TOTALLY GEEKED!

flan327 wrote:

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And DH was hallucinating as well?

I should have known better than to open this thread.

Carry on!

flan

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 flan, Trump is addicted to television.  It is well known that he watches multiple news programs - it's even been printed in Vanity Fair.  I can find NOTHING that quotes Trump as saying he only watches Fox News.  NOTHING.  And that would actually be news, you know.  His television flickering in the dark is news.  

He watches Meet the Press, 60 Minutes, Morning Joe, AND Fox & Friends, CNN, and even Access Hollywood - 

What does Trump watch? According to Axios, he’s got the morning and evening news shows on TiVo “so he can watch the tops of all of them. Always 60 Minutes.Often Meet the Press.” (Yes, he apparently still uses TiVo.) When Billy Bush was still on the program, Axios reports Trump also watched Access Hollywood “every night.”

You gotta admit. The WH is not doing the best with the news ....

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/sean-spicer-retweets-the-onion-calling-job-misinformation.html

Sean Spicer Retweets Onion Video Saying He Provides ‘Robust Misinformation’: ‘You Nailed It’
By Madison Malone Kircher

Last night, Sean Spicer retweeted a video from satirical news publication the Onion. “You nailed it,” Spicer tweeted, along with the video which listed “Five Things to Know About Sean Spicer.” Except it seems like maybe Spicer — who remember, as White House Press Secretary, is partially in the business of watching videos and reading tweets — didn’t watch the video or read the Onion’s tweet as carefully as he could have … since they declare Spicer’s “role in the Trump administration will be to provide the American public with robust and clearly articulated misinformation.”

The video’s “things to know” also include Spicer’s former role as a senior correspondent for NPR (false), his “defensive” speaking style (slightly less false), and his questionable pocket squares (style is subjective, I guess). Thing-to-know number four is “whether or not Spicer has ever knowingly lied to the press.” “One’s own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of one’s experience,” the Onion explains in its answer.

To quote Sean Spicer, “nailed it.”

So I just posted on FB to a former members' page. He had posted the above MEME.

I would gladly pay an extra $1 for the wall, but I have to say John doesn't shop at the right store. I pay $4 for 6 avocados and paying an additional .80 is not a big deal, plus our food distributors will buy less avocados from Mexico and look to buy from other countries so Jose will have to reduce his price from $5 for one avocado to a level that other countries will sell them for, and Jose will lose and end up having to reduce his price. That is how it works.Edited to add that when Jose has to lower his prices and thus lower business income he will also have to lower wages for his employees which all means Jose's business taxes he pays to Mexico as well as income taxes the employees pay will be lower, thus Mexico losing tax revenue = paying for the wall, one avocado at a time. And that is how a business person thinks as opposed to a politician. Genius I say.

WYSIWYG wrote:

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Yeah. I hate the gloom and doom "we'll end up being the ones that pay for it" commentary too.

If they try and integrate the costs of the tariff into raising the prices to the consumers, the consumers may simply choose to buy items made elsewhere or forego the purchase all together.

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 Yep, and the result is the Mexican tax revenue goes down.