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Epicurius posted:Its going to the transition. According to the Presidential Transition Act, funds are paid by the GSA and also can be raised through private donations. As the Trump admin showed "going to the transition" is a pretty vague phrase.
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Probably paying consultant salaries
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Nov 21, 2020 17:18
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Jay Rust posted:Probably paying consultant salaries And staff salaries, and transportation, and office expenses, and so on. The bill that amended the Presidential Transition Act to allow private fundraising was the Presidential Transitions Effectiveness Act of 1988, which was passed because, basically, the funding provided under the Presidential Transition Act wasn't really enough money to pay for the transition. So, for instance, in 2008, the total Obama transition budget was $9.3 million. Federal funding was $5.2 million, and the rest was paid for by private donations. Keep in mind over 400 people worked for the Obama transition team, so while $9.3 million is a lot, so are 400 people, all of whom need to be paid, and have office space and supplies and research materials, etc. In other words, presidential transitions are expensive.
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Nov 21, 2020 17:59
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What exactly are they trying to claim when they say Trump didn't have a transition either? The press secretary was saying it yesterday. I assume Freep picks up whatever she says
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Nov 21, 2020 18:04
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pseudanonymous posted:As the Trump admin showed "going to the transition" is a pretty vague phrase. Yeah but the Trump admin wasn’t exactly standard.
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Nov 21, 2020 18:27
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In that they never bothered hiding their looting yeah. They just didn’t give a poo poo if you knew
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah but the Trump admin wasn’t exactly standard. The standard is the republicans lower the bar and the democrats gleefully see how low they can go to keep up. Also, a lot of stuff Trump did wasn't dissimilar behavior, just unsubtle about it. Like why is Hunter Biden making 200k on the board of petroleum companies? The answer is his dad. It's pretty hypocritical of the Trumps of all people to point out nepotism, but that doesn't mean they don't know it (you could say they are among the world's foremost experts on nepotism in fact).
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Nov 21, 2020 18:33
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More freepers react to Brian Kempquote:To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel quote:To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel quote:To: mewzilla quote:
quote:To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel quote:To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel quote:To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel quote:To: jacknhoo
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Nov 21, 2020 18:38
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Though that does make Freep loving Trump funnier considering how little he tried to hide it
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Nov 21, 2020 18:39
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quote:To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel 
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myron cope posted:What exactly are they trying to claim when they say Trump didn't have a transition either? The press secretary was saying it yesterday. I assume Freep picks up whatever she says Don't know. Trump had a transition team, which was largely self sabotaged. Trump replaced a lot of the important members of the transition team in the middle of November. The Trump transition didn't go all that well, but most of that was due to the fact that the Trump people missed agency briefings and, when they did show up didn't seem to be interested.
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Freepers getting fired up for the bloodshed to come in CW2 knowing full well none of their asthmatic fat asses will be participating. It’s like the right-wing version of “I love public transit as long as long as everyone but me uses it.”
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myron cope posted:What exactly are they trying to claim when they say Trump didn't have a transition either? The press secretary was saying it yesterday. I assume Freep picks up whatever she says They're lying OP
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Nov 21, 2020 21:20
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This is real when prophecies fail stuff. Georgia's election got certified, Trump's lost all his cases except 1, Michigan is saying there's no reason to overturn the election, yet these people are convinced all of that actually means they're winning and are gonna be revealed to have won any day now.
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Grondoth posted:This is real when prophecies fail stuff. Georgia's election got certified, Trump's lost all his cases except 1, Michigan is saying there's no reason to overturn the election, yet these people are convinced all of that actually means they're winning and are gonna be revealed to have won any day now. Trump couldn't have lost, so if the results say he lost they must be fraudulent, so if the news says the courts claimed it wasn't fraudulent it must be fake news. Quod erat demonstrandum
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canepazzo posted:They're lying OP Yeah I assume that, that's the default with them. Maybe they're referring to the "Obamagate" stuff that they made up.
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myron cope posted:What exactly are they trying to claim when they say Trump didn't have a transition either? The press secretary was saying it yesterday. I assume Freep picks up whatever she says It's an attempt to excuse trump impeding the transition team now, a sort of "they did it first!" only it's a lie too
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Why isn't Trump stumping for the GA senate candidates? [vanity] I know Freepers are a tiny, angry internet backwater but I hope that these sentiments reflect chud feelings as a whole. What does Foam Boy Rubio mean? quote:He is still recovering from stab wounds in the back by RINO’s. quote:Because there is no point to even trying if the “fix” is in. If you believe the Dominion Machines altered votes and the vote by mail included the dead, duplicate votes, out of state voters and made up votes, why try at all? You have to fix it first. I'm going to assume that StoptheSteal is a thinly disguised scam. quote:Better question is why are they not stumping for him ? Where were they at stopthesteal yesterday ? They are gonna lose massively as they try to “play their cards right”. Message to ALL “republican” candidates. Stand loud and proud w the 80 million or we will support your opposition to crush you at every opportunity. Donate to StoptheSteal.  quote:Yeah, I remember all those GA Republicans like Kemp and Loeffler fighting the hoax election results in GA.
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triwolf posted:Why isn't Trump stumping for the GA senate candidates? [vanity] First, I'm loving the totally made up 80 million votes. I'm guessing that number just keeps getting bigger and bigger. 3 years from now Trump will have recieved 150 million votes, those dastardly Democrats just flipped them to Biden! Also Perdue and Loeffler already followed these people down the rabbit hole and demanded the SoS resign and it's still not enough. It'll never be enough. I'm not getting my hopes up that enough of them will boycott the election for it to matter but stupider poo poo has happened.
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In the 2016 Republican primaries, Tea Party types believed that Marco Rubio was a closeted homosexual and that he appears in this photo of a gay foam party in the 1990s Since the man's face is completely obscured it could be him, of course it could be anybody, but they all know it just has to be him.
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HappyHippo posted:First, I'm loving the totally made up 80 million votes. I'm guessing that number just keeps getting bigger and bigger. 3 years from now Trump will have recieved 150 million votes, those dastardly Democrats just flipped them to Biden! They've done this song and dance so many times you could set your watch to it. In a month's time they'll be absolutely making GBS threads their pants in terror at the thought of Democrats possibly "controlling" (such as it is) all three branches that they'll be crawling over broken glass to vote in the runoff.
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VitalSigns posted:In the 2016 Republican primaries, Tea Party types believed that Marco Rubio was a closeted homosexual and that he appears in this photo of a gay foam party in the 1990s I love that Rubio has both a gay rumor and a secret family rumor going on. Nobody knows poo poo about what his deal is, but we all know he's a sneaky little bitch somehow.
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Trump tweet with graphic about 4am WI ballot dumps - Kraken released! Well this looks promising. The username has some real "pickme" energy quote:Posted on 11/18/2020, 9:48:35 PM by SelfhatingMillennial quote:To: SelfhatingMillennial Lee is unimpressed. quote:To: SelfhatingMillennial We raided Germany btw nbd quote:To: SelfhatingMillennial Just hundreds of replies of this same inane nonsense.
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The new 12D chess theory is that they lost on purpose so that the Supreme Court can hear the case and declare trump President for life
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VitalSigns posted:In the 2016 Republican primaries, Tea Party types believed that Marco Rubio was a closeted homosexual and that he appears in this photo of a gay foam party in the 1990s Chuds' idea of Marco Rubio joins their idea of Joe Biden in the "way cooler than reality" category. Also, anyone remember the "We Build the Wall" scam that the Trumps endorsed? I'm expecting the steal to be reversed right after the crowdfunded border wall.
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Jagged Jim posted:They've done this song and dance so many times you could set your watch to it. In a month's time they'll be absolutely making GBS threads their pants in terror at the thought of Democrats possibly "controlling" (such as it is) all three branches that they'll be crawling over broken glass to vote in the runoff. Yeah that's why I'm not letting my hopes get up. That said, this is a game of margins, if even 5% of republicans don't show, that could be a problem for them. Scratch Monkey posted:The new 12D chess theory is that they lost on purpose so that the Supreme Court can hear the case and declare trump President for life Trump's "legal" team put that one out themselves. I checked in on thedonald.win and they're all gloating over the supergenius legal team's brilliant strategy, how the Dems don't even know they've lost, etc. quote:Just goes to show you and the rest of the Doomsayers that this was always part of Trump's plan. Let events run their course. quote:I laugh at doomers who really think Donald Trump is not holding a Trump card that he will only drop at the perfect moment! No one will know until then and no one from his team is going to reveal it. Everything now is just building up to that moment and making the left expose them selves more than ever. Fox and their hosts have shown their true colors for one and the rest of the left have let down all guards and gone full psycho with their “lists to round up a Trump enablers” and their full denial of facts and ignorance to true journalism. Not to mention big tech. Everything is coming out and it is starting to overflow. Pay attention doomers to what’s happening instead of focusing on what you think should be happening. The time will come so be patient and have some faith. quote:"Thank you Obama for giving us this corrupt judge it helps our case" is loving savage, thank you Rudy and Jenna. quote:Got em. quote:These people are really just getting started. Masterful legal and pr planning. This is going to get spicy. quote:It really is amazing to watch. Rudy wove an absolute masterpiece in court, and got exactly the result he wanted. quote:QUICK, CALL 911 . Trump just murdered this poor judge in cold blood. They're also engaging in revenge fantasies quote:loving A right The bastards have screwed with the MAN for five years-- Now its his turn to take the kinks of the line of bullshit they have been pushing. The loving they get will be 10 fold the loving they tried to give. Trump's going to plant these pricks with their asses up and make bicycles racks out of them quote:Isn't it just beautiful, that the judges who were unjustly hosed by the Democrats are gonna be the very judges to dish out ultimate justice. This is gonna be delicious Others are concocting their own 4d chess arguments quote:This might also be a 4D chess move. Egging the cuck judges on so that they definitely WILL drag things out. This would allow Team Trump to gather/organize more evidence and maybe even get together a very large-scale operation involving the military, and arrests, and so forth--a highly complicated and unprecedented move. quote:I’m under the impression that the team has irrefutable evidence that would be shown in the Supreme Court. Trump team and auxiliaries are creating a lot of noise to corral everything to the Supreme Court while giving the illusion that Biden has the upper hand. Appear weak when strong An actual lawyer comes in at one point and tries to inject some reality. The response: quote:I'm not a lawyer but I simply can't believe that someone of the stature of Sidney Powell doesn't have her ducks in a row on this. Add to that Rudy and his famous legal standing, it makes no sense that they'd not have an ace up their sleeve. quote:If you were a lawyer you would have some comprehension of how much time it takes to build a case of this matter. Sidney even explained it usual takes months and up to a year so they are having to do this in god speed in a matter of weeks. Many ducks to get in that row. But I have faith they will get there in just the right time to drop this MOAB. quote:LMFAO. Every PEDE here KNOWS Trump has ALREADY won this. Doomers and shills are not part of the club so move back to twitter or reddit where you will be welcomed with a big bag of blue pills.
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Minenfeld! posted:What the gently caress is a "big bag of blue pills"? Opposite of a red pill, which is their version of being "woke".
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I think it's the opposite of taking the red pill and seeing the world the mainstream media doesn't want you to see. You didn't get your complimentary big bag of Twitter viagra?
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Minenfeld! posted:What the gently caress is a "big bag of blue pills"? Ever seen The Matrix? Take the red pill to exit the simulation, take the blue pill to go back in. It's a cutesy way for these idiots to feel smarter than people who don't believe in their conspiracy theories.
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Minenfeld! posted:What the gently caress is a "big bag of blue pills"? Blue pill is the opposite of red pill, where you ignore harsh reality and slip back in to the comforting crafted illusion of the Matrix. EDIT: Refresh before replying, self.
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Nov 22, 2020 18:58
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There are also black pills, and white pills... it's like playing a roguelike.
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Nov 22, 2020 19:11
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Is this one of those compaction cycles?
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Guavanaut posted:Is this one of those compaction cycles? god i hope so
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Blue pill is the opposite of red pill, where you ignore harsh reality and slip back in to the comforting crafted illusion of the Matrix. But the ones that JimRob give you don't do anything at all!
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What will kill freep for good? I feel like natural mortality plus a trump-driven split will not do them any favors after the McCain and Romney splits.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:What will kill freep for good? I feel like natural mortality plus a trump-driven split will not do them any favors after the McCain and Romney splits. facebook and heart disease have probably been pulling the most members away
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I doubt any particular event will kill Freep for good. They'll just gradually lose members without getting any new ones until there's nobody left
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