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« Reply #240 on: March 06, 2017, 10:08:52 am »
It sounds more like OJ's quest to find the real killers every day. 

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Hah! That's a good comparison and all I'll be able to imagine every time he opens his mouth now.

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« Reply #241 on: March 06, 2017, 10:30:38 am »
FBI says nope, so is Donald saying they were running a Watergate plumbers operation? That would be a crime. So would withholding evidence of a crime. So Donald has given his evidence to the FBI. Right?
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« Reply #242 on: March 06, 2017, 10:36:41 am »
So you are happy then with Trump's rapid advancement of the fake news system. Sorry, I'll stick with the old style fact checked style thanks.
Hell no. I just happen to have some perspective on why Trump won. The left has spent too many years demonizing moderates who do not happen to agree with many of the progressive policy positions. This created an environment where a Trump could win because the left had cried wolf too many times and no one was listening any more. The way back from this mess starts with the left acknowledging that they cannot reasonably expect everyone to agree with their progressive policies and to start engaging with moderates instead of screaming racists/fascist/denier whenever they hear an opinion they don't like.
 

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« Reply #243 on: March 06, 2017, 11:10:58 am »
The left has spent too many years demonizing moderates

Tea party moderates?

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« Reply #244 on: March 06, 2017, 11:51:51 am »
Hell no. I just happen to have some perspective on why Trump won. The left has spent too many years demonizing moderates who do not happen to agree with many of the progressive policy positions. This created an environment where a Trump could win because the left had cried wolf too many times and no one was listening any more. The way back from this mess starts with the left acknowledging that they cannot reasonably expect everyone to agree with their progressive policies and to start engaging with moderates instead of screaming racists/fascist/denier whenever they hear an opinion they don't like.
Your "perspective" seems to be simply a fairly flimsy swipe at people who think differently than you. My perspective is more based on facts. Trump picked up his EC votes im largely "rust belt" states after he promised to deliver jobs so they held their noses and voted for him. If he fails to provide those jobs he'll be sent kicking horse turds down the road in 2020, if he isn't impeached first.

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« Reply #245 on: March 06, 2017, 07:47:36 pm »
Hell no. I just happen to have some perspective on why Trump won. The left has spent too many years demonizing moderates who do not happen to agree with many of the progressive policy positions. This created an environment where a Trump could win because the left had cried wolf too many times and no one was listening any more. The way back from this mess starts with the left acknowledging that they cannot reasonably expect everyone to agree with their progressive policies and to start engaging with moderates instead of screaming racists/fascist/denier whenever they hear an opinion they don't like.

Of *course* it's the left's fault, eh?   Some day I'm going to run across a post or blog or something from a conservative which says "We screwed up".   Heck,even saying "yeah, "the left" did ______, but we conservatives also ____".   I won't hold my breath, though.   

I've recently asked two conservatives to condemn the right-wing nutjobs who sent death threats and other threats to Khalid; neither would.   Will you?  Or will you continue to pretend that only 'the left' screams abuse?
 

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« Reply #246 on: March 06, 2017, 10:21:40 pm »
I read that James Comey is like 6'9.  If Trump keeps calling him a liar, maybe he'll reach down and squish Trump's orange head like an over-ripe peach.

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« Reply #247 on: March 07, 2017, 11:27:51 pm »
Nigeria is advising its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to the US.

I wonder: why doesn't Trump want to make tourism great again?


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« Reply #248 on: March 08, 2017, 02:14:34 am »
Nigeria is advising its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to the US.

I wonder: why doesn't Trump want to make tourism great again?

For the sake of argument, I have a hunch that Nigerian tourism isn't exactly a huge contributor to the US economy to start with.


However, I've heard that Trump has already had a significant negative effect on US tourism.  (except to Mar-A-Lago, of course.)  I have a hunch there's also an up-tick in visits to New York by Muscovites.

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« Reply #249 on: March 08, 2017, 08:20:39 am »
It doesn't stop at Nigeria though.

Brown skinned Canadian born citizens are allegedly being harrassed at the border: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canadian-denied-entry-us-immigrant-visa-1.4011202

I was reading a tourist publication somewhere indicating that flights to the US were up 3% in January and then were flat in February. 

Could be seasonal variation or could be the start of a reactionary trend to find alternative destinations. The coming months will show one way or the other.

The one country that did not see any decline in people to the US in February was Germany: cue the nazi jokes, I guess. 

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« Reply #250 on: March 17, 2017, 09:47:45 am »
Remember two months ago and all the "embarrassment" about a Churchill bust being returned to England?

Yeah, that looks quaint now, no?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/us-makes-formal-apology-britain-white-house-accuses-gchq-wiretapping/

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« Reply #251 on: March 17, 2017, 06:29:41 pm »
Hell no. I just happen to have some perspective on why Trump won. The left has spent too many years demonizing moderates who do not happen to agree with many of the progressive policy positions. This created an environment where a Trump could win because the left had cried wolf too many times and no one was listening any more. The way back from this mess starts with the left acknowledging that they cannot reasonably expect everyone to agree with their progressive policies and to start engaging with moderates instead of screaming racists/fascist/denier whenever they hear an opinion they don't like.

I'm just so sick and tired of being called a racist by the left that gosh darn it, I'm gonna vote for the most racist candidate there ever was just to show them how unracist I am!

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Is that what you're saying?

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« Reply #252 on: March 17, 2017, 06:36:50 pm »
Hell no. I just happen to have some perspective on why Trump won. The left has spent too many years demonizing moderates who do not happen to agree with many of the progressive policy positions.

snowflake... might you be a demonized moderate?  ;D

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« Reply #253 on: March 22, 2017, 07:17:12 pm »
On top of Monday's bombshells:

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/844702108125401088

This is grounds for impeachment, IMO. 

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