Tocky on 16/10/2018 at 04:15
Quote Posted by Renzatic
She has plenty of drive and indignation, but she doesn't have enough widespread appeal to act as a bridge across the moderate liberal-conservative divide.
She will. Just let her speak. She will rub conservatives noses in the truth like a bad puppy in poop. It would be worth it for her to run just to see her cut right through their crap. Trumps lies would wilt like his pecker in front of a real woman he could not buy.
Nicker on 16/10/2018 at 18:17
In order that the financial interests of the USA remain robust, Trump telegraphs to the House Of Saud what excuse is deemed appropriate for the torture and murder of Washington Post Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Trump recommends the Saudis blame rogue killers.
The House of Saud improve on Trump's suggestion by admitting it was an interrogation gone wrong, not explaining how an interrogation by 15 agents, one carrying a bone saw, is supposed to go right.
Let the guns and money flow.
Starker on 16/10/2018 at 21:54
Wait, I thought they were just tourists who all conveniently flew in just before and departed soon after?
Trance on 16/10/2018 at 23:58
[video=youtube;ry1x58cErHs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry1x58cErHs[/video]
Starker on 17/10/2018 at 00:01
Who knew making tax cuts pay for themselves could be so difficult:
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In June, six months after the tax cut passed, Cohn's successor, Larry Kudlow, claimed the deficit “is coming down rapidly” due to economic growth. Now, the government Trump oversees has demonstrated the opposite.
Even as growth has accelerated, the Treasury reported that the 2018 deficit swelled to $779 billion. That level, the highest in six years, marks a 17 percent increase over 2017.
Federal spending as a share of the economy fell. But revenue fell even more, with corporate tax receipts plummeting 31 percent. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts deficits hitting $981 billion in 2019 and exceeding $1 trillion every year after that.
Tocky on 17/10/2018 at 01:21
I'm not ready to let the weird way Cherokee spokespeople responded to Warren go yet. I too have Cherokee in my lineage. Oops I claimed it. Time to berate me for being proud of it. I mean, what the hell? Are Cherokees so afraid folks will be getting DNA tests and trying to claim some casino money? And JUST the Dawes roll? What about those who stayed in the Smokies and resisted the move? They don't count? Do my wife's people, the Longs, not count then? None of us are claiming Cherokee citizenship. Elizabeth wasn't either. She was only recounting the history of her family which is the history of the US. Can we not do that? Whether the Cherokee like it or not many of us carry their blood and, though we have not suffered, our ancestors certainly did. They were listed as "non white" on census roles and I'm certain they were treated like it in those times. Hell, I suffer every spring with actinic prurigo, because of that blood and I can't claim it? What a dick move. None of us want to appropriate their heritage and culture. We are just proud of our own lineage. Or were.
Starker on 17/10/2018 at 03:16
Lord Dampnut calls the woman who reminds him of his daughter a horseface and admits he's a total con. Seems like the very stable genius didn't quite think this one through.
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"Federal Judge throws out Stormy Danials lawsuit versus Trump. Trump is entitled to full legal fees." @FoxNews Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!
And Stormy Daniels responds:
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present your president. In addition to his...umm...shortcomings, he has demonstrated his incompetence, hatred of women and lack of self control on Twitter AGAIN! And perhaps a penchant for bestiality. Game on, Tiny.
A reminder that this is not a joke or a parody. This is the actual current state of US politics. The president is slinging insults at his former paramour while she mocks his penis size.
The lawsuit Lord Dampnut is talking about is a defamation suit, something that's notoriously difficult to win in the US:
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/judge-dismisses-stormy-daniels-defamation-suit-trump-181016010519119.html)
A judge in the US has rejected a defamation lawsuit brought by adult film star Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump, and ordered her to pay his legal fees.
Judge S James Otero dismissed the suit by Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, filed earlier this year after Trump claimed on Twitter she had invented threats to silence her over an alleged sexual encounter between the two more than a decade ago. She said Trump's tweets made her look like a liar.
Daniels still has a separate lawsuit linked to $130,000 she was allegedly paid by Trump's lawyer shortly before the November 2016 presidential election to keep quiet about the affair.
In the defamation case, the judge ruled Trump's tweet was the kind of "rhetorical hyperbole" normally associated with politics and public discourse in the United States, and protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Daniels' lawyer has said he will appeal the decision.
Renzatic on 17/10/2018 at 03:25
John F. Kennedy slept with Marilyn Monroe.
Bill Clinton slept with a White House intern.
Donald Trump slept with a porn starlet who he now refers to as "horseface."
I can't help but think our standards are sliding.
Dia on 17/10/2018 at 11:35
Renz, that kind of thing has been going on a lot longer than since JFK. Hell, even George Washington was rumored to have had a mistress. But I agree that our standards have been sliding; well, at least our government's standards have been, ever since January 2017. Used to be that the (unspoken?) requirements for a POTUS were that he/she possess intelligence, dignity, diplomacy, integrity, tact, compassion, and class. The current administration doesn't even know the meaning of those words. *smh*
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http://bigfrog104.com/presidential-extramarital-affairs/)
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https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/25/us/president-under-fire-history-14-presidents-have-been-talk-pillow.html)
Pyrian on 17/10/2018 at 16:50
Quote Posted by icemann
The media just have a particular hatred for Trump, that's all.
That's ridiculous, and you either know it, or should know it. In short, you refuse to see the obvious. The media doesn't force Trump to say, tweet, and do. (And the media that most influences him is his fawning supporters at Fox.) The norms of behavior and decency he's broken are legion. (Having had a mistress? Not unusual. Calling her juvenile names in public? Not normal. Paying her off with campaign money and deliberately keeping it off the books? Criminal.) And that's just like Tuesday. The day before he's helping the Saudis cover up the murder of a journalist for the
express and
stated reason of monetary gain, some of which is going
directly to his pocket. Can we fuckin' say emoluments yet? You want to talk about norms? Carter sold his peanut farm.
That's a norm. (Nevermind the constitutional requirement.)