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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Seeing a Breaking News headline on CNN: White House denying request for Flynn documents.
No sound in tv and I'm not close enough to read close captions so got nothing more than that.
edited 25th Apr '17 11:00:21 AM by sgamer82
At least once. Their Afghan coup backfired horribly, but the one in Czechoslovakia went swimmingly.
Also Europe and the current Number One Contender for President Behind the President are off to a great start.
Groans as Ivanka Trump defends US President at G20 women's summit
The First Daughter was taking part in a panel discussion about female entrepreneurs alongside German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and IMF chief Christine Lagarde.
But the audience bristled at her praise for the US president.
The event is part of the G20 women's summit.
An audible groan went up as she told the room her father was a "tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive".
As she posed for photographs with the world's most powerful women, the first daughter rubbed shoulders with a chancellor, a queen and a leading banker. But it was the absent figure of a president that overshadowed Ivanka Trump's first official overseas engagement.
Ignoring the boos, hisses and disapproval of a room full of female delegates, Donald Trump's special adviser persisted in her defence of a father who, she said, had enabled and encouraged her.
Ostensibly today's visit - at the direct invitation of Angela Merkel - was about empowering women. But it's been widely interpreted here as an attempt to forge another line of communication to the US president, and may mark a profound shift in the way in which Berlin - and Europe - does business with Washington.
Who were the other women on the panel?
Ms Trump was on the stage thanks to her background as a businesswoman and her position as the US president's daughter. But who were the other women?
Angela Merkel: The German chancellor is arguably Europe's most powerful leader
Christine Lagarde: The head of the IMF.
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands: The Argentinean-born royal worked for some of the world's top banks before meeting and marrying King Willem-Alexander. She is also a UN Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development.
Chrystia Freeland: Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs
Juliana Rotich: Kenyan-born Rotich used to be executive director for Ushahidi, an election mapping platform which was used to track possible voter intimidation in the US election. She now describes herself as a strategic advisor and entrepreneur.
Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller: President and chairwoman of technology company Trumpt, she holds a doctorate in philology.
Anne Finucane: Ms Finucane is vice-president at Bank of America, and was named by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most powerful woman in the world last year.
edited 25th Apr '17 11:02:35 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 livesEver heard the principle of the Ugly Best Friend? Basically, the idea is that a moderately decent-looking person will find a really ugly person to be friends with. By standing next to them in social arenas, their relative unattractiveness makes the decent-looking person look prettier by association.
It's a really toxic view of relationships frequently applied to women. Super misogynistic.
But the point is: Trump is the Ugly Best Friend of the entire Republican Party, plus Ivanka and Jared aside.
edited 25th Apr '17 11:41:29 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Brilliant diplomatic masterstroke on the German chancellor's behalf.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.<Let me guess, She's the one playing 4D chess now?>
I know that you're being sarcastic but yes, unlike Trump she's an intelligent and seasoned politician. I highly doubt that she didn't see this coming, now I'm not saying that she necessarily has some secret master plan but as I said I would be shocked if there wasn't some ulterior motive.
edited 25th Apr '17 1:03:26 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangThe Future Monument to America's Sins might wind up in International court
if it messes with the Rio Grande.
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edited 25th Apr '17 1:26:01 PM by MorningStar1337
So, basically, Trump has drummed up a lot of opposition to his agenda from his own people, such that he needs to try to bully Democrats into helping him out.
Wow.
Wow, Trump. You tried to go for "most dictator-like President ever" and you got this. He tried nepotism and ended up throwing all the real work on pretty little Jared, thus failing at Nepotism. You tried to go for having an SS-like group of elites at your beck and call...and you got ICE, who basically threw up with fear when people showed up at their headquarters in California to protest.
Trump, you just cannot do typical bad guy actions, and even if he successfully does something it ends up backfiring on him severely.
And the Canadian government's response to the dairy and lumber shakedowns from DC can be summed up as Bring It.
Its only going to hurt US consumers at this stage anyway.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Ted Cruz introduces "EL CHAPO Act" to pay for the wall
Motherfucker say WHAT?
New Survey coming this weekend!I'm just loving the schadenfreude of Trump being so hated by his own party, which has unchecked control over the entire government that he needs to make toothless threats towards the minority party. I don't think I've ever witnessed someone so thoroughly unman themselves.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Here's a brief summary of Trump's attempts to intimidate Canada on trade. He's threatened the Canadian milk industry...which doesn't sell to the US anyway. The US has a surplus that we up here buy.
When it comes to lumber, yes, Canada sells the US a ton of lumber. It's not because of undercutting or anything like that, it's because the US literally does not produce enough to meet the entirely domestic demand.
As you can see, one threat doesn't mean anything, and the other threat will hurt the US way more than it will hurt Canada...especially since both China and Europe buy Canada's softwood lumber and both are slowly increasing the amount they buy.
She forwarded the invitation to Ivanka, according to the article.
Musta seemed like a good idea at the time.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.

@Cap - that's kind of, in a roundabout way, the point I was trying to make. A politician with former intelligence connections in the US is not necessarily going to parallel Putin's example and we have one on record who did not.
Institutionally, the CIA did orchestrate a number of these world-order altering stunts in the 70s and 80s...and most of them have since turned out to be embarrassments for us and (as far as can be gathered from available evidence) we don't do them anymore. I'm not sure if the Russians ever had to learn that lesson.