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Re: Will Trump be a Good President?

<<a floating bag of air>> that's a great description. For both the balloon and the original.

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She didn't touch them, they touched her. Three female undercover detectives went to the show and one asked if she could put her face in Cliffords chest and Clifford said yes.


<pause for clutching pearls> will no one think of the hilary emails??!?
I mean "the children"
They sent FEMALE under cover agents after her? ROFLMAO, it gets better and better.
What's the idea behind this?! See, she is homosexual, it is not possible Trump had an affair with her?

Shouldn't that be in the terrible-jokes-thread?
Guess not anymore - too real these days.
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Old 13.07.2018, 18:09
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Sums up most of the protestors pretty nicely:

"A white middle class crowd, who haven’t a clue what they’re there for, other than to virtue signal"
Mirror, Mirror on the wall who is the best white middle class protester.
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Old 13.07.2018, 18:41
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Re: Will Trump be a Good President?

Hot off the Press!

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Special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers in the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the long-awaited indictment Friday at a press conference in Washington, D.C.

"The indictment charges 12 Russian military officers by name"
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So will Trump and the GOP applaud this or claim it is part of the "Witch Hunt".
Puts Trump in an interesting position to support the FBI or not and the timing just before the Putin meeting!

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Re: Will Trump be a Good President?

That dress that Melania was wearing when she was walking up to meet the queen really accentuated her arse cheeks.
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Old 13.07.2018, 20:19
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Hot off the Press!

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So will Trump and the GOP applaud this or claim it is part of the "Witch Hunt".
Puts Trump in an interesting position to support the FBI or not and the timing just before the Putin meeting!

I am already cooking the popcorn
Based on the information in the indictment, Russian hackers apparently made their first attempt to breach 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private emails around the same time that then-candidate Donald Trump publicly called on Russia to recover the missing emails from her private server.

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Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Mark Warner said President Trump should not do a one-on-one meeting with President Putin. He said if they wouldn't make election security a priority, it should be scrapped.

Republican Senator Ben Sasse just reacted to the indictments and called on "all patriotic Americans" to acknowledge that the 2016 hacking effort was, in fact, a Russian government-sanctioned attack on America.

Hillary Clinton's former campaign chairman John Podesta, said "I think it's an important step and shows that at the heart of the Mueller investigation is a set of serious questions, at the heart of it is criminal activity that occurred by the Russian government,"

There are some tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists who claim the FBI had these indictments prepared for some time and were waiting for the best opportunity to embarrass Trump.
Must confess I am one of them
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That dress that Melania was wearing when she was walking up to meet the queen really accentuated her arse cheeks.
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No foto!
AS she walks up to shake the queens handhttps://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/inter...mp-124690.html
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Super but Trump wins! His anterior view is at least four times larger
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... unless 46 weren't eligible.
Agency officials said the other 46 couldn’t be reunited with their parents for logistical reasons, including deportations of some parents.

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Whatever that means?
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Agency officials said the other 46 couldn’t be reunited with their parents for logistical reasons, including deportations of some parents.

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Whatever that means?
They had deported the parents and kept the children!!!
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Super but Trump wins! His anterior view is at least four times larger
Quality counts not quantity!
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Am I the only one interested in what she actually did? How does a porn star touch three undercover detectives in "a non-sexual way" in a strip club?
Shaking hands
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Old 13.07.2018, 22:45
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Cannut, you made me chuckle so much I cannot merge your gems.

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Seems like only Bluewin is running the uncensored versionOf course without false teeth marks. I am sure Bluewin will take this video down soon. So bog in while the potatoes are still hot

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Re: Will Trump be a Good President?

Trump's first comment on the Russian army indictments

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The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration. Why didn’t they do something about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?
Actually Obama issued sanctions against Russia for the meddling when the U.S. intelligence community informed him prior to the 2016 election. He also expelled 35 Russian diplomats from the U.S. and ordered two Russian compounds to be closed.

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Sad Trump could not say Mueller has done the country a great service, and deserves the nation's unqualified support, without regard to party or politics,
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Fintan O'Toole wrote this in The Irish Times:

“To grasp what is going on in the world right now, we need to reflect on two things. One is that we are in a phase of trial runs. The other is that what is being trialled is fascism – a word that should be used carefully but not shirked when it is so clearly on the horizon. Forget “post-fascist” – what we are living with is pre-fascism.

It is easy to dismiss Donald Trump as an ignoramus, not least because he is. But he has an acute understanding of one thing: test marketing. He created himself in the gossip pages of the New York tabloids, where celebrity is manufactured by planting outrageous stories that you can later confirm or deny depending on how they go down. And he recreated himself in reality TV where the storylines can be adjusted according to the ratings. Put something out there, pull it back, adjust, go again.

Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.
One of the basic tools of fascism is the rigging of elections – we’ve seen that trialled in the election of Trump, in the Brexit referendum and (less successfully) in the French presidential elections. Another is the generation of tribal identities, the division of society into mutually exclusive polarities.

Fascism does not need a majority – it typically comes to power with about forty percent support and then uses control and intimidation to consolidate that power. So it doesn’t matter if most people hate you, as long as your forty percent is fanatically committed. That’s been tested out too.

And fascism of course needs a propaganda machine so effective that it creates for its followers a universe of “alternative facts” impervious to unwanted realities. Again, the testing for this is very far advanced.
But when you’ve done all this, there is a crucial next step, usually the trickiest of all. You have to undermine moral boundaries, inure people to the acceptance of acts of extreme cruelty. Like hounds, people have to be blooded. They have to be given the taste for savagery.

Fascism does this by building up the sense of threat from a despised out-group. This allows the members of that group to be dehumanised. Once that has been achieved, you can gradually up the ante, working through the stages from breaking windows to extermination.

People have to be given the taste for savagery. Fascism does this by building up the sense of threat from a despised out-group.

It is this next step that is being test-marketed now. It is being done in Italy by the far-right leader and minister for the interior Matteo Salvini. How would it go down if we turn away boatloads of refugees? Let’s do a screening of the rough-cut of registering all the Roma and see what buttons the audience will press. And it has been trialled by Trump: let’s see how my fans feel about crying babies in cages. I wonder how it will go down with Rupert Murdoch.

To see, as most commentary has done, the deliberate traumatisation of migrant children as a “mistake” by Trump is culpable naivety. It is a trial run – and the trial has been a huge success. Trump’s claim last week that immigrants “infest” the US is a test-marketing of whether his fans are ready for the next step-up in language, which is of course “vermin”.

And the generation of images of toddlers being dragged from their parents is a test of whether those words can be turned into sounds and pictures. It was always an experiment – it ended (but only in part) because the results were in.

And the results are quite satisfactory. There is good news on two fronts. First, Rupert Murdoch is happy with it – his Fox News mouthpieces outdid themselves in barbaric crassness: making animal noises at the mention of a Down syndrome child, describing crying children as actors. They went the whole swinish hog: even the brown babies are liars. Those sobs of anguish are typical of the manipulative behaviour of the strangers coming to infest us – should we not fear a race whose very infants can be so devious?

Second, the hardcore fans loved it: Fifty-eight percent of Republicans are in favour of this brutality. Trump’s overall approval ratings are up to 42.5 per cent.
This is greatly encouraging for the pre-fascist agenda. The blooding process has begun within the democratic world. The muscles that the propaganda machines need for defending the indefensible are being toned up. Millions and millions of Europeans and Americans are learning to think the unthinkable.

So what if those black people drown in the sea? So what if those brown toddlers are scarred for life? They have already, in their minds, crossed the boundaries of morality. They are, like Macbeth, “yet but young in deed”. But the tests will be refined, the results analysed, the methods perfected, the messages sharpened. And then the deeds can follow."

Somehow I agree with this piece of writing, and I think it’s food for thought as so many people seem to be in denial about this topic, mostly because they have an outdated view of how fascism works.
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After spending yesterday morning watching lengthy live interviews with Bannon and Farage, it made me think of the hell dogs...guardians of the gate before Yog-Sothoth enters. After a couple of hours immersed in that stench, it's funny how you get the urge to scrub yourself down with a wire brush and dettol

Highlight of the day was watching Suzanna Reid score numerous slam dunks over Bannon. She really made him look a pathetic specimen.
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....Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t the FBI take possession of it? Deep State?

11:57 AM - 14 Jul 2018
"The DNC coordinated with the FBI and federal intelligence agencies and provided everything they requested, including copies of DNC servers," DNC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said. She added that the copy contains the same information as the physical server.

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I suppose Trump keeps saying this because he does not understand how servers work?
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