The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. - Page 652 - Politics and Economics

Not to jump on your case too hard, but this is a huge misconception in the part of the Dems: the idea that there exist reasonable, persuadable Republicans who supported Trump. They just don't. You could show them a video of Trump admitting that he likes to scream the N-word while raping women dressed up as a Klansman as Putin watches and Broadway Sushi would insist it's just a joke or hey remember how Robert Byrd was in the KKK anyway how come 2Chains can drop N-bombs and we can't --if you think about it, that's the real racism right there.

Trump being a racist ******* is a selling point to the Republican base. They already know he's a bigot. The people who insist racism ended 20 years ago are flat-out lying to you and not acting in good faith. The key to winning elections moving forward is not to persuade deplorables but to get the Democratic base to turn out.

Basically, zombie Sartre had the best take on 2017:

I don't think it does anything to the tens of millions of racists. But it will change the narrative a lot and will have an impact on those who didn't vote or voted third party but are not racist. There are millions and millions who absolutely would be woke by it. Even if trump's core would not be.

03-04-2017 , 10:07 PM

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That's incredible.

03-04-2017 , 10:28 PM

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https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/838211155227213825

03-04-2017 , 10:28 PM

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...96746236182529

https://twitter.com/ReignOfApril/sta...35588062330881

I'm not sure it is libel, the bar is pretty high for a public figure - especially a former President. Now, on the other hand if we were to open up the libel laws to make it easier to sue... Who was it that wanted to do that, again?

03-04-2017 , 10:29 PM

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Also man I know Trump is a Master Manipulator who does the best business deals, but I'm pretty sure he's only seen the phrase "wiretapped" written out and so he thinks the present tense is "tapp" because he's a ****ing moron

incredible

i assumed typo and didn't explore it further

03-04-2017 , 10:31 PM

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...96746236182529

https://twitter.com/ReignOfApril/sta...35588062330881

The only person who could sue for libel is Obama, and that's obviously not going to happen, so this is sort of dumb.

03-04-2017 , 10:33 PM

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Tipper Gore was certainly the first second lady with e-mail.

Obviously. Her Husband invented the Internet.

03-04-2017 , 10:34 PM

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Ambassadors gonna ambass.

strong

03-04-2017 , 10:37 PM

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https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/838211155227213825

By the way this guy was Bryan Cohen's father-in-law. Who is Bryan Cohen you wonder? Trump's personal attorney.

03-04-2017 , 10:39 PM

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The only person who could sue for libel is Obama, and that's obviously not going to happen, so this is sort of dumb.

Oh well, dumb idea then.

03-04-2017 , 10:44 PM

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The only person who could sue for libel is Obama, and that's obviously not going to happen, so this is sort of dumb.

That too.

03-04-2017 , 10:46 PM

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NSFW language

Spoiler:

https://twitter.com/DonCheadle/statu...63171055566848

03-04-2017 , 10:49 PM

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All good.

03-04-2017 , 10:49 PM

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Odds trump knows what McCarthyism is?

Sign of the times that was my first thought as well.

03-04-2017 , 10:55 PM

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03-04-2017 , 10:56 PM

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Another good McCarthyism:

"I'm a highly successful NFL coach."

03-04-2017 , 10:57 PM

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Another good McCarthyism:

"I'm a highly successful NFL coach."

Lol as a cowboys fan that makes me sad.

03-04-2017 , 11:02 PM

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"Have you seen my baseball?"

03-04-2017 , 11:07 PM

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i just figured out why trump spends so much time at mar-a-lago

U.S. Can’t Effectively Counter Nuclear Threat, Times Finds

03-04-2017 , 11:09 PM

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Oronov died 2 days ago (a russian dies and it doesn't sniff the news), reportedly organized the meeting--the one where trumps lawyer and some people tried to blackmail pres of ukraine, that one. No big deal there.

Other russian or ukrainian, whatever, put blame on NYT, because since NYT outed them, they're on the list. Fair point, the morons at CNN outed the dossier UK spy.

he admitted the meeting took place and he met trump's lawyer. Well there's that part of the dossier at least. It also sounded as if he thinks it was a suicide tho but w/e. I'm just gonna trust the translation of his facebook post is close enough.

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03-04-2017 , 11:11 PM

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We already knew / suspected (per Guardian) that the FISA court turned down requests by the FBI

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The Guardian has learned that the FBI applied for a warrant from the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court over the summer in order to monitor four members of the Trump team suspected of irregular contacts with Russian officials. The Fisa court turned down the application asking FBI counter-intelligence investigators to narrow its focus. According to one report, the FBI was finally granted a warrant in October, but that has not been confirmed, and it is not clear whether any warrant led to a full investigation.

Odds they just said "Oh Well" and went home? Of course not. Take note of Favreau tweet clarifying former WH staffer.

SmartTrump looks like he's trying to taint any possible fruit of surveillance as Obama dirty tricks.
Or DumbTrump is shocked to learn universal surveillance includes him.

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