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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#289001: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:00:52 AM

25th Amendment: use it. It's made for reducing the impact of escalating, dysfunctional personality disorders on toast getting into the hot seat.

Use it before he starts a war, please. It may be too late to prevent a worldwide economic disaster, though.

Edited by Euodiachloris on Aug 31st 2019 at 5:02:26 PM

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#289002: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:17:58 AM

One problem: You're asking Mitch McConnell to stop Trump.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#289003: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:29:48 AM

Two problems: You're asking his cabinet of yes-men and bootlickers to stop Trump.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#289004: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:34:36 AM

I wouldn't be too worried about him starting a war. He's a Quisling and a draft dodger. I'm much more worried about him pulling the US military out of places it's needed.

Leviticus 19:34
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#289005: Aug 31st 2019 at 9:55:47 AM

I wonder how long it will take before he gets the "brilliant" idea of carving his own face into Mt. Rushmore if he can't get his "wall" as monument of his so called "presidency"...

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#289006: Aug 31st 2019 at 10:50:55 AM

[up] Too late.

Trump: If I say I should be on Mt. Rushmore, 'I will end up with such bad publicity'

President Trump is clearly sensitive to the optics of saying he should be on Mount Rushmore.

"If I answer that question, 'Yes,' I will end up with such bad publicity," Trump told The Hill on Monday in an exclusive interview, when asked if his head should be carved among the giant granite sculpture of past presidents featured at the famed landmark.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said in a 2018 interview that Trump once told her it was his "dream" to be featured beside former presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

"I said, 'Mr. President, you should come to South Dakota sometime. We have Mount Rushmore,' " Noem recalled telling Trump during a visit in the Oval Office.

"And he goes, 'Do you know it's my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?' " Noem continued. "I started laughing. He wasn't laughing, so he was totally serious."

At a 2017 rally, Trump quipped to cheers from the crowd, “I’d ask whether or not you think I will someday be on Mount Rushmore."

"But, no — here’s the problem," Trump said. "If I did it joking, totally joking, having fun, the fake news media will say, ‘He believes he should be on Mount Rushmore!”

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#289007: Aug 31st 2019 at 10:55:47 AM

[up] ....(blinking)...What?

(five minutes later) ...What?

...Seriously?...

...I was just joking!!!

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#289008: Aug 31st 2019 at 10:58:43 AM

So is Trump. Honest, guv!

In more positive news:

Ginsburg: 'I'm on my way to being very well' after cancer treatment

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Saturday that she is on her way "to being very well" after receiving cancer treatment, adding that she will be prepared when the high court's next term begins in October.

“This audience can see that I am alive. And I’m on my way to being very well,” she said at the annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Ginsburg said her job has kept her going, even as she faced cancer before.

“I love my job. It is the best and hardest job that I ever had,” she said. "It has kept me going through four cancer bouts. Instead of concentrating on my aches and pains, I just know that I have to read this set of briefs," said the liberal justice.

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
TechPriest90 Servant of the Omnissiah from Collegia Titanica, Mars, Sol System Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Servant of the Omnissiah
#289009: Aug 31st 2019 at 10:58:45 AM

Poe's Law is in effect so thoroughly I'm almost amused.

Almost.

I hold the secrets of the machine.
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#289010: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:11:05 AM

To be fair, Trump is saying he thinks it would be neat to have his face on Mt. Rushmore. He didn't say he has serious plans to do it.

Leviticus 19:34
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#289011: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:13:33 AM

I think it would be prudent to treat everything he says as a trial balloon. If some media picks up "Face on Rushmore" as a thing, he'll totally treat it seriously. Witness the Greenland thing.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#289012: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:16:11 AM

they should put Trump's face on every manhole in the country

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#289013: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:22:11 AM

[up] In one of a series I read, an idea used to boost morale among the troops was to a picture of the Big Bad's face and put it on the bottom of chamber pots.

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#289014: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:23:55 AM

[up][up]Don't. That'll cause problems for the UK. Remember, our Leader of the Opposition collects manhole covers.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Aug 31st 2019 at 7:25:03 PM

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#289015: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:27:24 AM

@sgamer82 Do you really wanna see Trump's face when you pee?

Leviticus 19:34
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#289016: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:42:59 AM

[up]If you need to shit instead, you won't have to.

i'm tired, my friend
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#289017: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:43:45 AM

Put like that I'm not so sure now.

[down] That was how it was basically done in the book

Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 31st 2019 at 1:03:35 PM

TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#289018: Aug 31st 2019 at 11:58:03 AM

[up][up][up] What if it's this face then?

Edited by TitanJump on Aug 31st 2019 at 8:58:29 PM

vicarious vicarious from NC, USA Since: Feb, 2013
vicarious
#289019: Aug 31st 2019 at 12:13:28 PM

This thread man.

I hope the best for Ginsberg.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#289020: Aug 31st 2019 at 12:19:21 PM

We named every toilet in the country after King John,maybe every dump or landfill can be named after Trump

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
RainingMetal (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#289021: Aug 31st 2019 at 12:32:14 PM

Trump Dump.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#289022: Aug 31st 2019 at 12:53:04 PM

And every exit can be named Ivanka

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#289023: Aug 31st 2019 at 1:10:34 PM

Trump trails Democrats by a historically large margin

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/31/politics/trump-democrat-matchups-analysis/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fcurrentstatus.io%2F

Poll of the week: A new national Quinnipiac University poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg all lead President Donald Trump by significant margins in potential 2020 matchups.

Biden is ahead Trump by the most (16 points, 54% to 38%), while Buttigeg is up by the least (9 points, 49% to 40%). What's the point: The Quinnipiac poll was the second probability poll that meets CNN standards and was conducted in August which found Trump down by at least 5 points against all his most likely challengers. In both the Fox News poll out earlier this month and Quinnipiac's latest, he trailed his most likely challenger, Biden, by double-digits. In fact, in an average of all the August polls (those that meet CNN standards and not), Biden was up by a 49% to 39% margin.

We're still over a year away from the 2020 general election, so don't take these polls to the bank.

Still, it's worth pointing out the historically bad position Trump is in. No incumbent president has ever polled this poorly against his likely challengers at this point in the campaign.

TechPriest90 Servant of the Omnissiah from Collegia Titanica, Mars, Sol System Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Servant of the Omnissiah
#289024: Aug 31st 2019 at 1:18:00 PM

These are the same polls that made it look like Hillary would win in 2016 for sure. So I'm not putting much weight in those numbers.

Unless Texas(!) and Florida go blue, there's still a chance the Rotten Orange could come back to power.

Also, can I just say that the Toilet Humour being used on Trump is a bit over the top? It's amusing, but hardly decorous - even if he deserves to be mocked that way.

I hold the secrets of the machine.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#289025: Aug 31st 2019 at 1:23:13 PM

> No incumbent president has ever polled this poorly against his likely challengers at this point in the campaign.

To surprise of no one,when you go out of your way to make people dislike you this is the result,him winning isn't impossible but it's looking increasingly like he's going to get slaughtered at the polls

Edit:> can I just say that the Toilet Humour being used on Trump is a bit over the top? It's amusing, but hardly decorous - even if he deserves to be mocked that way.

Bah

Edited by Ultimatum on Aug 31st 2019 at 8:26:09 AM

have a listen and have a link to my discord server

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