01-31-2017, 09:16 AM
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#1961
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Originally Posted by GGG
Trump during the campaign was the most pro-LGBT republican candidate ever. There is a hilariously ackward moment in his convention acceptance speech about it.
At least this is one area we may not see a roll back of progress
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And the Republican platform was the most anti LGBTQ platform ever
https://www.google.ca/amp/abcnews.go...%3fid=40564850
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01-31-2017, 09:18 AM
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#1962
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Salmon Arm, BC
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I'm thinking the SCOTUS pick tonight won't be a hard core conservative like everyone assumes. Today is betray the GOP day.
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01-31-2017, 09:23 AM
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#1963
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Originally Posted by Azure
Well, as I said yesterday, he will have to start pushing back himself in order to avoid looking like a fool. I honestly feel that he didn't know what he was signing on the weekend, and now might actually take the time to read the executive orders instead of letting his ego get in the way.
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Pulling back would first take the self awareness to realize that he's potentially looking like a fool. Trump is the man in his own world, he absolutely thinks he's just killing it right now.
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01-31-2017, 09:24 AM
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#1964
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Originally Posted by Azure
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It's surprising only because of reports to the contrary. As someone mentioned, this would get him nothing but grief. There's really no votes to be had for attacking gays anymore, thankfully. Sure, there are still more than a few bible thumpers out there who'd appreciate the gesture, but you'd lose more than you'd gain and those people can be wooed in other ways.
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01-31-2017, 09:33 AM
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#1965
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Azure
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Not really, if you listen to Trump himself
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01-31-2017, 09:38 AM
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#1966
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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Not really, if you listen to Trump himself
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So you clearly heard anything of substance out of his incoherent ramblings?
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01-31-2017, 09:41 AM
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#1967
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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An interesting morning read:
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The key to a successful insurrection, Vladimir Lenin wrote three days before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, was the seizure of the telephone and telegraph. Every Soviet child, including myself, learned this dictum in the fourth grade.
In the 21st century, I never thought I’d have reason to reflect on Lenin’s advice again. The Soviet Union is long gone; I now live in the US. Then, in the first month of the centennial anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Americans inaugurated Donald Trump as their 45th president. This is a man who, in alliance with most radical elements of the Republican Party, has flooded the country’s media channels with fake news and conspiracy theories. If Trump hasn’t yet seized the modern-day equivalents of the telephone and the telegraph, he has certainly managed to scramble their signals.
Does Trump’s victory and his cabinet appointments genuinely amount to a government takeover akin to the one staged by the Bolshevik Party in 1917? If we view Trump’s “movement” as a radical faction within the Republican Party that has swept him to power despite opposition from within the party, the comparison is not as far-fetched as it may seem
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https://qz.com/898053/want-to-unders...ution-of-1917/
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01-31-2017, 09:42 AM
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#1968
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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He likes the gays, always has.
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01-31-2017, 09:47 AM
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#1969
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by burn_this_city
He likes the gays, always has.
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how about gay muslims?
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01-31-2017, 09:47 AM
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#1970
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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i think a 3rd party just splits the lefts vote since they are the majority. The 40% republicans aren't budging.
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01-31-2017, 09:48 AM
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#1971
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#1 Goaltender
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The republicans are going to spend a lot of time butt hurt over Trump decisions. I don't think outside of running under the party name he is really a modern republican.
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01-31-2017, 10:06 AM
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#1972
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Trump used the two-party system to catapult himself to the throne, and is basically POTUS as an independent, or at least a far-right offshoot. Pretty genius really, since anything outside of the Dems or Repubs has virtually no chance.
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01-31-2017, 10:18 AM
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#1973
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01-31-2017, 10:19 AM
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#1974
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First Line Centre
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US used to be a more than 2 party system, hopefully Trump's presidency will bring back a third option.
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01-31-2017, 10:27 AM
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#1975
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Victoria, BC
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What's President Bannon up to today me wonders.
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01-31-2017, 10:33 AM
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#1976
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Originally Posted by Drak
What's President Bannon up to today me wonders.
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Probably best to get past this simple kind of stuff.
Great article in National Review today on Steve Bannon.
The whole thing is a lot more complicated. However, he does stand at the centre of a maelstrom that threatens to rip the United States apart.
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Furthermore, as some on the left have been more attuned to than their conservative counterparts, the problem is not whether Bannon himself subscribes to a noxious strain of political nuttery; it’s that his de facto endorsement of it enables it to spread and to claim legitimacy, and that what is now a vicious fringe could, over time, become mainstream. The U.S. is not going to see pogroms or “internment camps” spring up in January. But countries require bonds of trust among citizens — including those citizens elected to be leaders. The Left gnawed at those bonds with its thoughtless commitment to cosmopolitan virtues. But the Right threatens to sever them entirely if it continues to court the proponents of ethno-nationalism, or trade in their rhetoric.
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01-31-2017, 10:34 AM
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#1977
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Not Taylor
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary SW
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Originally Posted by chemgear
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"Hmmm, Trump wants to ban Muslims from the US. I'm a Muslim who has family wishing to move here... oh well, I'll vote for him anyway. It couldn't possibly affect me."
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01-31-2017, 10:38 AM
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#1978
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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They're Christians actually. They assumed as Christians they would never be affected by anything Trump did. As usual people have to learn the hardest way possible. Too bad people are actually contributing to their GoFundMe, and I suspect many who have did not know they voted for Trump. I doubt they'd donate if they did.
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01-31-2017, 10:39 AM
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#1979
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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01-31-2017, 10:42 AM
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#1980
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Originally Posted by peter12
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I'm sorry, but that's tripe. The "the left" bogeyman is partly at fault because they want social progress? It's a subtle "you did it first" dig and it's crap
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