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The Trump Presidency: Sweet/Sweat 16

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Captain_Swoop said:
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The Dow is down 573 points perhaps on the news that Representative Seth Moulton, whoever that may be, has dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race!
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Portraying him as a nobody and someone with yuge influence on the stock market at the same time, in the same tweet.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
Can't decide if this was pareidolia with your post priming me, or Trump being Trump. Either way, wow.
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Well a couple of seconds earlier - it makes more sense.

"Gina is wonderful - forgina"
 
Trump Tweets

When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said “I am the chosen one,” at a press conference two days ago, referring to taking on Trade with China, little did I realize that the media would claim that I had a “Messiah complex.” They knew I was kidding, being sarcastic, and just....

....having fun. I was smiling as I looked up and around. The MANY reporters with me were smiling also. They knew the TRUTH...And yet when I saw the reporting, CNN, MSNBC and other Fake News outlets covered it as serious news & me thinking of myself as the Messiah. No more trust!
 
Trump Tweets

“Face It, You Probably Got A Tax Cut!” This was a New York Times headline, and it is very true. If Republicans take back the House, and keep the Senate and Presidency, one of our first acts will be to approve a major middle income Tax Cut! Democrats only want to raise your taxes!

Just had lunch with French President @EmmanuelMacron. Many good things are happening for both of our countries. Big weekend with other world leaders!
 
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Looking forward to helping New York City and Governor @andrewcuomo complete the long anticipated, and partially built, Second Avenue Subway. Would be extended to East 125th Street in Harlem. Long in the making, they now have the team that can get it done!

North Carolina Governor Cooper Vetoed a Bill that would have required Sheriffs to cooperate with Ice. This is a terrible decision for the great people of North Carolina. He should reverse his decision and get back to the basics of fighting crime!
 
angrysoba said:
What? But aren’t the Democrats pushing for background checks?
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Oh, I suppose. Don't they always?

Point being is the devil is always in the details. There's a snowball's chance in hell that any Republican would pass a bill crafted by Democrats (and it's not like Democrats or Republicans craft any bills any more anyway -- it's all literally done by special interest groups, superPACs and lobbyists) so the only way that some sort of vague "background check bill" would be passed in this day and age is if there was something in it that would affect minorities more than whites.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
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North Carolina Governor Cooper Vetoed a Bill that would have required Sheriffs to cooperate with Ice. This is a terrible decision for the great people of North Carolina. He should reverse his decision and get back to the basics of fighting crime!
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Details of the bill.

Among other things, HB 370, passed by the state House of Representatives on Tuesday and by the state Senate in June, would have required authorities to determine whether prisoners are legal US residents, and if they were unable to do so, to inquire about their residency status with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Department of Homeland Security and flag to the agencies if someone was in the country illegally. Authorities also would have been required to allow ICE or DHS officials to interview prisoners upon request and detain prisoners if asked to do so by federal authorities until they could be transferred.
Additionally, the bill mandated that sheriffs would be removed from office if they did not cooperate with the new law, which is being considered amid heightened efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on illegal immigration.
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Determine the citizenship status of every prisoner.
Allow federal authorities to interrogate and detain any prisoner whenever they feel like it.
Immediately fire any sheriff who doesn't cooperate.

Why would anyone object to that?
 
The Norseman said:
Oh, I suppose. Don't they always?

Point being is the devil is always in the details. There's a snowball's chance in hell that any Republican would pass a bill crafted by Democrats (and it's not like Democrats or Republicans craft any bills any more anyway -- it's all literally done by special interest groups, superPACs and lobbyists) so the only way that some sort of vague "background check bill" would be passed in this day and age is if there was something in it that would affect minorities more than whites.
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This sort of blanket reasoning seems to apply to almost any topic. The only way Republicans would work with Democrats is if the result affects minorities in a disproportionately negative way.

It's not very useful reasoning, in my opinion. Your only argument that background checks would be onerous to minorities is that they'd have to be for them nasty Republicans to want them.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
For China

Honestly, aren't there enough things to complain about Trump saying without adding this kind of nonsense?
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You think that Soba was honestly complaining? He was poking fun at Trump's pronunciation. Heck, he might have even known that Trump said "for China", don't you think?
 
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