Posts posted by WhatTheBuck
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1 hour ago, Sandman said:
Your wife buys you gifts? My wife tells me to buy myself something so that I can give it to her to give to me for Christmas/birthday. Whatever, no big deal. But for my birthday this year, I bought a polo shirt and gave it to her, said "Give me this for my b-day.". My b-day arrives a couple of weeks later and as the kids were giving me gifts, wife says, "Gee, I wish I had a gift to give you". I had to dig out the gift from her pile of clean clothes and give it to myself (again).
A polo shirt? You suck at giving yourself gifts almost as badly as she does.
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3 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:
The word "tryst" suggests a relationship of a sexual nature. Holier-than-thou evangelicals getting outed for their hypocrisy is always good entertainment. No such allegation is made in the linked Buzzfeed article. It just refers to a "friendly relationship" between the Falwells and the pool boy. It does put friendly relationship in quotes so it sort of comes across as a nod and a wink. I need more than that.
It also mentions nothing of Cohen blackmailing Falwell Jr. That Twitter account is private so I can't view any other tweets. That seems a little strange. I didn't read the documents related to the lawsuit from the two Jesuses. Maybe the accusation of a three-way is in there? I can't imagine how that would be relevant from a legal standpoint on a joint business venture gone bad.
The more I'd like to believe a thinly sourced accusation, the more reason to be skeptical. I'm not buying it. Yet. But I am in the market.
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20 minutes ago, retread said:
But it's complicated
Is it really that hard to know that it's probably illegal to pay off a pair of mistresses to keep them silent while you're running for president? Do you really have to consult the rule book on that one?
Makes you wonder what skeletons Rand has in his closet.
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6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
The SDNY has already accused him of committing two felonies. There's no telling what Mueller has in store.
I know. But we need to wait and see what Mueller has. Impeachment needs to be a slam dunk. Voting Trump out in 2020 has to be the #1 priority unless/until it is.
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20 minutes ago, Goredho said:
If you are smart and right, obstinance absolutely can be a virtue. Look at Herman staying the course after Maryland. Churchill at the start of WWII. Trump just happens to be a clueless moron who is obstinate. His obstinance does not make him a clueless moron.
If you're smart, you're open to the possibility that you're wrong. Trump isn't. He's a narcissist.
Having the courage of your convictions is one thing. Churchill also made mistakes and changed course. Hitler was obstinate too but he couldn't admit he was wrong and clung to a losing strategy. Trump is no Churchill and that wouldn't change if he suddenly wasn't completely amoral.
But yes, if he was Winston Churchill instead of Donald Trump then he would be a good leader. I'll grant you that.
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34 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:
I agree, and by impeach, i meant start to wheels in motion, do his first. Whether you actually get to remove or not you at least start to reveal all the reasons he should not be holding office. Once that ball starts rolling, he would be pretty much powerless and ineffective as a Potus. I think that the 25A high bars would be easier to clear because of the rubble of the trump dynasty will be a huge booster step.
I think i expanded on my thoughts in my second attempt concerning the system that made trump an acceptable candidate, much less president.
All the reasons to impeach need to be overwhelming and public before the impeachment process starts. Mueller needs to have such clear evidence of fraud and conspiracy with a hostile foreign power that senate Republicans will be forced to go along, just like with Nixon.
If Dems rush to impeach before they have concrete evidence of serious crimes, it will backfire on them, the R's will use it to their advantage in 2020, and Trump will get reelected.
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5 hours ago, Goredho said:
Yeah, imagine if Trump wasn’t Trump. I mean, he can’t be convinced of anything by anyone. Whatever else he is, Trump is one hard-nosed motherfucker. It would be a tremendous virtue if he had any grounding whatsoever in moral and ethical judgment.
No, it wouldn't. Narcissism is not a virtue. Willful ignorance is not a virtue. Intellectual incuriosity is not a virtue. The obstinate adherence to a position when faced with contradictory evidence is not virtuous behavior. Trump's version of "hard-nosed" makes him a clueless moron. There's no virtue in that.
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Perry wanted his gift to remain anonymous but someone at Walmart leaked it. Apparently he does a lot of charitable giving that goes unreported.
Kid Rock, on the other hand, copied Perry's act and made sure everyone knew about it. Good for him, but it comes across a little bit as self-promotion.
And maybe pick a different store so you don't create the perception that if you buy stuff on layaway at Walmart then maybe a celebrity will pay it off. In a weird way it could sort of become a promotion of Walmart if the practice were to "go viral," so to speak. Of course, you probably wouldn't want to do it at Williams Sonoma.
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On December 6, 2018 at 8:45 PM, texashorne said:
Some of you guys are making this tribe out to be some sort of peaceful happy group of people that sit around a campfire and live in some tropical island harmony, fishing and making seashell necklaces. Do some research on the murder, rape, incest and pedophilia that they commit on a daily basis and then form an opinion. This isn't Disney's Moana. Their "Moana" probably got pregnant with her granddad's kid when she was 11.
Who lived with them long enough to make such observations?
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2 hours ago, deech said:
I guess I'm in the minority in that I am as anti-Dotard as everyone, but also firmly convinced based on the track record of the Clinton's that they without a doubt traded favors for political contributions and likely used the Foundation to do it.
Obama was president. Not Bill. Not Hillary. What political favors were the Clintons in a position to trade? Why would anyone use a donation to the Clinton Foundation, a transaction that would be public, as a means to influence them anyway? Thanks to Citizens United they could make a donation to a Clinton-aligned Super PAC in complete secrecy to help her get elected as president and then she'd actually be in a position to return the favor. The scenario you describe makes no sense.
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34 minutes ago, retread said:
The Kushner stuff has been out there for a long time now. Like foreign govts targeting him as being malleable and naive, endless revisions of his SF-86, reading the PDB without proper clearance, etc. It's just so troubling. Complete disregard for the rule of law and for ethical norms.
From the NYT article:
"It was around the time of the White House visit in March 2017 that senior officials in the State Department and the Pentagon began to worry about the one-on-one communications between Prince Mohammed — who is known to favor the online messaging service WhatsApp — and Mr. Kushner. 'There was a risk the Saudis were playing him,' one former White House official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations."
Lol. Ya think?
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3 minutes ago, SDG said:
Navy swapped to UA in 2014 and are under a 10 year contract. They were Nike just prior to that so I'm not sure when/if they've ever been Add.
Okay. I remember they had some really cool Nike uniforms several years back and then switched their contract. I was thinking it was to Adidas but it must have been UA all along. I just misremembered. Not that there's anything wrong with these unis. They look fine.
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2 hours ago, Loch Ness Monster said:
New poll shows most conservatives are OK with Trump pursuing a Trump Tower Moscow deal during election
They're okay with him delaying an election too, or shooting a man on 5th Ave. They'd have no problem with him jailing a political rival or having a journalist killed.
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
in Cloak Room
Well, he is a Republican.