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05-03-2017, 11:07 AM
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#2121
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Seriously? About 800,000 of Iowa's 3.1 million people pulled a lever for Trump, so the lot of them can pretty much go to hell, in your view?
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pump your breaks fella... saying I don't have a lot of sympathy is a lot different that "they can pretty much go to hell"...
First of all, the promise to repeal and replace Obamacare was front and center of the Trump campaign...This should not have been a surprise to anyone
Secondly, it was a well known fact that one of Paul Ryan's and the GOP's major aspirations was to eliminate ACA if they got back into power.
Finally, only 653, 000 of Iowa voters voted for the Democrats... The 3.1 million number doesn't really matter if they didn't vote... Those 1.657 million people could have very well voted in the same proportions as those that did actually go out and vote.
didn't realize what I thought made any difference to what is happening down there....
Last edited by oldschoolcalgary; 05-03-2017 at 11:10 AM.
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05-03-2017, 11:14 AM
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#2122
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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
Finally, only 653, 000 of Iowa voters voted for the Democrats... The 3.1 million number doesn't really matter if they didn't vote... Those 1.657 million people could have very well voted in the same proportions as those that did actually go out and vote.
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After he called Iowans stupid.
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05-03-2017, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
didn't realize what I thought made any difference to what is happening down there....
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It doesn't, it's just that by that logic, you could very well say "I don't have much sympathy for Americans; they elected Trump". Well, some of them did, but there are plenty who didn't, and even those who did, we're talking about a bunch of them dying. It's not a big deal but it seemed like a pretty callous statement and one that painted millions of people with the same brush.
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05-03-2017, 11:29 AM
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by nik-
haha, he can't even make deals with his own party.
Why is this trash "Breaking"?
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'Breaking' because he made that comment after he met with Palestinian leader Abbas at the White House today.
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05-03-2017, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
It doesn't, it's just that by that logic, you could very well say "I don't have much sympathy for Americans; they elected Trump". Well, some of them did, but there are plenty who didn't, and even those who did, we're talking about a bunch of them dying. It's not a big deal but it seemed like a pretty callous statement and one that painted millions of people with the same brush.
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Iowans voted a lot more heavily for Trump... that's 55% of the voters in Iowa...based on the voters that came out.
I have sympathy for the broader picture, because the Democrats won the popular vote - more Americans voted for the Democrats than the GOP... they just happened to lose the electoral college by 120K more or less...But that's not the case in Iowa, where the popular vote went to Trump
Democracy works only with an informed electorate... Since they voted for Trump, I would presume that they knew what they were doing...
Callous? No, what the GOP are doing to their base is what is callous... Mine is simply an opinion on the ramifications of Iowan's majority voting for Trump...
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05-03-2017, 12:04 PM
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So, directly involved with the "photo" scandal with lots of resources, yet anything to do with Russia is "fake news" (8 whole investigators looking into it) Something is really bigly wrong here. Is it proper to say really bigly? I don't even know any more...
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05-03-2017, 12:52 PM
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Originally Posted by aaronck
Is it proper to say really bigly? I don't even know any more...
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Probably best for your mental well-being to not use any sayings that Trump likes to use.
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05-03-2017, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by DuffMan
"I'm looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like ... I can live with either one," Trump told reporters.
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Well Donny that's sort of the problem. YOU can live with either. The two parties actually involved in the "negotiation" don't seem to want to live with one or the other. Israel will not accept a two state solution. Palestine will not accept a one state solution where they are any less than perfectly equal and given Israel has no interest in doing that Palestine leadership still wants a two state solution.
It's all very complicated Donny. Who knew?
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05-03-2017, 12:59 PM
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Come on guys, he just needs an easy win right now. And what's easier than peace in the middle East?
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05-03-2017, 01:09 PM
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Melania Trump has favourited two tweets. One was in 2012 when she joined. The second was yesterday. Here they are.
Trouble in paradise there Donny?
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05-03-2017, 01:30 PM
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wins 10 internets
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Seriously? About 800,000 of Iowa's 3.1 million people pulled a lever for Trump, so the lot of them can pretty much go to hell, in your view?
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If they wanted health care they should have voted for a candidate that would have promised to keep and expand the ACA
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05-03-2017, 01:47 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
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Conservative ####s start #FireColbert campaign in protest of Stephen Colbert’s epic Trump takedown
https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/...rump-takedown/
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Mr. Trump, I call your presidency, ‘Disgrace the Nation.’ You’re not the POTUS, you’re the BLOATUS, you’re the glutton with the button, you’re a regular “Gorge Washington.” You’re the president, but you’re turning into a real pricktator. Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s &*@# holster.
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Colbert's ratings have never been higher.
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05-03-2017, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
If they wanted health care they should have voted for a candidate that would have promised to keep and expand the ACA
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they wanted to keep their ACA, they just wanted to repeal Obamacare, damn Obama.
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05-03-2017, 01:58 PM
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Excellent piece in Rolling Stone today by Matt Taibbi on the rampant dysfunction in Trump's administration.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...-house-w480238
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The revelations of the past month show the Trump White House to be a kind of bizarro version of Real World or Amish in the City – a bunch of loutish out-of-towners granted undeserving residence in a classy downtown mansion wired in every corner for the world's amusement. Ditsy Kellyanne Conway rubs her feet on the furniture, blabbermouth Sean Spicer loses battles of wits to Rob Gronkowski in the press room, and grandpa Rex Tillerson spends every episode hiding from the press, maybe behind the new gold drapes (they really changed the color of the Oval Office drapes). The remaining zoo animals are split in a perfectly disgusting caricature of the modern American political divide.
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Bannon hasn't been fired, and Trump's recent bleatings about rewriting trade deals are supposedly due to his continuing influence. But there are many reports that Bannon has lost influence to Kushner and former Goldman Sachs deputy Gary Cohn, a noted monster of the financial-crisis era who represents the opposite vile brand of American politics, a Wall Street kleptocracy that has spent decades robbing Main Street blind through bubble economics and sleazy asset-hoovering schemes like sub-prime-mortgage fraud.
If there's a better metaphor for the depressing nonchoice of modern Western democracy than the intramural struggle for influence between these two arch-fiends, it's hard to imagine. Bannon and Cohn, two bilious, overweight ex-Goldman bankers, now sit on either side of the throne, each whispering his respective villainous ideology into the president's ears.
It'll be backlash ethnic nationalism against sociopathic finance capitalism, foreigners-suck versus screw-the-poor, depending on Trump's mood. That's assuming the president hasn't been distracted by some insane civilization-imperiling military adventure recommended to him by "adults" like Defense Secretary James Mattis, Homeland Chief John Kelly and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. Who's really running things in the Trump White House? The more we hear, the less we seem to know, but none of the choices seem to be good. 'Round and 'round the bowl we go; God knows when we will hit the bottom.
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05-03-2017, 03:35 PM
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Acerbic Cyberbully
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Who knew peace in the middle east would be so complicated?
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Nobody knew.
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05-03-2017, 03:44 PM
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Nobody knew.
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Andrew Jackson knew, and he was very, very angry about it.
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05-03-2017, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by troutman
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/r/the_donald subreddit is going absolutely bonkers over this, it's amusing to read the outrage from the same people who thought pussygate wasn't a big deal
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05-03-2017, 03:50 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
/r/the_donald subreddit is going absolutely bonkers over this, it's amusing to read the outrage from the same people who thought pussygate wasn't a big deal
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Trump and Colbert kind of need each other. Trump for fueling his base's rage at Liberals, Colbert for the ratings.
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05-03-2017, 04:53 PM
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Set your PVRs. This is gonna be good!
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05-03-2017, 05:13 PM
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Commie Referee
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The House will vote tomorrow on the health care bill.
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