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

05-28-2017 , 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dinopoker
I've been getting the email brief from both the NYT and the WaPo and reading the articles in my incognito browser for probably fifteen years. Maybe longer.

Yes I'm a bad person, but I've saved a lot of coin.
WaPo is like $2.50 a week, some of the best money I spend value-wise. That's a large coffee at my local Dunkin, or probably half of the change I toss in the donations thing at the convenience store or wherever. An absurdly small cost for the quality of information considering they resources you need for the news scale they operate at.

Especially now with everything going on, and at a time most have already that abandoned journalism in favor clickbait garbage written by interns.
05-28-2017 , 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Our House
You don't see a problem with Trump costing the United States all kinds of allies in Europe because of the way they treated the opening of his golf courses? I don't get it. Is it not petty enough for you? You sound a lot like the Freedom Caucus complaining about Trumpcare1 for not being greedy enough.

He's demolishing our country for bull**** motives. It's a constant pattern that's way too obvious after only 4 months in.

That Merkel comment is more than alarming.

AMJoy on MSNBC scared the daylights out of me a few minutes ago. They kept saying "Look at where we are!" regarding the current state of things.

"Look at where we are!" they said, about Merkel wanting independence from the US. Something Russia has wanted badly since 1947.

"Look at where we are!" they said, that 3 out of 4 of our top generals are defending a secret Russian backchannel, held in their secure facility, and designed to avoid detection by the entire US. "By the end of the week, we'll be debating whether treason is good or bad."

Yup. I'm chilled by it.
Slow your roll, playa. The link you provided doesn't say any of that. All it says is that hehas made some comments to people that he has had trouble building golf courses in the EU and that that gave him a bad impression of it. That's a perfectly unremarkable thing and we should not be making a big deal about it. Trump is alienating our European allies because he's an incompetent buffoon.
05-28-2017 , 03:39 PM
I want to see one of these world leaders separate Trump's shoulder by pulling hard on his arm.

I know that's a bad thing to wish. But Trump is a bully who nobody has stood up to for his entire life. It'd be nice to see somebody take him down a notch.
05-28-2017 , 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by ElMastermind
*Cue Ezra Klein voice*

This idea might not exist for all the competing papers, but plenty of good magazines have chosen to participate in just that with the texture app.

Bloomberg businessweek, forbes, fortune, newsweek, the new yorker, the atlantic, national review, new york magazine, rolling stone, time magazine, just to name a few are all available on the texture app, with over a hundred others in various categories. one monthly fee, all your magazines, one place. Texture
Do I get access to the websites for those or just PDFs of the print magazine?

Also NYT, WaPo and WSJ are the killers.
05-28-2017 , 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by RunDownHouse.
Am I crazy or are you basically saying you want the newspaper version of cable companies, where you pay an absurd amount of money for stuff you never read? Like, I'd love for everything on my TV to be a la carte instead of paying whatever the subscriber fee is for CNBC and Animal Channel, but it seems like you're saying you'd love that?
Well yeah you're crazy because the a la carte option would still be there. No one's forcing you to buy this package.

I'd just like a bundle that gives me access to all the major newspapers w/o having to sign up individually, spread my CC # around, deal with customer service at all those places etc.

Also presumably my bundle would be cheaper than doing all the major papers individually. The bundler could lose money on the big 3 papers - while charging other papers who want to be part of the bundle.
05-28-2017 , 04:04 PM
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Europe can no longer completely rely on its traditional British and American allies, Angela Merkel has warned, saying the EU must now be prepared to “take its fate into its own hands”.

Speaking after bruising meetings of Nato and the G7 group of wealthy nations last week, the German chancellor suggested the postwar western alliance had been badly undermined by the UK’s Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election.

“The times in which we could completely depend on others are to a certain extent over,” she told an election rally in Munich on Sunday. “I’ve experienced that in the last few days. We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-more-g7-talks


So the West is divided. Well played Putin.
05-28-2017 , 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by fatkid
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Sick isn't it, that Mike Flynn was fired for literally no reason at all.

These guys are tying themselves in knots trying to protect a sinking ship.
05-28-2017 , 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by JacktheDumb
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-more-g7-talks


So the West is divided. Well played Putin.
He's probably been in stitches since the election, sitting in the Kremlin stroking his cat like he's Dr. Claw.
05-28-2017 , 04:23 PM
i don't think he's surprised at how stupid americans were last november, to be fooled by obvious conman donald trump. we know russian intelligence invested a lot of time, money and resources into targeting voters in swing states through online social media. a former kgb spy himself, he's probably immensely proud of the hard work his spy service was able to do to influence american voters so much.
05-28-2017 , 04:24 PM
dont overreact to the merkel thing. she obviously thinks trump is a harmful clown, but a closer european cooperation and europe getting its house in order was already the philosophy. it's probably not going to change much. and it's probably not going to mean much in terms of military spending either.

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Originally Posted by Money2Burn
This really isn't anything to make a big deal out of, imo. Everyone's experiences inform their view of how government should be run/structured. The overwhelming majority of people in this country who are opposed to "burdensome regulations' probably based that opinion on a time they were hassled by a government employee or agency. Really, there is a ton of regulation you have to navigate to develop a piece of property. And you can often run into roadblocks caused by local politicians who are corrupt/ have an axe to grind, or from agencies who are being influenced by the same. Attacking Trump for this is a mistake because it's a view that will be seen as reasonable by many many people, thereby hurting your credibility for the countless valid problems with Trump.
though someone should probably point out that there's something like a 95% chance his problems were with local irish regulation, not eu regulation.
05-28-2017 , 04:24 PM
I'm surprised that #TeamKushner hasn't tried spinning this with some sort of "he was just trying to bamboozle the russkies into showing him all their top secret communication tech"
05-28-2017 , 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by zikzak
Is it intelligent to be constantly talking about intelligence when doing so most likely implies unflattering things?
It works well enough for Sklansky.
05-28-2017 , 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Money2Burn
Slow your roll, playa. The link you provided doesn't say any of that. All it says is that hehas made some comments to people that he has had trouble building golf courses in the EU and that that gave him a bad impression of it. That's a perfectly unremarkable thing and we should not be making a big deal about it. Trump is alienating our European allies because he's an incompetent buffoon.
Trump knowing very little about topics, refusing to learn from intel briefings, books, etc., and making giant US decisions based on that is his MO. If you think that's unremarkable, then normalization is happening. It's a big part of what makes him an incompetent buffoon. I have trouble separating the two.

It's also a pet peeve of mine that he takes the smallest things so personally, even when they have huge consequences against the American people. Like how he complains about regulations in the US and then goes on to undo only the Obama ones. He just can't let **** go. Trying to get Comey to imprison journalists for not even breaking the law is another example of that nonsense. It happens too regularly for my taste. And that's just what we know about.
05-28-2017 , 05:48 PM
Any response from the WH yet on this Kushy bullshat? The sound of silence. Kush prob curled up in the fetal.
05-28-2017 , 05:52 PM
I wonder if there will be a world leader that will just straight up say "No offense Trump but I'm not going to shake hands with you"?
05-28-2017 , 05:59 PM


Man these people are crazy lol. Also notice Macrons hand? Somehow they've convinced themselves that Trump crushed Macrons hand... meanwhile the actual handshake

05-28-2017 , 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by synth_floyd
I wonder if there will be a world leader that will just straight up say "No offense Trump but I'm not going to shake hands with you"?
Someone needs to hit him with the too slow then pull off his toupee.
05-28-2017 , 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by StimAbuser


Man these people are crazy lol. Also notice Macrons hand? Somehow they've convinced themselves that Trump crushed Macrons hand... meanwhile the actual handshake

You don't need to look any further than his physical depiction of Trump to know Garrison's perspective is not grounded in reality.
05-28-2017 , 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
I want to see one of these world leaders separate Trump's shoulder by pulling hard on his arm.

I know that's a bad thing to wish. But Trump is a bully who nobody has stood up to for his entire life. It'd be nice to see somebody take him down a notch.
Macron is a boss. But he's not that much of a boss.
05-28-2017 , 06:16 PM
trump hasn't exercised in 50 years
05-28-2017 , 06:20 PM
Macron alpha

No wonder he ****ed his teacher 25 years older than him
05-28-2017 , 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Oroku$aki
Gen. John Kelly thinks using the Russian embassy for back channel communication is normal and acceptable. Amazing.
and in the nearly the same breath he claims that the recent leaks are "darn close to treason".

as usual, lol republicans
05-28-2017 , 06:46 PM
It's a little depressing to see the leader of the free world engaging in these handshake games. But Trump really left him no choice.
05-28-2017 , 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Victor
and in the nearly the same breath he claims that the recent leaks are "darn close to treason".

as usual, lol republicans
john brennan said treason in congressional testimony so obviously the white house chooses to strike back and further divide the country, with everyone pointing fingers to the other yelling traitor, because the goal of this white house is to divide the country.
05-28-2017 , 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Well yeah you're crazy because the a la carte option would still be there. No one's forcing you to buy this package.

I'd just like a bundle that gives me access to all the major newspapers w/o having to sign up individually, spread my CC # around, deal with customer service at all those places etc.

Also presumably my bundle would be cheaper than doing all the major papers individually. The bundler could lose money on the big 3 papers - while charging other papers who want to be part of the bundle.
That's kind of a bonkers business model. You basically want newspapers to be like cable.

      
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