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21st May 2020, 01:17 PM | #3201 |
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21st May 2020, 01:18 PM | #3202 |
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Ugh, the moron just took a plastic face shield he was playing with and tried to hand it to a reporter. Finally, someone actually accepted it.
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21st May 2020, 01:42 PM | #3206 |
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21st May 2020, 01:58 PM | #3207 |
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21st May 2020, 02:03 PM | #3208 |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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21st May 2020, 02:26 PM | #3209 |
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21st May 2020, 02:31 PM | #3210 |
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"But that's a way of saying it: positively toward the negative."
No, it isn't. |
21st May 2020, 02:33 PM | #3211 |
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Double post.
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21st May 2020, 02:50 PM | #3213 |
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Originally Posted by The Orange Menace
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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21st May 2020, 03:01 PM | #3214 |
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I'm positive that Trump's presidency has been a huge, stinking negative, so there's that.
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21st May 2020, 03:14 PM | #3215 |
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Legally, at least. Presidential Records Act, IIRC. That doesn't stop Trump from deleting tweets at will. On inquiry about that previously in relation to potential violations of the PRA, empty assurances that it was all being handled were given.
As a related side note, there's also stories about Trump habitually ripping up and throwing away documents that fall under the PRA and that White House staff was effectively going behind his back to go through the trash and piece those documents back together. I'm going to rule (with my incredible authority) that there's no need to fight about this. By the evidence at hand, Trump has little to no regard for the PRA, like so much of the rest of the law. That leaves upholding it to staff that's generally repeatedly been combed through by the loyalty police and, when it comes to outlets like twitter, watchdog accounts. How much you want to trust them to catch all of Trump's potentially illegal actions and make them not quite actually breaking the law technically is up to you, of course. "Fair and balanced" was officially dropped as a slogan years ago, IIRC. |
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21st May 2020, 03:17 PM | #3216 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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21st May 2020, 03:19 PM | #3217 |
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21st May 2020, 03:42 PM | #3218 |
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21st May 2020, 03:45 PM | #3219 |
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Re-tweet?
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21st May 2020, 03:48 PM | #3220 |
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21st May 2020, 03:51 PM | #3221 |
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21st May 2020, 04:12 PM | #3222 |
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I saw a clip where he said he "put one on in the back earlier" rather than "wore" one. I imagine he snapped it on, grinned foolishly underneath it and turned his head from side to side, as if to say "See? I'm wearing one!!", and then immediately took it off. I bet he didn't have it on more than 10 seconds, if he did, just so he could claim he wore one.
All speculation, of course. |
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21st May 2020, 04:23 PM | #3223 |
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Trump Tweets
I will be lowering the flags on all Federal Buildings and National Monuments to half-staff over the next three days in memory of the Americans we have lost to the CoronaVirus.... ....On Monday, the flags will be at half-staff in honor of the men and women in our Military who have made the Ultimate Sacrifice for our Nation. |
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21st May 2020, 04:56 PM | #3226 |
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For what it's worth, I think you had a point and Swoop should have said he didn't know the source of that quotation.
But even though Swoop hasn't said that, it's time to let it go. This constant harping on the point is becoming a worse crime than repeating a false quote without apology. |
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21st May 2020, 06:07 PM | #3231 |
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Trump loyalist John Ratcliffe confirmed as new US intelligence chief
*sigh* Not a surprise, but still pathetic. |
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---------------------- Anything goes in the Goblin hut... anything. "Suggesting spurious explanations isn't relevant to my work." -- WTC Dust. "Both cannot be simultaneously true, and so one may conclude neither is true, and if neither is true, then Apollo is fraudulent." -- Patrick1000. |
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21st May 2020, 06:39 PM | #3236 |
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21st May 2020, 06:49 PM | #3237 |
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My (very white) niece and nephew were vol crew fighting wildfires out there many years ago, with a few POC vols as well.
Staying in the local motels was as you say... "Interesting". Nobody did any exploring of the little towns. (I had to add Nevada to my post above... I'm always forgetting Nevada. ) |
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21st May 2020, 07:06 PM | #3238 |
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A friend from years ago in Calif. moved to Eagle Idaho about 20 years ago. While always conservative he was more a Reagan Repub. Never right wing. After a few years in ID, he turned into absolute nutter. His son's FB page looks like a survivalist whacko page. Trucker with semi-automatic rifles, camouflage, and Trump conspiracy crap all over his page. And he was such a nice little boy.
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