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The long nightmare has just begun: Inauguration of a fraud.
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Excellent, i am all for california, making itself its own country and us building a wall.
I agree, and wasn't trying to say that there's nothing wrong with what Bannon was doing. Manipulating or using or doing a wink/nod is bad too, maybe even worse than being a racist yourself.
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Oh, don't worry Count, I know you're not a vampire, just as I know you're no gardener either...
Let's start with Trump revealing his financial interests with those Moslem nations that were mysteriously excluded from the immigration ban.
Then there is the small matter of those countries from whom Trump has borrowed money - starting with Russia!
Sooner or latter all of "The Donald's" dirty financial laundry is going to be exposed and the fact that he's suppressed it this long strongly suggests that there is something(s) to hide!
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Canada's immigration website crashed on election night based on the sheer number of American hits!
Perhaps its the Canadians who should be building a wall and then sending "The Donald" the bill!
FOOTNOTE: Last week a white supremacist terrorist killed 6 Muslims in a mosque in Quebec City and the Trump Administration has remained eerily silent.
If this had been a terrorist act where Muslims had been the perpetrators and not the victims, do you think Trump would have have chosen to ignore it?
This is the same Trump who this week accused the "dishonest media" of not reporting terrorist acts because they have their own pro-Muslim agenda!
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The Wall has already been built and you are running smack into it - the Wall of the Trump drone: no matter what fact about Trump's corrupt nature is exposed to them, up goes the Trump drones Wall of their self-induced delusion.
Step right up folks: solid bricks and mortar for sale - made of the strongest alt facts self-delusion can conjure up on the spot.
Each order comes with your very own make america hate, ur, great again, direct from the sweat shops of China.
No trade barrier tax, of course.
annabenedetti
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Exactly. Machiavelli just has to hold the door open.
annabenedetti
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Well, at least it came down to needing Pence to break the tie. There's more to come, and the GOP really can't claim high ground, considering what they did to keep the SC seat vacant for almost a quarter of Obama's term. Interesting times, which seem to have galvanized the Democrat base.
annabenedetti
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Yemen Withdraws Permission for U.S. Antiterror Ground Missions
In response to the raid, Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen urged followers last weekend to attack the United States and its allies in the country.
Qasim al-Raymi, the leader of the Qaeda offshoot, likened his fighters to extremists battling American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a speech translated by SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks extremist activities and messaging.
Specialists in Yemeni culture and politics have cautioned that Al Qaeda would seize on the raid to whip up anti-American feelings and attract more followers.
“The use of U.S. soldiers, high civilian casualties and disregard for local tribal and political dynamics,” the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said in a report released last Thursday, “plays into AQAP’s narrative of defending Muslims against the West and could increase anti-U.S. sentiment and with it AQAP’s pool of recruits.”
Qasim al-Raymi, the leader of the Qaeda offshoot, likened his fighters to extremists battling American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a speech translated by SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks extremist activities and messaging.
Specialists in Yemeni culture and politics have cautioned that Al Qaeda would seize on the raid to whip up anti-American feelings and attract more followers.
“The use of U.S. soldiers, high civilian casualties and disregard for local tribal and political dynamics,” the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said in a report released last Thursday, “plays into AQAP’s narrative of defending Muslims against the West and could increase anti-U.S. sentiment and with it AQAP’s pool of recruits.”
annabenedetti
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California is, like, totally out of control — just the way we like it
On Saturday, using his favorite 140-character medium, President Trump insulted the federal jurist who blocked his immigration order aimed at Muslim travelers, dismissing Judge James L. Robart as a “so-called judge.”
Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank, also on Twitter, responded tartly: “This ‘so-called’ judge was nominated by a ‘so-called’ President & was confirmed by the ‘so-called’ Senate. Read the ‘so-called’ Constitution.”
. . . .
Schiff is a mild-mannered former federal prosecutor who was elected to Congress in 2000 by voters in what had been a traditionally Republican district. He is a calm, erudite Harvard Law School grad who is the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, State and Energy. At this strange moment when Russia’s election meddling may have changed the course of American history, Schiff is a sought-after guest on cable news shows.
As low-key as he seems on TV, the Twitterfication of American politics, wrought almost entirely by Trump, has changed him. He has become a master of snark.
“I certainly have taken off the gloves more than my usual persona,” Schiff said. “The extremity of this president’s views, and his disregard for separation of powers, and the way he is willing to bully people infuriates and alarms me and causes me to want to push back hard.”
Indeed, after Trump announced Monday on Twitter that, henceforth, “Any negative polls are fake news,” Schiff responded: “Trump attacks NYT, SNL, negative polls, allies & federal judges. But lets Putin get away with murder. Literally. In Ukraine. Aleppo. Moscow.”
. . . .
The #ProudlyOutOfControl movement is in full swing, all over the state — in Sacramento, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and even in unexpected places like Roseville, where a town hall meeting called Saturday by Republican U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock grew heated after hundreds of protesters vocally, but nonviolently, denounced McClintock’s support for Trump’s policies.
In Sacramento, Gov. Jerry Brown began pushing back well before Trump was even inaugurated. In December, he addressed scientists fearful that Trump would end NASA’s climate research. “If Trump turns off the satellites,” Brown thundered, “California will launch its own damn satellites.”
“California will be a hotbed of activism against this president’s policies,” Schiff said. “He will find real limits to what he can do to punish a state that doesn’t agree with him. And yes, I am concerned. He is a vindictive personality.”
Tuesday, as if to prove the point, Trump offered to damage a Texas lawmaker who thinks police should not be able to seize the money and property of people merely suspected, but not convicted, of committing crimes. “Do you want to give his name?” Trump asked a group of sheriffs at the White House. “We’ll destroy his career.”
The sheriffs thought that was just hilarious.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank, also on Twitter, responded tartly: “This ‘so-called’ judge was nominated by a ‘so-called’ President & was confirmed by the ‘so-called’ Senate. Read the ‘so-called’ Constitution.”
. . . .
Schiff is a mild-mannered former federal prosecutor who was elected to Congress in 2000 by voters in what had been a traditionally Republican district. He is a calm, erudite Harvard Law School grad who is the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, State and Energy. At this strange moment when Russia’s election meddling may have changed the course of American history, Schiff is a sought-after guest on cable news shows.
As low-key as he seems on TV, the Twitterfication of American politics, wrought almost entirely by Trump, has changed him. He has become a master of snark.
“I certainly have taken off the gloves more than my usual persona,” Schiff said. “The extremity of this president’s views, and his disregard for separation of powers, and the way he is willing to bully people infuriates and alarms me and causes me to want to push back hard.”
Indeed, after Trump announced Monday on Twitter that, henceforth, “Any negative polls are fake news,” Schiff responded: “Trump attacks NYT, SNL, negative polls, allies & federal judges. But lets Putin get away with murder. Literally. In Ukraine. Aleppo. Moscow.”
. . . .
The #ProudlyOutOfControl movement is in full swing, all over the state — in Sacramento, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and even in unexpected places like Roseville, where a town hall meeting called Saturday by Republican U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock grew heated after hundreds of protesters vocally, but nonviolently, denounced McClintock’s support for Trump’s policies.
In Sacramento, Gov. Jerry Brown began pushing back well before Trump was even inaugurated. In December, he addressed scientists fearful that Trump would end NASA’s climate research. “If Trump turns off the satellites,” Brown thundered, “California will launch its own damn satellites.”
“California will be a hotbed of activism against this president’s policies,” Schiff said. “He will find real limits to what he can do to punish a state that doesn’t agree with him. And yes, I am concerned. He is a vindictive personality.”
Tuesday, as if to prove the point, Trump offered to damage a Texas lawmaker who thinks police should not be able to seize the money and property of people merely suspected, but not convicted, of committing crimes. “Do you want to give his name?” Trump asked a group of sheriffs at the White House. “We’ll destroy his career.”
The sheriffs thought that was just hilarious.
annabenedetti
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This isn't the kind of 3 am call they had in mind:
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that’s good for the economy? Or a weak one?
So he made a call ― except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn’s accounts of the incident.
Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn’t know, that it wasn’t his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.
Trump was not thrilled with that response ― but that may have been a function of the time of day. Trump had placed the call at 3 a.m., according to one of Flynn’s retellings ― although neither the White House nor Flynn’s office responded to requests for confirmation about that detail
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Unsurprisingly, Trump’s volatile behavior has created an environment ripe for leaks from his executive agencies and even within his White House. And while leaks typically involve staffers sabotaging each other to improve their own standing or trying to scuttle policy ideas they find genuinely problematic, Trump’s 2-week-old administration has a third category: leaks from White House and agency officials alarmed by the president’s conduct.
“I’ve been in this town for 26 years. I have never seen anything like this,” said Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official under President George W. Bush and a member of his National Security Council. “I genuinely do not think this is a mentally healthy president.”
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that’s good for the economy? Or a weak one?
So he made a call ― except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn’s accounts of the incident.
Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn’t know, that it wasn’t his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.
Trump was not thrilled with that response ― but that may have been a function of the time of day. Trump had placed the call at 3 a.m., according to one of Flynn’s retellings ― although neither the White House nor Flynn’s office responded to requests for confirmation about that detail
. . . .
Unsurprisingly, Trump’s volatile behavior has created an environment ripe for leaks from his executive agencies and even within his White House. And while leaks typically involve staffers sabotaging each other to improve their own standing or trying to scuttle policy ideas they find genuinely problematic, Trump’s 2-week-old administration has a third category: leaks from White House and agency officials alarmed by the president’s conduct.
“I’ve been in this town for 26 years. I have never seen anything like this,” said Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official under President George W. Bush and a member of his National Security Council. “I genuinely do not think this is a mentally healthy president.”
Not even Republicans were happy with the "so-called" nonsense. Republican Senator Sasse (member of the Judiciary Committee) said, "We don't have 'so-called judges,' we don't have 'so-called' senators, we don't have 'so-called' presidents. We have people from three different branches of government who take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. And it's important that we do better civics education for our kids."
Puzzling comments by Trump, given the District Court Judge, James Robart, was confirmed by the Senate 99-0, which is a significantly higher percentage of support than President Trump received in his election.lain:
Trump responded to criticism of his remarks from a golf outing in Mar-a-Lago. A golf outing in Florida and he hasn't been on the job a month?
You know our conservative faithful here are up in arms, as much hay as they made over the last president's golfing...any time now...any ol minute...and the expense...I can't wait to hear them rail about New York and the money the Trumps are wasting...any...any day now.
Puzzling comments by Trump, given the District Court Judge, James Robart, was confirmed by the Senate 99-0, which is a significantly higher percentage of support than President Trump received in his election.
lain: Trump responded to criticism of his remarks from a golf outing in Mar-a-Lago. A golf outing in Florida and he hasn't been on the job a month?
You know our conservative faithful here are up in arms, as much hay as they made over the last president's golfing...any time now...any ol minute...and the expense...I can't wait to hear them rail about New York and the money the Trumps are wasting...any...any day now.
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they were discussing the same concept (with different language) this morning on the CBC
| Refugees crossing into Canada from US on foot despite freezing temperatures Uncertainty caused by Trump’s policies has pushed asylum seekers to take long, risky routes that in one case cost two Ghanaian men several fingers to frostbite A growing number of asylum seekers are braving freezing cold temperatures to walk into Canada from the US, driven by fears of what Donald Trump’s presidency will mean for refugees, advocates say. Last week, amid the chaos and uncertainty triggered by Trump’s travel ban, one agency dedicated to resettling refugees and immigrants opened an unprecedented 10 refugee claims in one day. Eight of the claimants had walked into Canada in order to avoid detection by border officials. On Tuesday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said another 22 people had walked across the border and into Canada over the weekend; 19 of them on Saturday and three on Sunday. “They’re not crossing at the actual point where there’s an immigration and customs offices,” said Rita Chahal of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council. “They’re walking through prairie fields with lots and lots of deep snow. In Europe we’re seeing people in boats; now just imagine a prairie flatland and snow for miles and miles.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/us-refugees-canada-border-trump-travel-ban |
iow, his way of communicating with retards
stop being a retard :idunno:
ok doser
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we have, in positions of powers, people serving functions poorly
if a liberal critical of trump had called him a "so-called leader", there would have been no confusion
it seems obvious to me that what trump was calling into question was not robart's legal role as a judge, but his obvious lack of qualifications to do the job
Fraud Trump through and through calling into question anyone's obvious lack of qualifications - now there's a hoot.
Talk about Superman's encounter with that headache, Bizzaro :rotfl:
Same end result - the U.S. vs Trump.
Guess who wins in the end?
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i was entertained by the cbc's soundbite last night of the court of appeals judge:
by morning, they had dropped the soundbite and were just reporting that it was "ongoing" :chuckle:
| For several consecutive minutes during Washington Solicitor Gen. Noah Purcell's arguments at the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, judges repeatedly prodded Purcell on whether President Trump's travel ban amounted to anti-Muslim discrimination. "The seven countries encompass only a relatively small percentage of Muslims," Judge Richard Clifton, an appointee of President George W. Bush, said at one point. "I have trouble understanding where we're supposed to infer religious animus," said Clifton. During the arguments, Clifton asked Purcell how the ban could be seen as anti-Muslim if it affected only a subset of Muslims. "To prove religious discrimination we do not need to prove this order harms only Muslims … or every Muslim," said Purcell, pointing to the president's past public statements on a "Muslim ban" and preference for Christian refugees. Clifton asked if the travel ban was the specific "shutdown" of all Muslim immigration that Trump had promised during his campaign. "No," said Purcell. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-...ther-trump-s-travel-1486511981-htmlstory.html |
by morning, they had dropped the soundbite and were just reporting that it was "ongoing" :chuckle:
dressing like a woman:
Because we're so superior.
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“If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah." ~ Billy Graham
They'd last 8 days without our water. What do you suggest we charge them per glass?
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