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pr0ner wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:14 am One has to wonder what's going on here. DC already has an epic Independence Day celebration and fireworks display. Is Trump going to shut that down to run his own? Are there going to be competing celebrations? What the bloody hell.

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:26 am

pr0ner wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:14 am One has to wonder what's going on here. DC already has an epic Independence Day celebration and fireworks display. Is Trump going to shut that down to run his own? Are there going to be competing celebrations? What the bloody hell.

The best part is that he had to point out who our favorite president is.

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:26 am

pr0ner wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:14 am One has to wonder what's going on here. DC already has an epic Independence Day celebration and fireworks display. Is Trump going to shut that down to run his own? Are there going to be competing celebrations? What the bloody hell.

The best part is that he had to point out who our favorite president is.

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:39 am

Anyone know what prompted this?

A searing critic of President George W. Bush and his administration, Reid now says in the age of Trump, he wishes for Bush again "every day," saying Bush would be "Babe Ruth" compared to the current president.

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:39 am (Oh, and he is also dying of pancreatic cancer, so Trump gets extra points for classiness here.)

Reid says he is now in remission, lucky that doctors caught his pancreatic cancer early and noting that it is almost always a death sentence because it is usually too late to treat when finally detected. But the chemotherapy treatment was especially brutal, compromising several vertebrae to the point where he needed two back surgeries and leaving him unable to walk much without assistance.

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:39 am
(For those wondering, Reid was not "thrown out." He retired after a major injury. The last time he lost an election was 1975.)

(Oh, and he is also dying of pancreatic cancer, so Trump gets extra points for classiness here.)

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:17 pm This is normal.

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

This brief outburst [Trump's tweet, above] contains a few notable elements. First, there is Trump’s familiar habit of calling African-Americans “racist.” Lee’s speech did not contain any generalizations about white people, nor any calls for violence or retribution. The closest thing to a broad claim about white people in his remarks was a statement noting and denouncing slavery:

[...]

Finally, and most amusingly, Trump’s anger and offense was directed against a speech that is (by recent standards) notably nonpartisan. Lee did not mention Trump’s name. He did not endorse any candidates or parties.

“The 2020 election is right around the corner,” he said. “Let’s all mobilize, let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing.”

In theory, a president could listen to a call for making the moral choice of love against hate and doing “the right thing” and interpret it as an endorsement — or, at minimum, a nonpartisan statement. Trump processed it as a personal attack.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:17 pm This is normal.

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:07 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:17 pm This is normal.

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

And more post-truth. Welcome to the new reality.


I have been seeing/hearing a lot lately about how Obama did nothing for blacks and Trump has been 100x better for them. Must have been run up the alt-right flagpole at some point recently. More FUD. Not surprised to see him gobbling it up.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:25 pm This is a good column about Trump's Spike Lee attacks, tying it to the dogwhistle about Obama needing a teleprompter (the underlying theme appearing to be that black people can't speak intelligently without prompts).

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 2:33 pm

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:25 pm This is a good column about Trump's Spike Lee attacks, tying it to the dogwhistle about Obama needing a teleprompter (the underlying theme appearing to be that black people can't speak intelligently without prompts).

So what does that say about Trump who can't speak intelligently with prompts?

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 2:33 pm

So what does that say about Trump who can't speak intelligently with prompts?

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:20 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:39 am
(For those wondering, Reid was not "thrown out." He retired after a major injury. The last time he lost an election was 1975.)

(Oh, and he is also dying of pancreatic cancer, so Trump gets extra points for classiness here.)

Does it really matter? We are post-truth.

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:59 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:17 pm This is normal.

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

Yeah, Trump pretty much identifies with hate.

This brief outburst [Trump's tweet, above] contains a few notable elements. First, there is Trump’s familiar habit of calling African-Americans “racist.” Lee’s speech did not contain any generalizations about white people, nor any calls for violence or retribution. The closest thing to a broad claim about white people in his remarks was a statement noting and denouncing slavery:

[...]

Finally, and most amusingly, Trump’s anger and offense was directed against a speech that is (by recent standards) notably nonpartisan. Lee did not mention Trump’s name. He did not endorse any candidates or parties.

“The 2020 election is right around the corner,” he said. “Let’s all mobilize, let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing.”

In theory, a president could listen to a call for making the moral choice of love against hate and doing “the right thing” and interpret it as an endorsement — or, at minimum, a nonpartisan statement. Trump processed it as a personal attack.

POTUS wrote:Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize. The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon - Very Interesting!

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 1:27 pm The NC representatives are working overtime to discredit him. Corrupt scumbags.

Speaking in Hanoi after his summit with Mr Kim broke down, Mr Trump said he did not believe the North Korean leader was aware of Otto Warmbier's ordeal.

Mr Trump said: "He tells me he didn't know about it, and I will take him at his word."

Zaxxon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 4:15 pm He is not, in fact, fucking kidding you.

EXCLUSIVE: The White House chief of staff at the time, John Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” by the president to give Jared Kushner the top-secret clearance. [link]

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:06 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:06 pm