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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I'd be careful assuming people are being "dumped" into positions. The repeated question that should be asked of each, even the innocuous ones, is "who benefits?"
Haley, for example, as I was saying. The more I think about it, the more I think she is either very brave taking the job trying to help from the inside or very foolish taking a poison pill that will give control of her state to a Trumpite, put her through a lot of abuse and be an easy target to blame if things go wrong.
Hahaha..hahahaha...ha...ha.... Get out .*
edited 23rd Nov '16 4:36:19 PM by Elle
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Just women weeping and men gnashing their teeth. How have you been?
edited 23rd Nov '16 4:36:49 PM by nervmeister
Everything in New York City besides Trump Tower is to be leveled and replaced with Trump Apartments, Trump Motels, Trump Taco Drive-Thrus, and Trump Casinos.
You know. The usual.
edited 23rd Nov '16 4:41:05 PM by PotatoesRock
@Tomu, If you haven't heard yet, America sadly passed away a few weeks back.
edited 23rd Nov '16 4:41:52 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.![]()
RIP America. Long live the glorious People's Republic of New Amerika! ALL HAIL THE DONALD-FURHER!!!
edited 23rd Nov '16 4:43:58 PM by kkhohoho
Transit Strike in Philadelphia might of suppressed the black vote there, potentially
Trump turning away intelligence briefers since election win
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Basically he's a Figurehead.
edited 23rd Nov '16 4:49:22 PM by PotatoesRock
Oh heya Tom, haven't see you around in ages. Getting the bunker prepped?
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Anyone know any more about this?
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century.
This would mean the elimination of Nasa’s world-renowned research into temperature, ice, clouds and other climate phenomena. Nasa’s network of satellites provide a wealth of information on climate change, with the Earth science division’s budget set to grow to $2bn next year. By comparison, space exploration has been scaled back somewhat, with a proposed budget of $2.8bn in 2017.
Bob Walker, a senior Trump campaign adviser, said there was no need for Nasa to do what he has previously described as “politically correct environmental monitoring”.
“We see Nasa in an exploration role, in deep space research,” Walker told the Guardian. “Earth-centric science is better placed at other agencies where it is their prime mission.
“My guess is that it would be difficult to stop all ongoing Nasa programs but future programs should definitely be placed with other agencies. I believe that climate research is necessary but it has been heavily politicized, which has undermined a lot of the work that researchers have been doing. Mr Trump’s decisions will be based upon solid science, not politicized science.”
There's been a lot of scary things said and announced but this is one of the snippets that gets under my skin the most.
Like, this is basically an admittance that they will undermine any science they don't like regardless of whether it's valid or not.
It's weird. Some of the time I'm able to acknowledge the reality of "President Trump" without freaking out. The rest of the time? I just want to go out in public and scream out to everyone walking around me to realize how dangerous and abnormal everything about this election has been and will be.
Disgusted, but not surprised

Hey guys, been a few thousand posts since I last checked in! Anything important happen in US politics since then?