(12-19-2018, 06:22 AM)Rajvik Wrote:

Black Aeronaut Wrote:So, how do you define socialism?

sorry, something like this tends to require an actual keyboard and more time than i really have to answer, because it is a many nuanced thing

(12-17-2018, 03:09 AM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: So, how do you define socialism?

Also, last time I checked, the Nordic Model seems to work pretty damn well.

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model

I challenge you to tell me just how that system is broken.

Wikipedia Wrote:Overall tax burdens (as a percentage of GDP) are high: Sweden (44.1%), Denmark (45.9%) and Finland (44.1%).[24] The Nordic countries have relatively flat tax rates, meaning that even those with medium and low incomes are taxed at relatively high levels

Sweden at 56.6% of GDP, Denmark at 51.7% and Finland at 48.6% reflect very high public spending.[22] One key reason for public spending is the large number of public employees. These employees work in various fields including education, healthcare, and for the government itself. They often have greater job security and make up around a third of the workforce (more than 38% in Denmark). Public spending in social transfers such as unemployment benefits and early-retirement programmes is high. In 2001, the wage-based unemployment benefits were around 90% of wage in Denmark and 80% in Sweden, compared to 75% in the Netherlands and 60% in Germany. The unemployed were also able to receive benefits several years before reductions, compared to quick benefit reduction in other countries.

(12-25-2018, 10:14 PM)Rajvik Wrote: ... (the liberals because it goes against their class warfare political model ...

Quote:“The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through...internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.”

Quote:UPDATE: The reporters didn't see the documents, we should note. They spoke to sources who say the documents exist. Also, one of the Buzzfeed reporters, Jason Leopold, has copped to inventing sources in the past. The other reporter, Anthony Cormier, says they have sources beyond the two who were willing to talk "on the record."

Quote:The sharp reversal is "very grave," said Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general.

"But it also means this whole trash-talking of the last year and a half of the Mueller probe as a 'witch hunt' has to completely fold up shop now," he said.

"Because from this basic concession, there's certainly no 'witch hunt' now. How can you not seriously go after what you concede is a collusion between the highest members of the campaign - maybe just not the candidate - and a hostile foreign nation?"

In other words, rather than try to dismiss Mueller's probe, Giuliani only served to validate it.

Quote:Giuliani may be expecting a cascade of damaging new evidence in the coming weeks that might point to collusion.

He has established a pattern of moving the goal posts at interesting times.

Last May, he appeared to surprise Fox News presenter Sean Hannity when he suddenly revealed that Trump had repaid his fixer Michael Cohen the $130,000 that Cohen had paid in hush money to Stormy Daniels, the pornographic actress who alleges she had an affair with Trump.

Trump had previously claimed he had no idea Cohen made the payment.

Quote:Giuliani might have good reason to try to change the collusion narrative, given what's expected to come. He has reportedly said he expects Mueller's findings to be "horrific" for Trump.

Cohen has since flipped on the president, pleading guilty last year to lying to Congress, as well as to committing campaign finance violations and financial crimes. He began co-operating with Mueller's team and is due next month to testify before Congress.

Trump's ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, who pleaded guilty in September on financial charges, is alleged to have shared 2016 polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, who has ties with Russian intelligence.

And Mueller's team this week filed nearly 200 pages of new material on Manafort.

(03-17-2018, 09:05 AM)robkelk Wrote:

(03-17-2018, 02:34 AM)Labster Wrote: ...
Andrew McCabe was fired today as Assistant FBI Director, because apparently he was too hard on Hillary during the election :'(.  Two days before his retirement date on Sunday.  I'm sure there was no political motive for this.  Nothing to do with him working on the investigation of Trump.
...

That was extremely petty of Trump ... and it removed any externally-imposed reason that McCabe might have had to not testify against Trump.

Lost his job? Already happened.
Lost his pension? Already happened.
Been fucked over by the person who would have preferred he not say anything? Already happened.

What's left to hold over him?

Quote:McCabe also claims that Trump told him, "I heard you were part of the resistance" that didn't approve of Comey's leadership and his treatment of the Clinton email case.

"I realized that he was offering me the opportunity to adopt his narrative," he said of the president's comments.

"I see it now as my own loyalty test - Would I go along with the facts and the circumstances that he was trying to engineer or was I on the other side?"

He added: "It was, of course, contrary to the truth and it was not something that I could do."

Two days later, top FBI officials launched investigations into the president.

McCabe claims the underlying reasons he set the investigations into motion immediately after being asked to serve as acting director was because Trump had made it clear he "might not be in the job long."

Quote:Cohen said the organization has refused to pay any of his legal fees or costs since May 2018, and owed him almost $2 million as of Jan. 25.

Quote:Cohen told Congress last week that Trump was a racist, a liar and a con man.