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

02-08-2017 , 12:16 PM
That tweet also implies that Trump's instincts are always to do the wrong thing.
02-08-2017 , 12:17 PM


LOLLLLLLLLLL
02-08-2017 , 12:22 PM
WARREN 2020!
02-08-2017 , 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf


LOL he's literally advocating for his family's financial interests




Nice
02-08-2017 , 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by DVaut1
Your wonderment at the cynical, principle-free nature of the modern GOP whose ordering of priorities appears to be something along the lines of "1a. satisfy rich oligarchs and 1b. appease horde of angry, resentful mouthbreathers who elect us" to do something more than this is almost charming.

You're definitely a smart guy, maybe one of the smartest on the forum. Surely you didn't earnestly expect more, right? Even I, in my most hopeful moments, sometimes rise to "vague hopefulness" when I see something like McCain take shots at Trump from the Senate floor but then you remember out of like 290+ or whatever Congressional and Senate Republicans, he's more or less the bravest and most principled and THAT IS STILL BASICALLY DOING NOTHING AT ALL.
Two points here:

1. I said I find it appalling and dumb, not surprising.

2. Defenestrating Trump is totally consistent with the principle-free set of priorities you outline! Just add step 0 of keeping the corrupt, possibly traitorous old narcissist from destroying the country, then move right along to tax cuts and deregulation and immigrant-baiting. As you can see with Obamacare, there is kind of a delicate dance the GOP has to maintain between angry rhetorical promises to do insane stuff (which the base likes) and then finessing things when they actually get power so they don't do insane stuff (which would produce horrible consequences that would upset the base). Trump is preternaturally great at the first part, but preternaturally bad at the second part. President Pence is where it's at for your rank-and-file GOP reptilian.
02-08-2017 , 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
LOL I can totally see Trump calling up Heads of States and being like "I'm making America great again!" or "I am using EXTREME VETTING to keep America safe. EXTREME VETTING."
02-08-2017 , 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by master3004
Mother****er can't even use a goddamn ellipses correctly.

Plus he never followed this with another tweet. Why even use an ellipses there?
Holy ****. RedManPlus was Donald Trump, posting in our midst.
02-08-2017 , 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by bobman0330
Two points here:

1. I said I find it appalling and dumb, not surprising.

2. Defenestrating Trump is totally consistent with the principle-free set of priorities you outline! Just add step 0 of keeping the corrupt, possibly traitorous old narcissist from destroying the country, then move right along to tax cuts and deregulation and immigrant-baiting. As you can see with Obamacare, there is kind of a delicate dance the GOP has to maintain between angry rhetorical promises to do insane stuff (which the base likes) and then finessing things when they actually get power so they don't do insane stuff (which would produce horrible consequences that would upset the base). Trump is preternaturally great at the first part, but preternaturally bad at the second part. President Pence is where it's at for your rank-and-file GOP reptilian.
The GOP has fed its base ~25-30 years so many ultimately empty, feckless promises of insane stuff that they feel dispossessed, betrayed and want a genuine madman who will deliver instead of more empty promises, and the GOP politicians are afraid if they defenstrate that madman then the base turn their ire and mob mentality on them. Why would we count on the people who have been feeding this dragon and fostering it to train its scent on elites and others in conspiratorial and apocalyptic tones to aim its fire on those aren't in total lockstep with insane promises to now slay its most-favored caretaker who shares its vision of total destruction of the village?

This was a very, very dangerous game that everyone warned the GOP about for decades. Do not tell me you were hoping they would slay the beast just as it broke the chains and rose into the sky.
02-08-2017 , 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
Lawl, so Pro Publica did find evidence of a potential Bowling Green massacre.


https://www.propublica.org/article/w...ent=1486566064
Hmmm I was living in Bowling Green, Ohio in 2012 and I don't remember hearing about that. I guess I survived the Bowling Green Massacre.
02-08-2017 , 12:33 PM
I know just yesterday I said I hoped Conway would get blocked from CNN, and of course by end of day she was back on.

However after watching Tapper basically mow her down I can't hate it too much. I feel like I just witnessed an assault. Pretty sure she explicitly said that CNN wasn't fake news.
02-08-2017 , 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by DeroDeniro
Fighting the big battles

Completely separated from business interests. Kappa


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Originally Posted by champstark


LOLLLLLLLLLL

Probably tweeted during one of the presentations about white people doing so-called "bad" stuff. Boring!

*facepalm*
02-08-2017 , 12:44 PM
I was getting coffee listening to NPR and they were discussing the bowling green massacre. I was racking my brain trying to remember what it was. "was it a terrorist attack? I don't remember that?" I had no idea what they were talking about. I just assumed it was some civil war massacre until I found out what it was later lol.
02-08-2017 , 12:46 PM
look for further confirmation on this but HUGE IF TRUE

02-08-2017 , 12:46 PM
This is the part where a couple of Syrian refugees murder 15 people in Bowling Green
02-08-2017 , 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Minirra
I know just yesterday I said I hoped Conway would get blocked from CNN, and of course by end of day she was back on.

However after watching Tapper basically mow her down I can't hate it too much. I feel like I just witnessed an assault. Pretty sure she explicitly said that CNN wasn't fake news.
I must say I am very impressed with CNN and i have made sure they get all my TV news time these days. They are actively calling These morons out on all the lies and doing the public a great service. They are being shunned by the administration and their ratings are actually rising because of it. Tapper did a great job yesterday as well
02-08-2017 , 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Holy ****. RedManPlus was Donald Trump, posting in our midst.
A+. thanks for the memory.
02-08-2017 , 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperSwag
I was getting coffee listening to NPR and they were discussing the bowling green massacre. I was racking my brain trying to remember what it was. "was it a terrorist attack? I don't remember that?" I had no idea what they were talking about. I just assumed it was some civil war massacre until I found out what it was later lol.
Apparently, spicer is folding some fictional Atlanta attack into examples of attacks.
02-08-2017 , 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
look for further confirmation on this but HUGE IF TRUE

omg can you imagine the treasure troth of information that he will put out of this happens? Going to be epic. Also this is all so much worse then i imagined.

Completely incompetent inept humans. I have to believe the democrats base will be lit on fire with enthusiasm for the next election after the murder of our once great nation. I only hope we get a real liberal to get behind. and I also hope what Elizabeth Warren experienced yesterday lights her fire and forces her to run for the sake of this nation.
02-08-2017 , 12:53 PM
Has Spicer been there long enough to write his book?
02-08-2017 , 12:54 PM
Remember, Spicer is going two jobs. So if Trump fires him he will need to find 2 replacements lol.
02-08-2017 , 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
Has Spicer been there long enough to write his book?
Three years seems long enough. Oh, right, it's only been three weeks.
02-08-2017 , 12:57 PM
For those who didn't watch it, the entirety of the Rachel Maddow show yesterday is worth watching.

Topics include: Trump not divesting his interests and now saying he will not leave his businesses and new conflicts arriving from that, and the USDA being instructed to take down a database that helps prevent PUPPY TORTURE and then lying to the press and saying it was an Obama administration plan, only to be refuted by those in the Obama administration at the time who said that's a bunch of a bull****.
02-08-2017 , 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Sighsalot
omg can you imagine the treasure troth of information that he will put out of this happens? Going to be epic.
I'll believe it when I see it. Lewandowski was jettisoned and became an even more vocal supporter.
02-08-2017 , 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Sighsalot
omg can you imagine the treasure troth of information that he will put out of this happens? Going to be epic. Also this is all so much worse then i imagined.

Completely incompetent inept humans. I have to believe the democrats base will be lit on fire with enthusiasm for the next election after the murder of our once great nation. I only hope we get a real liberal to get behind. and I also hope what Elizabeth Warren experienced yesterday lights her fire and forces her to run for the sake of this nation.
I think trump would destroy her and I think she loses her own senate re-election. Also unlikely dems would get lit on fire--repubs have 4 years to wear people down and they're going to suppress a ton of D votes.

R's gonna be lit on fire too, they love him.

Spicer wasn't a trump pick and once a woman was portraying him, writing was on the wall.

We're all gonna miss spicer, he's gonna seem reasonable compared to everyone else that's coming down the pike.
02-08-2017 , 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperSwag
Remember, Spicer is going two jobs. So if Trump fires him he will need to find 2 replacements lol.
Which is insane to begin with. Those are both 80-100 hour a week jobs by themselves.

      
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