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Tyrphanax said:

Good lord the audience for the Obama farewell speech was annoying. Shut up and let the man talk.

JEDIT: I blame Millennial entitlement. Can’t shut up for five seconds while someone else talks.

But it sure was a good speech.

Some of it was a bit fluffy, but there was a lot of good about uniting as a country again, respecting each other as Americans, and participating in the system.

Not a bad President, all said.

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The audience was pretty bad. It gave the Farewell Address the appearance more of a rally than the final words of wisdom from the outgoing president, but that’s really the only bad thing I can say about it.

Trump’s Farewell Address will be a series of tweets.

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Handman said:

Trump’s Farewell Address will be a series of tweets.

I laughed, but he loves campaign events that he did some after he won. No way he won’t do another one to say goodbye…

Actually scratch that, you’re probably right, assuming he’s allowed to tweet from prison.

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7 days till doomsday.

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ferris209 said:

Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk8DDFE8v3I

DEAR LIBERAL FRIENDS: We need to talk about President Trump…

The the lady in that video: go bleep yourself.

I have to wonder whether she thought W. Bush was a war monger. I doubt it. and where it is the concern about blowback when comes to the Iraq invasion and waterboarding(which Trump and W. Bush support).

You often accuse me of having blind hate for Obama, you have a blind hate for Bush.

  1. You have a blind love for Bush and any Republican President.

  2. I don’t hate Bush anywhere near as much as you seem to hate Obama.

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ferris209 said:

I guess too many Republicans were coming from Cuba.

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Here’s our “compassionate” President at work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/world/americas/cuba-obama-wet-foot-dry-foot-policy.html

Obviously has to do with our attempt to improve relations with that country, still I am not sure I approve. I never said Obama was perfect. I disagreed with him enough that I didn’t vote or him in 2012.

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doubleofive said:

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Trump tweets to support LL Bean, but links to the one lady on the board who actually likes him’s side company selling lobsters, somehow screwing over LL Bean because now people will boycott it while promoting her personal business.

Good use of power there, Trump.

huh? him’s? and what do lobsters have to do with LL Bean?

OK, so LL Bean has a member on their board who supports Trump. The board denounces her for proclaiming any political affiliation at all. This board member also owns a company selling Lobster. What Trump does in his tweet is tell his supporters to shop LL Bean, while linking to the profile of the board member’s lobster company, making it so liberals want to stop supporting LL Bean while making conservatives want to buy lobsters from the board member’s side business. So Trump hurt the LL Bean board that rejected his friend by causing a boycott while promoting the personal business of his friend. Seems really shitty to me.

ah. Now I understand. Thankyou.

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Trump is a Communist?

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Tyrphanax said:

Good lord the audience for the Obama farewell speech was annoying. Shut up and let the man talk.

I had the same thought myself.

JEDIT: I blame Millennial entitlement. Can’t shut up for five seconds while someone else talks.

yeah it does seem like crowds in general are less quite when they are supposed to me and more disruptive than in the past.

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Jeebus said:

Trump is a Communist?

He seems to be buddy-buddy with Putin.

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Well, Putin sure is a popular guy here in American then. You’ve got Hillary & Uranium One, Slick Willy garnering minning rights for his friends there, Obama whispering teases of some action in his ear, and now we’ve got Trump playing smoochie smooch with him … what a pimp this guy is, LOL.

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Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk8DDFE8v3I

DEAR LIBERAL FRIENDS: We need to talk about President Trump…

The the lady in that video: go bleep yourself.

I have to wonder whether she thought W. Bush was a war monger. I doubt it. and where it is the concern about blowback when comes to the Iraq invasion and waterboarding(which Trump and W. Bush support).

You often accuse me of having blind hate for Obama, you have a blind hate for Bush.

  1. You have a blind love for you Bush and any Republican President.

  2. I don’t hate Bush anywhere near as much as you seem to hate Obama.

  1. No, I don’t. I hated a lot of Bush’s policies, his domestic policies especially, but I do believe he was far better on foreign affairs than Obama.

    Let me try to set you straight on this, I am not an in the bag dyed in the wool Republican, I am a dyed in wool hardcore Conservative. Therefor, the party that most closely conforms to my general philosophy is the Republican party and the party that patently rejects everything I stand for, and more often than not attacks what I believe, is the Democratic party. Not one person in the current Democrat party that I can think of could come close to even courting my beliefs enough to gain my vote, it’s not me it’s them. That said, I hate the Republican party because it is as corrupt and morally bankrupt as any other party in Washington.

  2. I don’t “hate” Obama as much as I loath him both as a person and as a President. I absolutely do HATE his ideology and his beliefs and I hate almost everything he has done while in office. I simply detest him as I believe he has been an abject failure as I’m sure you feel the same way about Bush.

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ferris209 said:

Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk8DDFE8v3I

DEAR LIBERAL FRIENDS: We need to talk about President Trump…

The the lady in that video: go bleep yourself.

I have to wonder whether she thought W. Bush was a war monger. I doubt it. and where it is the concern about blowback when comes to the Iraq invasion and waterboarding(which Trump and W. Bush support).

You often accuse me of having blind hate for Obama, you have a blind hate for Bush.

  1. You have a blind love for you Bush and any Republican President.

  2. I don’t hate Bush anywhere near as much as you seem to hate Obama.

  1. No, I don’t. I hated a lot of Bush’s policies, his domestic policies especially, but I do believe he was far better on foreign affairs than Obama.

    Let me try to set you straight on this, I am not an in the bag dyed in the wool Republican,

oh yeah, when was the last Presidential race where you didn’t vote for the Republican?

I am a dyed in wool hardcore Conservative. Therefor, the party that most closely conforms to my general philosophy is the Republican party and the party that patently rejects everything I stand for, and more often than not attacks what I believe, is the Democratic party. Not one person in the current Democrat party that I can think of could come close to even courting my beliefs enough to gain my vote, it’s not me it’s them. That said, I hate the Republican party because it is as corrupt and morally bankrupt as any other party in Washington.

first you say you say the Republican party is the party that most closely conforms to your general philosophy, but then you say you hate the party.

If you a conservative instead of a Republican, vote libertarian or some conservative third party instead of always Republican.

  1. I don’t “hate” Obama as much as I loath him both as a person and as a President. I absolutely do HATE his ideology and his beliefs and I hate almost everything he has done while in office. I simply detest him as I believe he has been an abject failure as I’m sure you feel the same way about Bush.

after all the anti-Obama posts I’ve seen of yours blaming him for every single thing and acting like he was the anti-Christ, I feel I could testify in court that you hate the man. I however admit to loathing Bush and thinking he was a failure. However, I would not call Obama a success nor am I his yes man(I may have been once, not I since I decided not to vote for him in 2012.

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btw, if this election had been Hillary vs. W. Bush and I was somehow forbidden to vote for anyone other than one of those two, I’d have to give Bush serious consideration. That you should tell you something.

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A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand clapping.

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Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

Warbler said:

ferris209 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk8DDFE8v3I

DEAR LIBERAL FRIENDS: We need to talk about President Trump…

The the lady in that video: go bleep yourself.

I have to wonder whether she thought W. Bush was a war monger. I doubt it. and where it is the concern about blowback when comes to the Iraq invasion and waterboarding(which Trump and W. Bush support).

You often accuse me of having blind hate for Obama, you have a blind hate for Bush.

  1. You have a blind love for you Bush and any Republican President.

  2. I don’t hate Bush anywhere near as much as you seem to hate Obama.

  1. No, I don’t. I hated a lot of Bush’s policies, his domestic policies especially, but I do believe he was far better on foreign affairs than Obama.

    Let me try to set you straight on this, I am not an in the bag dyed in the wool Republican,

oh yeah, when was the last Presidential race where you didn’t vote for the Republican?

Not one person in the current Democrat party that I can think of could come close to even courting my beliefs enough to gain my vote, it’s not me it’s them.

first you say you say the Republican party is the party that most closely conforms to your general philosophy, but then you say you hate the party.

If you a conservative instead of a Republican, vote libertarian or some conservative third party instead of always Republican.

Not one person in the current Democrat party that I can think of could come close to even courting my beliefs enough to gain my vote, it’s not me it’s them.

after all the anti-Obama posts I’ve seen of yours blaming him for every single thing and acting like he was the anti-Christ, I feel I could testify in court that you hate the man. I however admit to loathing Bush and thinking he was a failure. However, I would not call Obama a success nor am I his yes man(I may have been once, not I since I decided not to vote for him in 2012.

I don’t blame him for every single thing and I do not believe he is the Anti-Christ. I am staunchly opposed to him and can’t deny that. You and Frink are rigidly, and passionately, anti-Trumpers, that’s cool I have no issue with that. But I just am just as rigidly and as passionately anti-Obama. Why is one so noble and without fault in your mind while the other is somehow incoherent and intolerant? I see them as being the same, but coming from very different beliefs and perspectives.

Again, I point to all of your posts during the George Bush presidency, I could have said the same about you. Just try to understand that I detest the guy as much as you detest Bush for similar, yet different reasons.

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Warbler said:

btw, if this election had been Hillary vs. W. Bush and I was somehow forbidden to vote for anyone other than one of those two, I’d have to give Bush serious consideration. That you should tell you something.

This is simply where you and I differ, pretty much most every single person in the current Democrat party, as well as historically in most instances since they are the party of the KKK and slavery, are simply not worth casting my vote for. It has nothing to do with party as much as it has to do with my own philosophy, beliefs, and convictions.

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This is why nothing gets done in this country. It’s a zero-sum game. No compromise, no meeting in the middle, no concession, no “hrm, maybe I’m wrong about this one”. Just “I’m right and you’re not only wrong but also stupid and irredeemable.”

It’s a race to the bottom and we all lose.

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

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I know. It’s really annoying.

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Tyrphanax said:

This is why nothing gets done in this country. It’s a zero-sum game. No compromise, no meeting in the middle, no concession, no “hrm, maybe I’m wrong about this one”. Just “I’m right and you’re not only wrong but also stupid and irredeemable.”

It’s a race to the bottom and we all lose.

I love how it’s “not compromising” when I don’t abandon my principles, but it’s just being committed when Dems refuse to give two inches on any of theirs. Why are only Conservatives expected to concede and liberals are not?

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ferris209 said:

Tyrphanax said:

This is why nothing gets done in this country. It’s a zero-sum game. No compromise, no meeting in the middle, no concession, no “hrm, maybe I’m wrong about this one”. Just “I’m right and you’re not only wrong but also stupid and irredeemable.”

It’s a race to the bottom and we all lose.

I love how it’s “not compromising” when I don’t abandon my principles, but it’s just being committed when Dems refuse to give two inches on any of theirs. Why are only Conservatives expected to concede and liberals are not?

You mean like how Conservatives refused to confirm Obama’s Supreme Court pick and even worse they threatened to refuse to confirm anyone Hillary would have nominated and would have just kept that spot open as long as they controlled the legislative branch?

You mean like how Conservatives shut down government because they were mad about the budget?

You mean like how Conservatives redraw districts to get more power?

You mean like how Conservatives try to restrict voter rights under the false guise of needing voter ID?

Conservatives are expected to concede because they never do it. Liberals’ problem is they concede to everything.

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ferris209 said:

Tyrphanax said:

This is why nothing gets done in this country. It’s a zero-sum game. No compromise, no meeting in the middle, no concession, no “hrm, maybe I’m wrong about this one”. Just “I’m right and you’re not only wrong but also stupid and irredeemable.”

It’s a race to the bottom and we all lose.

I love how it’s “not compromising” when I don’t abandon my principles, but it’s just being committed when Dems refuse to give two inches on any of theirs. Why are only Conservatives expected to concede and liberals are not?

For the record my post wasn’t directed towards any one person, here or anywhere. But thanks for makin’ the case for me man.

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

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ferris209 said:

  1. I don’t “hate” Obama as much as I loath him both as a person and as a President.

Lol, what is this even supposed to mean? I’d hate to hear about someone you actually hate.

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TV’s Frink said:

ferris209 said:

Tyrphanax said:

This is why nothing gets done in this country. It’s a zero-sum game. No compromise, no meeting in the middle, no concession, no “hrm, maybe I’m wrong about this one”. Just “I’m right and you’re not only wrong but also stupid and irredeemable.”

It’s a race to the bottom and we all lose.

I love how it’s “not compromising” when I don’t abandon my principles, but it’s just being committed when Dems refuse to give two inches on any of theirs. Why are only Conservatives expected to concede and liberals are not?

You mean like how Conservatives refused to confirm Obama’s Supreme Court pick and even worse they threatened to refuse to confirm anyone Hillary would have nominated and would have just kept that spot open as long as they controlled the legislative branch?

You mean like how Conservatives shut down government because they were mad about the budget?

Because the Dems would not at all compromise on the budget.

You mean like how Conservatives redraw districts to get more power?

Liberals do the same.

You mean like how Conservatives try to restrict voter rights under the false guise of needing voter ID?

Who’s voting rights are restricted by needing a photo ID? You must really hate Mexico.

Conservatives are expected to concede because they never do it. Liberals’ problem is they concede to everything.

Haha! Yeah right.