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Warbler said:

Don’t you mean “alllllltttttteeeeeerrrrrrnnnnnnaaaaaattttttiiiiiivvvvvveeeeee ffffffaaaaaacccccctttttt tttttteeeeeelllllllllllleeeeeerrrrrrssssss”?

I guess this needs to be cleared up.

“alllllltttttteeeeeerrrrrrnnnnnnaaaaaattttttiiiiiivvvvvveeeeee”

alternative

“ffffffaaaaaacccccctttttt”

fact

“tttttteeeeeelllllllllllleeeeeerrrrrrssssss”

tellers

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Warbler said:

Warbler said:

Don’t you mean “alllllltttttteeeeeerrrrrrnnnnnnaaaaaattttttiiiiiivvvvvveeeeee ffffffaaaaaacccccctttttt tttttteeeeeelllllllllllleeeeeerrrrrrssssss”?

I guess this needs to be cleared up.

Nope.

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We understood the first time.

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Didn’t seem that way to me.

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Ah, yet another example of the fact that I suck at detecting humor. 😦

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To be fair, the one time I thought they were joking they actually were confused.

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Yeah I usually view this site on my phone and the way it indents things led me to believe it was automatically separating what was originally one word, so I actually didn’t get it.

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Trump supporters are allowed to raise money under fake news premises because they are just following the lead of the big guy.

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TV’s Frink said:

Trump supporters are allowed to raise money under fake news premises because they are just following the lead of the big guy.

You leave Mr. Carlson out of this. 😉

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Where were you in '77?

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TV’s Frink said:

Trump supporters are allowed to raise money under fake news premises because they are just following the lead of the big guy.

Christie?

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Trump supporters are allowed to raise money under fake news premises because they are just following the lead of the big guy.

Christie?

LOL!

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/

President Donald Trump has made visiting his Florida golf courses a near every-weekend habit in the first month of his administration, and his aides are trying to obscure whether Trump is actually golfing during the visits.

One possible reason: Trump was a frequent and vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s golf habit, regularly slamming the former president for playing golf with many pressing issues before the country. Trump even suggested during a 2016 event in Virginia, in a knock on Obama, that if elected he was “not going to have time to go play golf.”

“I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” Trump said at the time.

Trump has visited his two golf courses near his Mar-a-Lago estate – Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach and Trump National Golf Course in Jupiter – six times in his first month in office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/us/politics/donald-trump-russia.html?_r=0

For months, President Trump and his aides have insisted that they had no contact with Russian officials during the presidential campaign, a denial Mr. Trump repeated last week.

“I have nothing to do with Russia,” he told reporters on Thursday. “To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.”

The denial stands at odds with statements by Russian officials, who have at least twice acknowledged contacts with aides to Mr. Trump before the election.

It is not uncommon for a presidential campaign to speak to foreign officials, which makes the dispute particularly unusual. At the same time, any contacts would have taken place during a period when American intelligence agencies believe the Russian government was trying to disrupt the election with a campaign of computer hacking.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-nominees-confirmation-cabinet-235157

Candidates for top jobs in President Donald Trump’s administration are getting spooked after Andrew Puzder’s nomination was scuttled and they fear the White House isn’t doing enough to protect them from grueling confirmations, according to several sources involved in the process.

The concerns are affecting not only some of the highest profile nominations, including agriculture secretary pick Sonny Perdue, but also candidates for ambassadorships, judicial positions and a range of other nominees. The chill that’s settled in even has some people considering bowing out of contention, meaning that Trump’s attempt to quickly fill out his government could drag out even further.

Some potential nominees are especially focused on the botched and slow-moving confirmation process of Puzder, the former labor secretary nominee, as a cautionary tale of what could go wrong if the administration isn’t closely engaged in nomination fights.

And just to be fair…

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/opinions/trumps-brilliant-choice-of-mcmaster-bergen/

President Donald Trump’s appointment of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his national security adviser is a brilliant decision.

McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
McMaster is, in short, both an accomplished doer and a deep thinker, a combination that should serve him well in the complex job of national security adviser.

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TV’s Frink said:

And just to be fair…

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/opinions/trumps-brilliant-choice-of-mcmaster-bergen/

President Donald Trump’s appointment of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his national security adviser is a brilliant decision.

McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
McMaster is, in short, both an accomplished doer and a deep thinker, a combination that should serve him well in the complex job of national security adviser.

Except that cannot possibly be true because CNN is fake news.

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TV’s Frink said:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/

President Donald Trump has made visiting his Florida golf courses a near every-weekend habit in the first month of his administration, and his aides are trying to obscure whether Trump is actually golfing during the visits.

One possible reason: Trump was a frequent and vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s golf habit, regularly slamming the former president for playing golf with many pressing issues before the country. Trump even suggested during a 2016 event in Virginia, in a knock on Obama, that if elected he was “not going to have time to go play golf.”

“I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” Trump said at the time.

Trump has visited his two golf courses near his Mar-a-Lago estate – Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach and Trump National Golf Course in Jupiter – six times in his first month in office.

I am pretty sure each trip costing the tax payers a bit of money. It is not cheap to fly the sitting US President to and from places.

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http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-dont-want-to-hear-another-fucking-word-about-john-mcc-1792493680

John McCain—the original Maverick, ol’ Walnuts, the brave teller of truths—is somehow once again positioning himself, to credulous journalists, as a renegade Republican who isn’t afraid to buck his party, despite his three-decade record of not ever actually bucking his party in any meaningful way.

“John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview,” the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake says of a speech McCain gave in Munich, in which he didn’t mention the president, whose cabinet he has largely voted to confirm.

A more accurate way of phrasing “(ambivalently, agonizingly) taking on the president” might be “not actually taking on the president.” McCain has supported every one of Trump’s nominees besides one: budget director Mick Mulvaney, who lost McCain’s support because he has supported defense budget cuts. McCain’s sole inviolable principle is that we must spend an unlimited amount of money on war with everyone forever.

Ever since his longtime aide and ghostwriter Mark Salter wholly invented McCain’s “maverick” persona from whole cloth in the late 1990s, the sum total of McCain’s record of brave or maverick-y actions consists of “giving good quote to reporters.” That’s it.

It’s a valid criticism. Speaking out against Trump is a good thing but he’s not backing it up with his actions.

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There’s a strangely peaceful air in this thread of late. Weird.

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It’s probably because Trump has been so terrible that not even his supporters can justify the job he’s done so far…

No, wait, that’s not it, is it?

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I was thinking the same thing. I wonder what has caused this peaceful air in this thread as of last. In fact, I would say not only this thread is more peaceful, but the whole off topic section of the forum. One can only wonder why . . .