02-27-2017, 01:31 PM
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#5001
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Victoria, BC
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The GOP is really showing off how well they spin things today. There is no question they're winning this battle against the press when it comes to Russia and healthcare. It's really impressive.
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02-27-2017, 01:49 PM
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#5002
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
Media outlets and others in positions of power need to continue on pushing for an investigation of the Trump-Russia connection. Spicer trying to suppress this initiative only makes the White House look more suspicious. If they had nothing to hide, they'd let the investigation begin because they would have nothing to worry about... right, Sean?
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Originally Posted by photon
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer personally picked up the phone and connected outside officials with reporters to try to discredit a New York Times article about Trump campaign aides' contact with Russia, then remained on the line for the brief conversations, Axios has learned. Ten key points:
Why it matters: The new details show how determined the West Wing was to rebut a front-page Times report on Feb. 15 that Trump campaign aides "had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election."
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-spic...288082248.html
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Spicer tried to involve the CIA and FBI director to shoot the investigations down and both of them refused.
What is interesting is the level of spin Spicer is trying to push through, when asked about a special prosecutor
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"What about a Special Prosecutor?" Spicer: "And I guess my answer would be, a special prosecutor for what? We've seen no evidence. What are you investigating?"
"Are you going to categorically deny there were no contacts with Russia during the campaign?" Spicer: "Oh, I'm not going to deny that.
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Wtf? White House Chief of Staff Priebus was the one that initiated this whole mess. He directed Spicer to contact the House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes to lie to media by telling them the Flynn leaks were an "Illegal Wiretap", which he did and is known to be false. Nunes has since called the Russia-Trump investigation a witchhunt. Since the House Intelligence Chair is also charged with investigating the Trump-Russia links, and given Nunes's statements, it's clear that the House cannot and will not be conducting an objective and investigation.
Spicer/Priebus contacting both the FBI/CIA/House Intelligence Chairs on an on-going investigation into the WH are also bordering on obstruction of justice.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...bi-come-focus?
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02-27-2017, 02:06 PM
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#5003
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http://theweek.com/speedreads/682636...nger-fight-win
"Win. We have to win. We have to start winning wars again," Trump said. "I have to say, when I was young, in high school and college, everybody used to say that we never lost a war. 'We never lost a war.' You remember."
"And now we never win a war," Trump added. "We never win. And we don't fight to win."
President Trump attended a military academy, but never served in the armed forces. He received a total of five draft deferments in the Vietnam War, including one for bone spurs in his heels
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02-27-2017, 02:18 PM
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#5004
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Looooooooooooooch
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I shouldn't be surprised he said something like that. But I am. My god, how low could he go? Is there no limit to his stupidity?
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02-27-2017, 02:26 PM
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#5005
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Pining for President Bush seems like the most unimaginable idea only a short time ago.
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02-27-2017, 02:31 PM
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#5006
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iggy City
I shouldn't be surprised he said something like that. But I am. My god, how low could he go? Is there no limit to his stupidity?
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His stupidity is so bigly, there's never been such a bigly stupid before
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02-27-2017, 03:07 PM
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#5007
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1
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What a moron.
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02-27-2017, 03:10 PM
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#5008
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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In war, there are no winners, only widows - General Chang (The Arrival)
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02-27-2017, 03:11 PM
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#5009
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Pining for President Bush seems like the most unimaginable idea only a short time ago.
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Anyone wishing for Bush either has a very short memory or was too young to remember what a #### show it was.
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02-27-2017, 03:17 PM
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#5010
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by northcrunk
Anyone wishing for Bush either has a very short memory or was too young to remember what a #### show it was.
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At least the US wasn't in bed with the Russians and run by a nuke crazy, alternative facts peddling, pervert warmonger at that time.
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02-27-2017, 03:18 PM
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#5011
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Originally Posted by northcrunk
Anyone wishing for Bush either has a very short memory or was too young to remember what a #### show it was.
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Wait, are you saying that Bush is comparable to Trump?
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02-27-2017, 03:24 PM
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#5012
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by FlameOn
At least the US wasn't in bed with the Russians and run by a nuke crazy, alternative facts peddling, pervert warmonger at that time.
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Right. The American world police, invade the middle east, dumb dumb was better.
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02-27-2017, 03:33 PM
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#5013
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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Originally Posted by Puppet Guy
that lady (I think) in the blue looks real happy to be there.
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I'm still trying to find anyone in the crowd under 65
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02-27-2017, 03:34 PM
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#5014
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Oh my God, it was so, so much better. Seriously, there is no worse. This is the first time that it's just not debatable, not down to ideology. Ted Cruz would have been better.
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02-27-2017, 03:35 PM
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#5015
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First Line Centre
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There's clearly a difference in Bush and Trump. Bush is the President for the Republican neo-conservative establishment, meaning short sighted policy intended to stifle social progress and cater to the wealthy. Trump is the President for those that want to destroy the establishment. Neither are ideal but at least we knew what Bush's ultimate goals were.
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02-27-2017, 04:15 PM
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#5016
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Quote:
Originally Posted by northcrunk
Right. The American world police, invade the middle east, dumb dumb was better.
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You realize Trump and company badly want to invade Iran right? Give it time, it'll happen.
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02-27-2017, 04:19 PM
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#5017
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Victoria, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by northcrunk
Anyone wishing for Bush either has a very short memory or was too young to remember what a #### show it was.
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Oh, I think people remember what a #### show it was. That's the point.
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02-27-2017, 04:23 PM
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#5018
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
You realize Trump and company badly want to invade Iran right? Give it time, it'll happen.
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Short of annihilation, the U.S. could not defeat Iran in a conventional war. Iran also enjoys a somewhat strange-bedfellow friend in China.
Attacking Iran would be the end of America as we know it. I just hope if or when it happens, Canada isn't stupid enough to join.
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02-27-2017, 04:29 PM
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#5019
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Short of annihilation, the U.S. could not defeat Iran in a conventional war. Iran also enjoys a somewhat strange-bedfellow friend in China.
Attacking Iran would be the end of America as we know it. I just hope if or when it happens, Canada isn't stupid enough to join.
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What? In a conventional war? The US would run over Iran in a few days.
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02-27-2017, 04:31 PM
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#5020
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Short of annihilation, the U.S. could not defeat Iran in a conventional war. Iran also enjoys a somewhat strange-bedfellow friend in China.
Attacking Iran would be the end of America as we know it. I just hope if or when it happens, Canada isn't stupid enough to join.
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Are you talking conventional or unconventional?
Because in a conventional war, Iran wouldn't last long, and I doubt that China would jump in against America on Iran's behalf.
Unconventional . . possibly, but we don't know how this president is going to fight an unconventional war at all.
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