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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?
#180551: Apr 2nd 2017 at 3:38:05 PM

There's a troper introduction thread here.

Also:

Trump also declined to discuss a timeline for the next item on his administration's legislative agenda —the perennially fraught issue of tax reform. In February, his treasury secretary said that Congress would overhaul the system by August.

Trump also insisted that a plan to dismantle Obamacare was being negotiated "as we speak," and that it was his idea to call off a vote on House Speaker Paul Ryan's American Health Care Act.

Asked if he pulled the bill because he didn't want to lose, Trump responded, "I don't lose."

Later, when questioned on if he regretted any of his statements on Twitter, the president returned to a familiar theme.

"I don't regret anything because there is nothing you can do about it," he said. "If you issue hundreds of tweets, and every once in a while you have a clinker, that's not so bad."

And despite FBI Director James Comey's insistence last month that there was no basis to Trump's wiretapping allegations, which he made on Twitter, in the FT interview the president asserted that his claim "is turning out to be true."

Well, on the one hand, he's learned absolutely nothing. I honestly don't know if that's good or bad for humanity.

edited 2nd Apr '17 3:38:43 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
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#180552: Apr 2nd 2017 at 3:56:11 PM

Bad right now, excellent in another four years...

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#180553: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:04:12 PM

Most likely. I will definitely be voting Dem in 2020, not middle. We are a two party nation and every other party is a circus clown. I'm done going middle of the road. That split vote let this travesty of a term happen, and I'm done with it.

StarOutlaw Since: Nov, 2010
#180554: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:08:41 PM

I know we're steering away from the topic, but just a little bit more about my background; I was an extreme social outcast for a good seven or so years of my life until college. Never made any friends after moving after elementary school, never spent time with other people or dated. Spent a lot of time on the internet. By all counts I should have ended up as another alt-right troll, but I didn't. I really do think that my parents' guidance, learning to deal with my anger and depression through martial arts and Eastern philosophy, and watching good media like Avatar helped a lot.

Anyway, it would not surprise me if inciting violence does get Trump, even if it's not a critical blow to him. I don't think it will lead to him getting impeached and thrown out of the White House, but at the very least I hope he isn't just going to weasel his way out of it either. The courts fighting against him can't cut him any slack.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#180555: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:20:11 PM

I dunno that you can really take him to court over him just saying stuff, sadly enough. Like, accusations about what he says will fly fast and furious, but I don't think he's going to get taken to any kind of court about it.

Kinda feels like the lot of you are hoping that it will eventually happen, with absolutely no sign that it's currently possible and banking on the hope that we get a Democratic wave that will then also feel like impeaching him or otherwise damaging his reputation will then be the wisest course at that point. (Which it might well not be because a whole lot can happen in two years.)

At this point I think it is pretty fair to predict that he'll be able to get through one term and not have any kind of charges brought against him. The thing that seems likely is that his general incompetence will make it hard for him to get another term, if he even has the energy for it at that point.

Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#180556: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:22:55 PM

The concept of taking him to court over his words would stand stronger ground if this weren't the US, with its almost virulent obsession with "free speech" whatever the cost, we were talking about

"All you Fascists bound to lose."
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180557: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:26:55 PM

Chuck Schumer believes that it is unlikely that the Gorsuch is not likely to 60 votes. I'm not sure what to think, but what I wanted to bring it up.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-schumer-interview-highly-unlikely-that-gorsuch-has-60-votes-912172611630

edited 2nd Apr '17 4:28:36 PM by megaeliz

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#180558: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:27:24 PM

[up][up][up]The article is actually about the Judge moving the case forward and brushing aside the Cheeto's lawyers objecting. No idea if this sticks, but I was honestly not expecting it to get this far.

edited 2nd Apr '17 4:27:33 PM by ViperMagnum357

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#180559: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:29:20 PM

Actually, free speech has nothing to do with it, since the court turned down that argument. Its that the Constitution doesnt allow the removal of a sitting president by any means other than impeachment.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#180560: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:34:18 PM

Re: background. Straight, white male. Currently leaning left over the last few years (lets just say I witnessed the genesis of the alt-right and leave it at that).

More on topic: UN warns that the right to protest is in grave danger

And the Democrats are Urging trump to veto the bill that would repeal the FCC regulations.

and the Russia investigation is proving if Trump aides helped Rissian inteligance as early as early 2016

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180561: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:34:37 PM

has anyone seen this.

https://www.gofundme.com/AltParks

It's a petition to UNESCO to make several National Parks World Heritage sites. Apparently it's being backed by actual park rangers who are worried that the republicans will try to defund the parks or drill for oil.

edited 2nd Apr '17 4:38:38 PM by megaeliz

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#180562: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:39:21 PM

I saw "AltParks" and my first thought was Conservative Safe Spaces.

edited 2nd Apr '17 4:49:24 PM by sgamer82

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180563: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:42:00 PM

grin

No, it was actually founded by a ranger at Yellowstone. This is the go fund me, to get a UN lawyer.

edited 2nd Apr '17 4:42:50 PM by megaeliz

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#180564: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:43:21 PM

The goal makes sense. Drilling for Oil in the parks would invoke the eyesores that is fracking machines, make parks even uglier via pollution and would eventually make them unsustainable because the oil and other things would had caused the plant life to die and the food chain and ecosystem to follow suit.

Yellowstone is on that list right? Given the volcano there Fracking machines would be a potential Doomsday Weapon there.

And it seems [nja]s implied Yellowstone is listed. Good.

edited 2nd Apr '17 4:44:08 PM by MorningStar1337

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180565: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:47:21 PM

To think that Teddy Roosevelt was a republican...

I don't think he would be very pleased with their behavior right now.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#180566: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:49:57 PM

Funny that they never seem to invoke Teddy as often as (I think?) they do Lincoln.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#180567: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:53:41 PM

[up][up]The party of Lincoln died in 1961 when Eisenhower left office. From there, it devolved into Goldwater and the mess that has been laid out here on this forum several times.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#180568: Apr 2nd 2017 at 4:57:52 PM

Teddy was also a trustbuster, so that kind of goes against the current business friendly environment that is the Republican party right now.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180569: Apr 2nd 2017 at 5:01:29 PM

Teddy was a conservationist, which also goes against the GOP's current model of hating our environment.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#180570: Apr 2nd 2017 at 5:08:30 PM

Teddy was 10 feet tall and could lift two horses above his head.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#180571: Apr 2nd 2017 at 5:17:37 PM

Teddy got shot in the chest by an assassin, shrugged it off, and went on to deliver his speech before even seeing a doctor.

Trump immediately dove for cover at the first vague sign of trouble among the crowd.

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180572: Apr 2nd 2017 at 5:22:29 PM

This is an actual true story I heard on the Ken Burns Documentary, "When he was on his campaign tour, he went to Yosemite. He told the reporters that he would be attending a party at the Grand Lodge in the park. While the rest of his entourage went to the lodge, he quietly meant John Muir and went camping, before all the reporters knew they had been tricked.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180573: Apr 2nd 2017 at 5:26:09 PM

[up][up] If anyone is planning to go to any republican town halls next week for the congressional recess, bring up the fact that the Republican TR was a extraordinary advocate for the environment and public lands in general, and why are they dishonoring his legacy.

edited 2nd Apr '17 5:27:03 PM by megaeliz

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#180574: Apr 2nd 2017 at 5:26:47 PM

I'm actually considering the idea that the Republicans purposely want to destabilize the Yellowstone Caldera through fracking in order to bring forth Judgement Day.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180575: Apr 2nd 2017 at 5:28:06 PM

Ask the person who runs the Twitter account @Alt Yellowstone Nat Par. They might get a kick out of that.

https://twitter.com/altyellonatpark?lang=en

edited 2nd Apr '17 5:29:25 PM by megaeliz


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