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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #465 on: August 04, 2017, 06:56:14 pm »
Sarah Huckabee-Sanders

Susan, Sarah, whatever. Doesn't matter. In a few months she'll be polishing up her resume.  Perhaps she can go work for the "local milk people" that Trump was talking about.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #466 on: August 04, 2017, 09:17:51 pm »
One of my few rules - don't insult the public figures by changing their names. 

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« Reply #467 on: August 04, 2017, 09:23:00 pm »
Pena Nieto said. “My position has been and will continue to be very firm saying that Mexico cannot pay for that wall." Trump responded,  “But you cannot say that to the press. The press is going to go with that and I cannot live with that. You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances.” He went on, “But the fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall – I have to.” He suggested that both he and Pena Nieto publicly say they're still determining who will pay for the wall. He then threatened, "If you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that."

Translation: "Listen, Pedro, I said a lot of very stupid things during the campaign, but play along with me so that I don't look dumb."

The idea that Mr Pena-Nieto owes Trump any favors after all the crap Trump said about Mexicans during the past 2 years is laughable. So Trump-like.

Trump, master deal negotiator.


"I'm gonna tear up NAFTA! ...   ...  well, maybe I won't tear it up if you guys make bigly bigly concessions."

The Trumpcare negotiations were especially masterful. I liked the part where he said he'd punish Alaska if Lisa Murkowski voted against the bill in the senate.  Murkowski just won reelection for 6 more years.  The election before, the Tea Party Republicans "primaried" Murkowski and she still won the senate seat... as a write-in candidate. That's crazy!  Trump will be in jail before Murkowski has to run for election again. I doubt she's scared of him.  Trump mocked Obama for not being able to "make bigly bigly deals" to get bills through the House of Representatives and the Senate.  Trump has a majority in both and he can't get bigly bigly deals done either.  At least Obama got his healthcare bill through the House and the Senate when the Democrats had both.

And now these new transcripts... hanging up on the PM of Australia, pleading with the President of Mexico to play along... threatening to stop taking his calls if he doesn't play along... it's SAD and PATHETIC. And also hilarious.

I assume he also has other tremendous high-energy negotiating tools in his arsenal, like threatening to block people on Twitter or Unfriend them on Facebook.

The one negotiating tool he has that we know works is to threaten to declare bankruptcy to strong-arm contractors into accepting partial payment for work they did on his shitty projects. Except everybody knows the US isn't going to declare bankruptcy to welsh on its debts so that's not going to be a super-strong tactic in the international arena.

But the real comedy from the leaked transcripts was his comments to Malcolm Turnbull that the refugees are bad people and they're in prison and that they're not going to get jobs and work for the "local milk people".  Senile.

This guy is such a joke. 


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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #468 on: August 05, 2017, 05:23:10 pm »
I already edited the post in question.  No harm, no foul - just a friendly warning.

How can I be warned when I have no idea what you edited or what you didn't like?
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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #469 on: August 05, 2017, 05:25:44 pm »
One of my few rules - don't insult the public figures by changing their names.

Why? I ask this because I believe that that other site started to go wrong when the moderation focused not so much on how members treated each other, but to a fanatical degree, how members referred to extraneous people like politicians, heads of the RCMP, tribal leaders, union leaders, Quebec, natives, foreigners, etc.
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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #470 on: August 05, 2017, 09:15:40 pm »
How can I be warned when I have no idea what you edited or what you didn't like?

Warning is the wrong - word.  I should have said reminder.

There are 3 rules:

use proper names
don't insult eachother
don't do anything illegal. 

I wasn't meaning to bring down the hammer - I just want to keep it civil.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #471 on: August 08, 2017, 11:03:47 am »
One of my few rules - don't insult the public figures by changing their names.
You have rules?

This is bullshit.  ;D

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #472 on: August 08, 2017, 12:52:02 pm »
You have rules?

This is bullshit.  ;D

Sorry

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #473 on: August 08, 2017, 01:42:56 pm »
One of my few rules - don't insult the public figures by changing their names.
Does that include using the president's historical name Drumph? After all, he himself said people should be proud of their heritage.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #474 on: August 08, 2017, 01:52:22 pm »
Does that include using the president's historical name Drumph? After all, he himself said people should be proud of their heritage.

I'd prefer not, only because he doesn't call himself that.  Though, you are right, it is a historical family name. 

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #475 on: August 08, 2017, 02:02:24 pm »
I already edited the post in question.  No harm, no foul - just a friendly warning.

I think this was me, but because the post is gone I have no idea what I said that was moderated.

Offline JMT

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #476 on: August 08, 2017, 04:45:39 pm »
I think this was me, but because the post is gone I have no idea what I said that was moderated.

I didn't delete any posts from this thread - so I don't think it was you.  There were a few choice words replaced with the appropriate name of the person.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #477 on: August 09, 2017, 01:13:43 pm »
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Does that include using the president's historical name Drumph? After all, he himself said people should be proud of their heritage.
I'd prefer not, only because he doesn't call himself that.  Though, you are right, it is a historical family name.
Yeah but its not just that its a historical family name... its that Donald himself has actually attacked people for changing their names.

If Trump is criticizing people for not using their historical names, then isn't it morally right to expect some consistency and refer to Trump by his family's historical name?

If Jon Stewart is so above it all & legit, why did he change his name from Jonathan Leibowitz? He should be proud of his heritage!
- Donald J Trump, aka Drumph

http://www.thedailybeast.com/revisiting-donald-trumps-anti-semitic-attacks-against-jon-stewart

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #478 on: August 09, 2017, 01:39:55 pm »
It's definitely a grey area.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #479 on: August 10, 2017, 03:22:10 pm »
I kinda don't like the way Trump keeps playing tit for tat with Kim. It seems like he is simply falling into the nut bar blender like children in a sand box, although with much more dangerous tools in hand.
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