I’m not because even though I didn’t pen an emphatic criticism I did write[quote=“treco, post:2484, topic:218984”]
BTW I also think Trump is screwing up cozying up to Putin
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not based on your citations (which I read the first time you posted), but did use them as confirmation of stupid mistakes that I feel Trump is making either through his lack of critical consideration, political experience, impudence, or some combination thereof.
Regarding dailybeast as a rag, I wrote that to rib you for posting an article that touts RT as some powerhouse propaganda device when 1 year earlier they posted how daily American viewership was <30,000 a day. My county of 200,000 has 70,000 watching the leader’s nightly news.
Maybe the RT guys created the Start Up - New York program,
What I am really doing is bringing into question the credibility of the Center for Immigration Studies, which has a terrible reputation across all spectrums of the media and was founded by John Tanton.
Why should I spend any time analyzing an out of context table from a suspect source?
Edit: As you’ll see, if you continue to scroll down, this discussion has already happened anyway.
The point was would their decisions lead to the destruction of the Republic and to some Apocalyptic vision of a Liberal Abyss. (Which are not over-exaggerations of some peoples visions).
By the way; my feeling about the Immigrant/Illegal Alien Issue is one that I feel strongly that the Right and Left can reach some common consensus on (much like with incarceration reform) if both sides who just stop all the rhetoric and demagoguery.
I thought this was interesting from one of the things you posted (and I am sure MAX would agree!):
"…Political institutions, (like those in Texas), that constrain the growth of government compared to those that drive it, (such as in California), better explain their different levels of welfare spending and relative economic freedom than demographics…
Lol, ya. Demographics is what we analysts can noise. There are so many other relevant economic factors to consider. It adds very little value to any discussion on economically related topics.
Ya, no. I’m not shifting through mountains of data for it to be ignored per usual. The center for immigration studies is garbage. John Tanton is garbage. That’s more than enough for me especially considering no on else has come to these same conclusions. The Cato Institute doesn’t even agree.
No, for the point I’m making it’s irrelevant. He could be complaining about taxes or anything else. California has been one of the most liberal states in the Union since at least the 1960s. And that is not about to change.
So instead of bleating incessantly why not just vote with your feet? Iowa is pretty white and conservative. Wouldn’t that be better than Looney California if you hated California so much?
