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GreenGoo wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:03 pm
Blackhawk wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:10 pm
GreenGoo wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:16 pm Who are we trying to be taken seriously by?
It isn't about being taken seriously. It's about not being pigeonholed as 'Oh, he's one of those' when discussing it.
So it's not about being taken seriously, but it's about not being pigeonholed. I'm struggling to see the difference.

In any case, there's no one left here that will pigeon hole you. Unless you are thinking about getting Rip or Em2 to change sides? I mean, good luck to you and all that, but I think it'll take more than no name calling to get those 2 to move.

I get that some people don't want to descend into childish name calling, but since no one is making you do it, it hardly seems to be a problem.

If you don't like that people call Drumpf names, well, we all have to live with things we don't like.
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Well, this is certainly something. Courtesy of the WSJ:


Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, WSJ reports.
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What's funny is that now, after destroying the office and sending the country down Shithole Creek, a dalliance with a porn actress seems almost insignificant.

Is that the strategy here? Keep upping the bar so old transgressions become seemingly minor?
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Even if he had this affair, so what? Half of America has had affairs, why would this one matter? We hardly need more evidence at this point that he's a horrible human being. Hell, an affair would practically make him look...normal.

I'm mostly just disappointed that Stormy Daniels had such poor taste.
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Nobody seems to have held "it" against Tiger Woods back in the day. I just hope nobody in my circle of friends ever runs for public office because I'll unfortunately be their undoing for similar reasons, and I'd feel bad about that. :(
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Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:06 pm Even if he had this affair, so what? Half of America has had affairs, why would this one matter? We hardly need more evidence at this point that he's a horrible human being. Hell, an affair would practically make him look...normal.

I'm mostly just disappointed that Stormy Daniels had such poor taste.
Not so much having an affair, although I'm not apt to give a free pass for that either. It's more the $130K payment that raises questions. Willing to bet it came from campaign funds, knowing Trump's predilection for reaching into the till.

Also willing to bet that half of America doesn't pay $130K to hide an affair. Will be interesting to see his wife's reaction. If they let he out of sedation long enough.
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Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:06 pm Even if he had this affair, so what? Half of America has had affairs, why would this one matter? We hardly need more evidence at this point that he's a horrible human being. Hell, an affair would practically make him look...normal.

I'm mostly just disappointed that Stormy Daniels had such poor taste.
If she had peed on him it would make the rumors more widely credited. Plus, she probably carries a lot of credibility with his base.....
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Didn't he offer tons of money to another porn star to "have dinner with him." She refused, and he kept hounding her?
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LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:24 pm What's funny is that now, after destroying the office and sending the country down Shithole Creek, a dalliance with a porn actress seems almost insignificant.

Is that the strategy here? Keep upping the bar so old transgressions become seemingly minor?
Apparently this all happened at the same event that he was running around groping women like Jessica Drake and offering money for dalliances on his private jet.

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LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:17 pm
Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:06 pm Even if he had this affair, so what? Half of America has had affairs, why would this one matter? We hardly need more evidence at this point that he's a horrible human being. Hell, an affair would practically make him look...normal.

I'm mostly just disappointed that Stormy Daniels had such poor taste.
Not so much having an affair, although I'm not apt to give a free pass for that either. It's more the $130K payment that raises questions. Willing to bet it came from campaign funds, knowing Trump's predilection for reaching into the till.

Also willing to bet that half of America doesn't pay $130K to hide an affair. Will be interesting to see his wife's reaction. If they let he out of sedation long enough.
I think the big question is whether it was a "dalliance" or whether it was more of an involuntary pussy-grab type situation. The former would probably be a blip. If it's the latter, especially with this payment, could be kindle for restarting a deep examination of Trump's sexual abuse allegations.
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Who bets that Trump's team leaked this to change the subject from his blatant racism?
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Remember when a photo emerged of Obama sneaking a cigarette and it was good for about a month of coverage? Those were the days.
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There was a time not so long ago, when even the hint of an affair could torpedo a presidential campaign. Now it's just a pussy grabbin' free for all.

I remember being mad at Bill Clinton for days after he answered the "boxers or briefs" question because I felt it was so far below the dignity of the President. Oh what a sweet naive Puritan I was.
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Holman wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:33 pm Who bets that Trump's team leaked this to change the subject from his blatant racism?
I really doubt it. This is really not the kind of thing that Trump wants to play around with (so to speak) during the #MeToo / #TimesUp era. They would rather leak something on almost any other topic.

That said, I do wonder whether a reporter has been sniffing around the subject, and they leaked it now because they figure they'd rather it get out on a Friday afternoon.
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LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:17 pm
Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:06 pm Even if he had this affair, so what? Half of America has had affairs, why would this one matter? We hardly need more evidence at this point that he's a horrible human being. Hell, an affair would practically make him look...normal.

I'm mostly just disappointed that Stormy Daniels had such poor taste.
Not so much having an affair, although I'm not apt to give a free pass for that either. It's more the $130K payment that raises questions. Willing to bet it came from campaign funds, knowing Trump's predilection for reaching into the till.

Also willing to bet that half of America doesn't pay $130K to hide an affair. Will be interesting to see his wife's reaction. If they let he out of sedation long enough.
I don't necessarily give him a pass for the affair or the cover-up, but they mostly just make me shrug. it's just another example in a loooooooooong line of examples that he is a supremely shitty and awful human being. That's not really newsworthy any more...or maybe I'm just entirely desensitized to his garbage. Especially since the cover-up mostly just seemed to be a payment not to talk about what was a consensual affair. Doesn't sound like there's anything illegal or abusive there that would raise an eyebrow.

I would be rather shocked if we saw any reaction from Melania. I can't imagine a scenario in which this makes a huge impact on how she views Donald, and she already seems to prefers that people pay as little attention to her as possible.
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LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:37 pm Remember when a photo emerged of Obama sneaking a cigarette and it was good for about a month of coverage? Those were the days.
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Thought that said ..."on being a bit of a dictator"
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Skinypupy wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:52 pm
I don't necessarily give him a pass for the affair or the cover-up, but they mostly just make me shrug. it's just another example in a loooooooooong line of examples that he is a supremely shitty and awful human being. That's not really newsworthy any more...or maybe I'm just entirely desensitized to his garbage. Especially since the cover-up mostly just seemed to be a payment not to talk about what was a consensual affair. Doesn't sound like there's anything illegal or abusive there that would raise an eyebrow.
Has there been any confirmation it was consensual? I've only seen it referred to as a "sexual encounter", which doesn't imply consent. I don't think we have enough information to assume it was, and there's certainly reason to think it wasn't.

Trump having an affair doesn't surprise me at all. He's on his third wife because of affairs, it was known. I don't even necessarily think adultery is a disqualifying thing, depending on the situation. It's the fact that the right has long used affairs to pillory opponents, but are giving Trump a free pass that's infuriating. And how quickly they'll forget that they did it and go back to using it as a weapon again.
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Chaz wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:32 pm Has there been any confirmation it was consensual? I've only seen it referred to as a "sexual encounter", which doesn't imply consent. I don't think we have enough information to assume it was, and there's certainly reason to think it wasn't.
I was assuming it was, based on that article.

If it wasn't, and turns out to be something other than a consensual affair, then that's an entirely different matter and deserves far more attention.
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Shouldn't Pence have resigned by now?

If a Dem with 10% of Trump's horndog history were in office, Pence/Cruz/Huckabee/Falwell/etc would be calling on God to punish America for it.
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Holman wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:39 pm Shouldn't Pence have resigned by now?

If a Dem with 10% of Trump's horndog history in office, Pence/Cruz/Huckabee/Falwell/etc would be calling on God to punish America for it.
I'm sure he thinks that President Pence would be enough of a punishment...
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Chaz wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:32 pm

Has there been any confirmation it was consensual? I've only seen it referred to as a "sexual encounter", which doesn't imply consent.
I assume it was a contractual sexual encounter.

I.e. money for sex.
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Rip wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:10 pm
Hamlet3145 wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:03 pm I just can't understand why Donald Trump is the hill that Republicans choose to die on. They would have an easier time getting their agenda through with President Pence (.i.e, someone with at least a basic working knowledge of government and politics).

No one is dying on any hill. The party will be happy to relocate to any hill that can win the election.

People have been predicting the death of the party for as long as I can remember.
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malchior wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 8:00 am
Rip wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:10 pm
Hamlet3145 wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:03 pm I just can't understand why Donald Trump is the hill that Republicans choose to die on. They would have an easier time getting their agenda through with President Pence (.i.e, someone with at least a basic working knowledge of government and politics).

No one is dying on any hill. The party will be happy to relocate to any hill that can win the election.

People have been predicting the death of the party for as long as I can remember.
Yeah! Those people should have totally predicted all the voter suppression and gerrymandering!
Why? They have been proven to really suck at predicting.

Although I would say you have accurately predicted what the excuses will be when the Democrats fail to take the house in 2018.
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I'd say the republican party is already dead. There's another party with the same name, but it sure ain't Reagan's republicans.
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GreenGoo wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:01 am I'd say the republican party is already dead. There's another party with the same name, but it sure ain't Reagan's republicans.
A large portion of Reagan's Republicans are "actually" dead so....
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Trump Youth are alive and well, though.

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It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related sanctions, keeping the deal intact.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-hous ... reporters/

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Defiant wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 2:42 pm
It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related sanctions, keeping the deal intact.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-hous ... reporters/

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Yep, and it's incredibly frustrating for everyone else.
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GreenGoo wrote:
Chaz wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:32 pm

Has there been any confirmation it was consensual? I've only seen it referred to as a "sexual encounter", which doesn't imply consent.
I assume it was a contractual sexual encounter.

I.e. money for sex.
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Stormy Daniels hates America.
The Daily Beast reports that it had been in “protracted talks” with Daniels about an interview after it got confirmation from three sources that she had been involved with Trump. “She ultimately backed out on Nov. 3, just five days before the 2016 election.”
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Holman wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:06 pm Stormy Daniels hates America.
The Daily Beast reports that it had been in “protracted talks” with Daniels about an interview after it got confirmation from three sources that she had been involved with Trump. “She ultimately backed out on Nov. 3, just five days before the 2016 election.”
Would probably have just garnered him more votes from the horndog contingent.
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And fat middle aged women wearing shirts that say "you don't have to pay me to have sex with you!"

edit: To be fair, that should be "woman" not "women".

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Around a million US citizens spent about 40 minutes today wondering if they were going to die in a nuclear fireball. And this, this is what you choose to say instead of making any sort of statement addressing that situation.

Fuck you, sir.
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Skinypupy wrote: Sun Jan 14, 2018 3:40 am

Around a million US citizens spent about 40 minutes today wondering if they were going to die in a nuclear fireball. And this, this is what you choose to say instead of making any sort of statement addressing that situation.

Fuck you, sir.
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