OP: How has Trump impacted your life personally?

A: For the worse, definitely a blot on every aspect of our society.

My life has not been personally affected yet. Shootings continue in Chicago.

(...actually, it has affected me personally. I cannot speak freely about politics at work anymore. Then again that's been true since Obama was elected.)

(May 17, 2017 at 10:19 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: My life has not been personally affected yet. Shootings continue in Chicago.

(...actually, it has affected me personally. I cannot speak freely about politics at work anymore. Then again that's been true since Obama was elected.)

Firearm death has gone down in Los Angeles so cherry picking out of an entire nation is bullshit NEO. 

So when you cant defend horrible Reagan trickle down economics you resort to raced based bullshit.

It really hasn't affected me much. Living in a massive urban island, Chicagoland, there's a nice protective dome around you protecting people from Trump's idiocy.
As in, Citizen: "Trump is doing what?!?!?" Chicago: "Don't worry about it. We'll take care of you."

(May 17, 2017 at 7:55 am)Jeanne Wrote: Uh-huh. Brian, you just remain uninformed.  It most likely won't make any difference.

Orochi, you take my information and automatically label it a conspiracy theory likened to those surrounding our September 11th terrorist attack.  How does that work in your mind?  Maybe I don't want to know...

Industrial Lad, can you read books?  Try some of Obama's.  Then...you tell me if you think he has Communist leanings?  And...Brian, you should read some books, too.

Listen -- simply because someone advocates for this or that socialist idea doesn't make them communist. Socialism can happen without communism. You need not believe me; look at the Scandinavian countries, for starters.

There's a certain irony to you dismissively recommending others to get an education even as you yourself practice an all-too-common, and all-too-wrong, conflation.

Obama a communist ... laughably wrong.

(May 17, 2017 at 11:02 am)LostLocke Wrote: It really hasn't affected me much. Living in a massive urban island, Chicagoland, there's a nice protective dome around you protecting people from Trump's idiocy.
As in, Citizen: "Trump is doing what?!?!?" Chicago: "Don't worry about it. We'll take care of you."

If you think Rahm is taking care of us, I invite you to take a second look. But maybe that's just my view from the South Side, you know, where all the shootings happen.

(May 17, 2017 at 11:07 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(May 17, 2017 at 7:55 am)Jeanne Wrote: Uh-huh. Brian, you just remain uninformed.  It most likely won't make any difference.

Orochi, you take my information and automatically label it a conspiracy theory likened to those surrounding our September 11th terrorist attack.  How does that work in your mind?  Maybe I don't want to know...

Industrial Lad, can you read books?  Try some of Obama's.  Then...you tell me if you think he has Communist leanings?  And...Brian, you should read some books, too.

Listen -- simply because someone advocates for this or that socialist idea doesn't make them communist. Socialism can happen without communism. You need not believe me; look at the Scandinavian countries, for starters.

There's a certain irony to you dismissively recommending others to get an education even as you yourself practice an all-too-common, and all-too-wrong, conflation.

Obama a communist ... laughably wrong.

Ok, so are we agreeing that Obama isn't a Communist?

What does that have to do with even Socialism?

I already told you we ALREADY have socialism, corporate socialism, they socialize the profits between the ceos an share holders when they win, and socialize the losses on the tax payers when they lose.

NFL is a perfect example, The Saints should have gone out of business back in the 70s and 80s but because of corporate laws, the NFL between owners propped them up, and took it out on fans, and blackmailed cities to keep them a afloat. 

Even locally where I live, I have a mostly empty shopping center across the street from me, 12 units, only 4 full, and one major chain gas station in the parking lot. Some bank owns it I am sure because of the builder defaulting, but it has been mostly empty most of the 10 years I have lived here. Someone is ultimately paying for those units to stay empty. 

You seem to fail to realize what the rich don't pay the rest of us pay for long term to pay for their tax deductions and losses. That lack of the top paying adds to the national debt long term.

(May 17, 2017 at 11:14 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(May 17, 2017 at 11:02 am)LostLocke Wrote: It really hasn't affected me much. Living in a massive urban island, Chicagoland, there's a nice protective dome around you protecting people from Trump's idiocy.
As in, Citizen: "Trump is doing what?!?!?" Chicago: "Don't worry about it. We'll take care of you."

If you think Rahm is taking care of us, I invite you to take a second look. But maybe that's just my view from the South Side, you know, where all the shootings happen.

No, but he is willing to take care of you.  What's your address.  I'm sure he'd be happy to send some folks over to .. uh .. take care of you.

I don't deny for a second that Chicago has problems. But compared to Trump, our politicians look like Mother Theresa, who of course wasn't the angel she was made out to be.
Chicago isn't trying to fix its public school system by handing out taxpayer vouchers for kids to learn at un- or under- regulated "private" schools.
It's not pulling down important scientific info from its websites, like climate change and action. (In fact, it's restored EPA pages)
It's legalized medicinal weed usage, and will likely move towards total legalization. (It seems those in politics who are anti-weed seem to have no problem with alcohol and tobacco, both drugs that are more damaging than weed)

It's funny, Trump supporters want smaller government in general, and especially promote state rights all the time. But as soon as you mention immigration, weed, etc... suddenly they're all "Send in the Feds"
Which is it people?

(May 17, 2017 at 12:00 pm)LostLocke Wrote: I don't deny for a second that Chicago has problems. But compared to Trump, our politicians look like Mother Theresa, who of course wasn't the angel she was made out to be.
Chicago isn't trying to fix its public school system by handing out taxpayer vouchers for kids to learn at un- or under- regulated "private" schools.
It's not pulling down important scientific info from its websites, like climate change and action. (In fact, it's restored EPA pages)
It's legalized medicinal weed usage, and will likely move towards total legalization. (It seems those in politics who are anti-weed seem to have no problem with alcohol and tobacco, both drugs that are more damaging than weed)

It's funny, Trump supporters want smaller government in general, and especially promote state rights all the time. But as soon as you mention immigration, weed, etc... suddenly they're all "Send in the Feds"
Which is it people?

Actually I wouldn't bring up Mother Teresa, she made India worse off. As Hitchens put it "She was a friend of poverty, not a friend to the poor". She was ultimately a marketing scam to spread the Catholic faith, very little of what she did actually went to helping the sick and poor, most of the money she drew in was used for expanding the church in India.

Outside that yea, I agree, Trump and GOP are not for small government they are for small oversight when they run government, that way they can protect corporate welfare with social issues.