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riversedge

(70,186 posts)
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 07:33 PM Oct 2018

In March, Trump said the Saudi military deals would ......Yesterday evening: "The million jobs."











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Daniel Dale Retweeted Jake Tapper

In March, Trump said the Saudi military deals would produce 40,000 jobs.

A week ago, he made it 450,000 jobs. Wednesday, 500,000 jobs. Yesterday afternoon, 600,000 jobs.

Yesterday evening: "The million jobs."


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In March, Trump said the Saudi military deals would ......Yesterday evening: "The million jobs." (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2018 OP
The truth doesn't matter oberliner Oct 2018 #1
Trump is just attempting to make us complicit-as Dictators are wont to do. delisen Oct 2018 #2
what's colder than the cold calculus of weighing a number of jobs against the cost of a human life? unblock Oct 2018 #3
So the more guilty they look the more he increases the jobs KelleyKramer Oct 2018 #4
those that are effected when the weapons destroy thier jobs/livelyhood and those that make them Demonaut Oct 2018 #5

delisen

(6,042 posts)
2. Trump is just attempting to make us complicit-as Dictators are wont to do.
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 07:50 PM
Oct 2018

Last edited Sat Oct 20, 2018, 09:56 PM - Edit history (1)

They came for the Yemeni children, they came for the children at the border, they came for citizens whose original immigration papere were not perfect, they came for Khashoggi.

Do we really think we are exempt.

Hitler did not start out murdering millions. It is a gradual process. It is step-by-step of what the citizenry accepts and allows.

unblock

(52,195 posts)
3. what's colder than the cold calculus of weighing a number of jobs against the cost of a human life?
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 08:15 PM
Oct 2018

saying the number of jobs matters more when you clearly don't even care what the actual number is.


"however many jobs you figure is enough, just imagine that many jobs, and then go to sleep and forget all about this unpleasantness."

Demonaut

(8,914 posts)
5. those that are effected when the weapons destroy thier jobs/livelyhood and those that make them
Sun Oct 21, 2018, 01:36 AM
Oct 2018

and jobs taking care of the injured and dead...i guess that could be millions


the effect goes both ways

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