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- CygnusZero45
The good thing is he only gets 4 years. The bad thing is, thats way more than enough for this guy to do so much damage around the world. With how out of control his mind is, he could destabilize everything in under a year. The dude has already attacked multiple countries on twitter since he won the election lmao.
How long will it be before he threatens war to another country right on twitter? You know its going to happen at some point. Its funny how he is possibly the most vilified president in history, and hes not even in the white house yet. Its going to get bad once this dude actually has control. Hope you got your popcorn ready!
- Popcorn is ready. I can't wait to see him battler the GOP. His recent healthcare comments are...interesting. Drama to come soon!formed
- https://www.youtube.…omg
- if the economy is good and that's what matter most to those same Democrats that voted for him, he gets 8.vero_vandal
- vero_vandal-4
And the "boycott train" continues to build momentum. Does anyone see a pattern here?
I don't recall any member of Congress boycotting Obama’s inauguration, do you? In fact, the possibility never even came up, publically. What the Democrats are doing this week is unprecedented in US post Civil War presidential history. (I don’t know of any boycotts in the run up to the Civil War).
Lewis skipped Bush inaugural too, said he was not president
http://www.washingtonexaminer.co…But this is also part of a pattern. Lewis and Lee, along with some other Democratic lawmakers at the time, also boycotted to make a point when President George W. Bush was inaugurated in 2001. The Washington Post reported at the time that Lewis "thought it would be hypocritical to attend Bush's swearing-in because he doesn't believe Bush is the true elected president."
- i see only one pattern here.sted
- me too, women and minorities for the most partvero_vandal
- Von_Drakeutopian
- why would anyone have boycotted Obama's inauguration?fadein11
- here you go vero_von_robotard http://bit.ly/2jtxOa…BuddhaHat
- point being, differences in political positions shouldn't stop you from attending the President's inauguration. seems like a lot of crying to me.vero_vandal
- questioning the legitimacy of an election ≠ a difference in political positionBuddhaHat
- probably because he is a national embarrassment pal.fadein11
- and if you perceive the election as illegitimate, then you're not really attending an inauguration are you, you're attending a farce, a sham, a con, a lie. no?BuddhaHat
- How's his Twitter feed today? Haven't checked yet - I save it so I can enjoy with my feet up in the eve. Embarrassment.fadein11
- I would prefer the people I voted to congress show up and fight, versus being passive aggressive and cowardly under the guise of making their voices heard.instrmntl
- I would be interested to see if there was vocal protest by Dems at the inauguration, and how quickly they would be barreled out of the area by securityBuddhaHat
- Would be cool if they dressed up like they were going to a funeral in emo goth wear.instrmntl
- isn't it funny how liberals hold the presidency in such a high, classy regard, when 99% of their own lives look like shit.vero_vandal
- sted3
While you argue about the local issues, cheap labor shifts to an economically undeveloped territory of the world (again).
Through its investments in that region China will be the world's leading power in the next decade. Pay attention to what's happening in Africa and how China is using the money acquired by selling cheap products for you.
- yes but China Sovereign Wealth Fund is also looking to buy up/into US infrastructure http://www.reuters.c…lowimpakt
- Ensuring economic dependence.sted
- china is buying up all sorts of resources in SA as well as africa. US is hemorrhaging in the Middle East while China quietly plants seeds everywhere else.Gnash
- China will spend spend spend until it runs out, they have billions in US currency and bonds, and they've rendered their own country uninhabitable for the momentBuddhaHat
- the interesting part is their investment in the future workforce, not the money they burn to build currently pointless cities...sted
- utopian2
- haha, polls ...monospaced
- pollsters, damn were they right about the election.vero_vandal
- the polls were right in the sense that Hillary got millions of more votes than trumplowimpakt
- polls were dead wrong in terms of calling the electoral map. very, very wrong. bad data folks!vero_vandal
- ↑ it's like reading a trump tweet: wrong, bad, false, incorrect. What's the point?sted
- Trump has unfiltered tweets but damn when you look back on it, he's always right. Even with Lewis who's a grandstander.robotron3k
- no, he's usually wrong actuallymonospaced
- ^ yepvero_vandal
- CygnusZero42
Trump 2 years ago loooool
- CygnusZero44
Trumps retarded supporters are going to be crying about polls for 4 years. Buncha snowflakes. The polls werent even wrong. People did think Hillary would win, and her getting millions of more votes than him supports that.
Dont even try and defend the electoral college when trump himself in 2012 tweeted out that the EC is a "disaster for democracy". He didnt even think it was a good system. Only changed his tune after it was the only thing that saved him lmao. How convenient.
- very convenient, because he trashed Hillary in electoral count.vero_vandal
- why do you think the electoral college is bad?deathboy
- dont ask me, ask trump. HE said it was bad. https://twitter.com/…CygnusZero4
- he's a fraud!!!CygnusZero4
- Lol Hillary is a born loser, she won the popular vote against Barry in 2008 so this must be a delayed uproar...robotron3k
- i don't care much about trumps opinions on it, i was wondering what your personal thoughts are on it.deathboy
- @robo, by "born loser" you mean she's a female? It's confusing since you are so adamant that women are incapable of equalling men in leadershipmonospaced
- otherwise, she actually is quite a winner, all things considered ... more votes than trump, more support, smarter, first woman to win primaries ...monospaced
- forgot about that robotron3k. LMFAO. that's right!vero_vandal
- whatthefunk7
Trump Now Buying Facebook Ads Begging People To Come Watch Him Be President
Though Trump has bragged about his inauguration's "unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout," officials are expecting about 800,000 to 900,000 people to hit the National Mall on Friday, as opposed to the 1.8 million people who attended Obama's inauguration in 2009. Trump will also only attend three inaugural balls—Bill Clinton went to 14 on his inauguration day, and the Obamas went to 10.
http://gothamist.com/2017/01/17/…
I can't make the event as I have to rearrange my sock drawer that day...
- omg-von-vendal-cloth
is def goingRamanisky2 - THREE FUCKING DOORS DOWN!!!BonSeff
- If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman
If I'm alive and well, will you be
There holding my hand
......Ramanisky2 - patheticCygnusZero4
- couldnt win the majority of voters, cant get people to come to his party, cant even get cover bands no ones ever heard of to performCygnusZero4
- embarassingRamanisky2
- I'll be there!vero_vandal
- omg-von-vendal-cloth
- lowimpakt1
says he's the best at making deals but can't even book Springsteen tribute band
- lol LOVE it!CygnusZero4
- Springsteen is overrated™monospaced
- great point, he's made $ deals but when it comes to standards, morals, and/or principles then he's an amateur...whatthefunk
- omg5
- No worry, Donald will fix it.zaq
- He'll one up it with Snowden & AsangeBonSeff
- Assange isn't under any US restrictions, he's hiding from Sweden.face_melter
- she belongs in the slammer until 2045. Fuck that bitch!vero_vandal
- yea but he could offer asylumBonSeff
- A sex pest offering a runaway sex pest asylum. Welcome to 2017.face_melter
- I wonder what baby fingers Trump will tweet?Ramanisky2
- Don the Con can grab Chelsea by his she-cock.utopian
- Best news all day.bklyndroobeki
- lol she-cockmoldero
- PonyBoy1
Twitter Goes In on Wyclef Jean for Claiming Martin Luther King Jr. 'Fought Because All Lives Matter'
"Wyclef Jean, in a Twitter post Monday promoting his song "Life Matters," argued that the late civil rights activist "fought because all lives matter."
The tweet, which has since been deleted, has been widely considered a misstep and a complete mischaracterization of King's work."- http://www.complex.c…PonyBoy
- Listen to wise Morgan Freeman, he says it best...
https://youtu.be/N0p…robotron3k - Of course, in their fucking moronic eyes, only "black" (whatever that means, how many shades of it?) lives matter. What a fucking joke dude.vero_vandal
- This like black on black hate...robotron3k
- the implication is that it's "black lives matter ALSO"monospaced
- i'm impressed at your login/logout efforts, vero_von_omgtard3kBuddhaHat
- he's just a guybklyndroobeki
- he's just a guy promoting a single after he tarnished his reputation with a fraud charity that sent little money to Haiti - has been...whatthefunk
- whaaaattt... the charity was a fraud!?bklyndroobeki
- yep http://read.bi/2e1ZR…whatthefunk
- BuddhaHat1
https://www.theguardian.com/comm…
Trump wants to restock Guantánamo. Who’s the ‘worst of the worst’ now? - Frankie Boyle
"President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to keep Guantánamo open. He wants to “load it up” with “bad dudes”, just like George W Bush wanted to in 2001. Trump says waterboarding is not tough enough, even though it was tough enough for the Spanish Inquisition.
Of course, who really knows with Trump? When you consider that he looks like the warning label on cocaine and talks like someone trying to recall the last moments of a car crash, few of his pronouncements can be taken at face value. Translating Trump is like trying to work out why a newborn baby is crying. He might well make good on his promise to restock Guantánamo, or we might get lucky and he’ll be too busy building a pyramid."...
"..Of course, Trump has a lot of Americans worried, even if it’s just that the colour on their TV might be broken. In the early days of his presidency, Americans will feel like some country in the middle ages that had a five-year-old king. Many are hoping that at least there’s some White House aide whose job it is to hide Xanax in his food like he was a cat. At Guantánamo, the US government has given us 15 years of injustice, 15 years of catastrophic mistakes – all while trying to convince us that they are holding the worst of the worst. If Trump really does commit to more of this madness, he will have achieved the impossible: being an even worse president than we’d imagined."
- BuddhaHat1
Trump team reportedly wants to strip FCC of consumer protection powers
Plan is a "declaration of war" on consumers and competition, opponent says.http://arstechnica.com/tech-poli…
"President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is reportedly pushing a proposal to strip the Federal Communications Commission of its role in overseeing competition and consumer protection.
Multichannel News has what it calls an exclusive report that says the incoming Trump administration has "signed off on an approach to remaking the Federal Communications Commission." The plan, offered by transition team members appointed by Trump, "squares with the deregulatory philosophies of FCC Republicans Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly," who will take a 2-1 majority after Trump's inauguration on Friday, the report said."..
"...Harold Feld, senior VP of consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, called this plan "a declaration of war on the most basic principles of universal service, consumer protection, competition, and public safety that have been the bipartisan core of the Communications Act for the last 80+ years." Feld argued that this proposal would "poison the well for any serious effort to update the Communications Act." Feld also worries about the impact on rural areas, which are given special protections in the Communications Act, he told Ars today."
- omg1
Julian Assange under pressure to hand himself in for extradition following Manning commutation
Last week, Mr Assange said on that he would give up his sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than four years, if Barack Obama showed "clemency" to whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
“If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case,” WikiLeaks said on Twitter.
http://www.independent.co.uk/new…- I am sure that Trump or Putin will grant him the clemency he seeks for all of help in rigging the election.utopian
- That might be Snowden's hope.omg
- Still many worry about Assange's position, whether he'll keep to his word.
re: Wikileaks...
https://i.imgur.com/…omg - He's probably better staying in his hole - Russian assets have a strange way of dying once they outlive their usefulness.face_melter
- tricky choice for him now considering Trump said he should get the death penalty 2 years ago... but I'm sure he didn't really meant that.fadein11
- omg-2
Trump interior secretary pick on climate change: 'I don’t believe it’s a hoax'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-n…- "The climate is changing. The debate is what is that influence and what can we do" What debate? The debate conjured up by big oil?inteliboy
- nb2
I can hardly wait until America is great, again! Do we have to wait the full four years? HasTrump given an ETA on the greatness?
- On Monday everything will be great again. Don't worry. You'll never hear about another shooting again.monospaced
- whatthefunk0
Trump sued for defamation by former Apprentice Summer Zervos
The 41-year-old former reality show contestant said Mr Trump sexually assaulted her during a meeting to discuss job opportunities at a Beverly Hills hotel. She said he "began thrusting his genitals" as she fended off his advances.
The president-elect has dismissed the claims as "false and ridiculous" and vowed to sue the accusers for their allegations. Ms Zervos' lawsuit alleges that the president-elect defamed her by denying her account and accusing her and other women of fabricating sexual assault claims. She asked Mr Trump to retract his words late last year, but he declined to do so.
Ms Zervos added that she would be willing to rescind the lawsuit if the president-elect retracts the statements he made and acknowledges his behaviour towards her.
- http://i.giphy.com/3…moldero
- They are suing over defamation and emotional distress, most likely due to her appearance on The Apprentice.
https://www.youtube.…omg - https://www.youtube.…omg
- yet, the public seems to think this suit is over a sexual assault. That case seemed to have fizzled into thin air somehow.omg