***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[jthagreat]

 

I wonder what email account is connected to his personal twitter account...

Hard to say since he has additional security enabled so you can't just view a partially censored version of the email when you try a password reset. You need to have his phonenumber or guess the email correctly without any hints.
I know some people who have a program that scans email addresses from twitter accounts but I'm not sure if it would bypass that setting. But either way it's probably not a good idea to snoop around the president's twitter 

I seen KRIT got his name, you finally came up off that?

 

[hennessy]

He is going to slash the EPA's budget and workforce.

Like who needs to make sure their way is clean.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/316023-scientists-are-planning-their-own-march-on-washington

 

[RustyShackleford]

Being willing to compromise was Obama's problem.

My dude was too idealistic in his approach. He saw the best of/in his country to a fault and thought that he could work with the other side if he tried to build relationships with them instead of going all ruthless, campaign Obama mode and taking no prisoners as a 2 time elected president with the bully pulpit on his side since he was popular,a hell of a lot more popular than them too.

Dude learned the hard way that playing golf with and trying to be friends with the same folks who'd never say a positive word about him publically was futile. They were never gonna play ball,he was gonna have to be forceful with them or be resigned to the gridlock

That means nothing because liberals of all kinds stayed home during the midterms.

Like it is nice to say Obama should have done more to fight the gridlock, but it is hard to say in practice what "more" should have been.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

@PhilipRucker
Trump has decided to pay for border wall with a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico, Spicer told press pool.

Sounds like a great way to get killed in the mid terms.



A boarder wall is all fun and games untill the average americans finds their groceries and other household items are more expensive in service of a pointless wall.

 

[Belgium]

I seen KRIT got his name, you finally came up off that?

Wasn't me. I was in contact with his manager and we had agreed to a framed album artwork signed by Krit himself but then the manager backed off the deal. I tried contacting him after that but he stopped responding so I sold it for a few hundred to a fan. I'm guessing either he was successful in selling it to him or his management finally realized they can simply acquire it by filing a trademark claim.

Technically companies can take usernames if they wanted to but they don't always realize it.

I own @Louboutin for example and @Tottenham (one of the top soccer clubs). If the company really wanted to, they could file a trademark claim on them and take them from me. They're respectively valued at about $500-600 and ~$1000 even with that risk because of the monetizing potential. I also owned and sold @Koenigsegg, the supercar brand. That could've been trademarked as well.

 

[RustyShackleford]

@PhilipRucker
Trump has decided to pay for border wall with a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico, Spicer told press pool.

Sounds like a great way to get killed in the mid terms.



A boarder wall is all fun and games untill the average americans finds their groceries and other household items are more expensive in service of a pointless wall.

Someone needs to explain elasticities to Trump. Mexico is not gonna pay for the wall, consumers are.

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

Someone needs to explain elasticities to Trump. Mexico is not gonna pay for the wall, consumers are.

They will find a way to blame Obama for it

 

[EddieDoyers]

Great
A start of a trade war

 

[gry60]

Being willing to compromise was Obama's problem.

I don't think he realized the potency of hate politics.

 

[trueprada]

 Trump voters, this means you're paying for the wall, not Mexico. Not to mention Mexico's inevitable retaliation.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Being willing to compromise was Obama's problem.

I don't think he realized the potency of hate politics.

It wasn't Republicans that initially sank him though if you think of it, it was moderate Democrats.

But then again, the Democratic party has a whole don't want to face up to them potency of hate politics.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

The Trudeau goverment up here in Canada has been exploring free trade agreements with China.


The death of the TPP and the general instability of Trump I imagine will only expedite those efforts.

 

[IATT]

The Boston Globe ‏@BostonGlobe 2m2 minutes ago

Trump adviser says news media should "keep its mouth shut" in New York Times interview http://bos.gl/jKqr8tO  pic.twitter.com/qgtc8NsQkp

 

[IATT]

 

 Trump voters, this means you're paying for the wall, not Mexico. Not to mention Mexico's inevitable retaliation.

 

[trueprada]

 New York will never submit to President Trump’s immigration rhetoric 

https://t.co/zWx2ak9leR

 

[SneakerProSr.]

@PhilipRucker
Trump has decided to pay for border wall with a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico, Spicer told press pool.

Sounds like a great way to get killed in the mid terms.



A boarder wall is all fun and games untill the average americans finds their groceries and other household items are more expensive in service of a pointless wall.

The right will lose Texas

People don't realize how affordable our lifestyles are due to cheap Mexican labor.

Kicker is the people who win from it don't pay the taxes for them to be here and only reap the benefits.

Houses where I live at take twice as long to build and cost more due to the lack of skilled laborers incomparison to just 2 years ago.

Folks don't realize how many illegals Obama was getting out of the paint incomparison to Bush.

 

[IATT]

The right will lose Texas

People don't realize how affordable our lifestyles are due to cheap Mexican labor.

Kicker is the people who win from it don't pay the taxes for them to be here and only reap the benefits.

Houses where I live at take twice as long to build and cost more due to the lack of skilled laborers.

Folks don't realize how many illegals Obama was getting out of the paint incomparison to Bush.

 

[IATT]

http://deadspin.com/bernhard-langer...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

"There’s an obvious person to blame for starting this fiasco, and he’s not in the media."

 

[dathbgboy]

Chinese giant buys U.S. firm that does Mexico money transfers
Money transfer service MoneyGram is being bought by a financial services giant based in China. MoneyGram is one of the leading companies that helps people in the United States send money to Mexico and other countries.
Ant Financial, a related company of Alibaba (BABA, Tech30), the global conglomerate backed by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, announced Thursday it was buying MoneyGram (MGI) for $880 million.
MoneyGram stock rose nearly 10% on the news.
The deal could be one of the first tests of how serious President Donald Trump is about cracking down on money transfers, also known as remittances, to Mexico.
Trump has already proposed building a physical wall on the border with Mexico. Trump has previously said he would consider levying big taxes -- or even halting -- remittances to Mexico if the country would not pay for the wall.
On Thursday, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled a previously scheduled meeting with Trump after the rhetoric on who is going to pay for the wall ratcheted up.
MoneyGram already has a thriving remittances business. And last October -- just a few weeks before the election -- MoneyGram announced a deal with Walmart (WMT) that would let customers send money from Walmart's U.S. stores to Walmart Mexico locations.
So will Trump approve of MoneyGram selling out to a Chinese company? Perhaps.
It's worth noting that Trump already had a meeting with Ma in New York earlier this month before the inauguration.
Trump praised Ma after the meeting, saying that Ma was a "great, great entrepreneur and one of the best in the world." Trump added that "Jack and I are going to do some great things."
Could the Ant deal for MoneyGram be the start of those great things?
Related: Trump threatens Mexico's biggest cash source
The White House was not immediately available for comment about the proposed acquisition.
But executives from Ant Financial seemed to go out of their way in the press release to stress that the deal would be good for the employees of MoneyGram and consumers.
The two companies stressed that MoneyGram will keep its headquartered in Dallas and that it should "maintain and grow its U.S.-based workforce."
Ant Financial CEO Eric Jing said in a release that "we are committed to continuing to invest in MoneyGram's workforce and growing jobs in the United States."
But Jing didn't shy away from the fact that MoneyGram is a major player in remittances from the U.S. to Mexico.
He said a combined Ant Financial and MoneyGram will "will provide greater access, security and simplicity for people around the world to remit funds, especially in major economies such as the United States, China, India, Mexico and the Philippines."
Related: 40% of a Mexican import is American
MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes, who will remain with the company after the acquisition, added that the deal will allow MoneyGram to expand around the world.
Interestingly, Holmes predicted that consolidation in the money transfer business was coming a few years ago.
He said in an interview in the Financial Times in December 2015 that "regulators want more information" and that rising compliance costs could put pressure on companies to merge.
There were even rumors that MoneyGram could wind up combining with its rival Western Union. (WU)
MoneyGram and Ant Financial said Wednesday that they hope their deal will close during the second half of this year. It will require regulatory approval around the globe though.
Related: Jack Ma and Donald Trump met to talk jobs
One of the regulators that monitors MoneyGram in the United States is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog agency created as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that was the brainchild of now Senator Elizabeth Warren.
So it will be interesting to see whether Democrats like Warren have any issues with the proposed merger, as well as whether or not Trump gives his blessing to it.
Mexico's central bank recently said that nearly $25 billion in remittances made their way into the country from friends and relatives living outside the country during the first 11 months of 2016. Nearly all of that cash was from people in the U.S.
--CNNMoney's Patrick Gillespie contributed to this story.

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

https://t.co/zWx2ak9leR

we have to stop paying police overtime now to watch over trump tower and make him put secret service there now. Wasting our tax money

 

[rillo561]

Sounds like a great way to get killed in the mid terms.



A boarder wall is all fun and games untill the average americans finds their groceries and other household items are more expensive in service of a pointless wall.

A Trump supporter friend of mine will tell you with a straight face, that Americans are willing to pay more, because it helps America.

 

[sonoftony]

Sounds like a great way to get killed in the mid terms.



A boarder wall is all fun and games untill the average americans finds their groceries and other household items are more expensive in service of a pointless wall.

A Trump supporter friend of mine will tell you with a straight face, that Americans are willing to pay more, because it helps America.

After hearing that, did you ask your friend - how sway?

 

[EddieDoyers]

Sounds like a great way to get killed in the mid terms.



A boarder wall is all fun and games untill the average americans finds their groceries and other household items are more expensive in service of a pointless wall.

A Trump supporter friend of mine will tell you with a straight face, that Americans are willing to pay more, because it helps America.

People who live paycheck to paycheck would deck that guy in the face

 

[Mark Antony]

Sounds like a great way to get killed in the mid terms.



A boarder wall is all fun and games untill the average americans finds their groceries and other household items are more expensive in service of a pointless wall.

A Trump supporter friend of mine will tell you with a straight face, that Americans are willing to pay more, because it helps America.

What? but ask them to pay more for education and healthcare and they cry and scream socialism? What kinda bizarro world am I living in.

Actually not even more, just the same.

 

[stuntman mike]

20% tax on imports?!
waiaminute. where do they make tapatio and jarritos? if it's mexico, imma be pissed.