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When asked which specific loop holes to close, Cenk listed "Irish sandwich" and "the double Dutch", neither of which are accurate terms. Cenk couldn't properly speak to something he states he opposes. He also didn't comment on how US tax law should impact multinational corporations whose earnings aren't impacted by US tax law. He didn't speak to the fact that our corporate tax rate is one of the highest in the industrialized world, nor did he explain how or why the United States is entitled to money owned by corporations which has never entered the US economy. This was a consistent theme throughout.

Worthwhile watch/listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnJzYHRp2w

I think you mean working girls.

This has been the case nearly forever in regards to federal leverage over the states. It's how the federal government brings states in line with the central government. Have you always had a problem with this, or is this something new?

We also would have accepted "Say my pronoun you transphobic piece of ****!" and "!@#$ you and your patriarchy."

If it turns out that the Steele Dossier was produced by the Russians, that would be firm evidence that the Democratic Party was colluding with the Russians to turn the election. A case of "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks."?

If you were talking about me, it would have been hilarious given my disdain for President Trump, but that wasn't my point. My point is that you are going to get zero mileage out of calling half the country deplorable. It's exactly that language that began to drive the nails into Hillary Clinton's coffin. You are never going to win people to your cause by insulting them, talking down to them, speaking past them, marginalizing them, or calling them racists. They don't need to be educated by you. Conversely, you need to be educated by them. You need to listen to them. Their concerns are real. And they aren't going anywhere, so if you ever want to govern them again, you had damn well better learn their language, and not only understand their problems but sympathize with them and understand their root causes. The actual root causes, not President Obama's condescension about God and guns. If you can't do that, you don't deserve to govern again.

Well, if you haven't conceded every single point, you certainly should have given that I just shredded every single point you made. Not a single thing you wrote stands up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. You made claims with zero evidence, and read what you wanted to rather than what was reported in a biased headline designed to perpetuate a narrative from an organization who has been recently caught staging news events. Stop being part of the problem.

Do you have a point? I mean other than to alienate people by calling them deplorable.

That's amazing...

I'll take this as your concession on every other single point raised. But back to the hill you've chosen to die on, there is no communication that hasn't happened. Quote for me where it says there has been no formulation of plans. I guarantee there is a plan for exactly this. The military plans for everything. There is a plan in place to repel an alien invasion. There is a plan in place to conquer Canada and seize it's strategic resources. There is certainly a plan, or multiple plans to choose from, for walking back a few year old transgender policy.

The tweet doesn't make policy change, it announces a policy change, and does not invalidate the policy change it announces. It does not say that the Pentagon "was studying the matter and came to no conclusion". It said that no policy change would come into place until the process of policy change was completed. Further, your CNN headline link states that the Join Chiefs were unaware that Trump planned to communicate the upcoming policy change to the public via tweet. The article you linked says no such thing, and even if it did, what business is it of the Joint Chiefs how the President chooses to announce plans to change policy?

That link doesn't say what you said it does.

Then link the primary source FFS.

Unfortunately CNN not longer has any credibility in this sphere, and this should be dismissed.

So we're supposed to disagree with a policy change we think is the best course of action because viva la Resistance!!!? And again, how are you not too ashamed to show your face around here after our last interaction?

You don't know that. You're working off of your confirmation biases. But either way, sometimes people make the right decisions for the wrong reasons.

Yup, civil forfeiture and the war on drugs is enough for me.

What are they going to teach me? Not math or basic economics. Not the essentials of human motivation. Not cause and effect. Not the morality of freedom and subjugation. But then again, they say those who can't do teach...

So Aerys Targaryen then?

This does nothing more than turn the military into a default career guarantee for a new protected class who will enjoy all the benefits of service without merit. Again, the military is not a social program. Give every current transgendered GI their pension, and benefits of service, and an honorable discharge. Give future transgendered individuals a Section 8, with no benefits.

The Nymeria scene was about Arya's own character growth. "It's not you." She was quoting herself from an early episode when she was speaking with her father, and he told her she would be a great lady married to a lord, and she replied that the life wasn't for her.

It's the military, not a social program.

Greg, that's a major concern, but is a non-sequitur. The suicide rate among transgendered individuals is approaching the suicide levels of Jews in Auschwitz. A rate of almost 40%. 4 out of 10, Greg. That's staggering.

So, no concerns at all surrounding the mental illness position, and the near 40% suicide rate?