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I'm grateful that Trump doesn't think I have press credentials because I have to go to the Consulate far too often.
I'm grateful that Trump has reduced the conservative trolls to having to troll on any topic other than Trump because he's so reprehensible. |
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I'm grateful that he has exposed which conservatives are willing to abandon or expose their lack of principles in order to defend him, because of either a desperate sense of partisanship or a deep desire to troll liberals.
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I'm grateful that Trump... has caused the long-running crimes of so many people (such as Manafort and Cohen) to be exposed, due to their relationship with Trump and the Mueller investigation. Had Trump not run for president, people like Manafort would still probably be out there, scamming the system, and his crimes would probably be overlooked.
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Trust me, I know what I'm doing. - Sledgehammer I'm Mary Poppin's Y'all! - Yondu We are Groot - Groot |
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Penultimate Amazing
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I'm grateful that Trump left a trail of his crimes so obvious, Helen ******* Keller could follow it.
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This will sound rather silly but since it's in the news again, I've "liked" (for certain version of liked) that weird, avante-garde, bizarre Christmas decorations the White House has put up last couple of years.
The White House is (ostensibly) the Trump family's home and I've never liked how Presidential families have always been expected to maintain the same boring decor of "Quaint Americana over Greco-Roman" that was never allowed to advance beyond "What if Norman Rockwell threw up on Polished Marble." They should be allowed to non-permanently alter the living areas of the White House to their taste within reason. They aren't personally to my taste, but I think giving them crap over it as has happened this year and the last is a bit much. |
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- "Ernest Hemingway once wrote that the world is a fine place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part." - Detective Sommerset - "Stupidity does not cancel out stupidity to yield genius. It breeds like a bucket-full of coked out hamsters." - The Oatmeal - "To the best of my knowledge the only thing philosophy has ever proven is that Descartes could think." - SMBC |
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...is very old.
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I am grateful that Trump is so stupid and bad at covering up his tracks. If he was smarter, he would be even more dangerous.
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I'm thankful that Trump didn't have an identical twin.
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a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
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There is no universe in which his twin could exist. The two would annihilate each other and the universe with them.
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"Shemp, you are the one fixed point in an ever-changing universe." - Beady "I don't want to live in a world without shemp." - Quarky "...just as a magnet attracts iron filings, Trump attracts, and is attracted to, louts." - George Will |
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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I'm grateful that Trump has only had 4 Chapter 11's or his book would be even longer.
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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....is exposing the deep state's bad actors
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"I know my brain cannot tell me what to think." - Scorpion "Nebulous means Nebulous" - Adam Hills |
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An identical twin (or clone?) would explain why he always seems to contradict himself: He doesn't, actually! ![]()
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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... despite having mocked the handicapped, has made the world a more welcome place for drooling, inbred dimwits.
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To survive election season on a skeptics forum, one must understand Hymie-the-Robot.
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a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
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... gives us someone not just to hate, but to truly loathe with every fiber of our being.
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"Shemp, you are the one fixed point in an ever-changing universe." - Beady "I don't want to live in a world without shemp." - Quarky "...just as a magnet attracts iron filings, Trump attracts, and is attracted to, louts." - George Will |
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I agree
Because he's fulfilling an important role assuming that US democracy survives. He's acting as an abscess on the US body politic, drawing much of the poison into his orbit, and hopefully buy being an idiot, traitor and racist, he'll discredit both treason and racism when it metaphorically gets lanced. Already, he's giving the lie to the idea that there's no difference between the parties. His emboldening of racists means that lots are now more open about their bigotry, which will be shown up for what it is. Emboldening people to make racist jokes is one way that this will happen. As Trump's faculties decline, his behaviour will get more obviously idiotic. He will also find it harder to hide his views and behaviour. He'll demonstrate his contempt for his base and his short-term fellow travellers. He'll taint the reputation and ideas of anyone who doesn't dump him in time. It's quite possible that this has already happened. With luck, he'll end up discrediting the Tea Party and associated views, as well as the current |
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...means "fart".
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...won the election.
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... Has Twitter
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I'm grateful that Trump...never got anywhere near me or my daughter.
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I'm grateful that Trump was able to get Xi to crack down on Fentanyl dealers in China.
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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I'm grateful that Trump was able to create bargaining leverage through tariffs, to force China to agree to trade reforms.
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... helped Kevin McCallister find the lobby.
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