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

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PhantomWolf said:
The biggest threat that Trump and Co are creating is not what they do themselves, but rather the more and more they fall into madness, the more they make people who would have be seen as extreme and loopy just a year or two ago, now sound as if they are the voices of reason on the Right.
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Such as Pence, for instance?
 
Jim_MDP said:
And it depends on the security and facilities of the location. Hence my curiosity of where it's kept while POTUS sleeps (re: the WH).
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There are three footballs: one for the Vice President, one for the President while travelling, and one that is kept in the White House. The location of the football in the White House is not disclosed for security reasons. I haven’t heard of any leak on where it is kept. My guess would be that it is in a bunker.

When the President is in the White House, the traveling football is kept in a “secure location” that is also not disclosed. Because there is already a football in the White House, I would guess that it is kept in another location. Probably a nearby building. Maybe they move the location around.

There is an office of the military that is responsible for the travelling football. The aide that actually carries the football is periodically rotated though the different branches of the military. The football stays with the aide. For example, when Trump stays at Trump Tower, the office rents an apartment in the tower and they keep the football there while the President sleeps (the apartment is rented from the owner of the apartment, not directly from Trump).

Carter wouldn’t let the aide stay on his peanut farm. The aide had to stay about 10 miles away.

Jim_MDP said:
But thanks for the link... funny to see that both Bill and Ronnie lost their Biscuit (once each).
No details on Bill's cock-up... but I'd blame the SS for not securing Reagan's clothing and possessions when he was stripped for surgery.
Finding it later in the hospital's trash must have been embarrassing. ;)
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Carter also lost the biscuit (the plastic card with the codes the President uses to confirm his identity when calling in an emergency action). He kept it in his jacket pocket and the jacket got sent to the cleaners with the biscuit in it.

Clinton may have lost it for several months. He didn’t remember how long it had been since he last saw it.

Regan’s biscuit didn’t end up in the trash. The hospital staff cut his clothes off and threw them aside on the floor. The Secret Service came in and put everything in a bag. The FBI came in to collect evidence and took the bag. The aide-de-camp with the football had been left behind in the motorcade. He went to the hospital with the football and was looking for the biscuit.

The FBI would not hand it over because they have jurisdiction over evidence of the attack on the President and because they weren’t sure who was authorized to have the card. If the aide or White House security had the biscuit and the football, they would be able to pretend to be the President and call a nuclear strike, which they are clearly not authorized to do (although it would be likely the Secretary of Defense, knowing that the President was in surgery, would not confirm the identity of the caller without some additional research). So the Attorney General maintained that the FBI had the authority to protect the biscuit.

The National Security Advisor ordered the football to be brought to the Situation Room at the White House where he took control of the security of the football. The biscuit was handed over to the Secret Service a couple days later. We don’t know, but it seems likely that by that time the codes on that card had probably been invalidated and a new card issued to the President.

It was reported that the biscuit was found in Reagan’s shoe, which led to a rumor that he kept it in his sock. He actually kept it in the breast pocket of his suit jacket pocket or his billfold.
 
pgwenthold said:
18, I think.

And yet, the Georgia legislature voted to penalize Delta for eliminating it.

Yes, it was a trivial little thing, and what Delta did was mostly symbolic. But that symbolism was unacceptable to the Georga GOP.

What a bunch of snowflakes.
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They are not snowflakes but big tough guys, big tough guys do now whine when something offends them they hit it and hit it hard. That is the lesson to all who dare oppose the republican administration.
 
jimbob said:
Fair enough - no organisation can be held responsible for what their board members say. However, the organisation can then condemn such statements and expel them from the board for bringing the organisation into disrepute.

Doing nothing is tacit approval.

When you look at the rest of the statements from other board members, then it seems that xenophobia and bigotry (if not outright racism) are core values of the NRA.
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Look the NRA is happy to have Ted speaking for them, he represents their views and is in a position to say them clearly while many members are not. The membership supports the racism and conspiracy theories, the rejection of objective reality and discrediting facts. If the membership had any issue with these things it would surely come up at some point.
 
Talk about alternate realities...

From Twitter this morning:

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From 538 (Trump is the bottom line):

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Am I missing the way these two can be reconciled?
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Talk about alternate realities...

From Twitter this morning:

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From 538 (Trump is the bottom line):

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Am I missing the way these two can be reconciled?
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The first cites a single poll, namely the notoriously GOP-biased Rasmussen poll. The other is an aggregate of many polls. It's lying with statistics. Not a new thing.
 
I know the one thing that would show the world that he is serious about something (anything, really!) -- is if he would shave his head.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
The latest Trump Inc. podcast ends by saying the president can waive the exclusivity of the presidential seal if and when he wants.
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I guess it depends where it's legislated. He still needs to learn his whim is not holy writ.
But I couldn't guess if he's got a case here or not.


If he wanted a ball marker with the seal, I'd say go for it (cool actually... while in office. rather small and petty after leaving).
I mean hell... the AF1 M&Ms are hot ticket items.

I guess the flap here is the courses are currently privately run by his son(s) (and going whole hog with the tee markers is just a little over the top).

Has this been a point of contention with past presidents/
 
Jim_MDP said:
I guess it depends where it's legislated. He still needs to learn his whim is not holy writ.
But I couldn't guess if he's got a case here or not.
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I figure he is pretty much like with russian sanctions, people can try to say the law applies but will find out that passing laws with massive bipartisan support is meaningless. The president controls the executive.

If he wanted a ball marker with the seal, I'd say go for it (cool actually... while in office. rather small and petty after leaving).
I mean hell... the AF1 M&Ms are hot ticket items.

I guess the flap here is the courses are currently privately run by his son(s) (and going whole hog with the tee markers is just a little over the top).

Has this been a point of contention with past presidents/
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Bush II sent the Onion a cease and desist order over it in the past. But I figure the bulk of republicans will continue to support this republican administration.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
The GOP can legislate and stop it. Do you think they have the guts yet to defy Trumpy?
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Trade policy is one of the few areas where I think the GOP Congress might actually oppose Trump in a meaningful way, but I don't think guts has anything to do with it. His plans could harm interest groups that they actually care about.
 
Civet said:
Trade policy is one of the few areas where I think the GOP Congress might actually oppose Trump in a meaningful way, but I don't think guts has anything to do with it. His plans could harm interest groups that they actually care about.
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This appears to be the first time Ryan has engaged in any level of pushback against Trump.
 
Netanyahu in Trump press conference just now: Iran is the enemy and Trump and I have secret intelligence information no one else has so trust us.

Trump in the conference: I'm the only one with the guts to move the embassy and I know how to make the Palestinian peace deal. Then he's goes off again about other countries ripping us off on trade deals.

:(
 
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