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OCU

#2 | POSTED BY OCUSER AT 2020-01-27 06:08 PM | FLAG:

It used to get a lot higher, but the government's share has been going down for decades. They'd be able to make up for the lost revenue easily enough. As with almost any story these days about government cuts or policy changes, it's more about Trump's insatiable lust for retaliation and/or extortion than anything else.

Florida man, you say?

A combination of douchebaggery and disconnection from reality. Like Danni, I'll never understand why some people seem so eager to devote their lives to the harassment of others.

I like Billie Eilish way more than I thought I would. Home schooled and self-taught, she's got some crazy ideas but a whole bunch of talent.

Just another perfectly normal tweet by a perfectly normal president who makes perfect calls to foreign governments to dig up dirt on his political rivals because, you know, he cares about corruption 'n' stuff.

You gotta admit, Trump has a way of stirring up the craziest right wingers to want to enforce his warped belief system. Schiff would be well-advised to keep an eye out for weirdos carrying weapons.

The wheels of justice grind slowly, just like Stormy.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2020-01-26 04:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

Well played, sir.

Thanks y'all! That scene popped into my head as soon as I saw the headline, and it fits so well.

By the way.... there's an extra word ("related") because I copied and pasted the script off another site, which had embedded links, and I overlooked it when I went in to edit.

[MAID BY THE FIRE]
I think I've seen you somewhere... I remember
You were with that man they took away
I recognize your face

[TRUMP]
You've got the wrong man, lady, I don't know him
And I wasn't where he was tonight - never near the place

[SOLDIER]
That's strange, for I'm sure I saw you with him
You were right by his side, and yet you denied -
Related

[TRUMP]
I tell you, I was never, ever with him

[OLD MAN]
But I saw you too - it looked just like you

[TRUMP]
I don't know him!

[MELANIA]
Donald - don't you know what you have said?
You've gone and cut him dead

[TRUMP]
I had to do it, don't you see?
Or else they'd go for me

[MELANIA]
That's what he told us you would do -
I wonder how he knew ...

Pompeo is a sorry sack of garbage just like the sack of garbage he works for. He tries to intimidate a reporter for doing her job, just like his sack of garbage boss does.

Despite it all, Mary Louise Kelly is a total pro at all times. He thought he could mess with her by asking her to prove she knows where Ukraine is. She has a masters degree in European Studies from Cambridge University. Go ---- yourself, Pompeo.

Trump had said he only knew Parnas through pictures he'd seen of the guy. Like every other discredited Trump accomplice.

Trump lies with every breath.

But look at all his little cheerleaders doing his bidding.

#17 | Posted by humtake at 2020-01-24 12:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hope you didn't pull a muscle making that stretch.

To Rudy: Bring it. We are not afraid of you.

I'm beginning to think at least part of the solution is a more concerted effort to build new political parties. Maybe we need some coalitions, some consensus building, some grownups. Right now there's too much power in too few arrogant hands.

#8 - Trump's not the problem. He's a manifestation of the problem.

#10 | POSTED BY YAV AT 2020-01-24 02:11 PM | FLAG:

You're absolutely right. I should have made myself clearer. We have a problem regardless of whether a Democrat manages to get elected president in 2020. There's a poison in the Republican Party like I've never witnessed, and I honestly don't know what the cure is.

The writer is correct. I have to say, before Trump I had always believed that facts and reason, if presented effectively, would prevail over the long term. But it's clear that for a certain segment of the population, logic is not enough to overcome emotional attachment.

Trumpers have bought the entire package their brash, authoritarian idol has given them. They have true faith and shall not be moved. Like religion-based extremism, fascism, or any other purist cult, Trumpism requires that its adherents stop thinking critically. The leader is not to be questioned. Maybe this dogmatic description doesn't apply to every person who votes for Trump, but it fits a good many.

I'm not sure where we go from here.

Can't wait for the spin on this one.

#5 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2020-01-22 02:32 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

Let's take a stab at the spin:
1) Trump is "smart" to hide evidence, in the same way he's smart to cheat on his taxes
2) They all do it
3) Maybe he meant the "material" on Biden
4) So? Better than Hildabeast!
5) Rolling Stone? That's fake news for hippies

www.youtube.com

This was from the same day. Presumably beforehand.

#9 | POSTED BY SENTINEL AT 2020-01-21 02:05 PM | FLAG:

Nice. Thanks for posting that.

Another well-deserved tongue-lashing by this very mature, wise, and perfect president, who knows full well, as we all should, that everyone in the entire world other than him is incompetent.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

Trump Stew:

Combine 1 cup corruption grease, 4 cups mental numbing agent, and 2 cups cholesterol. Bring to high heat until it announces its candidacy.

Add one small eggplant .

Pee over mixture.

Stir in former NYC mayor, turtle meat and one closeted, bitter senator, and serve.

Serves one party.

You have GOT to see Tub-o-Lard Hyde acting all tough guy on a video he apparently made this afternoon just for Twitter. It's hilariously terrible. It's hard to believe he thought it would actually benefit him in any way.

Thank goodness we have a president who is extremely grown-up - so grown-up it's off the charts - and he has a very high IQ, and nobody knows as much as he does about the military, nor does anyone know as much as he does about any of the following, because he has told us:

Energy*
Environment
Renewables
Healthcare
Debt
Social media
Taxes
Banking
Wall Street
The American system of government
Campaign contributions
Jobs
Trade
ISIS
H1B1 visas
TV ratings
The courts
Borders
Infrastructure
Drones
Technology

*Except wind energy. "I never understood wind," he said in December.**

**Although he does understand windmills. And of course windmill cancer.

The Rock & Roll HOF represents the quality of the music about as well as the Grammys do, which is to say, not very well. Both are about popularity. Still, I'm cool with the Doobies, JP and NIN, maybe even Depeche Mode.

We know where this leads. "Catcher in the Rye" violates Podunk Public Library's "community standards." So a school assignment can't be completed, and a librarian gets 90 days in the slammer alongside all the other pervs. Christian conservatives preen and proclaim victory over the child molesters.

No question, Danni. No amount of evidence, impartial finding, legal opinion or admission will ever convince his flock that Trump has done anything wrong. He will continue to break laws and ethical rules because that's who he is, and the gullible fools who support him will continue to say it's all a hoax.