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Post by hop2 on Jul 26, 2017 1:55:14 GMT
So is tiny hands threatening Amazon? "Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?" The tweet prompted this tweet by Bradd Jaffy... —"Amazon pays taxes/collects state sales tax —The president is threatening a company because its owner also owns a newspaper he doesn't like" i sure as hell pay taxes for shopping at Amazon they have a billionty supply warehouses in my state so there's no way around the taxes
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Post by imsirius on Jul 26, 2017 2:24:20 GMT
I really love the responses to his asinine tweets. They make me laugh.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jul 26, 2017 2:30:33 GMT
He's a danger to society-- He made this story up to make people fearful and full of hatred.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 2:48:20 GMT
He's a danger to society-- He made this story up to make people fearful and full of hatred. Hmm... a peek into the sick, twisted, perverted mind of a pedophile/rapist? This was his m.o. in NY for years!!!!!!! These were the precise accusations about Trump---------seeking out young "beautiful girls", preferably virgins. Some have come out (years later) to try to tell their story. Many New Yorkers back in the late 1970's/early 1980's probably heard a few whisperings of these stories. He had his "modeling agency". Years later he had the Miss Universe contests--anything to get close to "beautiful young women". He didn't slice and dice them, but there were enough accusations of him raping and physically abusing them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 5:02:06 GMT
Steve Hermann..
"It's confirmed by @energy that @secretaryperry spent 22 minutes speaking with Russian prankster he thought was #Ukraine prime minister."
You've got to give trump credit. He sure has surrounded himself with the best this country has to offer.
Don't they have staffers to like screen the calls so this doesn't happen?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 5:07:03 GMT
NBC News...
"Trump: it's been a "difficult week for the media bc I forced them to travel with us all around the country" & spend time w/ proud Americans"
You mean to the golf courses?
All over the country? Really? Been to the west coast yet?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 5:07:29 GMT
He's a danger to society-- He made this story up to make people fearful and full of hatred. He's sick.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 5:47:17 GMT
John Hardwood...
"new Gallup Poll on how Americans view Trump's performance as president: 36% approve, 59% disapprove"
From what I understand it's the disapproval # that matters and it's been inching up.
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Post by casii on Jul 26, 2017 12:07:42 GMT
He's a danger to society-- He made this story up to make people fearful and full of hatred. He's sick, sick man. You'd hope that people would practice critical thinking when he spews lies such as this. Unfortunately, I'm sure the crowd, in large part, ate this up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 12:58:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 13:07:32 GMT
"Secretary of Energy Rick Perry conducted a fake phone call with two Russian pranksters, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Perry believed he was speaking with the Ukrainian prime minister, but was actually talking to Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov, or the “Jerky Boys of Russia.” The Energy department confirmed to the news outlet that the call occurred. “Secretary Perry is the latest target of two Russian pranksters," Shaylyn Hynes, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department, told Bloomberg in an email. "These individuals are known for pranking high-level officials and celebrities, particularly those who are supportive of an agenda that is not in line with their governments. In this case, the energy security of Ukraine.” The two pranksters reportedly presented a new fuel created from manure and alcohol to Perry during the phone call." thehill.com/homenews/administration/343821-perry-conducts-fake-interview-with-russian-pranksters
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Post by linda~lou on Jul 26, 2017 13:52:17 GMT
I didn't copy tweets, there were three consecutive ones, he announced transgender people will not be allowed to serve in the military.
What happened to his love and support of the LGBT community. Does he know what the T stands for?
I hate him from the depths of my soul.
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Post by used2scrap on Jul 26, 2017 13:55:17 GMT
I didn't copy tweets, there were three consecutive ones, he announced transgender people will not be allowed to serve in armed forces. What happened to his love and support of the LGBT community. I hate him from the depths of my soul. I wonder if he's also going to bring back "don't ask, don't tell" or if he's just going to ban people outright based on their sexual orientation or gender again too? Sad. On Tuesday, in a statement to USA TODAY, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen urged the acceptance of transgender troops by the military, saying that previous policies that prevented gay and lesbian troops from serving damaged the military.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 14:09:52 GMT
What really disgusts me are the hateful comments on the news stories as the different outlets I follow report this. Comments range from "no, let them serve and be the first to die!" to "freaks."
I hate people.
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Post by epeanymous on Jul 26, 2017 14:18:42 GMT
He is targeting immigrants and trans people because his base lives for it. Health care is fractious, Russian scandal is continuing, so he is targeting minorities as scapegoats to excite his base.
Which, just think about that.
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Post by flute4peace on Jul 26, 2017 15:49:07 GMT
And how well is this working out? From the Hill. 7/15/2016.. Trump: 'I’m so stable you wouldn’t believe it’ BY MARK HENSCH - 07/15/16 12:29 PM EDT 159 11,714 Trump: 'I’m so stable you wouldn’t believe it’Donald Trump says he is not the careless and unpredictable character his critics frequently portray him as. “I’m a very stable person,” he said in an interview with Time published Thursday. "I’m so stable you wouldn’t believe it. “ We need a strong tone and a compassionate tone, and I can do both, plus what’s up here,” Trump added, pointing at his temple. "I think temperament is my strength, my greatest strength. “I’m not a fast trigger. I’m the exact opposite of a fast trigger, but nobody’s going to push us around. I think my ideas are really good.”Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, said he also disagrees with the idea that he is a political novice. “It’s not like I’ve not been in politics, but just not on this side of the ledger,” he said. "I’ve always rated experience far less than capability. When people ask me, ‘Would you rather have experience or talent?’ I’ll take talent every time. That’s not to knock experience, and I think I have both.” Trump, who defeated 16 rivals in the Republican presidential primary, also said he cannot explain his political success so far.“Why is it? Because — I don’t know. It’s just different,” he said. "It’s like, why is it that Jack Nicklaus won so many golf tournaments? Right? “Why is it that Babe Ruth could hit more home runs than all the teams in the American League?” Trump continued. 🚫 #MAGA Well, he's right about that. Nobody believes it at this point.
Everyone say it with me now. P-U-T-I-N
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Post by flute4peace on Jul 26, 2017 15:53:00 GMT
Jennifer Bendery - HuffPost "Reporters blocked from Senate halls where protesters being arrested, shouting, "Kill the bill!" Being told, "no photos. Delete your photos." So we've come to this now. Just pondering here - what would happen if all the reporters banded together and took/posted as many photos of the protests as they could, including recording/streaming the "officials" trying to shut them down.
Then there would be proof of trying to suppress freedom of speech and/or control the media. Right?
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Post by flute4peace on Jul 26, 2017 15:54:06 GMT
Fox News... ".@potus: "We all believe in the rule of law and we support the incredible men and women of law enforcement - unless they're transgender." fxn.ws/2eLV1UK" Believes in the rule of law??There I fixed that for him.
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Post by flute4peace on Jul 26, 2017 16:11:21 GMT
Paul Waldman for the Washington Post did this column " Senate Republicans take cynicism to a new horrifying level." We are hurtling toward a health-care disaster in the next 36 hours or so, for the worst possible reason. Cynicism is seldom completely absent from the operation of politics, but this is truly a unique situation. Republicans are set to remake one-sixth of the American economy, threaten the economic and health security of every one of us and deprive tens of millions of people of health-care coverage, all with a bill they haven’t seen, couldn’t explain and don’t even bother to defend on its merits.Why? Because they made a promise to their base and now they say they have to keep it — regardless of what form keeping the promise might take and how much misery it might cause.Tomorrow, the Senate is set to vote on a Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. What Republican bill? The senators themselves don’t even know. Here’s how Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) described it yesterday on “Face the Nation“: It appears that we will have a vote on Tuesday. But we don’t whether we’re going to be voting on the House bill, the first version of the Senate bill, the second version of the Senate bill, a new version of the Senate bill, or a 2015 bill that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act now, and then said that somehow we will figure out a replacement over the next two years. I’ve often argued that Republicans in Congress aren’t serious about policy, but this is taking their unseriousness to the level of farce. After complaining for years that the ACA was “rammed through” Congress — in a process that involved a full year of debate, dozens of hearings in both houses and 188 Republican amendments to the bill debated and accepted — they’re going to vote on a sweeping bill that had zero hearings and that they saw only hours before, because who cares what’s in it? It’s only the fate of the country at stake. If taking away health-care coverage from 20 million or 30 million Americans is what it takes to stave off a primary challenge from some nutball tea partier, then that’s what they’ll do. No one would argue that keeping promises isn’t important. But Republicans have elevated the idea of keeping their promise to repeal the ACA to the point where it’s drained of all substance. You can see it in the way they talk about the various iterations of their bill. You seldom hear a Republican defend it on the terms of the bill itself. They don’t say, “Here’s how this bill will bring down deductibles” or “Here’s how the bill will take care of those who lose their insurance” or “Here’s how the bill will lower costs.” That’s partly because their bills won’t do any of those things, but mostly because they just don’t care. Instead, what they say is, “We made a promise, and we’re going to keep it.” If Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) handed them a bill saying that all children on Medicaid would be taken to the desert, buried up to their necks in the sand, and covered in fire ants, at least 40 of them would say, “It may not be perfect, but we have to keep the promise we made to repeal Obamacare, so I’m voting yes.” For those few Republican senators with a hint of conscience — or whose states are particularly reliant on the ACA, and on Medicaid in particular — McConnell is trying to hand them a fig leaf they can use to justify their votes. But the goodies he’s offering are laughable. Consider, for instance, that McConnell is telling senators that he’ll put in $200 billion to help states that didn’t expand Medicaid. Sounds generous, until you realize that’s on top of over $750 billion in Medicaid cuts. It’s like saying, “I’m stealing your car, but here, you can keep the spare tire.” The same is true of the $45 billion over a decade they’re tossing in to address the opioid crisis. Many of the states hardest hit by that crisis are ones such as Ohio and West Virginia that are most dependent on Medicaid. So for them, the Republican bill would take $15 or $20 away from the program most central to treating the addicts in their state, but toss a dollar back to make up for it. People who work with state budgets and addiction treatment have been telling anyone who’ll listen that given the magnitude of this crisis, $4.5 billion a year is a joke. But it might be enough to allow a couple of Republicans in the Senate to claim they aren’t making the problem dramatically worse, which is exactly what they’d be doing. What you’d expect of leaders is to say, “Okay, there are a bunch of interlocking, complex problems we want to solve here. This has to be done carefully. Let’s take our time and make sure we get it right.” But that’s not what Republicans are saying. Instead, they’re saying “We have to vote on a bill now, even if we don’t know what it’s in it and even if it makes the problems we claim to care about impossibly worse, so we can say that we repealed Obamacare.” Sure, it would be bad to kick 20 million or 30 million people off their coverage — but not as bad as having to admit they failed to pass a bill! This is even less serious and more cynical than what they’ve been doing for the past seven years. When they held dozens of votes in the House to repeal the ACA, it may have been silly, but at least it didn’t hurt anyone. Now they have the power to affect people’s lives by the millions — even destroy them — and they can’t be bothered to spend more than a day or two figuring out how to do it. " Waldman is correct that repealing the ACA is more about keeping a promise then actually fixing the problems. But I willl add it's also their ideology that prevents them from making their bill better than the ACA. And if people get hurt by their bill it's "Oh well, it's their choice." This sounds like my local county commissioners. They promised "no new taxes", even though our tax base dropped significantly due to the drop in oil production. Therefore, they've cut our EMS service from 12 full-time (including 4 paramedics plus several advanced EMTs) to 6 full-time, no paramedics and only a couple of A-EMTs (we now have firefighters taking shifts to drive the ambulance, and hospital nurses going on transfers). Cut SO and jail staff to dangerous numbers (only 1 SO on duty for the whole county - sometimes none). Cut salaries of elected department heads by up to 25%. And more.
But hey - NO NEW TAXES
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 18:18:54 GMT
tiny hands has a couple of times brought this up in his tweets... "Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got...." "...big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives. Drain the Swamp!" But as is always the case there are the pesky little facts which are outlined by Politifact. Another reason why one needs to pay attention when it comes to trump. link
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Post by hop2 on Jul 26, 2017 18:23:32 GMT
tiny hands has a couple of times brought this up in his tweets... "Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got...." "...big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives. Drain the Swamp!" But didn't he pick Sessions for AG? So he has problems with Sessions past now? Did he not do a thorough investigation BEFORE picking him??
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 18:28:18 GMT
There is a video attached to this tiny hands tweet. I didn't listen to it but I think his tweet gives you an idea of what he is blathering about..
"IN AMERICA WE DON'T WORSHIP GOVERNMENT - WE WORSHIP GOD!🎥45.wh.gov/POTUSInsta"
Problem is, as is our right, there are a lot of Americans who don't worship any god.
So IMO that statement should never have been made by the President of the United States and I don't care if it was meant for his base. It was inappropriate.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 18:33:13 GMT
tiny hands has a couple of times brought this up in his tweets... "Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got...." "...big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives. Drain the Swamp!" But didn't he pick Sessions for AG? So he has problems with Sessions past now? Did he not do a thorough investigation BEFORE picking him?? trump wants Sessions to go after acting FBI director Andrew McCabe as a way to get to Hillary. It seems McCabe may have worked on the email investigation. When you read tiny hands tweets it suggests there may be a form of quid pro quo between Hillary and McCabe. But when you get the facts. No.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 18:52:52 GMT
Sam Stein...
"White House directing questions on transgender service ban to DoD, which earlier directed questions to the White House."
I see it's well run as usual.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 18:56:12 GMT
From San Jose Mercury News..
"Analysis: The military spends five times as much on Viagra as it would on transgender troops’ medical care bayareane.ws/2uxGvW2"
Worth noting.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 26, 2017 18:59:03 GMT
But didn't he pick Sessions for AG? So he has problems with Sessions past now? Did he not do a thorough investigation BEFORE picking him?? trump wants Sessions to go after acting FBI director Andrew McCabe as a way to get to Hillary. It seems McCabe may have worked on the email investigation. When you read tiny hands tweets it suggests there may be a form of quid pro quo between Hillary and McCabe. But when you get the facts. No. i can barely decipher his speeches much less his tweets.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 26, 2017 19:45:02 GMT
There is a video attached to this tiny hands tweet. I didn't listen to it but I think his tweet gives you an idea of what he is blathering about.. "IN AMERICA WE DON'T WORSHIP GOVERNMENT - WE WORSHIP GOD!🎥45.wh.gov/POTUSInsta"Problem is, as is our right, there are a lot of Americans who don't worship any god. So IMO that statement should never have been made by the President of the United States and I don't care if it was meant for his base. It was inappropriate.^^^ I know, we've had discussions about the separation of church and state here, but as to his tweet-- could that tweet be considered breaching the separation of church and state, because he's said that his tweets are considered official Presidential messages? I mean, couldn't that tweet be seen as the President espousing a particular religion or type of religion?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 22:36:58 GMT
From BuzzFeed...
"Feds have cracked locked phones seized from protesters at inauguration—and may be planning to use data against them thebea.st/2uDd1oa"
Something to ponder for future protestors.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 26, 2017 22:40:06 GMT
From BuzzFeed... "Feds have cracked locked phones seized from protesters at inauguration—and may be planning to use data against them thebea.st/2uDd1oa" Something to ponder for future protestors. Use the data how? It's not illegal to peacefully protest - yet
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2017 15:17:12 GMT
Glenn Thrush...
"More and more people I talk to -especially Rs - are asking: What the hell is going to happen when these guys get hit by a real crisis?"
Good question.
I would be remiss if I did not point out, despite criticism for doing it, Hillary was right to talk about trump's temperament or lack of that made him unqualified to be president. After an exhausting 6 months with this guy it's becoming very that Hillary was right and it's a valid question of how trump will behave if there is a real crisis.
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