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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
As well you should apologize. Kindergarteners are generally better behaved and have a better grasp on the English language than Trump.
And this is one thing in which Steven Armstrong (AKA the man that Trump is apparently trying to be, knowingly or not, but fails miserably at that) has an advantage over Trump: He knows he can't write a good speech to sell to voters, so he has someone else who knows what they're doing do that for him.
Armstrong: So... what do you think?
Raiden: <wheezing> How the hell did you get elected?
Armstrong: <chuckles> Well, I don't write my own speeches.
edited 1st Jan '17 8:31:15 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Trump was scolded by foreign policy experts last month when he used Twitter as the venue to say that the U.S. should greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capacity until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nuclear weapons.
Spicer said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that he thinks it freaks the mainstream media out that Trump has more than 45 million people following him on social media. He says Trump doesn't need to funnel his comments through mainstream media outlets.
Spicer says when Trump tweets, he gets results
https://apnews.com/c87b3afea31648ccae159f428c023fc0/Trump-expected-to-embrace-bold-use-of-Twitter
:D
This is fine.
New Survey coming this weekend!" Sounds extremely familiar, doesn't it?"
Yeah, here it reach terminal case here were the goverment blame everyone else for....well pretty much everything, right now im asking myself if the republican are rightiest chavistas or the other way around.
"Actual social Darwinists are graceful losers. That is of course a rare thing in real life."
yeah, most of the time they are spoiled brat who want to justified why they are better...even when they are not.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Wait what, now Trump is opposed to the digitization of government?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-russian-hacking-1.3918056
When the Republicans planned to suicide bomb the US government, this isn't what I had in mind.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Right. Because everyone knows courier is completely safe.
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.![]()
Wasn't Bin Laden ultimately taken down by a courier being intercepted? I've seen a lot of people on Twitter who know that Face Palming over the idea that they're so much more secure.
When I was in Basic Training in the Army, one of our classroom... er, classes... stated that a courier was the most secure method of communications. For the reason that, to intercept the message, you must intercept the courier.
With telephone communications, you can tap the landline. With radio, you can listen in on the same frequency. With computers, you can hack them. In other words, you can spy remotely. No matter how good the encryption is, codes can be broken if you're persistent enough.
But to find out what's in a hand-delivered message, you need to get in there, get your hands dirty, and somehow not get caught.
edited 1st Jan '17 6:56:31 PM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.Yeah, I know. The Pumpkinhead probably thinks it's still a viable option — little realizing that he may need to send a message to the other side of the world within minutes. Which is faster than even UPS or FedEx can deliver a package. Only Superman or the Flash could outpace modern satellite communications, and they're fictional comic book superheroes.
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.How many Baby Boomers on social media do you think understand the Internet (as much as such a thing is possible, anyway)?
edited 1st Jan '17 7:32:51 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!

Oh, great. That means the speech is going to be garbled, he's going to interrupt himself at least a dozen times, he's going to waffle on stuff at least twice, no one's going to be able to figure out what his point actually was, and there's going to be at least one monumentally stupid thing in there.