Hit it to experience the joy

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choad wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

It's also how you get your Federal witnesses to testify.  If it's a Federal investigation, usually every fucking body is guilty.

My grandfather and my old man both got dragged before such proceedings and I thought at the time, 'hah, those fucksticks'll finally get their comeuppance', but nope, both walked. Got paid for their trouble, too.

Even people who aren't cynical old fucks like me can see who they're really going after.  You keep catching the little fishes until you finally get the big fish.

The Trump Team remains unclear on the concept

And now for the post which best exemplifies the thread title: Trump ranked dead last in a recent survey of presidential greatness:

STORY: http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat … on-overall

RESULTS: https://sps.boisestate.edu/politicalsci … atness.pdf

No real surprise here but Trump's stance and the perception that he sympathized with those espousing white supremacy has enabled the need to Make America Hate Again.

Completely unclear on the concept.



Many if not most of these shooters have proven to be suicidal.  So they attack one classroom - kill the armed teacher first and then mow down 30 students.  Stupid idea from a stupid group of people - you can't deter "sicko's" you idiot.

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Smudge wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Completely unclear on the concept.

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Many if not most of these shooters have proven to be suicidal.  So they attack one classroom - kill the armed teacher first and then mow down 30 students.  Stupid idea from a stupid group of people - you can't deter "sicko's" you idiot.

Not to mention if you harden one target sufficiently, they will simply switch targets. Next it will be a crowded supermarket, or a swimming pool full of children on a hot summer day. Note the Las Vegas shooter; the world is one endless target.

If more guns made us safer we would have LESS gun death, not more. The numbers don't lie.

Also people who have not been trained to kill have a hard time shooting someone.  How many home invasions started out as grab and runs and ended up as homicides when the home owner couldn't close the deal but the burglar(s) could?

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I blame the Post Civil War / WWI eras and beyond.  You could own any weapon made during the Civil War.  Even a cannon or a Gatling gun.

Identifying Trump:  “Mussolini did not have a philosophy,” Umberto Eco once wrote. “He had only rhetoric.”

President Bone Spur finds his courage, and a grateful nation breathes a sigh of relief.

Trump says he would have run into Florida school without a weapon



President Donald Trump said Monday that he would have charged into a Florida school during the shooting there earlier this month even if he were unarmed.

"I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon," Trump told governors meeting at the White House to discuss school safety...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald … ol-n851266

(I would feel safer being protected by the gal who does Ivanka's nails.)

Really well said, Emm.  What Trumps need to do, however, he will never do.

Baywolfe wrote:

At this point, who does he think he's talking to?  Besides Fox News.

Good question; at this point he's tied the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, and the trend is not his friend.

Amateur hour at it's very best

Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience

Baywolfe wrote:

Just another milestone on America losing it's global position in Soft Power.  As State Department jobs are left unfilled or filled with Trump cronies, you can expect the downward trend to continue.  The 18 month window is rapidly closing on the Trump Presidency as the Midterms loom and he'll soon be running for President again.  One wonders why he'd even want to be President of the dumpster fire that awaits in 2021.

His ego won't let him not run and unless the Democrats come up with a half-decent opponent he'll win.

Smudge wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Just another milestone on America losing it's global position in Soft Power.  As State Department jobs are left unfilled or filled with Trump cronies, you can expect the downward trend to continue.  The 18 month window is rapidly closing on the Trump Presidency as the Midterms loom and he'll soon be running for President again.  One wonders why he'd even want to be President of the dumpster fire that awaits in 2021.

His ego won't let him not run and unless the Democrats come up with a half-decent opponent he'll win.

Yes to both, but I still think he'll be gone before then.

Hope so.  Mike Pence is an evil, corrupt twit but at least he's a politician.  I'm sure he can summon enough ability to at least act Presidential.

Smudge wrote:

I realize the president doesn't do irony (probably because he can't bribe it, bully it or hump it), but still...

Teacher In Custody After Firing Gun Inside Georgia High School, Police Say

The incident came days after President Donald Trump suggested arming teachers to prevent school shootings.

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A Georgia high school teacher is in custody after authorities say he barricaded himself inside an empty classroom and fired a handgun while students stood outside the door...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/te … 872bb0b648

Irony has it's own rules...

This is so much fun again....

Only a few “Trump originals” remain working in the White House, including Kushner; Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser; and Dan Scavino, a golf caddie turned social media director. First lady Melania Trump is an infrequent presence during the day, and one of the president’s closest friends in the White House, longtime former bodyguard Keith Schiller, left his job as director of Oval Office operations last fall.

Emmeran wrote:

I'm really enjoying this...

Mr. Magoo

I enjoy watching that weasel Sessions getting skewered and roasted as much as I did when Trump went after Mitch McConnell.  I am distressed, however, that nobody seems to think it's a problem that our Little Lord Fauntleroy President acts exactly like what he is, a spoiled child.  Trump has used the presidency as a bully pulpit in the absolute worst way.  Never to the advantage of America in general just to feed his own bloated ego.

Emmeran wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

I enjoy watching that weasel Sessions getting skewered and roasted as much as I did when Trump went after Mitch McConnell.  I am distressed, however, that nobody seems to think it's a problem that our Little Lord Fauntleroy President acts exactly like what he is, a spoiled child.  Trump has used the presidency as a bully pulpit in the absolute worst way.  Never to the advantage of America in general just to feed his own bloated ego.

Yeah but the other choice was Hillary Clinton.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

..sure, but at least ya got a two'fer......who's got frumperdinkler's back ?

Hillary was much stronger than either of you suggest (my opinion only, of course) but she was (is) a god-awful lousy salesperson, who was so bad at selling her own actually-quite-remarkable-skill-set, that she allowed a bunch of bastards with an agenda to define her instead. You think those thousands of hours of programming about Benghazi didn't get in and change your opinions of her? You're wrong. The truth is that trashing someone works, even when we know it's going on, and even when we think we're immune (and too smart) to be influenced by such things.

I remember comments like "She's possibly the best qualified person to ever run for president." and the weren't just blowing smoke when they said it. She was an extremely smart, well qualified and accomplished politician, whose primary problem was the fact that she was a terrible campaigner.

Trump was a naturally talented campaigner; you happier with him?

But another thing about Hillary; since she was the heir apparent after losing narrowly to Obama, the opposition had eight years to do character assassination and run oppo research before they had to face her, and they made good use of their time and advance warning. Lesson; don't let them see you coming. In fact; that was one of Obama's strong suits. By the time they figured out who Obama was and how to counter him, he was already running the country.

Baywolfe wrote:

I voted for her as the lesser of two evils.

And this makes her unique? It strikes me that almost all elections are between two people of somewhat questionable character.

With the exception of Obama (whom I genuinely liked) every presidential vote i have ever cast has been for the lessor of two evils. Is it different for you?

I didn't vote for either. I did a write in.  I could not pull the lever for Hillary... A client who was a Bernie delegate told me about the convention, and it so infuriated me, I decided not to support the Dems.  I enjoyed Trump fucking with the GOP candidates in the debate, such great theatre. 

I have been an independent for years, but lean far, far left past the two rightist parties in this country.  Hell, I could hardly support Labour back when.

I yearn for a Parliamentary System with multiple parties, how much more fun would that be with having to build coalitions, etc.  Well, not in this lifetime.

Paying your debts

Emmeran wrote:

Paying your debts

Insider trading?  I'd love to see Carl do a little white collar country club jail time.

The man who brought down FIFA