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The Trump Presidency
This is a follow on, not a continuation of the "President Trump" thread.
Please keep the focus on issues related to the Trump Presidency (vs pre election issues). Items discussed in other threads should not to be raised here.
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30th April 2017, 01:23 PM | #2 |
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There's a whole kerfuffle going on -- missing threads, unacountably banned posters. Possibly a hack.
ETA: Cross posted with Agatha. Could luck to the management team in fixing this. |
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Looks like someone found the perfect way to kill a thread.
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100 days down, 1361 to go.
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1st May 2017, 05:35 AM | #10 |
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Trump starts dismantling his shadow Cabinet
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1st May 2017, 07:52 AM | #14 |
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Holy Crap!
I can't decide which is more stupid, Trump saying Jackson was upset about a war that started years after his death or Trump saying nobody asks why the Civil War happened? To his credit though, Trump is correct that he is a lot like Jackson. People call him "Jackass", too. |
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1st May 2017, 09:37 AM | #16 |
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I'm beginning to wonder if Trump is actually conscious in any normal sense.
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Unless he's trying to stir up the "states' rights" thing even more. Maybe he's trying to secure the former confederate states (as if they're not firmly GOP in any case) by exonerating them from responsibility for starting the "war of Northern aggression".
As a bonus, maybe it's also a swipe at BLM and other organisations representing uppity persons of colour by inferring that the Civil War was all the fault of black people for being insufficiently grateful for their "recent immigrant" status |
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1st May 2017, 10:41 AM | #23 |
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That is if Trump is not impeached by then. However, I am going to corner the market in hair dye because knowing Trump, he's going to do all he can to keep his hair color the way it is unlike past presidents. I also found secret information on how Trump kept track of the USS Carl Vinson. How Trump tracks aircraft carriers https://picclick.com/Vintage-Carrier...l#&gid=1&pid=3 I heard that Trump is now asking for a refund because:
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It is mind-boggling that Trump duped enough people in order to place him in the White House.
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1st May 2017, 12:14 PM | #29 |
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Bill Maher is right: You can predict a lot of what the Trump administration will do by asking, "What would a dick do?"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/trump-michelle-obama-girls-education/index.html
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The current National Enquirer is proclaiming World War III is imminent and has a picture of Trump superimposed over a warship and "How Trump will crush all eight of America's enemies!" It's a foreign ship.
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1st May 2017, 12:42 PM | #32 |
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To be fair, the president does say "had Andrew Jackson been a little later..." indicating that he is aware of the relative historical time frames of Jackson and the Civil War, before he says "...he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War..." implying that he does not.
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A guide to Trump's lies during his first 100 days. They count 448:
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A historian contends that Trump is likely to try to overthrow -- literally -- the government of the United States.
https://www.salon.com/2017/05/01/his...row-democracy/ |
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He can declare anyone an Enemy of the State without cause. I wouldn't be surprised at a purge once he realizes it.
I've heard little about him from Rosie O'Donnell or Penn Jillette lately so maybe they do realize it. |
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I think it is just that his lack of knowledge results in his windbag word-salad rants and in those rants, occasionally, he puts words together that sort of, kind of, maybe, sound like what he possibly knows what he is talking about. Please see: throwing **** at a wall.
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