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Congratulations to Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher, his wonderful wife Andrea, and his entire family. You have been through much together. Glad I could help!
 
TragicMonkey said:
Which doesn't really fit with the "smiles" and "presume he enjoys it" bit. It seems clear your intent was to insult Trump for enjoying gay sex. If you want to call him a fag then do so, you don't need to scramble for excuses.

Plenty of cultures over history have derided the bottom in male homosexual activity. The Norse used it as a literal killing insult: if someone called you that you had to kill them or else it would be recognized as true and you'd be killed yourself. While simultaneously there was no insult implied at all to the top in the encounter. The crime wasn't in the homosexuality, it was in a male being the receptive partner because that was womanlike. A great deal of homophobia is actually just misapplied misogyny. It's an interesting subject, a sociocultural phenomenon rooted just as much in psychology as in history. It would be naive to think homophobia and its cultural manifestations, conscious and unconscious, would fade away overnight due to recent liberalization.

Nevertheless there are some manifestations that are pretty obvious, especially when they've been pointed out. Use or eschew them as you will, but don't expect to evade criticism.
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My intent was to insinuate he likes being a prostitute.
 
Craig4 said:
My intent was to insinuate he likes being a prostitute.
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Sure it was. And what's wrong with that, anyway? Everyone would be lucky to enjoy their work. Or do you just disapprove of sex work? Seems more like honest work than inheriting capital and getting into real estate. If you could prove Trump turned tricks for money he'd go up in my estimation. It would show more gumption, imagination, and dedication than I've hitherto credited him.
 
Armitage72 said:
He had been considering pardoning him, but decided to wait until after the trial to make his final decision. He probably feels he influenced the verdict.
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I do believe the POTUS "influencing" a deliberating jury might be considered jury tampering...
 
After his last batch of nominations for the Federal reserve board flamed out, Trump seems to be doubling down, at least for one of the nominations.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trump-picks-two-fed-nominees-likely-to-support-easier-policy-1.1281771
In her interview with Bloomberg in May, Shelton questioned the use of the Fed’s basic interest-rate tool to adjust the price of money, and thereby guide an economy toward a sustainable level of growth.

“A Fed that is too eager to artificially put in an interest rate that isn’t close to what the market would be suggesting is not so good,” she said at the time. “I would try to be the voice saying, are you sure you know better than the markets?”
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This falls under not even wrong. The market determines interest rates based on supply and demand for money. Not only is it the Feds job to manage money supply, it’s can’t not manage the money supply. Every decision it makes impacts money supply. Even the decision to “not get involved” would affect the money supply. Even if the Fed were to return to a Gold Standard as Shelton has previously suggested, it would have an impact on money supply.

What the Fed does is use interest rates as a guide to the short term demand for money, and increases/decreases the supply accordingly. With supply and demand matched interest rates are stable at that level.
 
The Atheist said:
Kim, sure, but I can see any way Trump would want to be undressing near Vlad.

Whatever else anyone thinks about Putin, the bloke has serious cojones. You don't get to the top in Russia by being a TV star. I bet he knows where plenty of bodies are buried.
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Untrue, I suspect very few of tgem were buried, as opposed to cremated or otherwise efficiently disposed of.
 
This parade sort of validates Stormy Daniel's claim that Trump is really minuscule in the manhood department. Tanks??? Jesus, most people settle for a Porsche!

I'm beginning to consider that the dreaded "pee tape" is probably a whole lot of Russian escorts pissing themselves AT Trump, not on him.
 
jimbob said:
Untrue, I suspect very few of tgem were buried, as opposed to cremated or otherwise efficiently disposed of.
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Old Russian joke:

Q: what's the tallest building in Moscow?

A: the Lubyanka, it's so tall you can see Siberia from the basement.
 
EvilBiker said:
This parade sort of validates Stormy Daniel's claim that Trump is really minuscule in the manhood department. Tanks??? Jesus, most people settle for a Porsche!

I'm beginning to consider that the dreaded "pee tape" is probably a whole lot of Russian escorts pissing themselves AT Trump, not on him.
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AIUI the pee tape is Trump watching the prostitutes he has paid to do so peeing on a bed that Barack Obama and his wife slept in.
 
TragicMonkey said:
That's somehow way more disturbing than actual watersports play would have been.
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But considering that he's been dedicated since 2011 to destroying or tarnishing everything President Obama ever touched, literally or figuratively, it's not really surprising.
 
TragicMonkey said:
That's somehow way more disturbing than actual watersports play would have been.
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Yea I could grudgingly in trumps case make noises about kinkshaming but, it is the personal pettiness and vindictiveness that seem so perfectly Trump about it.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

The cost of our great Salute to America tomorrow will be very little compared to what it is worth. We own the planes, we have the pilots, the airport is right next door (Andrews), all we need is the fuel. We own the tanks and all. Fireworks are donated by two of the greats. Nice!
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So, add "operating costs" to the things Trump doesn't understand.
 
I really hope someone is writing down all of the campaign finance violations and inappropriate use of government property for electioneering communications going on around this stupid fireworks display.

ETA: Also potentially making military personnel have to choose between violating DOD ethics regulations and disobeying an order.
 
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