Posts posted by WhatTheBuck
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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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9 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
The president just got his ass handed to him politically.
Expect more of the same in 2020.
Of course. You're more easily simulated in a computer program than Kirk Herbstreit in the old NCAA Football by EA Sports. I don't really need to read what you have to say because I already know what you're going to say.
It's like if every time I'm dealt pocket aces in hold'em you assure me I'm going to win. Predictable, often true, not meaningful or helpful at all.
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8 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
They do not control the levers of power. They control some levers of power. And their numbers are shrinking. We are just going to disagree on that.
Yeah, I wasn't really paying attention when I replied. We've long ago established that your outlook and every prediction is pie-in-the-sky best case scenario for the Democrats. It's totally predictable, perfectly consistent, and not particularly enlightening. Of course that's your position. What else could it be?
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34 minutes ago, David Dennison said:You're talking about white people. White people are becoming a smaller percentage of the population every day. That's a fact.
It's all good.
Their numbers are still growing and their fear of losing majority status appears to be making a lot of them more racist. They still control the levers of power and now have a white supremacist in the Oval Office who's making a concerted effort to keep non-whites out.
You're engaging in some flimsy reasoning there.
Edit: Okay, Jack Straw pretty much covered it already.
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18 minutes ago, Jack Straw said:
The face of the Republican Party, folks. This is what you love and wholeheartedly support when you pull the lever for the (R).
Professional wrestling is fake too. It was reality tv before reality tv was a thing. The kind of people who believe it's real are exactly the kind of people who would fall for Trump's bullshit.
I still wonder how many of his followers never heard of him before The Apprentice and truly believe he's the character presented on that show. I'll bet the percentage is significant.
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Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation all make their tax returns public. Donald Trump refuses to.
If you conclude that Trump is clean but the Clintons are dirty then you are seriously one dumb motherfucker.
They'll never investigate the Clinton Foundation because they know there's nothing there. If they did investigate, they'd come up empty, and it would remove the power of the threat of an investigation as a means to rile up their base of ignorant rubes. They know that. If you don't then you're a sucker.
You probably also thought N. Korea would denuclearize or that there was ever a chance we'd go to war. Try to recognize political theater when you see it.
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40 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
This. Trump is just a wrestling heel. His aura is born of interpersonal drama and rivalry. He needs an enemy that is viewed as his equal, a counterpart for an eternal struggle. If Trump isn’t fighting the other team’s champion, he’s not interesting and he’s not a hero (or antihero). He’s just a loudmouth yelling at air.
It's a reality tv show presidency. Recall that he reportedly told his staff to treat his presidency as a reality show where every day he "vanquishes his rivals." He's just approaching the presidency the same way he approaches his personal business -- with fakery and bullshit.
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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.