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{CC}StealthBlue
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Danglars
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On September 27 2017 22:52 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: The NY Times did not apologize, if I recall trump threatened to sue and the NYT said they would see him in court and nothing happened. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/913034591879024640 I'm laughing at that "Collusion?" end to it. | ||
ticklishmusic
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TheTenthDoc
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On September 27 2017 23:03 ticklishmusic wrote: i wonder what kind of wisdom trump will be able to offer with 280 characters Well, posterity will probably never know his best gems because he deletes them when he's wrong. Like how he deleted his tweets backing Strange after Strange lost because he's a big Predisential baby. | ||
Danglars
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Plansix
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And I love that Trump thinks that major news papers reporting on the same country means they are colluding. | ||
RealityIsKing
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Gahlo
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On September 27 2017 23:35 RealityIsKing wrote: Dave Rubin summarized the NFL situation perfectly here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNvlbLeFVA I'll take the "I watch sports to escape politics." seriously when the same people want to remove the pledge from sporting events. | ||
xDaunt
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On September 27 2017 19:46 Nebuchad wrote: So you're saying that when people aren't answering it's evidence that they don't have answers? That's really throwing you and Danglars under the bus there, long history of pretending to threaten debates and then moving away from them when they could possibly happen. It's not the lack of answers. It's the answers that have been given. | ||
Nevuk
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xDaunt
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WolfintheSheep
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On September 28 2017 00:04 xDaunt wrote: How many more of these GOP establishment failures does Trump really need to see before he tosses McConnell, Ryan, et al. overboard? Winning is a relative state. Trump can't be a winner if there aren't losers surrounding him. | ||
Mohdoo
United States15673 Posts
On September 27 2017 23:35 RealityIsKing wrote: Dave Rubin summarized the NFL situation perfectly here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNvlbLeFVA It's ok for it to be someone's escape from politics. It is not ok to take away the personhood from the people playing and to actually disallow them from being political. It is plain and simply not a reasonable request. | ||
zlefin
United States7689 Posts
On September 28 2017 00:04 xDaunt wrote: How many more of these GOP establishment failures does Trump really need to see before he tosses McConnell, Ryan, et al. overboard? what would tossing them overboard constitute? i.e. how would it look if he were to do so? | ||
Danglars
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On September 27 2017 23:49 Gahlo wrote: I'll take the "I watch sports to escape politics." seriously when the same people want to remove the pledge from sporting events. The pledge is not present at any sporting events. | ||
Gorsameth
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On September 28 2017 00:04 xDaunt wrote: How many more of these GOP establishment failures does Trump really need to see before he tosses McConnell, Ryan, et al. overboard? Getting rid of the symptoms changes nothing. The party is utterly divided and throwing out the moderate part isn't going to get moderate Republican states to vote for the bat shit crazy candidates who you would need to replace them with the unify the party. Similarly the Southern Strategy has cultivated enough far-right supporters that moving in on the moderates is a manageable feat (from what I'm seeing). The second option, of moving away from the tea party and back towards the center is probably more favorable in the long run tho. | ||
Gorsameth
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On September 28 2017 00:13 Danglars wrote: The pledge is not present at any sporting events. I assumed he meant the anthem. | ||
Plansix
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On September 28 2017 00:13 Danglars wrote: The pledge is not present at any sporting events. All right, time to remove it and the anthem from the NFL. Politics removed. Problem solved. | ||
Mohdoo
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After two failed gubernatorial bids, Moore was elected for a second six-year term as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2012. Again, he invoked the Bible during his swearing-in ceremony. “We’ve got to remember that most of what we do in court comes from some Scripture or is backed by Scripture,” Moore said after taking the oath of office. Again, the panel ousted him — this time, in 2016, permanently — after Moore reportedly urged state judges to defy the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage. Moore has compared homosexuality to bestiality and called it “an inherent evil against which children must be protected.” Moore does not celebrate all religions. This summer, he called Islam a “false religion” on the campaign trail. "I think homosexuality should be illegal," Moore said. "Sodomy was declared illegal by the United States Supreme Court in 1987, it said there was no right under the constitution to enlarge the fundamental rights of homosexuals." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/27/a-short-history-of-roy-moores-controversial-interpretations-of-the-bible/ | ||
Danglars
United States12133 Posts
On September 28 2017 00:30 Plansix wrote: All right, time to remove it and the anthem from the NFL. Politics removed. Problem solved. Remove what’s not present. Right. | ||
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