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FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#185651: Apr 29th 2017 at 2:05:29 PM

[up][up][up] Sorry about the above post, got a bit out of control there, but this whole North Korea thing is pissing me off. How dare the Americans put the lives of South Koreans and Japanese at risk!

edited 29th Apr '17 2:15:20 PM by FireCrawler2002

math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#185652: Apr 29th 2017 at 2:42:58 PM

[up][up][up] Kentucky Nazis? I hate Kentucky Nazis!

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#185656: Apr 29th 2017 at 3:19:46 PM

Is it safe to say all the East South Central states except MAYBE Tennessee are trash?

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#185657: Apr 29th 2017 at 3:21:21 PM

And the northern states. And those western ones too. Damn useless deserts.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#185658: Apr 29th 2017 at 3:29:28 PM

Unless heavily plumbed as California is?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#185661: Apr 29th 2017 at 3:58:33 PM

[up] I have a feeling this might go horribly, horribly wrong...

TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#185662: Apr 29th 2017 at 4:23:34 PM

[up][up] Seeing the picture of the polar bear costume, I can't help but think they missed an opportunity to have the polar bear with the broken dick bone from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

How's that for a page topper?

edited 29th Apr '17 4:23:52 PM by TheRoguePenguin

FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#185663: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:03:44 PM

Trump is apparently in Pennsylvania speaking at a rally. How did he get out of the White House without all the environmentalists there noticing? Apparently Pence spoke briefly, stating illegal immigration is down 60% this year, and Pence also mentioned Trump has started to turn America around and that he's just getting started.

edited 29th Apr '17 5:07:54 PM by FireCrawler2002

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#185665: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:31:18 PM

[up][up] Thing is that's​what most of us here are afraid of.

[up] Is that flat out false or factually accurate and misrepresented?

edited 29th Apr '17 5:32:14 PM by sgamer82

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#185666: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:32:01 PM

Why does it say 2 months then switch to first 100 days? Those are not even remotely the same thing.

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#185667: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:35:36 PM

[up][up][up][up] Maybe he wasn't in the White House at all? Alternatively, there may be a secret tunnel leading from the White House to a hidden exit point far from said building that is normally used in emergencies (e.g. impending assault by an invading enemy nation).

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Arkasas (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#185668: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:39:32 PM

[up]Yeah, it goes to the Treasury building across the street. Our secret tunnels aren't so secret, you see.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#185669: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:40:43 PM

[up]If they're not so secret, then why are they called secret tunnels? Or are they just called that to make everyone feel important?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#185670: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:40:59 PM

[up][up][up][up][up]Even if it is technically accurate, Obama became president during the middle of the housing crash and the Great Recession and such. It's really not a fair comparison.

Even without that, prescribing any job growth or loss to any president during such a short amount of time, seems ridiculous.

edited 29th Apr '17 5:41:33 PM by LSBK

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#185671: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:43:05 PM

Yeah. I was just thinking anything like that within the first few months/hundred days of a Presidency have more to do with the predecessor than anyone.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#185672: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:45:56 PM

The whole 100 days thing is just arbitrary and symbolic. Which is probably why Trump is subscribing so much importance to it; flash without the substance is his thing.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#185673: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:46:22 PM

[up][up]That's kind of the point, they're trying to paint the job losses caused by the Recession as a failure of Obama as president.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#185674: Apr 29th 2017 at 5:53:48 PM

Yeah, the numbers they're showing are probably more indicative of the last president's tenure than the current one. edit: Having said that, I want to point out that if Obama is in the lead on this chart if you look at jobs added directly in the wake of their term.

edited 29th Apr '17 5:54:44 PM by Kostya

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#185675: Apr 29th 2017 at 6:19:25 PM

So apparently there was a lawsuit against the DNC that was heard by a district judge, over the "rigged" primaries and...

It's about as embarrassing as it gets

Jump to page 14-15. These arguments are extremely asinine and childish.

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