The Refried Presidency: Trump Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo or Whatever Continuation

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  1. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Roughin' it in the great outdoors
    Guidebooks tell us where to go
    Winnebego Warrior

    Slow down traffic climbing hills
    30 gallons to the mile
    Honey, quick, the Polaroid

    (chorus)
    Winnebago Warrior
    Brave as old John Wayne
    Winnebago Warrior
    A true yankee pioneer
     
  2. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Jesus Holy Christ on a bicycle built for three-- that thing makes the Spruce Goose look like a Cessna.

    Are we really sure it can fly?

    Are we really sure there's a runway large enough to land it?
     
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  3. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
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    Columbus Crew
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    United States
  4. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    All these idiots who get pissed off at LGBTQ-related flags and think the country only needs one flag.

    Some twatwaffle: "Having an exclusive flag that excludes most of society is absurd."

    Me: "So does that include the flag of your favorite sports team or NASCAR driver? What about the Confederate flag or your state's flag?"

    I'm sure MAGA doesn't see the problem with this:
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  5. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
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    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
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  6. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
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    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I really shouldn't be surprised...

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    I guess he ran out of space to write "except the illegals, PoC, LGBTQ and others, who infiltrate our Country every day with their Radical Agendas!!!!"
     
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  7. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
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    Chelsea FC
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    England
    I'm guessing they think the constitution isn't, as google AI says, 'the supreme law of the United States, outlining the structure and powers of the federal government, and guaranteeing the rights of citizens'. It's more a set of suggestions, meant to provide help and guidance as to how the state should be run.
     
  8. ElNaranja

    ElNaranja Member+

    Houston Dynamo
    United States
    Jul 16, 2017
    It's even less complicated than that. They have no set of core beliefs except for power. That they get to slow walk it due to having decades to continue the slide just means they can push and pull at their leisure.
     
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  9. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    TIL there is an actual “Trojan” airplane. Was really hoping to find a cartoon Trojan horse with wings and a 747 top deck.
     
  10. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
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  11. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
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    Jun 16, 1999
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    TAN SUIT!!
     
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  12. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Pfffttt!! Even I who have been on the edge of the Law knows it's Attorneys General! :geek:[:cautious:]
     
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  13. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    As an aside--one takeaway I already have from Trump regardless of how this ends is that the old bromide "Respect the office, not the man" needs to go. The office itself is now tainted beyond repair.

    I'm still a bit amazed at how radicalized I'm becoming.
     
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  14. Belgian guy

    Belgian guy Member+

    Club Brugge
    Belgium
    Aug 19, 2002
    Belgium
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    At some point it becomes insane to expect the same people who have done nothing to stop any of the worst excesses of Trumpism to suddenly rise from their slumber and do their jobs. This is who they are. The mere idea of the Congressional GOP suddenly realizing the moral and practical bankruptcy of Trumpism and riding in to the rescue is almost absurdly hilarious.
     
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  15. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
    SoCal burbs
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    How’s everyone’s portfolio looking today?
     
  16. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
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    Well.....The clown is backing down.....All that noise for basically nothing...

    U.S. and Chinese officials said Monday they had reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs and call a 90-day truce in their trade war for more talks on resolving their trade disputes.

    Stock markets rose sharply as the globe’s two major economic powers took a step back from a clash that has unsettled the global economy.

    U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. agreed to drop its 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods by 115 percentage points to 30%, while China agreed to lower its rate on U.S. goods by the same amount to 10%.”
     
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  17. Belgian guy

    Belgian guy Member+

    Club Brugge
    Belgium
    Aug 19, 2002
    Belgium
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    This reasoning is like coming into a person's home, breaking a valuable antique vase, coming back a couple of months later to gift them a crappier, less valuable vase and then asking them "how do you like your new vase?".
     
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  18. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
    SoCal burbs
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    10% vs 30%. Hopefully this will help open China to more American products and offset some of the still significant imbalance.
     
  19. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    I don’t think Mr. Kristol is pretending that any of them will do the right thing. I think he is pointing where the real rot is, instead of blaming Dems for “not doing anything.”
     
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  20. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
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    DC United
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    Vanuatu
    I'm realizing those who during the last Presidency advocated for abolishing ICE were right. A new agency needed to be created and former ICE agents could be allowed to apply for jobs.
     
  21. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
    SoCal burbs
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    Los Angeles
    And in the meantime you’ve seen companies make billions in US manufacturing investment commitments. As a foreigner you obviously don’t care about that, but it’s important for our blue collar community.
     
  22. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    I was pretty much already down with that--but I certainly feel the urgency much more now.

    Gotta be honest--I'm more on board for a wholesale revamping of ALL American policing after this shitshow.
     
  23. Pittsburgh Ref

    Pittsburgh Ref Member+

    Oct 7, 2014
    da 'Burgh
    I remember a deep-seated chill when the Department of Homeland Security was announced. The call-back to regimes foul and fouler was impossible to ignore, and I got in a few family fights about what the name evoked.

    I was righter than I feared.
     
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  24. toad455

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  25. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    Trump will always toss a shiny new thing for the media to obsess over.

    EDIT: I mean continually changing his tune on tariffs & trade; not at ALL playing the "Authoritarian statements are just distractions from the price of eggs" game.
     
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