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Posts posted by Francisco 2.0
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Shot, December 2016:
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QuotePresident-elect Donald Trump unexpectedly started negotiating with Boeing over the price of a new Air Force One on Tuesday morning.
First over Twitter, Trump threatened to cancel the order for a new Air Force One, which would be used for future presidents. He said the cost of the new 747 was more than $4 billion.
QuoteThen in the Trump Tower lobby, the president-elect amplified his message.Â
“Well the plane is totally out of control, it’s going to be over $4 billion for Air Force One program,” he said. “I think it’s ridiculous, I think Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want Boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money.”
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Shot, continued February 2018:
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QuoteU.S. President Donald Trump has reached an informal agreement with Boeing on a fixed price contract for the new Air Force One program, the White House told Fox News exclusively on Tuesday.
“Thanks to the president’s negotiations, the contract will save the taxpayers more than $1.4 billion,” Dep. Press Secretary Hogan Gidley.
The new deal will be valued at $3.9 billion, down from the original estimate of more than $5 billion for the two 747 jets and a development program. The price as agreed includes work to develop and build two presidential aircraft, including a communications suite, internal and external stairs, large galleys and structural changes to protect the president and other passengers, a Boeing official said. It also includes some work already on contract, as well as the Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) contract, which has yet to be awarded, they said.
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QuoteAccording to Air Force Magazine, President Donald Trump's new Air Force One fleet will cost a total of $5.2 billion, up from the 2016 estimate of $3.2 billion.Â
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25 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:
Question about Il Douche's El Paso visit. Will he be giving a speech? If so, who would be allowed at it? Is this going to be a rally? Â
So many questions, just b/c you never know what kind of fucked up shit the Cunt in Chief will pull.Â
No matter what, no matter how carefully preparations have been made, he will fuck this up.
Today could be his Bush flying over New Orleans after Katrina moment. Not that Trump hasn't had a lot of fuck ups since he was elected, but this---this is almost guaranteed to finally show those on the fence that maybe he just isn't up to the task of being a President, and never will be.
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One can hope.
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QuoteAfter two gruesome mass shootings in a 24-hour span, some Republicans are raising alarms that their opposition to new firearm limits is making the party toxic to the suburban women and college graduates who will shape the 2020 election.
Quote“Republicans are headed for extinction in the suburbs if they don’t distance themselves from the NRA. The GOP needs to put forth solutions to help eradicate the gun violence epidemic,” said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor and oil-and-gas executive who supports President Donald Trump.
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Gee, if only someone would do something about preventing the mentally ill from getting their hands on weapons.
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QuoteSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign tweeted out a photo of satirical tombstones over the weekend, including one featuring an election opponent’s name, hours after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that claimed the lives of 22 people.
The tombstones named Amy McGrath, his main Democratic opponent in the 2020 Senate race for Kentucky, as well as Judge Merrick Garland, whose nomination to the Supreme Court he blocked during the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency.
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QuoteThe grave markers also identified concepts the senator has decried, such as socialism and the Green New Deal. The campaign’s tweet labeled McConnell the “Grim Reaper of Socialism” and shows the tombstones at the Fancy Farm picnic, a local Kentucky Catholic fundraising event.
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1 hour ago, Foosters said:
"May God bless Lee Trevino."
Edit: Nevermind. Trevino is Mexican.
But the good kind.
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Whew. Â Glad they cleared this up.
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So, in no particular order. Â The reasons for the carnage this weekend were:
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-lack of school prayer
-video games, music
-mental health issues not being addressed
-and next, courtesy of the President, the fake news media.
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Only President fuckwad would publicly state that immigration reform should be tied into some kind of gun control measure not 48 hours after a slaughter of people by someone who (checks notes) has written there was an invasion of Hispanics that needed dealt with.
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8 hours ago, JimmyJames said:
Is video games the best these assholes could come up with? If so they’re fucked.Â
No, not at all. Â Dan Patrick also said it was because there is no prayer in public schools any longer.
Oh, the President and others have mentioned mental health issues.  So, they've got the holy trinity of A) games & music, B) lack of prayer in schools, and C) mental health issues.
#MAGA motherfuckers!
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2 minutes ago, tantric superman said:
Why in the fuck would he delete tweets that so appeal to his base?
When the shooter's legal counsel will use the President's own words in their defense.
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7 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
Stop letting men buy/own guns?
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Fox News and GOP opinion tomorrow:  "It's the fault of the shooter's school".
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38 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:
This is shooting from the hip after an afternoon at Austin Beer Works, so take it for what it's worth:
10%: Trump wins legitimately
30%: Trump wins with foreign help or the help of Republican secretaries of state in key states
5%: Trump loses and bows out in a dignified manner
30%: Trump loses, bitches about it, but steps aside
20%: Trump loses, bitches, it goes to a protracted recount/court case, and he steps aside before January 20th
5%: Trump loses, but refuses to leaveÂYou left out Trump loses, but resigns on the morning of January 20, and President Pence pardons he and his entire family of any wrongdoings, past present or future.
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What a fucking shitbag. Â In light of the past 24 hours, it's old news, and largely forgotten. Â But here were are:
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QuoteIt isn't clear if there was a plan for last week. Some consequential things went down: The U.S. sanctioned Iran's top diplomat, revved up the trade war with China, and signed off on a spending bill that will spike the national debt. But all that got largely lost by the wayside as the president went to war with a Baltimore icon.
QuoteNobody knew it was coming, nobody knew how to handle it, and a week later, senior White House officials have their fingers crossed that the president won't turn their week upside-down once again with another tweet about a "Fox and Friends" segment. As the week has unfurled, people inside and outside the White House described to me how a few pokes of a keyboard by the leader of the free world sent some of Washington's most powerful political players scrambling for cover.
QuoteInside the White House, the conversation about Baltimore last week moved into a brief discussion of policy solutions.Â
In at least one conversation with senior aides and another discussion with an outside ally, Trump entertained the idea of declaring a state of emergency in Baltimore — an extraordinary action that would potentially open up new federal powers and funding, according to four sources familiar with the conversations.
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SpoilerThe idea, one of these sources said, would be to say that the living conditions in Baltimore were unacceptable and that people were suffering because their Democratic representatives let them down. So Trump would take action to fix things.
Trump also discussed declaring a state of emergency in other cities controlled by Democrats, including San Francisco and Detroit, a White House official told me.
Between the lines: The emergency idea appears to have been a brief conversation and no more than that. And by Thursday, White House officials had concluded it was too difficult, logistically, for the president to visit Baltimore next week — another idea they had tossed around. So we're back where we started, a week and a day after Trump's inflammatory tweets.
How it all began: Last Saturday morning, the president of the United States was watching "Fox and Friends." The show aired a segment that claimed Rep. Elijah Cummings was ignoring his district in West Baltimore and that it was full of trash.
The segment opened with footage of Cummings upbraiding the Department of Homeland Security's acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan for the awful conditions migrant children face in detention camps at the border.
"You know to have Congressman Cummings talk about the situation at the border, it's laughable," the Republican strategist guest said, "because the conditions in his own district, and a lot of people said he hasn’t even been there in a while, are atrocious."
Trump parroted the segment, describing Cummings' district as "a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess." The president went on to imply that Cummings was corrupt.
Behind the scenes: After Trump's tweet, many elected officials rushed to Cummings' defense. CNN anchor Victor Blackwell choked up. "When he tweets about infestation," Blackwell said, "it's about black and brown people."
A few inside the White House were disturbed by the remarks, especially coming so soon after Trump told four female congresswomen of color to "go back" to where they came from, according to sources with direct knowledge.
But many more White House officials and Trump allies supported the attack on Cummings, whose committee is investigating the president and his administration. They saw a political advantage in Trump highlighting urban plight in districts that have long been under Democratic control.
From Monday, White House officials began brainstorming how they could amplify the president's attacks on Cummings. They talked about whether Trump should visit Baltimore. (He didn't.) They discussed whether the only African American in Trump's Cabinet, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, should visit Baltimore. (Carson, a former Baltimore resident, held a press conference there on Wednesday after touring a housing development.)
On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump reminded people that in 2017 she donated proceeds from her book to support an initiative, "incubated in Baltimore," to help female entrepreneurs.
Trump's allies outside the White House sprung into action. Also on Tuesday, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who remains close to Ivanka Trump, tweeted: "Instead of all of this back and forth about who everyone thinks is racist and [who's] not, the President just offered to help the people of Baltimore. They should take him up on it."Â
Benny Johnson from Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump group that mobilizes young conservatives, toured Cummings' district and reinforced Trump's message in a short video.
Back in the White House, Trump wondered aloud about what he could do to show he could fix the problems in Baltimore and other cities under Democratic control. That’s when he discussed declaring states of emergency in these cities. The idea hasn't gone anywhere yet, according to White House officials.Â
Officials said that once they thought it through, the idea didn't make much sense. It wouldn't make much sense to funnel more federal money into a district after Trump had described the same district as corrupt, one said. Another official compared Baltimore to Puerto Rico. And a third questioned where it would end. How many emergencies would Trump declare?Â
These officials told me that as far as they were aware, White House lawyers never got involved in these conversations. Former senior White House lawyers who worked for previous presidents told me they'd never heard of a president declaring an emergency in a city, absent a natural disaster and local leaders' requests for help.Â
What's next:Â The Baltimore conversation seems to be waning inside the White House. Certainly, nobody senior who I spoke to thought that any new policy would come out of it.
Then on Friday morning, Trump tweeted: "Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad!"
This went too far even for some allies, including Nikki Haley.
The bottom line:Â Baltimore Week illuminates how things often work inside the Trump White House: The president watches TV, he tweets, and the machinery of government scrambles into action to deal with an emergency of the president's own creation. Then everyone moves on.
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QuoteWhen a white supremacist manifesto allegedly posted by the El Paso shooting suspect first began making the rounds on Saturday night, it was hard not to feel a sense of familiarity.
From a New York Times summary of the manifesto (emphasis mine):
It spoke of a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” It detailed a plan to separate America into territories by race. It warned that white people were being replaced by foreigners.
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QuoteHey, where have I heard that kind of violent extremist talk before? Oh, that’s right: on Fox News, constantly.
A tiny, tiny sample follows. See if you can spot the pattern (emphasis mine throughout):
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SpoilerThis cannot continue. It’s not sustainable. No country can import large numbers of people who hate it and survive. The Romans were the last to try that, with predictable results.
Laura Ingraham, 6/18/19 podcast:
No longer can they claim to be for border enforcement, or “Oh yeah, we’re for enforcing the border, oh yeah, we’re for—we’re for keeping the country safe. And oh yeah, we’re not for illegal immigration, we’re for legal immigration”— that’s what they used to say That’s what the Obama folks and the Clinton folks used to say, but no longer. No, you’re for replacing the current American population, or swamping the current American population, with a new population of people who are perhaps more hospitable to socialist ideals.
The American piñata has been getting pummeled for decades and now it has finally come apart. Our national wealth is up for grabs by whomever gets here first, and they are coming. Over just the past year, 1% of the entire population of the nation of Guatemala has moved to the United States. A Wall Street Journal piece last month described the plight of that country’s villages. Some of them are literally depopulating as people stream north to America’s generous welfare state. Meanwhile a new study from the Federation for Immigration Reform, FAIR, given exclusively to this show, shows the scale on which the United States is being plundered.
Our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided. Immigration is a form of atonement.
When you see a lot of young men carrying the flag of their country to your country to break your laws, it looks a lot more like an invasion than anything else.
In some parts of the country, it does seem like the America that we know and love doesn’t exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don’t like.
I could go on. This is not some fringe ideology confined to the dark corners of the web. It’s being peddled constantly by some of our highest-profile media figures—oh, and by the president of the United States.
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Shit, I missed where Dan Patrick dusted off that old GOPÂ standard, Â the lack of prayer in schools:
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49 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
Has DOTARD said "radical white terrorism" yet?
Well, he did say that hate did not belong in this country, so baby steps here. Â Can't be expected to take some kind of moral stand, not at this juncture. Â Gotta keep politics out of it.
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That would be a bold leap for the President to openly speak out against his base. Â Then again, the QAnon folks would state he wasn't really speaking out; that it was code for them to decipher.
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9 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Holy shit. One of the people killed in Dayton was the shooter's sister.Â
Yep. Â Wonder if he knew she was there, or she was there with someone he did not approve of, etc.
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Just now, Doc Sam Beckett said:
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Nah. Â It was Mario Kart.
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You know what, at this point, who cares? Â This move isn't beneath anyone flying the GOP colors now, why can't a Dem do it? Â Yes, traditionally this would be off limits, but these ain't traditional times politically any longer.
If putting out the names of donors on blast is unsettling, meh.  Those folks donated to white supremacy (even if they didn't realize it initially).  They can always sit out the next election cycle if they choose to or  are uncomfortable with the current stances within the Republican Party, or continue to donate to GOP candidates.  I suspect they will continue to donate, because reasons.