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Old 01-19-2018, 01:16 PM
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Here is a sane voice and the blame which will be evry effective given Trump's perch.
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“Republicans control the House, they control the Senate and they control the presidency,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont. “The government stays open if they want it to stay open, and it shuts down if they want it to shut down. It’s time to stop kicking the can down the road and time to start negotiating in good faith.”

The White House budget director, Mick Mulvaney, said on Friday that the Trump administration is preparing for “what we’re calling the ‘Schumer shutdown.’
Not that I feel sorry for the likes of Shumer and Pelosi. They are part of the problem and not the solution.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/u...T.nav=top-news
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Old 01-19-2018, 01:44 PM
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I thought I heard on the radio that McConnell has no idea what Trump's policies are on this and that is why no Senate vote.
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Old 01-19-2018, 02:06 PM
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He could also be protecting GOP Senators who would be voting Nay on this.
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Oh yuck!

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...185954146.html
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Old 01-23-2018, 05:58 PM
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Good Samaritans are jailed in Trump’s America. Sad!

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/v...-dumping-water
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Old 01-24-2018, 10:14 AM
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Help me with this folks, is it credible?
(He was addressing The American Enterprise Institute)
CIA Director Offers A Window Into Trump's Morning Routine http://n.pr/2F7Jg2F
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Old 01-24-2018, 12:01 PM
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Help me with this folks, is it credible?
(He was addressing The American Enterprise Institute)
CIA Director Offers A Window Into Trump's Morning Routine http://n.pr/2F7Jg2F
No, it's not credible that Trump has any desire to learn anything new.
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Old 01-24-2018, 11:29 PM
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Tolstoy on Lincoln

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Tolstoy_on_Lincoln

"Now, why was Lincoln so great that he overshadows all other national heroes? He really was not a great general like Napoleon or Washington; he was not such a skilful statesman as Gladstone or Frederick the Great; but his supremacy expresses itself altogether in his peculiar moral power and in the greatness of his character."

Trump has no morals, and great weakness of character. He is unwilling, or unable to learn, or to accept responsibility for mistakes. Trump will go down in history as the worst President, in a category of his own, he's so terribly awful.
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Old 01-25-2018, 02:48 PM
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Guggenheim turns down Trump's request for a Van Gogh...

... offers a solid gold toilet instead.

"The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to “borrow” a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters.
Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available, one that was nothing like “Landscape With Snow,” the lovely 1888 Van Gogh rendering of a man in a black hat walking along a path in Arles, France, with his dog.
The curator’s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled “America” that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.
For a year, the Guggenheim had exhibited “America” — the creation of contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan — in a public restroom on the museum’s fifth floor for visitors to use.
But the exhibit was over and the toilet was available “should the President and First Lady have any interest in installing it in the White House,” Spector wrote in an email obtained by The Washington Post." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.5355349d3ae8

Oh my.
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Old 01-25-2018, 08:39 PM
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... offers a solid gold toilet instead.
Fitting throne for the man-child who would be king.
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