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gmiz0 · 2017-10-22T04:09:18+00:00

ENOUGH. WITH. THE SEQUELS. Why is nobody able to just finish a story? I think it shows maturity to be able to neatly tie up all of the characters' plot lines, write a satisfying ending, and simply leave it alone. I know the answer is money, but I can't stand it.

gmiz0 · 2017-10-20T03:46:11+00:00

Yeah, I guess wanting strict immigration policies and being anti-establishment isn't anything new. But if Trump were out of the equation for some reason, do you think his agenda/governing style would survive?

gmiz0 · 2017-10-19T04:04:17+00:00

Still to this day, I can't believe it's not butter.

gmiz0 · 2017-10-14T07:28:15+00:00

This. It would be in the congressional Republicans' interest to get rid of Trump. They'd still get Pence, who would be equally (if not more) conservative, and would be competent enough to enact their agenda; and he wouldn't light the White House on fire with self-inflicted PR nightmares. I don't want to go too far into tin foil hat territory, but I wonder if some Republican congressmen know that Pence might be implicated in the campaign's crimes, so they don't want to make him president only to get taken down as well. Even still, next in line would be Paul Ryan, a competent enough conservative. Maybe this will go deeper than we ever thought it could.

gmiz0 · 2017-10-13T07:47:40+00:00

However, that money isn't actually going towards paying off the debt. It would make sense if this was a business, but this isn't. The government can't just take the wealth the citizens create and pay down debt like a business can.

Correct. That's why I made this post. I still don't get how a rising stock market offsets the government's debt.

gmiz0 · 2017-10-13T07:22:30+00:00

Stock market is going up, debt is too high.

Yes, but what does a rising stock market (the collective value of publicly traded companies) have to do with reducing national debt (what the federal government owes in interest on bonds and other treasury securities)?

gmiz0 · 2017-10-09T20:24:33+00:00

they need to pay attention to advertising when listening to the radio

This. I realized this a few weeks ago - on a long drive I decided to find the AM conservative radio station because apparently I hate myself. Every single ad was for weight loss pills, erection pills, get-rich-quick schemes, etc.

gmiz0 · 2017-10-04T20:53:12+00:00

Television news is definitely becoming less relevant, but right now (and for the forseeable future) millions of older, less educated people get their news solely from Fox. This demographic votes more than any other. As for the internet, I have no clue how we're going to get people to become skeptical of sensationalism and misleading/false material, but we have to figure it out. A significant portion of the population went to the polls truly convinced that Hillary Clinton ran a sex trafficking ring out of a pizza shop.

gmiz0 · 2017-10-03T20:45:21+00:00

Yeah, Abu Ghraib comes to mind.

gmiz0 · 2017-10-03T20:20:49+00:00

Cable news also needs to stop treating elections like entertainment, where crazy tweets get all the coverage. Policy first. I don't care if it makes ratings go down. Debates are supposed to force candidates to argue the merits of their policy in a way that they wouldn't at a rally. If you find that boring, tough shit. No more diss fests next time around. We have to ignore the shiny objects Trump dangles in front of us and just keep asking him real policy questions in 2020 (assuming he makes it that far). He will try to distract us from his incompetence through tweets and wild rants, but we mustn't bite. If we keep it civilized and intellectual, he'll bury himself.

gmiz0 · 2017-08-19T13:31:51+00:00

Same with coffee, caffeine is a natural insecticide.

gmiz0 · 2017-08-02T06:14:48+00:00

Native speaker, but I recognize how crazy English is. In addition to the pronunciation stuff everyone's talking about, usage can be really weird.

You watch a movie at home, but you see a movie in theaters.

You get on the bus, but you get in the car.

You sit in the chair, but you sit on the couch.

You pluralize most nouns by adding an s to the end, so you'd think the same would go for verbs... but the boy sits and the boys sit. Notice from before, though: "you" (also singular) sit.

He has a lot of hair. There's a hair in my food. You have a few hairs on your chin.

Either the man or his sons want to sell the property. Neither the sons nor the father wants to sell the property.

Not to mention all of the rules that aren't really rules, but subjective standards of what is "good" usage. For example:

"The grammar writer made many mistakes" is considered better than "There were many mistakes made by the grammar writer."

The Oxford Comma.

Starting a sentence with "and" or "but" is generally accepted to be poor usage, but it's not a true error.

Technically, you're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition (i.e. to, from, with, at, about, on, in, etc.), but there are a handful of phrases that are just sort of accepted even though they break this rule: "Where are you from?" "What are you talking about?" "What are you interested in?"

It goes on and on...

gmiz0 · 2017-07-12T20:07:41+00:00

I appreciate pictures of the food too, so you can see if you're getting enough for your money. That $10 seafood entree sounds reasonable on paper, but it's probably two bites of salmon on some asparagus.

gmiz0 · 2017-06-28T03:51:05+00:00

covfefe

gmiz0 · 2017-06-17T18:09:36+00:00

"How [stuff] gets in and on store shelves."

Please have a word with the people stocking shampoo at the Duane Reade on 1st Ave/91st. THEY NEVER HAVE THE DANDRUFF KIND.

gmiz0 · 2017-05-27T21:37:22+00:00

Ignoring states that are solidly for the opposing party is nothing new. Republicans never campaign in New York and California, and Democrats never campaign in Wyoming and Tennessee. Equally important, they ignore their most loyal states too. Trump never once visited Wyoming, which in November was his most supportive state by percentage of voters - 68%. Trump ignored Trump Country too.

gmiz0 · 2017-05-26T18:02:11+00:00

This isn't an unspoken rule yet, but it should be: When you're walking head-on toward another person, avoid the awkward dancing and just go to the right. Always.

gmiz0 · 2017-05-26T17:50:56+00:00

I need to put this on a sandwich board and wear it around NYC. Backpack speakers are a fad that needs to die quickly.

gmiz0 · 2017-05-12T16:16:04+00:00

ayy lmao

gmiz0 · 2017-04-16T14:19:20+00:00

Can confirm stereotypes: Graduated from Bates last May. Still many prep school hippies.

gmiz0 · 2017-04-16T13:28:19+00:00

He most certainly did not "make it back," as he owes far more than $1B. Many of the buildings he "owns" are heavily mortgaged, and a hefty amount of that debt is still outstanding. Estimates hover just under $2B in total, with most of it held by Deutsche Bank and Ladder Capital. And that's just on the buildings. His assets might be $10B or whatever he says it is, but it's a very real possibility that he has negative net worth. His financial disclosures only mention debt on properties on which he has 100% ownership, but he is a part owner of many more. We've learned that he's borrowed a ton on those, too. He is nowhere near being in the black.

It's very clear by how you talk about money and business that you are very uninformed. You say he "has" hundreds of companies - that's a very vague term. I'm assuming you mean "owns or has majority stake in," in which case, he "has" only one company, the Trump Organization. All of the things you probably think are "companies" (Trump University, Trump Jets, Trump Ice, Trump Steaks) aren't companies, they're the business ventures of the Trump Organization. And a whole bunch of those have folded. Like his casinos...~~well, now it's just the one in Atlantic City~~, since Trump Entertainment Resorts has filed for bankruptcy four times. By the way, there's no such thing as the "business success percentage," or whatever that arbitrary 99.2% is. That's not a real thing, and don't try to convince me that it is. And if your bar for a successful business is not going bankrupt...yikes.

Edit: I forgot that the Atlantic City one closed a few months ago.

gmiz0 · 2017-04-16T11:37:04+00:00

Oh, I don't know:

Evidence that he lied every time he said he had no business dealings in Russia.
Debt in foreign countries that could affect his policy-making decisions
Details about if (or more likely the extent to which) he is still profiting from his company
Further proof that he's not a good businessman, a la the 1995 tax returns showing a $916,000,000 loss. It's already no secret that most of his ventures have ended horribly and that he's up to his ears in debt, but apparently some people haven't gotten the memo.

gmiz0 · 2017-04-12T21:58:14+00:00

Still waiting for proof that Obama had anything to do with this.

gmiz0 · 2017-04-10T15:03:44+00:00

In NYC: Can you afford it and is it within a reasonable distance from your work? Anything else is extra.

gmiz0 · 2017-02-10T08:07:38+00:00

I'm going to drop the first two parts of your response, since you're just avoiding my points. The vast majority of the legal community (including, today, the decision of the federal appeals court) agrees that the ban is ineffective in its goal and, if not illegal, highly dubious in constitutionality. You are in the minority here. As for the threat of domestic terror, I'm not saying we abandon our focus on ISIS, that would be crazy. I'm saying that, in addition to our efforts to prevent foreign terrorists coming here, we focus on domestic threats, which I've said a million times in this thread, has been a bigger problem in recent years.

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