Trump: The First Year

Just an attempt at a joke. Swing-and-a-miss.

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Totally acceptable attemptā€¦I thought I was just being slow lol.

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Anyone else amused that Trump felt the need to specify ā€œI call final shotsā€ in his Tweet about how everything is fine with Tillerson?

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Yeah, and doesnā€™t really help his argument that he had no idea all these people on his team were talking to and making deals with Russians.

Unbelievable. Pathetic. Horrifying. Stupefying. Infuriating. Hypocritical.

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Rock-bottom.

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Again, this is so Soviet.

Spineless apparatchiks scrambling to change their official stance because theyā€™ve initially misread the wishes of the Great Leader.

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Iā€™d normally say for the GOP the reverse Pottery Barn rule would hold - you bought it, you broke it - and the GOP planted the seeds of its own demise.

But probably not in Alabama. Paraphrasing a Alabaman in a decent article, if Jesus Christ showed up and ran as a Democrat in Alabama, heā€™d lose.

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Agree.

And someone said it best this morningā€¦

(Paraphrasing): ā€œMoore would be losing in Alabamaā€¦IF he was running against another Republicanā€¦the problem is, he is running against a Democrat.ā€

Itā€™s Ala-damn-Bama, folksā€¦not San Francisco.

(Making America Great Againā€¦one Senator at a time!)

VERY true indeedā€¦

There sure have been some great comments on Social Media this morning! Someone said:

ā€œā€¦The RNC has been ā€œBorn Againā€!..ā€

But letā€™s not forget about whatā€™s important hereā€¦'Bama did get in the College Football Playoff (rolls eyes)

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Guess the Dems didnā€™t want to have to go on record voting AGAINST an impeachment that was doomed to failure (for now at least). In before DJT tweets ā€œNancy Pelosi just voted against impeaching me.ā€

364-58 vote

Jesus was such a snowflake with his wimpy turn the other cheek nonsense and wanting to help out the poor. He also looks like a hippy. He would be crushed in Bama election

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Savage.

A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.

This isnā€™t about the policy differences we have with all presidents or our disappointment in some of their decisions. Obama and Bush both failed in many ways. They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.

Donald Trump, the man, on the other hand, is uniquely awful. His sickening behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on common values and the consent of the governed.

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He also believed in government provided healthcare.

Youā€™re gonna need some solid textual basis for that. He personally healed the sick. He didnā€™t demand the Romans or Sanhedrin do so.

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He was the king of kings, i.e., the government. It was also a joke.

I wasnā€™t sure which thread to put this in.

Disturbing news. Weā€™ve had Russian meddling, and fake FB ads. Did you guys see this? Phony comments by the thousands on government dockets, the FCC website.

From the WSJ today, ā€œIn a random sample of 2,757 people whose emails were used to post those 818,000 comments, 72% said they had nothing to do them.ā€

The original story from the WSJ. Unreal. Lots of dead people, or fake emails and fake identities being used to try to effect government policy. Interference in our democratic process.

"The largest number of comments the Journal confirmed as phony were to the FCC, one of few agencies to routinely post email addresses with comments. Its net-neutrality rule has generated 23 million comments, believed to be the most a federal agency has received on a rule.

Suspicions of fakery in net-neutrality comments emerged in May, when thousands of emails poured into the FCC after HBOā€™s ā€œLast Week Tonight with John Oliverā€ urged viewers to support the Obama policy. They were followed by thousands backing repeal.

Chicago programmer Chris Sinchok said he spotted a sharp increase in comments that began: ā€œThe unprecedented regulatory power the Obama administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation.ā€

He found a near-constant rateā€”1,000 every 10 minutesā€”punctuated by periods of zero comments, as if web robots were turning on and off. He determined many were from hacked accounts.

After Mr. Sinchok and a pro-net-neutrality group, Fight for the Future, blogged that they found indications thousands of FCC comments might be fakes using stolen identities, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in May began a criminal investigation.

The Journal examined those ā€œunprecedented regulatory powerā€ comments and found that duplicates of it exceeded any other comment according to Quid Inc., a San Francisco tech firm that analyzes massive amounts of content and studied the data at the Journalā€™s request.

The comment has been posted on the FCC website more than 818,000 times. The Journal sent surveys to 531,000 email accounts associated with that comment. More than 7,000 bounced back, the accounts defunct. Of the 2,757 who responded, 1,994, or 72%, said the comment was falsely submitted. The surveyā€™s margin of error was plus or minus 1.86% points."

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