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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#761 Post by SR » Thu Oct 03, 2019 7:46 am

He doesn't seize anything; he is gifted it by people who accept lies as truths. But you have the benefit of having read this book; I have not.

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#762 Post by mockbee » Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:35 am

Who doesn't accept lies to one degree or another as truth?
:hs:

You, we all, have to. How would anybody make it through the day?! :nod:

We are all guilty of this. And it is not our fault.
:noclue:

Yea, its that degree of truth that counts, but who are the elite to say that the truths of the people who are struggling each day are invalid?

And if we go...what about the racists?! That is exactly where Trump wants you to go. Call 50% or more of the American public racists. That is simply not true.

There are racists for sure, but I would put the figure closer to 15% of the American public who are politically dangerous racists. I dont care about them.
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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#763 Post by SR » Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:39 am

You win.

Nothing but necessary truths should be relied upon. I was a born male. That's all I know

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#764 Post by mockbee » Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:43 am

:lol:

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#765 Post by Hype » Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:19 pm

mockbee wrote:
Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:41 am
SR wrote:
Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:43 am
mockbee wrote:
Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:38 am

I will have to say that Trumps brilliance at media manipulation and persuasion never ceases to amaze me. Truly.

He runs a master class on 21st century persuasion where it counts......

:noclue:
I am on the waiting list for the windmill/cancer cell connection.

WRAUOOOOW - WRAUOOOOW - WRAUOOOOW :lol:



Don't know if you have seen this, but it's pretty compelling. The cancer shtick is bunk, Trump knows this, but health risks and environmental risks, absolutely! So he gaslights the left. Windfarms should be nowhere near people.... :noclue:



Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, writing that the film "left me disheartened. I thought wind energy was something I could believe in. This film suggests it's just another corporate flim-flam game." He notes that there is doubtless a legion of wind-power activists and lobbyists who would counter-argue the points made in Windfall, but asks "How many of them live on wind farms?"[1]
Yeah, so... this is almost entirely BS. There were over 80 windmills on a small island just across from where I used to live. I've been up close around them. They're fine. I know farmers who are going solar, first though, because it's easy for a family to install panels. Much harder to install a personal wind-turbine.

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#767 Post by Artemis » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:39 pm

:lol:

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#768 Post by mockbee » Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:04 pm

I think Taibbi hits it out of the park.... :nod: :sad:



If you're wondering if Taibbi is a Trump apologist, I'd encourage you to go ahead and read any one of his other articles in the last 20 years.
:bigrin:




We're in a permanent coup
Americans might soon wish they just waited to vote their way out of the Trump era


I’ve lived through a few coups. They’re insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score.

The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-speed head-counting exercise. Who’s got the power plant, the airport, the police in the capital? How many department chiefs are answering their phones? Who’s writing tonight’s newscast?

When the KGB in 1991 tried to reassume control of the crumbling Soviet Union by placing Mikhail Gorbachev under arrest and attempting to seize Moscow, logistics ruled. Boris Yeltsin’s crew drove to the Russian White House in ordinary cars, beating KGB coup plotters who were trying to reach the seat of Russian government in armored vehicles. A key moment came when one of Yeltsin’s men, Alexander Rutskoi – who two years later would himself lead a coup against Yeltsin – prevailed upon a Major in a tank unit to defy KGB orders and turn on the “criminals.”

We have long been spared this madness in America. Our head-counting ceremony was Election Day. We did it once every four years.

That’s all over, in the Trump era...................


https://taibbi.substack.com/p/were-in-a-permanent-coup

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#769 Post by SR » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:55 am

or read his book on his experience from the campaign trail.... :nod: it was very good

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#770 Post by mockbee » Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:24 am

Taibbi is a curious read. He gets it for the most part, but is still not quite there on Trumps deep understanding of what is going on here.

His intro to Insane Clown President (the campaign book) is good. It gets 90% of it right, but there is 10% that is still quite wrong/antiquated thinking.

The longer the media plays the buffoon card, the longer it's going to take to right this ship.

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#771 Post by mockbee » Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:54 am

In case there was any notion of doubt (hope......), it still seems readily apparent to me that Trump will be winning 2020 easily. Bigger electoral win than 2016. He'll get Minnesota and maybe a couple other states.

Dems and Media still in the woods.
:balls:


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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#772 Post by chaos » Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:26 am

DJT booed at World Series (around 28 seconds in)

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#773 Post by Pandemonium » Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:59 pm

chaos wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:26 am
DJT booed at World Series (around 28 seconds in)
Anti Trump city and an Anti Trumper was picked to throw out the first pitch. The tone was definitely set. It was reminiscent of Michelle Obama getting booed at NASCAR. Who didn’t see that one coming? The country has become so split down the middle due to politics there's no refuge to be had in any sort of entertainment anymore.

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#774 Post by chaos » Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:08 am

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/nyre ... -york.html

Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million to Charities for Misuse of Foundation

The president admitted he had used funds raised by the Donald J. Trump Foundation to promote his campaign and pay business debts.
A fund-raiser for veterans that Mr. Trump held in Iowa was in fact a campaign event, he acknowledged.

By Alan Feuer
Nov. 7, 2019

A state judge ordered President Trump to pay $2 million in damages to nonprofit groups on Thursday after the president admitted misusing money raised by the Donald J. Trump Foundation to promote his presidential bid, pay off business debts and purchase a portrait of himself for one of his hotels.
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The settlement, which was finalized last month and announced on Thursday in the judge’s order, included a detailed admission of misconduct that is rare for the president, who has long employed a scorched-earth approach toward fighting lawsuits.

Among Mr. Trump’s admissions in court papers: The charity gave his campaign complete control over disbursing the $2.8 million that the foundation had raised at a fund-raiser for veterans in Iowa in January 2016, only days before the state’s presidential nominating caucuses. The fund-raiser, he acknowledged, was in fact a campaign event.
The president also admitted to using the foundation to settle the legal obligations of companies he owned, including Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida, and the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y. And he acknowledged that the foundation purchased the $10,000 portrait of Mr. Trump, which was ultimately displayed at one of his Florida hotels.

Though he had admitted wrongdoing in court papers, Mr. Trump attacked what he described as “the political hacks in New York State” in a defiant statement posted on Twitter on Thursday night, claiming that the foundation had given “100 percent of the funds to great charities” and that he had suffered “4 years of politically motivated harassment” by the attorney general’s office.
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DJT's response:

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#775 Post by mockbee » Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:46 pm

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Anyone paying attention to this....................?

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#776 Post by chaos » Sat Nov 16, 2019 4:45 pm

https://www.thedailybeast.com/president ... itter_page

President Donald Trump Has Begun ‘Portions’ of Annual Physical Exam At Walter Reed
Pilar Melendez
Published Nov. 16, 2019 4:59PM ET

President Donald Trump is “taking advantage of a free weekend” and began “portions” of his annual physical exam on Saturday, according to the White House. Trump, 73, arrived at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland in an unannounced visit on Saturday afternoon, three months before his anticipated February appointment. “Anticipating a very busy 2020, the President is taking advantage of a free weekend here in Washington, D.C., to begin portions of his routine annual physical exam at Walter Reed,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement to CNN.

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#780 Post by mockbee » Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:53 am

This is going to be so comically bad for democrats.......
:no:


Let me off this ship...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/opin ... ense.html

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#781 Post by mockbee » Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:42 am

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Trump’s Digital Advantage Is Freaking Out Democratic Strategists
Left and right agree on one point. The president’s re-election campaign is way ahead online.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opin ... e=Homepage

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#782 Post by mockbee » Wed Feb 05, 2020 7:31 am

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President Trump’s State of the Union Speech was marked by optimism and made-for-TV moments — but his tense relationship with Speaker Nancy Pelosi was also on display.

Trump is not stupid.......he knows exactly what he is doing.
Yes, he is a disgusting misogynist and bigot and crony capitalist, but he is no dummy.....

Democrats and supporters make huge strategic blunders every time they think so.
:noclue:

:drink: :drink: :drink:


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/p ... e=Homepage
Mr. Trump, who lamented what he called “American carnage” when he was inaugurated in January 2017, described a different country today, declaring in his third State of the Union address that the nation’s future was once again “blazing bright.”

“In just three short years, we have shattered the mentality of American Decline and we have rejected the downsizing of America’s destiny,” Mr. Trump said in a speech that lasted 78 minutes. “We have totally rejected the downsizing. We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never, ever going back!”

“The state of our union,” Mr. Trump declared, “is stronger than ever before.”

Welcomed by enthusiastic applause from Republican lawmakers, the president marched confidently into the same historic chamber where he was impeached 49 days earlier. Mr. Trump described the nation as enjoying what he called a “blue-collar boom,” fueled by trade agreements and his success in “restoring our nation’s manufacturing might.”

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Even as he delivered his remarks, it was Democrats who were in disarray, still unable to declare a final winner in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. State officials said they expected to release more results later Tuesday evening in a botched election process that Mr. Trump was quick to mock online.

“The Democrat Caucus is an unmitigated disaster,” the president crowed on Twitter earlier in the day. “Nothing works, just like they ran the Country. Remember the 5 Billion Dollar Obamacare website, that should have cost 2% of that. The only person that can claim a very big victory in Iowa last night is ‘Trump.’”

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#783 Post by mockbee » Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:49 am

Many truths by Trump........ :tiphat:

Reality is going to be biting Dems hard...........
Why they still dont get what is going on is beyond.....ya..ya..ya mockbee going off again......what's new....... :wink: :hehe:

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What a Trump Rally Looks Like From the Inside
The president was in New Hampshire too, and so were his admirers.


Feb. 10, 2020


MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Trump spoke for an hour to an enthusiastic crowd of more than 11,000 at the Southern Hampshire University Arena on Monday night under banners that read “Promises Made” and “Promises Kept.” Two nights earlier, this same venue hosted the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club dinner.

“We have more in this arena than all the other candidates in the Democratic Party,” Mr. Trump said. “One candidate today had 104 people.”

:tiphat:

The crowd laughed.

“I see them campaigning down the street. It’s really boring stuff,” Mr. Trump added. “We are going to defeat the radical, socialist democrats. We are going to win New Hampshire in a landslide.”


Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr. and Vice President Mike Pence warmed up for the president.

“Tomorrow there is a group of self-proclaimed and closeted socialists running against Donald Trump,” Ms. Guilfoyle said, which prompted loud booing from the crowd.

“In my next life I want to come back as the son of a Democrat because you can do anything you want. If I did what Hunter did, I would be in jail right now,” Donald Trump Jr. said.

“Nancy Pelosi can rip up all of my father’s accomplishments,” he added, “but she can’t rip up your spirit. And under my father, America will never be a socialist country.”


Mr. Pence came from a “Cops for Trump” event at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside. “Cops are for Trump because Trump is for cops,” Mr. Pence told the Manchester crowd.

For some attendees, this was their first Trump rally. Shane Stocker, a 45-year-old jet engine maker for G.E. Aviation from Lebanon, N.H., waited in line for an hour.


“I do think he’s one of the best presidents we’ve had in a while,” he said, citing tax cuts, loosening regulation and “lots more jobs.”

:tiphat:

Mr. Stocker voted for Trump in 2016. “After the job Obama was doing, we needed a different direction,” he said. “He was breaking the law left and right and nobody was paying attention to it.”

“With Trump you don’t have to worry about it,” Mr. Stocker added. “He’s the most vetted president in our country’s history. Since he announced he was running for president they’ve been doing nothing but investigating him.”
:tiphat:

The president “is not prim or proper,” he said. “I like that. He doesn’t sugar coat things for people. And if you don’t like it, too bad.”
:tiphat:

José Rojas, a 38-year-old truck driver from Nashua, N.H., arrived in a shirt that read: “My rights don’t end where your feelings begin.”

“Everybody here, they’re all on the same page,’’ Mr. Rojas said. “It’s good energy.”
A latino supports Trump! :yikes: :eyes:
Driving through farming country with majority/half hispanic populations you see Trump signs in front of a lot of the Taquerias.... :noclue: :bored:
Diane Aubin, 63, is a retired manager who worked at the Department of Developmental Services in Hawthorne, Mass., and now lives in Litchfield, N.H. This is the fourth rally she has attended since 2016 and her second at this arena.

I love his message. I love what he has done,” Ms. Aubin said. “He’s for the people. He’s for all of us. He doesn’t brainwash me. I get freedom of thought. I get to choose.”
:nod:
After she waited in line for four hours, someone brought a Dunkin’ Donuts Box O’ Joe to share. “These are good people,” she said
No!!! They're ALL racists and/or ignorant!!!!!! :confused: :eyes:
Pamela Tucker, 56, the vice chairman of New Hampshire Republican Party, came to the rally from Rye. She said that there were still 3,000 people outside who couldn’t get in the doors after 5:45 p.m.


“I love freedom and liberty and I’m trying to keep that in America,” Ms. Tucker said. “I’m really happy with how the economy is doing.

“I believe in the individual and he’s helping that,” she added. “The economy is booming and we see it. He is helping people.”

Mike Thibodeau, a 53-year-old retired machinist, carpenter, glass blower and warehouse worker from Hartford, Vt., was attending his first rally. “I voted Democrat almost all my life, until Trump,” he said. “Democrats have slowly slid farther and farther left. The left has gone so far left that they’ve lost their minds.’’


Mr. Thibodeau is not on board with all of Mr. Trump’s policies, but for him this is not crucial.

“You can’t get change if you keep electing the same people over and over,” he said. “That’s why I voted for him the first time, because he wasn’t a career politician. He’s never had any political power at any level and look at the job he’s doing.”

“He might be one of the two greatest presidents in my lifetime,” Mr. Thibodeau said, citing Ronald Reagan as the other.


A BIG DEAL for Dems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :yikes: :yikes:
:idea:

The Democrat cites Ronald Reagan as one of the two greatest presidents in his lifetime, the other one being Trump.....

I'm not surprised.... :noclue:


SR, you have another $1k to put on that 48 state / 75% pop vote for Trump?
Of course, I don't have to put up anything because that would never happen....... :wink:

:thumb:

So Trump is going to get the Reagan Dems, the pissed Bernie fans, and the small business Hispanics......and oh, all the Republicans...
:lolol:

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#784 Post by SR » Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:57 pm

Delirious a bit?

I am not sure what you're asking here. Are you saying you would like a 1,000.00 bet where you would take the same parameters as my friend? Trump has to take at least 48 states and win 75% of the popular vote for you to collect. Anything less on either and I do.

You've mentioned it a couple of times now, so I just want to be clear. :thumb:

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Re: Donald Trump running for President.

#785 Post by mockbee » Tue Feb 11, 2020 2:34 pm

SR wrote:
Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:57 pm
Delirious a bit?

I am not sure what you're asking here. Are you saying you would like a 1,000.00 bet where you would take the same parameters as my friend? Trump has to take at least 48 states and win 75% of the popular vote for you to collect. Anything less on either and I do.

You've mentioned it a couple of times now, so I just want to be clear. :thumb:
Ah, didn't think your buddy was paying out if he lost, just that you thought he was that crazy.

Nah, not interested in that. I think it will be close but I don't have $1,000 to spare.... :noclue:

Still think you will come out ahead......but it's going to be a nailbiter for ya.... :wink: :hehe:

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