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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. Rainman

    Rainman Well-Known Member

    Your reading skills are for shit. I was addressing YOU wanting to ban weapons like the AR, that I can legally buy right now. YOU wanting to ban them is forcing YOUR beliefs on me, just like YOU saying I am forcing my beliefs when it comes to abortion.

    No. I never made that argument. Ever.

    It's amazing how dumbed down things have to be made, and you STILL can't grasp simple points.
     
  2. Machine Head

    Machine Head Well-Known Member

    Land of opportunity!

     
  3. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member


    1 b) Mueller knows that Manafort is lying to him, and that his lawyer is feeding info on Manafort's testimony to the WH. Mueller also has testimony/proof of what actually happened. When Trump's written testimony comes in matching Manafort's, he has Trump on suborning perjury and obstruction of justice.
     
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  4. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    I'm wondering if Mueller isn't also working on an international money laundering case, possibly to include RICO. It may or may not come out attached to Trump/Russia (although Trump being a longtime money launderer may), but between the Panama Papers, Deutsche Bank, and Trump, he may take down a lot of Putin and the oligarch's money. There are any number of Russian mob tentacles involved. I bet Wilbur Ross is sweating bullets as well.

    If the Brits, Germans, and US all drop on this money laundering network, there are going to be a lot of broke/pissed off mob guys and corrupt politicans.
     
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  5. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    If I’m Michael Bloomberg, or Jeff Bezos or George Soros ... I contact Duetch Bank and ask how much it would cost to buy Trump’s debt. IfTrump owes DB $350 million these guys can buy it individually or form an offshore corp to purchase it. Trump’s lawyers don’t seem that great, Bloomberg and Bezos can have the debt obligations reviewed and call the note due or Find a breach and foreclose.

    Trump says he’s a billionaire because he adds up the inflated value of his holdings without regard to debt. If all he owned was a billion dollar building with a 900 million dollar mortgage, he would call himself a billionaire. He cant pay the principle on his debt obligations.
     
  6. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Hope so. Then Bono can go to jail!
     
  7. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    Imagine being the officer who got to put the cuffs on and say to a sobbing Bono: "You've got to get yourself together.
    You've got stuck in these manacles and now you can't get out of them."
     
  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    When there were reports that Mueller subpoenaed Deutsche Bank last year (and Trump supposedly wanted to fire him and was talked out of it), there were stories suggesting that Mueller wanted to know if Deutsche Bank had sold Trump's loans to VEB or Gazprombank another Russian Bank.

    It would be amazing if that was the case. For one thing, those banks are all under sanctions. For another, it presents the wild prospect that Putin has potentially bribed Trump by forgiving $400 billion in loans.

    I doubt it is that neat and clean, in terms of its dirtiness. But it is certainly possible.
     
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Laura Loomer has handcuffed herself to Twitter's office door in NYC demanding to be reinstated and get her verified checkmark back.

    Security guard just took down a big poster she had taped to the door and she said "They're removing my tweets in real life! This is a human rights issue!"
     
  10. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  11. Machine Head

    Machine Head Well-Known Member

    Ken Starr was on Jeffrey Epstein's legal team?

    Huh.

    Wherever this case leads, I hope they follow it.

    Acosta news .. he wasn't getting the AG gig, but now any gig where he has to go through confirmation, yeah, no.

    Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is out of the running to be President Donald Trump’s attorney general following a Miami Herald report that he oversaw a sweetheart deal for a wealthy financier accused of raping teenage girls and running a sex-trafficking ring, according to two people close to the president.

    The investigation, published Wednesday, was “not helpful” to Acosta, who was a federal prosecutor in Florida before coming to Washington, the two advisers said.

    Acosta, though, was never under serious consideration to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom Trump fired earlier this month. ‘It was never going to be him,” one said.

    Trump labor secretary out of running for attorney general after Miami Herald report
     
  12. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Did you notice the question mark on that sentence in bold? Do you understand what that means? I was giving you the opportunity to clarify.

    Now that you have, I will once again point to the inconsistency within your point. The government already limits what guns you can buy. That type of regulation already exists. Adding another weapon to the banned list does not change the fundamental issue that you are complaining about, which is the government's right to regulate what type of weapon an individual citizen can own.

    Now if you want to say the current regulation is fine, but they can't add anything new, I guess that makes some sense. In that case, you seem to be accepting that existing law trumps your right to own whatever gun you want to own. Of course, that argument then applies in other areas, such as abortion. How would it be different from someone who is pro choice arguing that they are willing to accept current regulation of abortions, but against adding any further regulation? It is exactly the same argument you seem to be applying to gun regulations.

    Regarding the rest of your post, I do love it when someone like you thinks they have a gotcha moment while clearly misunderstanding the post to which he or she is responding. It really does make you look like even more of an ass than usual.
     
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