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

08-11-2017 , 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Our House
They make it too easy. Can't wait for SNL to get to all of this.
SNL is doing Thursday "Weekend Updates", one just yesterday. Go to nbc, Hulu or View.yahoo.
08-11-2017 , 06:43 PM
08-11-2017 , 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by wolfbook
Our House, awesome post.

Yeah he can be pretty ranty but knocked that one out of the park, 10/10, would read again.
08-11-2017 , 07:00 PM
Yeah, good one Our House.

And, once again, eff everyone who voted for Trump.
08-11-2017 , 07:14 PM
He keeps repeating his cryptic nonsense with different versions of "we'll see what happens" for various questions. This will NOT happen under Trump...

Reporter: What if Kim makes an overt threat?
Trump: We will see. You'll see. He'll see.

(2 months later, when things settle down)

Trump: See? You see that diplomacy?

Last edited by Our House; 08-11-2017 at 07:28 PM.
08-11-2017 , 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Klingbard
re: polls

Rasmussen up to 45 today from 38 last week. Trump gonna Trump.
Noooo. **** him and his warmongering distractions.

Venezuela now too? What's he gonna do, send the military in to help their government become authoritarian?
08-11-2017 , 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ligastar
possible military option in Venezuela.

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Well, on the one hand, it's a way for him to boost his approval ratings through military conflict without starting a nuclear war.

On the other, we'll probably lose like all of our allies for a while and still may start a nuclear war with North Korea... only with even less chance of getting any sort of coalition together.
08-11-2017 , 07:22 PM
The sad truth is all a US president needs to do when faced with a popularity crisis is start a war. Both Bushes tapped in to the simplicity of the average american; Trump is just expanding on their work.
08-11-2017 , 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by poconoder
SNL is doing Thursday "Weekend Updates", one just yesterday. Go to nbc, Hulu or View.yahoo.
Ahh, that's why I'm seeing segments on the news. Oops, I mean Ах, вот почему я вижу сегменты новостей.
08-11-2017 , 07:35 PM
Request: can you tweet-embedders also post the raw link so those of us in the app can click that? Thanks!
08-11-2017 , 07:41 PM
Wow, MSNBC just said the Congressional committees knew of DonJr/Jared/Manafort's meeting 3 months ago. That's 2 months before the NYT story broke, which means the lawmakers saw the lies from everyone, including Trump feeding the excuses to his son, unfolding in real time.

It's so cra cra because the Dems on these committees talk on TV about their knowledge being only around 10% or 15% of the whole TrumpRussia mess.
08-11-2017 , 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by bware
Maybe, but not for the reason you think
There's a snuke in her snizz
08-11-2017 , 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by poconoder
SNL is doing Thursday "Weekend Updates", one just yesterday. Go to nbc, Hulu or View.yahoo.
thx for posting this. i just found it on my Comcast On Demand. would've missed it if not for your post.
08-11-2017 , 09:35 PM
Bill Hader's Scaramucci is hilarious.
08-11-2017 , 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by bware
Request: can you tweet-embedders also post the raw link so those of us in the app can click that? Thanks!
Have you updated the app recently? Embedded tweets started working in tapatalk on my android a couple of weeks ago.
08-11-2017 , 09:49 PM
Anyone else think Kim won't cross the military red line? He knows that Trump's a counterpuncher who will hit back 2 to 10 times harder if you're anyone but Putin. Kim also knows we demolish him after 6 months in every simulation the Pentagon has run over the last however many years. And finally, he knows those same sims show hundreds of thousands of deaths within minutes, and (tens of?) millions after the full time period.

Kim is stupid, but he's not dumb. He wants survival first, for his regime and also for the world believe it or not. He needs his nukes too, but that's mostly for the regime to exist.
08-11-2017 , 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by synth_floyd
Bill Hader's Scaramucci is hilarious.
Where is that?
08-11-2017 , 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Our House
Anyone else think Kim won't cross the military red line? He knows that Trump's a counterpuncher who will hit back 2 to 10 times harder if you're anyone but Putin. Kim also knows we demolish him after 6 months in every simulation the Pentagon has run over the last however many years. And finally, he knows those same sims show hundreds of thousands of deaths within minutes, and (tens of?) millions after the full time period.

Kim is stupid, but he's not dumb. He wants survival first, for his regime and also for the world believe it or not. He needs his nukes too, but that's mostly for the regime to exist.
True but if he thinks that Trump is going to start a war regardless of what he does or says he might just decide to go out in a blaze of glory. It's scary because to me it looks like Trump is looking for any excuse to start dropping bombs.
08-11-2017 , 10:21 PM
Nah, Kim just wants to be in charge and enjoy being HMFIC. He's not going to do anything that ensures his death. Which makes him easier to deal with than ISIS nutjobs.
08-11-2017 , 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by kep
True but if he thinks that Trump is going to start a war regardless of what he does or says he might just decide to go out in a blaze of glory. It's scary because to me it looks like Trump is looking for any excuse to start dropping bombs.
The impression I get from Trump is that he's going to keep pushing the envelope more and more with warmongering like he does with Presidenting at home.

The problem here is this isn't a casino. There is no bankruptcy with a Putin bail out. When you push the envelope in war, you're gambling with loads of lives. For what? A shot, however small, of a bailout FROM Russia this time?? Get this mother****ing jerkoff out of office already.
08-11-2017 , 10:55 PM
(Basically a summary of the Cuba thread)

Speaking of pushing the envelope, watch this situation with the diplomats in Cuba carefully for ANY Russian fingerprints. If so, this will be the first instance of Putin harming Americans with impunity (assuming Trump doesn't break the pattern). The WH and the State Department won't talk about it. Not that it's classified or under investigation, but they just won't say anything.

The 3rd party who deafened the US (and 1 Canadian) diplomats also sent a message saying it was "payback", which is looking more and more like it's the 2nd slap in the face Russia promised to Trump for signing the sanctions bill.
08-11-2017 , 11:04 PM
Much more worried about Trump than Kim. Remember people like Trump think every problem has a simple solution - the whole "many options, all bad, some much worse than others" doesn't register.
08-11-2017 , 11:14 PM

https://twitter.com/brianklaas/statu...81713087160321
08-11-2017 , 11:17 PM
This is a good followup to ScreaminAsian's post (sorry if nsfwish, I didn't think it was too bad)



https://twitter.com/mattwilstein/sta...03043758276608
08-11-2017 , 11:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Our House
(Basically a summary of the Cuba thread)

Speaking of pushing the envelope, watch this situation with the diplomats in Cuba carefully for ANY Russian fingerprints. If so, this will be the first instance of Putin harming Americans with impunity (assuming Trump doesn't break the pattern). The WH and the State Department won't talk about it. Not that it's classified or under investigation, but they just won't say anything.

The 3rd party who deafened the US (and 1 Canadian) diplomats also sent a message saying it was "payback", which is looking more and more like it's the 2nd slap in the face Russia promised to Trump for signing the sanctions bill.
i thought they went deaf over weeks/months of being "exposed" to whatever this was. are you saying that it happened only recently (and a single act could cause / did cause this physical disability)?

      
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