Trump Presidency X-like American History X, but without the laughs

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  1. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    If anyone wrote a passage in here they’d be arrested by the grammar police. Maybe not if they were 5th graders

    Trump’s new excuse on not releasing his taxes is ‘completely meaningless’ and may not even be in English: CNN’s Toobin

    “I’m under tax audit, I have been for a long period of time,” the president told Hannity. “Once I ran for politics that deal was like we didn’t make it. So I’m under a continuing audit, and anyone that did that or showed that before you have it finalized, but they treat, they treat me horribly, the IRS. It is a disgrace what has happened. We had a deal done, I guess it was signed even. Once I ran or once I won, somewhere back a long time ago everything was like let’s start all over again.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/tr...s-and-may-not-even-be-in-english-cnns-toobin/
     
  2. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
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    DC United
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    Vanuatu
    He's just stopped practicing. He's no good at it.
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  3. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Like the man said. “There wouldn’t be as many lies if you stopped fact checking.”
     
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  4. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
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    So I was reading George Will's latest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...7ae76e-c208-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html

    According to the headline, Will is ostensibly drawing a distinction between Trumpism and fascism. TL;DR: There isn't one.

    But what most interested me is this quote Will pulls from Mussolini: “Democracy has deprived the life of the people of ‘style’ . . . the color, the strength, the picturesque, the unexpected, the mystical; in sum, all that counts in the life of the masses. We play the lyre on all its strings.”

    Wow. Compared to Trump, Mussolini is a poet. Can you possibly imagine Trump writing, nay, even conceiving, of something so lyrical?
     
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  5. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
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    It sounds like it could have been written by Grimes.

    Hail Grimes!!
     
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  6. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
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    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
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    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    Bannon and the alt right have a huge man love for Mussolini style fascism
     
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  7. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Well we know he can’t read it.
     
  8. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Well...we're officially having a bagel so let's get stimulating! :coffee:
     
  9. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    So Trump announced in a telemundo interview today that he’ll be signing an immigration “bill” (he admitted it will be an executive order when called on it) to address DACA and give them a path for citizenship

    My reaction: great. Wow you are ********ing desperate. I look forward to learning of the news of your death from a statement from the N.Y. department of detention
     
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  10. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Would that be an executive or execution order? :unsure:
     
  11. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
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    As expected, Trump is granting clemency to his sidekick, Roger stone.

    President Trump has commuted the sentence of longtime adviser Roger Stone, who was found guilty of seeking to thwart congressional and FBI investigations into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Politico reports.
    The controversial move brings an abrupt end to the possibility of Stone spending 40 months behind bars. He had been scheduled to report to prison on July 14.
    New York Times: “Granting clemency to Mr. Stone is certain to prompt new complaints that the Trump administration is thwarting the federal justice system to help the president’s friends.”
     
  12. onefineesq

    onefineesq Member+

    Sep 16, 2003
    Laurel, MD
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    That should be his position. Trump promised them last time, and argued about Clinton's finances on stage while hiding his own. Screw that.
     
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  13. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

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    So the CEO of Goya has decided that brand suicide is a good idea. Apparently Latinx Twitter and social media is going crazy.
     
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  14. Boandlkramer

    Boandlkramer Member+

    Apr 9, 2009
    Samma Weltmeister!
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    The right is calling it racist.....[Don Lemon Segment.]
     
  15. chaski

    chaski Moderator
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    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
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    The Goya boycott won’t amount to a hill of beans.
     
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  16. superdave

    superdave Member+

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  17. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
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    I've heard the president enjoys having a chick pea every once in a while.
     
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  18. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
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    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
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    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    Great that Judge Amy Bermann forced crooked Mango Mussolini to commute the sentence of his henchman before the election

    Disgusting
     
  19. onefineesq

    onefineesq Member+

    Sep 16, 2003
    Laurel, MD
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    Mueller has weighed in on the commutation. The entire legal system has risen up against the orange menace's clear defense of his own criminality.
     
  20. superdave

    superdave Member+

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    VB, VA
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    So? He let us down when it might have mattered.
     
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  21. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
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    Ehh.. Mueller had to respond. Trump’s pardon letter went all in Mueller running a corrupt investigation that was in a witch-hunt to bring Trump down because they didn’t agree with Trump’s politics...
     
  22. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
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    That was my reaction. He's having to respond now since he didn't back when we needed him to.
     
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  23. appwrangler

    appwrangler Member

    Barcelona
    United States
    Dec 18, 2018
    He did his job and he did excellently. The only knock against him might be that he believes in the system. The ones that let us down are the Republican senators.
     
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  24. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    Like they said...when it mattered, he let us down. Because everyone....and I meant EVERYONE...knew that the outcome was preordained. But yet he sat silently on the sidelines and enabled them to rewrite his report with impunity and did nothing to stop it.

    He failed the most important part.

    And just to be perfectly clear....he spent two ********ing years investigating a Russian psychological operation designed nefariously manipulate US public opinion....then sat silently while Trump and Barr misrepresented that very work in order to accomplish the exact same thing.

    He. Let. Us. Down.
     
  25. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Mueller is an old-school guy who believes in decency, restraint, and personal integrity. While I respect that, he's also smart enough to know that those attributes don't impress the Trump GOP. Quite the contrary. They mean "sucker" to the Trump GOP.

    So he blew it, by not adjusting to the reality that he did not wish to face, but needed to face. He was our Neville Chamberlain.
     

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