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Old 02-16-2018, 10:14 PM
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THE BUSINESS WORLD IS LIVID OVER TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION “TRAIN WRECK”

The president’s DACA sabotage is doing him no favors in corporate America.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...on-train-wreck

When Donald Trump was running for president, absent any actual relevant experience, he claimed he was qualified for the job thanks to his superior deal-making skills—an argument that many ended up buying, despite vast stores of evidence to the contrary. Unfortunately for the U.S., what Trump didn’t explain—though laid out pretty clearly in his book The Art of the Deal—was that as a businessman, making “a deal” to him meant the other side loses, rather than both parties walking away with a happy compromise: “Sometimes, part of making a deal is denigrating your competition,” he wrote, because yes, he’s just that much of an asshole. But whereas his business-world competition could simply get up from the negotiating table, sadly for America, that asshole is our president. And this week, we all got a taste of his singular deal-making style. Only instead of jockeying over some crappy Atlantic City casino or Versailles-inspired condo, this deal had to do with the fate of hundreds of thousands of people who might be sent back to a country they’ve never known because the president is a fraud.
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Old 02-19-2018, 10:22 AM
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In the aftermath of the school shooting in Florida, guess the Dotard cannot help himself since he showed up on his golf course 9:00AM this morning.

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The president has publicly said little about the victims, but he refrained from golfing, which aides said was to show respect. On Monday, Trump arrived at his gold course around 9 a.m.

“Have a great, but very reflective, Presidents’ Day!” he tweeted.
Hope that we all can reflect today about how to get this asshole impeached.

This article linked below is really about a toothless piece of gun legislation which of course the Dotard claims to support, yet another snow job by the politicians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.0679d7090f3b
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Old 02-19-2018, 11:58 AM
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Say it Ain't So...

"The first-round results of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant seem to have come as a surprise to some of the competition’s judges, who thought that they would declare the finalists. The seven judges of the pageant’s preliminary round were charged with winnowing eighty-six contestants to fifteen finalists. Divided into two groups, they had brief conversations with each of the contestants, who then paraded onstage, first in bathing suits, then in evening gowns. The judges—including public-relations professionals, a modelling entrepreneur, and a fashion reporter—rated each woman on such qualities as “appearance” and “personality,” after which the ballots were whisked away. “They told us not to share how we voted with each other, but we did anyway,” one of the preliminary judges told me. When the finalists were announced, he said, the winners included several who hadn’t been selected. “I was shocked,” the judge told me. “I didn’t know what had happened. I felt ridiculous.” The contestants were not so naïve—they understood who was in charge.
From 1996 to 2015, Donald Trump co-owned the Miss Universe Organization, which also included the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Teen U.S.A. pageants. A day or two before a pageant began, Trump would casually visit the contestants while they conducted their final rehearsals. Former contestants told me that Trump would circulate among the young women, shaking hands and chatting with each of them, periodically turning to speak with Paula Shugart, the president of the Miss Universe Organization, who followed him at a discreet distance. (Paula Shugart declined to comment.) Adwoa Yamoah, who competed as Miss Canada in 2012, told me, “He made comments about every girl: ‘I’ve been to that country.’ ‘We’re building a Trump Tower there.’ It was clear the countries that he liked did well. He’d whisper to Paula about the girls, and she’d write it down. He basically told us he picked nine of the top fifteen.” Kerrie Baylis, who was Miss Jamaica in 2013, described a similar scene and added that, when the finalists were announced, “the list looked like the countries that Donald Trump did business with, or wanted to do business with.” Shi Lim, who competed that year as Miss Singapore, told me, “The finalists were picked by Trump. He was really in charge. We called it the Trump card.” (A Miss Universe spokeswoman said that the pageant rules allowed the company’s staff, including Trump, to participate in naming the finalists.)"


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...niverse-gambit
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Old 02-19-2018, 12:09 PM
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Trump seems to taint everything he is involved in.
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Old 02-20-2018, 09:30 PM
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Thomas Friedman: Code Red

http://www.eastoregonian.com/eo/colu...-all-of-us-now

Trump is either trying so hard to hide it or is so naive about Russia that he is ready to not only resist mounting a proper defense of our democracy, he’s actually ready to undermine some of our most important institutions, the FBI and Justice Department, to keep his compromised status hidden.

That must not be tolerated. This is code red. The biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office.
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Old 02-21-2018, 01:35 PM
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Trump's former bodyguard makes $15,000 a month from a GOP 'slush fund'

This guy knows more about the Trump crime family than just about anyone. Great way to ensure he won’t be tempted to write a “tell all” book... More slime from the Repubes and Trump.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/21/trum...lush-fund.html
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Old 02-21-2018, 02:30 PM
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U.S. hate groups proliferate in Trump's first year

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1G5286
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Old 02-21-2018, 04:40 PM
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U.S. hate groups proliferate in Trump's first year

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1G5286
That's a yuge surprise. Not.
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Amnesty International Criticizes Trum for "Hate-Filled Rhetoric"

(CNN)The US government's polarizing decision to ban travel from six Muslim-majority countries set the tone for a year of "hate-filled rhetoric" that fanned the flames of bigotry and persecution, Amnesty International alleged in its annual audit of human rights around the world.

The campaign group said Donald Trump's effort to restrict travel to the US was "transparently hateful" and listed the US President alongside authoritarian leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as global threats to human rights.

World leaders failed to prevent abuses such as the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar; instead, many had offered a vision of fear, Amnesty alleged in its "State of the World's Human Rights" report for 2017.
"The specters of hatred and fear now loom large in world affairs, and we have few governments standing up for human rights in these disturbing times," said Amnesty International's Secretary General, Salil Shetty, in a statement accompanying the report.

"Instead, leaders such as al-Sisi, Duterte, Maduro, Putin, Trump and Xi are callously undermining the rights of millions," he said, referring to the presidents of Egypt, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia, the US and China.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/world...ntl/index.html
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Old 02-22-2018, 09:39 AM
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Armed teachers? How priceless is that? This son of a whore president will never stop fucking NRA's ass.

You people do not have the faintest idea how much Trump disgraces America every day. I can tell you that this is a real real highlight.
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