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Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#170176: Jan 27th 2017 at 2:22:05 PM

Seriously, the Trump administration straight up threatened both the EU and the UN now. That's got to bite him badly, right?

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#170177: Jan 27th 2017 at 2:22:51 PM

Real diplomats are truly devious motherfuckers, used to playing at very high levels. This kind of idiot running into the playing field and making a huge mess is a source of hilarity and headaches.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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#170178: Jan 27th 2017 at 2:33:42 PM

Trump Omits Mention of Jews, and others, Killed in Holocaust Speech, ADL condemns speech.

It is kind of weird that Trump didn't mention the fact that 6 Million Jews died in the Holocaust.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#170179: Jan 27th 2017 at 2:35:03 PM

[up]"Jews? What Jews? There's never been any Jews. Bannon say so! Oh, and by the way, WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA. Just a FYI."

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#170180: Jan 27th 2017 at 2:40:00 PM

I don't understand. All of his children married a Jew or are one themselves. He's got a bunch of Jewish people in his inner circle. How does this even work?!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#170181: Jan 27th 2017 at 2:42:14 PM

[up] Either Bannon happened, or he made the mistake of thinking he didn't need to mention the main victims of the Holocaust.

Either way, it was out of stupidity. I don't think he did this on purpose. If he did, then Bannon is gaining too much influence on him.

EDIT: Trump defends Barack Obama, Former Pres, from Chelsea Manning Comment. What in the...?!

edited 27th Jan '17 2:54:52 PM by DingoWalley1

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#170182: Jan 27th 2017 at 2:56:37 PM

[up][up]That doesn't make him not anti-Semitic.

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#170183: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:01:21 PM

[up][up]When in doubt: it was on Fox news.

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
#170184: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:14:46 PM

[up][up][up]Only I can call Obama weak!

Oh lovely out of context page topper.

edited 27th Jan '17 3:15:09 PM by AngelusNox

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#170185: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:16:01 PM

[up]+[up][up] Maybe Obama kissed Trump's ass in such a way that Trump truly does consider Obama a good President (or at least a good person) now. That's the only idea I can come up with that makes sense.

Grafite Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: Less than three
#170186: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:17:26 PM

[up] As one of the comments there said, and what I got from it, he just seems to be angry at Manning's hipocrisy, not that he stopped thinking Obama is a weak leader.

Or maybe he just saw Fox News and confused, got all the words mixed up in his tweet.

edited 27th Jan '17 3:18:25 PM by Grafite

Life is unfair...
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#170187: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:18:03 PM

Hypocritical Heartwarming?

[up]Maybe Obama just gave him genuine good advice?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Ingonyama Since: Jan, 2001
#170188: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:33:39 PM

"Haley told reporters, 'Everything that's working, we're going to make it better, everything that's not working we're going to try and fix, and anything that seems to be obsolete and not necessary we're going to do away with.'"

Who does this sound like? It's extremely close to the first speech given at Hogwarts by Dolores Umbridge. And this is the nominee Kirsten Gillibrand voted for. *headdesk*

EDIT: Remembered the Senator wrong.

edited 27th Jan '17 3:50:25 PM by Ingonyama

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#170189: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:34:10 PM

Only I can call Obama weak!

Obama is the Goku to Trump's Vegeta.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#170190: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:38:34 PM

[up]I resent that-Vegeta was occasionally competent.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#170191: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:39:07 PM

[up][up][up] Not just Warren. Also Gillibrand, who up until then had voted against every single one of Trump's nominees.

Turns out she should have just dug in her heels and gone the whole hog.

edited 27th Jan '17 3:39:12 PM by RBluefish

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#170192: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:41:23 PM

Vegeta also had a tendency to do stupid things to sate his ego

edited 27th Jan '17 3:41:34 PM by sgamer82

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#170193: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:42:28 PM

Proposal has been submitted to California's Secretary of State that would repeal part of our state's constitution that declares California as an inseparable part of the United States.

The proposed constitutional amendment, titled California Nationhood, would also ask voters to repeal language that states the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law. If approved, it calls for scheduling a vote in 2019 to ask voters, "Should California become a free, sovereign and independent country?"

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#170194: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:57:57 PM

[up]...Maybe I should consider moving to California. Because succession is looking to be a more and more likely outcome by the day. And if it happens, then I wanna secede with 'em.tongue

edited 27th Jan '17 4:01:15 PM by kkhohoho

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#170195: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:59:23 PM

succeed

"Secede."

I've said it before and I'll say it again, though: California seceding would be disastrous for any number of reasons. We need them to stick around and stay in the fight.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#170196: Jan 27th 2017 at 3:59:30 PM

Trump says he is only in early stages of considering lifting Russia sanctions

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he is only in the early stages of considering whether to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia, as British Prime Minister Theresa May, other foreign officials and U.S. lawmakers cautioned that such a move would be premature.

With Trump expected to speak by phone on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since taking power a week ago, speculation has been rife that he is close to lifting sanctions imposed by then-President Barack Obama over Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in 2014.

Such a move would likely cause consternation among European allies as well as many in the U.S. Congress who are also troubled by Russia's intervention in the Syrian civil war and by U.S. intelligence agencies' finding that Moscow meddled in the U.S. election campaign.

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RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#170197: Jan 27th 2017 at 4:03:03 PM

Even McConnell says he opposes lifting those sanctions. Which, as we've all learned by now, means we'll at least get the grim satisfaction of seeing all the spineless Republicans shamelessly flip-flop on their previous positions the moment Trump sends an angry tweet their way.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#170198: Jan 27th 2017 at 4:03:16 PM

Does it actually matter what stage he's in when it's more or less considered a done deal that it's going to happen?

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#170199: Jan 27th 2017 at 4:04:06 PM

[up]x6 Guys, take the other blue states with you at least, otherwise they'll get fucked forever.

edited 27th Jan '17 4:04:26 PM by IFwanderer

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#170200: Jan 27th 2017 at 4:07:12 PM

Oh, California breaking off would definitely cause a cascade. Oregon and Washington would definitely go with them, maybe some of the Southwest as well. New England might decide look at its options as well...

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