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Even if Trump says something about working with Dems, I think it's safe to assume his words are as meaningless as any other of his lunatic utterances. The papers would get as much clarity on Trump's 'policies' (sic) if they asked a random drunk in a subway. But they keep on reporting his words as if they are those of a sane man with a solid grasp of how to use English to elucidate his thoughts.Robert88 wrote:House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said: "It is impossible to read Attorney General Sessions' firing as anything other than another blatant attempt by President Trump to undermine & end Special Counsel Mueller's investigation."
I don't see any signs of bridge-building between Trump and a Democratic majority Congress yet. But what do I know about the art of the deal?0 -
The doctored acosta video is quite somethingMy blog: http://www.roubaixcycling.cc (kit reviews and other musings)
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not quiet as dramatic as the one where trump jumps into the wrestling ring and beats up CNNbendertherobot wrote:The doctored acosta video is quite something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Eu1heYpucAll lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....0 -
Just found that. Quite something when the WH is using a doctored video from a conspiracy theory website to justify punishing a journalist. You really couldn't make this stuff up.bendertherobot wrote:The doctored acosta video is quite something0 -
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So subtle it's genius.
I might sound like a little snowflake here, but we're in increasingly worrying times. Fair enough for teenagers, so and so's uncle etc to be retweeting that kind of sh*t, but for a press secretary.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - what do these people lying for him seek to gain from this? Surely it'll be held against them when looking for real work when his term(s) are over?!0 -
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As for the acting AG, he's on record saying he wouldn't meddle in the Russia investigations, but wouldn't see anything wrong with cutting the funding for it to peanuts so it grinds to a halt...or words to that effect.
See the last sentence to my previous post again!0 -
Sorry to keep going, but want a good rant at this sh*t.
Going back to that last sentence again - some of the Rep f*ckers coming out and thanking Trump for all his help in the mid-terms. People who are on record as being against him too.
WHY DO THEY FEED HIS EGO?0 -
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I also love how a doctored video is good enough to prove assault, but admitting on tape to grabbing em by the pu$$y means f*ck all.0
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Might be part of it... https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... ng-supportDinyull wrote:Sorry to keep going, but want a good rant at this sh*t.
Going back to that last sentence again - some of the Rep f*ckers coming out and thanking Trump for all his help in the mid-terms. People who are on record as being against him too.
WHY DO THEY FEED HIS EGO?
I'm sure there's a lot more going on as well - leverage on some, financial greed, using Trump to further extremist ends, etc. They've picked on someone with little intellect, a massive ego and various personality flaws that are easy to exploit for whatever they are wanting to achieve. Trump is merely the vehicle for a number of different agendas, but which rely on the cultish support of a sizeable number of US loons amongst the electorate to give it enough electoral oxygen.
I've always been a bit scared of the US, not least the proportion of Creationists in the population and the love affair with guns: both suggest a detachment from reality and logic.0 -
If you reword your question the answer becomes clear.Dinyull wrote:Sorry to keep going, but want a good rant at this sh*t.
Going back to that last sentence again - some of the Rep f*ckers coming out and thanking Trump for all his help in the mid-terms. People who are on record as being against him too.
WHY DO THEY FEED THE EGO OF A VERY RICH AND POWERFUL MAN?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Rich by who's standards though? He's mortgaged up to his eyeballs and if they went along with impeachment they'd still have a Rep president who is as powerful.
Like to think I'd keep my rep and morals over fawning at the feet of a khunt.0 -
Rich enough, and more importantly these days powerful enough, that some people are more than happy to fawn at the feet of a khunt as they think that they will benefit. Although more likely to be used.Dinyull wrote:Rich by who's standards though? He's mortgaged up to his eyeballs and if they went along with impeachment they'd still have a Rep president who is as powerful.
Like to think I'd keep my rep and morals over fawning at the feet of a khunt.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
5 mins of fame, acting AG on his CV? shallow folksDinyull wrote:So subtle it's genius.
I might sound like a little snowflake here, but we're in increasingly worrying times. Fair enough for teenagers, so and so's uncle etc to be retweeting that kind of sh*t, but for a press secretary.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - what do these people lying for him seek to gain from this? Surely it'll be held against them when looking for real work when his term(s) are over?!All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....0 -
He's lost them more seats this mid term than any other Republican President since Dick Nixon, and still he says its probably the greatest mid term ever.... clownAll lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....0
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He could get gang raped by a troop of monkeys and he'd claim it as the most passionate night of love making the world had ever seen.0
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Blimey, the Democrats got 12m more votes than the Republicans in the Senate elections, and ended up as the losers...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ority-rule0 -
Dinyull wrote:As for the acting AG, he's on record saying he wouldn't meddle in the Russia investigations, but wouldn't see anything wrong with cutting the funding for it to peanuts so it grinds to a halt...or words to that effect.
See the last sentence to my previous post again!
Trump to evade arrest by firing anyone who comes within ten feet.
The president has also outlined his foolproof plan to remain in power in 2020 by putting his fingers in his ears when election results are announced.
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yup, that strange system where small states like Iowa with a few million people get the same amount of senators as California with 10-20 times the populationbriantrumpet wrote:Blimey, the Democrats got 12m more votes than the Republicans in the Senate elections, and ended up as the losers...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ority-ruleAll lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....0 -
bianchimoon wrote:
yup, that strange system where small states like Iowa with a few million people get the same amount of senators as California with 10-20 times the populationbriantrumpet wrote:Blimey, the Democrats got 12m more votes than the Republicans in the Senate elections, and ended up as the losers...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ority-rule
Andrew Neil was tweeting about this.
It's to protect the interests of smaller states in a federal system.
ETA - Just a thought - this may be one of the reasons statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington DC is opposed.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
bianchimoon wrote:
yup, that strange system where small states like Iowa with a few million people get the same amount of senators as California with 10-20 times the populationbriantrumpet wrote:Blimey, the Democrats got 12m more votes than the Republicans in the Senate elections, and ended up as the losers...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ority-rule
to say nothing of the gerrymandering e.g.
1:In North Dakota, voter ID rules pushed by Republicans and upheld by the supreme court might have barred thousands of Native Americans from voting in Tuesday’s general election. The restrictions required that voters show their current residential address in order to vote. But Native Americans who live on reservations do not have street names and instead use PO boxes.
In 2012, the state’s incumbent Democrat, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, was elected in part due to the support of Native American voters. She lost on Tuesday to her Republican challenger, Kevin Cramer, although the margin was large enough to suggest voter suppression tactics alone cost Heitkamp the race.
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..Georgia, however, told a more contentious story, as the Democrat Stacey Abrams vied to become the first black woman elected governor in US history. Abrams was running against the Republican Brian Kemp, who as Georgia’s sitting secretary of state remained at the helm of the office tasked with overseeing its elections.
Leading up to the election, Kemp’s office put at least 53,000 voter registrations on hold – the majority of which applied to black voters – citing Georgia’s so-called “exact match” law. The restrictions could have prevented thousands of eligible voters from casting ballots due to minor discrepancies with other identification documents that included missing hyphens, middle initials or accent marks in a name.
Abrams, who narrowly trailed Kemp as returns poured in on Tuesday, refused to concede.
“We are going to make sure that every vote is counted, every single vote,” she said. “In a civilized nation, the machinery of democracy should work for everyone, everywhere.”
On many counts the USA is not a civilised nation. It may never be at this rate.0 -
No wonder Dump's in a bad mood, his son Donald jnr thinks he will be indicted for lying to federal prosecutors and senate as early as next week
All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....0 -
The new acting attorney general Whittaker is way up there with all the other weirdosDuring a 2014 Senate debate sponsored by a conservative Christian organization, he said that in helping confirm judges, “I’d like to see things like their worldview, what informs them. Are they people of faith? Do they have a biblical view of justice? — which I think is very important.”
At that point, the moderator interjected: “Levitical or New Testament?”
“New Testament,” Whitaker affirmed. “And what I know is as long as they have that worldview, that they’ll be a good judge. And if they have a secular worldview, then I’m going to be very concerned about how they judge.”All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....0 -
bianchimoon wrote:The new acting attorney general Whittaker is way up there with all the other weirdosDuring a 2014 Senate debate sponsored by a conservative Christian organization, he said that in helping confirm judges, “I’d like to see things like their worldview, what informs them. Are they people of faith? Do they have a biblical view of justice? — which I think is very important.”
At that point, the moderator interjected: “Levitical or New Testament?”
“New Testament,” Whitaker affirmed. “And what I know is as long as they have that worldview, that they’ll be a good judge. And if they have a secular worldview, then I’m going to be very concerned about how they judge.”
It gets worse.
"Before he led the Justice Department, Matthew G. Whitaker promoted company accused of deceiving clients"
"In May of this year, a federal court in Florida ordered the company to pay a settlement of more than $25 million and close up shop, records show. The company did not admit or deny wrongdoing."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... b9258339ebI don't do smileys.
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cooldad wrote:bianchimoon wrote:The new acting attorney general Whittaker is way up there with all the other weirdosDuring a 2014 Senate debate sponsored by a conservative Christian organization, he said that in helping confirm judges, “I’d like to see things like their worldview, what informs them. Are they people of faith? Do they have a biblical view of justice? — which I think is very important.”
At that point, the moderator interjected: “Levitical or New Testament?”
“New Testament,” Whitaker affirmed. “And what I know is as long as they have that worldview, that they’ll be a good judge. And if they have a secular worldview, then I’m going to be very concerned about how they judge.”
It gets worse.
"Before he led the Justice Department, Matthew G. Whitaker promoted company accused of deceiving clients"
"In May of this year, a federal court in Florida ordered the company to pay a settlement of more than $25 million and close up shop, records show. The company did not admit or deny wrongdoing."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... b9258339eb
I've seen it said he may not even last one Scaramucci. He's so obviously unqualified and his appointment is illegal.0
