President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[Commando]

Sorry man, that lack of sleep must affect your ability to catch hyperbole. If I remember (I make no promises) I will let you know when I am using hyperbole in the future, especially when it concerns you, so that you don't feel badly about yourself.

Cool. I'll know next time that you like to use hyperbole.

[imanihonjin]

Cool. I'll know next time that you like to use hyperbole.

Yeah, I suppose that is a new concept around here.

Edit: Here is a clue, if I use something in the same sentence as "the direction Trump farts in," it is a dead giveaway that hyperbole is being used (just in case I forget to tell you about the hyperbole in the post itself....I really don't want you feeling badly about yourself!).

[imanihonjin]

"I can't stand the man and, unlike you, BlueK and Frank, I can articulate actual legitimate policy reasons why I can't stand the man rather than flail about bitching about the direction Trump farts in."


You don't want to get me started. It's not that I can't articulate them, it's just that I get paid to brief arguments and not by you or Mr. Dude. And I think I've spent quite enough angst and energy doing that in this forum in the past.

Suffice it to say he's a brain dead, anti-humanitarian, non-critical thinking nightmare. This is the bullshit that has kept me up at night this week ready to that none of you thought twice about:


https://www.justice.gov/file/1187856/download

Given that I now understand that you don't use hyperbole, I am very concerned about your personal safety. Am I to believe, given the emoji you used, that your are contemplating suicide?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Come on, guys.

[frank ryan]

Oh Teddy, you’re not buying the conservatives being persecuted because they get kicked off of twitter and YouTube for violating rules? That’s top level snowflakery and safe space bullshit.

[Commando]

Given that I now understand that you don't use hyperbole, I am very concerned about your personal safety. Am I to believe, given the emoji you used, that your are contemplating suicide?

Yes I am. Also, go fuck yourself.

[imanihonjin]

Yes I am. Also, go fuck yourself.

In all seriousness, I think you are being hyperbolic here, but given the seriousness of the statement, I am going treating it as an honest utterance. I am sorry for engaging with you and I sincerely hope you get the help you need.

[Commando]

In all seriousness, I think you are being hyperbolic here, but given the seriousness of the statement, I am going treating it as an honest utterance. I am sorry for engaging with you and I sincerely hope you get the help you need.

Dude the conversation ended about 20 minutes ago. You should have excused yourself then if you didn't want things to get ugly. But keep it up and see how much worse this can get by all means.

[imanihonjin]

Dude the conversation ended about 20 minutes ago. You should have excused yourself then if you didn't want things to get ugly. But keep it up and see how much worse this can get by all means.

Ya got me. When someome claims they are contemplating suicide, I am done engaging. I sincerely hope you get the help you need. Have a good day.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Commando, my friend. Stop letting Trump's craziness get to you. Avoid the news for a while. Take in a movie or a concert. Life is good.

[Moliere]

what was illegitimate about what was happening in North Dakota? Was there evidence of non-citizens trying to vote?

There are documented cases of voter fraud. It’s a growing risk. Any risk management personnel would prefer to address a risk before it’s a problem.

[Commando]

Commando, my friend. Stop letting Trump's craziness get to you. Avoid the news for a while. Take in a movie or a concert. Life is good.

I know. I'm definitely a sucker for torment.

[frank ryan]

There are documented cases of voter fraud. It’s a growing risk. Any risk management personnel would prefer to address a risk before it’s a problem.

Any source for the growing risk stuff? I think that's GOP bs that's justify making it harder to vote. We already know that was behind their census mischief.

Montana was considering mail-in voting a while back, but the Republicas resisted it, with one official being on record as saying it would make it too easy for the Native Americans to vote.

Have you read on Trump's voter fraud comission? Another big mess of shadiness to the point where data and findings weren't shared with democratic members of the committee.

There isn't a ton of voter fraud. Voting machines and databases need to be secured, and we need a paper-trail, but the GOP refuses.

[Uncle Ted]

Any source for the growing risk stuff? I think that's GOP bs that's justify making it harder to vote. We already know that was behind their census mischief.

Montana was considering mail-in voting a while back, but the Republicas resisted it, with one official being on record as saying it would make it too easy for the Native Americans to vote.

Have you read on Trump's voter fraud comission? Another big mess of shadiness to the point where data and findings weren't shared with democratic members of the committee.

There isn't a ton of voter fraud. Voting machines and databases need to be secured, and we need a paper-trail, but the GOP refuses.

I am guessing there is more voter fraud (even voter fraud convictions) than minority voters being suppressed by voter ID (or would be suppressed by voter ID). Voter ID doesn't seem like a huge hurdle for folks. I am not sure how folks even function without an ID. Maybe they live under a rock?

As for voting machines I absolutely agree. Not having a paper audit trail drives me crazy. The security of voting machines is absolutely scary.

[frank ryan]

Trump is a whiz kid when it comes to national security. This move is alarming:

They’re members of a prestigious academic panel with top-secret clearances who’ve advised the Pentagon on some of America’s most vexing national security issues since the Cold War. Over 60 years, they’ve won 11 Nobel prizes and conducted hundreds of government studies.

The advisory group, known as Jason, is a team of some 60 of America’s top physicists and scientists who spend each summer in La Jolla, California, conducting studies commissioned by the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies.

On March 28, Trump appointee Michael Griffin – the Pentagon’s chief technology officer – unexpectedly moved to terminate the group.

Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, objected, telling Griffin’s office the scientists were crucial for keeping America’s nuclear stockpile secure, according to an NNSA official and others affiliated with the Jason program. Gordon-Hagerty’s agency offered to take responsibility for the program. She only needed Griffin’s signature to make it happen.

Griffin refused.

He declined comment, but a Defense Department spokeswoman said the Pentagon decided it had less need for the studies than previously thought. “The department remains committed to seeking independent technical advice and review. This change is in keeping with this commitment, while making the most economic sense,” said spokeswoman Heather Babb.

Jason’s supporters, backed into a corner, managed to keep the group alive, temporarily for now, for eight more months. Democrats in Congress are trying to get Jason funded through a different Pentagon office not run by Griffin, but it’s unclear whether the Republican-controlled Senate will go along.

A day after Griffin moved to axe Jason, a 35-word blurb in the Federal Register announced the end of two other independent scientific boards, including the Navy Research Advisory Committee, which had advised the Navy and Marine Corps for 73 years.

The efforts to kill the scientific panels show how the Trump administration’s crackdown on the role of independent science in the U.S. government is reaching into areas long thought immune from political influence.

“These are institutions of great technical expertise,” said Sherri W. Goodman, a former member of the International Security Advisory Board, a State Department panel suspended shortly after Trump took office. “They are great repositories of national expertise and also scientific expertise that have helped keep America’s competitive edge militarily.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1UP15P