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03-19-2017 , 08:12 PM

#19676

Minirra

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 1,672

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatkid

I don't know what you people are in a tizzy about. He takes weekends off. What's the big deal?

It's not a big deal, just another demonstration that he's a total hypocrite.

03-19-2017 , 08:34 PM

#19677

Lilu7

Made 2+2 Great Again

Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 2,123

@Mini - fatkid was being sarcastic. this is POTUS, not a regular M-F 9-5. it is a big deal to be vacationing that much with this particular "job." but as other posters have noted, Trump is the one guy where I'd be cool if he vacationed the entire ****ing presidency in the name of mitigating damage to the United States world

03-19-2017 , 08:36 PM

#19678

hornbug

grinder

Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 657

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatkid

I don't know what you people are in a tizzy about. He takes weekends off. What's the big deal?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minirra

It's not a big deal, just another demonstration that he's a total hypocrite.

Its about throwing mud on the wall and hoping something sticks on Trump. Even the minor and meaningless stuff. Now that we are two months into this Presidency it is becoming easier to see that nothing is sticking.

Trump is focused on improving the economy and fixing the over-regulation in the government and slowly his efforts are having a positive effect. All the other stuff is just a side show.

03-19-2017 , 08:40 PM

#19679

Huehuecoyotl

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Aww that mythical overregulation

03-19-2017 , 08:40 PM

#19680

Lilu7

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Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 2,123

saw this after editing my post:

let's do a game guise. first person to quote this original post and expose me to its assuredly unabated aids anyway - loses. We will also be playing this game with: sushy, kreanus, adios, inso, and lew or pew or whoever that latest donk is a page or too back. I'm probably missing several but I think you guise get the gist

Go!

Last edited by Lilu7; 03-19-2017 at 08:47 PM.

03-19-2017 , 08:48 PM

#19681

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,090

Gorka continuing with some extremely strong not-a-Nazi comments:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...nks-hungarian/

Quote:

He insisted that he was not a full member of the Order of Vitez.

“By the bye laws I inherited the title of Vitez through the merits of my father, but I never swore allegiance formally,” he said.

Not a full member and never swore allegiance formally lol these people are so ****ing stupid

03-19-2017 , 08:53 PM

#19682

Autocratic

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If all he did was informally swear allegiance to a Nazi group then I guess Sushy is right.

03-19-2017 , 09:09 PM

#19683

Hired Goons2

adept

Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 875

Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

https://twitter.com/MikeLevinCA/stat...07260344385536

Interesting--this isn't the guy that almost beat Issa last time. He's starting early, I like it.

03-19-2017 , 09:18 PM

#19684

kerowo

lolcat

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 37,183

Quote:

Originally Posted by hornbug

Trump is focused on improving the economy and fixing the over-regulation in the government and slowly his efforts are having a positive effect. All the other stuff is just a side show.

Name 3

03-19-2017 , 09:26 PM

#19685

Lilu7

Made 2+2 Great Again

Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 2,123

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilu7

saw this after editing my post:

Quote:

Originally Posted by kerowo

Name 3

but y tho Kerowo? why?

03-19-2017 , 09:28 PM

#19686

lycosid

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,806

Well, for one, he got them to stop faking employment statistics. Then he dropped the unemployment rate from 40% down to like 4% in just a month.

Actually I'm not sure which of those he did first.

03-19-2017 , 09:31 PM

#19687

Kirbynator

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hornbug is either trolling or deep down in the sewers of delusion

a noticeable positive impact because of the last 2 months?

ROFL

03-19-2017 , 09:36 PM

#19688

kerowo

lolcat

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 37,183

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilu7

but y tho Kerowo? why?

The only way to get him banned is get him to start making claims that he can't back up.

03-19-2017 , 09:40 PM

#19689

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirbynator

hornbug is either trolling or deep down in the sewers of delusion

a noticeable positive impact because of the last 2 months?

ROFL

I'd almost swear he is a bot, his posts read a lot like a reverse of the @arguetron feed at times, but he quotes people from time to time so yeah just a hopeless true believer I guess

03-19-2017 , 09:44 PM

#19690

Huehuecoyotl

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Trump going hard on China

Quote:

After meeting China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday, Tillerson voiced Chinese catchphrases about the relationship, including the avoidance of conflict and confrontation and the need to build “mutual respect” and strive for “win-win” cooperation.

The phrase “mutual respect” is key: In Beijing, that is taken to mean each side should respect the other’s “core interests.”

In other words: The United States should stay away from issues such as Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong — and in principle almost anything China’s Communist Party deems a vital national security concern. Increasingly, that also appears to include China’s territorial claims in the contested waters of the South China Sea.

Jin Canrong, a Sino-U.S. relations expert at Renmin University of China in Beijing, said Tillerson’s comments came as a surprise.

“China has long been advocating this, but the United States has been reluctant to accept the point of ‘mutual respect,’ ” Jin said. “Tillerson’s comment will be very warmly welcomed by China.”

But Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the United States should use its own language to describe bilateral relations, not embrace China’s.

More important, “mutual respect” signals acceptance of “a litany of issues that China views as nonnegotiable,” she said. “By agreeing to this, the U.S. is in effect saying that it accepts that China has no room to compromise on these issues.”

That would be a mistake, said Glaser, adding that China has shown no inclination to accept what might be seen as U.S. “core interests,” such as its alliances in Asia.
...

Nevertheless, Tillerson appears to have given ground to Beijing in a way that the Obama administration had studiously avoided doing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.c8bce15c0f09

03-19-2017 , 09:45 PM

#19691

Namath12

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fantastic diplo work dumbass

03-19-2017 , 09:50 PM

#19692

Sighsalot

adept

Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,055

Drudge for the first tkme posting negative approval ratings for trump near the top of their page. Gallup 37% approve in all red.

03-19-2017 , 09:57 PM

#19693

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

Fake Polls Reach All-Time Low: Signaling Weakness From Obama Govt Holdouts

03-19-2017 , 10:13 PM

#19694

wheatrich

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There's another dead russian. Stabbed in prison. Just embezzled a few million is all, unlikely this is anything other than standard internal putin corruption.

Count appears to be ten in the last year and a half or so of ranking russians just coincidentally getting stabbed, shot, bombed, or poisoned, or "heart attack".

03-19-2017 , 10:18 PM

#19695

markksman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kerowo

Name 3

One big one is the America first nationalism and isolationism is fait accompli as our allies run away as hard and fast as they can from us and the physical and economic threats step up and supplant the us.

In less than two months trump has shown the world they don't really need the US at all. So it will be easy to just crumble inside our own borders.

03-19-2017 , 10:31 PM

#19696

fatkid

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Tapper: Trump eats poo out of his diaper, how does that make you feel?
Blackburn: Gosh oh golly my Lordy I'm just here to take your health care with a smile.

03-19-2017 , 11:47 PM

#19697

5ive

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Remember this next time you want to discuss something with kypenis like he's people:

Quote:

Originally Posted by kypreanus

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If you really want to oppose nazis then you should probably oppose their policies, which means a lot of what democrats and Bernie wants. If we take a short tour back in history we see that the nazis were socialists, just like Bernie, ...

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kypreanus

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Is that group racist than say BLM, who even some blacks say is worse than KKK?

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03-19-2017 , 11:47 PM

#19698

Max Cut

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NY AG Schneiderman has hired one of Preet Bharara's longtime prosecutors to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/sta...44661960990721

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/843633591707992065

www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-attorney-general-steps-up-scrutiny-of-white-house-1489964489?mod=e2twp

03-19-2017 , 11:50 PM

#19699

Minirra

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 1,672

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilu7

Fair enough, I don't know fatkid--my bad fatkid. But would still say golf is not a big deal relative to the larger problems with Trump. I wish "plays a lot of golf for a POTUS" was even a top 10 concern with him.