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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 26, 2017 -> 01:48 PM)
And that adjustment to 2% of GDP isn't even a rule/law...it's a "guideline," and those 23/28 countries under 2 all still have until 2024.

 

Not to mention Merkel is dealing with the refugee crisis and immigrants that the US is largely responsible for...they're spending is over 2% already including their "soft" spending on unwinding the crisis in that region. That doesn't even include the political costs and consequences.

The overwhelming majority of Trump's base just do not have the mental capacity to realize just how moronic it was for Trump to disrespect Merkel that way, holy crap.

 

 

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QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Mar 27, 2017 -> 06:51 AM)
The overwhelming majority of Trump's base just do not have the mental capacity to realize just how moronic it was for Trump to disrespect Merkel that way, holy crap.

Trump has always thought paying bills was optional. I'm sure he would understand if she passed on that one.

 

What has always amazed me is how many people find this guy to be the greatest dealmaker, business man ever, just because he says so. He has screwed so many people along the way and made so many feel like suckers, why this wasn't beaten into our heads during the primaries and general election is beyond me. We are getting what everyone else got when they made a deal with him, pretty much screwed. He's a total con, has been a total con, and always will be a total con.

 

When he was a candidate screaming about how bad Obamacare was, he didn't even know what it was, just that it had to be repealed and replaced. Remember when he tried to sound like he had a clue and said his employees didn't use it much because they didn't like it?

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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 27, 2017 -> 08:09 AM)
Trump has always thought paying bills was optional. I'm sure he would understand if she passed on that one.

 

What has always amazed me is how many people find this guy to be the greatest dealmaker, business man ever, just because he says so. He has screwed so many people along the way and made so many feel like suckers, why this wasn't beaten into our heads during the primaries and general election is beyond me. We are getting what everyone else got when they made a deal with him, pretty much screwed. He's a total con, has been a total con, and always will be a total con.

 

When he was a candidate screaming about how bad Obamacare was, he didn't even know what it was, just that it had to be repealed and replaced. Remember when he tried to sound like he had a clue and said his employees didn't use it much because they didn't like it?

He has an ever growing string of failed business, including his latest healthcare debacle. Guy is inept.

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So i think with the Kushner news about him leading a SWAT force of CEOs to fix the government, I think it cements those Trump as Carter analogies.

 

I don't think Trump is eager to go back to the Congressional fray. He's just going to stick to exec orders and exec branch stuff he kind of can control. Of course, he could just choose to nominate a bunch of employees to enforce the laws in his preferred fashion. But that requires a competent staff and work. So instead he will just get a bunch of rich friends to sit in meetings and come up with ideas that would certainly not benefit the men in the room.

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I love golf.I don't think I'd ever see Turnberry again. I don't ever think I'd see Doral again. I own Doral. I wouldn't have time to golf. I would just want to stay in the White House work my ass off and make great deals.--DJT

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/tru...ance/index.html

 

Now the wall ask is just $1 billion for barely 60 miles.

 

 

Immigration ban: two strikes

Health care: one strike

Wall costs absorbed by Mexico or Ryan's proposed (even more unpopular than AHCA with GOP) border adjustment tax: one strike

Labeling China a currency manipulator from Day One: one strike

 

At the rate he's going, lame duck status will arrive sometime between now and August if tax reform, discretionary budget cuts and infrastructure spending ($1 trillion, good luck!) all are DOA.

 

David Gergen argued that it was the worst 100 days of an president in recent history. Even the Wall Street stock market bump is running into trouble as investors realize things are way overpriced compared to perhaps unrealistic expectations of what Trump would actually be able to accomplish fiscally just a month or two ago.

 

 

 

Perhaps why you're not hearing as much anti-Chinese rhetoric these days...?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rich-chinese...TVfMQRzZWMDc2M-

 

China’s wealthy, using not-always-legal means to skirt capital controls to get their money out and at the same time gain residency in the U.S., are continuing to dwarf all others as the largest participants in the EB-5 program, despite heightened measures by the Chinese government.

 

The initiative channels money to high-profile U.S. real estate projects from New York to Miami to California -- including those by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. A current plan by the Kushner family to refinance and reconstruct its New York office building at 666 Fifth Avenue is seeking $850 million in EB-5 funding, as well as cash from Anbang Insurance Group (they're the ones who bought the Waldorf-Astoria) and other investors, according to terms of the proposal reported by Bloomberg News. A spokesman for Kushner Cos. declined to comment.

 

At stake if the EB-5 is curtailed is a program estimated to have played a role in creating at least 200,000 U.S. jobs and drawing as much as $14 billion from Chinese investors alone, based on data provided by Rosen Consulting Group and the Asia Society. Past projects taking advantage of EB-5 include New York’s Hudson Yards, Hunter’s Point Shipyard in San Francisco, and a Trump-branded tower in Jersey City.

 

 

Kushner volunteered to testify over his role in arranging meetings between top campaign aides and Russian envoy to the US Sergey Kislyak. He met Kislyak in December during the presidential transition and sent his deputy, Avrahm Berkowitz, to a second sit down. Kushner also met Sergey N. Gorkov, the head of Russia's economic development bank, at the urging of the Russian ambassador, a senior administration official said.

 

Gorkov has deep ties to the Russian government and was appointed by Putin. The meeting between Kushner and Gorkov is attracting extra intrigue because VneshEconomBank, or VEB, has been under US sanctions for three years, and because Kushner has been trying to attract financing for a building project of his in Manhattan. Trump also said during the campaign that he could lift some sanctions on Russia.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/28/politics/don...ency/index.html

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 10:10 AM)
The guy likes to golf. So do millions of Americans. Let him enjoy his four years. He won't be re-elected.

Yeah so we can keep footing his golfing trips that cost millions in tax payer money...GTFOH

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 10:10 AM)
The guy likes to golf. So do millions of Americans. Let him enjoy his four years. He won't be re-elected.

 

For someone who b****ed about emails for an entire f***ing year you are so flippant about a president that is all but confirmed to be compromised by a hostile foreign power, has golfed every weekend save 2 since he has taken the oath, profits off his presidency, and has taken great strides to destroy education and the health of the very people he swore to protect.

 

And before you highlight what I just said and give your canned "well that if he did that stuff he should be impeached" reply, save it. It's bulls***, everything this president stands for is bulls***

 

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 10:10 AM)
The guy likes to golf. So do millions of Americans. Let him enjoy his four years. He won't be re-elected.

LOL. Oh Greg. The current president criticized the former for golfing a handful of times. We are now footing the bill not only for his wife, who hates him, to live in NYC, but also for golf trips to HIS OWN golf courses. Instead of working he is promoting his own brands while offering regular people an opportunity to get close to him for an increased price. You see no problem with that of course, because well.....

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 11:50 AM)
the president has a scheduling conflict and is unable to throw out the first pitch for the Nationals. Too busy winning to throw a ball

Let's be honest here, he is nervous because he throws like a girl.

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 11:50 AM)
the president has a scheduling conflict and is unable to throw out the first pitch for the Nationals. Too busy winning to throw a ball

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to change tee times at a golf course that you don’t own???

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QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 01:17 PM)
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to change tee times at a golf course that you don’t own???

 

 

Changing tee times is easy, but it conflicts with his favorite show on Fox & Friends and thats must see tv.

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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 09:42 AM)
Trump administration trying to block Sally Yates from testifying on Russia.

 

Lol

Looks like they're trying to claim some sort of attorney client privilege, but the AG isn't the president's personal lawyer so not really sure how that'd fly.

 

Nunes is also refusing to recuse himself from this investigation despite clearly having conflicts of interest and not being able to perform impartially.

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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 02:56 PM)
Looks like they're trying to claim some sort of attorney client privilege, but the AG isn't the president's personal lawyer so not really sure how that'd fly.

 

Nunes is also refusing to recuse himself from this investigation despite clearly having conflicts of interest and not being able to perform impartially.

Its just those lyin libtards that dont like what he said

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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 02:56 PM)
Looks like they're trying to claim some sort of attorney client privilege, but the AG isn't the president's personal lawyer so not really sure how that'd fly.

 

Nunes is also refusing to recuse himself from this investigation despite clearly having conflicts of interest and not being able to perform impartially.

 

They are claiming Presidential Communication Privilege

 

 

Which sounds a lot like HOLY s*** DONT LET HER TESTIFY

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