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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
At least one French president did it.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Lesser of two evils is a phrase that applies. There was always eventually going to be another GOP president, and with the way the party's gone off the rails, that was always unlikely to be a good thing. For Trump to, in practice, merely be a figurehead for the fairly inevitable GOP being in power-ness is possibly the best case scenario.
Speaking of LGBT rights, Trump met with William Pryor , someone on his Supreme Court shortlist.
Pryor thinks that gay sex should be illegal and tried to get an innocent man given the death penalty for not having a good lawyer. Pryor says that raped women should have to carry their pregnancies to term and that Miranda Rights is the worst thing to ever happen to the country other than abortion.
And to add insult to injury, Pryor has been attacked as a RINO because he said that having the Ten Commandments in the Alabama courthouse violated Alabama law and because he once ruled in favor of a transgender woman.
edited 18th Jan '17 10:51:31 PM by TacticalFox88
New Survey coming this weekend!The entire idea was a joke from the start.
- One he can't travel to the US freely due to being a wanted man in the UK.
- Two the US hasn't even asked for his extradition.
- Three even if the US had asked to would be behind both Sweden and the UK on the list of who gets to him first.
- Four he's far to much of a selfish egotist to ever put himself in harms way for others.
After what Wikileaks have done, Assange does not deserve any sort of pardon even if the US could give it.
edited 18th Jan '17 11:11:11 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food Badly@Captain- Kissinger backs anyone who at any point liked the short term victory. And anyway, Kissinger backing him is irrelevant, as he doesn't control any office, his only power being in influence to the old national security network, which Trump barely listens to anyway. I'd rather look at Mattis's actions over time than take a snapshot and the support of a Cold War relic as evidence that he's unacceptable. Because right now the Mattis appointment is approaching Hitler Ate Sugar, as far as the current list of cabinet appointments go.
Since you're talking about foreign policy, did Trump announce an ambassador to Argentina? The current one is quitting tomorrow.
EDIT: forget it, just found out myself.
edited 19th Jan '17 2:02:43 AM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVBe happy that they don't gut the healthcare system, because otherwise The Plague will do the same job.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynmanhttp://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/trump-biographers-presidency-legitimate-214655
You guys should read this.
It's 4 of Trump's biographers talking about him today and painting a disturbing portrait of who he is and how the presidency has affected him and why he's like this
Seconded. For now, I suspect our only option in a Cuban Missile Crisis Two—or diplomacy in general with foes or friends that once were—would be a massive email drive to China/Russia/Random Country X begging "Please! He's just like a clog we just can't pass right now. We had a collective stroke or something. We can work this out in 4-8 years. Please you mean so much to me. Not to mention how much we all like not glowing in the dark."
Then of course, lots of flowers and roses, like any good romantic comedy.
edited 19th Jan '17 4:22:18 AM 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" He’s the kid in the back of the class who is taunting the teacher, who is taking over, who has pushed the principal out of the principal’s office, and he’s appealing to that instinct that everyone has at some point in their lives to overthrow everything."
Funny, M84 did used this analogy before and he was right about it, as trump dosent want to change the system, merely annoying enought because he asmued him.
"The president is exempt from these conflict of interest laws. There’s an awful lot, it turns out, that are matters of tradition, of habit, of what we expect. But they’re not actually legally required—the tax returns, all of that. He’s gaming all of that. All of the things that people thought had to be done, don’t have to be done."
This is what bother me the most of trump, no is racism or is shady ties with russia but the idea you can get away with things because you are awsome enough, that is the kind of percent that stick afterward
Yeah, a lot of people
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"

@Beary Scary
I actually hope that Trump takes as much time off as possible during these four years. Because that means he's not spending as much time actually doing anything with his power.
Disgusted, but not surprised