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The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns.

01-25-2017 , 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Banned4lyfe
3-5 million illegal votes and not one of them went to Trump.

this is incredible. how on earth did it come to this
01-25-2017 , 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by microbet
Here you go spiff.

I had always hoped someone would recognize my other avatar (which was my first one).



Ambrose Bierce
one of my favorite short stories of all-time is "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." in school one of my teachers once showed us the movie. if you've never seen it, here's a link. it's only like 20 minutes and it's pretty great.
01-25-2017 , 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by vaya
Hard to believe that Trumps record crowd is still out there. Maybe he's more popular than we thought.
01-25-2017 , 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Rex Ingram
this is incredible. how on earth did it come to this
Bootstrappy (but yet amazingly lazy and ignorant) whites stuck it to the libtards.
01-25-2017 , 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Gizmo
"I'm important" is a simple highlight here for me.
01-25-2017 , 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Jbrochu
Bootstrappy (but yet amazingly lazy and ignorant) whites stuck it to the libtards.
Don't forget the fact that every single prominent Republican ended up being a spineless quisling!
01-25-2017 , 11:09 PM
if obama doesn't come back into the media now, it will be too late
01-25-2017 , 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Rex Ingram
if obama doesn't come back into the media now, it will be too late
That won't help - probably make things worse.

We need freedom loving Republicans (ha ha right) and/or CIA/Generals or we ****ed.
01-25-2017 , 11:25 PM
When is the next protest? They should be happening every single weekend
01-25-2017 , 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Jbrochu
That won't help - probably make things worse.

We need freedom loving Republicans (ha ha right) and/or CIA/Generals or we ****ed.
we just need one freedom loving white house aide to send him on a long walk ending with climbing 4 flights of stairs. and people are watching so he can't look weak.
01-25-2017 , 11:30 PM
01-25-2017 , 11:50 PM
Lots of talk about how if Republicans have their way with gerrymandering and other ****ery, Dems will never win. Have we just given up on trying to change these peoples minds? Like some family is just going to vote repub from no until infinity? Shouldn't part of the "resistance" not only pressuring elected officials but attempting to bring trumpers over to the other side? Wouldn't this be a good time of an actual third party to start? Isn't that how it works in history?

So far the Republicans allowed Trump to happen, and the Dems allowed Hillary to happen and have so far, besides some tough questioning in senate hearings, been relatively soft. While the GOP has been scaring me for sometime and now Trump is scarying the **** out of me, I'm not super happy to be jumping on the Dem train either. They are both scummy.

Long game would be a third party or actual independents who are able to disrupt at the state and federal level.

Has anyone thought about actually moving in order to influence elections or run for office in a leaning GOP state? We have four years, if a million of those Dem votes in California move to concentrated areas in swing states.
01-26-2017 , 12:10 AM
It's very hard to change people's minds. I mean ****, my sister in law has a son that is handicapped and she voted for Trump and loves the guy. The delusion is strong with his base.
01-26-2017 , 12:13 AM
Need to make the "never Hillary" crowd change their mind now that she is gone. I don't know if that is possible. The fact staffers already used private emails is nothing to them.
01-26-2017 , 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
Does Trump have the authority to deny sanctuary cities federal funds?


Yes. Because he's the president and he's going to do whatever the **** he wants now.


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01-26-2017 , 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by JPantz
Wouldn't this be a good time of an actual third party to start? Isn't that how it works in history?

So far the Republicans allowed Trump to happen, and the Dems allowed Hillary to happen and have so far, besides some tough questioning in senate hearings, been relatively soft.
As long as everyone keeps misreading history we're doomed to repeat it.

BOTH Dems and Republicans allowed Trump AND Sanders to happen. The Dems FORCED Hillary to happen so now we have Trump.

3rd party? You gotta get em on the debate stage first. Being on the ticket isn't good enough. So who controls that?
01-26-2017 , 01:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Mayo
Don't forget the fact that every single prominent Republican ended up being a spineless quisling!
Eric Cantor was the beginning of the end.
01-26-2017 , 01:02 AM
My wife & I plus our two closest (married friends) have pledged to collectively register 100 new voters in Philadelphia and get them to vote in the midterms. Philly is very close to us and the only red state around us. None of us have any major experience as causeheads but in this environment the passive approach just doesn't seem to do it. The challenge is how best to do it without being dicks, or knocking on doors like Jehovah Witnesses.

Trying to sway dug-in red area voters isn't as great use our time I don't think, at least not when there are so many eligible non-voters to work with first. We just need to make them know that they actually do matter and have reason to get off the sidelines. Registering and voting is really not a BFD.

I don't know how we're going to do it, but we're all personable, have cars and professional backgrounds with a good range of experience with people. Beats carrying a stupid sign protesting people who aren't affected by protests.
01-26-2017 , 01:07 AM
You can call Trump every derogatory name in the book and be right except one. LAZY...

For good or ill has there ever been a more active (hesitate to use the word robust) week 1 of a presidency?
01-26-2017 , 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Lestat
You can call Trump every derogatory name in the book and be right except one. LAZY...

For good or ill has there ever been a more active (hesitate to use the word robust) week 1 of a presidency?
There are probably presidencies that didn't take Saturday and Sunday off work after starting the job
01-26-2017 , 01:12 AM
I really wonder how far Trump is willing to take his narcissistic voter "fraud" claims given Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, and Jason Chaffetz have spoken against it and all denied any evidence existing. Chaffetz said he will not hold a congressional investigation into it but that Trump can use the DOJ if he cares to pursue it.
01-26-2017 , 01:15 AM
Probably wait a couple of months before you start canvasing your neighbourhood. Wait till when his policies really start to affect the average Americans, then you have something you can use to pin on Trump.
01-26-2017 , 01:19 AM
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Originally Posted by RV Life
It's very hard to change people's minds. I mean ****, my sister in law has a son that is handicapped and she voted for Trump and loves the guy. The delusion is strong with his base.
I have a good friend who is a citizen now but originally was a Muslim from Iran. He has some family here but a lot of family in Iran. They often came to visit here. Guess that is over with. He can't go back there because Iran would never let him leave. He never did his mandatory military service because he was like 8 when he left and now is a doctor.

So he voted for Trump.

Seriously. Donald Trump.

(Just to note he was not a practicing Muslim. He was probably a step below me in my lapsed catholicism)

I wish we could have successfully made the case that lower taxes and allegedly "fixing" the ACA is not a good trade off for the end of the USA. I know several people who voted like that
01-26-2017 , 01:30 AM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
There are probably presidencies that didn't take Saturday and Sunday off work after starting the job
Trump proves you are definitely correct

Saturday Jan 21st 2017: Trump participates in a consultation at the CIA headquarters to let them know they will get so much backing they will wonder what they'll do with so much backing
Sunday Jan 22nd 2017: Trump schedules a meeting with PM of Canada, announces plans to meet with President of Mexico, announces intentions to begin negotiations with NAFTA

Followed by a week (ok, he did it in only 3 days) of putting into action nearly every campaign promise

Worst politician ever! Fortunately that's a good thing

Love him or hate him, and I truly understand why people could hate him mistankingly, but at least his word is his word unlike any other politician that's ever existed
01-26-2017 , 01:36 AM
Wat? Every other sentence out of his mouth is a lie.

      
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