Donald John Trump: The 2nd Greatest President of the USA (by volume)

[Rubberpigg]

Garson, you need to brush up on your trolling. What you want to do is bait but at least seem semi intelligible. .

:crylaugh:
"The pot calling the kettle black."

 

[buka001]

Interesting article on what activists did in the uk to rally against the tories. Has relevance - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/...tw-share&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/vsciYAE3Ay

 

[Unhappy438]

:crylaugh:
"The pot calling the kettle black."

Im critiquing his form, not the act itself. This thread is 90% trolling, anyone who thinks otherwise is doing it wrong.

Now onto your post, i could actually use the idiom, "The pot calling the kettle black", in response to it.

 

[Gnarls]

Im critiquing his form, not the act itself. This thread is 90% trolling, anyone who thinks otherwise is doing it wrong.

+1

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Interesting article on what activists did in the uk to rally against the tories. Has relevance - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/...tw-share&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/vsciYAE3Ay

That is quite interesting, but it's definitely quite creepy, too.

 

[RanzB]

Rand Paul wants to make his fellow senators actually read the health care bill before they vote

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) reintroduced his notable “Read the Bills” resolution on Wednesday, which would require bills and amendments to be filed for a minimum of one day for every twenty pages before they can be considered.

The resolution would allow members of Congress sufficient time to thoroughly review legislation, while leaving lawmakers room to act during times of emergency. Paul previously introduced the resolution in 2015.

Someone who identifies as a "classic liberal", who actually knows the meaning of the term.

I mean, he's also massively full of ****, but at least he knows the definition of words and what they're supposed to pretend to care about.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Rand Paul wants to make his fellow senators actually read the health care bill before they vote



Someone who identifies as a "classic liberal", who actually knows the meaning of the term.

I mean, he's also massively full of ****, but at least he knows the definition of words and what they're supposed to pretend to care about.

Haha. Rand Paul being the one who said it wouldn't look good to investigate Republicans, so it shouldn't really be done. For transparency, he is not.

Also worth noting that Paul's issue with the bill is that it isn't cruel enough.

Also worth noting that McConnell likely left out some things so that more vulnerable Republican senators can be "concerned" about it, they make a minor amendment, and then claim victory. Which is why the pseudo-opponents use language like "at the moment", or "in this form".

Same as so many of the spineless ****ers have "expressed concerns" about the grotesquely undemocratic manner in which they've done this whole thing. Or about Trump's various fsckups. Yet they won't ever do anything about it and continue to support and enable it all.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

T r u m p ’ s L i e s

Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.

There is simply no precedent for an American president to spend so much time telling untruths. Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers. No other president — of either party — has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant.

We have set a conservative standard, leaving out many dubious statements (like the claim that his travel ban is “similar” to Obama administration policy). Some people may still take issue with this standard, arguing that the president wasn't speaking literally. But we believe his long pattern of using untruths to serve his purposes, as a businessman and politician, means that his statements are not simply careless errors.

We are using the word “lie” deliberately. Not every falsehood is deliberate on Trump's part. But it would be the height of naïveté to imagine he is merely making honest mistakes. He is lying.

The list above uses the conservative standard of demonstrably false statements. By that standard, Trump told a public lie on at least 20 of his first 40 days as president. But based on a broader standard — one that includes his many misleading statements (like exaggerating military spending in the Middle East) — Trump achieved something remarkable: He said something untrue, in public, every day for the first 40 days of his presidency. The streak didn’t end until March 1.

Since then, he has said something untrue on at least 74 of 113 days. On days without an untrue statement, he is often absent from Twitter, vacationing at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, or busy golfing.

This is just nuts.

 

[Gnarls]

Rand Paul wants to make his fellow senators actually read the health care bill before they vote



Someone who identifies as a "classic liberal", who actually knows the meaning of the term.

I mean, he's also massively full of ****, but at least he knows the definition of words and what they're supposed to pretend to care about.

I like Rand.

 

[RanzB]

I like Rand.

He's a loser. His father was just as crazy but he seemed to have convictions at least.

 

[cerebus]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/878413313188802560

Just out: The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?

:wtf: so now Trump admits to Russian election hacking and blames Obama administration for not acting.

 

[Techne]

T r u m p ’ s L i e s

Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.



This is just nuts.

I don't know what is more nuts, Captain Cantaloupe's (may his hair provide vitamin A) lies or the NYT fake news complaining about it. Or are they in the process of dishing out an award to honour him for being like they are? If he was a Dem he would've been praised for the post modernist view of truth (it doesn't exist) and how used social media for success.

 

[Unhappy438]

I don't know what is more nuts

Considering Trump holds more power than the NYT, this question is easy to answer.

 

[C4Cat]

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/878413313188802560



:wtf: so now Trump admits to Russian election hacking and blames Obama administration for not acting.

He certainly seems upset and obsessed about something that's supposedly fake news. Also spends an inordinate amount of time and effort to shut it down. Weird.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Analysis indicates partisan gerrymandering has benefited GOP

The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts.

Traditional battlegrounds such as Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Virginia were among those with significant Republican advantages in their U.S. or state House races. All had districts drawn by Republicans after the last Census in 2010.

The AP analysis also found that Republicans won as many as 22 additional U.S. House seats over what would have been expected based on the average vote share in congressional districts across the country. That helped provide the GOP with a comfortable majority over Democrats instead of a narrow one.

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Yet the data suggest that even if Democrats had turned out in larger numbers, their chances of substantial legislative gains were limited by gerrymandering.

"The outcome was already cooked in, if you will, because of the way the districts were drawn," said John McGlennon, a longtime professor of government and public policy at the College of William & Mary in Virginia who ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Democrat in the 1980s.

A separate statistical analysis conducted for AP by the Princeton University Gerrymandering Project found that the extreme Republican advantages in some states were no fluke. The Republican edge in Michigan's state House districts had only a 1-in-16,000 probability of occurring by chance; in Wisconsin's Assembly districts, there was a mere 1-in-60,000 likelihood of it happening randomly, the analysis found.

The AP's findings are similar to recent ones from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, which used three statistical tests to analyze the 2012-2016 congressional elections. Its report found a persistent Republican advantage and "clear evidence that aggressive gerrymandering is distorting the nation's congressional maps," posing a "threat to democracy." The Brennan Center did not analyze state legislative elections.

Who knew.

 

[Garson007]

He certainly seems upset and obsessed about something that's supposedly fake news. Also spends an inordinate amount of time and effort to shut it down. Weird.

Because the media spends an inordinate amount of time making it out to be something real.

 

[cerebus]

Because the media spends an inordinate amount of time making it out to be something real.

Russia hacking the election is a real story, DJT admitted it in that interview.

 

[rietrot]

hacking the election

Wtf does that even mean? How do you "hack" an election?

And how is that different from the way countries has been meddling in each others affairs since the beginning of time?

 

[cerebus]

Wtf does that even mean? How do you "hack" an election?

Why are you acting as though this terminology is weird and unusual?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...ssia-hacking-timeline/?utm_term=.6b00e53330d8

You could probably start by 'hacking' the devices that count ballot boxes, for one thing. or you could phish key members of the Democratic campaign, such as John Podesta. Or penetrate the DNC's networks and steal opposition data. Plenty of ways...

And how is that different from the way countries has been meddling in each others affairs since the beginning of time?

That's completely immaterial as to whether the Russian story is 'something real'.