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05-11-2017 , 11:27 AM

#31051

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,090

A lot of people are laughing at Trump's claim to have invented the question mark the metaphor "priming the pump", but this one is way better.

It has everything. It has Trump relaying a conversation with an unnamed source who talks exactly like Donald Trump. It has him inexplicably calling the magnetic replacement for the steam powered launching catapults "digital"*. It has him sounding exactly like a cranky old man who likes his common sense and his BIG NOISES but also since he's President I guess he's just scrapping the program now? Or something?

*The acronym for the ElectroMagnetic Aircraft Launch System is EMALS. He might think it has something to do with email.

05-11-2017 , 11:31 AM

#31052

master3004

Revisionist Historian

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 56,493

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

You forgot the desire to roll back current technology to mid 19th century models

05-11-2017 , 11:35 AM

#31053

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by master3004

You forgot the desire to roll back current technology to mid 19th century models

Against the express wishes of someone who apparently is as smart as albert einstein because they understand the "digital" system.

05-11-2017 , 11:37 AM

#31054

dinopoker

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Grunching but this article is worth reading, unless you have a weak stomach...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...l-mine/526230/

Quote:

Let me be blunt: The soft spot is not NSA and it's not the drone program. The soft spot, the least tyrant-proof part of the government, is the U.S. Department of Justice and the larger law enforcement and regulatory apparatus of the United States government. The first reason you should fear a Donald Trump presidency is what he would do to the ordinary enforcement functions of the federal government, not the most extraordinary ones…

A prosecutor—and by extention, a tyrant president who directs that prosecutor—can harass or target almost anyone, and he can often do so without violating any law. He doesn't actually need to indict the person, though that can be fun. He needs only open an investigation; that alone can be ruinous. The standards for doing so, criminal predication, are not high. And the fabric of American federal law—criminal and civil law alike—is so vast that a huge number of people and institutions of consequence are ripe for some sort of meddling from authorities. A template here is how former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli was able to harass climate scientists he didn't like. This stuff is not hard to do, and you don't even need to win to succeed.

The Justice Department has some institutional defenses against this sort of thing, but they are far weaker than the intelligence community's institutional defenses against abuses. They mostly do not reside in statute or in the sort of complex oversight structures that Granick complains in the case of NSA are not restrictive enough. They reside in the Levi Guidelines, in certain normative rules about contacts between the Justice Department and the White House, in norms that have developed over the years in the FBI. And they reside in the hearts of a lot of replaceable people. Ultimately, they reside in an institutional culture at the Justice Department, and that is precisely the sort of thing a tyrant leader can change.

05-11-2017 , 11:43 AM

#31055

otatop

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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

To them, his job is "piss off liberals" and he's knocking it out of the ****ing park.

05-11-2017 , 11:50 AM

#31056

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,090

He literally has the mind of a child, but also, what the **** sort of host serves his guests less food than he gets himself?

05-11-2017 , 11:51 AM

#31057

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dinopoker

Grunching but this article is worth reading, unless you have a weak stomach...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...l-mine/526230/

Quote:

The question of Comey’s replacement is hugely significant, and the confirmation hearings for the next FBI director are bound to be explosive. One consistent theme of Trump’s business career is that he has always viewed the law as a cudgel with which to bludgeon adversaries—whether it’s contractors coerced to accept half-payments by the prospect of ruinously expensive litigation or journalists mired in frivolous libel suits for printing unflattering sentences. The prospect of a Federal Bureau Investigation run in the same way ought to be genuinely frightening, and with Comey out of the way, it seems all too possible.

https://www.justsecurity.org/40770/o...-comey-firing/

05-11-2017 , 11:52 AM

#31058

wheatrich

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it's almost like he's a narcissist

05-11-2017 , 11:55 AM

#31059

master3004

Revisionist Historian

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 56,493

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

He literally has the mind of a child, but also, what the **** sort of host serves his guests less food than he gets himself?

They're called dictators. Gotta show everyone how big their dick is

05-11-2017 , 11:57 AM

#31060

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

He literally has the mind of a child, but also, what the **** sort of host serves his guests less food than he gets himself?

05-11-2017 , 11:58 AM

#31061

TheHip41

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Quote:

Originally Posted by master3004

They're called dictators. Gotta show everyone how big their dick is

Every one knows it's micro.

05-11-2017 , 11:58 AM

#31062

dinopoker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

He literally has the mind of a child, but also, what the **** sort of host serves his guests less food than he gets himself?

So wait, you're saying Trump is tasteless and tacky? Stop the presses.

Last edited by dinopoker; 05-11-2017 at 11:59 AM. Reason: Seriously though, wtf kind of human is he?

05-11-2017 , 12:00 PM

#31063

master3004

Revisionist Historian

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 56,493

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheHip41

Every one knows it's micro.

Right but if he gets extra ice cream and diet coke while everyone else has water, maybe they'll think it's bigger than it is

05-11-2017 , 12:01 PM

#31064

TheDuker

old hand

Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,388

Quote:

Originally Posted by markksman

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.

Let this one sink in:

Quote:

Other than golf, [Trump] considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.

05-11-2017 , 12:02 PM

#31065

Money2Burn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dinopoker

Grunching but this article is worth reading, unless you have a weak stomach...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...l-mine/526230/

BUT THE OBUMMER IRS TARGETET POLITICAL OPPONENTS

05-11-2017 , 12:10 PM

#31066

RV Life

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 1,935

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

He literally has the mind of a child, but also, what the **** sort of host serves his guests less food than he gets himself?

The funny part is someone had to go out of their way to explain to the head chef that no matter what they serve, Daddy better get more.

05-11-2017 , 12:10 PM

#31067

synth_floyd

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Trump is a sick man, but all the GOP enablers are just as sick. **** better hit the fan when Trump nominates some sycophant who will do whatever he wants as the replacement for Comey.

Last edited by synth_floyd; 05-11-2017 at 12:16 PM.

05-11-2017 , 12:12 PM

#31068

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

You know all the Trump supporters are going on about how alpha he is compared to the betas he constantly dines with. Getting more food than everybody else is a power play in business deals!

05-11-2017 , 12:15 PM

#31069

RV Life

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 1,935

Apparently the Russians that visited Daddy yesterday gave him a small gift. Wonder where he's going to hang this?

05-11-2017 , 12:17 PM

#31070

Double Eagle

Health Care Thread Czar

Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 8,323

This is a good tweetstorm. And by good a mean ****ing terrifying.

https://twitter.com/drvox/status/862369304947437568

05-11-2017 , 12:20 PM

#31071

fatkid

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Pompeo seems shady.

05-11-2017 , 12:24 PM

#31072

Our House

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

Apparently the Russians that visited Daddy yesterday gave him a small gift. Wonder where he's going to hang this?

Someone needs to attack this with blue paint. Like an environmentalist to a fur coat.

05-11-2017 , 12:30 PM

#31073

DudeImBetter

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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

He could have been doing nothing but taking a daily **** on his desk and Repubs would still overwhelming support his 'work' thus far. Fox would spin this as making waves and refusing to conform with the gross norms of Washington.

05-11-2017 , 12:37 PM

#31074

Our House

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

Because even an incompetent and stubborn buffoon willing to throw them a few bones is better for their pockets than any Democrat. We'll see how quickly it changes once the subpoenas and charges start getting thrown around.