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LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#170151: Jan 27th 2017 at 11:49:24 AM

Is this rogue WH staffer legit?

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#170152: Jan 27th 2017 at 11:52:09 AM

[up]Who knows...

The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.
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?
#170153: Jan 27th 2017 at 11:56:07 AM

That we'll survive is likely, who has the keys to the nukes notwithstanding. The Sun will still rise and the Earth will continue to rotate. Stars will shine on barren rocks all over space.
It's how we'll live that's at issue. 2130 years separate the fall of Athenian Democracy from the establishment of the French First Republic and that particular king didn't have students of history on staff advising him exactly on how to prevent revolution or automated factories that made the peasants increasingly obsolete. The classic weakness of past oligarchies was their dependence upon the labor of the peasantry for work and war. That was the past.
In the news:

edited 27th Jan '17 12:49:48 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
Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#170154: Jan 27th 2017 at 11:59:22 AM

[up][up][up]I want to believe. That's probably the most I can say about it.

... It definitely sounds like the kind of crap I'd expect from inside the White house, although I'm somewhat sceptical about the whole "wanting to be remembered as a king" kinda deal.

edited 27th Jan '17 11:59:33 AM by Kayeka

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#170155: Jan 27th 2017 at 11:59:49 AM

Eh, you can start such a thread. This being a website about storytelling, we give to storytelling issues a wider berth in terms of Flame Bait issues.
Alright then. I'll be working on the OP for this soon-to-be made thread and notify you when it's posted. For the record, the thread will be for discussing all hypothetical scenarios for fictional stories in which Trump's presidency leads to a Second American Civil War, rather than just about my scenario or yours or Luigisan98's.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#170156: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:00:46 PM

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It's actually entirely possible. I posted an article recently about a female Secret Service agent discovered to be behind several anti-Trump posts online.

edited 27th Jan '17 12:01:22 PM by FluffyMcChicken

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#170157: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:04:52 PM

Hey, I just realized that I've yet to hear anything about Kissinger. Didn't he get hired as an adviser for Trump?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#170158: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:07:48 PM

One day we'll write a sitcom on Trump's tenure in the West Wing and it will be hilarious.
Just like they did Dubya?

edited 27th Jan '17 12:07:59 PM by sgamer82

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#170159: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:15:22 PM

[up][up]Not exactly an official adviser but he seems to be one of the few people Trump listens to.

EDIT: I was answering a question about Kissinger.

edited 27th Jan '17 12:16:15 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#170160: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:16:25 PM

Oh, and a retraction: the story I linked about Trump photoshopping his hands bigger is most likely bogus.

I just so wanted it to be true.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
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?
#170161: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:19:46 PM

About the hands story...Melania Trump Defamation Suit Against Political Blogger Can Move Forward I think the libel laws are opening up...

(Slightly related) Did anyone ever sue over "pizzagate?"

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
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#170162: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:21:56 PM

Journalists are probably lucky if all they get hit with is a lawsuit. Remember the six journalists who have been arrested on bogus charges.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#170163: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:25:59 PM

[up][up]so Melina have her on safe space against all those mean liberals....

I will said something about irony, but the rep and trump lost the meaning long time ago.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#170164: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:26:28 PM

So how long until they're straight up killed?

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#170165: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:28:06 PM

Daily Fail.

Inter arma enim silent leges
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#170167: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:45:27 PM

[up][up][up]They do that and it's Civil War II, mark my words.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#170168: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:52:07 PM

But he's such a child!

And Littlebannon is going to fall hard and fast! Yay!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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?
#170169: Jan 27th 2017 at 12:52:21 PM

The latest on Texan and National voter suppression laws: (Unjumbled this from earlier)

  • DOJ Delay in Texas Voter ID Case Sparks Concern Amid Trump’s Debunked Fraud Claims
    The Texas law requires voters to show one of several forms of photo ID issued by the state or federal government. A handgun license is deemed acceptable, but not a student ID, even from a state-run university. An estimated 600,000 registered Texas voters, disproportionately black and Hispanic, lack the required ID.
    Just hours after Trump was sworn in as president last Friday, Justice Department lawyers challenging Texas' voter ID law asked a federal appeals court to delay a hearing in the case. The hearing had been scheduled to consider whether the law intended to discriminate against racial minorities, or whether it merely did so incidentally.
    The Texas law was passed in 2011 after a concerted campaign to generate concern over illegal voting much like the one that Trump has launched. In 2006, Greg Abbott — then the state's attorney general, today its governor — announced a $1.5 million effort to root out voter fraud, which Abbott called "an epidemic" that was happening "on a large scale." Lawyers for the state were later able to produce just two cases of in-person voter impersonation — the only kind of fraud that might be stopped by the ID law — out of millions of votes cast.
  • Who Is Gregg Phillips, the Man Trump Name-Checked to Prove Voter Fraud?
    who is Phillips? He's a vocal conservative who founded a health-care-data company. And he's unwilling to share his illegal-vote findings to the public - at least for now...[yet] less than a week after Trump's presidential win - Phillips tweeted, "We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens. We are joining .@True The Vote to initiate legal action."
    Phillips, who worked for the Alabama and Mississippi Republican parties in the 1980s and 1990s according to his Linked In profile, also has been a vocal conservative on Twitter. Some examples: "No matter what Obama or anyone else says, the only entity that hacked election systems was Obama's Department of Homeland Security."

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
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#170170: Jan 27th 2017 at 1:19:03 PM

A guy who normally would only be taken seriously on Info Wars now has influence on the fate of American democracy.

Goddamnit.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#170171: Jan 27th 2017 at 1:41:43 PM

Remember how Nikki Haley was supposed to be one of the "sane" Trump picks?

She just made a complete ass out of herself

Speaking Friday for the first time at the United Nations as Ambassador, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley outlined her vision for the role of the U.S. at the international organization, one which projects strength.

"Our goal with the admin is to show value at the UN and the way that we will do that is to show strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies and make sure our allies have our back as well," Haley said. "For those who don't have our backs, we're taking names."

New Survey coming this weekend!
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#170173: Jan 27th 2017 at 1:55:27 PM

[up]Patience friend, you'll get your turn after the immigrants and disabled looters are dealt with /s

edited 27th Jan '17 1:56:14 PM by carbon-mantis

TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#170174: Jan 27th 2017 at 1:55:43 PM

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Hardly surpising. She has no experience in diplomacy whatsoever. The experienced ones will be running circles around her.

edited 27th Jan '17 1:56:05 PM by TerminusEst

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#170175: Jan 27th 2017 at 2:01:45 PM

She's like a female Farage...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

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