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07-21-2017 , 04:40 PM

#47001

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by phillydilly

that spiral/free throw clip is amazing.

Do you know a man by the name of DONALD TRUMP?

I've seen him hit free throws while wearing a suit
He once sank a 3-foot putt!
He gets his Coke by pushing a red button

07-21-2017 , 04:41 PM

#47002

Our House

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

(current cia director mike pompeo)
i'm trying to think of who russia favored in obama v romney or obama v mccain. maybe he's talking about jill stein each time

Just a hunch, but in about a month's time, the only Trump administration people talking like this will be the guilty ones.

07-21-2017 , 04:47 PM

#47003

thethethe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Do you know a man by the name of DONALD TRUMP?

I've seen him hit free throws while wearing a suit
He once sank a 3-foot putt!
He gets his Coke by pushing a red button

He gets two scoops of icecream!

07-21-2017 , 04:55 PM

#47004

ligastar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

he raped his ex-wife.

Last edited by ligastar; 07-21-2017 at 05:02 PM.

07-21-2017 , 04:56 PM

#47005

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TiltedDonkey

Yeah, it's not.

I mean, a three-footer is definitely missable and I've missed my fair share but an average PGA Tour pro is expected to make 96% of them (source: https://thesandtrap.com/forums/topic...centage-stats/)

Not sure the value for a decent amateur but I expect it's at least 85%+

Trump 100% considers a 3 foot putt a gimme and doesn't even try to make it.

07-21-2017 , 04:56 PM

#47006

uke_master

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Max Cut

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/888477806895693824

**** scaramucci

oh damn. This guy is going to be effective.

07-21-2017 , 04:57 PM

#47007

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ligastar

he raped his ex-wife.

Then his lawyer did too.

07-21-2017 , 04:57 PM

#47008

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by thethethe

He gets two scoops of icecream!

He once convinced 63 million people that he'd be a better President than an actual politician.

....

TO DONALD TRUMP!!!

Last edited by SuperUberBob; 07-21-2017 at 05:10 PM.

07-21-2017 , 05:02 PM

#47009

ligastar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

Trump 100% considers a 3 foot putt a gimme and doesn't even try to make it.

no truer words have ever been spoken itt.

07-21-2017 , 05:20 PM

#47010

Kirbynator

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trump contemplating taking 3 weeks of vacation in august? rofl what?

07-21-2017 , 05:23 PM

#47011

MrWookie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirbynator

trump contemplating taking 3 weeks of vacation in august? rofl what?

Sounds good.

07-21-2017 , 05:24 PM

#47012

otatop

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I don't recall anything major happening last time a Republican President took most of August off...

07-21-2017 , 05:25 PM

#47013

wheatrich

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirbynator

trump contemplating taking 3 weeks of vacation in august? rofl what?

Some of the fears on trump ending up being unwarranted because he's too lazy. He's still too stupid/corrupt and will wreck things that way. Corruption in washington isn't new, this level of stupid is though.

It's starting to look pretty clear trump is better b/c he can't get anything major done than pence.

No ****ing idea why anyone gives any of these clowns like spicer a pass though. They all dgaf.

07-21-2017 , 05:30 PM

#47014

ScreaminAsian

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condensed message from today's press briefing: mister president, you are loved.

07-21-2017 , 05:31 PM

#47015

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirbynator

trump contemplating taking 3 weeks of vacation in august? rofl what?

Did I ever tell you about the time Donald Trump went on vacation for 3 weeks in August? He leaves and when he comes back, peace is restored in the Middle East, everybody has health care, and the economy doubles in size. Immediately after taking credit for all of it, he takes every single American off of life support, drops a nuke on Syria, and fires every federal employee to show that "Trump giveth, Trump taketh away".

.....

TO DONALD TRUMP!!

DONALD TRUMP!!

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07-21-2017 , 05:32 PM

#47016

All-In Flynn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

As someone who doesn't golf, sinking a three-foot putt really does not sound all that impressive.

As someone who exclusively plays golf through the medium of GTAV, I'll say it depends on the green. I'd rather be looking at a nine-footer on Hole 2 than a three-footer on 3 or 7.

07-21-2017 , 05:35 PM

#47017

markksman

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You silly gooses. Three foot putt is obviously some water sport slang.

07-21-2017 , 05:40 PM

#47018

master3004

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Quote:

Originally Posted by markksman

You silly gooses. Three foot putt is obviously some water sport slang.

He "drained" a 3 foot putt

07-21-2017 , 05:41 PM

#47019

GTO2.0

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Do you know a man by the name of DONALD TRUMP?

I've seen him hit free throws while wearing a suit
He once sank a 3-foot putt!
He gets his Coke by pushing a red button

I give it a year and a half before were full on North Korea.

07-21-2017 , 05:46 PM

#47020

GTO2.0

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3 foot putts fine, but he also stands in the key and hits foul shots! The man literally warps the space around him and changes the layout of basketball courts to make the impossible possible!!!

07-21-2017 , 05:51 PM

#47021

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by GTO2.0

3 foot putts fine, but he also stands in the key and hits foul shots! The man literally warps the space around him and changes the layout of basketball courts to make the impossible possible!!!

He drinks the tears of illegal immigrants to cure his erectile dysfunction!

07-21-2017 , 06:03 PM

#47022

ScreaminAsian

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DONALD TRUMP built a huge tremendously tall beautiful golden building in every state in the united states, creating thousands of high-paying jobs that remain to this day!

...to donald trump!

07-21-2017 , 06:20 PM

#47023

SuperUberBob

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He pays for standard shipping when ordering his brides so he can afford spray tan bottles for his face

07-21-2017 , 06:22 PM

#47024

DVaut1

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http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...s-favorite-foe

Quote:

REMNICK: How does Donald Trump spend his day when not in routine meetings that are on his schedule?

HABERMAN: This is really like the holy grail of reporting that has been sought and not completely answered for some time, including by me. He gets very irritated when we all report that he watches a lot of TV. He does watch a lot of TV—it doesn’t seem like that’s a massively controversial statement. But he doesn’t like when that is said because he thinks it’s shorthand for saying he doesn’t work that hard. He holds a lot of meetings. But his Oval Office is an incredibly open-door room, unlike most Oval Offices, where, really, it is, as you know, David, it’s the palace, and the chief of staff is the gatekeeper. I mean, Trump’s Oval Office is like Grand Central Station. People try briefing him and someone comes in and interrupts him. People just sort of walk in without being previously announced in any meaningful way. He spends his day interacting, is how I would describe it. He gets the daily brief in the mornings. He has had that condensed down to a more visual-cued form than it was previously.

REMNICK: It sounds like you’re being a little bit polite. What previous Presidents did, in one way or another, was read a tremendous amount the night before and then get a brief from the director of National Intelligence. And he has no patience for that, from what I understand. He has no patience for reading briefing books, and he has to see a lot of pictures, a lot of video, a lot of charts.

HABERMAN: He likes a lot of charts. He likes looking at things.

07-21-2017 , 06:30 PM

#47025

DVaut1

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Also this whole interview with Haberman is pretty WTF worthy:

Quote:

D.R.: When we were talking about Donald Trump, incessantly, in the eighties and nineties, when he was a figure of Spy magazine and the tabloids, you didn’t have to pay that much attention. You didn’t have to care that much. He was an amusement. But, if you look back on it now, there are a lot of people around him, from the very start, not just Roy Cohn, not just his own family but all kinds of sleazy characters, money launderers abroad and at home. He has been surrounded by some awful people, people with serious criminal records. If they ever came close to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or many other politicians you could name, they’d be finished. How does it shape him, and how does he survive it?

M.H.: I think that people don’t know the extent of it. One of the things that I was really shocked by, covering him in 2015, was the disparity between the five-borough view—or four-borough; take out Staten Island, where he did very well—but the view of him, certainly in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, was that he was not a real businessman. And he, at that point, had been bankrupted several times, and he had gone on to licensing businesses and becoming a reality-TV star.

D.R.: Not just licensing businesses but doing deals with people abroad who were uniquely corrupt in their various countries, like Azerbaijan, or Georgia, or what have you.

M.H.: Correct. I mean, but I think that, if you can point to where we did poorly—we, not the Times but the collective media—in the 2016 campaign, I think that pointing to the company he kept was where we messed up. We didn’t do enough of that.

D.R.: That the proliferation of sleazy people didn’t come to light enough.

M.H.: Well, it’s just one after the other. There’s that Felix Sater character, who was arrested and, I think, did time, for shoving a broken Martini glass in someone’s face—

D.R.: Well, who hasn’t had a bad night?

M.H.: Right! Just last night, even.

D.R.: [Laughs.]

M.H.: No, in no way. But it’s not just people with questionable business practices—it’s people with a history of violence. Or some combo. And you tie that with the fact that, throughout the campaign, he evinced some authoritarian impulses. One of the things that was striking about him, and it increased right after he won the New Hampshire primary, was, in the G.O.P. campaign, he kept praising dictators. And then you’d report that he praised them and he’d say, “No, I didn’t.” I mean, one of the things that’s really challenging about covering him is he refuses to agree with the basic fact of what he just said, when you point it out.

D.R.: That we live in Alice in Wonderland.

M.H.: Right. There is no basic agreement on a set of facts, right? So I think that that becomes challenging. And that ties back to your question about the company he keeps. A lot of this, even when we report on it, people don’t believe it. So, I don’t know what you do with that.

Also Murdoch is an informal Trump advisor? Hadn't read that one before:

Quote:

M.H.: It’s actually funny you said that, because they didn’t really have a relationship before—not in the same way. They knew each other, and they were sort of friendly-ish, but the main relationship was really between Murdoch and his then-wife, Wendi Deng, and Ivanka Trump. Jared Kushner had a bigger relationship with Murdoch than Trump did. Kushner actually was the one who sort of sold Murdoch on Trump, and that something bigger was happening in the country. Jared showed him a video of one of the rallies on his iPhone, back at the end of 2015. Murdoch has always wanted to be an adviser to a President. And he certainly didn’t have that with Bill Clinton. And he didn’t even have it with Bush. The Bush people didn’t really have much use for him. So he saw the opportunity and jumped on it. And they now talk most days.

DR: They talk most days. What about?

M.H.: [Laughs.] The economy, certain news stories, what’s happening in the world. I think Murdoch tries to keep Trump focussed.

Trump lies because of his fascist impulse to create reality out of whatever he's dreaming about:

Quote:

D.R.: We’ve had Presidents who’ve lied about the Gulf of Tonkin, and all manner of things, about intelligence regarding Iraq. So what changed?

M.H.: This is too frequent and too much a part of the fabric of daily life with Trump. It’s just different.

D.R.: How do you analyze his mental state? I can’t avoid this question, because it’s more and more a matter of discussion in print, on television. If you turn on “Morning Joe”—a program that you could easily have interpreted some time ago as being quite pro-Trump, enthusiastic about him, in certain ways—now is discussing whether he has dementia. Their words, not mine. Let’s put a reality check on this. How do you analyze his grasp of life, of fact? What is his mental state?

M.H.: I think my psychiatry degree never came through, so I’m gonna be a bit circumspect here, or a bit circumscribed here. Look, I think that he has an amazing belief in his own ability to will what he thinks into reality. And I think that he thinks of reality as something that is subjective. So I think that what people characterize as “he’s out of touch” or “he’s not understating this” or “he seems off,” or whatever—I think he has an amazing capacity to try to draw the world as he wants it. And I think that’s a lot of it.

Remember this is a reporter Trump likes!

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