The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. - Page 520 - Politics and Economics

Two Plus Two Forums Other Topics Politics

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

...

Page 520 of 5382

First

20 320 420 470 500 510 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 530 540 570 620 720 1020 1520

Last

Page 520 of 5382

First

20 320 420 470 500 510 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 530 540 570 620 720 1020 1520

Last

02-23-2017 , 01:43 PM

#12976

aoFrantic

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 25,218

Quote:

Originally Posted by dinopoker

Well to be fair, a big reason for this is because we have the US right next door and can see how screwed up their system is by contrast.

Sure. I'm obviously not saying Canada got anywhere close to perfecting Healthcare. But if you polled Canadians on which they would prefer I doubt you would get 2% for the American model

02-23-2017 , 01:52 PM

#12977

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

I called the State Sen.'s office this morning to confirm the Twitter account, but they wouldn't confirm or deny it. It is linked to his Facebook account where he has posted very similar posts and memes as well, and which seems to be legit and has his real office number posted on it. I just called back again to confirm the account, but got voicemail. I'll try again this afternoon.

Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel: 601-649-8611

02-23-2017 , 01:55 PM

#12978

Matt_PBA

grinder

Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 406

Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel: 601-649-8611

I guess political discourse has died. To be fair, it has been dead for a while. We are never going to get any where if we cannot exchange ideas in a calm and effective manner. Oh well, it's been a good run!

02-23-2017 , 02:08 PM

#12979

Max Cut

Guest

Posts: n/a

Quote:

Originally Posted by weeeez

Quote:

"[Trump] needs to drain the swamp of judges, too," he said. "I don't care what he does. I'm behind him 100 percent. Put it this way: If he became a dictator, and they said, 'We want him in forever,' he's my man. He's in. I'll never vote against him ... I love his power ... It's the power that does something to me."

try to reason with this

from http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...florida-rally/ about the rally

Sorry, I missed it. Which state is this Rep Senator from?

02-23-2017 , 02:14 PM

#12980

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Real talk, this is a terrible sign for the future of freedom in our country.

Custom Agents Check IDs of Passengers As They Disembark Domestic Flight

Quote:

"When we were getting out there were two customs agents," he recalled. "I don't think they had a clipboard or a list. I think they were just looking at everybody's ID. They did it really carefully. You could tell they weren't just looking for a name. They read my entire ID and looked at me the entire time. I was probably the tenth person off the plane, and they did the same for everyone in front of me."
When the plane landed, O'Rouke said, a flight attendant announced over the intercom that all passengers should take out their identification.
"The head flight attendant came on and said, 'Please have your papers ready' three or four times," O'Rouke recalled. Passengers then asked why papers were necessary on a domestic flight. "Someone corrected her and she said, 'Oh I mean photo IDs,'" he added. "To which people were kind of weirded out."
"I flew almost 200,000 miles last year," O'Rouke said. "I've never had my ID checked getting off a domestic flight."

02-23-2017 , 02:23 PM

#12981

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 100,229

Quote:

Originally Posted by Autocratic

Well, if I had to put my opinion into specific words it would be like "almost certainly racism," because none of the other relevant variables have ever led to any President's citizenship being similarly questioned.

It's ****ing baffling that in 2017 you can be a person of any intelligence and basically think that nothing is racist unless it's completely explicit. Like, ANY amount of concealment by racists will successfully throw you off the trail. Some dude is like "I ****ing hate black people. Except Steve Harvey." And you're like "well that's not racist, it doesn't apply to all black people! I wonder what his reason is for hating the rest of them is?!?" You're just stumped!

In Lestat's world there are 2 tests to determine if someone is racist. 1) Do they the n-word? 2) Do they say "I am a racist"?

Everything else is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

02-23-2017 , 02:26 PM

#12982

13ball

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 12,912

Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

I'm going to reserve judgement until General Tsao explains how this is all liberal' fault.

02-23-2017 , 02:26 PM

#12983

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

02-23-2017 , 02:31 PM

#12984

RV Life

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 1,935

Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel: 601-649-8611

If this is real, it's just so LOL.

Like, this guy is willing to turn the country back 50 years just to see liberal tears. Amazing.

02-23-2017 , 02:42 PM

#12985

batair

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 16,802

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2017/...n-on-protests/

And we need to worry about SJW and their safe places. Sure.

02-23-2017 , 02:46 PM

#12986

Chippa58

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 2,259

Tillerson's script-reading aptitude actually makes Trump's look fairly good by comparison.

02-23-2017 , 02:46 PM

#12987

dinopoker

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 9,437

Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

Real talk, this is a terrible sign for the future of freedom in our country.

Custom Agents Check IDs of Passengers As They Disembark Domestic Flight

America. Nice country.

Used to be anyways.

02-23-2017 , 02:47 PM

#12988

Money2Burn

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 12,628

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

It's pretty obvious that the history of the universe up to 2016 was procedurally generated backstory. We're currently living in the opening cinematic. This kind of has a JRPG feel, so there's probably a small pack of kids with weird hair in the boonies somewhere killing rabbits with sticks and rudimentary magic and gradually getting more powerful. Invest in airship stock.

Makes perfect sense if Donald Trump is the avatar of a skilled 13year old kid subsisting on cheetoes and Mountain Dew shouting racial slurs into his headset.

02-23-2017 , 03:02 PM

#12989

AllTheCheese

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 11,898

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

The comments, as usual, have some horrible content, but it's more than just the usual racism and trolling.

There's no chance these two idiots are coming up with this independently. Some where on right wing media they are calling for government censorship of these stories and using this "weoponized text" phrase.

Ok, I couldn't just post that without searching.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.breit...hms-tmobile-us

Assange and Breitbart for one.

LOL "weaponized text." Could they be a bigger group of pussies? Somebody find those gentlemen a safe space from all these word mortars and fact grenades.

02-23-2017 , 03:06 PM

#12990

General Tsao

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 30,586

Quote:

Originally Posted by .Alex.

I love how the brilliant critical thinkers in this thread - Lestat, Slanksy, Taso - have 0 contributions to policy, 0 meaningful discussion on any topic, 0 critical analysis of anything the administration is doing. The only thing they are here for is to argue the Nth horrifying thing that Republicans have done is not racist and how dare liberals try to claim that it is.

Fly is right, you're all right wing nut jobs.

Right wing nut job who is pro-choice, pro 4th amendment, anti-war, pro gay marriage, pro drug decriminalization, pro-refugee, pro-immigration (legal and illegal).

Fascinating stuff, as usual! Refining right wing, redefining conservative. A++++

Also "0 contributions to policy", did I miss something here where 2+2 posters are contributing to policy in any way?

02-23-2017 , 03:06 PM

#12991

Kirbynator

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 52,004

the whole russian thing with crimea, trump's lawyer and flynn seems to be getting confirmed

02-23-2017 , 03:07 PM

#12992

Kukraprout

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 11,231

The video game we're in is obviously some sort of sandbox world-building game where you can unleash disasters when you get bored, ala Godzilla in Sim City. Someone made a country that crushed every other one in terms of economy, cultural influence, and army, and then decided to ruin it in the most hilarious way possible.

02-23-2017 , 03:08 PM

#12993

yeSpiff

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,313

Quote:

Originally Posted by Money2Burn

Makes perfect sense if Donald Trump is the avatar of a skilled 13year old kid subsisting on cheetoes and Mountain Dew shouting racial slurs into his headset.

Last edited by yeSpiff; 02-23-2017 at 03:08 PM. Reason: contributing to policy

02-23-2017 , 03:14 PM

#12994

master3004

Revisionist Historian

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 56,466

Quote:

Originally Posted by BMOL33

Anyone who doesn't think at least some of the people in these town halls are activists posing as republicans are out of their minds. It's only been a few weeks of the new administration, there is no way the true GOP base would be this fired up over lack of Obamacare reform this fast. This was a piss poor effort of deception too if you ask me, at least wait til July or August to start this, then it might be remotely believable

Dafuq?

02-23-2017 , 03:18 PM

#12995

master3004

Revisionist Historian

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 56,466

Quote:

Originally Posted by aoFrantic

Bmo is an alt right troll. The only thing most Canadians are more proud of than Healthcare is their men's hockey teams.

Well, except for Jets fans

02-23-2017 , 03:18 PM

#12996

markksman

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20,921

Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Your president, America!

,

02-23-2017 , 03:23 PM

#12997

master3004

Revisionist Historian

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 56,466

Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

Real talk, this is a terrible sign for the future of freedom in our country.

Custom Agents Check IDs of Passengers As They Disembark Domestic Flight

Can somebody break down the legality of what happens if you don't follow the request? I know you have to obey the rules of the captain while on an actual flight, but what about in a terminal?

02-23-2017 , 03:23 PM

#12998

Namath12

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 55,849

Quote:

Originally Posted by master3004

Dafuq?

same genius who claims essentially that judges are incapable of impartiality because of peer pressure from other judges

02-23-2017 , 03:28 PM

#12999

General Tsao

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 30,586

- Check IDs at airport security before departing - No problem
- Violate the 4th amendment of all passengers by forcing them to go through a body scanner, or, receive a friendly rub down by TSA - No problem! More please!!
- Check IDs when disembarking from the plane - WHOA WHOA WHOA NOW JUST WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?