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Civics test

May 17, 2019 1:11PM PDT

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Well, I don't give a hoot how these news organizations
May 17, 2019 2:02PM PDT

present the plan. Too many will do little more than focus on the negative possibilities than give any credit for trying to fix a decades old problem. I see nothing wrong with a plan that shows folks the proper way to gain legal citizenship status. The problem with illegal entry is altogether a different one and will need another approach. Both ends have been neglected. I'm sure we'll continue to give shelter to those who are legitimately escaping persecution and who are not, themselves, criminals trying to escape prosecution. You don't like Trump and you show lots of praise for politicians who resist him...many of whom don't like what his plans are even before they're made. This has gotten to be way too tired and, IMO, not at all constructive. You don't like Trumps ideas???. Write and tell him what you'd do differently rather than grumble about it here.

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RE:Write and tell him what you'd do differently rather than
May 18, 2019 7:20AM PDT
Write and tell him what you'd do differently rather than grumble about it here.

rather than?

Could a person do both without mentioning it here?
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Still stalking and sniping
May 18, 2019 9:30AM PDT

Such a useless hobby.

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My comment was about the civics test
May 18, 2019 8:12AM PDT

You went off into some rant about opposing the Don.

Praise for pols that resist him....can you show me that?

I'll write to the Don at the ballot box.

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As they say in Chicago,
May 18, 2019 9:30AM PDT

vote early and often.

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Yup
May 18, 2019 10:14AM PDT

I plan on voting 5/6 times and sending them all to the Don first class and special delivery.

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Civics test is nothing new
May 18, 2019 9:48AM PDT

Trump didn't invent it. It's long been in place for those desiring US citizenship. So maybe the reason you made the OP had nothing to do with opposition to Trump. I'll allow for that possibility. Maybe your only problem is with the civics exam which, if I understand correctly, consists of 10 questions and requires a score of 60%. If this is it, I don't see anything about JFK. My apology if I jumped the gun thinking this to be just another one of your frequent grumbles against the president.

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RE:don't like what his plans are even before they're made
May 18, 2019 12:53PM PDT

Why wait?

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me?

Click me

7 questions about Trump’s use of undocumented workers at his golf courses

President Trump has built much of his presidency — and his 2020 reelection campaign — around a simple message: Illegal immigration is a national crisis.

Trump says that undocumented immigrants threaten national security, and they also hurt American workers by taking jobs and lowering overall wages.

Tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate,” Trump said in his State of the Union address this year. “It is cruel.”

But, as The Washington Post has detailed this year, Trump’s company has relied in private on workers without legal immigration status even as Trump denounced such immigrants in public.

For years, and into Trump’s presidency, the president’s golf clubs employed undocumented workers as waiters, groundskeepers and housekeepers, according to the accounts of more than 35 former workers and supervisors who spoke to The Post. In doing so, Trump reaped the financial benefits of using undocumented employees — an ability to pay his employees lower wages and fewer benefits — while reaping the political benefits of attacking it.

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Trump doesn't personally hire golf workers
May 19, 2019 4:14AM PDT

No more than Sam Walton personally hired cashiers in all Walmarts. It's the managers of such who do the hiring.

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True
May 19, 2019 5:43AM PDT

Did the Don tell these managers or the person he hired to hire these managers what the rules were?

Was this an overlooked subject while he went out and ranted about it?

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Much depends on the state laws
May 19, 2019 4:41PM PDT

And who you can or not discriminate against. Also a lot of undocument workers use fake identity documents. It's one reason identity theft has become so popular of late.

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RE:It's the managers of such who do the hiring.
May 19, 2019 5:54AM PDT
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Are you saying...
May 19, 2019 4:42PM PDT

...Trump is a push over who doesn't fire people? Have fun trying to convince others, LOL.

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RE:Trump is a push over who doesn't fire people?
May 19, 2019 5:33PM PDT
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You complain both ways
May 19, 2019 6:09PM PDT

For when he doesn't fire someone and when he does. Make up your mind.

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RE: You complain both ways.
May 19, 2019 6:41PM PDT

HE doesn't fire people AND when "people/managers" are doing what HE tells them to do (even if it is breaking the law) HE goes deaf and dumb(Shultz....I see nothing, I know nothing)

It started out with me remarking that DJT had illegals working at his golf course and hotels and him not firing the managers that were responsible for hiring those individuals AND enabling them to get false papers to stay in the country...DJT was either ignorant of what was going on around him OR HE WAS aiding and abetting.

I'm going with aiding and abetting....

Either way, the only ones to suffer any consequences were the employees.

From HIS lips to THEIR ears?

NO WAY!!!!

Omarosa Manigault Newman on Monday morning released a recording of a private phone call with President Trump after her firing from the White House.

On the call, Trump says that he did not know that the former contestant on "The Apprentice" had been fired. He also suggested he was disappointed in the firing

No," Trump said. "Nobody even told me about it. You know, they run a big operation but I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that. ******* it."

"I don’t love you leaving at all," he added


HE didn't love her leaving BUT don't let the door hit you on the way out?

Time for DJT to grow a set?

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(NT) Did Harry S take the sign with him when he left?
May 19, 2019 2:30PM PDT
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(NT) Did Harry S take the sign with him when he left?
May 19, 2019 2:30PM PDT
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(NT) ... or did he trade it for a stupidphone?
May 19, 2019 2:31PM PDT
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Harry Truman
May 19, 2019 4:43PM PDT

Wanted all the "bucks" to stop with government, LOL.

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Depends on whether that company
May 18, 2019 10:56AM PDT
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If a company needs that knowledge
May 18, 2019 11:32AM PDT

They will specify it.

Don't make it mandatory to know just because some pol wants it.

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RE: ignorance of them doesn't make you innocent
May 18, 2019 1:23PM PDT
ignorance of them doesn't make you innocent of breaking them.


That's when you use Executive Privilege.

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BO would know about that
May 18, 2019 2:40PM PDT

more than anybody else, JP. He was also the expert at using EO's to break the laws that even HE said repeatedly and publicly that he couldn't do it (DACA and DAPA....the second one was struck down by SCOTUS when challenged...as were a number of his EO's often by a 9-0 vote).

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RE:more than anybody else,
May 18, 2019 7:26PM PDT

So YOU think Trump is just doing what Obama did?

And you didn't agree with Obama...so you voted for Trump?

Do you think you wasted your vote?

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Do your homework, JP
May 19, 2019 3:13AM PDT

before you speak....Trump's record of EO's has been to systematically UNDO BO's EOs and EVERY President has that ability. Trump has very few EO's that are new to his administration and IF a new President in 2024 decides he/she doesn't agree with or like them, THAT President can undo them as well. And Trump's EO's are LEGAL whereas a good many of BO's WEREN'T and were struck down by SCOTUS when challenged.

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RE:whereas a good many of BO's WEREN'T
May 19, 2019 6:02AM PDT

whereas a good many of BO's WEREN'T and were struck down

struck down?

the Supreme Court announced Thursday it was evenly divided in a case concerning President Barack Obama's controversial executive actions on immigration.

The one-sentence ruling, issued without comment or dissent, means that the programs will remain blocked from going into effect, and the issue will return to the lower court.


"evenly divided" doesn't sound like a powerful "strike".

"without dissent" doesn't sound like a powerful "strike".

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Again,do your homework, JP
May 19, 2019 11:29AM PDT

'evenly divided' indicates a TIE and ALL ties revert back to the lower court's decision until/unless it is brought back up again once the number of Justices becomes an uneven number again. The fact that it was evenly divided means that ONE decision you decided to bring up was done during BO's LAST year in office when there were only 8 Justices because the Senate wouldn't take up a vote on his nominee.

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RE: do your homework, JP
May 19, 2019 1:10PM PDT
OK...click me

Too bad DJT couldn't issue an "Executive Order" that Mexico pay for "The WALL".

Post was last edited on May 19, 2019 1:26 PM PDT

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Trump is president of US
May 19, 2019 4:46PM PDT

Not president of Mexico.