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Obama could have gotten 500 families to offer a room for his staff and I'm sure at least one could have accommodated his and Michelle's security screening needs. Trump on the other hand... Secret Service might rightly not trust the background check results for most who would make the same offer. Myself... in a pinch, I'd sleep on the plane. Its got a couple of sweet bedrooms. For Trump though... it's worth noting that AF1 is probably far more vulnerable to RPGs etc sitting on the ground. Hotel it is I guess. |
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Trump's people only found out about the summit at the last minute?
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Found on a blog called "SLOG"
"Here’s a Little Economics Lesson," Rick Perry Says, Before Completely Blowing It
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Apparently, advance booking may not be the only hurdle Trump faces finding a hotel to stay in.
Ran across this;
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boy he really threw his own intelligence service under the bus today.
Calling out the IC on foreign soil about Obama AND Bush! |
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He's whining that Obama didn't do anything about it, and he's also going to give the two compounds back to Putin.
If Obama didn't do anything, why would Trump have to give them back? |
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Trump is ruining the United States and has handed leadership roles to China and Russia, damaged relations with our allies, emboldened the Russians to continue their dirty work against the United States by failing to confront Putin on election meddling, which no doubt will further embolden the Russians beyond what we are seeing today. Question is, how much damage will Trump cause before congress and the American people finally rise up and throw 'Benedict Trump' out of office? |
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Amended to represent my impression of the situation.
The GOP will either remain silent or, IMO more likely, actively rebuff any such calls. Trump is doing a valuable job of "roping in the rubes" and drawing the "leftist" outrage thus allowing the GOP to get on with its core mission, the redistribution of wealth from the working and middle classes to the top 1% |
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I cannot imagine this happening. For a start 40% or so have exactly the President they want. Some of the remaining 60% are too busy trying to keep their heads above water to worry about that kind of thing and in any case the groups whose support you'd need for this kind of thing, the armed forces, law enforcement and even the unofficial "militias" are all very pro-Trump.
More likely Trump will get 8 years and then the Democratic President who follows will have to do what the last couple have done, set about repairing the economy, reducing the deficit and rebuilding the US' reputation overseas ready for the next GOP incumbent to destroy them all over again. |
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You need half the Representatives and 2/3 of the Senate for it, not armed forces.
Right now there is no chance of that. The house of Representatives may do something, but 2/3 of the Senate is a bridge too far. In time that may change, but that 40% of the electorate needs to be whittled down first. Hopefully only half or so are the true retard vote and the rest only support Trump because they would never, ever support a Democrat and see supporting Trump as being identical to opposing Democrats. McHrozni |
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You know, I'd been very worried that the DOJ under Sessions would try to go hard after marijuana including a crackdown in states that have legalized. Doesn't seem to have happened. Guess that's something I can actually give the Trump administration credit for. Looks like I was wrong about that one.
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It could also mean a coup d'etat of course, but there is no stomach for that among his opponents anyway, even if they could pull it off. Plus the recent history of coup attempts against leaders like him is disastrous, to put it mildly.
Trump needs to go, either through Republican-led (I can't stress this enough!) impeachment or a humiliating defeat at the polls. Either would be fine. Right now the second option looks achievable for 2020. McHrozni |
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Yeah. Enough Russians are dumb enough not to realize that if the state is in shambles after being ruled by one man for 17 years, he's a part of the problem and not the solution. They prefer the easy 'solution': "the state may be in shambles, but as long as we have the Tzar, we'll be fine" and don't think what will happen once the Tzar is gone, when they'll promptly blame everyone but Russia or themselves for the inevitable collapse.
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*** Nice to see that "Hackers Are Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Homeland Security Dept. and F.B.I. Say." I wonder if the GOP will decide to put up a defense at some point? Not that Trump's point man in the Energy Department has any clear notion of, really, anything. |
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Just to let you know that I am a Republican who would support Trump's impeachment. Trump is a moron and too stupid to be president of the United States. Let's not forget during one of his interviews that he claimed that Russian would not go into Ukraine and in the time it took to blink an eye, the interviewer told Trump the Russians were already in Ukraine.
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Yes, actually. It's amazing you missed that considering how much it's been discussed since November.
However, the fact remains that Trump won by the rules of the election, and surely in part because of voter apathy. Whining about more popular votes is pointless. If people don't like the system they should petition to have it changed. |
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