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Cont: The Trump Presidency IX: Nein, Nein!

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kellyb said:
Michael Flynn Jr is a very silly person, and he's on twitter.

https://twitter.com/mflynnJR/status/1037506916254199809


Hahahahaha!!!
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Well that's pretty dumb. This deep state thing is supposed to be all the career people in government. The career people in government don't have access to the president's desk. It's members of the administration who can just walk into the Oval Office and put things on or take things off the president's desk.
 
Craig4 said:
Well that's pretty dumb. This deep state thing is supposed to be all the career people in government. The career people in government don't have access to the president's desk. It's members of the administration who can just walk into the Oval Office and put things on or take things off the president's desk.
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You'd think if anyone would be the walking personification of the "deep state", it would be Flynn Sr. :confused:
 
LSSBB said:
His NPD impeded his ability to address the Russian threat. Mental Illness.
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This may be the actual thinking but the cabal wants to have it both ways. "He's not capable of doing the job, but we are, so don't be afraid to vote Republican in the midterms!"

Brilliant strategy or Hail Mary?
 
SezMe said:
I found the comments to that Oe-Ed to just as interesting as the piece itself. Most that I read pointed out that the author is a coward, not a hero, and is not protecting the country as he claims to be doing.
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I can understand that point of view.

Imagine the increased import of that letter had it been signed by General Mattis or Kelley.

Not saying I agree, since that would result in their firing, which would remove them from the “loop” reining in the president.

Still wondering if any administration officials have used the word “lodestar” in their writings, or if this is a red herring.
 
newyorkguy said:
Melania? She didn't care did u?

(Has to be one of the most bizarre actions I've ever seen from a public figure. Worn on her trip to the detention camp. If she wore it to send a message she's a real biyatch. If she did it without being aware of the effect, she's brain dead. I tend to think it was the former -- she's a biyatch on wheels -- because, despite the furor, she never offered any public explanation or even acknowledged the outcry.)
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I found myself a bit surprised by the limited reaction to that particular incident.
Something about it struck quite a chord with me, and I was surprised that It did not incense more people.
 
Today, on the latest episode of "Understanding the Constitution", Trump wonders why people are allowed to protest.

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for NFL players protesting police treatment of African-Americans by kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem. "As far as the NFL is concerned, I just find it hard to watch, and always will, until they stand for the FLAG!" Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning.
But, in an interview with the conservative Daily Caller site on Tuesday afternoon, Trump took his views on protests even further -- raising the question as to whether protests should even be allowed.
"I think it's embarrassing for the country to allow protesters, you don't even know which side the protesters were on," Trump said. "But to allow someone to stand up and scream from the top of their lungs and nobody does anything about it is frankly — I think it's an embarrassment."
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"I think it's embarrassing for the country to allow protesters". There's that annoying First Amendment again, getting in the way of his beloved authoritarianism.
 
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Belz... said:
...really?
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Not proven but it coincidentally happened when his son was in Scouts

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am...ntain-republican-party-new-york-a7387701.html



Reports also suggest the organisation's smallest ever gift was a $7 donation paid to the Boy Scouts in 1989 – the same amount it cost at the time to register a new Scout. Mr Trump’s eldest son, Donald Junior, was 11 at the time. It is unknown whether the ‘donation’ was paid to register his child.
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Rubio tweets:

"America has one duly elected president. Anybody serving at his pleasure should do so faithfully. When they feel they no longer can, they should resign & speak in their own name so the country can evaluate their insights with a full understanding of where they are coming from."

"Proper guardrails on any President isn’t staff subterfuge, it’s elections & our constitutional checks. The giddy reaction by some to the op-ed in @nyt shows how, for far too many people, on both sides, partisan animosity has overtaken a commitment to our constitutional republic."
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What Rubio of course doesn't mention is that the constitutional checks are broken now, with him complicit.

I actually agree with his first tweet, leaving aside the "duly elected" for now.
 
BobTheCoward said:
He addressed the Russian threat. You just don't like how he did it.
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You mean sorta like Tricky Dicky's "secret 1972 plan to end the war"? Who knew it was "give up"? Donnie's way of addressing the Russian threat was to acquiesce to it? I should hope LSSBB didn't "like how he did it".
 
Firestone said:
Rubio tweets:

"America has one duly elected president. Anybody serving at his pleasure should do so faithfully. When they feel they no longer can, they should resign & speak in their own name so the country can evaluate their insights with a full understanding of where they are coming from."

"Proper guardrails on any President isn’t staff subterfuge, it’s elections & our constitutional checks. The giddy reaction by some to the op-ed in @nyt shows how, for far too many people, on both sides, partisan animosity has overtaken a commitment to our constitutional republic."
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What Rubio of course doesn't mention is that the constitutional checks are broken now, with him complicit.

I actually agree with his first tweet, leaving aside the "duly elected" for now.
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Yeah, I also pretty much agree with the first portion of his tweet. The ethical option for these people would to resign in protest and publicly oppose the president.

They are trying to thread the needle of keeping hold of the reigns of power via Trump while undercutting aspects of his presidency they find objectionable. Not exactly noble. It brings me comfort that Trump is actively being stymied by his own administration, but it doesn't reflect well on anyone involved on a personal level.
 
Foolmewunz said:
You mean sorta like Tricky Dicky's "secret 1972 plan to end the war"? Who knew it was "give up"? Donnie's way of addressing the Russian threat was to acquiesce to it? I should hope LSSBB didn't "like how he did it".
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Let's try to enforce the 25th amendment in good faith. It says "unable"

Suppose a teenager is required to wash dishes. Instead, the child plays video games instead. Like most teenagers, they are narcissistic and think dishes are below them. I don't think people would describe that situation as unable to do dishes.
 
kellyb said:
Resident conspiracy theorist here, checking in!

Sept 1st:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joh...table-figures-friends-honor/story?id=57528239
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Aug 25th:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joh...table-figures-friends-honor/story?id=57528239
"He is in the business of making money and he has been successful both in television as well as Miss America and others," McCain said. "I was raised in a military family. I was raised in the concept and belief that duty, honor, country is the – is the lodestar for the behavior that we have to exhibit every single day."
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I'm guessing all the political bigwigs were talking about Trump's lack of a moral compass and using the word lodestar around the time of McCain's funeral.
 
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