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01.08.2017, 16:34
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | We have an ongoing contest in the office: who's next?
We crossed out the ones who have already been axed, and anyone who wants to participate pays $2 and picks the name of the next person to be axed. He/she who wins gets the goodie pot. Then we restart.
Gotta create your own entertainment.  | | | | | Reminds me of Hunger Games.
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01.08.2017, 16:54
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Reminds me of Hunger Games. | | | | | Never seen the movie(s) nor read the book(s) - are they good?
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01.08.2017, 21:51
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President?
Looks like Scaramucci managed to ruin his entire life within 10 days. I've not witnessed anything like that ever. And the way he did it he must have been flying high on a drug we don't know, 'cause he obviously has no one else to blame for it - and nobody can be so dumb and careless when sober? Is there something in the air at white-house? They should check the technical installations there.
Apparently he wrote a book "Hopping over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success", he better rereads it now.
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01.08.2017, 22:26
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President?
probably fed LSD! | Quote: | |  | | | Looks like Scaramucci managed to ruin his entire life within 10 days. I've not witnessed anything like that ever. And the way he did it he must have been flying high on a drug we don't know, 'cause he obviously has no one else to blame for it - and nobody can be so dumb and careless when sober? Is there something in the air at white-house? They should check the technical installations there.
Apparently he wrote a book "Hopping over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success", he better rereads it now. | | | | | | This user would like to thank omtatsat for this useful post: | | 
02.08.2017, 00:21
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Looks like Scaramucci managed to ruin his entire life within 10 days. I've not witnessed anything like that ever. And the way he did it he must have been flying high on a drug we don't know, 'cause he obviously has no one else to blame for it - and nobody can be so dumb and careless when sober? Is there something in the air at white-house? They should check the technical installations there.
Apparently he wrote a book "Hopping over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success", he better rereads it now. | | | | | Lost his job, wife and missed the birth of his child; no rational explanation!
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | probably fed LSD! | | | | | "I'm just microdosing, I swear." | 
02.08.2017, 11:14
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Lost his job, wife and missed the birth of his child; no rational explanation! | | | | | And sold his business to allow him to take up the role, all thanks to the most lethal drug known to mankind.... Power.
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02.08.2017, 11:16
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Lost his job, wife and missed the birth of his child; no rational explanation! | | | | | No problem, he'll get another job, wife and child... | This user would like to thank greenmount for this useful post: | | 
02.08.2017, 11:21
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Looks like Scaramucci managed to ruin his entire life within 10 days. I've not witnessed anything like that ever. And the way he did it he must have been flying high on a drug we don't know, 'cause he obviously has no one else to blame for it - and nobody can be so dumb and careless when sober? Is there something in the air at white-house? They should check the technical installations there.
Apparently he wrote a book "Hopping over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success", he better rereads it now. | | | | | Wait for his next books:
Fear and loathing in DC
or
The Yes Men Fix the Whithouse
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02.08.2017, 11:43
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? North Korea: US not seeking regime change, says Rex Tillerson (trying to mop up after Trump?) "Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that Mr Trump told him that there would be a military conflict between the two countries if Pyongyang continued with its aim to develop a missile programme with the US in its range... Mr Graham added: "If there's going to be a war... it will be over there. If thousands die, they're going to die over there. They're not going to die here. And he [Trump] has told me that to my face.""
9 terrifying things Donald Trump has publicly said about nuclear weapons
Trump is a scary clown. Who will he do next? Start a war to distract from domestic problems? He says he can handle North Korea but he can't even handle the White House. The NK regime must see this and must be watching everything he says and tweets. What if they overreact?
CNN was interviewing an academic last night ( article) who had correctly predicted Trump's win, and many other presidential wins, and who is also predicting that Trump will be impeached, but perhaps not for a long while yet. He said that the Republican party was unlikely to go for that until it felt that its survival was at stake. God knows what Trump might do in the meantime.
This was also covered by CNN on Monday, happening just before the press conference announcing the latest shake-up in the White House: Trump awards Medal of Honor to Army medic 48 years later What a stark contrast. Someone who had shown extreme bravery having to stand and listen to and then receive a medal from someone whose college attendance and " temporary bad feet" meant that he was not drafted. And 48 years later? Why did they wait so long and why on that day? Perhaps the award ceremony was mainly an attempt to distract from the chaos in the White House. | This user would like to thank Reb77Br for this useful post: | | 
02.08.2017, 12:01
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Now it seems that Donald Trump dictated his son's statement about his meeting with the Russian lawyer (who had represented the FSB (source)) also attended by a former Soviet spy (source). Trump 'dictated' son's statement on Russian lawyer meeting
If Trump Senior had not been informed about this meeting, as Trump Junior claimed, why would he dictate the statement? But perhaps it's not significant other than to show that Trump Senior wanted to take matters in hand. | | | | | Now apparently confirmed by the White House! | Quote: |  | | | Trump 'weighed in' on son's statement about Russia meeting, White House says | | | | | Source
Meanwhile Trump's lawyer demonstrates he has even less respect for the truth than his Master! | Quote: |  | | | "I wasn't involved in the statement drafting at all, nor was the President.
I'm assuming that was between Mr. Donald Trump Jr., between Don Jr. and his lawyer.
I'm sure his lawyer was involved, that's how you do it,"Sekulow said. "So to put this on the President, I think is absolutely incorrect." | | | | | Source
So now we know how much credibility to give future statements by Sekulow about Trump.?
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02.08.2017, 12:30
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Meanwhile Trump's lawyer demonstrates he has even less respect for the truth than his Master! Source
So now we know how much credibility to give future statements by Sekulow about Trump.? | | | | | "then Trump personally decided to have the statement say Trump Jr. had met with the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to discuss adoption of Russian children by people in the US" Trump also said that his extended chat with Vladimir Putin at that dinner had been about that subject. "If that seems a strange topic for a post-meal chat it helps to understand that, when it comes to US-Russia relations, a conversation about adoption isn't really about adoption. It's about sanctions." Why did Putin talk to Trump about 'adoption'?
Wonder if Trump has signed that sanctions bill yet.
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02.08.2017, 18:52
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | The House and Senate reached a deal Saturday to slap Russia with fresh sanctions and give Congress new veto power to block any easing of those sanctions (by Trump) -- an agreement that could send a new bill to President Donald Trump's desk before the end of the month.
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Doubt Trump will be happy to have his options limited by this  | | | | | | Quote: | |  | | | He'll likely refuse to sign it.  | | | | | Trump did sign the Bill which not only increases Russian sanctions but severely limits Trump's ability to remove/reduce the sanction.
Not that Trump had much choice; the House overwhelmingly backed the bill, 419-3, and the Senate rapidly followed their lead on a 98-2 vote. Those overwhelming margins guaranteed that Congress would be able to veto any attempt by Trump to reject the measure.
Astonishing display of lack of trust in their own President Source | This user would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
02.08.2017, 19:17
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President?
is that a handshake? Or does Trump want to kiss Putin's hand?
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02.08.2017, 20:02
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | is that a handshake? Or does Trump want to kiss Putin's hand? | | | | | To be honest, I studied that strange gesture too when I first saw the photo.
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02.08.2017, 20:09
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02.08.2017, 20:37
| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | To be honest, I studied that strange gesture too when I first saw the photo. | | | | | It's very much an alpha domination thing. I work with people who get massively p*ssed off if someone does what Putin did (i.e. turn hands so you are on top / dominant), i've seen stand up arguments because of it.
It's a power-play, and surprise, surprise, Putin came out top again.
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02.08.2017, 20:38
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | I don't see a problem with this. Or is it just an old (dead) European tradition to always greet the lady first and then the gentleman?
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02.08.2017, 20:49
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yes i agree. the joke was on trump | Quote: | |  | | | I don't see a problem with this. Or is it just an old (dead) European tradition to always greet the lady first and then the gentleman? | | | | | | This user would like to thank omtatsat for this useful post: | | 
02.08.2017, 21:07
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: |  | | | Congress is starting to treat President Trump as an interested – if not totally informed – bystander, and not the leader of a legislative agenda.
Let Obamacare fail?
Change the Senate rules?
Bipartisanship has actually broken out on health care, with efforts brewing to shore up the individual insurance market.
On Russia, Trump is reluctantly set to sign a sanctions bill his Secretary of State says he and the president are not "very happy about," forced by overwhelming numbers in Congress. | | | | | Source
Edit; - also Trump telling the Senate not to do anything else now other than healthcare has been totally ignored
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