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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne
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Trump is getting to understand how General Custer must have felt. The wagons have circled and the attacks are coming from all directions. |
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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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A recent look at the Fox corner of the swamp:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house
The corruption will be mountain-high by the time the vulgar toad is removed, while the peasants will be angrier, unhealthier, less skilled, more disoriented, more fundamentalist, more fearful of the wider world, and of course poorer once the tab for the handouts to the wealthy comes in.
It's a joke to go from the outright state corruption of the billionaire Bush dynasty to the unchecked petty tyrant corruption of the billionaire la famiglia, as if learning nothing. And Jesus wept. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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thesoretoothsayer
Joined: 26 Apr 2017
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Orange man bad. |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Culprit wrote: | Trump is getting to understand how General Custer must have felt. The wagons have circled and the attacks are coming from all directions. |
Quote: | An eccentric billionaire wanted a mural painted on his library wall,
so he called in an artist. Describing what he wanted, the billionaire
said, "I am a history buff, and I would like your interpretation of
the last thing that went through Custer's mind before he died. I am
going out of town on business for a week, and when I return I expect
to see it completed."
Upon his return, the billionaire went to the library to examine the
finished work. To his surprise he found a painting of a cow with a
halo. Surrounding this there were hundreds of Indians in various
stages and different positions of making love. Furious he called the
artist in.
"What the hell is this?" screamed the billionaire.
"Why that's exactly what you asked for," said the artist smugly.
"No! I didn't ask for a mural of pornographic filth, I asked for a
mural of the interpretation of Custer's last thoughts!"
"And there you have it," said the artist, "I call it, 'Holy cow look
at all those $£$%^%%$ Indians!'" |
_________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne
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Jezza
2023 PREMIERS!
Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End
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Culprit wrote: | https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/republican-senators-defy-trump-reject-national-emergency-declaration-20190315-p514dq.html
And Trump will Veto, attacks the Dems and ignores the RINOs that voted with the Dems. Trump truly wants to be a dictator. |
Corrected it for you.
RINOs = Republican In Name Only. _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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I've always found the "RINO" thing a weird insult. Trump has broken from Republican tradition in a lot of quite significant and fundamental ways, and, at least in rhetoric, radically changed some of the party's traditional stances towards, say, trade and foreign policy. Whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing, it's a fact. So why are his old-school conservative critics "RINOs" and not the Trumpistas themselves? _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Jezza
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It depends on which brand of conservatism you support. Essentially it's a war between two factions of conservatism.
Both Neoconservatives (e.g. Bushes, McCain, Romney) and Paleoconservatives (e.g. Trump, Buchanan, Bannon and Ron and Rand Paul to a certain extent) accuse each other of being not "real" conservatives. Though, I would say the Paul family are free trade proponents but very much anti-war and against the Neocon foreign policy agenda.
The Neocons ('New Right') have dominated the Republican Party for decades, with it's peak occurring during the Bush presidencies, but Paleocons ('Old Right') have made a comeback and re-emerged somewhat since Trump's rise. Though I don't think Trump's strictly a Paleocon, but he holds more traditional Paleocon positions on various issues than most of his previous Republican predecessors of the last 50 years.
I can outline some of the policy differentials between the two factions if you wish, but that's the crux of the issue in my opinion. _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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I'd put the Pauls in a different category altogether – they're hardcore right-libertarians, and really quite fundamentally different to Trump's politics in many ways (although both have a generally isolationist foreign-policy agenda and generally lie outside the Reaganite pro-capital, pro-family-values Republican mainstream). Trump, if anything, is closer to the old protectionist/nationalist right, although we should recognise here that what Trump thinks, what he says and what he does are three very different things. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Jezza
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I pretty much agree with all of that, especially on the Pauls. _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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Wokko
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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David
I dare you to try
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Although the absence of indictments is good news for Trump, it does seem like its central questions remain unresolved – from the link above:
Quote: | With no details released at this point, it’s not known whether Mueller’s report answers the core questions of his investigation: Did Trump’s campaign collude with the Kremlin to sway the 2016 presidential election in favor of the celebrity businessman? Also, did President Trump take steps later, including by firing his FBI director, to obstruct the probe? |
Guess we’ll have to wait until the publication of the report (if it happens); I also expect it to be a fizzer, but I’ll be holding fire until some clearer information about its content emerges. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
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A Republican appointed by Republicans to investigate Republicans sends a dozen Republicans, all close to the President, to prison. It’s a victory for Trump in the limited sense that he isn’t one of them (yet). |
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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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Trump's corrupt abuse of office for personal and nepotistic gain, surrounded by criminals, is already staggering.
Meanwhile, he is an open-book indictment of an outmoded, decayed, embarrassment of a political system.
Regardless, the report was never going to indict an American supreme pharaoh, I mean president. Everyone knows action in that regard would be left with Congress, which itself only marginally less farcical than Trump.
The willingness to let Trump openly enrich himself, and dabble arbitrarily in serious domestic and international affairs like a drooling halfwit on the set of his own reality TV show, is a volatile brown substance just waiting to explode.
But providing handouts to billionaires and tyrannies across the world, and throwing raw meat to riled peasants, is most definitely the best way to stay above laws and norms. It worked for George W. and his cronies, none of whom are in jail. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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Wokko
Come and take it.
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"The president's net worth stands at $3.1 billion, down from $4.5 billion in 2015, Forbes said. As a result, Trump has tumbled down the Forbes 400 list, the latest edition of which will be published in full Wednesday. Trump was the 248th wealthiest person in America on Forbes' 2017 list." |
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