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monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

 
 
farmerman
 
  5  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 08:47 am
@djjd62,
mostly because Der Herrn didnt say much at all.
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gungasnake
 
  -1  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 08:59 am
@farmerman,
Quote:
@gungasnake,
at least when we wwnt around killing our brothers, e armed both ides. My entire family escaped Tsrist Russia because they were JEWS.

Donut eaters like you are still working on standing upright.


Funny, that statement would flunk eighth grade English where I went to school, you're using the word 'we' for both the US government and the Russian people, logically it has to be one or the other.

Quote:
At least when Russians went around killing their brothers, we armed both sides.


Урока Англиского языка стоят 15 копеек....

(If your family's really from Russia, you can read that....)
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gungasnake
 
  -3  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 09:54 am
http://ijr.com/2017/02/810843-cnn-interviews-ben-stein-about-trump-banning-the-media-it-backfires/
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georgeob1
 
  -2  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 10:29 am
@cicerone imposter,
Your info is out of date. We have reduced the inventoiry of our nuclear weapons by half under treaties signed over a decade ago. Most of those eliminated were so-called "tactiucal nukes" artillery shells and lightweight (< 2,000 lbs) bombs for tactical aircraft.

There have, as you say, been no accidental detonations of operational weapons, but there have been a number of so called "criticality events" in weapons labs, including a few involving enriched uranium in which criticalitry among the prompt neutrons alone was achieved. One involved the prototype plant for the USAF nuclear powered ( a somewhat nutty idea now) aircraft at the Idaho laboratory in which several workers there were killed.
cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 10:34 am
@georgeob1,
That's good news. Any time nukes are reduced, but Trump recently said he wants the US to be on top.
Walter Hinteler
 
  4  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 10:53 am
@georgeob1,
georgeob1 wrote:
We have reduced the inventoiry of our nuclear weapons by half under treaties signed over a decade ago.

http://i.imgur.com/uyi21wb.jpg
Published on Arms Control Association (https://www.armscontrol.org)
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georgeob1
 
  -1  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 11:06 am
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:

That's good news. Any time nukes are reduced, but Trump recently said he wants the US to be on top.


The fact is that nuclear warheads have a finite shelf life, and must be remanufactured periodically- mostly as a result of radiological decay. We are behind in that area and Obama let the system lapse ... even as others, including Russia, North Korea and Iran invested heavily in their development and expansion.
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blatham
 
  5  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:10 pm
We all likely recall Trump, back in July, saying he would replace Obamacare with "something terrific". It was one of those many early statements which gave us a clue as to the man's knowledge and grasp of policy issues. And, of course, his honesty and integrity.
Quote:
President Donald Trump told a bipartisan group of governors at a White House reception Monday morning that GOP tax reform would have to wait for lawmakers to move on repealing Obamacare, cautioning that, "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated."

"I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject," Trump said.
TPM
Such a dipshit.
cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:16 pm
@blatham,
Many of us knew he was a dipshit before the election. His history of bigotry and scamming were published. He even lies more than 70% of the time.
Americans are clueless.
blatham
 
  3  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:17 pm
Just the first of many such moves the Sessions Justice Department is going to make to increase suppression of voting for those more likely to vote Democrat.
Quote:
For the last six years, the Justice Department has sided with the citizens and civil rights groups fighting Texas' voter ID law, which a federal judge at one point found to be intentionally discriminatory against black and Latino voters. But its position changed Monday when the department decided to drop its claim that Republican state lawmakers enacted the law to make it harder for minorities to vote.
TPM
blatham
 
  2  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:20 pm
@cicerone imposter,
Quote:
Americans are clueless.

Of course, most Americans voted to keep this unfit man from office, so that is something. But on the other hand, it is a tad depressing to see the top echelons of government with the ethics level of a trailer park prostitute.
cicerone imposter
 
  2  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:20 pm
@blatham,
So the US democracy goes downthe toilet. Nice legacy for Trump.
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blatham
 
  2  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:30 pm
Quote:
Sean Spicer targets own staff in leak crackdown
The push includes random phone checks overseen by White House lawyers.
Politico
It was already obvious that a lot of the leaks revealing discord and chaos in the WH was originating from the west wing (not from disgruntled Obama supporters) simply because of subject and content.
blatham
 
  4  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:43 pm
Keep watch on how this particular propaganda device gets used.
Quote:
Former labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder on Monday blamed "a tsunami of fake news" and a campaign by Democrats and the left for ending his nomination.

...Puzder neither specified what the "fake news" was nor addressed the issues raised by The Huffington Post and POLITICO, and Hewitt did not ask him about them.
Politico
Of course he didn't specify examples and of course Hewitt didn't question the claim because this propaganda trick only works in the absence of specifics.

And let's give appropriate kudos to George W Bush for speaking out against Trump (and team) trying to derogate mainstream media and for acknowledging the essential function news media plays in maintaining democracy. I'm not at all sure Cheney or Addington would agree with W but those two really don't evidence much affinity for democracy.

cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:45 pm
@blatham,
Contrary to what Trump has been telling us about the "fine tuned machine. (administration)."
farmerman
 
  3  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:54 pm
@blatham,
I heard Trump make a gaff when he was talking about repealing Dodd Frank (Wall Street Reform an Consumer Protection Act).
He stated that "Dodd Frank makes it impossible for my friends to obtain business loans)

We're being played by hustlers.
blatham
 
  3  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:55 pm
@cicerone imposter,
Quote:
fine tuned machine.

Wasn't that one a dilly. That's up there with "This president has gotten more done in three weeks than other presidents have gotten done in their full terms in office".

The frequency of such lies along with the blatant obviousness of them as lies pretty clearly has the intention (and the effect on Trump supporters at least) of confusing citzens' notions of the value of honesty and of how citizens might determine who is being honest or dishonest.
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farmerman
 
  2  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 12:56 pm
@blatham,
Quote:
depressing to see the top echelons of government with the ethics level of a trailer park prostitute.
Yeh but you always leave with a smile when youve been fucked by the trailer babes.
blatham
 
  3  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 01:02 pm
@farmerman,
Quote:
We're being played by hustlers.

Oh yes. And how that has come about with such little awareness of it by so many is a very interesting question.
farmerman
 
  2  
Mon 27 Feb, 2017 01:07 pm
@blatham,
I thought the "MY FRIENDS" line was quite telling.
 

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