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I wonder how they got Chris Pine to sign on for that.
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"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
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GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!Comment
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Can you imagine the scandal had any other POTUS made a douchebag comment like that? Just another tweet from Orange Julius.Originally posted by New Mexican Disaster View Post"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
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It's indefensible that he gets a pass from his base for his similar (or worse) statements: his bone spur deferments (surprising he hasn't crowed about the miracle that they apparently self-resolved); in the late 60's and early 70's his personal Vietnam consisted of avoiding STDs from all the women he was sleeping with; McCain wasn't a hero; etc.Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostComment
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He doesn't like immigrants or foreigners, he knows how to complain about the stuff his core audience likes to complain about to give the feeling he understands, and he's entertaining. That's pretty much what the loyalty comes down to I think with his hardcore base. The more traditional kinds of Republicans know he's a dirtbag but just go along with him in the hope of holding onto political power.Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View PostLast edited by BlueK; 02-28-2019, 07:58 AM.Comment
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This is pretty distasteful, IMO. It seems Trump feels like he needs a foreign policy triumph so badly that now he's willing to say that Kim had nothing to do with Warmbier's torture that led to his death? This is pretty crappy. Then again, he probably doesn't "get" this kind of stuff because as a probable sociopath he's completely unable to feel empathy for this young man's family. He didn't have to say anything and just let his original comments stand.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/polit...-un/index.htmlLast edited by BlueK; 02-28-2019, 01:05 PM.Comment
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The New Yorker came out with a pretty damning article about Fox News and Trump. Without Fox News there'd be no President Trump. This is actually egregious media bias that is far worse than what mainstream outlets get so frequently accused of. Some of the allegations include:
Fox New had the story about Stormy Daniels and the hush money payments before the election but killed it.
Trump directed Cohn to block AT&T-Time Warner merger to screw over CNN and to favor Rupert Murdoch.When Shine assumed command at Fox, the 2016 campaign was nearing its end, and Trump and Clinton were all but tied. That fall, a FoxNews.com reporter had a story that put the network’s journalistic integrity to the test. Diana Falzone, who often covered the entertainment industry, had obtained proof that Trump had engaged in a sexual relationship in 2006 with a pornographic film actress calling herself Stormy Daniels. Falzone had worked on the story since March, and by October she had confirmed it with Daniels through her manager at the time, Gina Rodriguez, and with Daniels’s former husband, Mike Moz, who described multiple calls from Trump. Falzone had also amassed e-mails between Daniels’s attorney and Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, detailing a proposed cash settlement, accompanied by a nondisclosure agreement. Falzone had even seen the contract.
But Falzone’s story didn’t run—it kept being passed off from one editor to the next. After getting one noncommittal answer after another from her editors, Falzone at last heard from LaCorte, who was then the head of FoxNews.com. Falzone told colleagues that LaCorte said to her, “Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.” LaCorte denies telling Falzone this, but one of Falzone’s colleagues confirms having heard her account at the time.
Despite the discouragement, Falzone kept investigating, and discovered that the National Enquirer, in partnership with Trump, had made a “catch and kill” deal with Daniels—buying the exclusive rights to her story in order to bury it. Falzone pitched this story to Fox, too, but it went nowhere. News of Trump’s payoffs to silence Daniels, and Cohen’s criminal attempts to conceal them as legal fees, remained unknown to the public until the Wall Street Journal broke the story, a year after Trump became President.
In January, 2017, Fox demoted Falzone without explanation. That May, she sued the network. Her attorney, Nancy Erika Smith, declined to comment but acknowledged that a settlement has been reached; it includes a nondisclosure agreement that bars Falzone from talking about her work at Fox.
Fox News may have given Trump debate questions ahead of time.President Trump reportedly directed his former economic adviser, Gary Cohn, to pressure the Justice Department to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger, according to a report in The New Yorker.
In an explosive new investigation into the relationship between the Trump White House and Fox News, the magazine reported new details that contradict the administration’s assurances that Trump had no role in the Justice Department’s lawsuit trying to stop the merger.
Citing an unidentified “well-informed source,” The New Yorker reported that in summer 2017, months before the Justice Department filed its antitrust lawsuit, Trump called Cohn and then-chief of staff John Kelly into the Oval Office and told them that he wanted to “make sure” the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to block the merger was filed.
“I’ve been telling Cohn to get this lawsuit filed and nothing’s happened!” Trump told Kelly, according to the report. “I’ve mentioned it 50 times. And nothing’s happened. I want to make sure it’s filed. I want that deal blocked!”
Trump repeatedly criticized the $85 billion deal on the campaign trail and as president, vowing to block the merger and saying that it was “not good for the country.”
The whole article is worth reading.Trump has made the debate a point of pride. He recently boasted to the Times that he’d won it despite being a novice, and despite the “crazy Megyn Kelly question.” Fox, however, may have given Trump a little help. A pair of Fox insiders and a source close to Trump believe that Ailes informed the Trump campaign about Kelly’s question. Two of those sources say that they know of the tipoff from a purported eyewitness. In addition, a former Trump campaign aide says that a Fox contact gave him advance notice of a different debate question, which asked the candidates whether they would support the Republican nominee, regardless of who won. The former aide says that the heads-up was passed on to Trump, who was the only candidate who said that he wouldn’t automatically support the Party’s nominee—a position that burnished his image as an outsider.
These claims are hard to evaluate: Ailes is dead, and they conflict with substantial reporting suggesting that the rift between Trump and Fox was bitter. A former campaign aide is adamant that Trump was genuinely surprised and infuriated by Kelly’s question. A Fox spokesperson strongly denied the allegations, and declined requests for interviews with employees involved in the debate.
Kelly also declined to comment, but she broached the subject in her 2016 memoir, “Settle for More.” She wrote that the day before the debate Trump called Fox executives to complain, saying he’d heard that Kelly planned to ask “a very pointed question directed at him.” She noted, “Folks were starting to worry about Trump—his level of agitation did not match the circumstances.” When this passage stirred controversy, Kelly tweeted that her book “does not suggest Trump had any debate Qs in advance, nor do I believe that he did.” Yet her account does suggest that Trump had enough forewarning to be upset, and that he contacted Fox before the debate.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...link%20PrimaryLast edited by frank ryan; 03-04-2019, 11:58 AM.Comment
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Trump is talking about starting a trade war with India. What a wonderful leader we have in the White House.Comment
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Gee, I can't wait to find out which industry is going to need a multi-billion dollar bailout this time...Originally posted by frank ryan View Post"I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"Comment
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Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."
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Why would Ford want to invest all this money in awful places like Flat Rock, Michigan and Chicago?... They could have invested in Texas like Toyota and Apple are doing."If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!Comment
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Originally posted by Uncle Ted View PostCheap, desperateInexpensive workforces?"I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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