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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#172201: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:45:44 AM

Arnold is okay in my book. That was a very nice "Fuck you", from a celebrity businessman who actually took his Governor job seriously and performed adequately, and who knew his own limits.

edited 2nd Feb '17 11:49:28 AM by TheHandle

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#172202: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:47:33 AM

[up]arnold is what trump should be but isnt.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#172203: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:49:57 AM

You nailed it. Arnold is what Trump wishes he were.

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PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
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#172204: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:50:38 AM

I'd feel more comfortable with Arnold as POTUS. Unfortunately, he was born in Austria and so does not qualify.

Why are Russian puppets allowed to become POTUS but someone born in Austria can't? Seems fishy.

edited 2nd Feb '17 11:51:13 AM by PhiSat

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#172205: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:51:36 AM

Rogue POTUS:

Retweeted a retweet of Stephanie Murphy's bill which would remove politization from the National Security Council.

Retweeted George Takei's tweet with USA Today's article concerning the easing of Russian Sanctions

Talks about how Trump is causing alarm by using Russian spies being captured as a pretense for easing sanctions and then saying orders to make sure they shouldn't let the info get out.

Mentions Trump is angry at Arnold's digs.

Tweets a Youtube video: Trump 101: The producer of his own epic film

Retweets one of the Alt-government accounts saying to take care of yourselves.

Picture of a White House elevator and how Trump hates them when compared to Trump Tower ones.

Mentions they are moving towards disposable phones to tweet.

One more: Mentions Ivanka is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing

edited 2nd Feb '17 11:53:04 AM by tclittle

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#172206: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:56:25 AM

[up] Wait, she's not as innocent and polite as she seems?

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#172207: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:57:31 AM

[up]That or she's insane.

edited 2nd Feb '17 11:58:24 AM by TheHandle

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#172208: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:59:03 AM

Arnold is one of the few members of the Republican Party who isn't complete and utter scum and has understandable reasons for joining the party to begin with (ie his experiences with socialism in his home country).

It is exactly right to point out that he is what people think Trump is. And to be honest if more Republicans were like him we would have that proper conservative party that is so desperately needed for America to have a future.

edited 2nd Feb '17 11:59:55 AM by Draghinazzo

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#172209: Feb 2nd 2017 at 11:59:13 AM

Trump just renamed Black History Month to African American History Month.

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#172210: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:00:36 PM

She's a Trump like the rest of them.

[up]Watch it with the links to Fox pages. They get revenue from pageviews, dude

edited 2nd Feb '17 12:02:44 PM by blkwhtrbbt

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#172211: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:01:39 PM

[up][up] That's a very SJW thing of him to do.

I wonder how much the Alt-Right will complain about this.tongue

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#172212: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:02:42 PM

...yes, I could be missing something here but that seems to be one of the least openly malevolent things he's done.

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#172213: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:03:11 PM

It's still wrong, though. Not all black people are African-American.

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#172214: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:04:17 PM

So in other words it's worse because it's less inclusive than black history month was?

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#172215: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:04:55 PM

I remember reading that it was Black history month for a reason. But I could be wrong and don't know why its called that?

[up][up]There was that, but was there something else to it?

edited 2nd Feb '17 12:05:48 PM by Rationalinsanity

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#172216: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:05:59 PM

[up][up][up]BHM is about other Blacks too? Does it talk about Haiti and the USA's role in re-subjugating them? Cuba? Brazil? Liberia? Pre-Colonial Africa?

Also, I never miss an excuse to drop this

edited 2nd Feb '17 12:06:52 PM by TheHandle

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#172217: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:07:51 PM

[up][up][up][up] Oh come now, that's just nitpickey. African American has been a PC term for Black people for years, and even the Obama team (apparently) used the term 'African-American History Month'. Don't try to make something PC ant-PC, that's not cool.

[up][up] The original name for the Month was indeed Black History Month, but as time moved on, it became less PC to call them Black and more PC to call them African Americans. Although most Black people could care less if you called them Black or African American, African American is technically the more PC term in Modern Day America.

edited 2nd Feb '17 12:08:39 PM by DingoWalley1

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#172218: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:07:55 PM

As far as I can remember it was mostly about the Ameri-African slave trade, the Civil War, the Underground Railroad, and the Civil Rights movement.

We learned about Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr.

[down]Sorry. Knee-jerked.

edited 2nd Feb '17 12:10:48 PM by blkwhtrbbt

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#172219: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:09:22 PM

[up]Watch it with the links to Fox pages. They get revenue from pageviews, dude

It's a Fox affiliate, not Fox News itself. I would've warned you if it was Fox News.

Maybe I should've linked to the press report.

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#172220: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:13:02 PM

It sounds nearly innocuous... so there's probably an angle? Could be as simple as having something they can look at and say "Hey look! We did something for you, but you're just going to whine about everything, aren't you?" Or it's a nationalist thing?

Wow, this election cycle has made me paranoid.

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#172221: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:21:20 PM

Invalid votes cast during the election outnumbered Trump's margin of victory in FL.

Thanks, guys...

I mean she would've lost anyway but still

edited 2nd Feb '17 12:22:01 PM by LinkToTheFuture

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#172222: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:25:58 PM

EDIT: Forget this, I got the number wrong for some reason.tongue

edited 2nd Feb '17 12:29:27 PM by DingoWalley1

Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#172223: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:29:35 PM

One possible insidious interpretation of the name change is that Trump might have some white South African buddy he wants to name-drop and connect to the month. Bonus points if it's some pro-apartheid scumbag.

Or maybe it's just an attempt at some token bone-tossing to try to bring up to justify his next racist shitbag move.

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#172224: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:30:08 PM

We learned about Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Good start, but it would be interesting to take a more global view. Malcolm X certainly did, after traveling a little.

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#172225: Feb 2nd 2017 at 12:31:46 PM

I don't think this has been posted yet; Stephanie Murphy (Rep. Florida) has filed a bill that would remove Stephen Bannon from the NSC If you're going to call your reps about this, you should probably mention the whole "burn down the state" thing.


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