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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Mar 3, 2019 10:34:12 GMT
I see Trump has no problems promoting his private business. Isn’t this illegal?
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2019 13:26:15 GMT
I see Trump has no problems promoting his private business. Isn’t this illegal? He/his administration hasn’t given a shit so far...
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Post by pyccku on Mar 3, 2019 13:29:12 GMT
It’s only illegal if you’re not Trump, because laws simply don’t apply to him.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 3, 2019 13:35:52 GMT
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Post by quinlove on Mar 3, 2019 13:41:58 GMT
Does anyone believe that a. trump “loves” Otto and b. That he thinks of him often? NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!! As a narcissist, trump is unable to have feelings for another human being. He says ridiculous things like this - because this is how he thinks he should feel.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 14:25:46 GMT
The little people pay so the billionaires don't have to.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 16:10:47 GMT
And then you have this.
KPIX SF...
“Facebook Proposes Investing $1 Billion to Restore Dumbarton Rail Bridge”
“NEWARK (CBS SF) — Facebook is trying to lay the groundwork for construction of a new commuter line with a plan that includes refurbishing an old rail bridge.
The social media giant says it wants to cover a big chunk of the cost.
With a potential $1 billion investment, Facebook has jump started a much-discussed but long dormant plan to bring train service from the East Bay to the peninsula.
“I could spend my time reading or doing work. Anything but being stressed out by the cars around me,” mused commuter Anabella Gonzalez.
Gonzalez says she typically spend three hours each day inching along in traffic from her home in the East Bay to her job on the peninsula and back. She says she grateful the social media giant is considering investing into own money to bring train service to the peninsula.
“I am a little impressed that Facebook was willing to put in some money to make the commute better. Unfortunately, I don’t know anyone who works here and lives in the city,” Gonzalez said.
Facebook has already paid for Samtrans to conduct a feasibility study, examining plans to use a now defunct set of railroad tracks south of the Dumbarton bridge.
“We have very high concentrations of jobs in areas where we don’t have housing,” said Asha Weinstein Agrawal, a researcher with the Mineta Transportation Institute.
Facebook is in the middle of negotiations with Samtrans which owns the tracks. If everything goes according to plan, construction on the project could begin as soon as 2022.
“I think it is a viable option given the amount of traffic in the Bay Area, especially along that corridor,” said commuter Karim Michael Tahir.”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 16:18:41 GMT
trump...
”...said was a total lie, but Fake Media won’t show it. I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start - And only because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!”
“After more than two years of Presidential Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and other broke the law. The hostile Cohen testimony, given by a liar to reduce his prison time, proved no Collusion! His just written book manuscript showed what he.....”
These tweets are in order, so I’m wondering who “said was a total lie” is. What laws did the Democrats and others break?
After yesterday’s performance he got a new nickname. I hesitate to show it here, but what the heck.
Jeff Tiedrich...
”is President Flag Hump still yammering about a book that hasn't yet been written? aren't there any golf courses open today?”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 16:31:02 GMT
It would seem that some are not paying attention...
trump..
”We’ve got NASA “rocking” again. Great activity and success. Congrats to SPACEX and all!”
This tweet by trump prompted this by Nicholle Wallace..
”?”
This is something I agree with trump on. Yesterday or Friday SpaceX did the first test using I guess a new rocket to send a ship to the International Space Station with the goal of it returning to earth and splashing it down in the ocean safely. If it’s successful, then it’s one step closer to the United States being able to send and retrieve our astronauts from the space station instead of relying on Russia. If the tests are successful, SpaceX feels they can start ferrying the astronauts sometime later this year. That is a good thing.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 3, 2019 16:54:02 GMT
It would seem that some are not paying attention... trump.. ”We’ve got NASA “rocking” again. Great activity and success. Congrats to SPACEX and all!” This tweet by trump prompted this by Nicholle Wallace.. ”?” This is something I agree with trump on. Yesterday or Friday SpaceX did the first test using I guess a new rocket to send a ship to the International Space Station with the goal of it returning to earth and splashing it down in the ocean safely. If it’s successful, then it’s one step closer to the United States being able to send and retrieve our astronauts from the space station instead of relying on Russia. If the tests are successful, SpaceX feels they can start ferrying the astronauts sometime later this year. That is a good thing. It’s a good thing but it has little to do with NASA whose funding has been shrinking steadily over this & the last administration. SpaceX is a private company. This does not put ‘the US’ as a government entity or the ‘US’ as a nation back on track with anything. Still dependent. While I agree it’s better to rely on SpaceX than Russia your still relying on another autonomous entity, just not a hostile foreign enemy. And Trump has pretty much nothing to do with SpaceX’s advances, SpaceX has been working on this for years. So what’s he bragging about?
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Post by katlady on Mar 3, 2019 16:54:32 GMT
Robert Acosta.. “President Trump just announced he will sign an executive order that will require universities to pledge to allow “free speech” if they want federal dollars, moments after bringing a conservative activist and college student on stage. Details of the order unclear.” I don’t have a problem with this as long as I can exercise my free speech by protesting against the content of their words. Doesn’t Trump know that the first amendment guarantees free speech?? And isn’t Trump the one always trying to shut down newspapers?? I guess he just wants everyone to have the ability to give hate speeches.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 16:58:19 GMT
Sunday morning pondering.
Can a sitting president be indicted and prosecuted? If not, how would “sealed indictments” waiting for a president to leave office before being served affect his time governing while still in office? Remember this is petty vindictive trump we are talking about.
It would appear Section 4 of the 25th Amendment may provide a means for an indicted president to be removed during the prosecution period and restored if he or she is found innocent of the crimes.
From AM Joy..
”@lawprofbutler: Prosecution is the key word. A sitting president can't be prosecuted. He may be able to be indicted, which means there could be a sealed indictment waiting right now for the day #Trump leaves office. #AMJoy”
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.”
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Post by hop2 on Mar 3, 2019 17:11:50 GMT
Robert Acosta.. “President Trump just announced he will sign an executive order that will require universities to pledge to allow “free speech” if they want federal dollars, moments after bringing a conservative activist and college student on stage. Details of the order unclear.” I don’t have a problem with this as long as I can exercise my free speech by protesting against the content of their words. Doesn’t Trump know that the first amendment guarantees free speech?? And isn’t Trump the one always trying to shut down newspapers?? I guess he just wants everyone to have the ability to give hate speeches. Free speech does not mean that anyone or any place HAS to host a talk by you. Especially if major security costs come with hosting you. ‘Free speech’ has nothing to do with guaranteeing you a venue. It only says the government won’t arrest, jail or persecute you for speaking. Each venue can accept or not accept your speaking engagement because they gave freedoms too. Like thecfredom to not spend thier money hosting guest speakers they can’t cist effectively host. Free speech does come with consequences.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 18:16:20 GMT
It would seem that some are not paying attention... trump.. ”We’ve got NASA “rocking” again. Great activity and success. Congrats to SPACEX and all!” This tweet by trump prompted this by Nicholle Wallace.. ”?” This is something I agree with trump on. Yesterday or Friday SpaceX did the first test using I guess a new rocket to send a ship to the International Space Station with the goal of it returning to earth and splashing it down in the ocean safely. If it’s successful, then it’s one step closer to the United States being able to send and retrieve our astronauts from the space station instead of relying on Russia. If the tests are successful, SpaceX feels they can start ferrying the astronauts sometime later this year. That is a good thing. It’s a good thing but it has little to do with NASA whose funding has been shrinking steadily over this & the last administration. SpaceX is a private company. This does not put ‘the US’ as a government entity or the ‘US’ as a nation back on track with anything. Still dependent. While I agree it’s better to rely on SpaceX than Russia your still relying on another autonomous entity, just not a hostile foreign enemy. And Trump has pretty much nothing to do with SpaceX’s advances, SpaceX has been working on this for years. So what’s he bragging about? SpaceX is using NASA’s infrastructure and personnel. If they didn’t, I doubt if SpaceX could do today what they are doing. So in a way NASA is “rocking”
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Post by Merge on Mar 3, 2019 19:01:25 GMT
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 3, 2019 20:57:55 GMT
Robert Acosta.. “President Trump just announced he will sign an executive order that will require universities to pledge to allow “free speech” if they want federal dollars, moments after bringing a conservative activist and college student on stage. Details of the order unclear.” I don’t have a problem with this as long as I can exercise my free speech by protesting against the content of their words. Doesn’t Trump know that the first amendment guarantees free speech?? And isn’t Trump the one always trying to shut down newspapers?? I guess he just wants everyone to have the ability to give hate speeches. You know he only means that people can speak freely if it’s in line with his rhetoric. If you speak out against trump, he’d love to snatch away your FA1 so fast. He’s working on controlling media. So that we only hear him.
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Post by PLurker on Mar 3, 2019 21:13:40 GMT
Doesn’t Trump know that the first amendment guarantees free speech?? And isn’t Trump the one always trying to shut down newspapers?? I guess he just wants everyone to have the ability to give hate speeches. You know he only means that people can speak freely if it’s in line with his rhetoric. If you speak out against trump, he’d love to snatch away your FA1 so fast. He’s working on controlling media. So that we only hear him. I'd be willing to give him one 24/7 station all his own if he'd resign and do that. He all about the attention and cameras around him always anyway. Like "Edtv" I wouldn't have to watch. Let him babble away. Out of sight and power.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 21:37:45 GMT
linkThe right is already trying to define what the 2020 election will be about. The New York Post “Gas-guzzling car rides expose AOC’s hypocrisy amid Green New Deal pledge”From the article. “Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to save the planet with her Green New Deal, but she keeps tripping over her own giant carbon footprint. “We’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ ” the progressive darling said in January, speaking of herself and her fellow millennials. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.” Last week, she ratcheted up the rhetoric: “It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult” due to climate change. “And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it OK to still have children?” The guiding principle of her eco-vision is to bring about “a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases” within 10 years. To achieve this, the GND fact sheet says, the nation must “totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail … create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle.” But the woman who boasts of a “razor-sharp BS detector” seems to have trouble sniffing out her own. Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustible-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office. She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone. In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train. The campaign shelled out only $8,335.41 on 52 MetroCard transactions. Everyone — top to bottom — used the MetroCards,” Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent told The Post. By comparison, fellow freshman Rep. Max Rose — whose district is more than twice the size of AOC’s and, like hers, spans two boroughs — listed only 329 transactions for car services, totaling $6,091.29, campaign filings show. In a district with limited transit options and a $17 Verrazzano Bridge toll, Rose spent only $732 more than AOC on gas and tolls — an indicator of personal car usage. Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly attributed her success in beating Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley to walking the streets of her district, which includes parts of Queens and The Bronx.“ The article goes on but you get the drift of what they are suggesting. The right will do the same with Sanders being a socialist. If the Republicans are allowed to control the narrative for 2020, we will get stuck with trump for another 4 years and could possibly lose the majority in the House as well. Then what?
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Post by katlady on Mar 3, 2019 21:40:02 GMT
I am looking forward to Monday night to hear/watch what the late night talk shows have to say about CPAC!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 21:49:30 GMT
linkNewsweek... “DONALD TRUMP KEEPS STRONG GOP SUPPORT AHEAD OF 2020, WHILE ONLY 18 PERCENT OF AMERICANS WOULD VIEW 'SOCIALIST' CANDIDATE POSITIVELY: POLL”From the article. ”A person who is Muslim and a candidate who is a socialist received the least amount of support, with only 18 percent of Americans said they view a "socialist" candidate positively. Half of Americans view the term "negatively," according to the poll.”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 21:54:21 GMT
This from trump...
”Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship!”
Prompted this from ex ethics director Walter Shaub...
”Think about this tweet. How could the personal property of the President further relations between two countries? His statement is meaningless unless he wants foreign governments to know the key to a good relationship with America is to further its President’s personal interests.”
Which is why all future presidents who have sizable business holding really must sell them. Harsh maybe but otherwise you get stuff like this.
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Post by ntsf on Mar 4, 2019 0:24:26 GMT
elon musk.. who started Space X.. another immigrant story...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 15:21:16 GMT
trump..
”FEMA has been told directly by me to give the A Plus treatment to the Great State of Alabama and the wonderful people who have been so devastated by the Tornadoes. @govivey, one of the best in our Country, has been so informed. She is working closely with FEMA (and me!).”
I’m curious, why should any state get preferential treatment over any other state that experienced a natural disaster?
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Post by flute4peace on Mar 4, 2019 15:34:45 GMT
trump.. ”FEMA has been told directly by me to give the A Plus treatment to the Great State of Alabama and the wonderful people who have been so devastated by the Tornadoes. @govivey, one of the best in our Country, has been so informed. She is working closely with FEMA (and me!).” I’m curious, why should any state get preferential treatment over any other state that experienced a natural disaster? Right? This outbreak covered GA too
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 15:40:31 GMT
linkI have been reading the responses on the GOP thread about the 2020 presidential election. So not to derail that thread I bring my question here. I’m amazed by the number who will not commit to voting for a Democrat until they know who it is. I can understand that if this was a normal election with normal people running. But there is nothing normal about any of this. Nothing. Because this is not a normal election, IMO, there are only two choices. trump and whoever the Democrats nominate. And yes, I’m hoping Sanders crashes and burns real soon. Which brings up my question. Why would any reasonable person even consider voting for this guy... From the Washington Post.. “President Trump has made 9,014 false or misleading claims over 773 days”From the article.. ”Powered by his two-hour stemwinder at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2 — which featured more than 100 false or misleading claims — President Trump is on pace to exceed his daily quota set during his first two years in office. The president averaged nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in his first year in office. He hit nearly 16.5 a day in his second year. So far in 2019, he’s averaging nearly 22 claims a day. As of the end of March 3, the 773rd day of his term in office, Trump accumulated 9,014 fishy claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. Trump’s performance at CPAC is emblematic of his version of the truth during his presidency — a potent mix of exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasting and outright falsehoods. His speech helped push March 3 to his fourth-biggest day for false or misleading claims, totaling 104.”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 16:08:00 GMT
linkNewsweek... “DONALD TRUMP IS LESS INTERESTED IN TERRORISM THREATS AT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS, COMPLAINS HIS 'GENERALS DON'T UNDERSTAND BUSINESS': REPORT”
From the article... ”President Donald Trump is showing “less interest” in potential terrorist plots during intelligence briefings and complains that his “generals don’t understand business” because they so rarely consider economics in their analyses, according to a Sunday report by New York Times.” Let’s send an outsider to DC and shake things up.
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