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7th July 2017, 01:02 PM | #361 |
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Ya, I believe the extra Hillary votes all came from California. Means nothing so don't worry, you didn't miss anything. Remember, most people on the forum think Cali is bat-guano crazy, so why they care about what Cali wants is anyone's guess.
So the world isn't happy with America under Trump. I guess they liked the apologetic do-nothing, foreign relations idiot Obama as a president. Well of course they would. Obama's foreign relations was one of his biggest weaknesses, my opinion. Depends on who you ask and what they want. |
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No, you were right.
Jeff Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical-marijuana providers
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Meanwhile, not even a year into his presidency, Trump has already manged to be many orders of magnitude worse Obama ever was.
But hey everything's an opinion these days. There are no things as facts. Nothing is true and everything is permitted, so there's nothing wrong with concluding that Trump is the greatest president America ever will have or can have ever. |
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Awesome: US, Russia announce Syria cease-fire after Trump-Putin talks
That love affair went hot quickly. Although as mentioned in the article, the SAA has declared a ceasefire there already a week ago and extended it yesterday, so there has been preparation for a while and Syria is on board. |
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Steve Bannon makes a funny joke. Everyone laughs at his comedy stylings.
Bannon apparently forgot for a moment who he works for and what party he belongs to and advocated raising taxes on the rich to pay for middle class and working class tax cuts. |
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A pretty damning indictment on the state of affairs in Washington at the moment.. I can't think of it ever being this bad:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40534572 |
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After just less than 6 months into Trump's presidency, look what has been creeping up.
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Ah, I don't think you appreciate the difference. If Chelsea had stood in for a tired Hillary then that would have been a low-energy Hillary showing unforgivable nepotism and subverting the democratic process.
OTOH President Trump is demonstrating how completely he is not misogynistic at all by giving up the opportunity to attend the dinner and giving a well-qualified woman the opportunity to attend. |
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That's a file photo used for the article. Here's a shot from today:
https://twitter.com/LanaLukash/statu...21544781643776 |
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-meeting-table
As fun as making fun of Trump for being lazy and nepotistic is. The real news of the G20 is how Trump's America First = America Alone. |
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Ivanka was just distracting the pre$$titutes from the fact that Melania and Putin, seated next to each other, both fluent in German, were exchanging details about how to send them to Siberia.
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I find this very interesting.
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So, where was Trump during this high-profile meeting?! Check out the following link. Where did Trump go? https://www.nbr.co.nz/sites/default/files/divot_0.jpg |
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Evidently America was at its greatest before it was the hegemon of Europe or even before it was considered a great power at all. Instead of leading the western world under Trump the US is losing its global standing and becoming an unpredictable, irrational outlier focused on the petty domestic issues at the expense of securing its own central position internationally. Any agreement is only important to Trump if it somehow gives Americans more jobs or reduces the trade deficit, all other concerns are irrelevant or at most an after-thought. In spite of Americas great wealth, power and prestige it's current government is fixated upon satisfying their most basic needs at the expense of its own long-term well being, such as by working to mitigate the effects of global warming. How can a people have so much yet complain that it's not enough and the world has somehow cheated them out of their fair share? |
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Trump has put America into a nose dive.
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Check out the video in this Tweet:
https://twitter.com/amaramarasingam/...35812370153472 It is an envisceration of Trump by an Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter for his perfomance at the G20 meeting and beyond. Brutally on point. Worth watching. |
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Worth thinking about long and hard. In response to comments that US leadership has been lost, the comments across internet media are full of GOP supporters stating something along the lines of "Oh, yeah? Well, I'm bigger and stronger and you need me, wimps." The good ole boys have become the goodfellas, and now wish to run a protection racket, which includes demanding "respect."
GOP = Losers. Trouser-dropping losers of first order. The permanent damage being done to US interests, let alone the planet, let alone their own public, is awesome to see. |
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