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jar Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
When the goal is to keep government from working, and make no mistake, that is the goal of US Conservatives, this Administration and Congress has been remarkably effective.
Trump has nominated and Congress accepted a long list of totally incompetent heads of agencies and US Federal Court Judges and also succeeded in making sure no bills that will hurt Trumps wealth get passed. Quid Pro Quo ... ?
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4409 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
When the goal is to keep government from working, and make no mistake, that is the goal of US Conservatives, this Administration and Congress has been remarkably effective. Anarchists.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
If you call the White House comments line at 202.456.1111 you are greeted with this recorded message:
quote: --Percy Edited by Percy, : Grammar.
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jar Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Yup. More success.
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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That's Roy Cohn on the left, McCarthy's lapdog, and Stephen Miller on the right, Trump's brutally conservative front-man on immigration. --Percy
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
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NoNukes Inactive Member
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That's Roy Cohn on the left, McCarthy's lapdog, and Stephen Miller on the right, Trump's brutally conservative front-man on immigration. What would be the coincidence? Do these guys look anything alike? I see two men in ties. They both have eyes... Edited by NoNukes, : spelling of they Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand. Neil Young, Rockin' in the Free World. Worrying about the "browning of America" is not racism. -- Faith I hate you all, you hate me -- Faith
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Taq Member Posts: 10033 Joined: Member Rating: 5.3
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Percy writes: That's Roy Cohn on the left, McCarthy's lapdog, and Stephen Miller on the right, Trump's brutally conservative front-man on immigration. It's the "dead behind the eyes" look that Miller has which creeps me out. You get the feeling that his expression wouldn't change if he was having sex, committing genocide, or on megadoses of Haldol.
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
Found this sentence concluding the editorial Is President Trump a Stealth Postmodernist or Just a Liar? in today's New York Times, seemed to sum Trump up pretty well:
quote: If you're inclined toward reading the full editorial be forewarned that it is long and delves deeply into modernist and postmodernist thought. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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This is taken from The Daily 202: Trump surprises his lawyers and alarms his friends by saying he will talk with Mueller in today's Washington Post, but the same information can be found in many places. The general idea is threefold: a) Trump has stated intentions that his lawyers have had to walk back; b) Trump's lawyers and friends all know that he is a walking lie-machine/blabbermouth who should under no circumstances ever be interviewed or examined by the Mueller team; c) Trump's lawyers and Republican friends, both in Congress and elsewhere, are working hard to characterize the Mueller investigation as a "perjury trap."
One thing that stands out is that for someone who has supposedly done nothing wrong, Trump and his supporters are working very hard at acting like he's guilty as sin. All the links in this quote should work.
quote: --Percy
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Taq Member Posts: 10033 Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Percy writes: This is taken from The Daily 202: Trump surprises his lawyers and alarms his friends by saying he will talk with Mueller in today's Washington Post, but the same information can be found in many places. He's like the guy who claims that he can beat up every guy in the room with his superior Kung-fu if it wasn't for his friends holding him back. He will huff and puff in order to look tough in front of his supporters, but he has absolutely no intention of voluntarily talking to Mueller. He will use the old "my lawyers stopped me from doing it" ploy.
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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For display in their personal living quarters the Trump's requested the loan of the van Gogh painting Landscape With Snow from the Guggenheim Museum:
The request was denied and the Guggenheim instead suggested an 18-kt gold fully functioning toilet by artist Maurizio Cattelan that had been on display in a public restroom on the museum’s fifth floor for visitors to use:
How appropriate. I've never been to the Guggenheim, but I think I like them a lot. AbE: Source, 1/25/18 Washington Post: The White House asked to borrow a van Gogh. The Guggenheim offered a gold toilet instead. From the article:
quote: --Percy Edited by Percy, : AbE.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
For display in their personal living quarters the Trump's requested the loan of the van Gogh painting Landscape With Snow from the Guggenheim Museum Is this a normal request? Have other presidents asked museums for the loan of pieces of art for their personal use? "Can we borrow your Van Gogh". Really? Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand. Neil Young, Rockin' in the Free World. Worrying about the "browning of America" is not racism. -- Faith I hate you all, you hate me -- Faith
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Percy Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
Sorry, forgot to include a link to the article, I've added it to the bottom of Message 1767, along with a couple comments.
--Percy
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Trump Intended To Fire Special Counsel Mueller In June, 'New York Times' Says ....this from NPR.
Trump, of course, calls it fake news. The New York Times is not some rag publication like the National Enquirer, however. I suppose all that counts for Mr.Trump is for his usual hillbilly populist base of support to believe him.Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith Paul was probably SO soaked in prayer nobody else has ever equaled him.~Faith
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