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Post by flatandy on Jan 25, 2019 22:03:54 GMT
Glad to see the pressure has finally paid off. Who’d ever have thought that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would have the balls, even if the public and common sense were on their side.
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Post by voice on Jan 25, 2019 22:14:21 GMT
The great deal maker, Trump never stood a chance.
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Post by voice on Jan 25, 2019 22:26:56 GMT
The right are melting down over Trumps defeat
Headlines on the Drudge Report and Breitbart News, which back his administration, screamed in red letters that there would be no wall funds.
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter called Mr Trump "the biggest wimp ever to serve as President".
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Post by Marshall on Jan 25, 2019 23:00:45 GMT
Wasn't that his big claim to fame? His brilliant negotiating skills?
When Mexico said they wouldn't pay for a wall despite his insistence on it while campaigning, did he ever play hardball with them?
No, he waited until he lost the House to the Democrats, then said it was suddenly a national emergency worth shutting down the government over. Never pushed back on Mexico but hung 800,000 employees out to dry.
He's a fat, whiny infant. All bluster and bullshit, no brains and no finesse. Can't think of a single redeeming quality possessed by the clown.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 25, 2019 23:26:41 GMT
Always a delight to read Rick Wilson (GOP strategist) on the continuing clusterfuck of this administration. Stone is charged with obstruction, making false statements, and witness tampering. Sorry, Trump fans; one of your heroes is about to either die in prison or flip on your cult leader. These charges, narrowly and surgically crafted, are enough that even a fairly slow jury would send Roger up the river long enough that a 66-year old man faces slim odds of coming out alive. The indictments draw yet another line of communication between Trump’s campaign (and likely Trump personally) and the efforts of Russia to elect Donald Trump, in this case via Stone’s relationship with GRU affiliate Wikileaks. The indictment is full of dumb, damning details.
All of Trump world seems to forget that Mueller has all the receipts, phone records, emails, text messages, metadata, and financial records. Stone lied to the Special Counsel because he trusted WhatsApp, which is a grandpa mistake of the first order. Stone lied in Congress because he believed that the House Republicans would sit on his transcript and he would never be held to account. Those lies met with the hard reality that elections have consequences. Donald Trump incinerated 40 GOP House seats, and so the Democratic majority shared the transcript the GOP had suppressed with Mueller. It wasn’t partisan; they had evidence of Stone committing multiple crimes in the form of lying to Congress.
Mueller never sleeps, his targets aren’t getting exonerated no matter how many times the Trump media screams “But her emails!” or “No collusion!” This is one more set of indictments and moves in a mosaic of dread for Trump. It never gets better, Russia always draws closer, and the connections always paint of picture of more malfeasance and connection to Putin’s operation. The “process crimes” are just gravy. Delicious, delicious gravy.www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-welcome-to-the-barrel-cosplaying-supervillain-meets-robert-muellers-real-life-feds |
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Post by voice on Jan 26, 2019 0:57:00 GMT
So, 48 witches either arrested, charged, convicted or plead guilty. They should make Mueller America's witch finder general since his witch hunt is now incredibly successful.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 30, 2019 1:10:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 8:02:47 GMT
How can he still be there? Exactly the same thing going on in the UK.
No opposition.
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Post by voice on Jan 30, 2019 16:32:20 GMT
part of it is probably the fact he chose Pence as his VP, Trump might be an idiot and incompetent, while Pence is a religious extremist, but quite a good administrator, so while Trump is bluster achieving not a lot, Pence would be much quieter, but could enact some very scary sh!t and get it done.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 30, 2019 18:00:56 GMT
If you don't control both Houses all the President can really do is Foreign Policy.
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Post by perrykneeham on Jan 30, 2019 18:17:29 GMT
You know, it's still amazing to me that Donald Trump could be elected President of the USA. He really is a horrible bloke. I don't think he's stupid or incompetent (although he's not that bright or that competent.) He's just a horrible bloke. An utter arsehole.
And yet, in a country teeming with talent, they elected Donald Trump.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 30, 2019 18:35:45 GMT
I know!
How the fcuk?
and as you say - America is teeming with talent.
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Post by flatandy on Jan 30, 2019 18:47:19 GMT
It's baffling, isn't it? Although I do think that he is also actually spectacularly incompetent. Anyone as horrible as Trump who was competent would have done way more damage by now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 18:51:41 GMT
He's a spiv.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 30, 2019 18:51:43 GMT
It is mind boggling, even when considering he lost the popular vote to a very unlikable opponent.
We need to get rid of the electoral college, it's so idiotic.
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Post by perrykneeham on Jan 30, 2019 18:58:01 GMT
True. But so was Clinton. |
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Post by unclejunior on Feb 1, 2019 9:52:00 GMT
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Post by jimboky on Feb 1, 2019 17:11:38 GMT
Payrolls surge by 304,000, smashing estimates despite government shutdown Job growth in January shattered expectations, with nonfarm payrolls surging by 304,000, the Labor Department says. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected payrolls to rise by 170,000. There were revisions. December's big initially reported gain of 312,000 was knocked all the way down to 222,000, while November's rose from 176,000 to 196,000. The unemployment rate ticked higher to 4 percent, a level where it had last been in June, a likely effect of the shutdown, according to the department. www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/nonfarm-payrolls-january-2019.html |
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Post by flatandy on Feb 1, 2019 18:21:39 GMT
So, we lost 90,000 jobs we expected to have in December, but gained 134,000 here? It's good, but not quite as good as the headline figures suggest.
Still, it makes me a little less pessimistic about the chances of a downturn.
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Post by mids on Feb 1, 2019 18:27:18 GMT
It's quite hard for Trump to look bad considering the previous incumbent was so utterly appalling.
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