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Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

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Darat said:
They've really played him well, all that pomp and he's putty in their hands.
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No kidding, drag out the traditional dancers, give him the ceremonial tat from the souvenir shop and our president is now your prison date. China might as well tattoo a picture of a hot chick on his back.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41937426

Trump at Apec summit: US will no longer tolerate trade abuses

President Donald Trump has said the US will no longer tolerate "chronic trade abuses", in a defiant address at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit in Vietnam.
He said he would always put US interests first and Apec nations should "abide by fair reciprocal trade".
In stark contrast, China's Xi Jinping said globalisation was irreversible and voiced support for multilateralism.
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But it's not the fault of China, he admires them. It was those previous US Presidents that are to blame.
 
Today's BBC OS "Trump's Towns" from Phoenix Arizona, is more encouraging

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vrb5cv15kyw
OS continues its US tour, coming live from the newsroom of the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona - a town that voted for Trump despite the conservative newspaper endorsing Clinton. We hear from journalists and local people about how they feel now.
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The Arizona Republic shows what a respectable conservative looks like
 
jimbob said:
Today's BBC OS "Trump's Towns" from Phoenix Arizona, is more encouraging

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vrb5cv15kyw

The Arizona Republic shows what a respectable conservative looks like
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For those of us who are at work or otherwise cannot listen, could you give a brief description of what the show was about?

It sounds like it involves people admitting "I voted for Trump but it was a mistake". But did they give indications why they voted for him in the first place and/or why they changed their opinion?

And did they give any statistics/opinion polls or just random interviews?
 
Segnosaur said:
For those of us who are at work or otherwise cannot listen, could you give a brief description of what the show was about?

It sounds like it involves people admitting "I voted for Trump but it was a mistake". But did they give indications why they voted for him in the first place and/or why they changed their opinion?

And did they give any statistics/opinion polls or just random interviews?
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It's general discussion - from the newsroom of the Arizona Republic, which endorsed a Democrat candidate last year, for the first time since it started publication in 1890, saying that Trump isn't Conservative.

They also were saying that sexual harassment is a major problem, and that the outrage about the recent news has reached a tipping point, including amongst conservatives (and gave quotes)

It is still being broadcast, but the staff are not wilfully ignorant - unlike the staff of the Times Gazette in Hillsboro, Ohio.
 
Carroll Bryant

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He was in his 40's when he tried to seduce a 17 year old Mexican girl. when that failed he tried to bully her into committing suicide:
Backstory: The Legend of Carroll Bryant

Now he's claiming it's better to have pedophiles in office than Democrats:
Democrats Versus Pedophiles
 
Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn.


On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a party-line vote, approved him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-judge-20171110-story.html
 
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Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn.


On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a party-line vote, approved him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-judge-20171110-story.html
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The GOP is getting more blatant. They are knocking out the other leg of the checks and balances - I just hope they don't go too far before 2020
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn.


On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a party-line vote, approved him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-judge-20171110-story.html
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**** us. This country is so screwed. :(
 
Travis said:
Personally I would love for a Democrat to run on a platform of punishing Trump supporters with a massive, brutal totalitarian crackdown. They would, and shouldn't, win but I'd love to be able to put their campaign signs all over my yard on a busy street corner just so everyone that voted Trump could see how much I hate them.

It would be hugely divisive and would never work politically but, damn, it would feel good.
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Uh? Divisive is quite politically workable.

Divisive has a solid grip on power up and down the board right now. Hardly a progressive or conservative I know not willing to be quite divisive on a regular basis lately.

This is where the tapatalk signature that annoys people used to be
 
Flynn's lawyer has denied that Flynn discussed ways to abduct Turkish cleric and send him to Turkey.
 
Craig4 said:
What value can a denial from this group have? It's not as if the president and those he associates himself with are honorable people.
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I did make that point in the Trump and Russia thread, but I can't see anything else about the story anywhere on ISF. (On that thread it is not quite a derail, but it was buried under discussion about photos of Putin shaking hands... :rolleyes:

HEre is Esquire's take on it

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a13515798/michael-flynn-turkey-deal-15-million/

At the time of this meeting at 21, Michael Flynn was one of the incoming administration*’s foremost national security advisors. He was intimately involved with planning the transition to a new administration that, even more than most, was being assembled on the fly by people who really didn’t know what they were doing, including Flynn himself, God knows. Still, Flynn allegedly found the time to cut a deal with a foreign power to kidnap one of its enemies on American soil and transport him overseas, for which the Flynns pere et fils would be paid $15 million. Later, when as far as anyone knows, his deal with Turkey was still pending, Flynn would become the president*s National Security Advisor, with all the power and influence that office entails.
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