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Quote from: muldrake on February 08, 2017, 06:57:36 pm

Quote from: Reelya on February 08, 2017, 04:19:31 pm

The Nordstrom company said the decision was made based on business factors (sales slump) and not politics. Nordstrom is what's called a "Fast Fashion" outlet - they change their line up rapidly, so it's natural that designer brands are a revolving door. Trump overstep conflict of interest but he also fails to understand the fashion industry. Probably not a surprise that Ivanka Trump sales are dropping.

It's also pretty openly corrupt to exploit the office of President so brazenly for profit.  It's the kind of thing you expect from a kleptocratic failed state.

Are you talking about Nordstrom exploiting it or Trump? Anyhow, regardless of the reason why they did it, the timing certainly looks like an attack at the WH policies, and naturally, Trump took it extremely personally and thought it was an attack at him and his family.

That happens when you buy them. These were individual people's cards. They just happened to steal them from about 1000 traffic stops. It wasn't all at once.

"[L]aw enforcement seized approximately 1,000 cards from a suspected drug trafficker. With this technology they were able to identify more than $48,000 in funds that were loaded onto the cards," said the release.

So ... each card had about $48 stolen from it. Considering that a typical one-use Visa gift card is like $50, it seems much more likely that they just stole 1000 regular $50 gift cards rather than siezed drug profits.

On the way to work my car suddenly started violently shaking and barely accelerating. This is the third time this has happened, and the previous two times we took it back to the dealership so that they could "fix" it. I do not understand why it continues to happen, as we have had this car barely a month.

Honestly, the rules committee should probably be maintained by a bunch of judges or something instead of the Congressthralls.

I mean at that point why even have a Congress?

Education seems like something that is too complex and has too many parts to do an amendment on.

Gerrymandering is something that could be done, though I don't know if any other countries have anything like that in their constitutions.

Although it would have to be VERY CAREFULLY worded so that it doesn't accidentially give one party a leg up over the other.

Meanwhile, Betsy DeVos was confirmed after a Pence tiebreaker vote.