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While The Mooch sent a "congratulations" text to his pregnant estranged wife, this is what VP Biden told his staff about family obligations:
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11 hours ago, spidermike007 said:
s he doing this because it is the right thing to do? Of course not. Is he doing this after an objective analysis of the facts? Of course not. Not his style. He does not really analyze facts. He barely reads. He is not interested in the wisdom he would get from study. He is all about emotion, anger, and vengeance
Was watching Preibus being interviewed after "resigning" in which he tries to find a word to describe Trump, to try and say something nice about him. He doesn't say the man is smart, thoughtful, deliberative, or anything like that. The word he settles on is "intuitive" — which may be his polite way of saying Trump just does things by the seat of his pants.
Seeing the chaos and lack of results (unless the intention was to have chaotic results) from Trump's decisions, it's hard to conclude that he has either studied the issues, assessed the facts or put any deliberative thought into his decisions.
Intuitive indeed.
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12 minutes ago, Grubster said:
People with common sense know that what politicians say about what other politicians do with their leisure time [ as long as they are not breaking laws] is meaningless nonsense, Foolish people think they mean it and really foolish people may even change their vote over it.
Hypocrisy is hypocrisy, and Trump's hypocrisy is hypocrisy squared. Name me a democrat or Obama, or Clinton statement criticizing another politician's leisure activity. Let alone criticizing the activity and then going on to do the same three times as much.
The criticism isn't about Trump's leisure activity, it's about his rank hypocrisy and self-dealing by profiting his own businesses at taxpayer expense.
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7 hours ago, thehelmsman said:
Could we please stop the should have, could have, would have reports. News flash....Mr. Trump is the POTUS. Stock market rallied fri with another closing record.
Life is good once again.
Just who is life good for?
The millions living in fear of losing their healthcare?
The Transgender people in the military worried about their jobs?
The coal miners still waiting for their jobs to return?
The laid off manufacturing workers still waiting for their high-paying jobs?
The many minorities who live in fear of intimidation?
The white supremacists who can now openly strut their stuff?
Oh, wait...
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15 minutes ago, Grubster said:
No I do not, Are you saying that the President of the United States of America should not be able to golf on weekends. Think about how stupid that is, I golf whenever I want to. He is the POTUS and that comes with a massive amount of security and Air Force One. I don't like Trump but my god, do you think the presidency is a prison term or what? Why do many people always complain about what any POTUS does for leisure, and other politicians use it against them in campaigns as Trump did with Obama. I guess some were dumb enough to think their was something wrong with it.
President Trump is perfectly entitled to his leisure. The objection isn't about that. It's about:
His utter shameless hypocrisy for relentlessly criticizing Obama for golfing just one third as much as he does.
The fact that, as president, he declared he would spend weekends at the WH.
The fact that, since he plays at his own resorts at taxpayer expense, his leisure is impossible, to separate from his self-dealing and profit-making.
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1 hour ago, Skywalker69 said: Trump doesn´t know a <deleted>!
WATCH TRUMP STARTED SWEATING WHEN A REPORTER ASKED WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HEZBOLLAH!
In the opening remarks of a joint press conference with Lebanece Prime Minister Saad Hariri, President Trump
made a seemingly banal observation that "Lebanon is on the front lines in the fight against ASIS Al Qaeda,
and Hezbolla."http://indiarising.news/watch-trump-started-sweating-reporter-asked-think-hezbollah/
"HIS Bolla? No, listen toots, MY Bolla. MY whitehouse, MY Bolla. Wassamatta with you, you bleedin' today??"
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1 hour ago, iReason said:1 hour ago, Skywalker69 said:
<deleted> is wrong with these republicans?
They believe in an invisible man in the sky.
'Fraid it's worse than that. They believe in an invisible man in the sky whose ideas of Right and wrong coincidentally conforms with what they themselves have done or will want to do and whose teachings can be twisted,/cherry picked/ignored/emphasized to match their current bigotry.
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2 hours ago, Skywalker69 said: Talk about "Trump morons"
Jim Bakker Warns That God’s Judgment Will Fall On Those Who Dare To Oppose Trump
Jim Bakker issued a warning on his television show yesterday that judgment will fall on anyone who dares to oppose God’s effort to save America via President Trump.
“God is doing something,” Bakker said. “God is speaking. God is taking over. And I’ll tell you what, I wouldn’t fool with Trump. You better be careful, because I want to tell you, there is going to be judgment come if America turns its back on what God is trying to do, because God is trying to save America.”
With apologies to Samuel Johnson:
Religion is the last refuge of the scoundrel
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1 hour ago, selftaopath said:
He dodged the draft because he's a COWARD.
That's not fair. Trump HAD to stay in New York. All those lovely NY models weren't going to buy *themselves* dinner, were they now?
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6 hours ago, Jdiddy said:
Great to see Trump has guts
A group with a 41% suicide rate just may indicate a few mental problems and not someone i'd want to be along side with in combat. The military should be strong, not a leftie SJW playgroup
Again, unsuitable applicants would be identified and rejected, whether they are transgender or otherwise. While suicides are complex and difficult to prevent, screening for suicidal tendencies is fairly accurate.
Also, the Trump's proposal serves to further isolate an already fringe group of people and contributes to their suicidal tendencies.
"we find that mental health factors and experiences of harassment, discrimination, violence and rejection may interact to produce a marked vulnerability to suicidal behavior in transgender and gender non-conforming individuals."
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf
A true president works to reduce people's burdens, not add to them.
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12 minutes ago, attrayant said:
Just one more thing to add to the mountain of lies.
Looks like the Trump Admin got so tired of winning against the LGBT community that they needed a two month break after April before restarting the bash fest.
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3 hours ago, sirineou said:
Though it's merits arguable , there is no denying that Hillary had a lot of issues spanning from the Arkansas state house, to travel gate , to private server. and many other in between.
Though arguable , the argument distracted from the message. So while Trump promised a "Chicken in every table"
Hillary was busy playing defence and promising she was no Trump, to which many disenfranchised voter replied .
"we know"
Apologies for getting off topic, but I thought your comment deserved a considered response. I've tried to provide one.Much of HRC's so-called issues were pure hogwash, including those you mention.John Kerry had no "issues", was a true war hero, yet they swiftboated the heck out of him. John McCain in the primaries against Bush, same thing. It's hard when the other side fights so dirty, and when the public (especially the thinking public) get so disgusted, they stay home, while the evangelicals, and the brainwashed (there's a lot of overlap there!) dutifully show up vote party line every time.I think what, more than anything, did her in was the October Surprise from Comey. In hindsight, it's quite possible that Sanders would've beaten Trump. On the other hand, the dirty tricksters could've successfully swiftboated the heck out of him too.Based on everything that was known at the time of the Dem convention, HRC was the logical choice. Her primary win was convincing enough that even if there were some shenanigans involved, she would've still won the primaries without the shenanigans and so choosing her was the legitimate choice. Bernie was the true progressive choice, but just didn't have the numbers among primary voters. The sad thing is that America has moved so far right that even a moderate socialist lite like Bernie is seen as some kind of radical.Aside from Comey, which was a big cut, HRC was downed by a thousand cuts, the majority of them unfair and not of her making. Hillary could certainly have run a better campaign. But among the many reasons for her electoral college loss, apart from weak strategies, is a depressingly gullible American electorate.T -
1 hour ago, ELVIS123456 said:
it is about morale and costs.
It's not even a year since inauguration and so far Trump's golf course trips have cost the taxpayers almost $49m —SIX times the cost for a FULL YEAR of Transgender medical costs.
As to morale, it acually goes down when a president, without consulting with the military, issues a decree by twitter—a decree that results in confusion in the ranks because it is not known if, How or when there will/will not be a change in policy.
Your attempt to justify the unjustifiable is leading you down a path if ever sillier justifications.
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2 minutes ago, stevenl said:
Your daughter and many others duped days a lot about gullibility and independent thinking quality in the USA.
I have a godson in California. Smart kid. Also volunteered for Sanders. Stayed home on voting day. In his case at least, less to do with stupidity than the knowledge that his vote won't change the outcome in California and also plain old youthful stubbornness.
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2 hours ago, sirineou said:
The DNC certainly did his part in obstructing Sanders Candidacy Sanders would had made toast of Trump since Sanders had some of the same populist issues as Trump but without the Crazy,.
But Biden had the experience , had paid his dues, is well liked on both sides of the isle, charismatic, articulate. solid middle class. If he was allowed to run, Sanders would had never opposed him for the nomination.
But like you said, " Hindsight"
though for many of us it is not hindsight. back during Hillary's campaign for the nomination many of us that supported Sanders, did warn about Hillary's " baggage " and the skeletons in her closet bursting to get out.
I too hoped for a Sanders candidacy. however, given what was known at the time, I understand why Clinton was the logical choice. That the DNC supported Clinton should not be a criticism of the DNC. Sanders was a lifelong Independent. Clinton was a lifelong Democrat. The so-called "Clinton baggage" is an almost entirely Republican-created false narrative that has gone on for so long that some people have accepted unthinkingly as a given.
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2 hours ago, joecoolfrog said:
It seems to me that the new chief of staff has to prioritise the following ;
An interior designer , preferably a 'good man ' or woman and definitely a ' great American ' needs to be urgently recruited.
His , or her, brief would be solely to construct a new play pen for the president. Nothing elaborate , just some sofas , a full length mirror , a hairdressing salon plus a bank of digital appliances.
Purely for security purposes , the apartment would be sound proofed, the walls and floors elaborately padded and the single means of entry secured from the outside.
Entry would restricted to close family , domestic staff ,lawyers and those 'friends ' deemed beneficial ( by an independent commitee of physchiatrists ) to the general wellbeing of the man who would drain the 'swamp '.
The great one would not be troubled by those inconvenient policy details that he finds so troublesome , nor would he be besieged by either the 'fake ' media or other irritants such as reality.
He would pass his time conversing and agreeing with his reflection , musing on a ( censored ) twitter feed and of couse having his splendid shock of orange hair teased and cajoled into a state of magnificence.
In short Trump would do what he is best at , the country would no longer be run as his personal fiefdom and he could proudly boast that ( by staying well away ) he was making 'America great ' again.
Don't forget the steady supply of Russian hookers willing to provide golden showers.
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3 hours ago, boomerangutang said:
When the inevitable movies are made, in the future, about Trump's brief presidency, future generation will watch and think, "No way. It's too dramatized. No person with so much political power could act that crazy. It's too fictional to be believable."
.....then they'll ask their great grandma (who was born in the early 2000's) and she'll say, "oh yes, children. It's not dramatized for video. There really was a crazy man who hoodwinked enough rednecks to become president, and he caused more damage to the US than any ten attacking foreign countries could have caused."
I raise a glass to all the optimism implied by your post:
The Trump presidency will be brief.
Our kids have grandkids, meaning things are generally OK 3 generations hence.
Movies will still be made.
Kids will be engaged enough in politics to watch those political movies.
There will be intergeberational family discussions at dinner that don't involve telling the kids to put those damn screens away.
I need all the optimism jabs I can get in these days of despair.
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4 minutes ago, iReason said:
It's always interesting to me, the people who employ the word "HATE" right out of the gate.
"Give Trump a chance, he's done some great things so far, unnoticed of course by the press, who are totally biased."
Regardless of your baseless, hyperbolic accusation; "unnoticed of course by the press, who are totally biased",
what "great things so far" are you referring to?
He has brought all the bigots out of the woodwork who now proudly display their bigotry for all to see. We HAVE to thanks Trump for that, I guess. So: Thanks, Trump!
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3 hours ago, MrPatrickThai said:3 hours ago, Thakkar said:
As soon as he starts behaving like a real president.
As soon as he shows respect for The Constitution, The First Ammendment, the independence of the judiciary and the independence of the DOJ.
As soon as he releases his tax returns, as all modern presidents have done.
As soon as he eschews nepotism.
As soon as he clearly disentangles himself from his businesses to ensure there are no conflicts of interest, as all presidents have done.
As soon as he shows respect for ALL Americans, not just those who support him.
Support is earned.
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You mean like Bush? lol
Someone elsewhere on these forums asked how low the bar for Trump would go before some of his supporters withdraw their support. Well it seems you have inadvertently answered that poster : the next low bar for Trump is War Crimes.
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2 hours ago, MrPatrickThai said:
Agreed, but these people have a much higher chance of being mentally disturbed than other, wouldn't you agree?
Applicants deemed unsuitable would be screened out, transgender or otherwise. On occasions, the screening process might fail, whether the candidate is transgender or otherwise. Disallowing application on the basis that applicant is transgender is wrong and without basis. In other words, it is discrimination, prejudicial, bigoted. No amount of explaining explains that away.
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11 minutes ago, MrPatrickThai said:
upright citizen and SUPPORT the elected president.
As soon as he starts behaving like a real president.
As soon as he shows respect for The Constitution, The First Ammendment, the independence of the judiciary and the independence of the DOJ.
As soon as he releases his tax returns, as all modern presidents have done.
As soon as he eschews nepotism.
As soon as he clearly disentangles himself from his businesses to ensure there are no conflicts of interest, as all presidents have done.
As soon as he shows respect for ALL Americans, not just those who support him.
Support is earned.
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13 minutes ago, MrPatrickThai said:
Yes, the American Psychiatric Association state it is a mental disorder, so you are right. Some seem to think they deserve special treatment, as they can't help it. What about the guy with schizophrenia that thinks he's Elvis, should he be allowed in the army as he can't help it?
It's not that clear cut. From the American Psychological Association:"A psychological state is considered a mental disorder only if it causes significant distress or disability. Many transgender people do not experience their gender as distressing or disabling, which implies that identifying as transgender does not constitute a mental disorder."It's more nuanced than the above statement implies. Go here to learn more:http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx
Bottom line: recruits, transgender or otherwise, are assessed for suitability before being accepted. There's no good reason to exclude them from applying, and, if they pass the process, to exclude them from being hired.T -
Please Watch the the two minute vid at the link. A succinct critique
Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) This devastating “health care” bill is the result of what happens when a party becomes beholden to a small group of creepy billionaires. -
23 minutes ago, iReason said:33 minutes ago, Thakkar said:
Many heavily armed racist, xenophobic gun nuts blindly loyal to Dear Leader.
If even 1% of them decide to form an army to protect Trump from impeachment, America is screwed and headed for civil war.
They may be organizing already. As per Sessions' DOJ order, the government has delisted White supremacist organizations as dangerous and agencies may not be monitoring them any longer.
Naa, a bunch of knuckeheads with sidearms and rifles.
They would be put down like the mad dogs that they are by professionals.
Toot Sweet.
Because of course, they would be terrorists and treasonous.
And they would miss their time watching Alex Jones...
You are more optimistic than I, Gunga Din!
I can only hope you are right and I am wrong.
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Trump doesn´t know a <deleted>!
Trump - no transgender people will serve in U.S. military: Twitter
in World News
Posted
Dame magazine is a great magazine I encourage my children and god children (both male and female) to read.
They have a good piece on this issue that depicts the matter as a canary in a coal mine. I encourage members to read the whole piece, it's short and the arguments are well supported with links to facts and studies.
The Trump administration is not going to be content simply discriminating against trans individuals in the military. Gay and lesbian soldiers will likely be next, if Mike Pence has his way, and it wouldn’t be all that surprising to see a ban on women serving in combat roles come down the pike very soon. Defense Secretary Mattis has already made clear he doesn’t think women are well-suited for combat because they won’t be good at what he called “intimate killing” and that he saw letting women serve in combat was a “progressive agenda” that pushed social change on the military.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2017/07/27/trump-assault-trans-rights-canary-coalmine
If you think the above is too speculative, it's not. Under the bigoted leadership of beleaguered Jeff Sessions, the DOJ filed a brief arguing that Title VII—a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex—doesn’t protect gay and lesbian workers from anti-gay discrimination:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/the-justice-department-just-argued-against-gay-rights-in-a?utm_term=.ce83ZdR6YJ#.sj0Qd7pGMk
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