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02-22-2017 , 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by General Tsao
Trump asking the black reporter if she can set up a meeting with the CBC isn't racism either. Racism is the belief that people are inherently inferior based on their race.
So, is it just stupidity why Trump thinks all black people know each other?
02-22-2017 , 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by sportsjefe
From captain Ayn Rand.



https://twitter.com/PRyan/status/834140136082284544
Pretty sad Ryan doesn't understand the ACA.

OR in 2017

Ryan doesn't understand Obamacare. SAD!
02-22-2017 , 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by will1530
This is pretty meh. Owning any sort of foreign property can disqualify you from obtaining a security clearance. As can having a dual citizen spouse, living with a person who uses medical marijuana, and having financial trouble after **** like losing a job during the recession.
Yeah but traditionally higher level positions would be vetted by the incoming presidents staff before the FBI clearance takes place.

Trump doesn't have anyone on his staff that knows this stuff
02-22-2017 , 05:56 PM
It seems like there was a full court press to put out stuff promising, once again, a Republican replacement for Obamacare will be good instead of bad, no followup questions please.

Something that has aged real well are all the fights we got into in the Obamacare thread where liberals tried to get into the policy weeds and the chain email gang would run away. We're talking about life and death for millions of very real people here.
02-22-2017 , 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by DrChesspain
So, is it just stupidity why Trump thinks all black people know each other?
I am probably giving Trump wayyyy to much credit here, but I thought he was just trying to say "sure, I'll meet with them, you wanna call them yourself and set it up, are they friends of yours?"... not meaning she must know them because she's black, but just being defensive about the question, like he's defensive about every question.

He is just a really dumb person and I think he would have given the same response to a white reporter.
02-22-2017 , 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by General Tsao
The level of denial in this thread is nuts. If you guys can't learn from this election, wow. We're in for a crazy ride.
Nope, HRC lost because of the Russians hacking and Comey.
02-22-2017 , 05:59 PM
Hillary admittedly ran a terrible campaign, but she most likely did lose because of Comey, actually.
02-22-2017 , 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by markksman
Pretty sad Ryan doesn't understand the ACA.

OR in 2017

Ryan doesn't understand Obamacare. SAD!
Ryan's entire job function now seems to be flip-flopping on a weekly basis as to whether or not he backs Trump, and Tweeting about getting rid of Obamacare and replacing it with something better without ever actually trying to do so in real life.

I just looked at his Twitter timeline. Stopped at four dozen negative references to Obamacare, and I haven't gotten out of February yet. It's incredible. What a ****ing goofball.
02-22-2017 , 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
It seems like there was a full court press to put out stuff promising, once again, a Republican replacement for Obamacare will be good instead of bad, no followup questions please.

Something that has aged real well are all the fights we got into in the Obamacare thread where liberals tried to get into the policy weeds and the chain email gang would run away. We're talking about life and death for millions of very real people here.
lol remember that insurance agent guy? it may make me a bad person but it's really hard for me to not just point and laugh at dumbass trump voters who are about to lose their health care.
02-22-2017 , 06:01 PM
i wonder if Ryan might try to sneakily get his one time through to become president
02-22-2017 , 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by revots33
Hillary admittedly ran a terrible campaign, but she most likely did lose because of Comey, actually.
If you were her, based on the polling, would you have spent significant time in MI and WI? She went to PA/NC/FL and lost all three narrowly.

If you told anyone prior to 11/8 that she'd get 65.8 million votes and win the popular vote by 2.1% and 2.85 million total, would you have thought she'd hold based on the possible electoral map breakdowns? Face it, no one thought she was losing the trio that ended up burying her.

People in the Rust Belt chose to stupidly believe Trump's rhetoric about high-paying manufacturing and coal mining jobs coming back. They're going to spend four years now watching as he ignores them.
02-22-2017 , 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by revots33
Hillary admittedly ran a terrible campaign, but she most likely did lose because of Comey, actually.
Yep cost her WI, PA, MI, NC, FL, and OH.
02-22-2017 , 06:07 PM
So the plan is to use Mexico as a dumping ground for illegal immigrants from around the world.

Bunch of loons.
02-22-2017 , 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by revots33
Hillary admittedly ran a terrible campaign, but she most likely did lose because of Comey, actually.
I think had he waited til after the election to close the 2nd reopening of the case she would have won. Him closing it back up 4 days or whatever it was before the election after reopening it I think killed her. I think it drove more people to vote against her
02-22-2017 , 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by adios
Nope, HRC lost because of the Russians hacking and Comey.
Nope, Hillary actually won. She was just foiled by a time traveler who went back 200 years to rig the constitution against her.
02-22-2017 , 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by campfirewest
Nope, Hillary actually won. She was just foiled by a time traveler who went back 200 years to rig the constitution against her.
Yeah.
02-22-2017 , 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul D
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL



Even if that is true, Trump has nothing to do with it.

Good old adios in P7 thrad.
I defer to an economic genius!!!!!!!

Thanks for weighing in.
02-22-2017 , 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by BMOL33
I think had he waited til after the election to close the 2nd reopening of the case she would have won. Him closing it back up 4 days or whatever it was before the election after reopening it I think killed her. I think it drove more people to vote against her
Yep she would have won WI, MI, PA, FL, NC, and OH if he would have done that.
02-22-2017 , 06:20 PM
She ran a terrible campaign in that it was bad enough that the Comey letter's late swing pushed her into losing, but adios, you know she only needed to win 3 of those six states, right? Not all of them?

LOL Trump's horrible unpopular Presidency is really rattling these guys. Someone like adios exists in a near constant haze of politics-as-entertainment and nothing made him happier than Hillary losing, but that high was 3 months ago now and all he has now is an endless churn of scandals and incompetence.
02-22-2017 , 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Dominic
Seriously, I do care actually care about the factory worker, but I also think that it would be better to invest in alternative energy for both the country and that factory worker - there should be training programs for these people to help them switch over to a non-dying industry. Supporting coal mining is not going to solve the problem.
Solar employed 374000 people in the US last year. It's the leading employer in the electrical power industry and employs far more people than coal.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7541971.html
02-22-2017 , 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by adios
I defer to an economic genius!!!!!!!

Thanks for weighing in.
Your post is a joke.

Explain how Trump will strengthen the wealth of minorities through his own policies (and not employers being less racist these days in terms of pay). Because I want a good laugh.
02-22-2017 , 06:46 PM
What percentage of white males/females with no college degree under 50 do you think voted for Trump?
02-22-2017 , 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by DrChesspain
So, is it just stupidity why Trump thinks all black people know each other?
I mean, that's one possible reason? The only thing it definitely isn't is racism. Again, racism is the idea that certain races are inherently inferior than others. Even if Trump thinks all black people know each other, that's not a racist belief, it's just blindingly stupid. But, let's go into other possible reasons why he made that comment to that reporter:

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Originally Posted by revots33
I am probably giving Trump wayyyy to much credit here, but I thought he was just trying to say "sure, I'll meet with them, you wanna call them yourself and set it up, are they friends of yours?"... not meaning she must know them because she's black, but just being defensive about the question, like he's defensive about every question.

He is just a really dumb person and I think he would have given the same response to a white reporter.
Defensive is definitely it, he probably thought the question was a plant/attack from the CBC on him.

Have you people not watched him ever before? A Jewish reporter started a question with essentially "My community KNOWS you are NOT antisemitic because of these reasons, but what can you do to stop the Antisemitism in the US" and he flipped out, told the reporter to sit down and went on about how he is not antisemitic.

The guy thinks every question is an attack on him personally.

Regardless, nothing racist about asking a black reporter if she knows people in the CBC, or even assuming that she does even if you are assuming it because she is black. That is not racism, it's not bigotry, sorry guys. If you're assuming she's genetically inferior in some way because she is black, that is racism.

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Originally Posted by adios
Nope, HRC lost because of the Russians hacking and Comey.
Yep, they've got it all figured out. As long as the US invades Russia, and replaces Comey, they will win in 2020.
02-22-2017 , 06:49 PM
White House anti terrorism expert Gorka is an idiot in his own field

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Gorka was joined on a panel by two well-respected counterterrorism and national-security experts — Georgia State University professor Mia Bloom and Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow Clint Watts.

But he showed up unprepared, Bloom and Watts said, refusing to answer the questions that had been provided to the panelists weeks in advance.

Bloom told Business Insider that before things got underway, the panel organizer started to discuss which panelists would answer which questions. Gorka, she said, refused to answer anything.

"Gorka stood up after me and said, 'Well, I've been invited here under false pretenses. I couldn't possibly address this level of granularity,'" Bloom said. "He made it sound like he had no idea that they were going to ask us these questions."

Watts, a former Army officer and FBI agent, confirmed this description of events, characterizing Gorka's performance as a "disaster."

"Instead of participating in the panel the way he was supposed to, he was kind of grandstanding," Watts said. "He said, 'I'm going to stand up because I'm a lecturer and I want to see the crowd,' and I thought, this is bulls---. You don't act like that."

Bloom and Watts also said he tried to use the panel as a platform to sell his book.
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Terrorism and national-security experts have been going after Gorka on Twitter for weeks.

"I call him the Simon Cowell of counterterrorism," Watts told Business Insider.

Watts said he's met Gorka about a half-dozen times on panels and conferences over the past several years and added that he's "always very negative and very controversial."

Michael S. Smith II, a terrorism analyst who has advised members of Congress and White House officials, said "no one has anything nice to say" about Gorka. Smith said he has the level of expertise "one would expect from a Congressional intern."

"His work is of little interest because he has never — not that I can think of — contributed anything to the body of knowledge which informs understandings of threats posed by the Salafi-jihadist groups of interest to him," Smith told Business Insider.
http://www.businessinsider.com/sebas...profile-2017-2
02-22-2017 , 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by will1530
That's not the way the process works for anybody. You fill out your clearance paperwork. Your local organization (this case the white house) grants or denies an interim clearance (you can have limited access at this point), then the department gets a cut (OPM?) and can continue the interim clearance or pull it, then the clearance adjudicators make the final call once the investigation is complete. To make it worse, all of this is subjective and nobody uses identical criteria in making the call on who does or doesn't get an interim/final clearance.

To put it another way, completely standard **** for all civil service security positions.
oh my bad, thanks for the post.

      
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