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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Even if everyone else was for it?
Also
Sean Spicer returns with a press briefing for the ages
A preview:
President Trump's press secretary opened his first news conference since May 15 with an epic retelling of the president's multi-stop foreign trip. Adjectives used by Spicer included “extraordinary,” “unprecedented” and “historic.”
But the real fun began when Spicer opened the session to questions. The first went to The Washington Post's Philip Rucker, who asked whether Trump knew at the time that his senior adviser, Jared Kushner, sought to create a secret communication channel with Russia in December.
“You're asking if he approves of an action that is not a confirmed action,” Spicer replied.
Huh? The Post reported Kushner's effort on Friday, and the White House did not deny the report or even cast doubt on it. In fact, surrogates including national security adviser H.R. Mc Master, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway seemed to validate the report by insisting publicly over the next few days that back channels are common, appropriate and good.
Which reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCEFuBGw6Y
Sorry, markup help still doesn't open for me.
What
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869858333477523458
What does this even mean?
Trump is planning to withdraw from the Paris agreement.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/31/politics/trump-paris-accord/index.html
I hate these people with every fibre of my being. This is our planet's habitability, and my future on the line, you know. What happened to; for our children, and our children's children? Apparently it got replaced with; For money! Screw the consequences.
at least Germany has it together.
edited 31st May '17 6:33:33 AM by megaeliz
x3 "What happened to; for our children, and our children's children?"
Like I said: it never actually existed, except as a fig leaf to justify their own selfishness and resistance to progress. "I want my children to live a better life than I did, which is why I don't want to see society become more tolerant of anyone that's different from me, or to have any kind of social safety net, while I turn the world they're going to live in into a polluted shithole that can't support any fucking goddamned life whatsoever! I'm totally not doing any of this for my own grafitication, I'm doing it for my children, and that means you all should love me for it!" It's just now that they've stopped bothering with the fiction.
edited 31st May '17 7:14:42 AM by Reflextion
Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.edited 31st May '17 7:34:38 AM by nightwyrm_zero
Assuming a Dem president in 4 (or 8...0) years, I've been thinking for a while that they're probably going to be so busy trying to undo all the damage Trump and his squad will have done by that point that a lot of people are going to think they aren't actually doing anything, which will probably hurt their reelection chances.
edited 31st May '17 7:42:11 AM by LSBK

Pretty sure the US can just veto any action taken against it.
"Yup. That tasted purple."