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Posts posted by Francisco 2.0
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12 minutes ago, sachick said:
How long before he hires a town crier for all his proclamations?
He already has:
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1 minute ago, Pancho said:
[TEX]THAT'LL SHOW THOSE BASTARDS!!! YEAH TRUMP!!!! WE ARE WINNING!!!!! MAGA MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!! FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!!!!![/AGS]
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Just now, 4th&Five said:
G7 is going to be...interesting. Going somewhere he doesn't want to be, surrounded by people that fucking hate him and are all much smarter than him. We should get some real crazy tweets/
I'm to the point where he will show up, maybe hit a photo op, then leave and tweet he left because everyone there is anti-American or refuses to pay their NATO tax or is mean to Russia or whatever. The MAGA faithful will cheer him on. The rest of the world will shake their collective heads at this display of Presidential "behavior".
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1 minute ago, Mo Horn said:
He's a fucking idiot; there's just no other way to put it.
Yeah, but see, to those who only watch the nightly Fox propaganda broadcasts and only read their carefully curated Facebook and Twitter statements, this is the reason the Dow dropped.
And that's all that matters. Oh, he's speaking to the human race, but the message is solely for the true believers.
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5 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
If something did happen it’s not like we’re going to let trump name a nominee in an election year right, Mitch?
Mitch has the press release ready and waiting for the moment she passes proclaiming the Senate is ready to begin deliberations on whoever the President chooses.
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15 minutes ago, Quagmire said:
Can’t sister just call and pretend to be her ?Sure. Then they ask for the PIN. Tried this.
AT&T considers a PIN far more valuable than anything on this planet. Seriously, before sister had full POA, she called aunt's credit cards, pretended to be her, and with some cursory info (SSN, address, whatnot) credit card companies were far more helpful. With AT&T, the almighty PIN code gets in the way.
Hey, I do get it---AT&T doesn't want to make it easy to add or change services, etc. But with a POA, that should be more than enough.
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1 hour ago, Lobwedgephil said:
I would try a phone call and not a store.
Oh, that was tried as well. Paraphrasing: "You need to visit a ATT corporate store to verify the Power of Attorney agreement"
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6 hours ago, PilotsError said:
Why wasnt the first action to not immediately stop payment?
All of this came to light in the past month, and sister just received the POAlast week.
Refusing to pay isn't that big a deal, but sister wanted to at least cancel the service first, plus pay out any outstanding bills. You know, like civilized folk would. But armed with Power of Attorney, isn't good enough for ATT.
Also, this is the second store she went to. The first wasn't a corporate store, so the folks there referred her to a corporate store where they could easily handle a situation like this. Turns out, the corporate store would not help at all, and in fact, got combative about the deal.
It's one thing to go back and complain about the actions of a sales agent a few years ago in selling services to an elderly customer who does not need these things, and then putting them on the hook for over two years of services they will never use. That's water under the bridge as far as we are concerned. We just wanted to close out her ATT accounts. Turns out, that's apparently an impossibility even with Power of Attorney.
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Trade wars are easy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/business/china-tariffs-trump.html
QuoteThe Chinese government announced on Friday that it would retaliate against President Trump’s next two batches of tariff increases on Chinese goods by imposing its own tariff increases on American imports, in the latest sign that neither side is prepared to back down in their trade war.
The State Council Tariff Commission in Beijing said it would impose extra tariffs of 5 percent or 10 percent on $75 billion worth of American goods. The new tariffs will take effect on Sept. 1 and on Dec. 15, according to the commission, which did not provide the value of how much would be penalized in the first batch and how much in the second.
QuoteThose are the same dates when Mr. Trump’s next batches of 10 percent tariffs are scheduled to take effect. Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, estimated earlier this month that the tariff categories identified by the Trump administration represented $112 billion in goods facing extra 10 percent tariffs on Sept. 1 and a further $160 billion on Dec 15.
The news from Beijing sent markets lower in Europe in afternoon trading there. Futures markets indicated that Wall Street would open lower, too.
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So, R's in both DC and Kansas are calling for the resignation of a representative who's been in office for 8 months. But no one knows why.
QuoteFORT SCOTT — Kansas Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins declined to answer news reporters’ questions at a campaign event Thursday amid a flurry of bipartisan speculation his career in Congress could come to an abrupt end after eight months in office.
Instead, he bolted into a waiting vehicle and sped away.
Republicans in Kansas and Washington, D.C., were pressuring Watkins to step down, but the reason for the possible resignation wasn’t certain. Jim Joice, the spokesman for Watkins, said there would be no resignation. Joice acknowledged widespread conversation on the topic but disputed whether GOP leaders were actually applying pressure.
QuoteThe congressman addressed business owners, military veterans and politically engaged voters during a meet and greet sponsored by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce, reflecting on his accomplishments in office and the “fleeting” nature of being a public servant. Watkins was talking to a constituent when he placed his cellphone to his ear and abruptly left the Boiler Room Brewhaus through a side door.
Two news reporters chased and shouted after Watkins as he stepped into the passenger side of a waiting SUV and smirked as the vehicle pulled away. Watkins aides inside the restaurant declined to answer questions but said they would forward a request for comment to superiors.
QuoteWatkins narrowly defeated Democrat Paul Davis during a turbulent 2018 campaign in which questions were raised about Watkins’ military service and his treatment of women in Kansas, Alaska and elsewhere.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported he was dating women in Topeka during the campaign while engaged to be married and after he was wed, and identified a Wasilla, Alaska, resident who accused Watkins of unwanted sexual advances. Watkins called the allegations “preposterous.”
The 42-year-old was elected in November to the 2nd District seat vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, also a Republican. He emerged from a crowded GOP primary on the strength of television advertising underwritten by Watkins’ father, a Topeka physician, who set up a political action committee. The super PAC spent more than $700,000 on his campaign.
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Pretty rich that Mitch McConnell penned an op-ed warning Democrats not to get rid of the filibuster:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-senate-filibuster.html
Quote“You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”
That was my warning to Senate Democrats in November 2013. Their leader, Harry Reid, had just persuaded them to trample longstanding Senate rules and precedents. Now that some Democrats are proposing further radical changes to the Senate’s functioning, it is instructive to recall what happened next.
Garland says hi.
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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
So it turns out the Founding Fathers held regular dance contests and participation, while not mandatory, was taken as a sign of true patriotism.
No greater patriot than Rick Perry:
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This fall, going to replace our gas 75 gallon tank that's 22 years old. Considering tankless. Anyone else here gone that route?
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10 hours ago, bschoolprof said:
This falls under the umbrella discussed above, but some people use them to "mask" their true geographic location. This can be useful if one wants to, say, access a streaming provider's content in another country (i.e., use a VPN to make their servers think you are coming from that country) or to get around geographic blackout restrictions for products like MLBtv.
VPN user here for when I need it (public wifi). But....another neat feature of a VPN is getting different rates on hotels on cities you will visit, if there is a VPN endpoint in that town. Case in point; I was pricing rooms in Vegas recently. From home I had one price; fired up the VPN, set the endpoint in Vegas, cleared cookies and cache, and the room became $50 a night cheaper.
YMMV, but it's worth playing with.
Oh, and PIA user here. Rock solid.
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Not for me personally, but for a family member.
Aunt, 89 years old, was placed in assistive care earlier this month. My sister has power of attorney for her. Aunt has no children or spouse.
My sister found through aunt's banking and bills and whatnot that she has been paying AT&T around $235 a month for the past two years for internet, Directv and her land line. Her cell is through another carrier, no issues there.
She has no computer, no smart phone, no wireless, no land line (or at least no phone in the house that would require a land line). In other words, for the past two years, she has handed over $5000 for services she does not use.
Sister has tried to get AT&T to cancel all the services, but AT&T refuses to, even with power of attorney, because aunt or my sister has no idea what her 4 digit pin code is.
Sister left AT&T corporate store earlier today saying there would be no more payments to AT&T. The person advised her against it, because "it could mess up her credit". To which my sister stated at 89 and in her condition, I don't really think credit is something she is going to worry about. They even gave her some bullshit that POA law changed in 2018 so they couldn't help her at all.
So, anyone else ever came across this? I googled for a while, and apparently, this has been a real thing for years now from coast to coast. AT&T will not recognize a POA, or just will bounce you from person to person to department to whoever endlessly, each saying that they cannot take care of this, but the next person will.
Thanks all.
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Fox's standards for on-air female attractiveness must be slipping.
She's the perfect messenger for them, but she's been beat with the ugly stick.
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1 hour ago, horncyclist said:
Anyone seen speculation on a price for Greenland? Considering the strategic value and potential natural resources, I'd have to think it would be yuge. Like tree fiddy billion.
One thing allegedly floated was the US take over what Denmark pays each year in assistance to Greenland ($600 million) + some undisclosed one-time payment to Denmark as a gift.
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How very socialistic of the President.
Look, I'm all about taking care of vets, and there's no bitch from me. But at the same time, isn't this something the right mocks? I don't recall any GOP congressional member ever claiming that student debt held by veterans should be cancelled. If someone has a link to a previously held GOP position for this, I'm all ears.
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EDIT: 4th beat me to it.
MAGA motherfuckers!
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Oh for fucks sake.
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Not Trump, but might as well post it here, because lulz.
QuoteA former associate administrator at the U.S. General Services Administration had sex with a White House staffer in his government office and on the roof of the agency's northwest D.C. headquarters, an internal investigation reveals.
The investigation also revealed the official drank from a bottle of vodka in his office "after normal business hours."
The report details multiple violations of federal policies prohibiting or limiting alcohol consumption in federal offices, by high ranking officials of the GSA in 2017. The GSA is the independent federal agency which oversees federal office spaces and public buildings.
QuoteThe misconduct is detailed in a written summary of an investigation conducted by the Inspector General of the General Services Administration, released to the News4 I-Team under the Freedom of Information Act.
According to the inspector general report, former associate GSA administrator Brennan Hart escorted a White House staffer into the agency's F Street headquarters on July 1, 2017. The report said Hart acknowledged he then poured drinks from the bottle of vodka he kept in his desk. According to the report, "He said their sexual activity began in the Administrator suite area and culminated with oral sex on the rooftop of the Central Office." The report said the official "stated this occurred on only one occasion."
QuoteHart declined comment when reached by the I-Team.
Hart's employment with the agency ended in March 2018, several weeks after the inspector general interviewed him about the incident. The report redacted the name of the White House staffer involved. A copy of the inspector general report was sent to then-White House counsel Don McGahn in March 2018.
According to the report, Hart also acknowledged drinking from the vodka bottle at his desk while with colleagues, including with the agency's former top ranking official in 2017.
QuoteFormer acting GSA administrator Timothy Horne, who oversaw the agency in 2017, told investigators he also consumed alcohol after work hours and "when no one else was around," according to the inspector general report. The former administrator acknowledged he violated federal rules in doing so, according to the report.
The agency's current director, Emily Murphy, told inspector general investigators in 2018 she permitted consumption of alcohol in her office, by immediate staff after business hours on Fridays. Murphy told investigators she was unaware of the federal government's formal approval process for allowing alcoholic beverage consumption, according to the inspector general report.
In a statement to the I-Team, a GSA spokeswoman said, "GSA holds all employees to the highest ethical standards and takes appropriate actions to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. In addition to required training for federal employees, GSA holds mandatory monthly ethics trainings for GSA political appointees. GSA does not tolerate inappropriate use of alcohol in the workplace or any violation of government regulations regarding alcohol. Further, GSA does not tolerate the misuse of government property by any GSA employee."
And here's the playboy himself, who likes fucking on the rooftop.
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1 day.
https://www.axios.com/trump-payroll-tax-cut-a835ae74-af74-4de5-816e-9dc68f27717e.html
QuotePresident Trump abandoned his public support for a payroll tax cut Wednesday, just 1 day after telling reporters that he had been "thinking about" whether to pursue the move.
The big picture: Discussions over cutting the payroll tax, which currently sits at 6.2% and is used to fund Social Security and Medicare, are part of a broader White House effort to stem fears of a coming recession — though Trump insisted to reporters that "whether or not we do it now, it's not being done because of recession." Sources tell Axios' Jonathan Swan that Trump is "running out of tools" to juice the economy, with an economic slowdown looking increasingly likely ahead of the 2020 election.
Quote- On Monday, Trump tweeted that the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates by "at least 100 basis points" — a drastic measure that the Fed normally uses to stimulate the economy in a recession.
- The inversion of the yield curve, a warning sign that has preceded every recession for the past 70 years, caused a major sell-off in the stock market last week. The market has since recovered completely, but prolonged trade tensions between the U.S. and China have caused many investors to remain skittish.
- The White House previously denied an Aug. 19 Washington Post report that cutting payroll taxes was under consideration, before Trump stated in an Oval Office pool spray that he was, in fact, "thinking about it."
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Maybe I've missed it (I've actually had to work the past two weeks, and peek in occasionally) but I'm noticing a distinct lack of Trump-sucking posters attempting to defend his orange ass lately.
Oh, maybe they are are all hiding at Texags with "like minded" people, but I suspect they simply just cannot defend the cocksucker here any longer with any semblance of intelligent thought.
Donald Trump 2019
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But you see, since no one has any accounting of his income taxes, we have no idea if he's personally benefiting from the market or not.
3D Spock Chess going on here.