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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#174251: Feb 14th 2017 at 2:19:55 PM

I'm enjoying the Joe Trudeau gaffe. I read a tweet that said, "RIP Joe Trudeau, one of the victims of the Bowling Green Massacre"

Another one said that Joe Trudeau is Justin Trudeau's Evil Counterpart, complete with evil goatee!

edited 14th Feb '17 2:29:20 PM by BearyScary

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#174252: Feb 14th 2017 at 3:23:14 PM

Kellyanne Conway is probably the next to be fired. Both Trump's Twitter account and the President Twitter account unfollowed her.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#174253: Feb 14th 2017 at 3:26:17 PM

Weird, I thought he liked her. Enough that he apparently wanted her to replace Spicer, anyway.

Maybe that ethics thing has legitimately rattled him?

Oh God! Natural light!
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#174255: Feb 14th 2017 at 3:31:54 PM

All these people who may or may not be fired from Trump's team should be thanking the high heavens that they aren't in either Leninist or Stalinist USSR, where them being fired results in them becoming Unpersoned. Even if any of them do end up in jail.

Also, Trump kicks Conway, I am certain she'll start talking about how terrible Trump is, and any secrets she knows on the Administration.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#174256: Feb 14th 2017 at 3:39:00 PM

At the rate we're going the administration will consist of Trump, Pence, Ivanka, Jared, and Bannon by the summer.

edited 14th Feb '17 3:39:53 PM by Kostya

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#174257: Feb 14th 2017 at 3:50:45 PM

You know what? I could live with that. The fewer there are, the less they can focus on.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#174259: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:10:12 PM

Flynn's new position under the bus has angered Russia.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38973163

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#174260: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:16:31 PM

A victim of "paranoia and a witch hunt" they say.

Way to fucking oust your spy there guys.

Oh really when?
danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#174261: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:24:44 PM

Seriously, the only more obvious way you could have announced that Flynn was a potential mole would have been to have him go around wearing a fur hat and drinking vodka while saluting people and calling them "comrade".

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#174262: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:24:54 PM

Is it normal for foreign powers to comment on stuff like this in the first place? Like it's one thing to criticize a government or the public or w/e but given everything else about Russia and this election they don't really seem to care about how this makes them look at all, probably because they know Republicans don't care either.

edited 14th Feb '17 4:26:04 PM by Draghinazzo

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#174263: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:30:42 PM

What the hell is Russia's goal here? They're not stupidly incompetent like the Trump administration. Why do this sort of thing unless they're preparing to take down Trump already.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#174264: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:32:51 PM

Destabilization is their primary goal above all else. If they can exert control that's great, if not then we're gonna be too busy tearing ourselves to pieces with internal politics to notice them doing shit like openly violating 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty this morning.

edited 14th Feb '17 4:33:31 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#174265: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:33:16 PM

[up][up] ... Maybe they saw how incompetent, corrupt, buffoonish and (most importantly) unpopular the Trump Administration is, and decided to sow the seeds of doubt within the USA?surprised

[down] Those freakin' hypocrites. But really, what should I have expected from the forces that make the Republican Party?

edited 14th Feb '17 4:35:05 PM by DingoWalley1

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#174266: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:33:41 PM

By the way, conservative and white nationalist news sources are focusing less on the resignation and more on the "illegal leaks" coming from White House staff and the intelligence comunity, blaming the NSA and FBI for undermining Trump.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#174267: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:54:03 PM

[up] haven't those two been the top Trump lackeys thus far?

All of a sudden, the Freedom Caucus has found their balls:

Freedom Caucus trying as fast as possible to repeal Obama Care, regardless of the fact that Republicans don't have a good replacement yet.

Freedom Caucus will not support Trump's Wall, Fence, or Additional Border Security, without a way to pay for it.

Is it just me or do these two headlines feel... Contradictory...?

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#174268: Feb 14th 2017 at 4:58:30 PM

They're spending hawks. They'll oppose anything that involving parting with so much as a nickel, be it Healthcare or walls.

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#174269: Feb 14th 2017 at 5:00:43 PM

Um...about the whole America is two countries for the price of one....When Dating In The Era Of Divisive Politics, Both Sides Stick To Themselves

A growing number of singles are adding a clause to their online dating profiles telling either Trump haters or Trump supporters — depending on their political preference — that they need not apply.
"This was like a deal breaker for me," says 50-year-old Elizabeth Jagosz from the Detroit area. "If you are Trump supporter, I'm not even going to consider meeting you for coffee."
It's not just an issue of party politics, Jagosz says. It's about core values. Love, she says, cannot conquer all.
"If you don't care about a person who says you can grab women by the pussy and that's OK — I don't wanna date you if you think that behavior's OK," Jagosz says. "If that's not a deal breaker for you, then you and I have nothing to talk about."

...red hats — the ones stamped with "Make America Great Again" — have been feeling the same way.
...Trump Singles.com is a kind of safe space for Trump supporters who say they're sick of the "lefties" refusing to even give them a chance. "[The liberals] are just repeating this left echo chamber of 'Oh, you must be a racist; oh, you must be a homophobe; oh, you must be a misogynist,' " Goss says. "They're judging the people based on who they voted for without actually getting to know them."
...Trump Singles dating site is up to 35,000 members. Liberal Hearts.com, founded by Salvatore Prano, is up to nearly 50,000.

"I think it's very natural to the human animal to bring it into the idea of 'OK, you like this person, well, you must be like that person then,' " Fisher says. "America is taking this very, very personally. No question about it."
Well, there's no refuting that Decision 2016TM really hit personally. Not that I don't understand. I felt it too..

edited 14th Feb '17 5:02:21 PM by CenturyEye

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#174270: Feb 14th 2017 at 5:04:06 PM

"This was like a deal breaker for me," says 50-year-old Elizabeth Jagosz from the Detroit area. "If you are Trump supporter, I'm not even going to consider meeting you for coffee." It's not just an issue of party politics, Jagosz says. It's about core values. Love, she says, cannot conquer all. "If you don't care about a person who says you can grab women by the pussy and that's OK — I don't wanna date you if you think that behavior's OK," Jagosz says. "If that's not a deal breaker for you, then you and I have nothing to talk about."

Can't say I disagree with that woman. I would at best feel very uncomfortable in the presence of a Trump supporter.

Obviously when it comes to interpersonal stuff a certain amount of tolerance for different views and attitudes towards life is required, but supporting Trump crosses more than a few lines in regards to what should be acceptable.

Trump supporters aren't a monolith and there will be worse ones than others on an interpersonal level but the thing is it doesn't matter. Being personally (and oftentimes superficially) nice and pleasant while not being personally hateful only means so much when you still support a complete idiot who represents a wave of reactionary bullshit and contempt for millions of people just for existing.

edited 14th Feb '17 5:12:44 PM by Draghinazzo

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#174271: Feb 14th 2017 at 5:13:48 PM

I'd call the human-to-bot ratio on TrumpSingles into question. I doubt it's much better than Ashley Madison.

People are paying attention to the Russian ties with the leader of the Calexit movement again. I'm sure he's grateful to Flynn for that.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#174272: Feb 14th 2017 at 5:19:01 PM

[up][up]Well, yes. Judging people by who you vote for is far from arbitrary. It's not your sex or color. Who you vote for as good a test for the content of your character as you (normally) get. I still see the country on the verge of "irreconcilable differences."
[up]And its not like ties to Russia costs people elections these days... His movement might gain from it. Republicans seem to be A-ok with Putin post-election, and I've no doubts the party would love California out of the electoral college.

edited 14th Feb '17 5:20:07 PM by CenturyEye

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#174273: Feb 14th 2017 at 5:20:04 PM

[up][up] It wouldn't surprise me if there ends up being a lot of overlap among the subscribers for both.

[up] In a few years from now I bet most of the Trump supporters will be claiming they never even heard of Trump.

edited 14th Feb '17 5:21:26 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#174274: Feb 14th 2017 at 5:33:49 PM

>haven't those two been the top Trump lackeys thus far?

I'm unsure about the NSA. Their history of domestic overreach does them no favors and they have hawks among them but they're also part of the intelligence sphere that have been under Donald's fire.

RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!

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