... undy-case/

Bundy is just lucky an FBI sniper didn’t shoot his wife while she was dangerously holding a baby.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/b ... times.com/

When does the winning start?

Cletus wrote:When does the winning start?

You didn't hear? 0.002% of the country just got a $1000 bonus this Christmas. Fox & Friends declared we are now living in the bestest times ever, thanks to you-know-who. The trickle down is actually going to be a shower!

So far, though, most companies have said they’ll use the impending cash glut on stock buybacks and rising dividends, both rewards for shareholders who have sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average up by 25 percent this year in preparation for this moment.

Here are some highlights of corporate responses to the tax bill, courtesy of Thomson-Reuters: Boeing added $4 billion to an existing $14 billion repurchase program. Honeywell expanded its share buyback to $8 billion. Anthem put $5 billion into share buybacks. Home Depot $15 billion. Bank of America $5 billion. MasterCard $4 billion. T-Mobile USA $1.5 billion. According to a report released by Senate Democrats, companies announced $70 billion in buybacks just in the 10 days following the Senate tax bill’s first passage on Dec. 2. “Corporate CEOs have made clear that the massive tax giveaways in the Republican plan will not be passed on to workers but to rich investors,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a statement.

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Maybe a golden shower, then.

Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS. Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa.
--The President of the United States

I wonder why people suspect he might be a racist?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/p ... trref=t.co

This story perfectly sums up 2017 in America - Nazis and gun violence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pu ... =rss_crime

Merry Christmas Cletus.

Remember, Jesus is the reason for the season...

heh

Heh heh

Merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Winter Solstice/Saturnalia/Yule to all, whichever you choose...

CBNNews.com How The Donald Saved Christmas

A prominent Christian leader says President-elect Donald Trump is already making good on one of his promises: making it safe to say "Merry Christmas" again.

"The whole tone has shifted in this country since Nov. 8," Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary, told Charisma News. "In fact, just a few days after the election, I had several people say to me, 'Merry Christmas! Wow, it's okay to say that now!'"

"That is an anecdote that speaks to a larger truth, that President-elect Trump's win has dealt a serious blow to the totalitarian instincts, political correctness, progressivism and the extreme prejudice that is championed by that political correctness."

During his campaign, even in the sweltering heat of the summertime campaign stops, Trump was talking about Christmas. He tapped into the pent-up anger felt by millions of Americans over the perceived "War on Christmas" at our government's highest level, the White House, and the trickle-down impact of it throughout the American culture during the Obama administration.

Now, he's fulfilling his promise. During his "thank you" tour Trump is traveling the country speaking to the masses from a podium emblazoned with a big, red sign that reads, "Merry Christmas" -- words he also articulates to each audience, usually more than once during his speech. As if that's not enough, he is flanked by two Christmas trees on the stage. Those who are fortunate to receive a Christmas card from the Trump family will notice it says "Merry Christmas."

Christians helped put Trump over the finish line. An astounding 81 percent of white Evangelicals voted for the billionaire businessman.

Thank you, President Trump, for making “Merry Christmas” safe again.

Thank you, President Trump, for making 3% annual GDP growth possible again.

Thank you, President Trump, for making Syria a non-ISIS caliphate again.

Thank you Mr. President for driving the bedwetters stark raving mad.

If you think they are loony now, wait until Mueller is forced to stand in front of the cameras, and announce to the whole world that he could find no evidence that Trump ever colluded with the Russians.

It’ll be election night all over again.

crashcourse wrote:https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/20 ... 981464001/

That's encouraging. Another orgy of buying shit that nobody really needs, all in the service of celebrating the birth of Jesus. Yet somehow this makes ostensible christians proud. I have a feeling Jesus wouldn't share those sentiments, but of course Prof and the gang couldn't care less what Jesus would think, about anything...

Trump country..The people Cletus thinks should be rounded up and put in re-education camps

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The Whitts, like many people here, cobble together a living with a couple jobs each — sometimes working 12 or 15 hours a day — because there aren’t many options better than minimum wage. There’s the school system, and a prison, and that’s pretty much it. Outside of town, population 622, roads wind past rolling farms that used to grow tobacco before that industry crumbled too, then up into the hills of Appalachia, with its spectacular natural beauty and grinding poverty that has come to define this region in the American imagination...............
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They pay $800 a month for insurance. But when they took their baby to a surgeon in Cincinnati, they learned it was out of network. In-network hospitals offered only more invasive surgeries, so they opted to pay out of pocket. At the hospital they were told that if they’d been on an insurance program for the poor, it would have all been free.

This represents the cracks in America’s institutions that drove Whitt, a lifelong Democrat, from supporting President Barack Obama to buying a “Make America Great Again” cap that he still keeps on top of the hutch. Many of their welfare-dependent neighbors, he believes, stay trapped in a cycle of handouts and poverty while hardworking taxpayers like him and his wife are stuck with the tab and can’t get ahead.

“Where’s the fairness in that?” he asks.

But Whitt doesn’t blame Trump for the failure this year to repeal the health care law and replace it with something better. He blames the “brick wall” in Washington, the politicians he sees as blocking everything Trump proposes while “small people” like them in small places like this are left again to languish.


https://apnews.com/ee19ceb7cf0d4af4ab73 ... s-unshaken

Maybe they should move someplace that has jobs.

Cletus wrote:Maybe they should move someplace that has jobs.

I hear Chicago is a great place for poor people

It's not perfect but there are a lot more opportunities here (and 200 other places) than the middle of nowhere place these people live. These people should take the advice you gave the gay couples who couldn't get a wedding cake and leave the place that is not working for them to a place that will be more welcoming. The odds that any meaningful economic activity comes back to the Appalachian foothills are zero so these folks would be wise to see where the world is going and get out of there. They'll probably be poor no matter where they go but the chances that life is not a horrible grind would go up a bit if they left.

Professor Tiger wrote:If you think they are loony now, wait until Mueller is forced to stand in front of the cameras, and announce to the whole world that he could find no evidence that Trump ever colluded with the Russians.

It’ll be election night all over again.

You forget why Mueller is there in the first place, so I'll help you remember. AG Jeff Sessions lied in an open session of Congress about his meetings with the Russian ambassador, was called on it, and therefore recused himself from any and all Russian investigations, thereby opening the door for his Asst. AG to appoint the republican former FBI head as Special Counsel. Sessions was one of several persons involved with the Trump campaign who lied about meetings with Russians, including the president hisself.

What's looney is how Trump defends Putin and calls him a great leader yet he compares the FBI and our intelligence agencies to Nazis.