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No
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15.12.2020, 15:23
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Defeat, yes, crushing, hardly.
Tom | | | | | It's a landslide victory, Tom, just ask the Donald! Plus, Joe got more votes in the Electoral College than Trump, so it's even landslidier!
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15.12.2020, 15:27
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | What does that say about constantly posting in the wrong thread?
I didn’t read any of it. | | | | | it's all that copium.. can't keep their posting straight.
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President?
Turns out the cyberattack under Donnie's watch was far more widespread and serious than so far admitted | Quote: |  | | | Scope of Russian Hack Becomes Clear: Multiple U.S. Agencies Were Hit
The Pentagon, intelligence agencies, nuclear labs and Fortune 500 companies use software that was found to have been compromised by Russian hackers. The sweep of stolen data is still being assessed.
About 18,000 private and government users downloaded a Russian tainted software update — a Trojan horse of sorts — that gave its hackers a foothold into victims’ systems.
The National Security Agency (NSA) — the premier U.S. intelligence organization that both hacks into foreign networks and defends national security agencies from attacks — apparently did not know of the breach in the network-monitoring software made by SolarWinds until it was notified last week by a private company FireEye.
The N.S.A. itself uses SolarWinds software. | | | | | | The following 2 users would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
15.12.2020, 20:03
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | This is the first election defeat of Putin’s United Russia in 19 years | This user would like to thank leonie for this useful post: | | 
15.12.2020, 20:59
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President?
Because of Trump I have learned so much about the election process that I never really realized about it. If anything he has been a great teacher for America. Believe that more Americans now know more about voting then ever before.
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16.12.2020, 17:16
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Just LOL! | Quote: |  | | | Neighbors stress Trump can't live at Mar-a-Lago after leaving White House
Several of President Trump’s neighbors in Palm Beach, Fla., are stressing that he is legally barred from taking up primary residence at his Mar-a-Lago resort after leaving the White House.
In the letter to Palm Beach officials obtained by The Washington Post, the residents cited an agreement Trump signed in 1993 to convert the facility to a private club, which they said bars him from using it as a primary residence. The agreement bars members from spending more than 21 days per year there or for more than seven days straight.
They asked the town to formally advise the president he cannot make the club his permanent residence and calls on local officials to “avoid an embarrassing situation” after he leaves the White House. | | | | | | The following 2 users would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
16.12.2020, 17:38
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For those people who ask why we in Switzerland post about Trump; it is not funny anymore | Quote: |  | | | U.S. Treasury labels Switzerland, Vietnam as currency manipulators | | | | | Lame Donald Duck spreading as much damage as possible.
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16.12.2020, 22:19
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Because of Trump I have learned so much about the election process that I never really realized about it. If anything he has been a great teacher for America. Believe that more Americans now know more about voting then ever before. | | | | | In the same way, someone who stabs you helps you to learn surgery.
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16.12.2020, 22:50
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | landslidier! | | | | | Great word!
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16.12.2020, 22:52
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | For those people who ask why we in Switzerland post about Trump; it is not funny anymore
Lame Donald Duck spreading as much damage as possible. | | | | | But Switzerland IS a currency manipulator. Much effort, and money, is spent on keeping the value of the franc low. Stated Government policy.
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16.12.2020, 23:03
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | But Switzerland IS a currency manipulation. Much effort, and money, is spent on keeping the value of the franc low. Stated Government policy. | | | | | The US can initiate actions against countries it has labeled "currency manipulator" if no progress is observed one year after engaging in discussions with the country.
These actions include prohibiting new financing toward development projects; prohibiting federal government procurement of goods and services from the country; instructing the IMF to conduct surveillance on exchange-rate policies; and renegotiating trade agreements.
While these are all punitive in nature, they cannot inflict palpable pain in the short term.
The question is "why now" or "what changed".
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | But Switzerland IS a currency manipulation. Much effort, and money, is spent on keeping the value of the franc low. Stated Government policy. | | | | | They haven't done a very good job, then, from the USD standpoint. I don't quite see what the US has to complain about with respect to the CHF. Maybe they're upset that the USD hasn't sunk as far as it possibly could against the CHF. | 
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | I would be surprised if MSM is that gentle going forward. Guess we have to wait and see. | | | | | The non-reporting on the news about Hunter's laptop gives clear hints, after all the New York Post is a well-known journal. The fact that FB flagged links tot he NYP article while Twitter banned them altogether makes it quite clear: they would never react the same way towards a story on Trump, there were more than enough opportunities before and after.
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17.12.2020, 02:28
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | The non-reporting on the news about Hunter's laptop gives clear hints, after all the New York Post is a well-known journal. The fact that FB flagged links tot he NYP article while Twitter banned them altogether makes it quite clear: they would never react the same way towards a story on Trump, there were more than enough opportunities before and after. | | | | | The National Enquirer is a well-known journal, too. | 
17.12.2020, 02:35
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | The National Enquirer is a well-known journal, too.  | | | | | Same as CNN.
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Same as CNN. | | | | | No, CNN is not a journal. It's a television news network.
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | No, CNN is not a journal. It's a television news network. | | | | | Not what I was referring to. Not that it matters either way, it's neither about CNN nor the Enquirer.
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Not what I was referring to. Not that it matters either way, it's neither about CNN nor the Enquirer. | | | | | My point is that the New York Post is a politically right-wing rag with a poor reputation for biased reporting and "viewpoint" stories. It is unsurprising that they would embellish and invent a story about Hunter Biden -- one that has been emphatically disproven by multiple independent journalists.
In the same way, CNN is moderately left-leaning, with mixed reliability in its reporting and unlikely to gleefully reprint stories made up by the conservative Post.
The National Enquirer is just a steaming pile of garbage.
Any of these three could print something and millions would automatically swallow and believe the story.
This chart might help you see what I'm getting at. It's two years old, so a little out of date, but most of the news outfits listed on it are still in about the same position on the chart.
If you're interested, you can see the latest version of the chart (and an interactive version, too) here.
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | My point is that the New York Post is a politically right-wing rag with a poor reputation for biased reporting and "viewpoint" stories. It is unsurprising that they would embellish and invent a story about Hunter Biden -- one that has been emphatically disproven by multiple independent journalists.
In the same way, CNN is moderately left-leaning, with mixed reliability in its reporting and unlikely to gleefully reprint stories made up by the conservative Post.
The National Enquirer is just a steaming pile of garbage.
Any of these three could print something and millions would automatically swallow and believe the story.
This chart might help you see what I'm getting at. It's two years old, so a little out of date, but most of the news outfits listed on it are still in about the same position on the chart. Attachment 140929
If you're interested, you can see the latest version of the chart (and an interactive version, too) here. | | | | | Sorry but CNN "moderately left-wing"??! Now that is quite the stretch and too funny
Think your link is out of date!
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