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

12-07-2017 , 10:02 AM
Someone tell rara about Dr. Ron Paul's exciting new Bitcoin IRA.
12-07-2017 , 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by raradevils
Improvements in medicine have nothing to do with either of those. FWIW they may have found the "fountain of youth" by giving olds plasma from kids it's showing signs of reversing the aging process. That will make those baby boomers hanging around much longer.
Not content with stealing all their money, using up and wasting all their resources and destroying their environment boomers are literally taking the blood of the future generations for their own selfish ends. Is there a more perfect example of the WOAT generation in action?
12-07-2017 , 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by stinkubus
Do you have a link to a story about this Fountain of Youth, Ponce De Leon?.
Think he is referring to this

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...g-mice-studies
12-07-2017 , 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by danspartan
Thanks for linking it for me.
12-07-2017 , 10:25 AM
Mice studies? LOL wake me up when human clinical trials have begun. Or better yet until it's a real treatment that is so inexpensive no one will need Medicare or Medicaid to afford it.
12-07-2017 , 10:25 AM
Kushner has amended his disclosure forms 39 times.
12-07-2017 , 10:26 AM
Rara taking solace in the fact that he and his brethren will be around to **** things up for a few years longer, really brings a tear to your eye.
12-07-2017 , 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by dth123451
Kushner has amended his disclosure forms 39 times.
It's not his fault they keep finding out about more and more of the dodgy **** he's been involved with and lied about.
12-07-2017 , 10:27 AM
Small, dense text but Weber on political narcissism is worth a read. (Can blow up to larger size on twitter.)

12-07-2017 , 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Jiggymike
Rara taking solace in the fact that he and his brethren will be around to **** things up for a few years longer, really brings a tear to your eye.
Seriously. The one word reductive answer to the question 'why is the world so ****ed up?' is Boomers.
12-07-2017 , 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
I've seen what dementia does to people. Both of my maternal grandparents had it for nearly 10 years. You're a prisoner in your own body. It looks like absolute torture.

So it'd be a fitting end for Trump.
idk, people with dementia just seem like they're really really stoned to me. They may get agitated from time to time, but for the most part they seem content to be preoccupied with simple things and stare off into space.

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Originally Posted by Matty Lice
Trump spending his last years drooling about Mickey D's and well done steaks covered in ketchup while he stares into a funny mirror above his bed is schadenfreude.

Like, if the dude goes to prison, we never hear form him again. When was the last time Jerry Sandusky made the news? It would be the same thing.
I guess I have greater expectations from schadenfreude. Trump's greatest fear is failure. I want him to fail bigly and be fully aware of it.
12-07-2017 , 10:44 AM
12-07-2017 , 10:46 AM
Grenada is one of the few US military actions that had the support of the people there, many of them anyway. In Grenada they celebrate Thanksgiving marking the date of the US invasion.

No pass for Reagan generally though. At least 100k people were murdered in illegal secret wars he supported in Central America.
12-07-2017 , 10:57 AM
The promise of white supremacy is still the greatest con going. Trump lamented multiple times that we couldn't even take care of our vets because immigrants and trade were stealing on the money/jobs

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Four days after Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin held a big Washington event to tout the Trump administration’s promise to house all homeless vets, the agency did an about-face, telling advocates it was pulling resources from a major housing program.

The VA said it was essentially ending a special $460 million program that has dramatically reduced homelessness among chronically sick and vulnerable veterans. Instead, the money would go to local VA hospitals that can use it as they like, as long as they show evidence of dealing with homelessness.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/...s-trump-207781
12-07-2017 , 10:59 AM
Very few actually care about veterans in the abstract. That rhetoric is just a means to silence critics.
12-07-2017 , 11:09 AM
It really is funny how Trump holds up everything he signs with the same excitement of a 2 year old that just discovered the potty for the first time.
12-07-2017 , 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Matty Lice
It really is funny how Trump holds up everything he signs with the same excitement of a 2 year old that just discovered the potty for the first time.
12-07-2017 , 11:21 AM
I expect that VA funding is ultimately aimed at a privatized VA.

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com...ans-healthcare
12-07-2017 , 11:25 AM
We already have a privatized VA, it's called the hospital.
12-07-2017 , 11:27 AM





Twitter is swift and merciless...
12-07-2017 , 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Riverman
Uh, no. There are exactly zero people changing their vote because one of Mueller's guys texted whatever. Zero.

The #1 biggest problem with the Democratic Party is buying the NYT/WaPo narrative that the key to their success is winning "centrists." That's complete garbage. Policy oriented people whose vote is up for grabs simply do not exist.
This is a not a good take.

The new Republican defense of Trump is a campaign to discredit Robert Mueller

If you haven't noticed, the right wing media is a zillion times better at creating a compelling narrative than the reality based media. That's their strength: when you can just make stuff up to fill in the gaps, it's way easier to be persuasive than when you are actually dealing in messy, uncertain reality. Giving the right wing media even meager truths reported widely by evil left wing media sources makes their narrative seem much more legitimate. Look at how much more effective Benghazi and her emails are than Uranium One. I mean it's all bull****, but Benghazi and her emails are based on actual news stories while Uranium One is full stop conspiratorial nonsense without a story that is worth printing in a serious publication.

Unless you're contending that the right wing will figure out something equally compelling to attack Mueller on and the texts just happened to be the thing they chose out of convenience, which might have some truth. Or if you think the alternative fact media does not in fact fuel Trumpism and America's new affinity for fascism. Otherwise, we need to avoid unforced errors.
12-07-2017 , 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by jman220
Yes it does, but even more basic than that, only an attorney can claim attorney client privilege to avoid answering a question... You can't claim it on a conversation between two non-attorneys simply because there was also an attorney there.
He must have spoken to his lawyer before this interview and received specific advice on how to answer questions he didn't want to answer. Obviously that advice was not "just claim attorney client privilege." He can't be this dumb. And yet there's the evidence.
12-07-2017 , 11:30 AM
America's proto-fascist tendencies have always been a fact of life. Last year was just the first time (since maybe Nixon) that someone like that was on the menu.
12-07-2017 , 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Matty Lice
It really is funny how Trump holds up everything he signs with the same excitement of a 2 year old that just discovered the potty for the first time.
And he had the top admin people in a cirlce take turns saying what a good boy he is or he would wish them into the corn field.

Damn. He and his voters have really effed things up. At Christmas you people with Trumpkins in your family need to take action. Revolutionary action.
12-07-2017 , 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by stinkubus
America's proto-fascist tendencies have always been a fact of life. Last year was just the first time (since maybe Nixon) that someone like that was on the menu.
Pat Buchanan.

      
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