The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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Hellbound said:
They say it would take an infinite amount of time for an infinite number of monkeys to type out the works of Shakespeare by chance.
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Thanks to the internet, we now know this is not true. :D
Most of our Congressional bills? 12 monkeys, 30 minutes.
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Most Congressional bills would be improved by random typing by monkeys.
 
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Segnosaur said:
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Now there's one other issue:

From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...df0b94bb98a_story.html?utm_term=.b07850e30330
The budget extension lawmakers must vote on by Friday evening to avoid a government shutdown will, as written, give President Trump the power to secretly reshuffle money the administration spends on intelligence programs for the next month — sweeping authority that is unprecedented since the CIA was established. Lawmakers are scrambling to figure out why the short-term budget measure muzzles a long-standing law preventing the administration from spending money on intelligence activities Congress has not specifically authorized.
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Gee, I wonder how that slipped in there. :rolleyes:

From the article;

"Congressional staffers believe the “notwithstanding” mistake may have been inserted in error,"
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Yeah. Right. Suuure it was.
 
Lurch said:
It's sheer madness to propose an expensive mega-project on one's own soil, such as the cursed wall, and not just *expect* another nation to pick up the tab, but even to *suggest* that such could enter into the realm of possibility. From the first moment of his uttering such a damn fool idea I could see only lunacy on the part of Trump's fevered imagination and insanity among the millions (Jesus, that many?!) bigger fools who bought into it.

Surely Trump's base must see by now some glimmerings of a realization that a full blown manifestation of such a Quixotic scheme is unrealistic at best, and in some measure ruinous.
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You're giving his base much more credit for intelligence than they deserve.
 
bruto said:
On the other hand it's possible. "Notwithstanding" is an awful big word.
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Yeah. So many people use it as a regular part of their daily speech that it could have easily just slipped into the changes being made to the bill without even realizing it.

And, of course, no one else noticing until the WaPo picked up on it.
 
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Fast Eddie B said:
I’ll bet his supporters see that as a badge of honor!
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Now, probably. But when it was Obama, it was all about how the US didn't have any respect worldwide.

Now that the US has lost any respect it had, that is a badge of honor.
 
I just watched the Letterman interview with Obama on Netflix. Nothing has made it so clear why I hate Trump more than this. Trumo aspired beyond his station. He'll never be like Obama. He'll never sit on a stage in front of civili society and be asked questions by an urbane intellectual about his time in office. Trump will never have a sense of history. He will never have a sense of humility, the way Obama talks about John Lewis. Trump will never feel the awe of being the Republic's president.

Trump is trying to join a club that will never have him. At 71, a man should know his station. The next president could rightly say he or she doesn't want a portrait of a Trump in the Whitehouse and they would be right. He was never good enough to be part of the club.
 
Lurch said:
It's sheer madness to propose an expensive mega-project on one's own soil, such as the cursed wall, and not just *expect* another nation to pick up the tab, but even to *suggest* that such could enter into the realm of possibility. From the first moment of his uttering such a damn fool idea I could see only lunacy on the part of Trump's fevered imagination and insanity among the millions (Jesus, that many?!) bigger fools who bought into it.

Surely Trump's base must see by now some glimmerings of a realization that a full blown manifestation of such a Quixotic scheme is unrealistic at best, and in some measure ruinous.
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One would hope that if McMaster is still loyal to the country (we need no longer be detained by questions of Kelly's loyalty) he would be explaining what everyone over the rank of O-3 knows. If the enemy has reached your physical barriers, you've already lost. You can breach a physical defense for a small fraction of what your enemy spent building it.

It's time we accepted that true security on our southern border means a prosperous Mexico with an empowered civili society, a security service not fighting our drug war and jobs for the average Mexican that pay enough that he or she doesn't want to come here.
 
Craig4 said:
The next president could rightly say he or she doesn't want a portrait of a Trump in the Whitehouse and they would be right. He was never good enough to be part of the club.
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The office of the public school where I volunteer still has a portrait of President Obama on display. I haven't bothered to point it out to anyone there.
 
pgwenthold said:
Now, probably. But when it was Obama, it was all about how the US didn't have any respect worldwide.

Now that the US has lost any respect it had, that is a badge of honor.
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Excellent point. It's just crazy to think that these things are said in all earnestness and a sizable portion of the population yum it up like a dog lapping up a pool of vomit.



Craig4 said:
Trump is trying to join a club that will never have him. At 71, a man should know his station. The next president could rightly say he or she doesn't want a portrait of a Trump in the Whitehouse and they would be right. He was never good enough to be part of the club.
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Of course. The root of his deep-seated psychoses is a devastating sense of inferiority which he must compensate for.**



















**The standard disclaimers apply.
 
I’m hearing claims from Trump supporters that ISIS has “shrunk” due to Trump’s ...I dunno. Something. Business experience?

Has anyone else heard this claim or know what it’s based on, if anything?
 
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