Posts Made By: James Lacey

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

Not proven.  Possibilities are that you made this up entirely or you have misread something somewhere along the trail (provide a link and we'll see...) or you are mentioning something from the historical record that is no longer in effect.

There is no 4% blanket duty, tariff, fee or whatever you want to call it on goods entering Canada from the USA. Your statement to the contrary is not proof.  There is a Free trade agreement between our two nations.  Free.  

Dave

I think you are 100% correct, David. If anything, the documents Rich is touting show that many goods that Canada can import from the USA do not have a "customs"  tariff. So, there is no blanket 4% duty. We only need one exception to show that is not true, and Rich's documents show hundreds of exceptions, maybe even thousands.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I wonder just how much time you've wasted in your hysterical searching through those documents to desperately try to show what the tariff rates are for the various items imported.

I usually spend 2 or 3 minutes cutting and pasting information and then adding it to the post.  

Just a riot thinking how frantically you are searching and searching,   LOL!   

What did you spend 1/2 hour?  45 minutes?  

This explains precisely why you misinterpreted the data, used old data, and misrepresented the data.

It only took maybe 10 minutes to realize you were wrong and had no idea what you were talking about.

This is where a normal rational adult would admit they were wrong, but we all know that is impossible for you.

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

In post 5 you said, "Your gov't right now charges a 4% tariff on ALL US goods going into Canada."  You made the effort to write 'all goods' in caps.

You, by your own postings and by postings from others here, have been proven wrong.

We're done here.  somebody get the lights.

Dave

Yup, he's dead wrong. And, of course, the funniest thing is all the while making his bombastic claim; he was screaming at everyone else and calling them illiterate, morons, stupid, can't read, etc. Then, in typical Rich fashion, he moves the goalposts rather than merely admitting he's wrong. Of course, Canada has highly selective tariffs on a few goods and services, but that hardly compares to the inclusive and massive tariffs promised by Trump.

Originally Posted by James Brown

The Real Clear Politics averages were quite good this cycle.  Shortly before the election the RCP “no toss up” map showed Trump winnning all of the swing states.   This earned them the derision of the New York Times and shockingly, Wikipedia of all places then censored the RCP polling averages briefly.   A lot of stupid and shameful poll denying by the NYT this time around, and I think their overt bias propagated in the media to the point it affected the general outlook of our small community here.

I meant his ability to predict the future is no worse than everyone else in this forum.

As I recall, you and Rod are were the only ones who publicly predicted a Trump win. If I had been backed into a corner to make a prediction, I would have said Kamala by a thread because I thought it was a toss-up at best. I did not predict, however, that so many people would vote simply because they wanted change and viewed Trump as the person to achieve that change. I thought that surely people did not want four more years of Trump chaos and insanity, but I was dead wrong about that.

It was actually a close election. If Kamala had won WI, MI, and PA, she would have won but lost those states by only 0.9, 1.4, and 1.7 points, respectively. 538 analyzed how close the election was, and by historical standards, it was very close. For example, his electoral college win ranks 14th out of the last 20 Presidential elections. His popular vote win is shrinking daily as more and more final votes are tallied. By the way, I fully expect Rich to jump in here and scream about how decisive Trump's win was, but by historical standards, it's not a blowout.

Fortunately, it looks like Trump's White House will be dysfunctional and riddled with toxic office politics that will cripple it to a large degree. Someone on his team has already leaked "love letters" written to Trump by an aide named Natalie Harp. Her nickname is "The Human Printer" because she follows Trump around with a portable printer and battery and feeds him flattering stories from right-wing sites like Gateway Pundit and One American News, which she used to work for. Presumably, the leakers don't like the unprecedented access she has to Trump and her ability to feed him right-wing fringe material and conspiracy theories from the internet. So they have exposed her publicly to try and shame her and affect her ability to continue. Trump is reportedly mega-mad about it and even referred to Maggie Habermann of the NYT, who first reported the story as "Magot Hagerman." And did you see Trump's Thanksgiving day "mean tweet?" Yeah, it will be another four years of dysfunction and chaos.

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

The main forum page displaying the thread topics show the number of views each thread gets. Your threads are way below the average for number of views with little or no response compared to anyone else on the forum. But you already knew that, right?

Don't expect any amount of evidence to ever move Rich's detachment from reality. The rationalizations and denials will never end. Honestly, it's pretty amazing how much Rich's behavior resembles Trump's. It's undoubtedly one of the reasons Rich is such an ardent no-holds-barred supporter.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/politics/video/kash-patel-fbi-pick-trump-kayyem-digvid

OMG! A wild eyed MAGA Whacko for yet another critical position! Again!

"Patel was viewed as a Trump loyalist and was almost installed as then-CIA Director Gina Haspel’s deputy until she threatened to resign over the move, Axios reported at the time."

"His short time at the Pentagon earned scrutiny from the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, asking him to sit for an interview after writing, “there is substantial reason to believe that you have additional documents and information relevant to understanding the role played by the Department of Defense and the White House in preparing for and responding to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as documents and information related to your personal involvement in planning for events on Jan. 6 and the peaceful transfer of power.”


"Patel is also the author of a children’s book, “The Plot Against The King,” that advertises itself as telling the story behind “one of our nation’s biggest injustices.”
"The book portrays Patel as a wizard while Trump is clearly the king, facing threats from “Hillary Queenton” while others such as Nunes and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) make appearances."

"Patel currently sits on the board of the company that oversees Trump’s social media site."

https://thehill.com/homenews/5016121-trump-picks-kash-patel-to-lead-fbi/

Have you seen Bill Barr's take on Patel? From his memoir below, "The very idea of moving Patel into a role like this showed a shocking detachment from reality."

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/politics/video/kash-patel-fbi-pick-trump-kayyem-digvid

OMG! A wild eyed MAGA Whacko for yet another critical position! Again!

"Patel was viewed as a Trump loyalist and was almost installed as then-CIA Director Gina Haspel’s deputy until she threatened to resign over the move, Axios reported at the time."

"His short time at the Pentagon earned scrutiny from the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, asking him to sit for an interview after writing, “there is substantial reason to believe that you have additional documents and information relevant to understanding the role played by the Department of Defense and the White House in preparing for and responding to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as documents and information related to your personal involvement in planning for events on Jan. 6 and the peaceful transfer of power.”


"Patel is also the author of a children’s book, “The Plot Against The King,” that advertises itself as telling the story behind “one of our nation’s biggest injustices.”
"The book portrays Patel as a wizard while Trump is clearly the king, facing threats from “Hillary Queenton” while others such as Nunes and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) make appearances."

"Patel currently sits on the board of the company that oversees Trump’s social media site."

https://thehill.com/homenews/5016121-trump-picks-kash-patel-to-lead-fbi/

Speaking of Trump nominees, I'm surprised no one mentioned Pete Hegseth's mother's email to him in 2018. It's a doozy. Of course, Trump defenders are now saying that it was merely a brief emotional outburst by Pete's mom that she regrets. Still, I challenge anyone to read that email and conclude it was anything other than a full-out assault and take down of an adult child she was disgusted with.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/politics/hegseth-email-text.html

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

More like the fact that I actually have a brain and realized what a complete zero your candidate was.  

Do you think she was drunk during that taped address to her supporters??

She surely looked totally disheveled don't you think James?  

Somebody on her team should have suggested that she at least look in the mirror and comb her hair. 

Whaddya' think?

I think you are once again just like Trump and insulting a woman based on her physical appearance. This is pretty funny because neither you nor Trump are exactly paragons of the perfect male form.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

But maybe you'll have the balls to comment on the left, a member of which you've become, who don't seem to have the stones to comment on Joe Biden's pardon of his criminal son Hunter.

I doubt you will but feel free.  

What is there to say? It's a highly controversial move but one that Biden feels is necessary to protect his son from what is the inevitable endless revenge investigations that Trump's loyalists and lackeys will carry out. On the other hand, the right-wingers want to scream that Hunter got away with it. Yet plenty of evidence supports that Hunter was singled out by the GOP and mistreated. You, of course, want to paint it as hypocritical, all the while ignoring that you voted to put a convicted felon and rapist in the White House. Besides, Trump pardoned family members and now wants to make one of them the ambassador to France. And Trump pardoned plenty of awful people, not the least of which was a war criminal convicted of first-degree murder. So, spare us the fake outrage. Trump probably has the worst pardon record of any president when it comes to wielding the pardon power in a corrupt way.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran due to mismanagement of funds, sexual impropriety and reports of intoxicated behavior, The New Yorker reported on Sunday."


"Hegseth’s reported booting from both Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America raises further questions about his suitability to take the helm as Defense secretary, a position in which he would oversee the country’s largest federal agency that employs more than 2.8 million people."

"The publication cited a previously undisclosed whistleblower report on Hegseth’s time as the president of Concerned Veterans for America (CVA). That seven-page report, which chronicled his 2013 to 2016 tenure, describes him as being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity and sometimes needing to be carried out of the organization’s events."

"Hegseth also reportedly drove the organization Vets for Freedom (VFF) into the ground financially.

"In 2007, he became president of the group, which advocated for expanding the war in Iraq and was funded by several Republican billionaire donors. But under Hegseth’s leadership, the organization ran up enormous debt with money reportedly being wasted on expenses such as parties."


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5017946-pentagon-pick-hegseth-misconduct/