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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 , 02:27 PM
Anthony Robbins is another very serious possibility. He'd probably rally the dumb voters even better than Trump.

Be a Republican though, but fortunately he's not crazy.
02-08-2017 , 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by master3004
Nice, that's nice.
ISIS just isn't seeing the 8th dimensional chess Trump is playing. Bannon has them right where he wants them.
02-08-2017 , 02:41 PM
Please no. I hope the parties institute some rule saying candidates have to have some sort of govt exp to be a party nominee. Trump has been even more of a ****show just due to the zero knowledge he has of govt.
02-08-2017 , 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by eurodp
Please no. I hope the parties institute some rule saying candidates have to have some sort of govt exp to be a party nominee. Trump has been even more of a ****show just due to the zero knowledge he has of govt.
The real problem is that Trump didn't hire people who knew what to do. He fired Christie (who was assembling a proper transition team) and has Bannon and Kushner as two top advisors, neither of which had any experience in government. He did get Prince Penis for Chief of Staff, but I'm not sure how much he listens to him.
02-08-2017 , 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
He voted against the person who wanted to intervene with the Assad's attack on Syrian rebels. He supports the guy who wants to keep Assad in power.
Assad is going to stay in power now anyway. The opportunity to get rid of him has long gone.

Trump is more interested in Assad being against Isis, which is in America's interests. Remember Trump campaigned on putting America first. America's number one enemy at the moment is Isis and radical Islam not Assad.
02-08-2017 , 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Yeah like, y'all aren't thinking this through. Normal people lie for very, very specific reasons, in very, very specific ways. "I wasn't home the night my husband was murdered" "The check is in the mail" and so forth. Normal people's lies are aware of the reality, aware that the reality is bad for them, and they use their critical thinking ability to come up with a plausible story that is better for them.

Trump just lies to lie. Reality is not a thing he cares about, he creates his own reality. That's very different than just being wrong or incorrect. Lots of people are incorrect without lying, but those are honest mistakes. Trump doesn't sincerely believe he's accurately describing reality, the concept of "accurately describing reality" is just entirely foreign to his worldview.
Maybe he thinks reality bends to his whims. It amuses me that he's apparently correct.

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Originally Posted by Clovis8
Trump is some kind of cartoon villain. He snap takes the most idiotic and offensive position on everything.
God he amuses me. Absurdity is a treasure.

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Originally Posted by Kafja
In defense of LordJvKs point though -

What exactly does 'great communicator' mean? Was Obama a great communicator? Obviously he spoke eloquently in long, thought out paragraphs, with good grammar and a broad vocabulary, about things he was well informed about. But if x% of the country (20? 40? Who knows at this point) is functionally incapable of understanding him, is that good communication?

Whereas Trump speaks stupidly and incoherently about things he is extremely poorly informed about, but the general thrust of what he's saying is clear to even the most incompetent. Hillary bad, terrorists bad, America good, bring back jobs, etc. Maybe that's the point being made?
Obama's an excellent communicator and speaker. So, obv yes. Too many cons, and not enough pros, to be dumbing himself down for those incapable of understanding him.

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Originally Posted by RV Life
So Trump is firing this guy not because he's bad at his job but because he was portrayed by a woman on SNL right?
Once Spice was accurately portrayed by a woman he was no longer considered masculine enough to be Trump's lackey.

I'm content since jumping on the nihilism train. Burn it all, idgaf. I think it's unlikely that there's a meaning or purpose to anything beyond procreating. And even that, wgaf? So our species dies out. No great loss.
02-08-2017 , 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by BroadwaySushy
Assad is going to stay in power now anyway. The opportunity to get rid of him has long gone.

Trump is more interested in Assad being against Isis, which is in America's interests. Remember Trump campaigned on putting America first. America's number one enemy at the moment is Isis and radical Islam not Assad.
Assad fuels ISIS for this exact reason. Assad doesn't want ISIS to go away as long as there are more moderate rebels who want Assad gone because he can point to his attacks on more moderate rebels as attacks on ISIS. The vast majority of deaths in Syria come from the regime.
02-08-2017 , 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by BroadwaySushy
Assad is going to stay in power now anyway. The opportunity to get rid of him has long gone.

Trump is more interested in Assad being against Isis, which is in America's interests. Remember Trump campaigned on putting America first. America's number one enemy at the moment is Isis and radical Islam not Assad.
No, but it's cute that you think that.
02-08-2017 , 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Minirra
Twitter feed filled with "Jake Tapper and Kelly Anne Conway Spar," "Heated Exchange between CNN Tapper and Conway" etc

Not exactly how I would categorize it lol
A better analogy is that it was an re-enactment of Hell in a Cell with Tapper as Undertaker and Kellyanne as Mankind
02-08-2017 , 02:58 PM
How much longer until Trump cans the entire press secretary position and does the daily briefings himself?
02-08-2017 , 03:00 PM
A good leader (President) puts people in a position to succeed with their jobs. Trump is an authoritarian that says "This job needs to be done." and expects whoever he puts in that position to understand the job even if that person is not qualified. Trump's the type of guy that would hire Bill Belichick to run a basketball team because "he's good at sports" after he fired Phil Jackson for calling him a dumbass.
02-08-2017 , 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by DeroDeniro
How much longer until Trump cans the entire press secretary position and does the daily briefings himself?
Why would he give press any time when all they do is not cover tragedies against white people enough and FAKE NEWS. Kappa
02-08-2017 , 03:05 PM
Assassinate Assad (on general principle, he has it coming, no right to walk away from this alive, etc.), let the chips fall where they may, and lets see who ends up on top. A terribly short-sighted plan you say? Idgaf. If the rebels win, we win, if Isis wins, we just bomb the **** out of them until they no longer feel like winners.
02-08-2017 , 03:08 PM
Spice, girl? going all in defending Trump's Ivanka/Nordstrom nonsense

"He has every right to stand up for his family."
02-08-2017 , 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
Spice, girl? going all in defending Trump's Ivanka/Nordstrom nonsense

"He has every right to stand up for his family."
Yup, and if Norstrom's earnings decline and people lose their jobs over this then I wonder what he'll say?
02-08-2017 , 03:10 PM
This conservative talk show host says that he and others have been feeding their base bull and now he thinks they need to walk that back. As in he recognizes what monster they have created out of their base. He now cares about fabrications only because he thinks they will weaken the party in the future. He apparently had no issue with it when it got them votes based on utter nonsense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/o...?smid=tw-share
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Perhaps just as important, it will be incumbent on conservative media outlets to push back as well. Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter. There may be short-term advantages to running headlines about millions of illegal immigrants voting or secret United Nations plots to steal your guns, but the longer the right enables such fabrications, the weaker it will be in the long run. As uncomfortable as it may be, it will fall to the conservative media to police its worst actors.
02-08-2017 , 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
A better analogy is that it was an re-enactment of Hell in a Cell with Tapper as Undertaker and Kellyanne as Mankind
"You're lying to me right now"

JR: "dear god king, would somebody stop the damn match!"
02-08-2017 , 03:13 PM
Threats to America, ranked:
1. Trump
2. The white supremacists he has emboldened

Gap

Everyone else
02-08-2017 , 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
Has Spicer been there long enough to write his book?
No doubt Spicer is gonna have to receive some hush money to keep him from releasing too much information.
02-08-2017 , 03:17 PM
lol every time a serviceman dies, the operations is a success, or you're a traitor
02-08-2017 , 03:18 PM
It's disgusting how Spicer is hanging the death of a service member out there as a way ignore a legitimate question.
02-08-2017 , 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by JordanIB
lol every time a serviceman dies, the operations is a success, or you're a traitor
the irony being that he released his list of however many attacks not being reported on enough but funny enough, I haven't heard much about that Yemen mission since Spicer blamed Obama for it.
02-08-2017 , 03:27 PM
Spicer- "Fear fear fear...fear, FearFearFear.

Fear!

fear."
02-08-2017 , 03:27 PM
Cyber! Drink!

      
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