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Not only is Trump ensuring he gets impeached in record time, he's also ensuring that a Republican will not be elected again for a loooong time
I thought that was the case for George w. Bush,hell George W.Bush thought he would be the last Republican President for a while. I'm not going to make the same mistake of underestimating the low intelligence of Americans.
Never do that. Never. Lol -
CeLLaR-DooR wrote: »blue_london wrote: »CeLLaR-DooR wrote: »
How are you feeling about all the "brexit" drama?
Buncha people voted against self interest because they thought it would hurt foreigners more than them. Most Brexiteers actually knew the economy would dip if we left but, like I said, they thought it would hurt brownies more
Gina Miller is my favourite person right now. She is dragging out that hidden racism people have -
Five Things We Learned From The Washington Post Story On Trump’s Toxic White House
President Donald Trump’s first few days in office have been filled with drama and sweeping executive actions. He reignited the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines, pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and revived a block on federal funding for any non-government organization that provides abortion-related services. Busy man. The busiest president ever, perhaps, but behind the scenes, sh*t is going down.
The Washington Post reveals that the salad days of the Trump White House sound like an utter, backstabbing nightmare. To be fair, many of these staffers are accustomed to the tantrums of the Trump campaign trail (former manager Corey Lewandowski famously sent then-press secretary Hope Hicks into tears on a regular basis). Now, the Washington Post has published a dishy roundup of how the Trump White House sounds like a dish-crashing disaster. Here are some highlights.
Sean Spicer’s first (unscheduled) meltdown conference — where he blatantly lied about “crowd size” to make Trump feel better about his attending inauguration audience — went down like this:
“Trump’s advisers suggested that he could push back in a simple tweet. Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a Trump confidant and the chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, offered to deliver a statement addressing the crowd size.
But Trump was adamant, aides said. Over the objections of his aides and advisers — who urged him to focus on policy and the broader goals of his presidency — the new president issued a decree: He wanted a fiery public response, and he wanted it to come from his press secretary.”
Meanwhile, Trump son-in-law (and senior adviser) Jared Kushner is rubbing everyone the wrong way as he works his behind-the-scenes mojo. He is also not a fan of Kellyanne Conway:
“Two people close to the transition also said a number of Trump’s most loyal campaign aides have been alarmed by Kushner’s efforts to elbow aside anyone he perceives as a possible threat to his role as Trump’s chief consigliere. At one point during the transition, Kushner had argued internally against giving Conway a White House role, these two people said.”
Speaking of Conway, folks wonder if her laughable defenses of Spicer are actually meant to pound him into grains of sand:
“During the campaign, Trump was suspicious of both Priebus and Spicer, who ran the Republican National Committee and were seen as more loyal to the party than to its nominee. Some privately wonder whether Conway is now trying to undermine Spicer.”
Meanwhile, the beleaguered Spicer was apparently not Trump’s first choice for White House Press Secretary, but his willingness to blatantly lie has greatly impressed his boss:
As Trump thought about staffing his administration following his surprise victory, he hesitated over selecting Spicer as White House press secretary. He did not see Spicer as particularly telegenic and preferred a woman for the position, asking Conway to do it and also considering conservative commentators Laura Ingraham and Monica Crowley — who ultimately stepped down from an administration job because of charges of plagiarism — before settling on Spicer at the urging of Priebus and others.
Yet if there was any doubt over the weekend about Spicer’s standing with the president, it seemed to have been erased by his performance Monday, at least for the moment. Trump told his senior team that he was pleased with Spicer’s more confident and relaxed turn at the lectern.
Oh, and Donald Trump really hates climbing stairs, which is a strange thing to hear about a man with a glowing bill of health:
Because Conway operates outside of the official communications department, some aides grumble that she can go rogue when she pleases, offering her own message and promoting herself as much as the president. One suggested that Conway’s office on the second floor of the West Wing, as opposed to one closer to the Oval Office, was a sign of her diminished standing. Though Conway took over the workspace previously occupied by Valerie Jarrett, who had been Obama’s closest adviser, the confidant dismissively predicted that Trump would rarely climb a flight of stairs.
No thank you. The dominoes will surely soon start to fall, for no one can withstand the pressure for too long.
Conway, Hicks, and Kushner are used to this fine mess, but Spicer seems rather frazzled in his first few days. Will he be the first to vacate his position? Nah, he will probably stick around long enough to at least hammer out a memoir.
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I think he is referring to voter fraud in:
- Michigan (which may have been legit based upon Jill Stein's recount which indicated that there were more votes than voters in Detroit)
- Pennsylvania (he recommended that people go out to urban areas and watch voters to prevent voter fraud)
Either way he is stupid to think millions of illegal votes were cast in both states, all he is doing is attacking the integrity of the county clerks, who are vastly Republicans
Smh..
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/trumps-own-attorneys-including-his-white-house-counsel-said-in-court-that-there-is-no-evidence-of-voter-fraud/Trump’s Attorneys (Including His White House Counsel) Even Said in Court There is No Evidence of Voter Fraud
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump doubled down on his claims of voter fraud, tweeting out that he will be calling for a “major investigation’ into voter fraud in this country. He told lawmakers over the weekend that he believes that 3 to 5 million undocumented immigrants may have voted for Hillary Clinton, and that is why he lost the popular vote. But, we wanted to remind you that it wasn’t too long ago (just last month!) that Trump’s own election law attorneys wrote in two separate court filings that there was no evidence to suggest that the 2016 general election was tainted with fraud. The admissions came in the Trump campaign’s effort to battle recount lawsuits that were filed by Jill Stein’s campaign in several swing states including Michigan and Pennsylvania.
In the Michigan filing, Trump’s lawyers said, “All available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake.” They even turn to the White House and the Clinton camp to back them up! “Even the chief counsel to second-place finisher Hillary Clinton concedes there is no evidence of any tampering that would warrant a recount or lawsuit,” the filing says, citing a post on Medium by Clinton election counsel Marc Elias.
The Pennsylvania filing is even more interesting. It was written by a handful of Trump attorneys including Donald McGahn who now serves as Trump’s White House counsel. Trump’s lawyers argue Stein’s petition for a recount, has not identified “a single Pennsylvania machine in any county, district, precinct, or ward that they actually believe was hacked,” but “merely states a possibility of tampering[.]”
The filing even reads:
On what basis does Stein risk disenfranchising the voters of the Keystone state? None really. There is no evidence – or even allegation– that any tampering with Pennsylvania’s voting systems actually occurred..
Stein cannot possibly find three million votes wrongful lying denied to here to catapult her to victor in Pennsylvania.
Trump cites Elias, Clinton’s counsel, again in his Pennsylvania filing, but what’s even better is that the document also cites Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes, who said that his state’s voting systems were “secure,” and that suggestions that they weren’t were “wrong and uninformed” as well as “dangerous.” -
This is from a live feed in DC right now, protester hanging from a crane unraveling a poster. All the angry emoji faces is because the Daily Caller is a conservative news site lol
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blue_london wrote: »CeLLaR-DooR wrote: »blue_london wrote: »CeLLaR-DooR wrote: »
How are you feeling about all the "brexit" drama?
Buncha people voted against self interest because they thought it would hurt foreigners more than them. Most Brexiteers actually knew the economy would dip if we left but, like I said, they thought it would hurt brownies more
Gina Miller is my favourite person right now. She is dragging out that hidden racism people have
She's fightin' the ? hard fam -
5 protesters up there actually. It's still live and still happening, go to Washington post on Facebook to watch
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So the Dow is at a record 20K and Trump is getting credit for it. Although it was trending that way while Obama was in office.
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The Trump administration is preparing a sweeping executive order that would clear the way for the C.I.A. to reopen overseas “black site” prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before former President Barack Obama shut them down.
President Trump’s three-page draft order, titled “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants” and obtained by The New York Times, would also undo many of the other restrictions on handling detainees that Mr. Obama put in place in response to policies of the Bush administration.
If Mr. Trump signs the draft order, he would also revoke Mr. Obama’s directive to give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all detainees in American custody. That would be another step toward reopening secret prisons outside of the normal wartime rules established by the Geneva Conventions, although statutory obstacles would remain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html -
his ego cannot let go of the fact he lost the popular vote by so much.
he does everything bigger and better, it's why he exaggerates everything; big numbers, everything is GREAT or FANTASTIC, everyone is wrong but himself, he knows all..
he will investigate this because he thinks he should've had all the votes, and when it's revealed he's wrong, he will complain that the job wasn't done right and have his own administration do it themselves
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Not only is Trump ensuring he gets impeached in record time, he's also ensuring that a Republican will not be elected again for a loooong time
u are really underestimating Republicans' ignorance -
i remember when republicans were calling Obama the antichrist but if the real antichrist came out and ran for the republican nomination those mfs would willingly vote him in
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I don't usually like to hop on the America bashin' but damn you ? deserve it this time -
Did u see the numbers that came out against Trump? Sure he has his supporters but even many republicans are ashamed of him.
I think this election, and now presidency, has created a new generation of fighters. The amount of ppl that dislike this man and want him out of office isn't small. I think I'm 4 yrs we will see record numbers in the dem/independent side casting their votes against Republicans.
Ppl want change, especially after EPA, Planned Parenthood, Immigration, Health Care all being yanked and changed.
Who are the progressives? This is the new era for that. Dems are, and the new runners for President will pick up on that and use that to win. BIGLY. -
Hmm ... there appears to be YUGE amounts of negative and revealing media coverage on me and my Adminstration.
I wonder what I can do about that ...
- President Trump
Trump hits staff at Muliple Government Agencies with Gag Order
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/01/24/trump-gag-order/?source=dam -
Did u see the numbers that came out against Trump? Sure he has his supporters but even many republicans are ashamed of him.
I think this election, and now presidency, has created a new generation of fighters. The amount of ppl that dislike this man and want him out of office isn't small. I think I'm 4 yrs we will see record numbers in the dem/independent side casting their votes against Republicans.
Ppl want change, especially after EPA, Planned Parenthood, Immigration, Health Care all being yanked and changed.
Who are the progressives? This is the new era for that. Dems are, and the new runners for President will pick up on that and use that to win. BIGLY.
that sounds good n all but numbers or no numbers i cant believe it til i see it
even if his approval ratings are low there are repubs that wouldnt vote democrat if their life depended on it -
5th Letter wrote: »So the Dow is at a record 20K and Trump is getting credit for it. Although it was trending that way while Obama was in office.
Seriously what does that mean to the average 9-5 kneegrow like me? @Sion
Just seems like more of the rich get richer type of thing -
Hmm ... there appears to be YUGE amounts of negative and revealing media coverage on me and my Adminstration.
I wonder what I can do about that ...
- President Trump
Trump hits staff at Muliple Government Agencies with Gag Order
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/01/24/trump-gag-order/?source=dam
LOL at this:Spicer added that he wasn't aware of any changes to media policies affecting either the EPA or the USDA but that he and his staff were looking into it. -
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5th Letter wrote: »5th Letter wrote: »
Hey remember like some of ya'll said "It can't get no worse for black people"
Right because when ? got turned up in Ferguson and Baltimore they didn't send armored race soldiers to harass black people while you know who was in office.
And that's the exact same as the current idiot in chief tweeting about sending them to harass people. -
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Did u see the numbers that came out against Trump? Sure he has his supporters but even many republicans are ashamed of him.
I think this election, and now presidency, has created a new generation of fighters. The amount of ppl that dislike this man and want him out of office isn't small. I think I'm 4 yrs we will see record numbers in the dem/independent side casting their votes against Republicans.
Ppl want change, especially after EPA, Planned Parenthood, Immigration, Health Care all being yanked and changed.
Who are the progressives? This is the new era for that. Dems are, and the new runners for President will pick up on that and use that to win. BIGLY.
Thats what im saying, whomever runs will already have the anti trump crowd behind them, and all them people that sat out last time and didnt vote learned they lessson that ? wont happen again, so unless the dem nominee is utter garbage(hilary 2.0) they will do well -
Did u see the numbers that came out against Trump? Sure he has his supporters but even many republicans are ashamed of him.
I think this election, and now presidency, has created a new generation of fighters. The amount of ppl that dislike this man and want him out of office isn't small. I think I'm 4 yrs we will see record numbers in the dem/independent side casting their votes against Republicans.
Ppl want change, especially after EPA, Planned Parenthood, Immigration, Health Care all being yanked and changed.
Who are the progressives? This is the new era for that. Dems are, and the new runners for President will pick up on that and use that to win. BIGLY.
People ? about Bush jr then 2004 came and he got re elected. -
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5th Letter wrote: »
Did u see the numbers that came out against Trump? Sure he has his supporters but even many republicans are ashamed of him.
I think this election, and now presidency, has created a new generation of fighters. The amount of ppl that dislike this man and want him out of office isn't small. I think I'm 4 yrs we will see record numbers in the dem/independent side casting their votes against Republicans.
Ppl want change, especially after EPA, Planned Parenthood, Immigration, Health Care all being yanked and changed.
Who are the progressives? This is the new era for that. Dems are, and the new runners for President will pick up on that and use that to win. BIGLY.
People ? about Bush jr then 2004 came and he got re elected.
The hate and dislike for bush was nowhere near the level of trump
