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

08-07-2017 , 05:59 PM
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Sinclair Broadcast Group is expanding its conservative-leaning television empire into nearly three-quarters of American households — but its aggressive takeover of the airwaves wouldn’t have been possible without help from President Donald Trump's chief at the Federal Communications Commission.

Sinclair, already the nation’s largest TV broadcaster, plans to buy 42 stations from Tribune Media in cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, on top of the more than 170 stations it already owns. It got a critical assist this spring from Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who revived a decades-old regulatory loophole that will keep Sinclair from vastly exceeding federal limits on media ownership.

The change will allow Sinclair — a company known for injecting "must run" conservative segments into its local programming — to reach 72 percent of U.S. households after buying Tribune’s stations. That’s nearly double the congressionally imposed nationwide audience cap of 39 percent.
If and when Democrats get in control they should break this sh*t up as part of their anti trust push.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...pansion-241337
08-07-2017 , 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by m_reed05
Yea I know he won't, but the high road hasn't been too kind to the democrats.

'I misrepresented my service, and for that I have apologized in the past. President Trump on the other hand has never served. Instead using student and medical deferments to avoid service.'
Blumenthal should not respond himself. The Democrats should find everyone in their ranks who served in Vietnam to make that point.
08-07-2017 , 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Disapproving of Trump does not make them Clinton voters. They aren't really off the train until they are aboard another one.
I'm honored for the opportunity and blessing that you’ve given us to serve your agenda sir.
08-07-2017 , 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese
The notion that anyone understood Trump's foreign policy to be non-interventionist is pretty wild as well. If you asked one hundred randomly selected MAGAs in November whether more or fewer Arabs would be bombed under Trump, how many do you think would say "fewer"?
literally none, they'd say "more" or "less" and we'd all cringe when they say "less"
08-07-2017 , 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by m_reed05
Yea I know he won't, but the high road hasn't been too kind to the democrats.

'I misrepresented my service, and for that I have apologized in the past. President Trump on the other hand has never served. Instead using student and phony medical deferments to avoid service.'
If we add the one bolded word it becomes way more effective imo
08-07-2017 , 08:42 PM
Trumps tweet about going to Vietnam on vacation kind of has a tone like it's still a terrible war zone, who thinks trump imagines Vietnam from scenes in Forrest Gump or apocalypse now ? LOL
08-07-2017 , 09:55 PM
I wonder what the most complicated question Trump could answer about Vietnam is. I got him as an underdog to be able to point it out on a map.
08-07-2017 , 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
literally none, they'd say "more" or "less" and we'd all cringe when they say "less"
Side note, but grammar nittery over less/fewer probably rustles my jimmies more than actual poor grammar. Real OG grammar nits know that the less/fewer rule is completely made up, some grammarian just decided it should be a thing in the 18th century. Also, nobody actually follows the rule in all circumstances because it results in some truly horrendous sounding sentences. Anyone think any of these sound right?

"Netflix costs fewer than 10 dollars a month!"
"Usain Bolt can run 100 metres in fewer than 10 seconds"
"Well, that's one fewer thing to worry about!"
08-07-2017 , 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
I wonder what the most complicated question Trump could answer about Vietnam is. I got him as an underdog to be able to point it out on a map.
3-1 he'd pull a quote from Forrest Gump
08-07-2017 , 10:20 PM
Santa Monica>Duke>Bachman>Sessions>million dollar condo, all while decrying the efforts of nonwhite immigrants. I mean Trump is terrible but Miller may be the goat.

At least Bannon worked himself out of his ****ty WV town and read a few books. I mean I think Bannon is a crap thinker, but at least he has some ideas. What's the line, "Say what you will about National Socialism, at least it's an ethic."
08-07-2017 , 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
Trumps tweet about going to Vietnam on vacation kind of has a tone like it's still a terrible war zone, who thinks trump imagines Vietnam from scenes in Forrest Gump or apocalypse now ? LOL
He probably just watched Tropic Thunder.
08-07-2017 , 10:27 PM
"Nihilists? **** me. I mean say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ETHOS."

I've watched that movie too much.
08-07-2017 , 10:30 PM
lol, such a good line

That's the thing with Trump. I do not mean to disparage nihilism, which can be honestly arrived at, but Trump is a nihilist in the sense that truth is merely an inconvenient obstacle in the quest for self-aggrandizement.
08-07-2017 , 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Side note, but grammar nittery over less/fewer probably rustles my jimmies more than actual poor grammar. Real OG grammar nits know that the less/fewer rule is completely made up, some grammarian just decided it should be a thing in the 18th century. Also, nobody actually follows the rule in all circumstances because it results in some truly horrendous sounding sentences. Anyone think any of these sound right?

"Netflix costs fewer than 10 dollars a month!"
"Usain Bolt can run 100 metres in fewer than 10 seconds"
"Well, that's one fewer thing to worry about!"
yo. yo.

"lemme throw 3 hypotheticals at you guys to invalidate proper grammar!"

cmon man.

Anyone think this sounds right?

"i have made less than 5 intelligent posts on 2p2"
08-07-2017 , 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Side note, but grammar nittery over less/fewer probably rustles my jimmies more than actual poor grammar. Real OG grammar nits know that the less/fewer rule is completely made up, some grammarian just decided it should be a thing in the 18th century. Also, nobody actually follows the rule in all circumstances because it results in some truly horrendous sounding sentences. Anyone think any of these sound right?

"Netflix costs fewer than 10 dollars a month!"
"Usain Bolt can run 100 metres in fewer than 10 seconds"
"Well, that's one fewer thing to worry about!"
They don't sound right because they are all wrong according to the stuffy rules of proper grammar. Money and measurements do not use "fewer." The last example seems like it is obviously "less" since "thing" is singular.
08-07-2017 , 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
Trumps tweet about going to Vietnam on vacation kind of has a tone like it's still a terrible war zone, who thinks trump imagines Vietnam from scenes in Forrest Gump or apocalypse now ? LOL
Zero chance he could pick it out on a map.
08-07-2017 , 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Clovis8
Zero chance he could pick it out on a map.
Literally. Zero.
08-07-2017 , 10:59 PM
Not even if it was a map of Vietnam.
08-07-2017 , 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by uDevil
Not even if it was a map of Vietnam.
yep. Mr. President. which one is Vietnam: A, B or C. he would fail this test.

A



B



C

08-07-2017 , 11:13 PM
Well don't leave me hanging
08-07-2017 , 11:14 PM
Zero chance he could name C.
08-07-2017 , 11:17 PM
If you gave Trump a list of the 50 states, I wonder how many state capitals he would be able to fill in.
08-07-2017 , 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by eyebooger
If you gave Trump a list of the 50 states, I wonder how many state capitals he would be able to fill in.
Snap better under 7
08-07-2017 , 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Clovis8
Snap better under 7
New York, Oklahoma, and then?
08-07-2017 , 11:31 PM
Trump’s Trade Pullout Roils Rural America

After the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, other nations launch 27 separate negotiations to undercut U.S. exporters.

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On a cloud-swept landscape dotted with grain elevators, a meat producer called Prestage Farms is building a 700,000-square-foot processing plant. The gleaming new factory is both the great hope of Wright County, which voted by a 2-1 margin for Donald Trump, and the victim of one of Trump’s first policy moves, his decision to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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On July 6, the EU, which already exports as much pork to Japan as the United States does, announced political agreement on a new deal that would give European pork farmers an advantage of up to $2 per pound over U.S. exporters under certain circumstances—a move which, if unchecked, is all but certain to create a widening gap between EU exports and those from the United States.

European wine producers, who sold more than $1 billion to Japan between 2014 and 2016, would also see a 15 percent tariff on exports to Japan disappear while U.S. exporters would continue to face that duty at the border. For other products, the deal essentially mirrors the rates negotiated under the TPP, which the United States has surrendered, giving the EU a clear advantage over U.S. farmers.

The EU’s deal is all the more noteworthy because American farmers were relying on the TPP—to which the EU was not a member—to give them an advantage over European competitors. But in a further rebuke to the United States, Tokyo decided within a matter of weeks to offer the European nations virtually the same agricultural access to its market that United States trade officials had spent two excruciating years extracting through near-monthly meetings with their Japanese counterparts on the sidelines of the broader TPP negotiations; the United States is now left out.


http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...effects-215459

* yes i understand Hillary held the same position. it is a losing position and this doesn't absolve Trump from now owning it.

      
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