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I'm still completely stunned at how much "Russia is a dead story" denial there is out there. These people are loving telling you their priorities and they're all putting Russia above everything else. It's one thing to put party before country, but this is a whole other level, and they're not even loving hiding it.
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evilweasel posted:as one reporter described it, congress and even the administration have decided to deal with trump by acting like he's not the president and is just another guy tweeting stupid poo poo The WH has still not issued any kind of policy document or statement.
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Harrow posted:I'm still completely stunned at how much "Russia is a dead story" denial there is out there. These people are loving telling you their priorities and they're all putting Russia above everything else. It's one thing to put party before country, but this is a whole other level, and they're not even loving hiding it. Dude they're not even denying it anymore - his base is all "so what if he colluded a bit? Liberal angry and we won #maga"
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Washington Post got ahold of the transcripts of the calls Trump made to Mexico and Australia shortly after inauguration. It is incredible.quote:
Other highlights include him asking the president of Mexico to stop saying he won't pay for the wall because it makes him look bad.
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Withnail posted:Yeah mock congress with a 30-something approval rating. Eh, theirs is like 17
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Phoix posted:Washington Post got ahold of the transcripts of the calls Trump made to Mexico and Australia shortly after inauguration. It is incredible.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:18
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Drone posted:Just a routine pus-drain. This would never happen. There'd be nothing left but dried up, leathery skin if you removed all the pus.
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quote:TURNBULL I keep having to double check that this article is real.
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pillsburysoldier posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTyQgwVvYyc
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Aug 3, 2017 14:21
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Trump making all the other politicians miserable is a silver lining.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:23
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I guess as long as Trump is on vacation and Congress is in recess we should at least have a nice slow couple of weeks where nothing happens except for embarrassing stuff leaking out that we can laugh at. e: quote:“I hate taking these people,” Trump said. “I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people” — an apparent reference to U.S. dairy farms. jfc
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Eh, theirs is like 17 Yeah it's pretty hosed up when every branch in government has a sub 40% approval rating but there's really no shake up planned from either party. Inescapable Duck posted:Trump making all the other politicians miserable is a silver lining. Yeah.
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Phoix posted:Washington Post got ahold of the transcripts of the calls Trump made to Mexico and Australia shortly after inauguration. It is incredible. quote:“On the wall, you and I both have a political problem,” Trump said. “My people stand up and say, ‘Mexico will pay for the wall,’ and your people probably say something in a similar but slightly different language.”
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Aug 3, 2017 14:25
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TRUMP: They are sending drugs to Chicago, Los Angeles, and to New York. Up in New Hampshire – I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den – is coming from the southern border.
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There Bias Two posted:This would never happen. There'd be nothing left but dried up, leathery skin if you removed all the pus. They use a bike pump to re-inflate, you can see how well it works by looking at Ted Cruz.
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DaveWoo posted:TRUMP: They are sending drugs to Chicago, Los Angeles, and to New York. Up in New Hampshire – I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den – is coming from the southern border. Wut.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:26
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Comrade Fakename posted:I've repeatedly heard that bringing about change is actually really difficult for Pope Francis (assuming he even wants to do that), because he has to deal with all the cardinals and so on. But I've never had it explained as to how that's actually the case. What, precisely is stopping Pope Frank from popping out on his balcony on Easter Sunday and announcing to the crowd, and the world's media, that God spoke to him the night before and now contraception is fine and so are gays and abortions, peace? Speaking "from the cathedral" like that is a really big deal. A big deal to the point that even when popes were a major political power and quasi ruler of large parts of europe they stayed away hard from that stuff. Like there is only a handful of things ever in all of catholic history spoken as infallible church doctrine and it's almost all very basic stuff about like, what happened to mary when she died and if you go to heaven when you die or after the judgement day. It's all theology stuff.
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DaveWoo posted:TRUMP: They are sending drugs to Chicago, Los Angeles, and to New York. Up in New Hampshire – I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den – is coming from the southern border. Can anyone from New Hampshire confirm whether this is true or false.
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Can anyone from New Hampshire confirm whether this is true or false.
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Phoix posted:I keep having to double check that this article is real. I literally screamed "WHAT" out loud and got the entire office to stare at me. Cool.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:30
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theflyingorc posted:Trump did not win New Hampshire I was about to say this as a joke thinking "no, no way is this possibly what's funny about it"
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Data Graham posted:I was about to say this as a joke thinking "no, no way is this possibly what's funny about it" I had to go check - NH was extremely close, but it went to Clinton. So he's claiming a thing that didn't happen happened because of other things that didn't happen.
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quote:Trump also threatened to impose tariffs of up to 35 percent on imports from Mexico, saying that as president he had been given “tremendous taxation powers for trade,” even though tariffs are mainly the province of Congress. lmao theflyingorc posted:Trump did not win New Hampshire was about to say this 
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Aug 3, 2017 14:32
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This won't be 17 days of peace and quiet. It will be 17 days of trump tweeting without anyone around to stop him. Day one: insult every republican in the house and senate before 9 am.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:32
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Maybe he was thinking of the primaries?
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Aug 3, 2017 14:33
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Some days it's really reassuring to know that I would, in fact, be more competent at being President of the United States than this guy. It's a real confidence booster. On other days it's completely terrifying.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:33
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TRUMP Malcom [sic], why is this so important? I do not understand. This is going to kill me. I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. And now I am agreeing to take 2,000 people and I agree I can vet them, but that puts me in a bad position. It makes me look so bad and I have only been here a week. TURNBULL With great respect, that is not right – It is not 2,000. TRUMP Well, it is close. I have also heard like 5,000 as well. TURNBULL The given number in the agreement is 1,250 and it is entirely a matter of your vetting. I think that what you could say is that the Australian government is consistent with the principles set out in the Executive Order.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:34
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It also shows that you need at least some competence to dynamite government institutions. Rand Paul or Marco Rubio would be getting legislation passed right now in addition to crappy picks.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:35
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 These are the federal judicial positions left vacant because the Senate refused to vote or confirm most of Obama's nominees after the GOP gained a majority. Even Trump's minor accomplishments are the result of the GOP shutting down the Obama admin. However my main reason for posting this is to point out how the GOP Senate's failure to do it's constitutionally defined job had essentially no long-term political repercussions. Fox news even feels comfortable enough to portray the outcome positively ie look at all these appointments the hard-working Republican President is making. This is a problem when the voting public is supposed to be the final check on this kind of behavior. The Garland nomination was just the highest profile case and it's already down the memory hole.
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Gonna be fantastic hearing what T_D has to say about this transcript of Big Daddy and his unfiltered negotiating skillz 
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aware of dog posted:Guys, Trump is working really hard, he deserves a break Incoming job approval rebound
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Can someone link the full transcript? I cannot see it in the WAPO article
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Can someone link the full transcript? I cannot see it in the WAPO article https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/australia-mexico-transcripts/?utm_term=.f3037d6d5a01
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Turnbull must have been the epitome of  after that phone call.
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Hollismason posted:Catholic Church and the Pope is a antediluvian mysgonistic cult that perpetrates some of the worst ideals for the human race and still advocates against the use of condoms in African which is one of the reason HIV is so widespread among other things like conspiring with literal Nazis, covering up the rape of children, basically theft from the poor, torturing people who are dying by withholding pain medication etc.. etc..
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Lote posted:Turnbull must have been the epitome of Trumbull is a suburb in Connecticut edit: ack, you beat me
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i am the bird posted:I mean, in a lot of cases, a presidential vacation amounts to doing slightly less work in a nicer climate. W at least continued to have meetings, briefings, etc. while at his ranch. Trump does almost nothing at the White House to begin with. I wonder if Trump understands that the vast majority of the duties of the job follow him no matter what. I could see him getting really pissed off because I'm on vacation dammit stop bothering me with all this unimportant crap.
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the old ceremony posted:oh lord he's awake Somebody reads hannity twitter comments.
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One of the issues is that the voting public has more personal issues to be concerned with, especially in the current situation where they are all one paycheck away from disaster, to care about congress doing its job. The system should not allow for this type of abuse in the first place rather than hoping the average person has been informed well enough to care about stuff that won't have an obvious effect and even the political media barely cares about and then vote accordingly. Especially when our garbage system only allows for two political parties. A system that relies entirely on voters to vote out bad actors because it naively doesn't think parties will vote for themselves over the interests of the country is really stupid. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Aug 3, 2017 |
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dwarf74 posted:While I can't argue with the rest of this, the 'conspiring with Nazis' bit is kind of overblown, especially when they literally had pope-sanctioned assassination squads trying to kill Hitler. There's a great movie somewhere in there.
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