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The Great Zaganza 15th September 2020 02:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragon (Post 13223586)
It seems that the AK47 is now the preferred weapon of your friend...

Meanwhile Putin is hoarding all the Novichok.
Trump fans should call for Good Old Vlad to share some with The Donald.

Mojo 15th September 2020 02:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gypsyjackson (Post 13223548)
Is the republican party unable to avoid using Russian imagery in its campaigns?

Guardian article on MAGA ‘Russian jets and small arms’ poster



Quote:

Pierre Sprey, who helped design US Air Force planes, told Politico the jet featured in the ad is “definitely a MiG-29”, as did the director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, Ruslan Pukhov.

“I’m glad to see it’s supporting our troops,” said Sprey.
:)

Andy_Ross 15th September 2020 03:43 AM

Trump Tweets

According to press reports, Iran may be planning an assassination, or other attack, against the United States in retaliation for the killing of terrorist leader Soleimani, which was carried out for his planning a future attack, murdering U.S. Troops, and the death & suffering...

...caused over so many years. Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!

Left California for Arizona. Leaving Arizona after a GREAT meeting with our incredible Hispanic community. Heard fantastic and inspiring success stories. Will be landing in Washington (D.C.) soon! Big White House ceremony tomorrow morning with Israel, UAE, and Bahrain.

Andy_Ross 15th September 2020 03:45 AM

Trump Retweeted

Scott W. Atlas
@SWAtlasHoover
I was asked by the President of the United States to help formulate healthcare policy during the biggest healthcare crisis in a century. My extensive background in both medical science and healthcare policy provides a unique and urgently needed perspective on this matter

Steve Daines
@SteveDaines
An absolute honor to be endorsed by the Crow Tribe and to stand with @VP as he and @realDonaldTrump receive the Crow’s endorsement as well.

Senate Republicans
@SenateGOP
Stronger trade deals. Killing terrorists. National security tools. Justice reform. Coronavirus relief.
Democrats spent their year blocking + delaying progress on issue after issue after issue.

Andy_Ross 15th September 2020 03:46 AM

Trump Tweets

Did you see where Joe Biden — as Weak, Tired, and Sleepy as he is, went to a Polling Place today in Delaware (of course!) to VOTE!? If Biden can do it, any American can do it!

We had great rallies this past weekend, after the Governor of Nevada worked very hard to cancel all of our venues. Despite the fact that he controls the state, he failed, but would have rather done rally outside. Can you imagine this man is in charge...

...of the Ballots in Nevada!? Not fair, Rigged Election! @GovSisolak, will use every trick in the book to cheat with Ballots.

Safe-Keeper 15th September 2020 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop (Post 13223627)
Trump Tweets

According to press reports...

If only America had some sort of intelligence service and advisors who could keep the president up to date on these things, so he wouldn't have to learn of them from the news.

Fast Eddie B 15th September 2020 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Ladewig (Post 13223333)
Science came to me and asked “how do you know so much about climatology, about weather, and about both the atmosphere and the air around the Earth?”

And then the forestologists came to me and said, “we’re stumped. If we ask nicely, will you tell us which brooms are the best for cleaning forests?”

You left out the “Sir...”.

Edited to add: I see carlitos scooped me on this!

Craig4 15th September 2020 05:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gypsyjackson (Post 13223548)
Is the republican party unable to avoid using Russian imagery in its campaigns?

Guardian article on MAGA ‘Russian jets and small arms’ poster

It's a stupid ad regardless. The less Donald Trump talks about our troops, the better off he is. All that ad does is remind voters of Russian bounties and "suckers and losers". It's not a great word associate game for Trump to be playing.

Ladewig 15th September 2020 06:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gypsyjackson (Post 13223548)
Is the republican party unable to avoid using Russian imagery in its campaigns?

Guardian article on MAGA ‘Russian jets and small arms’ poster

Of course, they are able to avoid using pictures of Russian stuff.
Sometimes they use pictures of Nazi stuff.

alfaniner 15th September 2020 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Firestone (Post 13223549)
Most people don't know that ...
(as Trump would say) :D

I think he's recently been watching some old Game of Thrones promos.

"Winter is coming."

(I just remembered, he actually ripped them off a couple years ago.)

Firestone 15th September 2020 06:48 AM

Trump on Fox & Friends this morning:
Quote:

“How are you preparing for the debates, Mr. President?”

“If Joe Biden is elected the market will crash. Also China sent the virus.”

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/s...61668291969025
Fascinating is what he says around 52" in the embedded video (my transcript):
"We have a headwind as good as the Stock Market is. And that's good for the people, cause they own the stocks."

No wonder the White Working Class loves him. :rolleyes:

Safe-Keeper 15th September 2020 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firestone (Post 13223784)
Trump on Fox & Friends this morning:

I can only stand to hear his voice when it's filtered through Sarah Cooper.

Firestone 15th September 2020 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper (Post 13223794)
I can only stand to hear his voice when it's filtered through Sarah Cooper.

Me too, lover her!
But here I took one for the team, Soros check is in the mail.

Andy_Ross 15th September 2020 07:52 AM

Trump Tweets

We are advertising all over the place, but as much as we do, the Fake News likes to say we aren’t. Just being smart. We have much more money than we had at same time in 2016. Also spending on other, and different, elements of the campaign. Starting to get great poll numbers!

Andy_Ross 15th September 2020 07:54 AM

Trump Tweets

Conservative Girl
@ConservUSA38
We can beat them at their game #PedoBiden

JoeMorgue 15th September 2020 07:56 AM

The standing President of the United States just called a political rival a pedophile and not only will absolutely nothing come of it it's not surprising or shocking.

phiwum 15th September 2020 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeMorgue (Post 13223853)
The standing President of the United States just called a political rival a pedophile and not only will absolutely nothing come of it it's not surprising or shocking.

The hashtag "PedoBiden" came after the statement "We can beat them at their own game."

Are Trumpers gonna out-pedo the Cabal?

Safe-Keeper 15th September 2020 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeMorgue (Post 13223853)
The standing President of the United States just called a political rival a pedophile and not only will absolutely nothing come of it it's not surprising or shocking.

I would've thought Trump, given his history, would've steered clear of accusations of sexual misconduct, but then I remember he has no shame and that projection seems to come instinctively to him.

Safe-Keeper 15th September 2020 08:06 AM

Also, "Conservative Girl, @ConservUSA38" is such a generic handle that I'm leaning towards it being a troll.

Craig4 15th September 2020 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop (Post 13223630)
Trump Tweets

Did you see where Joe Biden — as Weak, Tired, and Sleepy as he is, went to a Polling Place today in Delaware (of course!) to VOTE!? If Biden can do it, any American can do it!

We had great rallies this past weekend, after the Governor of Nevada worked very hard to cancel all of our venues. Despite the fact that he controls the state, he failed, but would have rather done rally outside. Can you imagine this man is in charge...

...of the Ballots in Nevada!? Not fair, Rigged Election! @GovSisolak, will use every trick in the book to cheat with Ballots.

Biden so needs to challenge Trump to a bike ride test. Twitter and the rest of the internet will explode. Late night will go nuts with it. It won't happen but that won't stop some cleverly cruelty directed at Trump.

Craig4 15th September 2020 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeMorgue (Post 13223853)
The standing President of the United States just called a political rival a pedophile and not only will absolutely nothing come of it it's not surprising or shocking.

Yeah, that's not a road Trump really wants to go down.

Andy_Ross 15th September 2020 08:51 AM

Speaking on Fox & Friends Trump confirmed that in 2017 he supported assassinating Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but the move was opposed by then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Trump previously denied wanting to assassinate al-Assad after it was reported by journalist Bob Woodward in his 2018 book.

At the time Trump said. "Not at all. The book is fiction. I heard somewhere where they said the assassination of President Assad by the United States. Never even discussed. It was never even contemplated."

The_Animus 15th September 2020 08:56 AM

Immigrants in ICE care may be receiving unnecessary sterilization.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistle...r-dawn-wooten/

More information is needed but it wouldn't surprise me given some of the things that have come out about how they're treated. And getting evidence is hard considering how restrictive they are about letting any concerned parties in to visit.

Andy_Ross 15th September 2020 08:59 AM

Trump Tweets

HISTORIC day for PEACE in the Middle East — I am welcoming leaders from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain to the White House to sign landmark deals that no one thought was possible. MORE countries to follow!

Craig4 15th September 2020 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop (Post 13223944)
Trump Tweets

HISTORIC day for PEACE in the Middle East — I am welcoming leaders from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain to the White House to sign landmark deals that no one thought was possible. MORE countries to follow!

Once again, those countries aren't at war with each other. This isn't like Carter with Egypt and Israel at Camp David here. Egypt and Israel were still technically at war. Carter got the two sides to negotiate a peace agreement that ended hostilities. Trump secured a tenuous deal to normalize relations. I say tenuous because Israel thinks they agreed to pause annexation on the West Bank and UAE understood it would stop and that the agreement depended on complete cessation. I expect annexation to resume late in the first week of November.

I'm assuming this is an attempt to either get the Nobel Peace Prize or score a foreign policy win before the election. Since no fighting stopped and the deal has already turned into an obvious attempt to sell fighter jets, this won't go very far towards any sort of peace prize. That and let's face it, The world has a political and diplomatic class. These are sober, well educated people with an appreciation for complexity (though an inability to understand how little control they have over events) and that class will never admit Trump as a member. The Peace Prize would mean acceptance and that will never happen.

As for the election, that's nice, can we talk about unemployment and the corona virus now?

timhau 15th September 2020 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ladewig (Post 13223340)
The International Business Times was kind enough to offer “It is not clear if the president was speaking figuratively or meant trees explode in a literal sense.


And some say looking at the original quote is not helpful

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trump
“When trees fall down after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry, they become really like a match stick and they get up you know there's no more water pouring through and they become very, very they just explode. They can explode. Also leaves. When you have years of leaves, dried leaves on the ground it just sets it up. It's really a fuel for a fire. So they have to do something about it,"


Remember, it's Joe Biden who can't speak coherently.

TheRealnz 15th September 2020 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Craig4 (Post 13223976)
Once again, those countries aren't at war with each other. This isn't like Carter with Egypt and Israel at Camp David here. Egypt and Israel were still technically at war. Carter got the two sides to negotiate a peace agreement that ended hostilities. Trump secured a tenuous deal to normalize relations. I say tenuous because Israel thinks they agreed to pause annexation on the West Bank and UAE understood it would stop and that the agreement depended on complete cessation. I expect annexation to resume late in the first week of November.

I'm assuming this is an attempt to either get the Nobel Peace Prize or score a foreign policy win before the election. Since no fighting stopped and the deal has already turned into an obvious attempt to sell fighter jets, this won't go very far towards any sort of peace prize. That and let's face it, The world has a political and diplomatic class. These are sober, well educated people with an appreciation for complexity (though an inability to understand how little control they have over events) and that class will never admit Trump as a member. The Peace Prize would mean acceptance and that will never happen.

As for the election, that's nice, can we talk about unemployment and the corona virus now?


agreed. He should address unemployment and covid. But Congress should also not be on a 1.5 month vacation with no relief bill in sight. Perhaps they could come up with something to help protect those affected by COVID. We most likely won't see anything until AFTER the election because **** Trump while millions of people suffer just for some political maneuvering.

TheRealnz 15th September 2020 10:27 AM

To add

Regardless you have to admit that the Arab nations recognizing Israeli sovereignty is a big deal. Israelis can finally travel to foreign Arab nations and vice versa. If you don't think that's a good thing and a step in the right direction then I don't know what to say. A lot of our political maneuvering in the middle east is for profit, but also as a deterrent to keep Israel from getting gang banged by all the Arab nations

Stacyhs 15th September 2020 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop (Post 13223851)
Trump Tweets

Conservative Girl
@ConservUSA38
We can beat them at their game #PedoBiden

Vile. Just vile. I am just disgusted that this pig should be in the WH and that so many Americans support him. They should be ashamed of themselves. But they're not. And what that says about them.....

carlitos 15th September 2020 11:19 AM

I am imagining a world where a president never tweets. And if they do tweet, that they don’t retweet. And if they do retweet, they don’t retweet conspiracy theories. And if they do retweet conspiracies, they at least retweet them from humans and not Russian bots.

And just in general, that their communications to the public don’t contain the term “pedo” in any context.

Resume 15th September 2020 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stacyhs (Post 13224089)
Vile. Just vile. I am just disgusted that this pig should be in the WH and that so many Americans support him. They should be ashamed of themselves. But they're not. And what that says about them.....

I want to see how Kayleigh McEnany spins this.

Ladewig 15th September 2020 11:27 AM

So, where did Trump get the exploding trees thing?

Did he make it up out of nothing or did he hear a headline and distort it into a grotesque caricature of itself?

Stacyhs 15th September 2020 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carlitos (Post 13224125)
I am imagining a world where a president never tweets. And if they do tweet, that they don’t retweet. And if they do retweet, they don’t retweet conspiracy theories. And if they do retweet conspiracies, they at least retweet them from humans and not Russian bots.

And just in general, that their communications to the public don’t contain the term “pedo” in any context.

I just never thought I'd see the day where a US president would behave is such a despicable manner as Trump. To sink so low as to push this QAnon pedophile CT against Biden and to allow his son to do so, too, is beyond disgusting. He has taken the Office of the Presidency and turned it into a peepshow, the kind you only go to after dark, alone and with your head down in fear someone might recognize you.

Jim_MDP 15th September 2020 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ladewig (Post 13224134)
So, where did Trump get the exploding trees thing?

Did he make it up out of nothing or did he hear a headline and distort it into a grotesque caricature of itself?

A small few trees explode in full on fires.
It's not water but the sap, which superheated, goes to steam, then... tree go boom. [emoji15]
Unless you're a firefighter or a late evacuee of your neighborhood, you're unlikely to ever see it happen in person. Hope so at least... it's damn, damn hot all around when it happens.

Steve 15th September 2020 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stacyhs (Post 13224089)
Vile. Just vile. I am just disgusted that this pig should be in the WH and that so many Americans support him. They should be ashamed of themselves. But they're not. And what that says about them.....

Not the first time I have said this. The hilight is everything that is wrong with the USA. Trump is not the cause of the problems. He is the overt symptom that has brought the problems into the open for all to see. Removing Trump from the presidency will not do a thing to resolve the deep seated problems in USA society. It will just send those problems back underground again where they will continue to fester.

Lurch 15th September 2020 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop (Post 13223627)
Trump Tweets

According to press reports, Iran may be planning an assassination, or other attack, against the United States in retaliation for the killing of terrorist leader Soleimani, which was carried out for his planning a future attack, murdering U.S. Troops, and the death & suffering...

...caused over so many years. Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!

Left California for Arizona. Leaving Arizona after a GREAT meeting with our incredible Hispanic community. Heard fantastic and inspiring success stories. Will be landing in Washington (D.C.) soon! Big White House ceremony tomorrow morning with Israel, UAE, and Bahrain.

1,000 times greater in magnitude! We thought Hitler was excessive in his reprisals where 10-, or maybe a 100-fold amplification was applied.

Stacyhs 15th September 2020 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve (Post 13224189)
Not the first time I have said this. The hilight is everything that is wrong with the USA. Trump is not the cause of the problems. He is the overt symptom that has brought the problems into the open for all to see. Removing Trump from the presidency will not do a thing to resolve the deep seated problems in USA society. It will just send those problems back underground again where they will continue to fester.

Absolutely. They're like cockroaches in reverse. Whereas light makes them run back to hide in the darkness, Trump just brought them out to the light. There are just certain places I refuse to live in this country because their way of thinking isn't just different to mine; I find it totally incomprehensible.

Jim_MDP 15th September 2020 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lurch (Post 13224227)
1,000 times greater in magnitude! We thought Hitler was excessive in his reprisals where 10-, or maybe a 100-fold amplification was applied.

I know... what a childish way to behave.
He's the friggin' US President. Say, in diplomatic language, do xyz, we blow you the **** up. Simples.

Nothing he does, nothing, conveys poise, stature, or lacking most of all... gravitas.
People think we elected "Bozo the Clown"... what we actually got was Pennywise. [emoji15]

Craig4 15th September 2020 02:16 PM

Okay, for full disclosure, I found out today that three of my cousins and their families lost their homes in Oregon. One of those cousins had the home of a favorite aunt and uncle (uncle now deceased thankfully), a farm where I spent large parts of my summer as a child.

I consider myself well read on the histories of presidents, particularly those who served in my lifetime. Those stretch from Nixon to Trump. I simply can't imagine any of them being on the campaign trail while the entire west coast was up in flames and a major hurricane was about to strike the Gulf Coast. I have every confidence that all those other presidents, including Nixon would have been in the White House (or Camp David which has been used as an emergency command post when the Situation Room was down for some reason), making sure the full force and power of the US Government was being applied to protect American Citizens and ease their burdens.

FEMA, The Red Cross and ordinary citizens with vouchers from their insurance companies are trying to secure hotel rooms in Oregon for people who lost their homes. The problem is that hotels in Oregon are either under threat of evacuation or full of evacuees from other fires. It's simply beyond all logic and reasoning that we have a president who isn't sitting in the Situation Room with his foot on the neck of everyone in the USG who can find a room for anyone displaced by the fires and pressing real hard.

Instead, our president is in Pennsylvania, campaigning in a swing state. I will hate Trump voters forever and never look at one as equal to a real American.

Safe-Keeper 15th September 2020 02:19 PM

Quote:

Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!
Oh, he's in fire and fury mode again. What was that about the Nobel peace prize?


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