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Old 13th April 2020, 04:15 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
LOL! I suggest you do some fact checking. I fact check all the time and so does a lot of the media. Trump does not come off well.

Try looking up if Trump has the power to force governors or mayors to end the lockdown, open schools, etc. He doesn't. Go on. Do it.

Trump just said "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's going to be. It's total, it's total."

What the hell!?
Only if I woke up in Russia this morning.
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Now, watching Pence -- that's the way a press conference should be handled. Boring and non-committal.
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:29 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
That is one way of looking at it. Another way could be that President Trump exposed the fake news media with facts that contradicted their false narratives. Of course this way of looking at it would mean you'd have to take the time to "fact check" the facts.

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Come along with me and we'll do a little fact checking, 'kay?

Snopes:
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States Largely Have Authority Over When to Shut Down, Reopen

Q. Does the president have the authority to override state and local orders?

A. No. Under our constitutional system, states have the power and responsibility for maintaining public order and safety. As we’ve seen since the outbreak began, decisions about limiting social interactions by ordering people to shelter in place, closing businesses and shutting schools are being made by governors and local officials. Those same officials will make the call about when to ease up. Trump’s comments “are just advisory,” said John Malcolm of the Heritage Foundation.
Politico:

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Trump: It’s my decision, not governors’, to reopen country
But the law suggests the president has less power than he thinks.

The president’s reassertion of his authority runs counter to the views of legal scholars, who say the federal government lacks the power to directly order states to reopen their economies.
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Can the Federal Government Override State Government Rules on Social Distancing to Promote the Economy?

No, the president cannot simply order state and local officials to change their policies
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:39 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by Craig4 View Post
Because if the stupid bitch in chief wants to run a political ad, he can have the filthy Trumptrash who work on his campaign buy some airtime. CNN is there to report, not be a vehicle for the ****'s propaganda.
Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
LOL! I suggest you do some fact checking. I fact check all the time and so does a lot of the media. Trump does not come off well.

Try looking up if Trump has the power to force governors or mayors to end the lockdown, open schools, etc. He doesn't. Go on. Do it.

Trump just said "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's going to be. It's total, it's total."

What the hell!?
Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
What? That must be Fake News! Of course the coronavirus was known to Obama and it's HIS fault that he didn't have tests available for it! Obama left "bare shelves" for poor Trump in the national stockpile as Trump said again today.

Hey, ChrisBFRPKY...you might want to do a little 'fact checking' on that. Here, let me help:

Politifact: FALSE
Factcheck.org : FALSE
You guys must really have a thing for CNN. Geez have you even checked their ratings recently? Is this an apple or what?

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Old 13th April 2020, 04:40 PM   #45
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He seems sketchy on religion too.

Quote:
We're having a religious leaders committee, you've been seeing what's going on at the churches, we're gonna to have a few committees, and then ultimately we're gonna make decisions and we're gonna make them fairly quickly and I think they're going to be the correct decisions"
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:41 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by varwoche View Post
"My authority is total."
Good time to start a game:

Who said it - Trump or Stalin?
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:42 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
Come along with me and we'll do a little fact checking, 'kay?

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Politico:



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Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

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Old 13th April 2020, 04:43 PM   #48
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Everything he says sounds like a madlibs game where he just throws in words like "big", "smart", "Democrats" and "fake news".
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:43 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

Chris B.
It wasn't a travel ban from China. See if you can figure out why.
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:44 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

Chris B.
How about we concentrate on Trump declaring himself to have "total authority" and the power of the president being "total"??

He just made himself dictator.
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:44 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
“The power of the President is total.”
After that statement, no Trump supporter could ever make a credible claim at patriotism or that they are loyal to the nation. This election truly is a cold civil war between Trumptrash and Americans.
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:46 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
You guys must really have a thing for CNN. Geez have you even checked their ratings recently? Is this an apple or what?

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Wow. You really are learning from Trump. Rather than address the actual points, you misdirect to ratings?

1. You fail to provide any evidence whatsoever that Trump has the authority to override state governors and mayors. Hmmm...what could possibly be the reason for that?

2. You fail to address that Trump's claims were found to be false by non-partisan fact finding sites.

Well done. Straight out of the Trump playbook.
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:50 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by alfaniner View Post
Now, watching Pence -- that's the way a press conference should be handled. Boring and non-committal.
Trump would be wise to let Pence speak for him more often, but between the election and his own ego, he would never let that happen.
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:58 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

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It's just hilarious that you would include "cherry picking" in your post.


"Perhaps you should concentrate on [the only intelligent thing that Trump did] and [ignore all the things he should have done, but didn't]."


If the travel ban was a good idea (it was), then it should have been obvious that the only effect of the travel ban would be to buy time, which he did not use.
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Old 13th April 2020, 04:59 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by TheGoldcountry View Post
Watching these daily press conferences on a daily basis is bad for my mental health, but I do it anyway.

Our dear leader, in his garbled word salads, loves to constantly switch back and forth between "we" and "they." Whenever something good was done, it's "we" (meaning him.) Conversely, the negatives are attributed to "them" (Pelosi, Democratic governors, etc.)

When is he going to get the memo that "we" IS "them", and we're all in it together? This is the problem with the stupid "run the country like a business" mentality; you're only worried about your position at the end of the day.
The only part I enjoy is that Trump is clearly upset that he's not getting credit for his accomplishments. I think he really believes that he's doing a good job and his frustration at not being recognized shows. It's always funny when you get to see Trump suffering.
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Old 13th April 2020, 05:02 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
You guys must really have a thing for CNN. Geez have you even checked their ratings recently? Is this an apple or what?

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You must really have a thing for dictators. “The power of the President is total.”
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Old 13th April 2020, 05:03 PM   #57
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How about we concentrate on Trump declaring himself to have "total authority" and the power of the president being "total"??

He just made himself dictator.
I bet what happened is he was only half listening when someone was explaining unitary executive theory and was trying to recite it.
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Old 13th April 2020, 05:06 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

Chris B.
Speaking of cherry picking, you do realize that is the single thing he did that made sense, don't you? What other steps did he take to address Covid 19?But he even failed at that as over 40,000 people still entered the US from China after that ban. But you fail to admit that he:

Ignored early warnings:

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A week after the first coronavirus case had been identified in the United States, and six long weeks before President Trump finally took aggressive action to confront the danger the nation was facing — a pandemic that is now forecast to take tens of thousands of American lives — Dr. Mecher was urging the upper ranks of the nation’s public health bureaucracy to wake up and prepare for the possibility of far more drastic action.

“You guys made fun of me screaming to close the schools,” he wrote to the group, which called itself “Red Dawn,” an inside joke based on the 1984 movie about a band of Americans trying to save the country after a foreign invasion. “Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.”

His was hardly a lone voice. Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action.
Come on, Chris...show me the evidence that Trump has the legal authority to overrule governors and mayors. Show me the evidence that he 'inherited bad tests and a depleted stockpile". Show me the steps he took in Jan. and Feb. to address the pandemic other than stopping flights from China (while still allowing 40K people in).
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Trump Tweets
First the Fake News Media said that it’s not fair for the President of the United States to be giving news conferences, but it is the only way I can reach the American People, as seen in the below poll.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...766215/photo/1 (picture of a chart)
I laughed when I saw this followup tweet regarding the 'chart.'
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Ah yes, a graphic from Tony Fabrizio, the Republican operative who was questioned by Mueller's special counsel team about polling data shared with pro-Kremlin pro-Putin individuals in February of 2018. Seems legit
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
“The power of the President is total.”
Not over us non-Americans it isn't. **** right off, you orange prick.
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Originally Posted by Norman Alexander View Post
Not over us non-Americans it isn't. **** right off, you orange prick.
Not over Americans either. I agree with the rest of your post.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
He seems sketchy on religion too.
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We're having a religious leaders committee, you've been seeing what's going on at the churches, we're gonna to have a few committees, and then ultimately we're gonna make decisions and we're gonna make them fairly quickly and I think they're going to be the correct decisions"
Well, if there are decisions that are already known to be correct, why have any committees at all? Just make the frigging decisions already and get the job done.

Oh, that's right. Rupert and Pootie haven't told you what those decisions are yet.
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You guys must really have a thing for CNN. Geez have you even checked their ratings recently? Is this an apple or what?

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Is this really the best you can do?
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CNN edited the live feed? Wonder why?
You can’t edit a live feed.
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Old 13th April 2020, 05:31 PM   #65
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

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Wrong. It was an "immigration ban for Chinese nationals". And you do know how many people would transit US international airports each day, don't you? Tens of thousands.

So some 40,000 people from China returned to the USA after this so-called ban was put in place. These were all people who were not Chinese nationals but had been in or through China during the COVID outbreak period in Hubei province. Some were citizens from other countries. But a lot of them were US tourists, who brought the virus back with them. All allowed to enter the USA with no problems.

But the Chinese are avid tourists as are Europeans who have been to China and not subject to Trump's silly ban. They go to many other places in the world...especially European cultural spots like UK, Italy and Spain. So guess what! Virus hot-spots.

It was the same thing with Trump's stupid "Europe ban" shortly after. It banned nationals from selected European countries but not others. Anyone arriving in the USA from those countries only was stopped. But it didn't stop people from other European countries, notably the UK or transiting via the UK. Since Heathrow is the major link from Europe into the US east coast, many Europeans transit through there regularly, from Italy and Spain too. So more tens of thousands arrived on flights from the UK into New York especially. And guess what! That's where the virus came from that is now devastating that area.

So you can rattle on about Trump's so-called travel bans being effective for as long as you like. But they were VERY poorly managed, and largely ineffective. Much like Trump.
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How about we concentrate on Trump declaring himself to have "total authority" and the power of the president being "total"??

He just made himself dictator.
Well, he can SAY it. But Trump saying anything doesn't make it so. In fact, more likely it will be the opposite.
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Originally Posted by Norman Alexander View Post
Well, he can SAY it. But Trump saying anything doesn't make it so. In fact, more likely it will be the opposite.
The Chosen Ones supporters will cling to it, and insist it it true.
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Well, he can SAY it. But Trump saying anything doesn't make it so. In fact, more likely it will be the opposite.
I'm curious what Fox News personalities think of Trump's total authority statement, but not curious enough to actually watch them.

Not that I'm urging reporters to troll Trump but they've surely got a pretty good idea what triggers Trump. However it's uncertain if his base voters even care if he declares or even has total power to overrule state governments.
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I'm curious what Fox News personalities think of Trump's total authority statement, but not curious enough to actually watch them.

Not that I'm urging reporters to troll Trump but they've surely got a pretty good idea what triggers Trump. However it's uncertain if his base voters even care if he declares or even has total power to overrule state governments.
I'm more curious about the Republican Congress-critters.
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I'm curious what Fox News personalities think of Trump's total authority statement...
I doubt they'll even mention it.
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That is one way of looking at it. Another way could be that President Trump exposed the fake news media with facts that contradicted their false narratives. Of course this way of looking at it would mean you'd have to take the time to "fact check" the facts.

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Let's do some more fact checking from today's debacle:

Trump:
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Let me ask you this, why did Biden apologize, why did he write a letter
Biden has never apologized to Trump, much less in a letter.

Trump:
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I could have done what some countries are doing. They’re getting beat up pretty I could have kept it open. I thought of keeping it open, because nobody has ever heard of closing down a country, let alone the United States of if I would have done that, we would have had hundreds of thousands of people that would right now be dead. We’ve done this right.
N. Korea and Italy both stopped flights from China before Trump.

The campaign style video Trump showed which basically was clips of people praising him, etc. had NO clips from February...the time when he did basically nothing but downplay the virus. The reporter asked what he did in FEBRUARY, after the Jan. 31 ban of flights from China. That's when Trump went postal and attacked the media and the reporter.

His video included a quote from Maggie Habermann but left out an important part:

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Fact check: White House video left out reporter's full remark:

Facts First: The Haberman quotes are misleading as they edit out one of her key points: that the President’s travel restriction was one of the last actions he took to address the coronavirus for weeks.
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Well I’m sure Republicans will rally together to firmly denounce the POSOTUS after his declaration of total federal control over the states, right?

Right?
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Old 13th April 2020, 06:17 PM   #73
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Yes, yes we all know. The Right is always on about government overreach and states rights and are crickets and tumbleweeds now.

I know, you know, they know. The difference is they don't care. Moral consistency isn't a dump stat for trolls.
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Old 13th April 2020, 06:20 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by Craig4 View Post
The only part I enjoy is that Trump is clearly upset that he's not getting credit for his accomplishments. I think he really believes that he's doing a good job and his frustration at not being recognized shows. It's always funny when you get to see Trump suffering.
His real problem is that he IS getting credit for his "accomplishments".
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Old 13th April 2020, 06:28 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
That is one way of looking at it. Another way could be that President Trump exposed the fake news media with facts that contradicted their false narratives. Of course this way of looking at it would mean you'd have to take the time to "fact check" the facts.

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”Trump exposed...with facts.”

I’m just gonna leave that gem right there.
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Old 13th April 2020, 06:36 PM   #76
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The Republican governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, was asked by Anderson Cooper about Trump's claim that he 'has the ultimate authority" when it comes to opening up the states. Once again, we are being told by a Republican what he thinks Trump means rather than what he actually said. DeWine dances around by saying that Trump has the 'ultimate bully pulpit" so he can influence what governors do. But that is not what Trump said. Trump was very clear that he has the Constitutional authority to overrule the governors as the "ultimate authority" and that his "power is total". DeWine says he doesn't blame Trump for describing it that way. I wonder if all GOP politicians were given instruction for dealing with Trump: whatever Trump says or does, bend over and kiss his *** if you want to survive. Never, ever criticize Trumplethinskin.
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Old 13th April 2020, 06:37 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by Norman Alexander View Post
Wrong. It was an "immigration ban for Chinese nationals". And you do know how many people would transit US international airports each day, don't you? Tens of thousands.

So some 40,000 people from China returned to the USA after this so-called ban was put in place. These were all people who were not Chinese nationals but had been in or through China during the COVID outbreak period in Hubei province. Some were citizens from other countries. But a lot of them were US tourists, who brought the virus back with them. All allowed to enter the USA with no problems.

But the Chinese are avid tourists as are Europeans who have been to China and not subject to Trump's silly ban. They go to many other places in the world...especially European cultural spots like UK, Italy and Spain. So guess what! Virus hot-spots.

It was the same thing with Trump's stupid "Europe ban" shortly after. It banned nationals from selected European countries but not others. Anyone arriving in the USA from those countries only was stopped. But it didn't stop people from other European countries, notably the UK or transiting via the UK. Since Heathrow is the major link from Europe into the US east coast, many Europeans transit through there regularly, from Italy and Spain too. So more tens of thousands arrived on flights from the UK into New York especially. And guess what! That's where the virus came from that is now devastating that area.

So you can rattle on about Trump's so-called travel bans being effective for as long as you like. But they were VERY poorly managed, and largely ineffective. Much like Trump.
The title of the order is:

"Proclamation on Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus"

I just sank your battleship.

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Old 13th April 2020, 06:39 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

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Okay, I’m concentrating.

Concentrating.

Still concentrating.

Is this “travel ban from China” supposed to materialize if I close my eyes extra tight?

Concentrating more than ever now. Really hard.

Yeah, doesn’t seem to be happening. Welp, I tried.
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Old 13th April 2020, 06:44 PM   #79
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Not over us non-Americans it isn't. **** right off, you orange prick.
I never thought about it before, but I’ll bet he spray tans the old wazoo, too. Y’know, to give it that healthy, sun-dappled glow.
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If the executive branch is more important than the states, then when can get rid of the state-centric electoral college and go to most-votes wins the election.
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