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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I think you mean not believe. Because, if anything, the Republicans are grotesquely incompetent super-villains.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
Fair Point.
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And if you're really in the mood for schadenfreude, here's Huffington's
compilation of re-tweets to Trump's invitation "to join [him] in celebrating the holiday."
edited 8th Mar '17 10:08:07 AM 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 livesFrom https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/03/08/Day-48/
Trump Met Russian Ambassador at Reception During Campaign
White House calls reported Trump meeting with Russian ambassador 'absurd'
Serious question: At this point what seems like the bigger issue? That so much of Trump's side have been in contact with Russians or that so many of them have lied about it? Because, at this point, I'm sincerely not sure.
edited 8th Mar '17 11:21:55 AM by sgamer82
Or least think they have something to hide. Lying about things is always the more worrying part. People who come out and say "yes I did the thing" either have nothing to hide or are waaaaay better at hiding it than this lot are.
Seriously, sometimes just admitting that to something can assuage a lot of worries and get the heat off your back. The 'playing it cool" strategy, which none of these guys seem familiar wtih.
Meeting a foreign ambassador isn't bad. Politicians do it all the f*cking time. That's kind of the point of being an ambassador, and Russia is no exception. If they were, we wouldn't allow them to have ambassadors in our country.
Where it becomes a problem is when those politicians then turn around and lie on-record about the meeting occurring.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.So, sources say that Obama was utterly livid when Trump accused him of the wire tap BS.
Considering "No Drama Obama's" reputation for being The Stoic...looks like he got pushed one step too far.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/donald-trump-barack-obama-wiretapping/index.html
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Because it only punished bad "lifestyle choices".
Also, the most depressing thing I've read all week - a Rochester-area woman describes her morning after learning that her daughter's Jewish
pre-school was the recipient of a bomb threat.
edited 8th Mar '17 12:09:18 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"![]()
"I think that they'll be just fine," Spicer said.
... What?
edited 8th Mar '17 12:09:10 PM by DingoWalley1
I mean, negative opinion caps out at -100, so he's not strictly wrong.
Honestly, a little lying, some Exact Words and carefully worded misdirections is expected in politics. But seriously, when you go all-in with off-suit 2 and 9, and the cards are 4, 6, 7, J, K, at some point you gotta quit the bluffing and admit defeat.
Well, seeing as we've got an Army veteran (who'd served two tours in Afghanistan) under threat of deportation for being here illegally
, it's pretty clear that we've got a case of Black-and-White Insanity going.
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Which is understandable, as I think everyone would assume that serving in the US military would be grounds for deeming a person "one of the good ones" if nothing else.
edited 8th Mar '17 1:39:25 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?""Mr Perez, 38, was a legal permanent resident when he joined the army and said he thought he became a legal US citizen when he enlisted, but that was not the case."
He had a green card, and was able to enlist in the army with it, but never obtained permanent status. Ergo, when he served prison time for a drug offense, he came to the attention of the deportation squad.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Bingo. Its time to get the electorate to believe that the Republicans are unstoppable super villains. Even moreso when you have morons calling for "Demexit".
edited 8th Mar '17 9:45:15 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.