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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #420 on: July 23, 2017, 11:10:33 am »
If firing Muller doesn't turn them then they are in trouble.

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« Reply #421 on: July 24, 2017, 07:44:41 pm »
Reading World Order by Kissenger now and it's making me think that Trump came around just in time for us to prevent another one later.

Prevent another what later?  Another "world order"?  Another covfefe?

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #422 on: July 24, 2017, 08:17:39 pm »
Another covfefe

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« Reply #423 on: July 24, 2017, 08:25:24 pm »
Make mine a double.

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« Reply #424 on: July 26, 2017, 12:28:37 am »
So the Boy Scouts of America invited the POTUS to speak at their once-per-four-years jamboree, as is their tradition.

And Trump showed up and turned it into a Trump Youth rally. 

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« Reply #425 on: July 26, 2017, 06:47:15 am »
Last night's speech was also horrifying.

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« Reply #426 on: July 26, 2017, 10:42:42 am »
And now they've actually managed to get enough votes to open up debate on health care in the senate (although it required a return by John McCain post-cancer surgery and a tie-breaking vote by Pence in order to squeak through.) However, things are a mess for the republicans (as certain votes require a 60 vote majority to proceed, and its doubtful that they can muster that.)

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-sets-sights-skinny-repeal-obamacare-tuesday-s-voting-n786296

A few notes:

- this really illustrates how hypocritical the republicans many republicans are... some will complain about the way Trump and the republicans are acting (such as how the way the bill was crafted in secret), but when called upon, most will ignore their claimed principles and follow directions.

- Trump has really been pushing for this, even making threats to republican senators who might have voted against the bill

I really hope the republicans manage to actually repeal Obamacare. Yes, it will be horrible. Yes, millions will be left uninsured (and some may die). But, so many Republican supporters are sticking by Trump because they can't imagine him doing anything bad... having their health insurance disappear might just be a wake up call that "voting has consequences".

Oh, and speaking of insurance, there are hints that Trump doesn't even understand the difference between health insurance and life insurance, as he was making claims that young people could get insured for $12/year.

http://fortune.com/2017/07/20/donald-trump-health-insurance-comments/



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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #427 on: July 26, 2017, 11:31:26 am »
So the Boy Scouts of America invited the POTUS to speak at their once-per-four-years jamboree, as is their tradition.

And Trump showed up and turned it into a Trump Youth rally. 

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The lack of judgement, maturity and class of this individual continues to surprise me, though nothing he does should surprise me. I can't imagine George Bush making anything like this sort of speech to boy scouts, and I thought he was an idiot!
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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #428 on: July 26, 2017, 11:34:04 am »
Last night's speech was also horrifying.

What's scarier is the rumor he wants to replace Sessions with that lick-spittle sycophant Rudy Giuliani, so he can then fire Rosenstein and then Mueller.
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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #429 on: July 26, 2017, 12:19:09 pm »
So the Boy Scouts of America invited the POTUS to speak at their once-per-four-years jamboree, as is their tradition.

And Trump showed up and turned it into a Trump Youth rally. 

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I'm surprised he hasn't come up with a salute that people are supposed to give to him at these rallies yet.

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« Reply #430 on: July 27, 2017, 01:37:38 pm »
Jeff Sessions has been found to have lied under oath about meeting with Russians....
Ironically, Trump has been attacking Sessions for recusing himself from the Russian investigation, and for not prosecuting Hillary Clinton (which, should it be noted, Trump said after the election he had no interest in seeing her jailed.)

There are so many reasons why Sessions should not be attorney general... his past history of racism, his desire to crack down harder on drug laws, etc. Yet he was one of Trump's earliest big-name supporters. And now Trump is attacking him. Just goes to show how much loyalty is worth.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/26/politics/trump-sessions-tweet/index.html

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« Reply #431 on: July 27, 2017, 09:21:46 pm »
and for not prosecuting Hillary Clinton (which, should it be noted, Trump said after the election he had no interest in seeing her jailed.)

you didn't have to be The Amazing Kreskin to anticipate that Trump would start ranting about Hillary again when he needed to distract people from his own troubles.  And the way things are headed, Trump's troubles are just getting worse.

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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #432 on: July 27, 2017, 09:33:02 pm »
And then they hired this guy from Futurama as comms director:
 

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« Reply #433 on: July 27, 2017, 09:33:38 pm »
I did a quick google on Ken Starr regarding another thread, and saw that Starr penned a blistering op-ed about Trump's treatment of Jeff Sessions.  I assume this came about because Starr heard his name mentioned as a potential replacement for Sessions, and wanted to nip that **** in the bud.

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The attorney general is not — and cannot be — the president’s “hockey goalie,” as new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci described Sessions’s job. In fact, the president isn’t even his client. To the contrary, the attorney general’s client is ultimately “We the People,” and his fidelity has to be not to the president but to the Constitution and other laws of the United States. Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law. When it comes to dealing with the nation’s top legal officer, you will do well to check your Twitter weapons at the Oval Office door.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kenneth-starr-mr-president-please-cut-it-out/2017/07/26/b9af0c78-723e-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.3f7d04f79af1


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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #434 on: July 27, 2017, 09:44:10 pm »
No, this **** show is the worst.  The Senators now have to stay up all night debating a pack of stupidity so they can safe face about their devotion to a lie that breaks Trump's "better healthcare" promise.

This kind of thing leads to coups in other countries.  Merely dysfunctional would be an improvement.