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05-11-2017 , 09:31 AM

#31026

Namath12

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In the general proximity of bushes

05-11-2017 , 09:32 AM

#31027

Our House

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

The deeper weirdness is that the thing the WH objected to is that the reporter was with the media taking photographs for public consumption. The thing they were fine with is the guy taking pictures of the Oval Office purely for Russian government consumption.

At some point, national security began to take a backseat to slightly embarrassing the president. Very worrisome.

05-11-2017 , 09:35 AM

#31028

Our House

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05-11-2017 , 09:40 AM

#31029

master3004

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Quote:

Originally Posted by daca

christ what an idiot

https://twitter.com/DuncanWeldon/sta...07318927757312

The ****? Hes claiming to have invented the term "Prime the Pump."? Thats Kim Jong 18 holes in one in a round level of idiocy.

05-11-2017 , 09:41 AM

#31030

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AL GORE SAID HE INVENTED THE INTERNET CHESSMATE LIBTARDZZZZ

05-11-2017 , 09:45 AM

#31031

master3004

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PocketChads

What a coincidence

And I was going to terminate NAFTA last week, I was all set, meaning the six-month termination. I was going to send them a letter, then after six months, it’s gone. But the word got out, they called and they said, we would really love to… they called separately but it was an amazing thing. They called separately ten minutes apart. I just put down the phone with the president of Mexico when the prime minister of Canada called. And they both asked almost identical questions. “We would like to know if it would be possible to negotiate as opposed to a termination.” And I said, “Yes, it is. Absolutely.” So, so we did that and we’ll start.

Im getting really sick and tired of this lying cock hole saying everything happens in ten minute increments.

05-11-2017 , 09:49 AM

#31032

tomdemaine

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Quote:

Originally Posted by master3004

Im getting really sick and tired of this lying cock hole saying everything happens in ten minute increments.

To be fair, people with dementia often lose track of exact timings.

05-11-2017 , 09:50 AM

#31033

master3004

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

To be fair, people with dementia often lose track of exact timings.

It reminds me of when my son was a toddler. "We're going to Disneyland today, right daddy?

No son, we are going in August.

So, tomorrow?"

05-11-2017 , 10:13 AM

#31034

daca

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Im unwell and cant face slogging through the full nauseating transcript. Someone do Gods work and pull out the good bits.

https://twitter.com/talktoskirt/stat...69878242799617

https://twitter.com/talktoskirt/stat...70202546376704

https://twitter.com/talktoskirt/stat...70403965263873

i love the vat one, but they're all hilarious. all this would all be incredibly funny if only he wasnt going to **** up the environment, hurt a couple million immigrants and take people's healthcare away.

05-11-2017 , 10:15 AM

#31035

Namath12

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he makes Dubya sound like Cicero by comparison

05-11-2017 , 10:16 AM

#31036

markksman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by master3004

The ****? Hes claiming to have invented the term "Prime the Pump."? Thats Kim Jong 18 holes in one in a round level of idiocy.

He is like a significantly below average nine year old (mentally) who just learns words and thinks he came up with them. I am staggered on a daily basis by how dumb he is.

By proxy I place this same lack of intelligence who did anything other than voting for Clinton because a) we only had two canidates b) it was clear trump was an imbecile long before last November.

05-11-2017 , 10:20 AM

#31037

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Originally Posted by Our House

I'm concerned for everyone's mental state (including my own) when Trump's "shock and awe" strategy wears off and we're left with normal boring news again. This may sound silly, but the extreme boredom will rip people apart.

Eh last week or two I had really completely lost focus. I even didn't visit here for a day or two. Then Comey got fired. Trump can't help but do idiotic things especially with the ridiculous White House staff pushing insane agendas.

05-11-2017 , 10:22 AM

#31038

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EIGHTY-TWO percent of Republicans still approve of the job he is doing. Eighty ****ing two.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release...ReleaseID=2456

05-11-2017 , 10:27 AM

#31039

Namath12

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How to get fired in one easy tweet?

05-11-2017 , 10:28 AM

#31040

fatkid

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

EIGHTY-TWO percent of Republicans still approve of the job he is doing. Eighty ****ing two.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release...ReleaseID=2456

I always say you can't teach an old dog to water and make him give you a penny for your thoughts.

05-11-2017 , 10:31 AM

#31041

PocketChads

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

EIGHTY-TWO percent of Republicans still approve of the job he is doing. Eighty ****ing two.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release...ReleaseID=2456

That's more than the 90s that it had been in until like a week ago

And Nixon had widespread staunch support all the way through and past his resignation

And I'm the dude constantly frustrated by people being optimistic that we can fix this

05-11-2017 , 10:33 AM

#31042

DVaut1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

How to get fired in one easy tweet?

It says she's the ambassador to Qatar. How hard is it to explain to Qataris that America is run by a cadre of old guys principally beholden to the extraction industry and satisfying the cultural whims of a bunch of religious fundamentalists and superstitious idiots and where women and racial minorities are second class citizens and western cultural norms like freedom of the press and independent law enforcement are fundamentally disrespected?

Qatar is like a shining beacon for us, it is what our leadership aspires to. Seems like a simple story to tell.

05-11-2017 , 10:37 AM

#31043

Namath12

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Trump giving the people what they want

Gotta suppress since they're ****ed otherwise

05-11-2017 , 10:44 AM

#31044

Our House

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

EIGHTY-TWO percent of Republicans still approve of the job he is doing. Eighty ****ing two.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release...ReleaseID=2456

Just now...

Him: Did you hear Trump fired Comey? About time. I should be the one running the FBI.
Me: LOL probably nobody wants the job. You would be charged with taking Trump down.
Him: I would never do that. I respect the presidency too much.
Me: No matter what he did??
Him: Well, if he does something bad maybe.

05-11-2017 , 10:45 AM

#31045

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Originally Posted by fatkid

I always say you can't teach an old dog to water and make him give you a penny for your thoughts.

Ohhh Archie!

05-11-2017 , 10:51 AM

#31046

Dominic

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Time-traveling Trump strikes again

05-11-2017 , 10:57 AM

#31047

dinopoker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Obama said 57 states in 2008. Two thousand and eight. And yet people still remember that.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp

Actually as I've pointed out before, that's not technically what he said...

Spoiler:

05-11-2017 , 11:07 AM

#31048

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Fox News but coming to your local TV station

Quote:

In December, Politico reported that Jared Kushner struck a deal with Sinclair during the general election campaign for favorable media coverage of Donald Trump. In exchange for more access to campaign officials and the candidate himself, Sinclair ran the interviews without additional commentary, giving Trump an unfiltered pipeline into millions of homes. Sinclair Executive Chairman and former CEO David Smith appeared as a guest of honor in the Trump inaugural parade. Last month, former Trump surrogate and White House spokesman Boris Epshteyn joined Sinclair’s Washington bureau as its “chief political analyst.”

Now Sinclair adds 42 local stations to its roster, including in big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington. This makes it the largest single owner of local television stations, reaching over 70 percent of US households. And Sinclair can thank Trump’s FCC for the opportunity, in a deal that looks suspiciously like a quid pro quo for all that slobbering coverage during the campaign.

Quote:

Sinclair, which already owns 173 television stations, mostly affiliates of major broadcast networks in small and mid-sized markets, may be familiar to liberals with a long memory. Back in 2004, Sinclair refused to broadcast on its ABC affiliates an episode of Nightline that read the names of war dead in Iraq. Then, Sinclair planned to pre-empt programming and air an anti–John Kerry documentary on all of its (at the time, 62) stations, without commercial interruption, two weeks before Election Day. After furious pushback from Democrats, and an activist campaign aimed at tanking Sinclair stock, the company compromised by running a portion of the documentary, produced by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, on about two-thirds of its stations, as part of a “broader discussion.” The final product, “A POW Story,” devoted over 30 minutes to Kerry’s Vietnam service and just four minutes to George W. Bush’s time in the Texas Air National Guard. Media Matters described the program as containing “factually false statements.”

Some critics are now concerned that Sinclair will use Tribune properties like “superstation” WGN America (which airs nationally in 80 million homes) to christen a new right-wing news network to challenge Fox News, perhaps even scooping up castoffs like Bill O’Reilly. That’s not my main concern; the local news stations Sinclair controls are already more impactful than an upstart cable news competitor will ever be. Sinclair has grown three-fold since 2004; even before the Tribune acquisition they ran stations in well over one-third of the country. Local news broadcasts may not register in Washington, but they remain one of the largest sources of information for Americans. And Sinclair continues to put its thumb on the scale.

https://www.thenation.com/article/tr...es-get-bigger/

05-11-2017 , 11:13 AM

#31049

wheatrich

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so the WH story now is they are upset the russians lied to them as they didn't believe the photographer guy was gonna actually release photos he took in the media.

when you have to lie and the best lie you can come up with makes you look like complete idiots...