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Anyone watching the Presidential address to Congress? So far he had said all the things I would have said. Well done Mr. President, well done.
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The whole thing was really weird. A bunch of people giving extended round of applause every couple of sentences even when it was just some broad sentiment. It almost seemed satirical. Governments are full of weirdos putting on an act.
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Happens every time the President addresses Congress in this manner. Look at any speech through the last 50 years and see the same thing.
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Yes I'm sure it does. It looks like a very well established ritual of weirdness
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I didn't watch it. In fact I havn't watched any of the President's addreses except for 30 seconds of a Clinton BS speech. Aside from the boring droning of the POTUS I just can't stand the BS being spewed. That includes all of them.
Most worthless waste of TV time.
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hierachy wrote:Yes I'm sure it does. It looks like a very well established ritual of weirdness
Many of them probably weren't even really listening but they have been to so many speeches that they know when to applaud by instinct.
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What a slow train wreck the last week has been. Continuing allegations of collusion between Trump's election campaign and Russian officials followed by wild accusations that the Obama Administration wiretapped Trump Tower.

If the Trump Administration doesn't deal with these problems right now then its Administration will enter the history books as having done nothing except deal with political backlash problems rather than actually doing something.
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Most of these would go away by themselves if Trump would quit commenting on them over and over again. He just needs to let it go.

Outside of that the Russian issue is just noise and a distraction. I dont think there is anything there, but the Dems are going to find anything they can to discredit Trump. That doesnt surprise me, and it shouldnt surprise anyone else. Again, if the Whitehouse would just stop commenting on everything and just let these work their way through the legal system, they wont find anything and it will go away on its own.
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I have lost track of how many times I have mentioned that someone needs to take away Trump's Twitter account.

The whole "Russian hacking" thing just got a new angle applied to it with the latest WikiLeaks document dump, in which the CIA has the ability to make a hack look like it came from someone or somewhere else (like Russia).
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Did you guys read the art of the deal?
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After being assured by Trump, himself, last November that his job would be secure, Preet Bharara, a U. S. Attorney in Manhattan, was asked to resign and when he refused he was fired...by voice mail.

Incidentally, only a week ago Mr. Bharara's office received requests from watchdog groups to investigate possible Constitutional violations that Trump might have received payments from foreign governments. I am certain that is merely coincidence, though, and has nothing whatsoever to do with his being fired.
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More fake news. This happens with every new administration....Out with the old and in with the new.

Trump's an idiot jackass, but this isn't a big deal.
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It isn't fake--he really did get fired. I was being tongue-in-cheek when I mentioned the "investigate Trump" thing but the truth remains that Mr. Bharara did lose his job.
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Hashi Lebwohl wrote:It isn't fake--he really did get fired. I was being tongue-in-cheek when I mentioned the "investigate Trump" thing but the truth remains that Mr. Bharara did lose his job.
It is fake. This happens every time there's a change in the administration. Obama did it, Bush did it, and Clinton did it. Mr. Bharara was asked to resign and refused....So of course he was fired.

This is a BS story.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/ ... /99093900/
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It not really fake news.. more like
Manipulation news..
It takes an item/event that has happened previous and presents it as
a breaking and method to gloat those whom unaware
as so it is something tragic and controversial. It a trick the media has used
all of it's existence. It too falls under propaganda.
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Not sure if this has already shown up in this thread somewhere...

fortune.com/2016/11/20/steve-bannon-interview-darkness/

The quote:
Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they (liberals) get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing.
Not sure what to make of this. Blind about what? I doubt he's outright saying, "We're working for Satan," but then again if they are doing just that, "liberals" would be blind to it just so far as "liberals" can be glossed, here, as "non-literalistic Christians, among other things," wherefore of course these folks wouldn't suspect that the new government gets its power from a literal demon. Now maybe Bannon is just bats$%t crazy, though. (Not much more reassuring than the other interpretation, haha.)
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:LOLS: I sorta wish he was saying that. :D

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www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statem ... -more-cou/

To be honest, at this point, there's nothing really intrinsically worse, I suppose, about Japan and South Korea having nuclear weapons, than not having them. However, Saudi Arabia? C'mon, Mr. Antichrist, you don't have to be so damn transparent :P
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Bannon, probably the most controversial person in Trump's inner circle of White House personnel, has been forced out of his position and will no longer attend any national security meetings.
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Interesting. (Haven't really been following recently, our own politics are getting too messy right now...)

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