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OrbitalDawn said:
Apologies, should have known better. :(
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:D

Philip DeFranco does a good job at tearing these nutters a new one though.

[video=youtube;8tT3FhOA4-g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tT3FhOA4-g[/video]
 
Hamish McPanji said:
This is hilarious. You lot are a bit thick tbh.

This is how this works. Pick the result and read the conclusion is stated after it

Republican wins by 100% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Republican wins by 80% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Republican wins by 60% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Republican wins by 40% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Republican wins by 20% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Republican wins by small margin : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

It's a draw or forfeit : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Democrat wins by small margin : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Democrat wins by 20% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to

Democrat wins by 40% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Democrat wins by 60% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Democrat wins by 80% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Democrat wins by 100% : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

Election gets postponed or cancelled: Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

America gets invaded and democracy gets cancelled : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do

The Aliens arrive , and destroy everything : Trump is doing what he was put in place to do


Checkmate, bitches!!
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Secret service is gonna take you out for catching onto the plot
 
"We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds and there minds are being formed, and we have to do something about maybe what they're seeing and how they're seeing it. And also video games. I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts. And you go one further step and that's the movies. You see these movies, and they’re so violent, a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn’t involved, but killing is involved, and maybe they have to put a rating system for that." - Donald J Trump. Feb 22, 2018

Is someone going to tell him?



Going with a Daily Beast link 'cos The Hill has one of those annoying autoplay popup video thingies

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-maybe-they-have-to-put-a-rating-system-on-movies
 
greg0205 said:
"We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds and there minds are being formed, and we have to do something about maybe what they're seeing and how they're seeing it. And also video games. I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts. And you go one further step and that's the movies. You see these movies, and they’re so violent, a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn’t involved, but killing is involved, and maybe they have to put a rating system for that." - Donald J Trump. Feb 22, 2018

Is someone going to tell him?

Going with a Daily Beast link 'cos The Hill has one of those annoying autoplay popup video thingies

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-maybe-they-have-to-put-a-rating-system-on-movies
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Imagine for a second that he knows that there's such a rating system, and he also knows how useless it is in practice. Like when are people gonna wake up and realise they're being played? :D
 
Xarog said:
Imagine for a second that he knows that there's such a rating system, and he also knows how useless it is in practice. Like when are people gonna wake up and realise they're being played? :D
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A federal judge just turned down Paul Manafort's latest bail offer and Rick Gates was fired by his attorney... But you stay woke now, ya hear.
 
greg0205 said:
A federal judge just turned down Paul Manafort's latest bail offer and Rick Gates was fired by his attorney... But you stay woke now, ya hear.
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I'm glad to see Manafort fry, so your smack talk needs work.

But did you know Mueller is using the Steele Dossier as his roadmap for proving Trump/Russia collusion? :crylaugh:

Also, seriously, 4D chess means making your opponent take off the table the very move you don't want them to make. Trump did it masterfully with his schithole countries comment, and the Dems gained nothing for it. You should learn not to take the bait.
 
Xarog said:
I'm glad to see Manafort fry, so your smack talk needs work.

But did you know Mueller is using the Steele Dossier as his roadmap for proving Trump/Russia collusion? :crylaugh:

Also, seriously, 4D chess means making your opponent take off the table the very move you don't want them to make. Trump did it masterfully with his schithole countries comment, and the Dems gained nothing for it. You should learn not to take the bait.
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You've confused pointing and laughing with taking the bait, but I get it... You're on the hook of every grifter ever, so you don't know the difference.
 
GOP Senator Says Trump Is Ready to Start War With North Korea, Which Would Be “One of the Worst Catastrophic Events in History"

IT DIDN’T GET much notice, but Sen. Jim Risch made extremely alarming remarks on Sunday at the Munich Security Conference, in which he said President Donald Trump is prepared to start a “very, very brief” war with North Korea that would be “one of the worst catastrophic events in the history of our civilization.” Trump would go to these extraordinary lengths, the Idaho Republican said, in order to prevent the government of Kim Jong-un from developing the capacity to deliver a nuclear warhead to the U.S. via an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Risch will likely become chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, if the GOP maintains control of the Senate and the current chair, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., retires. Risch said he and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. — who was sitting next to him on stage at the conference in Germany — had “drilled down with the administration” on its North Korea policy. Risch emphasized that the Trump administration was not bluffing.

If Risch is correct, Trump is willing to cause “mass casualties the likes of which the planet has never seen” in a conflict with North Korea, rather than rely on principles of deterrence that have prevented nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia and the U.S. and China for many decades.
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greg0205 said:
You've confused pointing and laughing with taking the bait, but I get it... You're on the hook of every grifter ever, so you don't know the difference.
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Nope, pointing and laughing is taking the bait in this instance.
 
Xarog said:
Nope, pointing and laughing is taking the bait in this instance.
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Wait. Where does having a good laugh fit on your liberal tears scale? Left of Twitter rant or right of sit-in at your representative's office?
 
greg0205 said:
Wait. Where does having a good laugh fit on your liberal tears scale? Left of Twitter rant or right of sit-in at your representative's office?
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You laugh at Trump for not knowing something obvious, which then turns into a big debate about the obvious, and the first conclusion about the obvious is that the existing regulations obviously don't work. So then by virtue of your laughter, you incur the very reasonable cost of having to explain what's different about a working regulation before you even start to talk about the regulations themselves (in this case gun regulations).

In the same way, Trump managed to get the Dems to spike the deal they were working on by talking about "schithole countries", leading to the Dems telling the world that America thinks other places are schithole countries, creating an international diplomatic incident, and the left-wing then going on a moral crusade about how great places like Haiti are when it's so obviously a lie, all for the sake for trying to laugh at Trump. Well congrats ya knuckleheads, you just ensured that you don't get to say that the immigration measures enable people to escape a life of misery cuz you said there's no such thing as schithole countries, remember?

So what do you think, is Trump really that oblivious about the existence of existing regulations, or is he simply goading you into adopting a position that isn't in your best interests?
 
Xarog said:
You laugh at Trump for not knowing something obvious, which then turns into a big debate about the obvious, and the first conclusion about the obvious is that the existing regulations obviously don't work. So then by virtue of your laughter, you incur the very reasonable cost of having to explain what's different about a working regulation before you even start to talk about the regulations themselves (in this case gun regulations).

In the same way, Trump managed to get the Dems to spike the deal they were working on by talking about "schithole countries", leading to the Dems telling the world that America thinks other places are schithole countries, creating an international diplomatic incident, and the left-wing then going on a moral crusade about how great places like Haiti are when it's so obviously a lie, all for the sake for trying to laugh at Trump. Well congrats ya knuckleheads, you just ensured that you don't get to say that the immigration measures enable people to escape a life of misery cuz you said there's no such thing as schithole countries, remember?

So what do you think, is Trump really that oblivious about the existence of existing regulations, or is he simply goading you into adopting a position that isn't in your best interests?
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You realise we're talking about movie ratings here, not US foreign policy, yes?
 
greg0205 said:
You realise we're talking about movie ratings here, not US foreign policy, yes?
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Were we? To me it looked like Trump was making comments about the underlying causes of school mass shootings. The fact that his strategy is flexible enough to be deployed in multiple scenarios is one of its selling points, I'd say.
 
Oh dear. Remember when I said a federal judge turned down Paul Manafort's latest bail offer and Rick Gates was fired by his attorney?

Mueller just filed new charges... A 32 count indictment.

Bad day for those two boys... I'm calling it, Gates flips first.
 
Xarog said:
Were we? To me it looked like Trump was making comments about the underlying causes of school mass shootings. The fact that his strategy is flexible enough to be deployed in multiple scenarios is one of its selling points, I'd say.
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Sweet Jesus... No. Nope. Nee. Everything in that post was back-story for:

"And you go one further step and that's the movies. You see these movies, and they’re so violent, a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn’t involved, but killing is involved, and maybe they have to put a rating system for that."

Everything.
 
greg0205 said:
Oh dear. Remember when I said a federal judge turned down Paul Manafort's latest bail offer and Rick Gates was fired by his attorney?

Mueller just filed new charges... A 32 count indictment.

Bad day for those two boys... I'm calling it, Gates flips first.
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Eh? How can an attorney fire a client?

And why do you think Manafort has anything on Trump after only having worked for Trump for 2 months? :D
 
greg0205 said:
Sweet Jesus... No. Nope. Nee. Everything in that post was back-story for:

"And you go one further step and that's the movies. You see these movies, and they’re so violent, a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn’t involved, but killing is involved, and maybe they have to put a rating system for that."

Everything.
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That's the bait. As I said, do you really think Trump is so catastrophically oblivious to the world that he wouldn't know about movie ratings?
 
Xarog said:
Eh? How can an attorney fire a client?

And why do you think Manafort has anything on Trump after only having worked for Trump for 2 months? :D
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He put in a motion to withdraw from the case, so yeah, fired his client. Gates is either not taking advice or so toxic his lawyer just wants out.

And sure, Paul was just the coffee boy, folk hardly knew him, low level... :p

EDIT: Oof! $30M+ in money laundering is one of the charges...
 
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