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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #105 on: February 13, 2017, 09:55:45 pm »
I will add to my list of "too bad, so sad, go forth and multiply with yourself" this:

Allegedly some guy in Texas building a $1.5 million boathouse has hit a dely because some of his workers have been deported.

Awww, poor guy.

When I was in Cambodia in December, our tour leader mentioned how Thailand kicked out tens of thousands of Cambodians.

A year later they were all back and thankfully so: the Thai economy required their cheap labour.

Trump's America will figure this out too. But how long?

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« Reply #106 on: February 13, 2017, 10:19:39 pm »
I will add to my list of "too bad, so sad, go forth and multiply with yourself" this:

Allegedly some guy in Texas building a $1.5 million boathouse has hit a dely because some of his workers have been deported.

Awww, poor guy.

When I was in Cambodia in December, our tour leader mentioned how Thailand kicked out tens of thousands of Cambodians.

A year later they were all back and thankfully so: the Thai economy required their cheap labour.

Trump's America will figure this out too. But how long?

When the prices for stuff rise.

It's a delicate balancing act as we have now seen what happens when an economy indebts itself so much that it is needing to put caps on foreigners and foreign made goods as a matter of national security as being indebted like they have been has been troublesome.  They are literally trying any solution to get their economy churning again. Protectionism is their latest experiment.

It's a curious experiment to balance the national security of making products while balancing investing in other countries to expand markets and get a return on capital.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #107 on: February 13, 2017, 10:22:44 pm »
Russian spy Michael Flynn has resigned.  Maybe some sanity is taking over?

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #108 on: February 13, 2017, 10:23:00 pm »
Putin has accepted Flynn's resignation....

Man, what a gong show.
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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #109 on: February 13, 2017, 10:25:50 pm »
Americans didn't care about Trudeau.  Probably best for them not to as they have to compare competence.

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« Reply #110 on: February 14, 2017, 02:16:39 am »
Americans didn't care about Trudeau.  Probably best for them not to as they have to compare competence.

As foolish as Trudeau is, he knew enough to not poke the bear and will just let trump do his thing and worry about Canada which will net him another election win.

The media can actually take a lesson from Trudeau as much as that pains me to say.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #111 on: February 14, 2017, 11:09:13 pm »
Tonight I wonder two things:

1) Why did the FBI not warn about this Russian crap like they did with "the letter?"

2) Does Putin have buyers remorse?

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #112 on: February 15, 2017, 06:40:17 am »
1) Why did the FBI not warn about this Russian crap like they did with "the letter?"
Probably because Comey is in their pockets too.

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« Reply #113 on: February 15, 2017, 09:52:16 am »
Something I read regarding Comey's handling of the Weiner situation (lol!) is that Rudy Giuliani gave Comey an ultimatum that either Comey goes public with it, or Rudy's friends in the New York office of the FBI would leak it.  That information was getting out there... Rudy gave Comey the choice of how. I think that was sourced from "anonymous sources", so take it with a grain of salt, obviously.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #114 on: February 16, 2017, 05:15:30 am »
Here's a recap of Trump's first month courtesy of a Reddit user.

* Declared the “court system” a threat to national security.

* Insisted that his Supreme Court pick had no problem with attacks on the judiciary, in the face of blatant evidence to the contrary.

* Trashed New START during a call with Putin — after putting the phone aside to ask his advisers what that (nuclear-arms treaty) was.

* Publicly condemned a private company for dropping his daughter’s (increasingly unpopular) fashion line.

* Suggested that publicly criticizing his military decisions is tantamount to aiding “the enemy.”

* Got angry at his press secretary for being impersonated by a woman.

* Used the executive branch’s immense authority over border control to inflict arbitrary cruelty on thousands of Muslim immigrants, create chaos at airports all across America, and sour diplomatic relations with the rest of the world.

* Violated court orders against his travel ban.

* Created a diplomatic crisis with Australia — and threatened to invade Mexico.

* Allowed his press secretary to falsely claim that Iran had committed an act of war against the United States.

* Retained the author of a reactionary screed that likened the 2016 election to Flight 93 as a national-security staffer.

* Suggested that Frederick Douglass is still alive in speech on Black History Month.

* Told a demonstrable lie about the size of the crowd at his inauguration — and predicted that the media would “pay a big price” for refusing to repeat it.

* Told congressional leaders at a private meeting that he only lost the popular vote because undocumented immigrants cast millions of ballots against him.

* Suggested America might once again have the opportunity to confiscate Iraq’s oil.

* Allowed his company to leverage the cachet of his election into a massive expansion of its hotel empire.

* Ordered the Department of Homeland Security to issue a weekly list of crimes (allegedly) committed by undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities.

* Prepared to radically reduce American funding to the United Nations.

* Signed a bevy of executive orders that were drafted by the White House’s Breitbart wing — and no one else.

* Declared that his election had restored American democracy, in an angry, authoritarian inaugural address.

* Replaced the White House website’s page on climate change with a vow to drill for oil on federal lands.

* Defamed a hero of the civil-rights movement in a series of racist tweets.

* llowed his secretary of State nominee to pledge that America would block China’s access to its disputed islands in the South China Sea — a promise that, if kept, would almost certainly mean war.

* Named his son-in-law a senior White House adviser, in defiance of norms (and, very likely, laws) against nepotism.

* Called NATO obsolete.

* Repeatedly denigrated America’s intelligence agencies, then leaked plans to downsize them.

* Declared his openness to reviving a nuclear arms race.

* Disparaged the sitting American president, while praising a hostile foreign autocrat.

* Continued to use Twitter as a tool for souring diplomatic relations with the world’s second-greatest power.

* Named a billionaire investor — with an enormous, personal financial interest in deregulating certain sectors of the economy — as his special adviser on regulatory reform.

* Declared the American intelligence community to be inherently untrustworthy, after it produced information that he did not like.

* Said he would continue skipping daily intelligence briefings when he becomes president because he’s smart enough to get by without them.

* Said he doesn’t know why he should be bound by the One China Policy.

* Invited his adult sons — who are slated to run the Trump Organization next year — to a policy meeting with the leading lights of Silicon Valley.

* Picked a man who once tried to call for the abolition of the Energy Department — but couldn’t remember the department’s name — as secretary of Energy.

* Named his bankruptcy lawyer — who thinks liberal Jews are “worse” than Nazi collaborators — as his pick for ambassador to Israel.

* Provoked heightened diplomatic tensions with two nuclear-armed states.

* Handed the Environmental Protection Agency to a climate denialist.

* Handed the Labor Department to a serial violator of labor law. Although he quit like a loser today.

* Requested security clearance for a conspiracy theorist who claims that the Clintons operate a Satanic child-sex ring out of a popular D.C. pizzeria.

* Questioned the legitimacy of the election he just won.

* Appointed Ben Carson secretary of Housing and Urban Development — despite the fact that Carson has no relevant experience and recently declared himself unqualified for any cabinet position.

* Allowed his D.C. hotel to actively court the patronage of foreign diplomats.

* Invited the manager of his blind trust onto a phone call with the president of Argentina.

* Met with Indian business partners who have publicly declared their intention to capitalize on his status as president-elect.

* Tried to coerce Britain into appointing a right-wing extremist as its ambassador to the United States.

* Berated the media at a closed-door meeting for publishing unflattering photos of his double chin.

* Admitted that his charity was guilty of self-dealing.

* Derided protestors as paid professionals whose acts of free speech are fundamentally “unfair.”

* Invited the manager of his “blind trust” to a meeting with the prime minister of Japan.

* Assembled a team of racists to lead his White House.

* Took credit for the fact that Ford will not be relocating a plant to Mexico (which they never had any intention of relocating to Mexico).

* Declared America’s leading newspaper a “failing” institution.

* Took calls from foreign leaders on unsecured phone lines, without consulting the State Department.

* Referred to his White House transition as though it were the next season of The Apprentice.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5ubnzs/admit_it_trump_is_unfit_to_serve/ddt81h7

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #115 on: February 16, 2017, 05:20:35 am »
And let's not forget the raid in Yemen

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5ubnzs/admit_it_trump_is_unfit_to_serve/ddt43oi

It's noteworthy that, while making the case that Trump is unfit to serve, they didn't even mention Trump's fiasco in Yemen.  Let's go over that one again.

The Obama administration had been contemplating a raid in Yemen.  To gather intel?  To capture or kill an ISIS leader?  Who knows.  They never committed to executing the raid because they determined it was too dangerous.

Trump becomes the (p)Resident and some knucklehead in his administration convinces him to go for it.  Aaaaaaaaaaaand it proved to be too dangerous.

* A U.S. Navy Seal was killed during the raid.

* 23 civilians were killed, including women and children.

* U.S. servicemen were injured during the raid.

* A 75 Million Dollar U.S. aircraft was destroyed.  In fact, it had to be destroyed by the U.S. military, meaning, we paid for the missile used to destroy our own $75 million aircraft.  *Awesome!?*  ...oh, hell no.

Shortly after the raid, a press conference was scheduled to show off a key piece of intel gathered during the raid.  A video.  It was quickly debunked as being at least 10 years old and already available on the goddamn mother **** internet.

For me, the most amazing aspect of the raid in Yemen is that Trump didn't even go to the situation room to be briefed before approving the raid.  What was Trumple Thinskin so busy doing that he couldn't be thoroughly briefed in order to make the best possible decision?

**...He was eating.**

And here's a question nobody seems to have asked about the Yemen raid: Who actually WAS in the Situation Room for the Yemen raid?  Was it Skeletor himself, Steve Bannon?

There's a lot of talk about Trump being a Russian Puppet, but there's more than one hand up that clown's ass making his fish faced mouth move.  Trump is just as much Bannon's puppet, and lives have already been lost because of it.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #116 on: February 16, 2017, 08:21:13 am »
It has surprised me that the raid in Yemen has had so little coverage, especially given that a US soldier was killed.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #117 on: February 16, 2017, 08:42:09 am »
Meanwhile, Benghazi.....

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #118 on: February 16, 2017, 09:17:18 pm »
2017 - "I have nothing to do with Russia"
1998 - "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
1972 - "I am not a crook"
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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #119 on: February 16, 2017, 10:39:07 pm »
I thought he'd do fine.  I'm now convinced he won't make it through his first term.