The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

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Adisa said:
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Jesus Christ. America is such a shithouse country.

What's needed is the Scummy Democrats to be in power and a genuine left leaning party to help balance out the rampant Capitalist arseholery.

As it is, they're fecked. All that ever happens is a big Red Slide right... then a period of calm. Then another big slide Right again.

I always used to regret not taking a job in Cali 7 or 8 years back. I really don't anymore. It's a truly beautiful place but it's under one of the worst political set ups in the world.
 
oneniltothearsenal said:
I'm sorry to hear that, but thanks for letting me know. I didn't know that was also a problem in Portugal.
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Yeah, last year 66 people died in Portugal in wildfires, and the vast najority of it was eucalyptus.
 
MAGA...

Make Asbestos Great Again



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/11/asbestos-trump-face-seal-uralasbest-russia

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Christ, it's like everyday they find some new level of cuntiness. Repeal CAFE standards, allow hunting of endangered species, allow the most toxic construction material around to be legal again. I think we'll have legal slavery again by this time next year.
 
Grinner said:
Christ, it's like everyday they find some new level of cuntiness. Repeal CAFE standards, allow hunting of endangered species, allow the most toxic construction material around to be legal again. I think we'll have legal slavery again by this time next year.
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That explains the United forum.
 
Land of the free dying little by little. The Republicans are gone for good.
 
Adisa said:
Land of the free dying little by little. The Republicans are gone for good.
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I'd love to hear them justify ripping up the 1st amendment whilst at the same time firmly asserting that the 2nd can never under any circumstances be reigned in or reinterpretated.
 
Rado_N said:
I'd love to hear them justify ripping up the 1st amendment whilst at the same time firmly asserting that the 2nd can never under any circumstances be reigned in or reinterpretated.
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Eeew, why would you want to touch, let alone rip, paper you've wiped your arse with?
 
ATR on Monday confirmed it had delivered five more turboprop aircraft to IranAir shortly before Washington imposes new sanctions on Iran but said it still faced difficulties obtaining U.S. permission to hand over another seven planes on order.

Washington is poised to hit Tehran with the economic sanctions after President Donald Trump in May exited a nuclear pact between Tehran and major world powers.

His decision requires most companies to complete ongoing business with Iran before U.S. sanctions are reimposed after a wind-down period which expires on Aug. 6.
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Reuters: ATR delivers five more planes to IranAir, needs maintenance approvals.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...SKBN1KR1UA?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews
 
ProPublica said:
Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received an email from Bruce Moskowitz with his input on a new mental health initiative for the VA. “Received,” O’Rourke replied. “I will begin a project plan and develop a timeline for action.”

O’Rourke treated the email as an order, but Moskowitz is not his boss. In fact, he is not even a government official. Moskowitz is a Palm Beach doctor who helps wealthy people obtain high-service “concierge” medical care.

More to the point, he is one-third of an informal council that is exerting sweeping influence on the VA from Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida. The troika is led by Ike Perlmutter, the reclusive chairman of Marvel Entertainment, who is a longtime acquaintance of President Trump’s. The third member is a lawyer named Marc Sherman. None of them has ever served in the U.S. military or government.

Yet from a thousand miles away, they have leaned on VA officials and steered policies affecting millions of Americans. They have remained hidden except to a few VA insiders, who have come to call them “the Mar-a-Lago Crowd.”

Perlmutter, Moskowitz and Sherman declined to be interviewed and fielded questions through a crisis-communications consultant. In a statement, they downplayed their influence, insisting that nobody is obligated to act on their counsel. “At all times, we offered our help and advice on a voluntary basis, seeking nothing at all in return,” they said. “While we were always willing to share our thoughts, we did not make or implement any type of policy, possess any authority over agency decisions, or direct government officials to take any actions… To the extent anyone thought our role was anything other than that, we don’t believe it was the result of anything we said or did.”

VA spokesman Curt Cashour did not answer specific questions but said a “broad range of input from individuals both inside and outside VA has helped us immensely over the last year and a half.” White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters also did not answer specific questions and said Perlmutter, Sherman and Moskowitz “have no direct influence over the Department of Veterans Affairs.”

But hundreds of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and interviews with former administration officials tell a different story — of a previously unknown triumvirate that hovered over public servants without any transparency, accountability or oversight. The Mar-a-Lago Crowd spoke with VA officials daily, the documents show, reviewing all manner of policy and personnel decisions. They prodded the VA to start new programs, and officials travelled to Mar-a-Lago at taxpayer expense to hear their views. “Everyone has to go down and kiss the ring,” a former administration official said.

If the bureaucracy resists the trio’s wishes, Perlmutter has a powerful ally: The President of the United States. Trump and Perlmutter regularly talk on the phone and dine together when the president visits Mar-a-Lago. “On any veterans issue, the first person the president calls is Ike,” another former official said. Former administration officials say that VA leaders who were at odds with the Mar-A-Lago crowd were pushed out or passed over. Included, those officials say, were the secretary (whose ethical lapses also played a role), deputy secretary, chief of staff, acting under secretary for health, deputy under secretary for health, chief information officer, and the director of electronic health records modernization.

At times, Perlmutter, Moskowitz and Sherman have created headaches for VA officials because of their failure to follow government rules and processes. In other cases, they used their influence in ways that could benefit their private interests. They say they never sought or received any financial gain for their advice to the VA.
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langster said:
Still no mention of the death and destruction either OR of him doing something Presidential like actually visiting the area and people affected by the fires.
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He has NO chance of winning California in 2020, why would he go?
 
This is the trouble with Trumpy: if there's a problem with policing, he phones Clint Eastwood; a problem with soldiers' healthcare...he speaks to Alan Alda (Hawkeye from M*A*S*H) etc etc. Trump's always been a starstruck moron.
 
You keep 'em poor, I'll keep 'em stupid.

Worked for the Church for over 2000 years. Trump figured it out and has his followers behaving like religious zealots in his defense. Won't be long until Alabama launches a crusade into California to put the infidel demoncRATs to the sword.
 
KirkDuyt said:
You keep 'em poor, I'll keep 'em stupid.

Worked for the Church for over 2000 years. Trump figured it out and has his followers behaving like religious zealots in his defense. Won't be long until Alabama launches a crusade into California to put the infidel demoncRATs to the sword.
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You say it lightly but for real, they are Trumps force to do with as he pleases. Go and harass this person, yes sir. Vote for that person, ya sir. CNN is fake news, we hate CNN sir.

He's going to get someone killed soon...
 
afrocentricity said:
You say it lightly but for real, they are Trumps force to do with as he pleases. Go and harass this person, yes sir. Vote for that person, ya sir. CNN is fake news, we hate CNN sir.

He's going to get someone killed soon...
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Yes, despite my comical wording I was being serious. The way his supporters defend him through anything defies all reason. I honestly think he can shoot someone on live television without losing these supporters. It's scary.
 
WHICH HUNT!!!!
 
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