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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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The Minsky Moment

Quote from: The Larch on April 03, 2019, 01:06:20 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 03, 2019, 12:37:01 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on April 03, 2019, 12:32:54 PM
And now windmills cause cancer.

What?

QuoteTrump's war on windmills now includes wild cancer claim
(...)
"Hillary wanted to put up wind," said President Donald Trump at a fundraiser for Republicans in Washington Tuesday, kicking off an extended riff about the evils of windmills -- wind turbines, more accurately -- and the inadequacy of wind energy. It's worth looking at in full since it's clearly becoming part of his stump speech and feeds into his larger distrust of renewable energy and his mocking of climate change.
(...)
Trump: "If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75% in value."
(...)
Trump: "And they say the noise causes cancer. You told me that one, OK." (Then he made circles with his hands and a noise with his mouth.) "You know the thing makes so..."

If producing lots of air and obnoxious noise was bad for one's health, then Trump and everyone around him would be long dead by now.
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Eddie Teach

Not if the deleterious effects are offset by a healthy diet of fried chicken and hamberders.
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Solmyr

 :huh: I don't know about your Greens, but our Greens support all kinds of clean energy including wind turbines.

derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

Quote from: Solmyr on April 04, 2019, 02:50:19 AM
:huh: I don't know about your Greens, but our Greens support all kinds of clean energy including wind turbines.


Just generally they have been fickle friends.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

viper37

Quote from: Solmyr on April 04, 2019, 02:50:19 AM
:huh: I don't know about your Greens, but our Greens support all kinds of clean energy including wind turbines.
Yeah, they're also for solar power.  Until they aren't anymore.
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Razgovory

Trump just fired the head of the secret service.  Head of Homeland security was yesterday.  Looks like a purge.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

#22207
He tried to shut down the border last month with no warning.

Nielsen balking on that is likely what ultimately got her fired.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/trump-family-separation-el-paso-kirstjen-nielsen/index.html

Such an order of course violates US law, international treaties that the US signed, one of Trump's own executive orders and would cause a massive recession.
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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grumbler

Quote from: Syt on April 09, 2019, 06:02:55 AM
Teenage Stephen Miller (right) with his little brother.


I don't get it.  What is worth sharing about this picture?
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Quote from: grumbler on April 09, 2019, 06:39:03 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 09, 2019, 06:02:55 AM
Teenage Stephen Miller (right) with his little brother.


I don't get it.  What is worth sharing about this picture?

I guess now we'll never know.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

Quote from: grumbler on April 09, 2019, 06:39:03 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 09, 2019, 06:02:55 AM
Teenage Stephen Miller (right) with his little brother.


I don't get it.  What is worth sharing about this picture?


Uh... what picture?   :huh:
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Valmy

Are you ok grumbler? Are you hallucinating posts? The school year getting a little stressful?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Syt

:whistle:

I thought it's good to remember that even some morally questionable people were kids at some point.

But yeah, doesn't belong here, I guess.
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Oexmelin

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