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The Official Paracast Political Thread! — Part Three

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I'm pretty damn close.


Actually, no you're not. The business I run repairs vehicles. I do not repair anything directly, unless I'm working on my own vehicle or someone elses of my own choosing. Rather I professionally oversee and manage a business whereat professional technicians do the repair work on a vast diversity of vehicles. You weren't even in the same universe, But that's OK, I've more or less come to expect that from both you and few other liberal wing ding wannabes around here. :D
 
Well, isn't that a hoot. So, when mentioning OEM vs. aftermarket parts, you were in fact describing the very parts I mentioned.

There's a word for this ...
 
Well, isn't that a hoot. So, when mentioning OEM vs. aftermarket parts, you were in fact describing the very parts I mentioned.

There's a word for this ...
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Thank You! Now this truly emphasizes the minimum need for, and the indispensable value of, a 3rd grade English education. Clearly you must be a Mental Healthcare professional, on the receiving end. :D
So living outside the U.S. makes me dumb ?
 
Trump Says Any Conflicts Of Interest Were Priced Into Your Vote
It’s all the media’s fault, of course.
11/21/2016
LINK: Trump Says Any Conflicts Of Interest Were Priced Into Your Vote | The Huffington Post
TEXT: "WASHINGTON ― Thirteen days after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump announced on Twitter that no one should worry about the potential conflicts of interest he could face over his range of global properties because everyone knew about them when they elected him. He blamed any questions of impropriety on the media for reporting on them.

"The evening tweet from the president-elect reads: 'Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world.Only the crooked media makes this a big deal!'

"The declaration that he currently has global properties comes after promising that he would separate himself from his Trump Organization and hand the company off to his adult children Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump in a so-called blind trust. He has so far done no such thing. In fact, his tweet is a statement in the present tense ― 'I have interests in properties all over the world' ― that affirms his current ownership and management of his business empire.

"The children continue to take part in their father’s presidential transition despite their supposed work leading the Trump Organization. Ivanka Trump even appeared at a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and reportedly was handed the phone to speak to Argentinian President Mauricio Macri when he called to congratulate her father. Trump is working to build an office tower in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

"During the campaign, Trump stated, 'f I become president, I couldn’t care less about my company. It’s peanuts.' He added, 'I wouldn’t ever be involved because I wouldn’t care about anything but our country, anything.'

'President-elect Trump seems to think that he will be able to enrich himself as president and blame the press when he is caught,' said John Wonderlich, executive director of the pro-transparency group The Sunlight Foundation. 'He’s going to learn soon that campaigning is very different from leading a country built on integrity and the rule of law.'

"Trump is responding to the parade of stories detailing his immense portfolio of potential conflicts of interest. He met with his Indian business partners one week after winning the presidency. He continues to hold a government lease for his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., even though the lease declares that it cannot be held by a government official. Last week, the hotel held an event to pitch its luxury rooms to foreign diplomats as a way to ingratiate their countries with the president-elect. And there have been reports about Ivanka Trump’s appearance at the meeting with Abe and her talk with Macri.

"The New York Times further reported on Monday that Trump told British Parliament member Nigel Farage, the former head of the right wing anti-immigrant UK Independence Party, and other UKIP leaders that they drum up opposition to the kind of offshore wind farms that are proposed for construction near his golf course in Scotland. They did exactly that.

"Andy Wigmore, a media consultant present when Trump spoke to Farage, told the New York Times, 'He did not say he hated wind farms as a concept; he just did not like them spoiling the views.'

"Trump owes hundreds of millions of dollars to the Bank of China, which is owned by the government of China. The Constitution’s emoluments clause states that no government official shall receive favorable payment from a foreign government, foreign government-owned company or foreign official without the consent of Congress. Trump also rents space in his Trump Tower, where he is managing his transition, to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, another government-owned bank.

"He also owes hundreds of millions of dollars to Deutsche Bank, a privately held German bank. While the emoluments clause does not apply to payments to Deutsche Bank, there is a major potential conflict because the bank is facing a multibillion-dollar settlement with the Department of Justice over its illegal mortgage practices. Trump will soon be selecting the top leadership of the Department of Justice. There are also questions over whether Deutsche Bank will be able to survive the hefty settlement without government support. Will Trump save his lender?

"Similar potential conflicts exist at the National Labor Relations Board, which Trump will also soon be able to staff. The independent labor regulatory agency ruled on Nov. 3 that Trump’s Las Vegas hotel had violated its workers rights to organize a union when it refused to recognize their affirmative vote. Trump’s hires at the NLRB will likely be colored by his ownership of properties with unionizing workers.

"Technically, federal conflict-of-interest laws do not apply to the president. This does not mean that his business holdings do not manifest as conflicts of interest, just that he is not mandated to place his assets into an actual blind trust managed by an independent trustee. He has done no such thing. He has also failed to disclose his tax returns, the first elected president in nearly 60 years to not reveal them, which would provide insight into his investors and lenders.

"Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) introduced legislation that would extend the federal conflict-of-interest laws to cover the president and vice president. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation to require all presidential candidates and the president to file their three most recent years of tax returns.

"The Wall Street Journal has called on Trump to liquidate his business and put the proceeds into a true blind trust. His tweet clearly suggests he is not willing to give up control."
 
Lol it just keeps coming...

Trump won’t pursue Clinton probes on e-mail, charity: reports

After a campaign filled with Donald Trump’s denunciations of “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, a top adviser said Tuesday the president-elect had no interest in pursuing further investigations, and Trump himself declared, “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons; I really don’t.”

He also said he saw no potential conflicts of interest between his new job and his worldwide businesses, and he disavowed praise and support from extremist “alt-right” groups.

At the rate he's backing out of the right-wing nuttiness, he's going to come out of this more liberal than I am.
 
"Those manufacturing jobs aren't coming back. For a simple reason: your workforce is too expensive for them to. Are you actually going to buy american when you walk into Walmart? No. Why? Because your workforce can't or won't spend the money to buy american.

Which by this point is actually lower quality anyway than the cheaper offshore manufacturing.


A workforce that is increasingly trapped at working in service industries like Walmart

Please stop playing the bait and switch game because it will not work. What you stated here is entirely, from the ground up, bullshit.

1.) No, current manufacturing in the USA does NOT yield lower quality products, that are all more predictably expensive, than those coming from offshore middlemen brand name manufactures. I know that's completely false because I see the opposite EVERYDAY.

2.) No, the USA's manufacturing workforce is NOT trapped into working at Walmart, which is NOT a service industry, but rather a multinational corporate retail business.

3.) Currently, manufacturing in the USA is on the RISE, not the decline. Our workforce is NOT too expensive anymore than it ever has been. However, it is true that many of the American originated brand name owners, often having been purchased up by greedy secondary corporate conglomerate business investors whose survival strategies focus solely on increased profits as a direct result of lowered over seas production costs, will not be able to reestablish manufacturing in the USA and still survive. It kind of makes sense for them to gripe about Trump wanting to nix more so liberal trade arrangements. Too bad! They should have not created such a greed centered business model in the first place. There will be 10 new hungry USA based manufactures to take their place, for every 1 second and third party corporate middleman investment shill that takes a dump because of trade agreements.


What did I just read in the financial post this morning?

Key US companies say manufacturing jobs aren't coming back even with tariffs because of labor costs.

Until technology evolves to where labour isn't really part of the equation.

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I seem to recall saying the exact same thing, and being told I'm wrong because of magical thinking.

Smoke in mirrors. See #3.) above, and at least attempt to wrap your seemingly American business success hating head around THIS. Please pay special attention to this.


And Trump, a billionaire who made his money by making bad deals, bankrupting himself, and illegal labour, isn't part of the NWO?

Trump is the merger between the corporations and the government.

It's kinda what's fascism is.

Good grief. Could you please substantiate this last post's claims apart from Trump being a Billionaire? No one gets to be a "Billionaire" by being an all bad businessman. That's silly, and so is the accusing him of illegally profiting. Unless of course you do have actual evidence to the contrary. The same can be said for the notion of Trump being a merger between corporations and the government. Ever heard of the term "Lobbying"? Apparently you are unfamiliar with the concept, because the fact is that the United States Government has been no less than a bought and paid for regulating strong arm extended to top corporations around the globe for the last 4 or 5 decades. However, and the self impressed liberals would love it if everyone believed otherwise, this is precisely what is UNPRECEDENTED about Trump as president. He is the first president that the USA has had in forever that isn't just another professional political puppet "on the take" like the usual run of the mill political parasites are.

Fascism is just a commonly misused word that liberals use when anyone other than themselves take control of the white house. This business of a healthy sense of nationalism as being bad or wrong is just plain sick and in fact denies a logical sense of identity. The only people that feel differently are people that take pride in demeaning themselves. They desire to be generic and as irresponsible as possible by relying on the government to take care of them. To me that just seems pathetic and completely without any true sense of liberty. Where is real freedom to be found in such an arrangement of minimums apart from a pretentious adulation of self and utter fantasy? It's illogical really, by denying basic human instinct.




Talking into the mirror again?
 
Lol, Jeff. I'm in Toronto right now. Arranging for manufacturing. With a bunch of other companies.

That won't go to the US.

Because costs are too high and quality is too low.

And now execs fear market disruption because of social issues. Some of these guys are execs at American companies.

BTW, CNN has been running stories this morning about his conflicts of interest between being the Prez and running his companies.

I'm literally laughing out loud reading your posts.
 
Well, isn't that a hoot. So, when mentioning OEM vs. aftermarket parts, you were in fact describing the very parts I mentioned.

There's a word for this ...

The only word for it as far as you're concerned S.R.L. is "clueless". You or @marduk rarely ever have a clue what you're going on about. You can't seem to comprehend basic English, so I am imagining that neither of you speaks English as a first language. I seriously doubt that there is a debatable subject that I wouldn't completely annihilate you within. You're just too predictable, brainwashed, and gullible.
 
Because costs are too high and quality is too low.
What about foreign autos made in U.S. plants? I've owned cars from Honda, Kia and VW that were made in the U.S. since 2002, and I did not perceive any less quality than cars built in the home countries of these brands. Reviewers evidently didn't either, and that includes Consumer Reports magazine, which is highly critical.
 
What about foreign autos made in U.S. plants? I've owned cars from Honda, Kia and VW that were made in the U.S. since 2002, and I did not perceive any less quality than cars built in the home countries of these brands. Reviewers evidently didn't either, and that includes Consumer Reports magazine, which is highly critical.
I'm glad you didn't perceive it.

That doesn't mean it's not there.

I just watched a billion dollar deal go down. That won't be manufactured in the US.

(It's even worse in Canada by the way)
 
Lol, Jeff. I'm in Toronto right now. Arranging for manufacturing. With a bunch of other companies.

That won't go to the US.

Because costs are too high and quality is too low.

And now execs fear market disruption because of social issues. Some of these guys are execs at American companies.

BTW, CNN has been running stories this morning about his conflicts of interest between being the Prez and running his companies.

I'm literally laughing out loud reading your posts.

Oh you're a regular great and powerful Oz, who BTW hasn't actually taken the time to read anything. You're hopeless. BTW, the laughing thing, that's called hysteria. Paranoid and delusional people do that frequently. Good luck with your manufacturing summit. Sounds like your clients would do better with a 3rd world manufacturing aptitude.
 
Oh you're a regular great and powerful Oz, who BTW hasn't actually taken the time to read anything. You're hopeless. BTW, the laughing thing, that's called hysteria. Paranoid and delusional people do that frequently. Good luck with your manufacturing summit. Sounds like your clients would do better with a 3rd world manufacturing aptitude.
Lol.

Go fix some cars with parts from China.
 
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