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So, what do you think?

Sep 18, 2017 12:18PM PDT
POTUS re-tweeting a video of him whacking a golf ball and knocking Hillary over?

Funny?

Not funny?

Not funny AND childish(for POTUS)?

I'm going with..... not funny AND childish (for POTUS).

I've pretty well given up on "the man"...perhaps there is something salvageable when it comes to the office he holds.

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But in the meantime, JP
Sep 22, 2017 2:40PM PDT

his ban is IN EFFECT because of the decision they made in June.....because they recognize that the law is on his side giving him the authority to issue the ban in the first place.

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So you're saying it's NOT
Sep 22, 2017 7:30PM PDT

done and dusted...just as I said.

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NT - It's Hilarious
Sep 18, 2017 1:12PM PDT

Humor in politics is a long tradition.

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Think
Sep 18, 2017 3:31PM PDT

I suppose it's funny.
Not my idea of what a prez should do.
Trump makes up his own rules on the fly so expect anything.
I'm the boss I can do what I want.

As for the U.N. I suspect those folks as well as the US congress have accepted that Trump is in love with Trump.

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He doesn't have the attitude of
Sep 19, 2017 3:16AM PDT

"I'm the boss and can do what I want" as you make him out to be, Bob.......the REAL boss with that attitude was BO as he put the screws to every single American citizen almost on a daily basis. Trump is just undoing the damage little by little in a very public way.

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BO
Sep 19, 2017 4:34AM PDT

That's your grudge list coming out again.
BO is not the prez.

BO did a lot of things on his own because repubs took the position of ''if BO wants it the answer is NO.''

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Trump hasn't done anything on his own, Bob
Sep 19, 2017 5:51AM PDT

He's removed the EO's that BO put into place on HIS own....everything else has been going back to Congress to determine and vote on.

The Republicans didn't stop BO from doing anything he wanted to do because he never bothered to go to Congress to get anything passed. Anything the Republicans passed in the House when they had the majority got stopped by REID from ever coming to a vote in the Senate. Or have you conveniently forgotten that, conveniently?

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BO
Sep 19, 2017 6:35AM PDT

BO's EO's where because repubs had taken a position of just say NO.
Are EO's a way to run a country?.....NO
Should one party or the other take a position of just say no?......NO
Congress has become so divided that there is no way to talk to the other side.
I don't agree with what Reid did but I suspect it was to shield BO from having to veto things.

Repubs want to have another healthcare vote.
Sit back and watch the action

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Reid shielded BO
Sep 19, 2017 12:30PM PDT

from having to veto bills? Of course....it's the democratic way (meaning 'democracy in action' not the party of Dems). Since the Dems still controlled the Senate during BO's last four years, there was real terror in that house that other Dems would break rank and vote with Republicans on various bills, pitting BO against his own party by having to veto them....and looking like the singlemost party of NO in history on his record and as a legacy. Good grief, Bob........where in hell WERE you that you hadn't been able to figure out the name of THAT game? EO's were the ONLY way BO could do anything because he couldn't trust his own Senate Dems to keep voting for his destructive agenda, and he knew it. HE divided the country with his actions and aggressive takeover of the system that always worked before he showed up....and Schumer and Pelosi are reaping the illgotten benefits now. They've demonized half of America for so long now that even the Dreamers are screaming at Pelosi now for even hinting at cutting deals with Trump. Did the Dems really believe they could keep their garbage lies going forever?

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As I said
Sep 19, 2017 1:50PM PDT

EO's are not the way to run a country.
Let bills come up for a vote and let the chips fall as they may.

Washington politics is just a big game.

You still have your anti BO grudge list going.
BO is not the prez.

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BO isn't the prez.......
Sep 20, 2017 4:02AM PDT

and yet you didn't complain about his end runs repeatedly around Congress and your statement: Let bills come up for a vote and let the chips fall as they may.

He was afraid of letting that happen......Trump is NOT.

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End runs
Sep 20, 2017 4:23AM PDT

BO had NO choice.
The repubs had already said if BO wants it the answer is NO.
So BO had to go with EO's.

So far the only bill to come up turned out to be a flop.
Let's see what happens next.

BO is not the prez, put your grudge list away.

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BO ran with HIS choice....
Sep 20, 2017 6:12AM PDT

Harry Reid blocking votes on ANYTHING the Republicans had passed in the House. BO NEVER had any intention of working with Republicans and he made that clear AND PUBLIC during his one and only CSPAN meeting (he had said that ALL of his meetings would be aired on CSPAN, but that one turned into such a hate fest in PUBLIC about how he felt about the Republicans who dared to challenge his opinion, even to the point of giving him FACTS and NUMBERS, that he stopped airing those meetings, AND he stopped meeting with Republicans altogether.

Republicans could NOT stop BO because the votes in the Senate weren't there to do so, Bob........

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The more you post, Bob, the
Sep 20, 2017 6:12AM PDT

more YOUR grudge against Republicans show up.

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Grudge
Sep 20, 2017 6:28AM PDT

I don't have a grudge against either party.
I watch what they do today.
I don't bring up stuff from years ago and crab about it.
It's over/done/it's in the past.
You just can't let it go.

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Intelligent, informed people
Sep 20, 2017 2:18PM PDT

HAVE to bring up the past/history or we will continue repeating failing policies, Bob. Especially when you have the PAST administration out there publicly condemning what the CURRENT administration is doing because he is UNDOING all of their stupid destructive stuff.

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Grudge
Sep 20, 2017 2:32PM PDT

You did not like past policies so you keep dragging them out and crabbing about them.

Let this admin do what they want and we will see where that gets us.

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I hope it drains the swamp
Sep 20, 2017 2:40PM PDT

The last time we had a president who accomplished that was Andrew Jackson. I hope Trump is the next one to do it.

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RE: I hope it drains the swamp
Sep 21, 2017 2:55AM PDT

I think the drain will get plugged up with clumps of TheRUMPs blonde hair.

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Nope, it will
Sep 21, 2017 2:46PM PDT

get clogged up with the vomit that comes out of Schumer and Pelosi's throats, along with others......

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Whack a mole concept
Sep 19, 2017 3:11AM PDT

Did you think it was funny AND childish when BO 'dropped the mic' as he stated during the presidential race towards Trump "at least I WAS president" on a late night show?

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RE:Did you think it was funny when he dropped the mic?
Sep 19, 2017 3:38AM PDT
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BO made fun of Trump on
Sep 19, 2017 5:57AM PDT

numerous occasions, not just at the correspondence dinner LONG before Trump ever even considered running for President, JP. You have the 'drop the mic' incident mixed up with the Jimmy Fallon show during the campaign itself years later.

BUT....you believe it's ok for President BO to make fun of and mock a RUNNING candidate, but it's NOT ok for President TRUMP to mock a LOSING one?

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RE: You have the 'drop the mic' incident mixed up
Sep 19, 2017 8:30AM PDT
You have the 'drop the mic' incident mixed up with the Jimmy Fallon show during the campaign itself years later.

For the final time, President Barack Obama delivered one-liners and laughs at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, lampooning himself, Congress, and his upcoming status as a lame duck.

Obama did not spare Hillary Clinton. He began by apologizing for a delay in a quip that turned on the former Secretary of State.

"I know I was a little late tonight," Obama said in his opening remarks. “I was running on CPT — which stands for jokes that white people should not make.”

The joke referred to a recent gaffe made by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Hillary Clinton who spoke about "C.P. time," a racially insensitive term that stands for "colored people's time."


Mixed up? OR he did it more than once...BUT only at venues that were meant for "entertainment"?...Correspondents Dinner?


Is this what YOU were referring to..AGAIN at a "correspondents Dinner"?

In the spring of 2011, Trump showed up to the famed dinner as a potential Republican presidential candidate furiously pushing the conspiracy that Obama was born outside the United States. Trump reportedly left humiliated after a string of stinging jokes mocking his hair, his taste, his reality television show, and his fixation on the "birther" movement.

Birther?...TheRUMP doesn't want to talk about THAT.......
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Again....the drop the mic episode did NOT happen at that
Sep 19, 2017 12:35PM PDT

dinner.......

What you are talking about happened four YEARS before Trump announced he would run....that dinner shtick just p.o.d. him enough to actually make plans to do it and he won. AND he admitted that BO was born in Hawaii........Get over it.

So back to the topic at hand......you wanted to know what we thought about Trump making fun of the LIAR who is no longer a candidate........what did YOU think about BO AS PRESIDENT AT THE TIME making fun of Trump every chance he got publicly while Trump was actually a candidate?

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RE:tAgain....the drop the mic episode did NOT happen
Sep 19, 2017 1:45PM PDT

Again....the drop the mic episode did NOT happen at that dinner......

So I provide a link showing HE "dropped the mic at a dinner'

And YOU say it didn't happen "at THAT dinner".

It happened at the "dinner" he had with Jimmy Fallon?

Trump sought to end his longstanding attempt to discredit the nation's first African-American president with just a few sentences tacked on at the end as he unveiled his new hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.

So back to the topic at hand....

the topic at hand?....TheRUMP whacking a golf ball at Hillary?

RE:what did YOU think about BO AS PRESIDENT AT THE TIME making fun of Trump every chance he got publicly while Trump was actually a candidate.

Here's MY advice for TheRUMP...Don't want to be made fun of/insulted/rubbed the wrong way?

Stay away from Correspondent's Dinner and ALL roasts....

RE:What you are talking about happened four YEARS before Trump announced he would run

He wasn't going to run...then he was going to run....

Remember Pat Paulsen?

If nominated I will not run...If elected I will not serve.

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Jimmy Kimmel...not Fallon
Sep 20, 2017 4:07AM PDT
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RE:plenty more instances of BO insulting Trump
Sep 20, 2017 1:55PM PDT
plenty more instances of BO insulting Trump before he took the Oval Office

At the Correspondents Dinners? Don't want be made fun of? Stay outta' those places?

While on late night shows?

How long before TheRUMP goes on a late night comedy (not FOX) show?
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The Correspondence Dinner
Sep 20, 2017 2:20PM PDT

was FOUR YEARS before Trump announced he was running, JP.....good grief.

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Time is Relative
Sep 20, 2017 2:42PM PDT

...when you live in Canada. In fact, it's so boring, you have to look South to relieve the boredom.