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02-02-2017 , 01:58 PM

#4676

JPantz

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He just described Trumps speech at the prayer breakfast as "beautiful".

Also, basically blamed Obama for the botched mission.

02-02-2017 , 01:59 PM

#4677

unwantedguest

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Imagine being a special forces guy and knowing that the dude in charge of whether to send you off on reckless suicide missions is Donald mother****ing Trump.

Bigot in chief has their backs, I'm sure they'll happily carry on killing brown people without repercussion.

02-02-2017 , 01:59 PM

#4678

.isolated

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Quote:

Originally Posted by master3004

Lol 27 minute briefing

well "we all want to see the President".

02-02-2017 , 01:59 PM

#4679

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Media has to stay away from his insults and poorly delivered jokes. Those are distractions that prevent them from reporting on things that are going down and are total ****.

02-02-2017 , 02:00 PM

#4680

dinopoker

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No transcript of Trump's late night call to Russia because the White House turned off the recorders.

02-02-2017 , 02:02 PM

#4681

Dominic

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CheckRaise

Man this would be an elite thing put on chiefsplanet/facebook/twitter to troll trumpkins.

Already ahead of you

02-02-2017 , 02:06 PM

#4682

ScreaminAsian

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Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xander

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-ce...170202_33.aspx

Lifting sanctions relating to certain transactions with the FSB. Incredible.

Right

Quote:

Originally Posted by dinopoker

No transcript of Trump's late night call to Russia because the White House turned off the recorders.

02-02-2017 , 02:08 PM

#4683

Max Cut

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fine

02-02-2017 , 02:11 PM

#4684

ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Max Cut

fine

Well let's think about it from the administration's perspective: if you were finishing a project at your work, would you tell your bosses right away? Or would you tell the group of people who would arrest you for treason if they knew what you were really up to

02-02-2017 , 02:17 PM

#4685

All-In Flynn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OutTaGetMe

as far as the protestors and rioters, go burn down a walmart and see how fast military law comes down, or go burn down most of marthas vineyard or something to make a statement. Throwing **** throw downtown windows makes the protestors look more stupid than the president

Trump '20: Smarter Than An Angry Mob, Going By Looks At Least

02-02-2017 , 02:17 PM

#4686

Max Cut

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Re: trump passing the buck on the military mission.

02-02-2017 , 02:26 PM

#4687

unwantedguest

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No chance the Ruussaa alliance will be a benign power, so what is their end game? World domination or just fascism in the homeland?

02-02-2017 , 02:28 PM

#4688

SuperUberBob

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Spicer simultaneously said that Obama is responsible for the strike and that it was successful.

Could that be construed as the first positive thing said about Obama by the Republicans since...forever?

Quote:

Originally Posted by martymc1

No chance the Ruussaa alliance will be a benign power, so what is their end game? World domination or just fascism in the homeland?

Trump wants to be Putin. They'll be buddies until Putin no longer has any use for Trump at which point he'll backstab America and destroy it from within.

02-02-2017 , 02:30 PM

#4689

markksman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Max Cut

So disappointing to see the actual article title is "Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World?"

Who is the first? Putin?

02-02-2017 , 02:31 PM

#4690

Max Cut

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^ pow!

02-02-2017 , 02:33 PM

#4691

Huehuecoyotl

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How Obamacare laid the groundwork for Trump's executive orders

http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017...ower-trump-law

Quote:

The longer answer is more complicated, but it’s also instructive. At key points, President Barack Obama delayed aspects of the ACA in an effort to put health reform on a sound footing. The delays were classic examples of executive overreach; they never should have happened. The Republican-led House of Representatives even*sued*the president over them.

And now the shoe is on the other foot. With Trump in office, some of Obamacare’s fiercest critics seem almost*giddy*at the prospect that he might use the same weapon against the act.*

And also what did red state voters dislike about Obamacare? It sucked.

https://medium.com/@MattBruenig/one-...04d#.9zyvsd5zm

Quote:

Each reporter set out to answer the same question: what do these people not like about Obamacare? And despite their diverse reporting strategies and populations, each managed to capture this exact same grievance.

In the post-Obamacare world, poor people can receive public health insurance through Medicaid provided their income is below a certain threshold (138% of the poverty line in Medicaid expansion states). As soon as their income goes over that threshold, they lose their Medicaid and are made to go out onto the Obamacare exchanges to buy insurance themselves.

If they are only slightly above the Medicaid cutoff, they receive hefty income-based subsidies to make it easier for them to pay their monthly premiums for their exchange-based insurance. But a heavily subsidized exchange plan still often comes with a high deductible that people just above the Medicaid cutoff do not have enough income to cover. So people in this situation have health insurance but they cannot afford to use it.

Say what you will about all the dumb reasons why lower class people find themselves mad about welfare programs. But this is not one of them. It is absurd that someone whose income is 130% of the poverty line can go to a doctor but someone whose income is 140% (or 150%, 160%, etc.) of the poverty line cannot. Yet that is the reality the design of Obamacare has created. This design generates enormous resentment because it is actually bull**** that making a little more money makes health care unaffordable.

02-02-2017 , 02:35 PM

#4692

OmgGlutten!

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I honestly think Trumps goal is to slaughter the Middle East cheaply and take their oil. No nation building, etc

Putin obviously on board for that kind of thing.

02-02-2017 , 02:35 PM

#4693

David Sklansky

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Max Cut

So disappointing to see the actual article title is "Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World?"

Even if that is true, such things being written about will decrease the chances it remains true to a greater extent than with other presidents.

02-02-2017 , 02:36 PM

#4694

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David Sklansky

Even if that is true, such things being written about will decrease the chances it remains true to a greater extent than with other presidents.

Yes, we all remember how discussions of Cheney's insane amount of VP power reduced that power.

02-02-2017 , 02:38 PM

#4695

markksman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dth123451

Oh and remember what the GOP did over Whitewater? When the Clintons were never found to have done anything wrong?

Well, Trump lost a $6 million suit against him for screwing members at a country club he bought yesterday.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE GOP?

lol I didn't hear about that so I searched for story on the lawsuit.

http://ktla.com/2017/02/01/trump-gol...to-ex-members/

The funniest part is it mentions a different lawsuit where trump is suing to claim one of his golf courses is the littlest and smallest.

Quote:

Trump is currently suing the town of Ossining, N.Y., in an effort to try to lower the taxes on his golf course there. The town said the course is worth $15.1 million. Trump said it’s worth only $1.5 million.

02-02-2017 , 02:41 PM

#4696

Max Cut

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David Sklansky

Even if that is true, such things being written about will decrease the chances it remains true to a greater extent than with other presidents.

good?

02-02-2017 , 02:43 PM

#4697

th14

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Trump is unpopular, and "doesn't have the stamina"

02-02-2017 , 02:44 PM

#4698

markksman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OutTaGetMe

**** if that criminal bitch was the president we would already be sending troops to protect the interest of the clinton foundation.

as far as the protestors and rioters, go burn down a walmart and see how fast military law comes down, or go burn down most of marthas vineyard or something to make a statement. Throwing **** throw downtown windows makes the protestors look more stupid than the president

I told you all many trump supporters are really really really really really really really really really really dumb.

02-02-2017 , 02:44 PM

#4699

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by martymc1

No chance the Ruussaa alliance will be a benign power, so what is their end game? World domination or just fascism in the homeland?

We have world domination or close. If we ally with Russia there's only one threat to that and the Chief Advisor to the POTUS has already been predicting war with China.

Still,

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1984

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.