Republicans bad at maths good at magic

[FriendlyFire]

I deed. I deed.
Obama's first budget deficit was larger than Bush's last four combined. The best of Obama's first term was bigger than the three worst of Bush's second term.

Its Magic !

 

[El_Machinae]

No, the priority now needs to be a massive transfer of income from rich people to poor people. If that entails ballooning the deficit so be it.

Currently, the mechanism by which we increase the national debt in order to slow down the upward wealth trickle .... isn't working that well.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Trump thinks he's a Mathemagician.

 

[Lexicus]

Currently, the mechanism by which we increase the national debt in order to slow down the upward wealth trickle .... isn't working that well.

What mechanism would that be?

 

[Kozmos]

I'm leaning more towards Methemagician.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You have direct evidence to the contrary though. Trump couldn't help but reveal that 2 nuclear subs were in the Korean vicinity apropos of talking to an autocrat about another autocrat.

I would just like to mention here that TS-SLI (top secret-submarine location information) when I was in the US Navy was, in fact, the most exclusively classified information that the navy had. I was on a submarine, and there were only a handful of people on the boat who were cleared to know where we were, and no one in the crew was cleared to know where any other boat was ever. On the rare occasions when our mission required us to take a spook to sea with us who was cleared for location information on other submarines they had a shoot before surrender tag. For Trump to "presidentially declassify" submarine location information and share it over the phone with a foreign leader is absolutely obscene. It may be "within the rights of the president" to declassify anything on the spot, but during the cold war that would have been grounds for a quiet and mysterious execution if Ronald Reagan had done it.

 

[mrt144]

I would just like to mention here that TS-SLI (top secret-submarine location information) when I was in the US Navy was, in fact, the most exclusively classified information that the navy had. I was on a submarine, and there were only a handful of people on the boat who were cleared to know where we were, and no one in the crew was cleared to know where any other boat was ever. On the rare occasions when our mission required us to take a spook to sea with us who was cleared for location information on other submarines they had a shoot before surrender tag. For Trump to "presidentially declassify" submarine location information and share it over the phone with a foreign leader is absolutely obscene. It may be "within the rights of the president" to declassify anything on the spot, but during the cold war that would have been grounds for a quiet and mysterious execution if Ronald Reagan had done it.

You keep in contact with your old shipmates? How they feeling?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You keep in contact with your old shipmates? How they feeling?

LOL...extremely glad to be out of the navy. Any shipmate of mine is completely fossilized by now. If someone joined the navy the year I got out and stayed for the thirty year retirement program they would be counting down their last months, and no one could get from joining the navy to serving on my boat in under a year.

I'm guessing the current navy might be a little less hypersensitive about Russians than we were, but I gotta say that "Cold War Veterans United for Trump" could probably hold their national meeting in a phone booth.