The Trump Presidency :::

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  1. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

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    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
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    Oh, not at the same time. I do okay, but I'm no Warren Jeffs or anything
     
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  2. Auriaprottu

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    Apr 1, 2002
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    Very little.

    Trump is Elvis at best... no, check that- Trump is Pat Boone. Pat Boone covering Cameo
     
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  3. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
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    The majority of Trumpfans, don't see any difference
     
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  4. beerslinger23

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    Jun 26, 2010

    ! Now that's pretty good.
     
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  5. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
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    You'd think the Israelis would know better than to trust the Goyim with secrets.
     
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  6. JohnR

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    Jun 23, 2000
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    Had to google. Apparently I'm falling behind on my trash news. I need to call up Yahoo! more often.
     
  7. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    They probably figured that Jared had schooled Donnie about that.
     
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  8. appoo

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  9. Dr. Wankler

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    Disagree: I gotta have it my way, or no way at all.
     
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  10. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    I have a harebrained idea that may be necessary after this Trump disaster. An executive branch triumvirate where 2 out of 3 (Democrat, Republican, independent party rep. who got most votes in last election) must agree on policy before presenting to Congress. 2 of 3 must also sign off to enact legislation. Details would need to be worked out. But in a way it might force Congress to be more accountable to Americans.
     
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  11. roby

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    Just how lonely were you? :cautious:
     
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  12. roby

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    Now that's very rare in P&CE! :whistling:
     
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  13. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

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    Congress is supposed to perform the role of 2 of the triumvirate that you describe. The President proposes, the House reviews the proprosal and starts it through the meat grinder, the Senate reviews the Houses work and completes the processing in the meat grinder, the Senate and House complete the sausage making process and send it to the President for quality assurance, the President reviews the final product and either signs or vetos.
     
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  14. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
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    Why should it be any more accountable than we demand it to be?
     
  15. superdave

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  16. stanger

    stanger BigSoccer Supporter

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    It wouldn't have mattered the race or gender. All the dems had to do was put someone trustworthy, someone that didn't have the decks cleared for them, and Trump would be seeing his reality show cancelled.
     
  17. Mattbro

    Mattbro Member+

    Sep 21, 2001
    Can anyone back up the claim that "the field was cleared" for Clinton? I see a lot of people claiming it and few people capable of backing it up.

    Also, I have little doubt that the combined axis of evil of the GOP character assassination machine, the Russian regime and wikileaks would have succeeded in making just about any Democratic nominee look untrustworthy, especially if the nominee were an establishment Democrat.
     
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  18. Dr. Wankler

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    Why should the Democrats have to do something the Republicans didn't have to do?
     
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  19. stanger

    stanger BigSoccer Supporter

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    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32840/if-not-hillary-who-1114/

    This isn't rocket science to a neutral.
     
  20. Auriaprottu

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    This.

    I recall seeing a bunch of taglines like #itsherturn and loaded phrases like "coronation". Funny thing is, I never saw them from the people who were intending to vote for her.

    That doesn't work without a bunch of peckerwoods echoing what they're told by the conservative brass. The "coronation" stuff I saw first from someone here on BS.
     
  21. Sounders78

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    Trump leaking highly classified info to the Russians is so yesterday's crisis.

    Just out, CNN reporting a New York Times story that Trump asked Comey to drop his investigation into Flynn. Obstruction of Justice anyone?

    White House currently denying it. Will Trump refute White House denials? Stay tuned.
     
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  22. superdave

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    Damn. Beat me to it.

    Comey wrote a memo at the time, which everyone has been predicting.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html
     
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  23. beerslinger23

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    Jun 26, 2010
    Trump and his team are ********ing with the wrong people. Are they so confident that fear of his followers (many of which are ineffectual and elderly opiate addicts ) revolting will keep the deep state from pulling the plug on him? That's ridiculous. I don't think he lasts another month before finding some reason to resign rather than destroy the GOP for the next 10 years and ensure we get a president like Warren and a super liberal congress by then. We could be to the left of sweden in 2022 with how bad this republican hegemony is going right now.
     
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  24. superdave

    superdave Member+

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    If I'm not mistaken, the following all broke between 5 and 6pm.

    Trump fired Comey.
    News of Trump's loose lips broke.
    News of Comey's contemperaneous memo broke.
     
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  25. Dr. Wankler

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    May 2, 2001
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    From later in the article re: clearing the field:

    This is the conventional wisdom that, in our politics today and at this point in a presidential-election cycle, is always far more conventional than it is wise.​


    Basically, this is one guy's interpretation of another person's (who is not without interest in the field-clearing claim, since he wanted to be in the field) interpretation. And finally "Clearing the field" isn't a bad thing. "Having the field cleared for her" would be. And it's not the same thing.
     
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