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Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 3:40 pm
by B
McParadigm wrote: This is such a ridiculous approach to addressing overregulation (if you consider that a problem). It's an arbitrary number. Does it apply to the FAA?!
Maybe they don't have to be in the same agency. Need a regulation that keeps planes from crashing? Well, OK, but you're gonna have to lift a regulation that keeps bazookas out of the hands of children and the one that limits the amount of rat feces in fast food burgers.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 3:49 pm
by B
I find this tweet intriguing. Maybe some of the persecuted Christians can find sanctuary in the Unit.... fuck. nevermind.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 3:54 pm
by wease
B wrote: I find this tweet intriguing. Maybe some of the persecuted Christians can find sanctuary in the Unit.... fuck. nevermind.
But they CAN, B. That's the exemption in the order. If you're Christian, you're in!

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 4:24 pm
by 4/5
Why are you guys getting so hysterical? Obama issued executive orders his first week, too. More executive orders, in fact.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 5:26 pm
by bune
Birds in Hell wrote:
Strat wrote:They have no desire to bring this country together. not one fucking ounce of desire.
Unlike the people lighting cars on fire, punching people in the street, etc.

I had no idea how Trump would cope with the Presidency, I wasn't sure he even wanted to win, but he's been off to a reasonably impressive start so far. Early days, however.
I don't even know how to respond to that without getting banned.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 5:36 pm
by Orpheus
Here's a good response: Trump has taken 8 days to reach majority unfavorable ratings from the public. The last few presidents took at least two years to reach that point. So it is impressive, just not in the usual way we use that word.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 5:51 pm
by bune
BurtReynolds wrote:Man I really gotta get out of this house. I might go join a March out of sheer boredom. I'm sure Portlanders are mad about something or another.
You're telling me I could have lunch with Burt today? Oh man.
pepperwhiteMFC wrote:
Hey, I voted for that guy. Cool beans.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 6:09 pm
by pepperwhiteMFC
This morning I watched a live feed from British Parliament on this immigration ban issue. They raked Boris Johnson over the coals for being a Trump apologetic. Savages!


My favorite feed comment: "Is that a Trump wig?"

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 6:34 pm
by Bi_3
tragabigzanda wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
McParadigm wrote: This is such a ridiculous approach to addressing overregulation (if you consider that a problem). It's an arbitrary number. Does it apply to the FAA?!
I'm starting to think that every single thing he's done since he came into office is just a brilliant smokescreen so he can sow the seeds of (further) upheaval in the Middle East. Mark my words: We'll be engaged in war (or at least maneuvers) in the ME inside of a year, with Russian support. Divide and conquer, and maybe diminish the Muslim population while they're at it, and all the past week's news will have long since been proven unenforcible.
We are current engaged in combat in like 10 nations in that area and have been years. Outside of Iran, which even Trump would not attack, I'm not sure where else there is to hit.
Yea, but I'm not suggesting combat is the end goal. It's the same "divide, destroy, and rebuild" ethos that was behind the Iraq War and our invasion in Afghanistan. Obama, to his credits, hasn't done much modern colonization in this manner; he seems to have made an honest attempt at maintaining stability and allowing those countries to empower themselves. That's not what we'll see here. Cities will be laid to rubble, and Louis Berger and companies of that ilk (ones that Trump is invested in) will come in and build it up again. Right now he's just instigating further instability so that the case for invasion can be made later.
Maybe. I dunno. It's possible they believe that the House of Saud could fall in an Islamic revolution ala Iran. (We will be kicking ourselves for not having more domestic oil pipelines then.)

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 6:51 pm
by dimejinky99
Our prime minister is under immense pressure not to attend the annual st Patrick's day celebration at the White House. He has effectively been a lapdog but had a great relationship with Obama and Biden, but only a few months ago he called Trump a racist and a buffoon.

Be interesting to see how this goes. It's the chopping block for him if he does go.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 6:54 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
I wonder what the State of the Union address is going to be like a couple weeks? Other than a lot of humblebrag.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 6:59 pm
by Bi_3
Biff Pocoroba wrote:I wonder what the State of the Union address is going to be like a couple weeks? Other than a lot of humblebrag.
Solid drinking game potential.

fake news
border wall
Ivanka
regulations
jobs
radical islam
refugees

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 7:04 pm
by McParadigm
Bi_3 wrote:
Biff Pocoroba wrote:I wonder what the State of the Union address is going to be like a couple weeks? Other than a lot of humblebrag.
Solid drinking game potential.

fake news
border wall
Ivanka
regulations
jobs
radical islam
refugees
Zero chance it doesn't review how he won the election.

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 7:05 pm
by bune
You forgot peniscrowd size

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 7:16 pm
by McParadigm
Spicer references the mosque shooting in Quebec as an example of why restrictions from 7 Muslim nations are needed.

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Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 7:19 pm
by Strat
McParadigm wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
Biff Pocoroba wrote:I wonder what the State of the Union address is going to be like a couple weeks? Other than a lot of humblebrag.
Solid drinking game potential.

fake news
border wall
Ivanka
regulations
jobs
radical islam
refugees
Zero chance it doesn't review how he won the election.
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Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 7:20 pm
by Simple Torture
Bi_3 wrote:
Biff Pocoroba wrote:I wonder what the State of the Union address is going to be like a couple weeks? Other than a lot of humblebrag.
Solid drinking game potential.

fake news
border wall
Ivanka
regulations
jobs
radical islam
refugees
RIP Bi_3

Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 7:23 pm
by B
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Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 7:56 pm
by pepperwhiteMFC
McParadigm wrote:Spicer references the mosque shooting in Quebec as an example of why restrictions from 7 Muslim nations are needed.

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Meanwhile OPEC is going to cut output. The world will need a lot of gas for WWIII.

Cha-ching!

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Re: The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

Posted: Mon January 30, 2017 8:01 pm
by philpritchard
McParadigm wrote:Spicer references the mosque shooting in Quebec as an example of why restrictions from 7 Muslim nations are needed.

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He definitely has no idea what actually happened in Quebec. He saw the words "Muslim" and "shooting" in an article and just went with it.