@sandwhichisles: Haha! That sounds like a quote from my ex FBI mate!
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For a forum that doesn’t engage in politics, there sure is a lot of politics in this thread. I’d ask that we please let this one end.
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@jakartaboy I’m sure it does, we play a similar role. I’m willing to give everyone a chance, all I ask is a little civility and the moral fortitude to be accountable for your own actions, both successes and failures.
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I don’t own a TV. well that’s a lie I should say I don’t subscribe to paid TV. The less I know what is going on the happier I am. I tried watching tv while laying on my back for my hospital stay. How the hell do you deal with all those commercials? If it not on the internet I missed it.
As for the new chief he can’t do worse that the last 4 puppets.I would like to see simple manufacturing jobs come back like knitting mills, machine shops, lamp factories, foundries ,and other lost to oversees or south of the border businesses. It’s getting so you need a bachelor’s degree for jobs that use to only require a high school diploma.
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That’s what I would like too. But I’m afraid that, by and large, we’ve raised a generation of kids who think they’re too good to work in a mill.
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Well guys, I think @zanaspus might be right. As interesting as this has all been and as amazingly civil as it has been (for the internet, anyway) we should probably close off before this degenerates. Good talking, and I would like you all to know that I appreciate all the discussion and all of your points of view.
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@lunecat, I’ve got no doubt that some of the anti-Trump people are pretty much as you describe, just as I’ve got no doubt that some of the other side wear pointy white hats. I’m thinking of the Americans I work with, like my boss, who has spent three years in Afghanistan and is former military, and was appalled by Trump because of what he saw as managerial incompetence and lack of experience. You can disagree, and he might be wrong - but I don’t think you can call someone like that a snowflake. He’s a smart guy and he’s got good reasons for his opinions. Some of the other side do, too. Those are the people who should be arguing respectfully with each other, forget the fringe on both sides.
WOW we are actually discussing politics as politicians should ahahaha. I agree with alot of the comments made, give him 2 years and if he isnt any good then I highly doubt he will be elected for an additional 2 years. There is absolutely no point complaining about anything now if you didn’t vote for him or worrying about potential things he may do. You cannot please everybody so everyone is going to disagree with something he does, though give him sometime before you start worrying about something he may do, or repercussions from something he has done. I do not mean any offence though the United States government would have people more knowledgeable and informed than us about how certain scenarios would playout and how legislation would be beneficial or detrimental to society. Even if you dont like the man he’s here for 2 more years, and as you all have seen the waste of news time dedicated to bashing someone before he even took office. I see this as incredibly detrimental to Americans faith in their country, you should not be aloud to intentionally segregate and divide the public, and then let them loose on each other, that is disgusting and unethical journalism. The media are basically fueling hatred and stereotypes (by profiling), against someone they claim to be doing the exact same things. Double standard I think so
Hi Aamon, a US president is elected for a four year term, and can only serve a maxamum of two four year terms
ahaha thanks @tboyer I get the years mixed up between other countries quite frquently 
I had to post this!
Fantastic album, really really great album!
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Gonna be a fantastic wall. Really,really great wall.
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I just want to say that I am a bit annoyed by the generalization of my generation. At age 26 I am considered a millennial and I can’t stand the new president. I am not entitled, I work my butt off 5 days a week, often 6 so I get overtime, in a manual labor job building boats. And I am not alone. The loudest and most obnoxious always get the most attention. So what you don’t see are the every day people of the left like myself who are worried and fearful of what they are hearing from our new officials. Just like when the Right is shown it usually only shows the most extreme of them too. But you can’t be in one extreme and call for unity. It only polarizes the people more. What people on both sides of the debate lack is foresight. Many things seem like a good idea from a shallow pool, but when it gets thrown into the deep end, there are far reaching consequences that so many seem willfully blind to.
But thats just my 2 cents.
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lunecat said: " We must remain clam"
good advice, lol.
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Haha, good catch. “Keep Clam” is the slogan of a Seattle seafood joint: Ivar’s.
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@Harlequin, well said. I’m 35 and apparently on the older side of the millennial generation. I’ve been in the military over 10 years and have been on deployments. I also currently work in the medical field. Every generation seems to say that the following generation is worse than generation. It seems like actual debate most other places (other than here) arent actual debates. They go in and attack the person and refuse to debate things. Then call people names and write them off. This includes the people that call others snowflakes. What amuses me is that people call others snowflakes, yet they voted for one of biggest snowflakes there is. When Obama won the office, a lot of conservatives did not say oh well, better luck next year. There was a lot of racial hatred spewed towards him for quite awhile. Now the conservatives are telling the liberals to get over it, when some conservatives never got over Obama being president. I find it amusing that people hang on to the confederate flag tell other people to get over it. But hey, each to their own. As far as the medical part goes, medical insurance has been going up. It was the insurance companies that raised the price on insurance due to greed. Now that the aca has been repealed, has anyone seen their insurance premiums drop? I’m curious to see if that has happened to anyone. My premiums are still the same.
I am also at the edge of GenX/Millenial, and that’s what is so frustrating about it. I grew up in the same culture and share in parts of it. I just don’t understand sime people’s willful inability to have an open discussion. I also don’t understand the thought police political correctness and safe spaces and other things that make me wonder how these people are going to exist in the real world. I know not everyone is like that, I have several friends that I disagree with politically and philosophically. But they are people who are willing to have a conversation instead of just screaming ‘racist’ when I state why I believe we need reinforce our national sovereignty or whatever other issue.
@Psicko insurance is a numbers game. You spread risk over a large pool of healthy people the costs are not so bad. When more sick people are on it, prices go up. Just numbers and economics. Insurance companies can’t print money up the way the Fed can. The younger, healthy people they expected to comply decided to pay the penalty instead.
@JosephJames oh, I know how insurance works. Doesn’t mean companies don’t get greedy. It’s like the gasoline industry. When a possibility of a perceived threat comes along to potentially raise prices, they will. Even If it doesn’t in the end. About 15 years ago a gasoline pipeline broke in Tucson Arizona. There are two pipelines in that area that broke. One of them is the local line that brings ga’s to Tucson. The other line is not local, it just goes through. The one that busted was the non local one. Local gas prices soared and there was gasoline shortages, for no reason. The people who dictate gas prices decided to jack prices up. That caused a panic. All because of greed. There was no real threat, because it wasn’t the local line that busted. It was a created threat by those in charge.