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Old 03-07-2020, 09:40 AM
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Donny Is Counting on the Supreme Court to Save His Sorry Ass
The president*’s remarkable lawsuit against his own accountants and bankers can succeed only if the conservative majority intervenes on his behalf.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...awsuit/607540/

Where's the outrage?
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Old 03-08-2020, 11:41 AM
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Donny ‘didn’t know people died from the flu.’ It killed his grandfather.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/histo...h-coronavirus/

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Old 03-11-2020, 12:23 PM
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Pootin's bid to stay in office until 2036 quickly backed by lawmakers

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...36/5019423002/

Donny has to be jealous, and looking for ways to replicate this. His GOTP would be all in.
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Old 03-11-2020, 05:02 PM
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Pootin's bid to stay in office until 2036 quickly backed by lawmakers

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...36/5019423002/

Donny has to be jealous, and looking for ways to replicate this. His GOTP would be all in.
Important point. There's certainly danger that Trump will want what Putin gets, with strong envious motivation.
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Old 03-12-2020, 08:54 AM
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From Heather Cox Richardson last night:

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Two days ago, I missed altogether something else that bears watching, and the fact that I missed it suggests it was barely covered—I’m generally all over the news. On March 9, 2020, the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov met Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and, according to the press release from the Russians, discussed “implementation of the arrangements reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump during the summits in Helsinki in 2018 and Osaka in 2019.” There was virtually no coverage of this meeting in the United States; the only record I found was a readout from the Treasury Department, saying just that the meeting had happened. The Helsinki meeting is the one where Trump and Putin met for two hours alone with only their interpreters in the room. The Osaka meeting came just after Putin declared western liberalism obsolete.

Perhaps this meeting was nothing. But, coming as it does in the midst of Russia’s oil war with Saudi Arabia, and alluding to the two-hour conference that so irregularly cut all the usual advisors and staff out of the room, it would sure be nice to know a bit more about it.

All this to say that I am skeptical that all the intrigue over money and power that has plagued this administration since its beginning have suddenly ended as the president and his people turn their attention to the coronavirus. It has seemed to me he saw the pandemic as a media crisis rather than a public health crisis, and if so, there is no reason to think his priorities have changed.

As I say, perhaps I’m just too skeptical. But I suspect it’s more likely I’m a realist.
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Old 03-12-2020, 09:24 AM
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Trump’s travel ban sidesteps his own European resorts
The president* announced new travel restrictions on Europeans as the coronavirus pandemic escalated, but a few key spots on the continent were spared.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...resorts-126808

Funny thing, that.
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Old 03-12-2020, 07:47 PM
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The lady is stretching. She is better served when she wears her history dress.
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Old 03-12-2020, 08:00 PM
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The lady is stretching. She is better served when she wears her history dress.
Besides being sexist, you CLEARLY underestimate Donny's deviousness.

Highly amusing, though, that you consider yourself to be even remotely qualified to critique Ms. Richardson. You're a buffoon.
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[B]Pootin's bid to stay in office until 2036 quickly backed by lawmakers ...

Donny has to be jealous, and looking for ways to replicate this. His GOTP would be all in.
Could Coronavirus hold the key?
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Old 03-15-2020, 12:19 PM
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Leadership 101

https://twitter.com/i/status/1238861138147692544
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