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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#244751: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:33:13 AM

[up][up] Can we maybe refrain from engaging in murder fantasies, please?

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244752: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:41:23 AM

And so Trump drags what's left of the USA's dignity into a back alley to piss on it. Or hire Russian prostitutes to do it for him.

Disgusted, but not surprised
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#244753: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:43:35 AM

So Trump means that All Right wingers are open about being awful?

You have an issue with that theme around here but Right Wing in this thread is a meaningless statement outside of the reference to the current US administration.

Which IS that bad.

Edit:

The EPA will no longer investigate asbestos because Trump has declared it safe.

edited 8th Jun '18 7:49:21 AM by CharlesPhipps

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#244754: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:51:27 AM

[up] I mean, the context was that Trump presence is giving confidence to the asshole Right Wingers of other countries.

Watch me destroying my country
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#244755: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:53:44 AM

"The EPA will no longer investigate asbestos because Trump has declared it safe."

What? Link please, that's outrageous.

"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."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244756: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:54:37 AM

[up] From Newsweek:

DONALD TRUMP CALLED ASBESTOS POISONING A MOB-LED CONSPIRACY, NOW HIS EPA WON’T EVALUATE ASBESTOS ALREADY IN HOMES

Someone is actually surprised by something like this?

edited 8th Jun '18 7:55:34 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#244757: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:55:40 AM

[up] I actually like the ALL CAPS there, really.

Watch me destroying my country
TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#244758: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:56:28 AM

EPA won't investigate asbestos already in homes. — Newsweek

If it's already in use, they're ignoring it.

[nja]'d

edited 8th Jun '18 7:56:46 AM by TheRoguePenguin

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#244759: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:56:52 AM

It makes total sense coming from a real estate developer, mesothelioma is no big deal if you can scrooge the tenants even more.

I hope his prison cell is loaded with the stuff once Mueller's done with him.

edited 8th Jun '18 7:57:47 AM by CrimsonZephyr

"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."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244760: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:57:22 AM

Who wants to bet Trump Tower is full of the stuff?

Then again, if it was maybe it wouldn't have had a fire a while back.

edited 8th Jun '18 7:57:55 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#244761: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:58:04 AM

Trump Tower IRL Barad-Dur even more confirmed.

"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."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244762: Jun 8th 2018 at 8:00:19 AM

It's not as if I needed more reasons to never stay at a Trump hotel or resort, but I guess I can add "may destroy my lungs" to the list.

Disgusted, but not surprised
MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#244763: Jun 8th 2018 at 8:19:40 AM

Is Asbestos the constriction equivalent of tobacco then? After all both destroy lungs and kill people.

RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#244764: Jun 8th 2018 at 8:25:28 AM

Asbestos actually has a use, though.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#244765: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:04:51 AM

So, Trump has deemed more or less every NATO member a security risk, but he wants Russia back in the G7. Trudeau told him to back off (and you need consensus for letting in new countries).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-russia-g7-canada-1.4697655

Russia has something on him.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
DeathorCake Since: Mar, 2016
#244766: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:20:15 AM

[up]

You know, I originally thought that "Russia rigged the US election" seemed like a load of nonsense that people were using because they either didn't believe that their left could fuck up that badly or that that many people would vote for Trump, but at this stage I'm starting to find it slightly plausible, since if I WAS a Russian agent who had become US President I would do basically exactly this. Hardly Nixon goes to China, is it?

The British media made a thing out of the PM not getting a bilateral meeting with the USA this summit. At this stage I wouldn't ask for one if I was her, but since our Foreign Secretary thinks that Trump could run Britain better than they can maybe they wanted to offer him a job.

HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#244767: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:21:55 AM

Like we're going to let this economy-sized moron have his way.

Maybe if he'd learn to play well with others...

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#244768: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:35:03 AM

[up][up]Isn't Trump supposed to meet May next month anyway? Along with Her Majesty, though she's made of sterner stuff than May to say the least.

And one quick look at Trump's life tells you that he's basically the perfect candidate for any intelligence agency to compromise. Sexually aggressive, frequently in debt, criminal ties, zero impulse control....about the only quality he doesn't check off is addiction.

edited 8th Jun '18 9:36:38 AM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#244769: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:40:20 AM

He's not getting a meeting with Brenda, no. This isn't going to be a formal state visit.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#244770: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:42:34 AM

[up][up] Intelligence personnel typically learn the acronym MICE, which stands for the basic reasons people can be turned; Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego. Usually people have one or two, Trump seems to have all four.

edited 8th Jun '18 9:42:50 AM by archonspeaks

They should have sent a poet.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#244771: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:50:13 AM

Brenda?

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#244772: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:53:40 AM

One of the Queen's nicknames.

And looks like Trump will be quite pissed that he's not getting the golden carriage.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#244773: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:54:41 AM

[up][up][up] the only one which he doesn't have, at least in a formal sense, is an ideology. He's too much of a narcissist to have any driving ideas but himself.

edited 8th Jun '18 10:01:41 AM by megaeliz

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#244774: Jun 8th 2018 at 9:54:58 AM

It's the nickname that Private Eye uses for Her Majesty.

edited 8th Jun '18 9:55:14 AM by Deadbeatloser22

"Yup. That tasted purple."
TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Call me Stick
#244775: Jun 8th 2018 at 10:02:50 AM

[up]x9: Basically my reaction.

edited 8th Jun '18 10:03:32 AM by TroperOnAStickV2

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.

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