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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#169976: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:34:52 PM

[up] That son of a...

... He's going through with it, isn't he? He's going to try to make ObamaCare a Democrat Albatross, isn't he?

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#169977: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:39:30 PM

Motherfucker.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
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?
#169978: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:39:49 PM

NVM. Googled it. Though, I don't know how that would work...

[down]Thanks

edited 26th Jan '17 7:45:39 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
ctrl_alt_deliiiight Dump Stat from where memes go to die Since: Jan, 2017
Dump Stat
#169979: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:43:58 PM

[up]Basically, a psychological burden that feels like a curse. There's a whole story behind it.

edited 26th Jan '17 7:44:42 PM by ctrl_alt_deliiiight

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#169980: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:47:07 PM

Donald Trump tells Sean Hannity that he got some information that is informing his national security decisions from watching his show.

https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/824816015150346240

HOW THE FUCK?!

New Survey coming this weekend!
Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#169981: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:50:31 PM

I told you.

Whether his first military action is outside or inside the US is a coin toss, and Fox News is gonna make the call.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#169982: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:52:26 PM

Working theory is it's on the table long term. (Impeaching Trump) VP Pence, Spkr Ryan, COS Priebus looking like an unholy trinity.

So Pence, Ryan and Priebus are the Starscreams.

Bannon is The Dragon in Chief.

And Trump is the Big Bad.

And I guess Kushner is the Dragon.

Conway is the Dark Chick.

Nobody's really sure who's in charge. POTUS is easily manipulated with smooth compliments. Spkr. Ryan is pulling some strings.

The sad part is hearing POTUS say "Ppl don't need facts, they just need info. Control the info and you control them."

Pres. Trump is already making waves at the office. Wants to be "the President who will be remembered as a King." His words, not ours.

Pres. Trump doesn't quite understand the difference between being POTUS and being a business owner. Keeps asking "who says I can't?"

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#169983: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:55:03 PM

Spicer and Conway pull double duty as the Mouth of Sauron.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#169984: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:57:13 PM

I think it is extremely important that we adhere to a standard of non-violence. If you witness someone being assaulted, call a cop. The local police, by and large, still do their job. If it's a cop doing the assaulting, you can use your body or an object as a sheild of some kind, but you cant counter-attack because that will send you to prison. And never physically assault someone because of something they said. That costs us public support, and we need public support to throw these asshats out in two years.

Really, anger and violence simply feeds their narrative. They love that stuff, nothing would please them more or fulfill their agenda better than becoming engaged in a never ending war in the streets. Violent people have violent goals, by hitting back you are just giving them what they want.

Answer kind with kind, offensive speech demands a strong, vocal answer. Physical attacks require that you defend yourself, but only using a proportional response (again, because otherwise you will go to prison). Usually this means escaping the situation if possible, fighting back only when cornered.

These are basic protest skills. They have been learned by hard experience over many years and protests. Please don't undermine the movement by a disproportionate, impulsive response.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#169985: Jan 26th 2017 at 7:57:18 PM

Thinking it over, I know that ObamaCare is not popular with Conservatives and Alt-Righters, but if Trump really decides to keep it around for 2 years as a way to try and crush Democrats, I think that might just explode in Republicans faces. Democrats can say "See? They didn't have a good plan to replace ObamaCare! Even Trump wants to keep it around! We'll fix it if you give us a Chance!" And that kind of Political Maneuvering, while it might make Alt-Righters happy, would make your standard Conservatives and Neo-Cons think Trump and the Republicans were lying, and either stay at home or willingly vote against them.

It's a risky proposition, but it's possible that Democrats could make this Albatross hang around Trump's and Ryan's neck instead...

[up][up][up] Dear lord, Trump wants to be a King. I'm starting to think we really do need a Modern Whig Movement in this nation.

edited 26th Jan '17 7:58:12 PM by DingoWalley1

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#169986: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:03:11 PM

In Roman terms, Trump has the corruption of Crassus, the ambitions of Julius Caesar, Caligula's competence and Nero's decadence.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#169987: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:04:17 PM

I can't wait to see Ryan start trying to test the reception of a king when he offers Trump the crown.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#169988: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:05:28 PM

Trump wants to be remembered as a King? What, like Carlos II of Spain who was quite possibly the furthest low the Hapsburgs reached? Okay!

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#169989: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:09:45 PM

Hey! Leave old Carlos out of this. Guy got the absolute lowest level of the genetic lottery, most of his issues weren't his fault. Trump is just a greedy asshole.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#169990: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:09:56 PM

Someone should remind him what we did about our last king.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#169992: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:17:49 PM

Yeah, that was kind of nasty to Carlos. Maybe more like Ivan the Terrible, who has the added bonus of being Russian.

[up] And then a couple generations later, when the US was embroiled in civil war, the British monarch, Queen Victoria, was ruling over the largest empire in human history. Oh yeah, the Americans really showed the British who was boss.

edited 26th Jan '17 8:20:40 PM by Zendervai

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#169993: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:19:26 PM

Who is our Augustus?

Jared Kushner?

Trump seems to prefer him to his other sons.

wild mass guessJared will take the Trump name and take out Don Jr, his kids, Eric Trump and Barron Trump. "8 Trumps is 7 too many."wild mass guess

edited 26th Jan '17 8:19:48 PM by MadSkillz

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#169994: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:24:01 PM

[up][up]Ivan the Terrible famously expressed regret at least once in his life, an emotion that Trump is physically incapable of in all likelihood.

edited 26th Jan '17 8:24:59 PM by Eschaton

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#169996: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:27:33 PM

Jon D. Freer, a Conservative 'Thinker' who wants Birthright Citizenship made Illegal, might join Trump's Team. Thank god Birthright Citizenship is protected under the Constitution, but God Damn does Trump's Administration get scarier and scarier.

This might be one of Bannon's moves.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#169997: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:32:15 PM

Madeleine Albright is "ready to register as a Muslim" in protest of Trump. She's a Christian with Jewish ancestors. (Whether this is possible is unknown but the gesture is appreciated.)

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#169998: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:33:56 PM

[up][up][up]NAFTA just fell apart...on Twitter. FFS.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#169999: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:41:18 PM

I feel sorry for the Democrat who has to replace Trump. They've got an ASS of shit to fix.

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henry42 [REDACTED] from Western Hemisphere Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#170000: Jan 26th 2017 at 8:43:05 PM

@DingoWalley1 RE: "anarchist" Steve Bannon
Individualist anarchism is arguably still left-wing. Like other forms of anarchism, it's very strongly anti-capitalist and anti-racist. Doesn't really sound like Bannon, does it?

One does not shake the box containing the sticky notes of doom!

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