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Offline Omni

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« Reply #690 on: September 12, 2017, 03:37:22 pm »
Trump continues to display not only his bad judgement by welcoming with open arms to the white house, the president of Malaysia, who is quite clearly a thief, but also his disregard for the US constitution, specifically the emoluments clause by having Najib Razak stay at Trump hotel during his visit.

Ignoring the emoluments clause is impeachment material. C'mon congress!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4877072/Trump-meeting-Malaysian-prime-minister-scrutiny.html
 

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« Reply #691 on: September 12, 2017, 10:25:39 pm »
Hajib Razmak?  Sounds like a Muslim.  Is Trump connected to the Muslim Brotherhood?  Maybe Someone will conjure up another fake cheque as evidence!

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« Reply #692 on: September 12, 2017, 10:39:15 pm »
So Steve Bannon did an interview with Charlie Rose last weekend. It was a remarkable interview for at least 3 reasons.

First reason: despite TV makeup and wardrobe, Bannon still managed to look like a bleary-eyed drunk who woke up in a pool of his own sweat.

Second reason: Bannon declared firing James Comey to be "the biggest political mistake in modern history."

Third reason: Bannon explicitly stated that his mission now that he's back at Breitbart is to fight on Trump's behalf.  Has any media outlet ever come out and said so explicitly that they're propaganda?  Has Pravda?  Has Iran's Press.TV, or whatever it's called? Has Russia Today? Pyongyang Today? Anything?

Will the fact that Bannon has explicitly said that they're propaganda dissuade Trumptards from mistaking Breitpravda for real news?  Don't bet on it!   duurrrrrrr, librul bias!

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« Reply #693 on: September 12, 2017, 11:15:08 pm »
Trump espouses that he and his family are proud to be non drinkers, then he hires a scummy **** tank like Bannon to be his chief advisor, then they have a fight and Bannon gets fired, then he goes on TV to criticize Trump, then he changes his tune to say he will support Trump with his fake news site Breitbart. How the hell does any sane person make heads or tails out of this ricocheting at rather high levels?

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« Reply #694 on: September 13, 2017, 09:13:01 am »
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/is-trump-ending-the-american-era/537888/?utm_source=atlfb

A piece on the wilful decline in American influence.

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In short, foreign leaders may consider Trump alarming, but they do not consider him serious. They may think they can use him, but they know they cannot rely on him. They look at his plans to slash the State Department’s ranks and its budget—the latter by about 30 percent—and draw conclusions about his interest in traditional diplomacy. And so, already, they have begun to reshape alliances and reconfigure the networks that make up the global economy, bypassing the United States and diminishing its standing.

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« Reply #695 on: September 13, 2017, 11:34:53 am »
Quite the read. Depressing but hard to dispute.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #697 on: September 15, 2017, 12:28:46 pm »
We didn't even cover the DACA flip-flop.  Things that would have been shocking week 1 are now just passing clownisms...

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« Reply #698 on: September 15, 2017, 06:31:23 pm »
We didn't even cover the DACA flip-flop.  Things that would have been shocking week 1 are now just passing clownisms...

I'm not sure that's a big flip flop. He's been making noises about how he 'loves' the dreamers for some time. He reversed Obama's decree under pressure from many in the party who said it was unconstitutional. I think something like 11 states were going to sue the federal government if they didn't, and Jeff Sessions was saying it was clearly unconstitutional.
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« Reply #699 on: September 16, 2017, 07:37:31 am »
Trump shoves his head up his arse yet again with a couple of ill advised tweets. Will he ever get it?

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/parsons-green-terror-attack-donald-trump-hypocritical-underground-theresa-may-twitter-self-serving-a7949831.html

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« Reply #700 on: September 16, 2017, 07:56:53 am »
I'm not sure that's a big flip flop. He's been making noises about how he 'loves' the dreamers for some time. He reversed Obama's decree under pressure from many in the party who said it was unconstitutional. I think something like 11 states were going to sue the federal government if they didn't, and Jeff Sessions was saying it was clearly unconstitutional.

not a flip flop? Apparently you weren't listening during his campaign.

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« Reply #701 on: September 18, 2017, 01:39:07 pm »
So Trump is on the verge of giving what will be the most important speech of his tenure, namely addressing the UNGA so how does he precede that event? Well he tweets out a fake video of him hitting a golf ball which knocks Hillary over as she's boarding her plane, nick names the NK leader "rocketman", and uses his initial meeting with a few of the seated UN leaders to brag about his hotel which is nearby.

The next potential for disaster is of course will he stay focused on the teleprompter during his speech or will he wander off into lala land and start complaining that the only reason Hillary won the popular vote is because of "millions" of illegal voters, or how many "millions" of people attended his inauguration, etc., etc.

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« Reply #702 on: September 18, 2017, 05:18:35 pm »
...Well he tweets out a fake video of him hitting a golf ball which knocks Hillary...
There were 2 major problems with that tweet (well, apart from the pettiness):

- The tweet is seen by many to be mocking the problem of violence against women. (And consider how much Trump and his supporters complained when Kathy Griffin posed with a severed head which looked like Trump's.) So, encouraging violence is wrong... unless its Trump himself doing it.

- The tweet was actually a retweet posted in the account of an account noted for bigotry. You would think that after the Trump campaign was accused of being anti-semetic when they posted a picture of Clinton with a star of david (again something taken from the account known for bigotry) that they would check the source a little bit more carefully.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliciamelvillesmith/trump-golf-ball-rt

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« Reply #703 on: September 18, 2017, 08:40:20 pm »
There were 2 major problems with that tweet (well, apart from the pettiness):

- The tweet is seen by many to be mocking the problem of violence against women. (And consider how much Trump and his supporters complained when Kathy Griffin posed with a severed head which looked like Trump's.) So, encouraging violence is wrong... unless its Trump himself doing it.

- The tweet was actually a retweet posted in the account of an account noted for bigotry. You would think that after the Trump campaign was accused of being anti-semetic when they posted a picture of Clinton with a star of david (again something taken from the account known for bigotry) that they would check the source a little bit more carefully.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliciamelvillesmith/trump-golf-ball-rt

Yes you're right, the pettiness of such a stupid tweet is the least amount of concern one should have about this. There are knuckleheads who support Trump who will giggle at this bullshit and not understand that it is promoting violence, and they are very likely the people who engage in such violence.

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« Reply #704 on: September 18, 2017, 08:54:39 pm »
And now Sean Spicer appears on SNL and makes a joke of himself about how he lied at the behest of his boss. Is integrity in American politics gone forever?