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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
WaPo: The Trump Experiment may come to an early tipping point
, I think this quote from the article sums it up very well:
Also, since I'm linking to the Washington Post already, anyone else noticed their new slogan (since early february, actually, but whatever)? is it a warning or an omen?
Edit:
Can we not use that terminology? "globalist" is just recycled "greedy Jews".
edited 6th Mar '17 6:47:30 AM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVIf he specified that Visa holders can still enter the country, then it'll have a lot more staying power. That gaffe was the big, easy target that made it child's play to strike down.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.From what I've read on the new travel ban:
- People who are already holding VIS As and refugees already planned to come here are allowed to come.
- 90-day ban on any new VIS As from Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen.
- Suspends the rest of the refugee program for 120-days.
- Signing won't be public.
- Removes language giving priority to religious minorities.
- Has a fact sheet detailing the order.
Comey is basically asking his boss to release a statement to the public on the matter.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.And still the countries that are actually hotbeds for international terrorism aren't banned. It's for national security, everyone! Honest!
edited 6th Mar '17 7:54:12 AM by danime91
Looks like the Russians are really feeling buyer's remorse about Trump.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/06/europe/trump-russia-lister/index.html
And since Sessions is a Trump toadie, Comey's request is going to die right where he left it.
But the effort on Comey's part still counts for something.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The WP was right though, unless Obama ordered and got an illegal wiretapping, Trump is going to get burned no matter what happened. If its found that there was no tapping at all, it means that he'll be dismissed once again and the deflection was short lived at best (and back to Russia/whatever scandal is in vogue). If its found that Obama/some other authority legally had him tapped.....Trump might not like what comes out of that investigation.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.@slogan: I saw it a while ago. Wa Po even had an editorial on their own slogan, that sounded quite like it came from another publication.
Wa Po's staff claim it was something the staff came up with a long time ago and just happened to get around to recently, but, yeah, I believe it. Don't you?
The Guardian: Donald Trump isn’t the only villain – the Republican party shares the blame
White House Spokeswoman says Trump might not accept that he wasn't wiretapped by Obama
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If he doesn't, then the paranoid old man should be found unsuitable to continue being President.
The Republican/Trump childcare plan would be a subsidy... for rich people
. Not like this should surprise anyone, but after the scaling tax credits, the average family earning $30,000 would pay 26 percent of its income for childcare costs, while the average family earning $250,000 would pay just 2 percent.
@Dingo Walley 1: Better yet, even if by some God-forsaken miracle that Trump was wire-tapped, rather than calling him by his actual name, we should just keep calling him 'the paranoid old man.' It's the Mel Brooks method. If all he's known as is 'the paranoid old man', then how the hell could anyone ever take him seriously again?
edited 6th Mar '17 8:40:54 AM by kkhohoho

One really galling thing about Trump (among many) is his whole protectionism shtick. Besides being stupid and pandering to the worst xenophobic instincts among the public, it's hypocritical. Trump and his family use sweatshops. They buy cheap foreign construction materials such as Chinese steel. They hire foreign-born workers willing to accept lower wages and benefits over American-born workers.
edited 6th Mar '17 7:01:39 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised