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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. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Nope. It was, however, an enormous amount of compensation/hours billed for a report that had little in the way of credible, actionable evidence. He embarrassed himself.
     
    cranberry, May 22, 2017
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  2. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Can't be much clearer. Would have felt slimy voting for Cruz, but I considered Trump a joke from the start.

    Do you believe many of us had a moment of "Trump isn't good, but he's better than Candidate X"? Uh-uh.
     
    Last edited: May 22, 2017
    jr/shotglass, May 22, 2017
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  3. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    So Smith is asked to conduct task X for Y dollars. He conducts task X, receives Y dollars, and somehow embarrassed himself because he didn't also do Z?
     
    doctorquant, May 22, 2017
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  4. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Yeah. They made a political statement. Sorry if it was rude. Funny how the GOP is suddenly the party of prim and proper.
     
    Ace, May 22, 2017
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  5. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    That's pretty rude, by the way. You seem to be against that sort of thing so I wanted you to know.
     
    Ace, May 22, 2017
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  6. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Well the important thing is that the other side is guilty of something that isn't at all the same thing but kinda sorta feels similar.
     
    RickStain, May 22, 2017
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  7. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Of course, by saying that (in a live press conference photo op, mind you), Trump confirmed that the intel he passed along did come from Israel - something no U.S. official had admitted previously. With it unconfirmed, there was at least some small shred of safety left for the undercover Mossad agent embedded with ISIS who recovered the intel. So Trump's smug, useless remark probably signed the death warrant for an ally's intel asset.

    EDIT: It wasn't a formal press conference - it was a photo op. Reporters shouted questions at Trump and he went back and answered (with Bibi there). He took it upon himself to make the statement, which makes it even worse, IMHO. Just a cascading, awful series of unforced errors.
     
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    Big Circus, May 22, 2017
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  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    He was commissioned to investigate the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

    Your evidence of him "embarrassing himself" is that he didn't catch anyone with a syringe sticking out of their ass (actionable evidence!). ... and he was paid well to do to the investigation. In your estimation, he embarrassed himself just by taking on the task.

    I thought what was in his report was highly credible, even if the scope was probably very limited by the evidence he was actually able to gather. And that is not just in terms of the evidence he was able to gather with regard to some specific players, but including his pointing out that since they had started testing, HGH had become the drug of choice because it was undetectable.
     
    The Big Ragu, May 22, 2017
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  9. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    LOL ... sure.
     
    doctorquant, May 22, 2017
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  10. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    At least Mitchell didn't frame Ryan Braun, as far as we can tell.
     
    JohnHammond, May 22, 2017
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  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    dear god

    His entire political existence is based upon unapologetic, unrepentant, undisguised, utterly triumphant racism.

    the end.
     
    Starman, May 22, 2017
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  12. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Trump was a Democrat because that's the label you used in NYC in the late 70s and 80s if you wanted to be a big swinging dick and get deals done. You could freelance a lot of your actual beliefs, but the label mattered. If he had set out to build his empire in Orange County, Calif., during the same time, he'd have been Republican for the same reasons.
     
    dixiehack, May 22, 2017
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