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Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by SnarkShark, Jan 22, 2016.

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  1. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Regarding the story itself, is it a big hole that the story does not give a reason why the justice department is phasing out its use of private prisons?

    Maybe for this audience, all the people care about is the stock price, but if this decision has such an impact on the stock prices, I'd want to know what drove the justice department to make it. I don't think it's a lack of prisoners.
     
  2. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Just remember, it's part of YankeeFan's playbook to say a story says something and assume no one will actually click the links and read th story to see that it says the exact opposite of his nonsense.
     
  3. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Go ahead. You can say it ... "JERK STORE IS THE LINE!!! JERK STORE!!"
     
  4. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    The problem here Tony is that nobody thought jerk store was funny, that was the joke. Yosemitie Sam? Everybody thinks it's funny, not just those damn lefties.
     
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  5. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I think that's just because it's MarketWatch. Here's more from the Washington Post:

    Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

    “They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department’s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,” (Deputy Attorney Sally) Yates wrote.
     
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  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Well then we definitely want to privatize the school system!
     
  7. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Great. Thanks. Plus their funds to bribe judges may have dried up.
     
  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

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  9. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    The perjury is belittled in that case because it was used as the excuse in an attempt to overturn the will of the American voter. It was a private lawsuit unrelated to the presidency. She was suing him for an alleged act committed before he was president.

    The perjury is also belittled because his political opponents spent millions of dollars investigating the president on a variety of so-called scandals, and all they were able to come up with to use against him was that he lied under oath about his sex life in a private lawsuit unrelated to his job. No legal wrongdoing before his presidency, no legal wrongdoing during his presidency (sorry, Monica said herself that she wanted the affair; she was not harassed).

    The perjury also is belittled because you have certain people who love repeating the talking point, "it's not sbout sex, it's about the perjury!" Except the perjury being discussed was about ... Sex.

    All they had him on, after $40-something millions of dollars of investigations, was that he lied under oath about sex. And while he did deserve whatever punishment in his private life, he did not deserve anyone trying to fire him from his job over it.
     
  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    LOL. That was CNN's trick. They put out a sensational tweet, which bounces around the Twiterverse, that their own story doesn't back up.

    Jake Tapper now acknowledges that no one for the Secret Service discussed this with Trump, and does not dispute the Secret Service's statement that no formal talks were held between the SS and the Trump campaign.

    He's holding out on the "reporting" -- confirmed by no one else -- that some sort of informal discussions, that they don't describe, transpired.

    He's got nothing, and he knows it.
     
  11. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Says who?
     
  12. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    "If you ain't with us, you're agin' us!"
     
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