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Postby The Black Forrest » Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:37 am

Bear Stearns wrote:Trump should lower the drinking and smoking age to 18.


Never understood our logic on that one. We can send an 18 year old to war but god forbid he wants a drink.
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Postby Telconi » Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:38 am

The Black Forrest wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:Trump should lower the drinking and smoking age to 18.


Never understood our logic on that one. We can send an 18 year old to war but god forbid he wants a drink.


It's an extension of God forbid anyone want a drink.
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Postby Kowani » Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:40 am

The Black Forrest wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:Trump should lower the drinking and smoking age to 18.


Never understood our logic on that one. We can send an 18 year old to war but god forbid he wants a drink.

I’d say drunk driving, but teens do that anyway.
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:49 am

The Black Forrest wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:Trump should lower the drinking and smoking age to 18.


Never understood our logic on that one. We can send an 18 year old to war but god forbid he wants a drink.

Trump dodged the draft and doesn't drink.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:00 am

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Postby San Lumen » Thu Jul 18, 2019 1:25 pm

Telconi wrote:
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Answer the fucking question.


There's a question?

So what do you have against her? be specific

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Postby New haven america » Thu Jul 18, 2019 2:13 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:Trump should lower the drinking and smoking age to 18.


Never understood our logic on that one. We can send an 18 year old to war but god forbid he wants a drink.

Drinking was raised because the government wanted to lower drunk driving rates, while smoking is left up to the state.
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He didn't lose control, he didn't speak right away, either. He waited, according to WaPo, 13 seconds before speaking again. That isn't someone who's lost control but someone who's trying to save face.
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Postby Gormwood » Thu Jul 18, 2019 2:31 pm


Throwing his own cultists under the bus. Donnie Is As Donnie Does.
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:58 pm

Eternal Lotharia wrote:[url=https://www.breitbart.

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Postby Bombadil » Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:36 pm

When the Consigliere takes the hit for the Don..

In a statement on Wednesday, Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis expressed astonishment that the case had been closed without charges against others involved, “especially since prosecutors found that virtually all of Michael’s admitted crimes were done at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald Trump.”
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Postby Bombadil » Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:54 pm

Draining the swamp.. into your own hotel..

On 25 July, the conservative Heartland Institute is slated to host a one-day meeting at the Trump International Hotel, just a few blocks from the White House. It will feature leading climate science deniers who will discuss issues like “the benefits of ending the Democrats’ war on fossil fuels”, according to the institute.

Last month, as Donald Trump was kicking off his 2020 campaign and boasting again of “draining the swamp” of Washington’s powerful lobbyists and elites, a couple of dozen oil and gas executives with the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance were checking into the president’s hotel before a day of schmoozing with Republican House leaders and cabinet officials.

Fossil fuel interests, pro-gun industry groups, conservative bigwigs, members of Congress, Trump’s 2020 campaign, foreign delegations and all manner of Trump allies flock to his landmark Washington DC hotel to cozy up to the administration, say watchdog groups, former Republican members of Congress and policy analysts.

Influence peddling by lobbyists, Republican donors and foreign government representatives who have frequented the Trump hotel for meetings and overnight stays helped to generate about $81m in hotel revenues for Trump through 2018, according to his financial disclosure forms.


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Postby San Lumen » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:18 pm

Gormwood wrote:

Throwing his own cultists under the bus. Donnie Is As Donnie Does.

and they wont care. They will still support him. I guarantee Democrats will use not let that moment fade from peoples memory. That was truly a moment I never thought i'd see in America. That's how it all began in Nazi Germany.

And when people say it can;'t happen here it did. Go to Wikipedia and type in Japanese Americans 1942. George Takai was one of those people brought to a internment camp simply because of how they looked.
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Postby San Lumen » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:20 pm


They ought to be investigated for inciting violence as its my understanding that is one of the few things courts have said the first amendment doesnt cover.

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Postby Cannot think of a name » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:23 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Gormwood wrote:Throwing his own cultists under the bus. Donnie Is As Donnie Does.

and they wont care. They will still support him. I guarantee Democrats will use not let that moment fade from peoples memory. That was truly a moment I never thought i'd see in America. That's how it all began in Nazi Germany.

And when people say it can;'t happen here it did. Go to Wikipedia and type in Japanese Americans 1942. George Takai was one of those people brought to a internment camp simply because of how they looked.

I feel like I already know their excuses..."He had to say that for the snowflakes in the lib-u-ral media who got their panties in a twist, but we know the score. He's here to protect us from brown people."
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Postby San Lumen » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:27 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:
San Lumen wrote:and they wont care. They will still support him. I guarantee Democrats will use not let that moment fade from peoples memory. That was truly a moment I never thought i'd see in America. That's how it all began in Nazi Germany.

And when people say it can;'t happen here it did. Go to Wikipedia and type in Japanese Americans 1942. George Takai was one of those people brought to a internment camp simply because of how they looked.

I feel like I already know their excuses..."He had to say that for the snowflakes in the lib-u-ral media who got their panties in a twist, but we know the score. He's here to protect us from brown people."

http://www.startribune.com/supporters-r ... 512917102/
And guess what her adopted city loves her even more now. Omar was greeted by hundreds of cheering people at the airport yesterday and even presented her flowers. I have a feeling this chant of send her back will galvanize non whites to vote like never before.
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Postby Telconi » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:28 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Cannot think of a name wrote:I feel like I already know their excuses..."He had to say that for the snowflakes in the lib-u-ral media who got their panties in a twist, but we know the score. He's here to protect us from brown people."

http://www.startribune.com/supporters-r ... 512917102/
And guess what her adopted city loves her even more now. Omar was greeted by hundreds of cheering people at the airport yesterday and even presented her flowers. I have a feeling this chant of send her back will galvanize non whites to vote like never before.


And you wonder why people group "non-whites" as they do?
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Postby San Lumen » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:30 pm

Telconi wrote:
San Lumen wrote:http://www.startribune.com/supporters-r ... 512917102/
And guess what her adopted city loves her even more now. Omar was greeted by hundreds of cheering people at the airport yesterday and even presented her flowers. I have a feeling this chant of send her back will galvanize non whites to vote like never before.


And you wonder why people group "non-whites" as they do?

well chants like that don't inspire them to support your party

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San Lumen wrote:
Telconi wrote:
And you wonder why people group "non-whites" as they do?

well chants like that don't inspire them to support your party


And if you keep pushing the notion that they're your allies, people are going to believe that they're your allies.
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Postby Bombadil » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:35 pm

A USA Today poll showed that a pretty good majority of people thought the comments were basically racist and un-American..

Two-thirds of those surveyed, 65%, say that telling minority Americans to "go back where they came from" is a racist statement. Nearly three-fourths of Democrats strongly agree with that. Republicans are inclined to agree that the comment is racist, but by a narrower margin, 45% to 34%.

Overall, 59% call the president's tweets "un-American."


However it's essentially along partisan lines and..

Among Republicans alone, 57% say they agree with tweets that told the congresswomen to go back to the countries "from which they came," and a third "strongly" agree with them.

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Postby San Lumen » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:37 pm

Bombadil wrote:A USA Today poll showed the a pretty good majority of the comments were basically racist and un-American..

Two-thirds of those surveyed, 65%, say that telling minority Americans to "go back where they came from" is a racist statement. Nearly three-fourths of Democrats strongly agree with that. Republicans are inclined to agree that the comment is racist, but by a narrower margin, 45% to 34%.

Overall, 59% call the president's tweets "un-American."


However it's essentially along partisan lines and..

Among Republicans alone, 57% say they agree with tweets that told the congresswomen to go back to the countries "from which they came," and a third "strongly" agree with them.

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Postby Kowani » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:37 pm

Bombadil wrote:A USA Today poll showed the a pretty good majority of the comments were basically racist and un-American..

Two-thirds of those surveyed, 65%, say that telling minority Americans to "go back where they came from" is a racist statement. Nearly three-fourths of Democrats strongly agree with that. Republicans are inclined to agree that the comment is racist, but by a narrower margin, 45% to 34%.

Overall, 59% call the president's tweets "un-American."


However it's essentially along partisan lines and..

Among Republicans alone, 57% say they agree with tweets that told the congresswomen to go back to the countries "from which they came," and a third "strongly" agree with them.

Link

I wonder what they would have said if it had been anyone other than Trump...?
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Postby San Lumen » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:38 pm

Kowani wrote:
Bombadil wrote:A USA Today poll showed the a pretty good majority of the comments were basically racist and un-American..

Two-thirds of those surveyed, 65%, say that telling minority Americans to "go back where they came from" is a racist statement. Nearly three-fourths of Democrats strongly agree with that. Republicans are inclined to agree that the comment is racist, but by a narrower margin, 45% to 34%.

Overall, 59% call the president's tweets "un-American."


However it's essentially along partisan lines and..

Among Republicans alone, 57% say they agree with tweets that told the congresswomen to go back to the countries "from which they came," and a third "strongly" agree with them.

Link

I wonder what they would have said if it had been anyone other than Trump...?

Probably the same thing.

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