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| jodeke wrote: |
Who do you think her replacement will be?
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Hmm... well Ivanka's busy being Secretary of State. Maybe Tiffany?
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| Omar Little wrote: |
It's a showy move, and a smart one from a PR standpoint, to demonstrate that the company not only doesn't instill this, it is serious about addressing it. |
It's also a good legal move. If this happened again, without adequate steps to prevent a reoccurrence despite knowledge of this kind of problem, Starbucks' liability could be huge. From all angles, its the smart and right move to make.
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| Quote: | Trump, in Another Apparent Reversal, Says Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Has ‘Too Many Contingencies’
In a Twitter post at 10:49 p.m., Mr. Trump said that although Japan and South Korea would like the United States to join the 11 other nations in the multilateral trade agreement, he had no intention of doing so. The decision put an apparent end to a meandering trade policy in which Mr. Trump pulled out of the deal in his first week in office, before suggesting last week that he was having second thoughts.
“Too many contingencies and no way to get out if it doesn’t work,” Mr. Trump wrote from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “Bilateral deals are far more efficient, profitable and better for OUR workers.”
The comments confounded some trade experts on Tuesday night because South Korea is not in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Mr. Trump followed up with a shot at the World Trade Organization, which he said was “bad” to the United States. |
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/us/politics/trump-tpp-japan-south-korea.html
I wish this man wasn't President. But since he is we are all at the whim of his misguided ideas about trade.
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So, apparently hannity virtually has a desk at the whitehouse, helps write tweets, and is a regular confidante to Trump. I’m guessing the only reason he didn’t want to be revealed as a client of Cohen (and that his client status was merely for this purpose) is there is something Cohen may have about coordination between Hannity and Trump and ???
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:40 am Post subject: |
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| Hannity has also used Sekulow, Toensing and DiGenova in legal capacities. |
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| On a lighter note, Puerto Rico is in the middle of an island wide blackout. |
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Fwiw, pretty clear that the current gop strategy involves setting up a war room to coordinate smearing the investigators, and their oversight committee working to find a trumped up reason to fire rosenstein (currently asking him to turn over evidence to them mid investigation).
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| Omar Little wrote: | | So, apparently hannity virtually has a desk at the whitehouse, helps write tweets, and is a regular confidante to Trump. I’m guessing the only reason he didn’t want to be revealed as a client of Cohen (and that his client status was merely for this purpose) is there is something Cohen may have about coordination between Hannity and Trump and ??? |
There is a clip of Hannity talking to Bannon last year, in which Hannity said that the Deep State and this alleged anti-Trump conspiracy is so powerful that not only Trump but also people like Hannity are in danger of being imprisoned! At the time, it seemed like some good old conservative hyperbole. But knowing what we know now, and considering that Hannity seems to have some kind of connection with Assange, there is a chance that he's genuinely worried what Mueller and other federal investigators might find about him in these documents.
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| Wilt wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | So, apparently hannity virtually has a desk at the whitehouse, helps write tweets, and is a regular confidante to Trump. I’m guessing the only reason he didn’t want to be revealed as a client of Cohen (and that his client status was merely for this purpose) is there is something Cohen may have about coordination between Hannity and Trump and ??? |
There is a clip of Hannity talking to Bannon last year, in which Hannity said that the Deep State and this alleged anti-Trump conspiracy is so powerful that not only Trump but also people like Hannity are in danger of being imprisoned! At the time, it seemed like some good old conservative hyperbole. But knowing what we know now, and considering that Hannity seems to have some kind of connection with Assange, there is a chance that he's genuinely worried what Mueller and other federal investigators might find about him in these documents. |
That's been the GOP strategy though; create an enemy and play the victim when they come for you. |
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Rick Santorum is on CNN trying to defend Trump's flip flop on why he fired Comey.
He stammered for a solid 5-10 seconds straight before remembering his Fox News talking points.
Santorum really lives up to his name's definition on Urban Dictionary (NSFW).
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| vanexelent wrote: | | Wilt wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | So, apparently hannity virtually has a desk at the whitehouse, helps write tweets, and is a regular confidante to Trump. I’m guessing the only reason he didn’t want to be revealed as a client of Cohen (and that his client status was merely for this purpose) is there is something Cohen may have about coordination between Hannity and Trump and ??? |
There is a clip of Hannity talking to Bannon last year, in which Hannity said that the Deep State and this alleged anti-Trump conspiracy is so powerful that not only Trump but also people like Hannity are in danger of being imprisoned! At the time, it seemed like some good old conservative hyperbole. But knowing what we know now, and considering that Hannity seems to have some kind of connection with Assange, there is a chance that he's genuinely worried what Mueller and other federal investigators might find about him in these documents. |
That's been the GOP strategy though; create an enemy and play the victim when they come for you. |
Bingo! And it's been working.
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| kikanga wrote: | Rick Santorum is on CNN trying to defend Trump's flip flop on why he fired Comey.
He stammered for a solid 5-10 seconds straight before remembering his Fox News talking points.
Santorum really lives up to his name's definition on Urban Dictionary (NSFW). |
GOP who defends Trump that he is not lying just looks stupid as its easily proven. There was another republican who said Trump never lied and kept changing his tune when the interviewer proved he is wrong. Trump and his tweets lies. But its incredible that so many people don't care that our leader can't stop lying. Character integrity doesn't matter as long as support the view points: Anti-immigration, pro-gun, pro-birth.
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One thing those on the Left need to change is using the term “anti-immigration” in regards to the Right. They aren’t “anti-immigration”. They have no problem with people immigrating from white European countries as Donald himself said during his “(bleep) hole” countries comments. They are anti-brown people and that’s it.
So we need to quit making it is easy for them to gloss over their racism by calling it “anti-immigration”.
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| Wilt wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | So, apparently hannity virtually has a desk at the whitehouse, helps write tweets, and is a regular confidante to Trump. I’m guessing the only reason he didn’t want to be revealed as a client of Cohen (and that his client status was merely for this purpose) is there is something Cohen may have about coordination between Hannity and Trump and ??? |
There is a clip of Hannity talking to Bannon last year, in which Hannity said that the Deep State and this alleged anti-Trump conspiracy is so powerful that not only Trump but also people like Hannity are in danger of being imprisoned! At the time, it seemed like some good old conservative hyperbole. But knowing what we know now, and considering that Hannity seems to have some kind of connection with Assange, there is a chance that he's genuinely worried what Mueller and other federal investigators might find about him in these documents. |
I hope all these GOP and right-wing traitors end up in an all-black or all-Mexican prison, Trump, Bannon, Hannity, Nunez ...
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-report-when-not-flying-on-taxpayers-dime-epa-head-scott-pruitt-sat-in-coach
| Quote: | | AP report: When not flying on taxpayer’s dime, EPA head Scott Pruitt sat in coach |
| Quote: | Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt flew in coach-class seats on at least two trips when taxpayers weren’t footing the bill, despite claims he needed to travel in first class at government expense because of security threats.
Copies of Pruitt’s official schedule released following a public records request show flights made in August and October to Oklahoma on Southwest Airlines, which doesn’t offer premium-class seats. |
So that reasoning didn't hold up. |
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| kikanga wrote: | Rick Santorum is on CNN trying to defend Trump's flip flop on why he fired Comey.
He stammered for a solid 5-10 seconds straight before remembering his Fox News talking points.
Santorum really lives up to his name's definition on Urban Dictionary (NSFW). |
I was watching Santorum live and he said Trump can fire anyone for any reason, and because of this reason it cannot be obstruction of justice. |
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| Freddie Buckets wrote: | | kikanga wrote: | Rick Santorum is on CNN trying to defend Trump's flip flop on why he fired Comey.
He stammered for a solid 5-10 seconds straight before remembering his Fox News talking points.
Santorum really lives up to his name's definition on Urban Dictionary (NSFW). |
I was watching Santorum live and he said Trump can fire anyone for any reason, and because of this reason it cannot be obstruction of justice. |
Ya, that was severely disturbing.
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| Freddie Buckets wrote: | | kikanga wrote: | Rick Santorum is on CNN trying to defend Trump's flip flop on why he fired Comey.
He stammered for a solid 5-10 seconds straight before remembering his Fox News talking points.
Santorum really lives up to his name's definition on Urban Dictionary (NSFW). |
I was watching Santorum live and he said Trump can fire anyone for any reason, and because of this reason it cannot be obstruction of justice. |
Trump would have already, if he weren't afraid of being impeached. |
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| I like to think that it doesn't even matter at this point. If Trump fires Rosenstein and Mueller it will definitely create a crisis for him. In addition to that the case that's already been built again him and his henchmen will not just stop. So, really there's no point in firing them. |
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| kikanga wrote: | | Freddie Buckets wrote: | | kikanga wrote: | Rick Santorum is on CNN trying to defend Trump's flip flop on why he fired Comey.
He stammered for a solid 5-10 seconds straight before remembering his Fox News talking points.
Santorum really lives up to his name's definition on Urban Dictionary (NSFW). |
I was watching Santorum live and he said Trump can fire anyone for any reason, and because of this reason it cannot be obstruction of justice. |
Ya, that was severely disturbing. |
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| kikanga wrote: | | Freddie Buckets wrote: | | kikanga wrote: | Rick Santorum is on CNN trying to defend Trump's flip flop on why he fired Comey.
He stammered for a solid 5-10 seconds straight before remembering his Fox News talking points.
Santorum really lives up to his name's definition on Urban Dictionary (NSFW). |
I was watching Santorum live and he said Trump can fire anyone for any reason, and because of this reason it cannot be obstruction of justice. |
Ya, that was severely disturbing. |
and with a GOP House and Senate, he's kinda right.
Do you think the GOP would have the balls to actually do anything if Trump fired Mueller? |
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| vanexelent wrote: | | I like to think that it doesn't even matter at this point. If Trump fires Rosenstein and Mueller it will definitely create a crisis for him. In addition to that the case that's already been built again him and his henchmen will not just stop. So, really there's no point in firing them. |
I disagree. Nothing's going to happen to him if he fires them. We've come too far for him to be held responsible. Firing them will simply further the whole, "The evil Dems are after me" ruse and he will be able to sit back and say that he has put an end to fake investigations and attacks on his Presidency and he can get back to MAGA . . . and everyone in the GOP and their base will simply nod in agreement.
The whole concept of culpability jumped the shark going ago. We are too far down the rabbit hole to think that law, decency and rationality will bring this debacle to an end. All we can do now is sit back and vote and hope that others care enough to do so as well so we can vote all the vermin out of office. The law and constitution aren't going to help us at this point. We just have to hope the voting booths will.
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| Freddie Buckets wrote: | | kikanga wrote: | Rick Santorum is on CNN trying to defend Trump's flip flop on why he fired Comey.
He stammered for a solid 5-10 seconds straight before remembering his Fox News talking points.
Santorum really lives up to his name's definition on Urban Dictionary (NSFW). |
I was watching Santorum live and he said Trump can fire anyone for any reason, and because of this reason it cannot be obstruction of justice. |
Santorum is easily one of the worst political commentators ever. Pretty sure CNN just brings him on to look stupid. |
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| actually its not absurd unless what they are doing is actually absurd and they dont take it seriously. This country not only has a serious historical foundation built on racism. It has a current day serious issue with racism. That needs to be addressed all of the time in every walk of life, especially with those in power positions in society.Discuss it, show people who to fix it at their level, wash rinse repeat. do it until it becomes 1st nature forget 2nd nature. lol. Maybe you do it enough so at worse the next generation of adults that grow up wont be racist. lets try that. |
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