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The Trump Presidency: Sweet/Sweat 16

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Interesting to see the name "Barron" trending on Twitter. Apparently a lot of people (many many people!) were just as stunned and offended as I was.
Trump: "We can't have our youth be so affected. And I'm hearing it - that's how the first lady got involved. She's got a son...together, that is a beautiful young man. And she feels very, very strongly about it."
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I remember watching the inaugural parade and seeing him walk with his parents. He just kind of trailed along at first, but at one point seemed to really get into the parade, and smiled and waved to the crowd. I thought at the time it must be very rare for him to smile, and felt sorry for the kid. I hope that under Melania's (sole) care, he's not affected by the things his father is doing.
 
alfaniner said:
Interesting to see the name "Barron" trending on Twitter. Apparently a lot of people (many many people!) were just as stunned and offended as I was.


I remember watching the inaugural parade and seeing him walk with his parents. He just kind of trailed along at first, but at one point seemed to really get into the parade, and smiled and waved to the crowd. I thought at the time it must be very rare for him to smile, and felt sorry for the kid. I hope that under Melania's (sole) care, he's not affected by the things his father is doing.
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What a complete bastard. What kind of father talks about his son like this? Of course, from the Howard Stern show, we know he's not all that interested in his sons. His two daughters get all of daddy's attention.
 
alfaniner said:
Interesting to see the name "Barron" trending on Twitter. Apparently a lot of people (many many people!) were just as stunned and offended as I was.


I remember watching the inaugural parade and seeing him walk with his parents. He just kind of trailed along at first, but at one point seemed to really get into the parade, and smiled and waved to the crowd. I thought at the time it must be very rare for him to smile, and felt sorry for the kid. I hope that under Melania's (sole) care, he's not affected by the things his father is doing.
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Now I feel bad... I didn't even spell the kid's name right.
That's how infrequently he shows up in topics I'm thinking about.

- How serious was the poster above (?) about not knowing Tiffany existed? Damn.
:)
 
Craig4 said:
What a complete bastard. What kind of father talks about his son like this? Of course, from the Howard Stern show, we know he's not all that interested in his sons. His two daughters get all of daddy's attention.
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"Wait....I have two daughters??"
 
kellyb said:
Here's a Tucker Carlson interview with some guy I've never heard of before, who might be Bolton's replacement:
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1171583543832715264

He sounds like...a peacenik? lol
I dunno, but I hope he gets the gig.
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This is exactly what the right accuses liberals of. Pie in the sky, unicorn rainbow farts vision of how world peace will come about just by withdrawing from everywhere "bringing our troops home" from places where "we aren't even at risk" so that other nations can "deal with it themselves."

While I'm all for world peace, there's actually reckless ways to try and get there that invite disorder and chaos. First on the people far away, but then later in acts of targeted blowback. Then we'll be back to square one (but there might be a new "false flag" conspiracy for this forum to debate afterwards).
 
Captain_Swoop said:
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If for any reason they come back to our country, we will go wherever they are & use power the likes of which the US has never used before -- and I'm not even talking about nuclear power. They will have never seen anything like what will happen to them.
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It reminds me of my father after the Oklahoma City bombing. "When we find out who did it, we should bomb their country flat!!" Then it turned out that Americans did it. Oops.
 
Delphic Oracle said:
This is exactly what the right accuses liberals of. Pie in the sky, unicorn rainbow farts vision of how world peace will come about just by withdrawing from everywhere "bringing our troops home" from places where "we aren't even at risk" so that other nations can "deal with it themselves."

While I'm all for world peace, there's actually reckless ways to try and get there that invite disorder and chaos. First on the people far away, but then later in acts of targeted blowback. Then we'll be back to square one (but there might be a new "false flag" conspiracy for this forum to debate afterwards).
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I'm pretty sure we could just be as peace with Iran, Syria, and NK without it being irresponsible.

Afghanistan is a lot trickier. The Taliban can apparently be persuaded (at times) to chill out as long as they can make money growing poppy. But Saudi Arabia is always "seeding" the population over there with religious fanaticism, so...I dunno. It's complex, and you'd pretty much have to be a member of some national security inner circle to have the information necessary to make a call on how to handle that.

I'll take General "Give Peace a Chance" over John "nuke ALL the countries" Bolton, though.
 
alfaniner said:
It made me sad how in his interview today about vaping, he stated his concern about the use among young people with, "Melania, she has a young son..."

like he won't even acknowledge his own kid.
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From what I've read, he took very little interest in his children until they were older. He left the first 4 in their mothers' care almost entirely.
 
alfaniner said:
This is one date where The PDJT should just make one respectful Tweet, then stfu for the rest of the day.
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Instead, we got things like a whole lot of whining about his polling numbers.

dudalb said:
ANybody know what the hell Trump was taking about when he said if there is another Terrorist attack on the US,he will use a weapon such as the world has never seen????
I guess it could be nuclear weapons, but then the world has seen those used ..maybe Donnie forgot about Hiroshima.
Or maybe he just talking tough ..something he loves to do to make happy his idiot level macho supporters.
Who knows? Maybe he thinks he has the Infinity Gauntlet...
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Space Force? Moon base lasers? Revealing more top secret military satellite capabilities for the sake of addressing petty impulses?

quadraginta said:
I am unsurprised that Bishop won, although I will admit to disappointed. Certainly not to despair. I've lived in NC for over four decades. If I were to despair whenever a Republican won something I would have left the state or offed myself long ago.
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Indeed. I will share in your lack of surprise and disappointment a bit, though I'm not directly involved or a resident of NC. With that said, though, as a resident of NC, do you have anything to say when it comes to this event?

Fury and chaos after NC Republicans hold surprise budget vote while governor attends 9/11 ceremony

As Gov. Roy Cooper and at least one Democrat from the North Carolina legislature attended a memorial on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Republicans held a surprise vote to override the Democratic governor’s veto of the state budget. Democrats had been assured that there would be no votes on Wednesday morning, and that Republicans were only opening the session as a technicality so they could get to work on other business.
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Personally, my comment here is that the current GOP continues to demonstrate that they're cowardly, dishonorable scum who cannot be trusted to uphold anything that they say they will and are gleeful as they piss all over patriotic American values.

In other random news...

That was a good answer, Pelosi.

REPORTER: Do you have any regrets about not bringing the House back in August to keep the flame lit on gun violence?

PELOSI: No, absolutely not. We did our job. The Senate was suppose to come back. Why don’t you all get that straight?

The Senate did not come back to pass the bill. I’m getting very angry about the silliness of these questions.

Lives are at stake and Senator McConnell is standing in the way. We passed our bill in February. Members had events all over the country to ask him to bring up the bill.

Don’t ask me what we haven’t done. We have done it. And if you are annoyed with my impatience, it’s because people are dying, because Senator McConnell hasn’t acted. Why don’t you go ask him if he has any regrets for all the people who’ve died, because he hasn’t acted?
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That Pelosi even needed to give an answer to a question like that is just all the more reason to be clear about how much the right-wing media is brazenly lying about the (not actually) "liberal media."

U.S. officials ripped a Bahamian girl from her family and sent her to a migrant kids' facility

That 12-year old was totally one of those "very bad people" that Trump was warning us about, right? We can all sleep more soundly knowing that that 12 year old isn't going to threaten us.
 
dudalb said:
ANybody know what the hell Trump was taking about when he said if there is another Terrorist attack on the US,he will use a weapon such as the world has never seen????.
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Presumably he means "Muslim Terrorist attack" as opposed to the far more common domestic white supremacist Terrorist attack.

It's just President Trump flapping his gums IMO, there's nothing to the threat, or more specifically the claim that some super sekrit weapon would be used. Any reprisals will use conventional weapons and tactics (unless he's planning to unleash some new biological weapon that only kills people of a particular religion (or set of religions) :rolleyes: - or skin darker than a certain shade).
 
Trump was obviously talking about using HAARP to cause earthquakes in the region where the terrorists come from - again.
 
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