The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: Harm to Ongoing Matter - Page 240 - Politics and Economics

Trump is such a communication genius. You guys still don't get it. If Iran causes "trouble", then that justifies the need for canceling the Terrible Iran Nuclear Deal. And if they don't, well, that's because we sent them the right message by canceling the Terrible Iran Nuclear Deal! He has played the perfect unbeatable 7th-degree chess move!

01-30-2019 , 01:08 PM

#5978

Namath12

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01-30-2019 , 01:26 PM

#5979

Matt_PBA

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

Always trying to rile up the GOP Christian base. It is funny how the only amendment they seem interested in protecting is the 2nd.
Who cares that the Found Fathers wanted separation of church and state. Bring back pray in school. Bring Bible study to the schools.
I shake my head at this nonsense.

01-30-2019 , 01:46 PM

#5980

Sluss

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Originally Posted by jmakin

Yeah but he’s a sitting US president that has a history of misusing campaign funds

I used to get them from Obama. Funny part is that I know what list they are from based on who the email is addressed to, even though they all go to my email. My Sister gets Obama list emails, my dad gets DNC and I get RNC. My email is not on the Trump list.

Interesting that the Obama list is different than the DNC list and the Trump list is separate from the RNC list.

01-30-2019 , 02:04 PM

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Trolly McTrollson

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Haha holy **** this guy is an *******

01-30-2019 , 02:06 PM

#5982

Matty Lice

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Just tell Trump how many coal miners and farmers would be able to vote for him if they could have the day off.

01-30-2019 , 02:58 PM

#5983

ScreaminAsian

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Foxconn’s plan for a giant Wisconsin factory now looks uncertain

“In Wisconsin we’re not building a factory,” Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn chief executive Terry Gou, told Reuters. “You can’t use a factory to view our Wisconsin investment.”

The Taiwanese technology juggernaut initially pledged in 2017 to construct a $10 billion liquid-crystal display panel plant and create up to 13,000 jobs in the state’s southeastern corner over the next 15 years. The positions would pay an average annual wage of $53,000, the firm said — a solid salary in the manufacturing realm.

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Trump celebrated the deal in the East Room of the White House in 2017 and attended a groundbreaking ceremony last summer in Racine County.

“I would see Terry, and I would say, ‘Terry, you have to give us one of these massive places you do great work with,’ ” he said two years ago in front of news cameras, adding that he told the company head, “The American worker will not let you down.”

01-30-2019 , 03:20 PM

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Namath12

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Haha holy **** this guy is an *******

He literally called it a "Democratic power grab."

If this is true, that Democrats want to "grab power" by allowing more people to vote, then the reverse would have to be true as well: Republicans want to keep people from voting in order to "grab power."

01-30-2019 , 03:48 PM

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Klingbard

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

So I'm 15% of the way through this Cliff Sims book. The thing you need to know is that the dude is a hardcore committed Trump apologist with zero sense of introspection. It's the kind of book where you get appeals to Christian faith right abutting sections where he downplays Trump's sexual assault allegations. He straight-up criticizes a stewardess for being too graphic in her description of Trump's groping her. I had to set my Kindle down for a minute there.

The upshot is that Cliff has an axe to grind with everyone else in Trump's inner circle, and he's out to dish the goss. Spicer lies to him about his salary and we're off to the races with catty and blatantly self-serving palace intrigue. Fantastic. This is the ****ty dumbed-down cash-in version of All The President's Men that Dumb Watergate deserves. Don't buy it, but do find a pirated version.

Also see his new yorker interview with Isaac Chotiner: Cliff Sims Is Proud to Have Served Trump

Sims does a very poor job of defending his "trump doesn't have a racist bone in his body" claim, but the evidence isn't exactly on Sims' side.

01-30-2019 , 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by jmakin

I get emails from trump somehow and he’s been begging for donations the last several days. I honestly don’t understand how this is allowed to go on. A sitting US president soliciting money, it’s absurd. Especially when we know he’s abused his campaign money in the past.

This was the issue when his re-election campaign filed immediately after he was elected which has never been done before.

Obviously the super grift is on.

01-30-2019 , 05:41 PM

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Hamish McBagpipe

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Last June...

Today...

"Foxconn is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised."

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...touted-n964411

But things aren't so bad for Wisconsin Trumpists in the owning themselves department as their state's Harley Davidson struggles to deal with the Trump tariffs and saw sales way down last year.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...ariffs-786051/

Of course, this is after Trump called for a boycott of the ultra-American motorcycle brand...

01-30-2019 , 05:54 PM

#5988

realDonaldTrump

WITCH HUNT!

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01-30-2019 , 05:56 PM

#5989

ScreaminAsian

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dow broke 25k 4 weeks ago

01-30-2019 , 05:57 PM

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01-30-2019 , 05:59 PM

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01-30-2019 , 06:00 PM

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realDonaldTrump

WITCH HUNT!

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01-30-2019 , 06:00 PM

#5993

ScreaminAsian

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can you imagine someone pretending to be president of a country without getting the most votes and serving without majority support?

01-30-2019 , 06:15 PM

#5994

UsedToBeGood

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"assumption of the presidency... to regain democracy." Nary a sense of irony there, and most Democrats support this. Lawls.

01-30-2019 , 06:20 PM

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It really doesn’t get any worse than John Bolton.

01-30-2019 , 06:26 PM

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AllTheCheese

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Haha holy **** this guy is an *******

He wrote that in an op ed when the Dems first rolled out HR1. It was actually even worse. It was like "the Democrats want to give another paid day off to federal bureaucrats on your tax dollar."

01-30-2019 , 06:28 PM

#5997

suzzer99

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Originally Posted by Riverman

It really doesn’t get any worse than John Bolton.

The most awful Frankenstein of neocon and Trumpism you could possibly dream up.

01-30-2019 , 07:13 PM

#5998

ScreaminAsian

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https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/sta...49256628088833

01-30-2019 , 07:19 PM

#5999

Namath12

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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

He wrote that in an op ed when the Dems first rolled out HR1. It was actually even worse. It was like "the Democrats want to give another paid day off to federal bureaucrats on your tax dollar."

OMGZTAXES is literally all they have left, but they will always have it