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saw one of these yesterday as well and was like WTF?

Also re: the EPA changes leak, it seems like a great tactic for Trump to leak totally ridiculous things for the media to report on just so he can flip the script a few days later with an official policy release that isn't quite as crazy(still totally crazy though) and the administration can hammer the media for its "lies".

01-23-2017 , 11:08 AM

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fatkid

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The fate of the free world rests with John McCain and Lindsay Graham.

TRUMP and his team are wiping their asses with the constitution so they DGAF.

01-23-2017 , 11:25 AM

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einbert

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Seems to me it shows they are feeling the heat. It's time to ramp up the calls against confirming Jess Sessions.

01-23-2017 , 11:37 AM

#504

FlyWf

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Originally Posted by juan valdez

Actually wiki exposed a bunch of shady stuff that wasn't clear in the tax returns

These are weak and defensive arguments for the totally off-balance outrage

I know it's tiresome, but no, they didn't. juan is just making **** up here. Wiki didn't expose a bunch of shady stuff that wasn't clear in the tax returns, that's just pure ****ing fiction

01-23-2017 , 11:42 AM

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Money2Burn

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Originally Posted by phillydilly

https://www.axios.com/axios-am-2207230091.html

(Axios has been mentioned on Morning Joe for those not familiar, some of the guys from politico are behind it)

from a leaked "Trump team's "Agency Action" plan for the EPA"

highlights:

Changing the way EPA uses science.
W.T.F.
or, WAAF.

Re: the Clean Water Act executive order, it probably won't change much, that's basically the function the EPA performs currently with respect to delegated programs under the CWA.

01-23-2017 , 11:51 AM

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Terrifying?

Didn't seem terrifying to support someone doing things far more shady than failing to share tax returns and lying about crowd sizes

I'll say it again because you must have missed it the first time: The shady actions of the presidents general election opponent don't make any shady actions by the president ok. Just because you believe Hillary was corrupt / worse doesn't make it ok for Trump to act unethically.

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Originally Posted by juan valdez

Oh hes not giving full cooperation with the media? I guess they will just stop covering him then? I guess he won't be under scrutiny? I guess the media didn't just finish releasing bogus piss stories? I guess the media coverage of the election was even close to reality? Maybe you should be a bit more outraged at the medias behaviour to match your trump pres sec outrage or your crowd size outrage

If you say so it must be true! And no, I'm much more outraged at the President's behavior than the main stream media and it's not even close.

01-23-2017 , 12:04 PM

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To the surprise of exactly nobody, Little Marco is falling in line on Tillerson.

01-23-2017 , 12:45 PM

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bobman0330

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Apparently the cheering and applause for Trump's CIA speech came largely from the handpicked Trump supporters filling the front row?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-...ump-cia-visit/

The brazen narcissism isn't shocking, because it's completely expected, but it's still really disturbing. There is absolutely no way this ends well.

01-23-2017 , 12:53 PM

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Lawnmower Man

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Originally Posted by juan valdez

I suggest you look in to the clinton foundation. This isn't the time or place to go over it.

STUDY IT OUT

01-23-2017 , 12:53 PM

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To the surprise of exactly nobody, Little Marco is falling in line on Tillerson.

Graham and McCain too.

01-23-2017 , 01:04 PM

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FlyWf

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Why the **** did Rubio go so hard at him at the confirmation hearing? That's just incredibly shortsighted.

01-23-2017 , 01:10 PM

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Re: The executive orders Trump signed this AM. Anyone able to explain if this will actually have any tangible effects / real implications for patients trying to get abortions?

01-23-2017 , 01:15 PM

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Halting hiring of federal workers and pay raises, that'll help the middle class! Now let's give some more money to the rich and see what happens

01-23-2017 , 01:19 PM

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Juan's posts in a nutshell:

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01-23-2017 , 01:33 PM

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Why the **** did Rubio go so hard at him at the confirmation hearing? That's just incredibly shortsighted.

I'm not one to give people "4D chess" sort of credit for doing random ****, but I don't think it's shortsighted. Internal dissent gives the party credibility and it lets Rubio toot his own horn about how tough he's being.

01-23-2017 , 01:40 PM

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ScreaminAsian

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Originally Posted by Autocratic

Or it forces Exxon lobbyists to offer him a sweet backroom deal

01-23-2017 , 01:40 PM

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Why the **** did Rubio go so hard at him at the confirmation hearing? That's just incredibly shortsighted.

He comes from the Miami Cuban American community. They absolutely hate anything that smells of soviet, Putin smells of soviet, and Tillerson is friendly with Putin. Doubt it goes much deeper than that.

01-23-2017 , 01:42 PM

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Nah, its just a continuation of the cowardice we saw during election cycle. Rubio is like "the Republican base cannot be okay with this, right..... right?"

His pollster comes back and tells him, nah polls show a majority of Republicans are actually fellating Putin blow-up dolls as we speak. Rubio then faithfully gets on his knees as well.

01-23-2017 , 01:43 PM

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locknopair

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Originally Posted by bobman0330

something tells me there's going to be a lot of clapping with this administration.

01-23-2017 , 02:07 PM

#520

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Originally Posted by juan valdez

Its a good thing this is a safe space for lefty hate. It took me far less to get banned in this section than this baseless accusation of racism

What a wonderful place this is. I have to admit im being swayed by the overwhelming compassion of sjw's, at first i thought it was about acting morally superior and finding someone to hate but this post has swayed me

Dude, you are clueless. You are talking about stuff like Clinton Foundation, emails, and tax audits. If facts actually mattered to you, you'd know how highly regarded the CF is, LOL @ the emails, and know that an audit has nothing to do w/ releasing tax forms.

But you don't care. You've gone down the rabbit hole w/ alternative facts. You are the very personification of the D-K effect.