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01-20-2017 , 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
Does it then turn into oil? cause that would be sweet

But anyway we've been over this.ikes and it's not just that coal is horribly polluty (it is), it's that plus there are cleaner and more efficient and cheaper sources of energy that don't require a certain # of people to die each year extracting. Coal jerbs aren't coming back, period. There's literally nothing Trump can do to make that a reality, except to ban fracking, which we know he won't do. It's far better to piss off Joe the Coalminer than Joseph the Fracking Energy Magnate.
No, but it does frequently leak out.
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01-20-2017 , 05:34 PM
If you voted for trump because:

1. Your tax bracket
2. You're a systematically unemployed person and trump is the only person reaching out to you
3. You're a republican and you feel your values and priorities will be better addressed

So be it

If you voted for trump because:
1. Bernie
2. Emails
3. Wikileaks
4. Benghazi
5. #AnyoneButHillary
6. A wall
7. **** Islam
8. THE ESTABLISHMENT
9. Obamacare is the worst and we need to preserve the ACA
10. God!
11. More trustworthy

You're a ****ing idiot and your opinion is worth jack ****

Hope this helps
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01-20-2017 , 05:34 PM
***Thayer and his friend are playing 1 on 1 basketball. His friend goes up for a rebound and lands wrong, snapping his leg***

Friend: Ahhh, my leg! It's broken! There's so much blood! Call 911!

Thayer: Why? America is a country built on blood. Think about the Japanese internment camps.

Friend: What? Dude I need help right now! Please!

Thayer: The DNC had no problem rigging the nom for Hillary. They didn't help Bernie.

Friend: Ahhhhhh! Please, I need to go to a hospital!

Thayer: Like everything else in America, hospitals are corrupt, the sooner you realize this the sooner the revolution starts.
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01-20-2017 , 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by mullen
***Thayer and his friend are playing 1 on 1 basketball. His friend goes up for a rebound and lands wrong, snapping his leg***

Friend: Ahhh, my leg! It's broken! There's so much blood! Call 911!

Thayer: Why? America is a country built on blood. Think about the Japanese internment camps.

Friend: What? Dude I need help right now! Please!

Thayer: The DNC had no problem rigging the nom for Hillary. They didn't help Bernie.

Friend: Ahhhhhh! Please, I need to go to a hospital!

Thayer: Like everything else in America, hospitals are corrupt, the sooner you realize this the sooner the revolution starts.
TuT: humanity is a disease. You're better off dying
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01-20-2017 , 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Holliday
afaiac, your theories are as valid as any, regardless of how idiotic they may seem. I don't expect a rational answer to an insane occurrence, but I'm admittedly weak at evaluating irrational answers.

Anywho, on a subject you may actually have an interesting perspective on; do you think Trump's anti-Mexico stance will be a net negative or positive from a "proliferation of violent cartels" standpoint?

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During a luncheon hosted by the Miami Herald in April 1990, Trump slammed U.S. drug enforcement policy as “a joke,” and argued that tax dollars from a legalized, regulated narcotics industry could be spent on programs educating Americans about the dangers of drugs and addiction.

“We’re losing badly the war on drugs,” he said, rightly so, to the crowd of 700 people. “You have to legalize drugs to win that war. You have to take the profit away from these drug czars.”

Trump was inspired to weigh in on the drug war partly due to the fact that “South Florida has such a huge problem with drugs,” he said. During the Miami Herald luncheon, he blamed America’s drug problems on politicians who “don’t have any guts” to address the issue.
I don't really see the US ending the war on drugs anytime soon, too much money in it. People are pretty clearly dissatisfied with the government and willing to vote for change though, so that can be a positive looking forward.
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01-20-2017 , 05:40 PM
I believe it was President Donald Trump who said that no matter what color we are, brown, black or white (there are 3 colors only) everyone has red blood which we will see when it flows through the streets.
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01-20-2017 , 05:41 PM
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During a luncheon hosted by the Miami Herald in April 1990, Trump slammed U.S. drug enforcement policy as “a joke,” and argued that tax dollars from a legalized, regulated narcotics industry could be spent on programs educating Americans about the dangers of drugs and addiction.
“We’re losing badly the war on drugs,” he said, rightly so, to the crowd of 700 people. “You have to legalize drugs to win that war. You have to take the profit away from these drug czars.”
Trump was inspired to weigh in on the drug war partly due to the fact that “South Florida has such a huge problem with drugs,” he said. During the Miami Herald luncheon, he blamed America’s drug problems on politicians who “don’t have any guts” to address the issue.

And then he nominates a guy for Attorney General who thinks weed and heroin are synonymous lol
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01-20-2017 , 05:42 PM
Mullen and SRM that was pretty good lol
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01-20-2017 , 05:42 PM
Mullen,

I'd probably be like "Man it's too bad we're not in Mexico, you're financially ****ed."


But yeah, I know how to administer first aid and how to drive, so I'd probably be able to help my friend. It's good to know you equate that with voting for Hillary Clinton.
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01-20-2017 , 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by THAY3R
I don't really see the US ending the war on drugs anytime soon, too much money in it. People are pretty clearly dissatisfied with the government and willing to vote for change though, so that can be a positive looking forward.
What I mean is the "actively trying to keep factories out of Mexico" thing, moving forward.
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01-20-2017 , 05:48 PM
I like how the word "elitist" has come to be defined as "anyone with half a brain, especially one living in or near a city."
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01-20-2017 , 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by THAY3R
Mullen,

I'd probably be like "Man it's too bad we're not in Mexico, you're financially ****ed."


But yeah, I know how to administer first aid and how to drive, so I'd probably be able to help my friend. It's good to know you equate that with voting for Hillary Clinton.


Guess it depends on when it happens, you might be SOL if a violent cartel decides to start a firefight outside the hospital.

I'm not equating that to voting for Hillary, but you're a broken record with this DNC stuff and how EVIL America is. Don't you want progress? How about evaluating problems/issues individually instead of constantly issuing callbacks to corrupt Hillary/DNC and how evil they/the political system/America is.
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01-20-2017 , 05:52 PM
Niss,

It's not the poor that are freaking out over NotHillary while being smugly condescending about it
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01-20-2017 , 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by mullen

I'm not equating that to voting for Hillary, but you're a broken record with this DNC stuff and how EVIL America is. Don't you want progress? How about evaluating problems/issues individually instead of constantly issuing callbacks to corrupt Hillary/DNC and how evil they/the political system/America is.
Because thayer doesn't actually care about progress. He's a conservative who likes to act enlightened and make up bull**** reasons to excuse his support of regressive policies.

Many of you may not remember this but thayer used to post about his opposition to gay marriage with the bull**** excuse of just wanting the government out of marriage maannnnn.

He loves Trump and he loves GOP control of the country, don't let him fool you otherwise.
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01-20-2017 , 06:06 PM
WHY CANT YOU GET A MARRAIGE LICENSE AT WAL MART MAAAAAAN
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01-20-2017 , 06:08 PM
Mullen,

I'd consider the public's open rejection of Clinton and the GOP to be progress and should give people high hopes for the future. People are fed up with a political class that doesn't represent their interests and are willing to vote for it. Sure, they got scammed, but I still think our longterm future is better off than 90% Clinton 90% Bush/Rubio primaries.


Meb,

lol? lol.

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01-20-2017 , 06:08 PM
massive tax cuts for the rich
huge deficits
take away health care for more than 20 million people
internment of muslims
a woat justice or three
roll back environmental protections
roll back labor protections
eviscerate federal agencies
terror "threats" when politically convenient
a dumbass wall
mass deportation
a sex scandal or ten
grift galore
coddling of financial institutions
atrocious, potentially world ending foreign policy

but hey, at least ivanka is hot
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01-20-2017 , 06:11 PM
Like the only thing I've ever said about marriage is that it's a total joke that the government has any say about it in the first place, but it's not surprising you'd hold that impression!
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01-20-2017 , 06:15 PM
It really does look like there are about 3x as many security personnel as spectators here on CNN right now.

And why does Barron walk like a fat person hurriedly walking on ice?
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01-20-2017 , 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by THAY3R
Niss,

It's not the poor that are freaking out over NotHillary while being smugly condescending about it
THAY3R, you have a similarly odd definition of "smugly condescending"
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01-20-2017 , 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Riverman
massive tax cuts for the rich
huge deficits
take away health care for more than 20 million people
internment of muslims
a woat justice or three
roll back environmental protections
roll back labor protections
eviscerate federal agencies
terror "threats" when politically convenient
a dumbass wall
mass deportation
a sex scandal or ten
grift galore
coddling of financial institutions
atrocious, potentially world ending foreign policy

but hey, at least ivanka is hot
To be fair, 2,3 (some rules make it -EV for the physician to treat in some cases so people were already starting to get dropped),4 (to a lesser extent was already going on) and the last three were gonna happen anyway and her husband had already done the fourth to last one so what's another one? and 5, well there were gonna be three justices in the court by the end.

I guess that was pretty much the crux of the whole political argument. Their side notices the terrible things going on that the clintons/obamas pretended wasn't happening (nearly all those jobs were part time jobs so you morons have got to stop using e) and can't see why anyone would vote for them but were blind to realize the people they were voting for also do those terrible things + some more but that some more they really don't give a **** about.

I guess I can't blame them looking around among all of us--the vast majority don't give a **** about anybody but themselves.

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01-20-2017 , 06:32 PM
Thayer, why do you think the public massively opposed Clinton more than they did Trump? Again, not reigniting the popular vote thing...but she won by like 3 million votes and he couldn't get more people than your average Florida Panthers home game crowd or Arcade Fire audience to his inauguration.

Posted this in politics, but I'll cross it here.

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The Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that provides guidelines, job descriptions, and advice for presidential transitions, has said the new administration should aim to have 100 Senate-confirmed appointees in place on or around Inauguration Day. At its present rate, the Trump administration would be lucky to get a dozen. The transition has also thus far disregarded suggestions to name its Cabinet picks as part of larger slates, so that the secretaries do not spend weeks surrounded by empty desks and acting deputies who cannot operate with full authority. “The issue isn’t how many people you announce,” said Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership. “The issue is how many qualified people you get in place in real time and working effectively.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...hedule/511928/
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...administration

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here's no Trump appointee for any of the top State Department jobs below secretary nominee Rex Tillerson. No Trump appointee for any of the top Department of Defense jobs below retired general James Mattis. Treasury? Same story. Justice? It is one of two departments (along with, bizarrely, Commerce) where Trump has selected a deputy secretary. But no solicitor general, no one at civil rights, no one in the civil division, no one for the national security division.
The Trump team is behind by a few hundred (and like a hundred that need senate approval) for his executive branch. They are behind by hundreds more of other political appointees, despite him dismissing the Obama ones. This is a dangerously unqualified political team. But, politics failed me and I need your guys best small government jokes in light of this.
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01-20-2017 , 06:35 PM
Sounds like staffing government vacancies will result in approximately 4,500 jobs that Trump brings back to America after OBAMA failed to keep those jobs right there in D.C.!

Last edited by CPHoya; 01-20-2017 at 06:39 PM. Reason: And think of all the new jobs he'll "create" after he culls every climate change believer from government employment!
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01-20-2017 , 06:47 PM
Or he just never fills a bunch then chops them altogether to pay for repealing Obamacare. Any time you can destroy jobs to pay for taking health care from people you gotta take advantage.
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01-20-2017 , 06:49 PM
Think of how much clean coal can be saved by not heating all those inefficient government offices!
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