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Old 01-11-2019, 10:01 AM   #1171
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0c469d76cbfd3

18 minute mark...

"You're under arrest Trump."

 
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Old 01-11-2019, 10:40 AM   #1172
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This shutdown phenomenon is hard to understand for me. They can't seem to get to an agreement on a certain thing that the president wants, 'so' the government partially stops working and lots of people are affected by it. I don't get why a leads to b. Is it a pressure thing that a president can use or is it just something american that eurotrash like myself can't understand?

It sounds to me a bit like two parents arguing about what couch they should buy and as long as they disagree, they're not gonna feed the kids

 
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Old 01-11-2019, 01:02 PM   #1173
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spending bills have to be passed and if the president isn't for it, Republicans won't support it because it looks bad politically

indeed Trump is holding the government hostage because he can't get this one thing he wants because he is babby

 
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Old 01-11-2019, 01:10 PM   #1174
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you kinda get the high ground during these shut downs when you're the party of genuinely not giving a fuck if the gov carries out its functions

the police should be put on mandatory holiday

 
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Old 01-11-2019, 02:25 PM   #1175
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This shutdown phenomenon is hard to understand for me. They can't seem to get to an agreement on a certain thing that the president wants, 'so' the government partially stops working and lots of people are affected by it. I don't get why a leads to b. Is it a pressure thing that a president can use or is it just something american that eurotrash like myself can't understand?

It sounds to me a bit like two parents arguing about what couch they should buy and as long as they disagree, they're not gonna feed the kids
a gov't shutdown is not a normal tool to use to get the policy you want. it usually happens when the two parties just reach an impasse over something budgetary that prevents a funding bill from passing, which can happen from either the House and Senate not being able to agree on a budget to send to the Pres, or the Pres not liking the funding bill the two houses of Congress have approved.

Shutdowns usually end relatively quickly because no one wants to shoulder the blame of having shut down the government (e.g. the Republicans shut down the government under Obama in 2013, but they flinched after 6 days and capitulated to him). However in this case, Trump has chosen to cause a shutdown in order to achieve a specific policy goal through pressure. That's not normal. And this is also now the longest shutdown in history.

I think under most other democratic governments, the executive administration would dissolve and an election would be called if a budget wasn't passed, right?

 
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Old 01-11-2019, 04:41 PM   #1176
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To be fair to Trump, it'd be awfully unpleasant to head into a second presidential campaign without having delivered on any of the promises made during the last one.

 
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Old 01-11-2019, 04:49 PM   #1177
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To be fair to Trump, it'd be awfully unpleasant to head into a second presidential campaign without having delivered on any of the promises made during the last one.
sounds like a minor detail in the world of trump.

 
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Old 01-13-2019, 02:29 AM   #1178
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sounds like a minor detail in the world of trump.
thruth has spokenth

 
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Old 01-22-2019, 11:25 AM   #1179
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Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Pence compared Trump to MLK in making a case for their wall. WTF is pence smoking?!

MLK’s Son Criticizes pence: My Father ‘Was a Bridge Builder, Not A Wall Builder’
Martin Luther King III wants the vice president to know that his father would say “love, not hate, will make America great.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0a8dbe1742a41

 
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Old 01-25-2019, 10:54 AM   #1180
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Roger Stone: Trump ally arrested on seven Mueller probe charges

What a glorious Friday it is friends.

 
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Old 01-25-2019, 06:23 PM   #1181
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Check out the video in this link for Stone's Tricky Dick impersonation. Apparently one of the first things he did was call into infowars to set the record straight!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47002713

After his court appearance, Mr Stone spoke on the phone to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his radio programme Infowars.

"I intend to fight for my life," Mr Stone said as he launched a fundraiser for his legal battle. "There's no circumstance under which I would plead guilty to these charges.

"There's no circumstance under which I would bear false witness to the president."

He added: "Once again, there is no evidence of Russian collusion, Wikileaks collaboration and I'm not charged with doing anything inappropriate or illegal to assist in his [Mr Trump's] election."

 
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Old 01-25-2019, 07:08 PM   #1182
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it's "bear false witness against the president."

Your an imbecile swine, Mr. Stone! Ha!

 
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Old 01-25-2019, 07:18 PM   #1183
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Who will Oliver Stone cast as Roger Stone in the inevitable Trump biopic?

I can't think of any famous people named "Stone" other than Stone Cold Steve Austin, so my money's on him.

 
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Old 01-25-2019, 07:19 PM   #1184
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Dwayne The Rock Johnson might suffice, though.

 
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Old 01-25-2019, 07:20 PM   #1185
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There will be some deviations from real life for the sake of drama. At the beginning of the third act, Trump collects the final Infinity Stone.

 
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Old 01-25-2019, 07:20 PM   #1186
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I'm not even stoned yet

 
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Old 01-25-2019, 08:30 PM   #1187
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I smell a smoking gun

 
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Old 02-03-2019, 04:56 PM   #1188
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I had the shoes. I had a glove. And I used just a little bit of shoe polish to put on my cheeks and the reason I used a very little bit because – I don’t know if anyone’s ever tried that – you cannot get shoe polish off. I had always liked Michael Jackson. I actually won the contest because I had learned to do the moonwalk.

 
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Old 02-03-2019, 05:34 PM   #1189
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USE EM DASHES WITHOUT SPACES FOR INTERRUPTERS YOU FUCKING IMBECILE

 
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Old 02-03-2019, 05:55 PM   #1190
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I mean, if it really isn't him in the photo, I think that maintaining it isn't him, pointing toward an instance in which he did something similar to what he is accused of doing, and apologizing for it, is actually a good thing.

But if it is him in the photo, then copping to a lesser offense is a pretty cynical trick to escape criticism.

I literally just skimmed the story and don't have enough background information to know if he's just very obviously lying or something. But I hope he's telling the truth.

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Old 02-04-2019, 12:07 AM   #1191
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It's extremely bizarre and seems like he is almost certainly lying. He apologized for it, and then the next day said he wasn't in the photo.

 
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Old 02-04-2019, 12:33 AM   #1192
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USE EM DASHES WITHOUT SPACES FOR INTERRUPTERS YOU FUCKING IMBECILE
what the fuck are you talking about, the way he used them was correct

as if that's even remotely the most important thing in THIS thread, of all threads!

 
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Old 02-04-2019, 02:58 AM   #1193
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It's extremely bizarre and seems like he is almost certainly lying. He apologized for it, and then the next day said he wasn't in the photo.
Yeah, the fact that he changed his story is pretty suspect.

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what the fuck are you talking about, the way he used them was correct

as if that's even remotely the most important thing in THIS thread, of all threads!
You better believe I've memorized my alt codes so that I don't have to settle for an en-dash when an em-dash is called for, buddy.

I also use true ellipsis glyphs instead of just typing three full-stops in a row. The difference is meaningful to me.

 
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Old 02-04-2019, 03:26 AM   #1194
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Old 02-05-2019, 08:54 PM   #1195
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is anyone going to subject themselves to the state of the union

 
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Old 02-05-2019, 09:37 PM   #1196
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yeah, me either

 
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Old 02-07-2019, 07:42 PM   #1197
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I already never really watch the State of the Union. It's not like you're going to learn about new policy directions from it. It's really just a ceremonial thing; political theatre.

I just extra didn't watch it this year, because I just felt like lots of people who normally don't watch that sort of thing would watch this one just because Trump is seen as a side-show act. I just didn't want to inflate his viewership.

 
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Old 02-07-2019, 08:01 PM   #1198
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Who will Oliver Stone cast as Roger Stone in the inevitable Trump biopic?

I can't think of any famous people named "Stone" other than Stone Cold Steve Austin, so my money's on him.
Emma, Joss, Sharon, Sly!

 
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& i don't even listen to The Pearlies!

 
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