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Offline Omni

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« Reply #330 on: April 28, 2017, 09:17:49 pm »


The reason most of the world is afraid of Trump is because it believes he is incompetent. Making him POTUS is like handing a six year old a running chainsaw.

And even worse, a running chainsaw can't vaporize people on the other side of the globe. Such as what might happen in a "major, major conflict".

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« Reply #331 on: April 30, 2017, 11:39:48 am »
Do you really think Trudeau could change Trump's mind on anything? 

I think Trump was just posturing with the whole ripping up NAFTA rhetoric.  He's a business man, he was starting at his end game and negotiating down.  Threaten to rip it all up, slap on a tariff and once we see where things could be headed, he has all the leverage for a favourable negotiation.

Now he looks like he threw us a bone when he played us like a chump. 

I don't buy it for a sec that Trudeau would change Trump's mind if Trump was actually serious about pulling out of NAFTA.

This is exactly it. These are his SMRT negotiating tactics. He is the deal guy. He is the art of the deal. He makes bigly bigly deals. He is a SMRT negotiator, the best negotiator. High energy negotiations. He is the greatest negotiator, probably the greatest of all time, nobody does bigly bigly deals like Donald, believe me folks.

No doubt when the negotiators meet, the American negotator is going to be "good cop" to Donald's "bad cop".  He will say stuff like "guys, you gotta give me something here that I can take back to Donald. Donny's crazy, he's ready to blow this whole thing up. If you can move on the dairy issue, I might be able to go back to Donald and convince him this is a good deal. You have to give me something I can take back to Donald or he's going to blow the whole thing up."

This was just more crap from his handbook of alpha-male gamesmanship. Like his handshake trick, or when he went on Larry King and told King he had terrible bad breath. "That's how you get the edge," King realizes.  Years later, King had Trump on the show again, and they talked about that incident, and Trump said this:

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #332 on: April 30, 2017, 02:36:57 pm »
After having skipped out of the White House Correspondents dinner, but after having had a chance to listen to the jokes, Trump is thinking about taking a look at the 1st amendment. Could there be a coincidence?

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #333 on: April 30, 2017, 05:35:42 pm »
After having skipped out of the White House Correspondents dinner, but after having had a chance to listen to the jokes, Trump is thinking about taking a look at the 1st amendment. Could there be a coincidence?

I absolutely think he should take a look at the 1st Amendment. Then he might understand it.
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« Reply #334 on: April 30, 2017, 05:57:08 pm »
I absolutely think he should take a look at the 1st Amendment. Then he might understand it.

That's a pretty lengthy bit of reading for a guy like Trump, but maybe if he took a weekend from golf and let the 747 cool down a bit, he could at least get a start at it. Of course that would make the damn job even harder: "so forget it, Mara Laga here I come"

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #335 on: May 01, 2017, 12:02:11 pm »
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After having skipped out of the White House Correspondents dinner, but after having had a chance to listen to the jokes, Trump is thinking about taking a look at the 1st amendment. Could there be a coincidence?
I absolutely think he should take a look at the 1st Amendment. Then he might understand it.
I absolutely hope he actually changes it to make it easier to sue people for libel.

Why? Because the one that will get sued the most is probably Trump himself. Imagine Trump getting dragged through the courts every time he tweets something foolish, or makes some sort of unsubstantiated claim at one of his rallies.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #336 on: May 01, 2017, 02:13:24 pm »
Yes I guess I don't know enough about US law but I recall being a bit stunned while suffering through the US Presidential debates at how Trump could slink around scoffing at Hillary and calling her a liar, liar, liar, and all that lock her up stuff and not get sued for defamation or something.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #337 on: May 01, 2017, 04:14:06 pm »
I absolutely think he should take a look at the 1st Amendment. Then he might understand it.
Hey wait a second... there's actually a first amendment? I thought the U.S. bill of rights started with the 2nd amendment. And stopped there.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #338 on: May 09, 2017, 09:44:33 am »
Latest Trump news...  He may have actually just committed a felony.

Right before Sally Yates was to testify, Trump wrote a tweet: Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Counsel. Some are taking that to be a veiled threat (as in "we are going to pin security leaks on you"). The problem is, it is against the law to threaten someone with the goal of changing their testimony:

“Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/09/did-donald-trump-try-to-threaten-sally-yates-on-twitter-if-so-he-committed-a-felony/

Meanwhile, during Yates' testimony, 2 main things stood out:

- Yates confirmed that she warned the white house about Flynn long before Flynn was fired, yet the white house continued to keep him in cabinet

- Republicans in congress seem to be very.... apathetic to investigating the Russian-Trump connections. In fact, Ted Cruz actually tried to use Yates' testimony to bring up Hillary's emails.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/05/09/gop-shoots-messenger-sally-yates-testimony/7pFlDZKB6SRct2xiJWYMSN/story.html


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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #339 on: May 09, 2017, 06:16:13 pm »
- Republicans in congress seem to be very.... apathetic to investigating the Russian-Trump connections. In fact, Ted Cruz actually tried to use Yates' testimony to bring up Hillary's emails.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/05/09/gop-shoots-messenger-sally-yates-testimony/7pFlDZKB6SRct2xiJWYMSN/story.html

There have been so many conflicts of interest with his businesses and nobody seems to care, I have little faith that anything will come of the Russian connection even if they find a smoking gun.  Exactly as you say, Republicans don't seem to care and they control Congress and the Senate.

As Trump said himself during the primaries, he could go out on the street and shoot someone and his supporters wouldn't care.  Sad but true.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #340 on: May 09, 2017, 10:01:47 pm »
FBI: Fired By Idiot
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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #341 on: May 11, 2017, 02:17:10 pm »
FBI: Fired By Idiot
Yes, Comey has been fired by Trump.

Democrats are calling it suspicious (based largely on the timing). Trump supporters are trying to label the Democrats as "hypocrites" since they were calling for Comey to be fired a long time ago. (Trump supporters are ignoring the fact that most people aren't concerned about him being fired, but that he was fired now, after being praised repeatedly by Trump both before and after the election, and at a time when possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign are being investigated.

I think the big winner in all this: The President Nixon presidential library, which used Twitter to publish: "FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI."

Think about it... when comparing Nixon to Trump, Nixon may end up being the less corrupt one.

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #342 on: May 12, 2017, 01:01:44 pm »
Not only was Comey fired by Trump, but he's now saying he would have fired him with or without the recommendation from the Justice Department. To make matters worse for Trump, he also threatened Comey this morning, saying "I hope there's no tape of our conversations."

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« Reply #343 on: May 12, 2017, 01:38:56 pm »
Not only was Comey fired by Trump, but he's now saying he would have fired him with or without the recommendation from the Justice Department. To make matters worse for Trump, he also threatened Comey this morning, saying "I hope there's no tape of our conversations."
And even worser (or since that's not a word, how about "Huugely worse" in trump speak):

- Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein (who wrote a memo pointing to some of the flaws with Comey but didn't recommend actually firing him) is actually upset that he has been linked to the firing, to the point where he was thinking of resigning

- The other person Trump supposedly got Trump to fire Comey was Sessions; yet Sessions had previously recused himself from the Russia/Trump investigation.

http://www.businessinsider.com/rod-rosenstein-james-comey-firing-2017-5


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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #344 on: May 12, 2017, 03:38:04 pm »
Poor old Sean Spicer of course got hammered again today at the briefing, and on his first day back from a break as well. If anyone is suffering from whiplash due to Trump's endless  conflicting stories it has to be him.