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Trump did because he wanted their help with hacking etc. You claimed just a minute ago that Russia wanted to be friends. They don't. Don't switch your argument.

08-21-2017 , 05:34 PM

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An interesting twist on an old classic!

Laughed hard at this

08-21-2017 , 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TrollyWantACracker

I'm guessing Crossfit has something to do with Amway, but I have never worked up the courage to talk to one of those weirdos.

lol. i know one guy who is super into crossfit- confirmed weirdo.

i mean i'm kinda weird too so w/e, i dont hate. he seems to have some self esteem/social issues tho. kinda strange cuz he's pretty ripped and chicks probably think he's fairly sexy

08-21-2017 , 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Yadoula8

So Trump didn't say he wanted to be friends with Russia? That wasn't a part of his campaign??

Trump said thousands of things last year, wanting to be friends with Russia was one of them but it wasn't a campaign talking point.

08-21-2017 , 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by prana

Trump did because he wanted their help with hacking etc. You claimed just a minute ago that Russia wanted to be friends. They don't. Don't switch your argument.

So you reckon trump faked a friendship with Russia, played Putin like a fool, got him to make some hacks and influence the election just so that he could win. Then, once he won, he ditched Putin...

Trump sounds like a genius! He played Putin hard.

... Are u sure he didn't just try to make friends but then realised that the American economy would suffer and so decided against it??

08-21-2017 , 05:40 PM

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Secret Service hits overtime caps protecting Trumps

so now we can find out if our republican congress will raise the cap and if they'll make any statement or public admonishment for such extravagantly wasteful government spending. however there remains the option of having secret service continue to work overtime but now just without pay, which, you know, real americans would never do but republicans are in charge so anything can happen.

08-21-2017 , 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by otatop

Trump said thousands of things last year, wanting to be friends with Russia was one of them but it wasn't a campaign talking point.

The Trump Russia friendship was clearly a big talking point during the campaign.

08-21-2017 , 05:42 PM

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Oh ok, I guess you'd know better than someone who lives in the US.

08-21-2017 , 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Yadoula8

You're blatantly just plain clueless, I'm just not rude enough to say it...

Is that you in your pic? Looks like I imagine you to look.

Just a heads up: At least 1/2 of this forum is made up of professional basketball players. Plan accordingly.

08-21-2017 , 05:43 PM

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The hacking wouldn't have been an issue if the trump Russia friendship wasn't an issue. I'm just smart.

08-21-2017 , 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Yadoula8

Well in England it's mostly the BBC and they are owned by the people. They are ridiculously corrupt. It's a joke and the people responsible should be arrested.

Unfortunately our current government love the BBC, and hire a whole lot of BBC staff to work for them. The two are heavily in cahoots.

you are ****ing unhinged my dude

08-21-2017 , 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 6ix

Just a heads up: At least 1/2 of this forum is made up of professional basketball players. Plan accordingly.

Lol I didn't even know that was a basketball player, only about 1 in 100,000 English people would. Put a football player up there and we'd know. (The type of football where you mainly use your feet)

08-21-2017 , 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by +rep_lol

you are ****ing unhinged my dude

No no the BBC news channel is really dark. They are tight with the conservatives and hate the Labour leader. But they are supposed to be neutral.

08-21-2017 , 05:49 PM

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wot the bloody ell's goin on in here then ey

08-21-2017 , 05:50 PM

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Jesus Christ make it stop

08-21-2017 , 05:50 PM

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This guy has one post like Masque, is currently on pace for a FoldN binge posting night, and has some Alex Jones vibes going. It's like the perfect storm.

08-21-2017 , 05:51 PM

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Calls us clueless. Has no clue why putin would hate Hillary. This guy.

Is this supposed to be the updated poconder comrade account or what?

08-21-2017 , 05:52 PM

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This guy clearly looked right at the eclipse

08-21-2017 , 05:53 PM

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i enjoy being a silent observer of this thread, but have to say this guy is annoying and stupid...

08-21-2017 , 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by otatop

Trump said thousands of things last year, wanting to be friends with Russia was one of them but it wasn't a campaign talking point.

There were thousands of Russians celebrating on rooftops in New Jersey last Election Day. Ok maybe not, but Russian Parliament did erupt in cheers.

They never expected it would be so good. I worry because their experience with this kind of campaign runs decades deep. They're a lot better at making escalations seem natural than the Trump administration has been. I also worry because when Putin smells blood, he doesn't back down. He smelled it on November 8th and here we are, barely watching or knowing what signs to look for.

When people in other Democratic countries say Americans think they're special, they can't be more correct. This Hybrid Warfare game is new to us, but we're too good to take advice from the seasoned veteran countries. Well, the IC has been screaming for a year, but they've been discredited as loonies and partisan hacks too.

Man, Trump, Kellyanne, Gorka, Hannity, Newt, Dershowitz ... **** the whole lot of them. Every. Single. One.

08-21-2017 , 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by BooLoo

i enjoy being a silent observer of this thread, but have to say this guy is annoying and stupid...

brave

08-21-2017 , 05:59 PM

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This guy clearly listened closely to the eclipse

08-21-2017 , 05:59 PM

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For those of you who remember this embarrassing British dude Steve Hilton from several months back:

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

The thing with these free market loving "populists" is that the market as a moral arbiter is so ingrained that even if they are actually well intentioned (which most probably aren't) they simply can't go through with doing anything about it. FDR and Mary Heaton Vorse were all loathed by their class as "class traitors" because they actually put their money and lives where their mouths were.

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It seems a remarkable coincidence that the sole pillar of our economic system this radical blue-sky thinker won’t challenge is the one that has made his family super-rich. He adds: “The argument for markets is competitive markets,” but this is a tricky defence to mount in Silicon Valley, I suggest, when the economics of the internet are notorious for creating monopolies – Google, Amazon and so on. “I agree, totally, yes.”

So, I try once more: can he say that he and his family deserve their wealth? “I think that we’re maybe overstating the degree to which we’re in that economic category. We’re genuinely not.”

Hilton lives in the second most expensive zip code in America, in a house that cost $20.5m. Whetstone is thought to have earned in excess of $50m at Google. He’s quite right, there’s an empathy problem among the rich. I’m just amazed he thinks he’s miraculously unafflicted by it.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...e_iOSApp_Other

Now that his Fox News show about populism is on the air, NYT caught up with him to discover that nothing much has changed

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He had chosen one of the trendiest places in the city, Rose Cafe (with a menu featuring avocado tartine and lemonade made with tangerine oil and filtered water), to talk populism. Mr. Hilton ordered shakshuka, beet hummus and tea with milk.

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Mr. Hilton’s mission with his Fox News program, he said, is to create a working-class coalition uniting supporters of Mr. Trump and Bernie Sanders with the rage that fueled the Brexit movement.

“My argument is: Let’s blame the people who are responsible,” he said. Those people, he added, are the “global elite.”

It’s an ironic position for Mr. Hilton to take given that he is part of that global elite — he and his wife live in a $12.5 million home in one of America’s richest ZIP codes.

But Mr. Hilton insisted he is not one of the elites he targets in his show.