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Nouar
France3270 Posts
On February 19 2019 02:59 JimmiC wrote: Or when you campainged on how lazy Obama was with his golfing. Also remember he has a full sized golf sim at the whitehouse as well. To be perfectly fair, I read that Obama had that sim built, and Trump just had it upgraded, for around 50k. (which doesn't sound like a lot. It's like 2 cisco switches.) | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On February 19 2019 04:17 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: So why isn't the FBI in full blown investigation mode yet, along with a new election? This is highly illegal yet I have a feeling that nothing is going to be done to the tribal style of this country's politics. <snip> Source Looks like there is some nice witness tampering going on with this as well. I think I'll be pleasantly surprised if he is sentenced to more than a year in prison at this point. Probably could have gotten away with it if his step daughter didn't throw him under the bus as well. The paper read: “I can tell you that I haven’t done anything wrong in the election and McCrae Dowless has never told me to do anything wrong, and to my knowledge he has never done anything wrong, but I am taking the 5th Amendment because I don’t have an attorney and I feel like you will try to trip me up. I am taking the 5th.” source | ||
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Emnjay808
United States10666 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
On February 19 2019 09:57 Emnjay808 wrote: I wonder which Dem runner is gonna lose to Trump again. I don’t mind Trump a second term as president tbh. First I didn’t care, now I actually wanna see what he can get done in 8 years that Obama couldn’t. Beside throwing the kids of asylum-seekers in cages and losing them, increasing the taxes of folks like me to give mega-corporations a tax break, and frivolously declaring a national emergency because he couldn't get what he wanted per the provisions of our system of government, what has he really done? | ||
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hunts
United States2113 Posts
On February 19 2019 10:11 NewSunshine wrote: Beside throwing the kids of asylum-seekers in cages and losing them, increasing the taxes of folks like me to give mega-corporations a tax break, and frivolously declaring a national emergency because he couldn't get what he wanted per the provisions of our system of government, what has he really done? Wow, way to sell our great president trump short. He also put a political actor and rapist on the supreme court, alienated the last of our allies, raised the national debt by a very large margin, and gave putin some of the best blowjobs he's ever had. Oh also hurt the stock market significantly by threatening to and attempting to start trade wars. | ||
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
On February 19 2019 11:06 hunts wrote: Wow, way to sell our great president trump short. He also put a political actor and rapist on the supreme court, alienated the last of our allies, raised the national debt by a very large margin, and gave putin some of the best blowjobs he's ever had. Oh also hurt the stock market significantly by threatening to and attempting to start trade wars. Look, limited short-term memory is a bitch. I can't hold onto all his healthy greatness at once. | ||
KwarK
United States44368 Posts
On February 19 2019 11:06 hunts wrote: Wow, way to sell our great president trump short. He also put a political actor and rapist on the supreme court, alienated the last of our allies, raised the national debt by a very large margin, and gave putin some of the best blowjobs he's ever had. Oh also hurt the stock market significantly by threatening to and attempting to start trade wars. It was pretty funny when they announced out of the blue, on Twitter of all places, that the banks weren't in any danger of collapse, something nobody thought was an issue until they started cryptically tweeting about the emergency conference calls with bank CEOs to verify that it was fine. 5% wiped off the value of the US markets on Christmas Eve. That's the kind of governance that we just wouldn't get under any other leadership. It's not just the failure to keep the basics going like government employees paid or good relations with fucking Canada, it's the remarkable stuff that wasn't even on the radar. | ||
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ShoCkeyy
7815 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22649 Posts
On February 19 2019 12:45 ShoCkeyy wrote: Agreeing with what the Republican party stands for is not a disqualifying characteristic in and of itself.The more I read about Barr and how his Son-in-law is now a legal advisor for Trump scares me for the future. Arguably Barr and Mueller are suppose good friends, but it just smells like ides of March... Rosenstein is apparently leaving in March, and reading on Barr, this guy seems to agree with what the "republican" party stands for. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46503 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22649 Posts
On February 19 2019 21:22 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: A mistake imo. Bernie has just officially announced that he's running for president: aside from the fact he is going to face a more diverse and difficult field during the primaries the guy is going to be 79 before he would be sworn in. He is just to old and would have been better off throwing his cause behind someone younger. | ||
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farvacola
United States18869 Posts
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46503 Posts
On February 19 2019 21:42 Gorsameth wrote: A mistake imo. aside from the fact he is going to face a more diverse and difficult field during the primaries the guy is going to be 79 before he would be sworn in. He is just to old and would have been better off throwing his cause behind someone younger. That "someone younger" could be his runningmate, allowing him to hand off the baton to whoever he feels would best champion his causes *if* he dies in office. I agree with you that he's old, but I'd much rather have an old, moral, intelligent president over a younger (Trump is 72 and in worse health than Bernie... that's the bar we're setting here, since Trump is currently president and all-but-guaranteed to be the Republican nominee for the general election), ignorant imbecile. I think if someone isn't going to support Bernie, it should be for reasons other than his age. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18459 Posts
On February 19 2019 22:05 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: That "someone younger" could be his runningmate, allowing him to hand off the baton to whoever he feels would best champion his causes *if* he dies in office. I agree with you that he's old, but I'd much rather have an old, moral, intelligent president over a younger (Trump is 72 and in worse health than Bernie... that's the bar we're setting here, since Trump is currently president and all-but-guaranteed to be the Republican nominee for the general election), ignorant imbecile. I think if someone isn't going to support Bernie, it should be for reasons other than his age. Age seems like a perfectly good reason. Especially in the primary when running mates aren't really talked about yet. You don't pick the president just on what he stands for, but also on his ability to execute. 79 is really flipping old, and even being in good health doesn't mean he will stay so when doing a high stress job for 4 years. And you don't elect Bernie to backdoor in his chosen VP: in that case just vote for who he wants as VP? | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22649 Posts
On February 19 2019 22:05 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: There are other candidates then Bernie. The Democrats don't have to go for the guy who is not unlikely to die of old age while in office in order to be able to beat Trump.That "someone younger" could be his runningmate, allowing him to hand off the baton to whoever he feels would best champion his causes *if* he dies in office. I agree with you that he's old, but I'd much rather have an old, moral, intelligent president over a younger (Trump is 72 and in worse health than Bernie... that's the bar we're setting here, since Trump is currently president and all-but-guaranteed to be the Republican nominee for the general election), ignorant imbecile. I think if someone isn't going to support Bernie, it should be for reasons other than his age. | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28906 Posts
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Simberto
Germany12023 Posts
I am not the biggest fan of government by geriatrics. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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