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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    This reminds me of Nixon banning the Washington Post from the White House. He did make an exception for press conferences.
     
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Which actually makes a point Woodward alluded to the other day at some conference relevant. He was kind of rolling his eyes at Acosta and CNN, and suggested that that if you want to hold Trump to account, do more serious reporting about what he's up to. But for him, the lawsuit was a lot of handwringing.

    Nixon banned the Washington Post from the White House. ... The reporting that Woodward and Bernstein were doing wasn't relying on a hard pass to get them into the White House press room.
     
  3. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Wilson may have been the last decent candidate for governor the Republicans had, not counting Schwarzenegger. I mean, Meg Whitman? Al Checchi? Neel Kashkari? And John Cox's whole platform this time was "infrastructre taxes, bad!"
     
  4. Sea Bass

    Sea Bass Well-Known Member

    I am neither American nor an expert on the U.S. Constitution, but what does this case have to do with the Fifth Amendment?
     
  5. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Who won the military vote in 2016?

    Who will win it in 2020?

     
  6. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Due process
     
  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    It really doesn't. But in the, "Throw a few amendments in a hat, shake it up, and create some justification for what you want to rule anyhow" style of justice we have adopted, the judge took the fifth amendment beyond the scope of a criminal prosecution, and made this into a due process issue. As in, "They took away his access without due process."
     
  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    So when Trump starts telling a golf story while introducing Roger Staubach, why do I think of this place first and ignore the rest of the story?
     
  9. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Yeah, just ignore him dissing the soldiers buried in France ... or Arlington ... or that VA payments are woefully behind ... or what he said about Sen. McCain ... or the Gold Star family ... mini-pumpkin pies will save the military vote for Trump!
     
  10. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    The Republican, because he or she will spend the most on the military? Instead of, like, schools or healthcare or infrastructure or the environment?

    Also, gun rights. I imagine there is a high co-relation between members of the military and people who believe in the unfettered right to bear arms.

    That doesn't mean Trump knows how to be commander-in-chief.

    PS: You're still super racist.
     
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  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Did Trump really just say no one knew Babe Ruth was a pitcher?
     
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  12. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    If he doesn't know it—and he doesn't—then no one does.
     
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