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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#177026: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:42:57 AM

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.

[down]Fixed it to remove the terminology.

edited 6th Mar '17 7:01:39 AM by M84

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IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
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#177027: Mar 6th 2017 at 6:44:05 AM

WaPo: The Trump Experiment may come to an early tipping point, I think this quote from the article sums it up very well:

Trump has a problem either way. If he was not wiretapped, he invented a spectacularly false charge. And if a court ordered some sort of surveillance of him, on what grounds did it do so?

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:

[up]Can we not use that terminology? "globalist" is just recycled "greedy Jews".

edited 6th Mar '17 6:47:30 AM by IFwanderer

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#177029: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:23:47 AM

The travel ban is back.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#177030: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:36:16 AM

Sisyphean at this point. It's likely to get struck down again.

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#177031: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:38:20 AM

If 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.

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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#177032: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:40:23 AM

The removal of Iraq from the list alone is unfortunately enough for many to pat themselves on the back and smile "COMPROMISE!" to themselves.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#177033: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:47:22 AM

[up] Anyone who thinks "one out of seven" is a good compromise should never be allowed to negotiate or bargain for anything ever.

edited 6th Mar '17 7:47:56 AM by M84

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#177034: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:51:38 AM

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.

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NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#177035: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:52:47 AM

The fact that the FBI has not actually released the statement Comey requested suggests dissension in the ranks
For the record, Comey is asking the Department of Justice to release a statement, not the FBI. The DoJ is headed by the Attorney General (ie, Jeff Sessions); the FBI is just one branch of it.

Comey is basically asking his boss to release a statement to the public on the matter.

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danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#177036: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:53:37 AM

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

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#177037: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:54:22 AM

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

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#177038: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:54:55 AM

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.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#177039: Mar 6th 2017 at 7:57:59 AM

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.

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deadwaste Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
#177040: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:09:07 AM

didn't Snowden's leaks show that the Obama administration was wire tapping practically EVERYONE involved in finance via the NSA? I mean, I doubt they were personally targeting Trump, but I have very little objection that the idea that he was still caught up in the dragnet none the less

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#177041: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:10:14 AM

@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?

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#177042: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:25:13 AM

The Guardian: Donald Trump isn’t the only villain – the Republican party shares the blame

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#177043: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:27:12 AM

[up]Well, we've known about that for a while, but it's good that people are publishing the fact.

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#177044: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:28:37 AM

White House Spokeswoman says Trump might not accept that he wasn't wiretapped by Obama.

If he doesn't, then the paranoid old man should be found unsuitable to continue being President.

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#177045: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:31:22 AM

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.

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deadwaste Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
#177046: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:34:47 AM

i'm almost certain the obama administration was spying on pretty much everyone with the help of the nsa iirc.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#177047: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:35:17 AM

[up][up] Ivanka's handiwork no doubt.

edited 6th Mar '17 8:35:28 AM by M84

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#177048: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:36:35 AM

[up][up]Yes yes. With the help of the Reptillians who control the Illuminati. Got any more conspiracy theories for us?

Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#177049: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:38:27 AM

[up] The lizard people are behind it all!

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#177050: Mar 6th 2017 at 8:40:18 AM

@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


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