45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. Vol 3

45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. Vol 3

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Escapegoat

5,135 posts

136 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Pfft! He can't be racist because he appeared in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air!

Zod

35,295 posts

259 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Greg66 said:
It's also the "But we’re very honored by it" tagged onto the end that makes the whole thing totally surreal.

"Honoured"? It's complete gibberish.
It's the way his brain works. He blurts out his thought and feels the need to add a conclusion. "We're very honoured by it" sounds right to him, because he is a stupid man.

Eddie Strohacker

3,879 posts

87 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Dunno if you lot listen to Today habitually, but Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discussing Trump as a Malignant narcissist & a sociopath certainly made my muesli taste a little sweeter this morning.

anonymous-user

55 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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The birther conspiracy theory is motivated by racism, and Trump also questioned Obama's academic credentials. It appears that Trump can't get his head round the idea of a black man being admitted to Columbia and Harvard on academic merit, still less being elected President of the US (and in Obama's case winning the vote and not just the Electoral College). Trump's alignment with the racist Arpaio, his bogus inquiry into alleged voter fraud (an indirect attack on minority voter registration), his assignment of moral equivalence to Nazis and their opponents, and his handling of the Puerto Rican situation all add to the evidence that Trump is a racist.

Seventy

5,500 posts

139 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Byker28i said:
frankenstein12 said:
Ok please feel free to show me evidence of Trump being racist.
We have, several times, you still haven't responded, preferring instead to ignore them.
Don't waste your time. He's flounced.

AreOut

3,658 posts

162 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Breadvan72 said:
The birther conspiracy theory is motivated by racism,
I bet it'd be the same if it was e.g. Kazakhstan instead of Kenya so I don't think race played motivating role there.

Eric Mc

122,144 posts

266 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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AreOut said:
Breadvan72 said:
The birther conspiracy theory is motivated by racism,
I bet it'd be the same if it was e.g. Kazakhstan instead of Kenya so I don't think race played motivating role there.
Still racist.

rscott

14,789 posts

192 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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AreOut said:
Breadvan72 said:
The birther conspiracy theory is motivated by racism,
I bet it'd be the same if it was e.g. Kazakhstan instead of Kenya so I don't think race played motivating role there.
I'm sure it would still have happened, but am pretty certain it wouldn't have been anything like as intense. There's a sufficiently large number of US citizens who still have what most in the UK would see as somewhat extreme views on the rights and social status of non-whites.

p1stonhead

25,621 posts

168 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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rscott said:
AreOut said:
Breadvan72 said:
The birther conspiracy theory is motivated by racism,
I bet it'd be the same if it was e.g. Kazakhstan instead of Kenya so I don't think race played motivating role there.
I'm sure it would still have happened, but am pretty certain it wouldn't have been anything like as intense. There's a sufficiently large number of US citizens who still have what most in the UK would see as somewhat extreme views on the rights and social status of non-whites.
yes Americans, despite what it may seem due to 'overall' culture, are nothing like us in so many ways.

Byker28i

60,659 posts

218 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Seventy said:
Byker28i said:
frankenstein12 said:
Ok please feel free to show me evidence of Trump being racist.
We have, several times, you still haven't responded, preferring instead to ignore them.
Don't waste your time. He's flounced.
Off he went with a trumpty trump, trump, trump, trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a-m3pH9Dr8

anonymous-user

55 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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AreOut said:
Breadvan72 said:
The birther conspiracy theory is motivated by racism,
I bet it'd be the same if it was e.g. Kazakhstan instead of Kenya so I don't think race played motivating role there.
That is, I suggest, a naive point of view. Many hateys and crazies objected to having a black man as President, and they did all they could to identify him as Kenyan (and some of the nuts tried to make him Muslim to boot). This was not some sense of Constitutional nicety based on genuine belief that Obama was born in a country (any country) outside the USA; this was specifically a theory seeking to discredit a black President.

Byker28i

60,659 posts

218 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Meanwhile back to the russian inquiry. I see that the House Intelligence Committee has given Roger Stone until todayto produce the name of his intermediary with Julian Assange/ WikiLeaks.

Lets not forget that stone conversed with Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0, who was connected to the stolen emails, Stone seemed to have prior knowledge of upcoming leaks, predicting several times in advance that wikileaks would be releasing damaging emails.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

285 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Probably not related but Russians...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/11/israel_ru...


Upshot is the Israelis went sneaking around in Kaspersky and found the Russians having a ball already.

Zod

35,295 posts

259 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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jmorgan said:
Probably not related but Russians...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/11/israel_ru...


Upshot is the Israelis went sneaking around in Kaspersky and found the Russians having a ball already.
Kasperky’s business will suffer badly because of this.

Eric Mc

122,144 posts

266 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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They sponsor Ferrari as well.

DeejRC

5,844 posts

83 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Now the Israeli thing is interesting smile
It is "proof" shall we say that they were snooping around. My own view is that the chances of the Israelis not already snooping around gathering and hacking as much Intel as possible on the whole situation is about 0.1%. And I'm only give them 0.1% purely on the law of averages that I must be wrong sometime.
Mossad is probably killing itself laughing currently smile


rscott

14,789 posts

192 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Now he's talking to imaginary presidents! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/201...

jmorgan

36,010 posts

285 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/355314-...

Chasing votes here, doing well it would seem. Going for the religious bent on recent actions.

On another note, it seems that Twitter may have deleted info via it privacy policy.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/13/twitter-r...



Eric Mc

122,144 posts

266 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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Today he was apparently talking to the President of the US Virgin Islands - not realising that the President of the USA Virgin Islands is actually one Donald J Trump.

Byker28i

60,659 posts

218 months

Saturday 14th October 2017
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This is actually a clever move by the administration who have failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act so far, one of their signature policies. Undermine it as much as possible so it probably fails, just before next years enrollments start on 1st Nov.

In cutting the subsidies to the ACA, combined with the donalds executive order calling for new regulations to encourage cheap, loosely regulated health plans. Both these moves will limit the funds available to insurers to cover the cost of the plans. Already insurers have put up next years prices whilst others have pulled out the market.

Schumer and Pelosi issued a joint statement calling Trump's latest move "sabotage."
“It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America," they said in a joint statement. "Make no mistake about it, Trump will try to blame the Affordable Care Act, but this will fall on his back and he will pay the price for it."

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/12/trump-oba...
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/13/trump-end...

I doubt he will, he's using other methods to make the ACA as un attractive as possible having failed to find an alternative way. Another example of the donald taking the US backwards, as people will revert to having no or limited healthcare cover.
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