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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. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Inky_Wretch, Apr 4, 2017
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  2. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

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    DanielSimpsonDay, Apr 4, 2017
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  3. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    In a way, Trump represents a culmination of trends that have been years in the making.

    Conservative talk radio hosts have long blasted federal judges as “activists” and regulators as meddlers in the economy, while advancing the myth of rampant election fraud. And gridlock in Washington has led previous presidents to try new ways to circumvent the checks on their power — witness President George W. Bush’s use of signing statements to invalidate parts of bills Congress passed, and President Obama’s aggressive use of executive orders when lawmakers balked at his proposals.

    What’s uniquely threatening about Trump’s approach, though, is how many fronts he’s opened in this struggle for power and the vehemence with which he seeks to undermine the institutions that don’t go along.

    It’s one thing to complain about a judicial decision or to argue for less regulation, but to the extent that Trump weakens public trust in essential institutions like the courts and the media, he undermines faith in democracy and in the system and processes that make it work.
     
    Riptide, Apr 4, 2017
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  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Their default response to everything is "let's blame it on the n*****er."

    Trump's entire administration shot through with treason?

    "Let's blame it on the n****er."

    Rice is a double bonus scapegoat for being female too.

    Assad using chemical weapons in Syria?

    "Let's blame it on the n***er."

    Healthcare?

    "Let's ..." You know.
     
    Starman, Apr 4, 2017
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  5. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    I'm not concerned with that. I'm tired of you using it as distraction and screaming about Democrats in general or the Clintons in particular as a way to dodge discussions about the problems in the Trump administration. "But look at Clinton!" hasn't been good enough since election night, yet you still keep trotting it out there.
     
    outofplace, Apr 4, 2017
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  6. cisforkoke

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    cisforkoke, Apr 4, 2017
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  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Jeffrey Lacker resigned as Richmond Fed president earlier today.

    It relates to the 2012 thing where they were leaking information about QE3 to Medley, a hedge fund advisory firm. ... which blasted the details of the upcoming bond buying before it went public, giving their subscribers a heads up that there was free money for the taking -- so they could front run the idiots on the Fed's trading desk (why we have a monetary authority with a trading desk to price fix our markets is incredible to me).

    There is more here than he is admitting to. ... his statement made it sound like he wasn't the source, but he confirmed the details somehow to someone on the phone.

    As an aside, this is why those shitheads shouldn't have their corrupt, grubby paws all over our debt markets, the way their power morphed into them being able to price fix our markets. It's bad enough that they used a scheme worthy of Bernie Madoff to prop up asset prices -- creating an upcoming day of reckoning because of the massive balance sheet they created in the process. It's even worse because they were corruptly helping their cronies make money on it by letting them know their buying was coming before everyone else was filled in.

    It's a giant ball of corruption. ... and so not understood by the average person, who is debating stupid meaningless things that have much less impact on their lives than the mess of our economy goons like Lacker foisted on us. On top of it. ... we got the very predictable corruption that comes with the ridiculous powers they have been allowed to take. And this story will somehow get very little play.
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 4, 2017
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  8. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    MisterCreosote, Apr 4, 2017
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  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I can't wait until she asks for immunity in exchange for her testimony.

     
    YankeeFan, Apr 4, 2017
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  10. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

     
    TheSportsPredictor, Apr 4, 2017
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  11. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Hmmm ... YF, are your ears burning?

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    Riptide, Apr 4, 2017
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  12. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    The Trump trolls and bots started ramping up on Twitter last night using the Susan Rice story to deflect the latest batch of bad news for Trump. YF is dutifully following their lead.

    What do we like to say here? It's a "nothing burger."

    And it doesn't change the fact Trump and his team are being investigated by three different bodies over possible collision with a foreign government in an effort tamper with 2016 election.

    But by all means, whine away. The investigations aren't going away.
     
    Deskgrunt50, Apr 4, 2017
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