The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

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Fergies Gum said:
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i cant believe he fooled these brain geniouses

Smith’s tantalizing tweets and the promise that he had access to the inner workings of the intelligence community helped him amass nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter, and earned him Twitter attention from the likes of CNN analyst Asha Rangappa, citizen investigator Claude Taylor, CIA veteran John Sipher, and Resistance “game theory” theorist Eric Garland.
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Despite the President courting General Forum for the administration, it's been revealed that 'he' is an internet message board.
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amongst all the Bullshite and chaos (much of it by the media and their followers) - Trump has 40% ratings and presently sitting on a house loss of just 15 seats.

in recent days leading pollsters have starred to say The Republican party has started 6o see some traction in their campaigns and some states which were "lean Democrats" ate slowly turning to "toss up"

also - anyone talking about Paul Manafort and "reasonable doubt" - only a few media agencies carrying news on the fact that this is positive for Paul Manafort camp, with a lot of legal eagles in New York saying the questions from the jury are a disaster for Mueller
 
Early on in the Donald Trump administration, the president vested many of his nearest and dearest with tasks they were woefully unprepared for—and Apprentice superstar Omarosa Manigault-Newman was no exception.

Long before she was his chief antagonist, Manigault-Newman was tapped by President Trump to handle veterans’ issues for the White House—causing immediate backlash from vets organizations who read this as a slap in the face and a betrayal of his campaign rhetoric about “taking care of our veterans.”

After some vocal public shaming from military veterans and advocates, Trump, accompanied by Manigault-Newman, met with principals from various vets organizations in the Roosevelt Room on March 17, 2017.

The event nearly degenerated into a uniquely Trumpian trainwreck.

During this White House meeting, certain details of which have not been previously reported, the president managed to again annoy and confuse U.S. war veterans, this time by getting into a bizarre, protracted argument with Vietnam War vets present about the movie Apocalypse Now and the herbicide Agent Orange.

“It was really fecking weird,” one attendee bluntly assessed to The Daily Beast.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-omarosa-had-a-fcking-weird-fight-with-vietnam-vets

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During the course of the meeting, Weidman brought up the issue of Agent Orange, an extremely notorious component of the U.S. herbicidal warfare on Vietnam. Weidman was imploring the president and his team to permit access to benefits for a broader number of vets who have said they were poisoned by Agent Orange.

Trump responded by saying, “That’s taken care of,” according to people in the room.

His reply puzzled the group.

Attendees began explaining to the president that the VA had not made enough progress on the issue at all, to which Trump responded by abruptly derailing the meeting and asking the attendees if Agent Orange was “that stuff from that movie.”

He did not initially name the film he was referencing, but it quickly became clear as Trump kept rambling that he was referring to the classic 1979 Francis Ford Coppola epic Apocalypse Now, and specifically the famous helicopter attack scene set to the “Ride of the Valkyries.”

Source present at the time tell The Daily Beast that multiple people—including Vietnam War veterans—chimed in to inform the president that the Apocalypse Now set piece he was talking about showcased the U.S. military using napalm, not Agent Orange.

Trump refused to accept that he was mistaken and proceeded to say things like, “no, I think it’s that stuff from that movie.”

One clue belying the president’s insistence is that the famous Robert Duvall line from the scene in Apocalypse Now, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” is not “I love the smell of Agent Orange in the morning.”

He then went around the room polling attendees about if it was, in fact, napalm or Agent Orange in the famous scene from “that movie,” as the gathering—organized to focus on important, sometimes life-or-death issues for veterans—descended into a pointless debate over Apocalypse Now that the president simply would not concede, despite all the available evidence.

Finally, Trump made eye contact again with Weidman and asked him if it was napalm or Agent Orange. The VVA co-founder assured Trump, as did several before him, that it was in fact napalm, and said that he didn’t like the Coppola film and believed it to be a disservice to Vietnam War veterans.

According to two people in attendance, Trump then flippantly replied to the Vietnam vet, “Well, I think you just didn’t like the movie,” before finally moving on.
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bazalini said:
amongst all the Bullshite and chaos (much of it by the media and their followers) - Trump has 40% ratings and presently sitting on a house loss of just 15 seats.

in recent days leading pollsters have starred to say The Republican party has started 6o see some traction in their campaigns and some states which were "lean Democrats" ate slowly turning to "toss up"

also - anyone talking about Paul Manafort and "reasonable doubt" - only a few media agencies carrying news on the fact that this is positive for Paul Manafort camp, with a lot of legal eagles in New York saying the questions from the jury are a disaster for Mueller
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If this happens then America will get what it deserves. I just feel sorry for the rest of us that have no say in it.

To all the posters who are going to say that the Majority of people don't support him I answer where are the mass protests. where is the major movement to counter the garbage that he trots out? 60% of American's are just sitting back and taking this.
 
Zlaatan said:
Rasmussen is always, always quoted by some of the brightest far-right people I have the pleasure of interacting with, and it pretty much always goes down like this from their pov.

-Laugh at all polls that doesn't show Trump in a good light, they are wrong because polls said Hillary would win in 2016
-Proudly quote Rasmussen poll which shows Trump in a good light even though it's clearly the outlier by quite a big margin every single time
-Ignore reply that highlights all the other polls and your irony impairment
-Wait two weeks and repeat
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If these are the brightest, I am afraid to imagine how are the dimmest.
 
Fully Fledged said:
If this happens then America will get what it deserves. I just feel sorry for the rest of us that have no say in it.

To all the posters who are going to say that the Majority of people don't support him I answer where are the mass protests. where is the major movement to counter the garbage that he trots out? 60% of American's are just sitting back and taking this.
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I have a situation of no CNN or MSNBC for last week. it really is scary how much other news is out there and how Trump is actually doing well amongst his own people.

I hate the c**t btw
 
Worth remembering the importance of US voting districts. The GOP have absolutely crushed the system, and can win a much greater proportion of seats than actual votes. I can't remember the area referenced (maybe bama?) But in the last house elections there was an instance where Republicans lost very narrowly to Dems in the popular vote, but won 8 out of 10 of the seats.

If it was actual gross voting they wouldn't even be close.
 
Fergies Gum said:
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He knows quarterly reports will make him look bad.
On another note, I think it's a good thing. Too much trading is based on these quarterly reports and it's putting too much pressure on companies. It's entirely what drives the market. Not enough traders look at the longer term.
 
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Carolina Red said:
Unit cost of an F-35... ~$120 million
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Trump: "CarolWHINER Red says that one single fighter jet costs more than parade savings. WRONG! That might be the price set by Barner but everyone knows I won't be fooled. I'll pay less, get a better deal for our nation. WIN!"

Trump in two days: "I never said I would get those particular jets cheaper. I said that I would find a cheaper alternative. You can build a lot of Spruce Goose's for that amount of money. WIN!"
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Trump: "CarolWHINER Red says that one single fighter jet costs more than parade savings. WRONG! That might be the price set by Barner but everyone knows I won't be fooled. I'll pay less, get a better deal for our nation. WIN!"

Trump in two days: "I never said I would get those particular jets cheaper. I said that I would find a cheaper alternative. You can build a lot of Spruce Goose's for that amount of money. WIN!"
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For the second tweet this is more likely :

Lockheed Martin should build F35s for WAY less. Too expensive. If they don't lower price I'll give contract to Airbus!
 
bazalini said:
amongst all the Bullshite and chaos (much of it by the media and their followers) - Trump has 40% ratings and presently sitting on a house loss of just 15 seats.
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Hmm? FiveThirtyEight currently has the median at gain of 35 seats, and a popular vote difference of 7.6%. As I'm sure you know, the house is heavily in favour of Republicans when it comes to elections.
 
UnrelatedPsuedo said:
The economics was referenced (and to be honest I had a figure of 20% in my head) as part of a whole.

The deep dive above with comparisons to Brexit isn't the point either.

While Leave voters may wish to have a more robust immigration policy, they would never vote en masse for;

- A pay or you're fcuked medical system
- Unlimited war
- University fees that destroy lives
- The death penalty
- Mass incarceration
- A regression of gay rights
- Anything that diluted gender equality
- Guns for everyone

It's easy enough to find people that vote republican that will endorse so much of that.

You can't possibly tell me that California, as a populace and as an economy, keeps America honest in this regard. If it was a bunch of hippies in the desert without any $ output, they would be ignored. I haven't been to every state. I'm sure that other states are progressive and liberal.

But lose California, the economic power, the electoral college votes that are owned by progressive people.... America would be a no-go zone inside a few decades.

It's this I was getting at. I probably got a bit ranty about it, admittedly.

Remove London from England or Paris from France and you don't see the same outcomes.
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I hesitate to contribute to this argument as I think we're veering off topic, but you're vastly overestimating California's importance to the American experiment.
 
UnrelatedPsuedo said:
The economics was referenced (and to be honest I had a figure of 20% in my head) as part of a whole.

The deep dive above with comparisons to Brexit isn't the point either.

While Leave voters may wish to have a more robust immigration policy, they would never vote en masse for;

- A pay or you're fcuked medical system
- Unlimited war
- University fees that destroy lives
- The death penalty
- Mass incarceration
- A regression of gay rights
- Anything that diluted gender equality
- Guns for everyone

It's easy enough to find people that vote republican that will endorse so much of that.

You can't possibly tell me that California, as a populace and as an economy, keeps America honest in this regard. If it was a bunch of hippies in the desert without any $ output, they would be ignored. I haven't been to every state. I'm sure that other states are progressive and liberal.

But lose California, the economic power, the electoral college votes that are owned by progressive people.... America would be a no-go zone inside a few decades.

It's this I was getting at. I probably got a bit ranty about it, admittedly.

Remove London from England or Paris from France and you don't see the same outcomes.
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It wouldn't really do many of the things you listed since the general direction of social attitudes is veering to the progressive side and would eventually take over the entire country.
 
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