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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#180301: Mar 31st 2017 at 5:32:56 AM

Right now claims that Trump may resign are limited to a few Twitter posts linked in a subreddit.

edited 31st Mar '17 5:37:59 AM by sgamer82

iflewaway someone from somewhere Since: Dec, 2016
someone
#180302: Mar 31st 2017 at 5:37:35 AM

Only time can tell.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#180303: Mar 31st 2017 at 5:39:30 AM

One thing that worries me about Trump resigning and Pence beginning President, will be have an easier time getting a Republican Congress behind him?

Another thing is I personally wish we could actually impeach/charge Trump vs letting him say "you can't fire me, I quit"

edited 31st Mar '17 5:40:36 AM by sgamer82

Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#180304: Mar 31st 2017 at 6:13:30 AM

I've been away from camping guys, would you like to tell me a brief recap of the most important things that I've missed?

The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.
iflewaway someone from somewhere Since: Dec, 2016
someone
#180305: Mar 31st 2017 at 6:20:36 AM

This Reddit thread was posted a while ago, it covers all of the recent mayhem.

edited 31st Mar '17 6:21:00 AM by iflewaway

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CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#180306: Mar 31st 2017 at 6:21:42 AM

Comrade General Flynn is demanding immunity in exchange for testifying at the Russia probe, for one.

Also, Mike Pence cast a tiebreaking vote to allow states to dismantle Planned Parenthood funding, in another round of him establishing that he is eviler than any of you.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#180307: Mar 31st 2017 at 6:26:50 AM

So he considers resigning after all if he's found out...could be a plot of some sort?

The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#180308: Mar 31st 2017 at 6:28:12 AM

Trump doing a Nixon might be... uncomfortable for the GOP? Cause there's no fucking way he's quietly retiring to Mar-a-lago to be forgotten.

Nah, he'll behave as the great elder retired Statesman of the GOP before Summer's out, maybe up to holding Talley's.

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#180309: Mar 31st 2017 at 6:31:31 AM

More "Coal Country" facts, courtesy of Krugman:

  • Coal has accounted for less than 5 percent of jobs in West Virginia for over 25 years.
  • One in six workers in West Virginia is employed in the fields of health care and social services.
  • 22 percent of residents are on Medicare, versus 16.7 percent nationwide. (The population is older.)
  • Obamacare reduced the uninsured rate in WV from 14 percent to 6 percent in 2015, largely through Medicaid expansion.

Repealing or "replacing" PPACA would be disastrous for West Virginians.

edited 31st Mar '17 6:45:56 AM by Fighteer

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#180310: Mar 31st 2017 at 6:44:12 AM

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/paul-ryan-donald-trump-jeanine-pirro-236686

Ryan: Trump was 'very apologetic' for promoting Fox show that called on me to resign

Hmm... Trump... Apologetic... Yeah calling BS.

Also is it me or does nearly every photo of Paul Ryan have him looking exaggeratingly smarmy? Is that just photo choice by the site? I remember after the AHCA failure photos had him full on sad clown.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#180311: Mar 31st 2017 at 6:54:36 AM

Cynical me says that the red southern states will eat the bulk of climate change negative consequences. Call it karma?

I am South American, we will have the bulk of climate chance shoved down our throat and up our asses long before it starts seriously harming the Southern US.

So, I am just here hoping he goes out and whoever picks the tab at least try to unfuck things.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#180312: Mar 31st 2017 at 7:09:02 AM

[up][up] Paul Ryan really does look like that a lot of the time. It's like how there are so many bad photos of Trump. When you make a certain expression or look bad 80% of the time, the photos the news takes are going to look really bad.

But, paraphrasing my cousin's kid, Ryan is Smarmy McSmarmSmarm.

edited 31st Mar '17 7:09:55 AM by Zendervai

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#180313: Mar 31st 2017 at 7:17:18 AM

climate change denial makes me so angry

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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#180314: Mar 31st 2017 at 7:21:05 AM

Everything the Republicans do makes me angry. They're deliberately screwing over the future of the entire world, and their own people, just to stick it to the EBUL LIEBRULS.

Like, a pesticide that turned out to be connected to birth defects and that was on the verge of being banned? It's now officially considered safe to use despite it still having all the same risks. Like, what benefit is there in doing that?

I've said this before, but there's no functional difference between the current Republicans and a group who are deliberately trying to kill off their own people.

edited 31st Mar '17 7:21:16 AM by Zendervai

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#180315: Mar 31st 2017 at 7:30:56 AM

[up] What really frustrates me are the people who keep voting for these assholes.

Even though they are almost always the ones who feel the full brunt of their awful policies.

If you've ever known anyone stuck in a bad relationship with a clearly awful person and are constantly met with nothing but screams of protest whenever you suggest that maybe they should find someone else, that's what it's like.

[down] Yeah, I'm not gonna believe it until I see photos of Trump packing up those damn gold curtains of his and on the next flight to New York.

edited 31st Mar '17 7:34:36 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#180316: Mar 31st 2017 at 7:32:03 AM

I'd take any rumor about Trump resigning at this point with a barrel of salt. One, it's entirely unprecedented and would make him look incredibly weak, and he hates looking weak. Two, he's still selling the idea that he's winning and seems to think that he is. Three, why would he give it up?

Basically it's rumors for the sake of rumors. Probably also a bit of wishful thinking.

Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#180317: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:05:49 AM

[up] He will give up once he sees that his methods are not making and WILL not make America great again and if he's coerced into admitting he's wrong by his fellow Republicans.

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#180318: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:06:55 AM

Why are all y'all still on fire

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#180319: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:07:10 AM

[up][up]He's driven by his ego, not by any desire to make America great. He doesn't give a fuck about America or creating jobs or keeping the border secure.

Like, he cut the funding to the Coast Guard to get money for his wall. The Coast Guard are more effective at keeping illegal immigrants and smugglers out of the country than any wall or even any land based border security.

He doesn't care.

edited 31st Mar '17 8:08:50 AM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#180320: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:11:30 AM

If/when Trump loses in 2020, I can guarantee you that he's going to leave screaming that everyone made a huge mistake not re-electing him. Or if he just decides not to run again, which is possible, he'll constantly whinge about how he would have done everything better. While constantly complaining about how no one's going to Mar-a-Lago anymore.

Donald Trump can't admit when he made a mistake. And his decision to run for President? He can't blame it on anyone else, so he either admits he made a mistake or he suffers through it constantly trying to blame everyone else in the world for his own myriad flaws.

iflewaway someone from somewhere Since: Dec, 2016
someone
#180321: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:15:23 AM

[up] Or he just denies they exist.

edited 31st Mar '17 8:16:36 AM by iflewaway

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#180322: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:16:17 AM

[up][up][up] His budget would also call for cuts to airport security to pay for the wall.

[up] He is Never My Fault incarnate.

edited 31st Mar '17 8:16:59 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#180323: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:16:26 AM

@Luigisan 98: But he doesn't care about "making America great again" (citation: everything he's done since he started his campaign and the distinct reduction in actual American greatness since November). He cares about nepotism, graft, and self-aggrandizement.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#180324: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:24:12 AM

[up]Trump's Slogan: "Make America Shit Again!"

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#180325: Mar 31st 2017 at 8:26:04 AM

I wonder if the various problems and disasters of the Trump administration will sour people on "anti-establishment" stuff and make them long for the past status quo.

Kind of like what happened with New Coke making people miss Coca-cola Classic.

Disgusted, but not surprised

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