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Trump

Aug 4, 2017 8:41PM PDT

Does this guy have a grip on reality?

He takes credit for stuff he had nothing to do with.

He makes up stuff and when the media points out it's tripe he has a fit on twitter.

What's scary is a lot of people believe him.

I feel sorry for this guy Kelly, I wonder how long he'll last.

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I feel sorry for people
Aug 5, 2017 1:43AM PDT

who are beset by criticisms coming from people who don't even know them but adopt the opinions of other people who make a career out criticizing others. There are many people we know only by their media created persona yet we make sweeping judgments without empirical evidence to support much of anything. How sad that is.

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RE:criticisms coming from people who don't even know them
Aug 5, 2017 3:24AM PDT

"know them"?...

In the Biblical sense? OR know them by their actions, OR know them by reports of their actions?

judgments without empirical evidence

I notice TheRUMP isn't complaining that the leaks are "fake news"...He's complaining about 'leaks".

In your world there would be NO criticism and also NO accolades?

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The word from the pundits,
Aug 5, 2017 5:55AM PDT

out of WH leaks I believe, is that he will establish some kind of control over Trump's thumbs.
Anyway, he has his Federal retirement guaranteed and needed no retreat rights. Even if [especially if] he's fired, book deals, speaking engagements and a corner office in the private sector await.
The kid will be OK.

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makes stuff up..........If you're looking for classic
Aug 5, 2017 7:31AM PDT

fiction, look no further than.........

Obama, the Clintons, the DNC, Wasserman-Schultz, Jackson, Schumer, Pelosi, Comey, Rice, Powell, legal council of the FBI, Brennan, Clapper, Rhodes, et al, and the liberal media daily onslaught that covers Trump's Twitters but nothing regarding the ongoing and growing larger scandals regarding all things Democrat.........

I've noticed that there hasn't been even one comment or post about any of the above here in SE and, as usual, it is mostly ignored and considered to be non-existent by the liberal media.

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Fiction?
Aug 5, 2017 7:43AM PDT

Did you hear about the BLM group claiming a black man was lynched in Minnesota? All was going their way, plenty getting upset about a hanging man in the park, till his WHITE sister came on TV with the police to assure them it truly WAS a suicide and "oh the by..." her brother was white. Can that group show any more stupidity? Yes, I expect they will.

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RE:Did you hear about the BLM group claiming
Aug 5, 2017 12:55PM PDT
Did you hear about the BLM group claiming a black man was lynched in Minnesota?

WHY would they think someone is "black"?......Poor lighting? I heard the body was discovered in the early morning...6am?

Wrong about 'lynching" and wrong about "ethnicity"?

People should do a DNA test before making claims?

I'm more interested in knowing why the person that committed suicide felt the need to tie his hands....

Doesn't the government bind the persons hands that is being executed by hanging? (Government sponsored lynching?)...

What's up with that?...they think the person will try and get free?
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are you suggesting....
Aug 5, 2017 4:45PM PDT

....that BLM did it for a "two-fer" ?

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RE:nothing regarding the ongoing and growing larger scandals
Aug 5, 2017 12:58PM PDT
nothing regarding the ongoing and growing larger scandals regarding all things Democrat.........

That's YOUR responsibility...

I see you're back at work....

The buck stops with the previous administration?
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sounds more like...
Aug 5, 2017 7:45AM PDT

....the last administration. Missing one ingredient though and that's all the criminals.

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RE: sounds more like.......the last administration.
Aug 5, 2017 1:20PM PDT

AND...Trump supporters voted for/thought they were getting "change"?

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I guess you haven't been keeping
Aug 5, 2017 4:34PM PDT

track of all the changes he's already implemented that have been good for workers, jobs, the economy, etc. But then again, the liberal news media isn't talking about any of it....you'd have to go to Breitbart's website, other conservative websites, listen to conservative radio talk shows like Rush, or watch a conservative news channel to get that info. I suspect you would rather pull out all of your fingernails with pliers though......

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RE: But then again, the liberal news media isn't talking
Aug 5, 2017 7:42PM PDT
But then again, the liberal news media isn't talking about any of it

Is CNN "liberal news media"?

President Donald Trump was so excited by the good news in Friday's jobs report that he jumped the gun to tweet about it, violating a federal rule that requires an hour between when a report is released, and when federal officials can comment on the numbers.
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See what I mean? "Rule" vs "Law"
Aug 6, 2017 3:00AM PDT

and it's headlines because it's Trump.........and, yes, CNN IS liberal news media....AND they 'colluded' with the DNC (proven FACT) for Clinton and got caught at it, but that hasn't stopped them. Why do you think they were called the "Clinton News Network"? But I guess when "RULES" are being broken by liberals, it's OK, right?

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RE: it's headlines because it's Trump.
Aug 6, 2017 3:39AM PDT

AND TheRUMP doesn't like being in the headlines/attention? Think of all the "followers".

It's "headlines" because someone didn't follow the "rules".

First people disregard "the rules", then they disregard "the law"

YOU don't like the fact that CNN reported that TheRUMP didn't follow the "rules"...don't watch CNN.

Dispute the facts of the story........ NOT the reporter/source.....

That's why I don't watch raving loonies like Of key significance, he explained, is Jones's ex-wife's courtroom claim that her former husband is "not a stable person," and that his public rants each week are clear evidence of that. In response, Jones's lawyer countered that his on-air persona was "performance art," and said that that judging him as a father based on his public persona would be like judging Jack Nicholson's parenting skills on his role as the Joker in the movie "Batman." A claim Jones then, bizarrely, went on to dispute, filming a series of videos before his court appearances last week, in which he appeared to be undermining his lawyer's argument by insisting that his on-air persona is real.

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CNN broke the 'rules' when
Aug 6, 2017 5:50AM PDT

they colluded with the DNC chairwoman (who was also a 'contributor' to CNN) by giving hilLIARy the questions for a debate to undermine Sanders (she lied about it on at least three talk shows until she finally admitted it after the election was over and hilLIARy lost) and ignored everything negative or pooh-poohed it that was coming out about hilLIARy and, as has been shown this week during the press conference, when people like Acosta openly came out with a personal liberal agenda that CNN has been pushing for years during his public beat down by Stephen Miller. As a 'journalist', the 'rules' used to be that you stayed neutral and actually report the news....no matter WHAT party bad news points towards. Editorials are different, but news stories in the liberal media have literally for years now have become openly liberal and pushing those agendas so anything negative that comes up with regarding to the Dem party, have been either given only a few seconds of airtime or ignored altogether......'move along, nothing to see here' is now the norm.

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A candidate had to be
Aug 6, 2017 6:08AM PDT

given the questions that were going to be asked?

DUH!!!!!

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Do you believe what you just asked?
Aug 6, 2017 7:49AM PDT

As far as I know, NO candidate is EVER supposed to get the questions for a debate given ahead of time.

An INTERVIEW, one on one, is different.....People in politics are generally given a list of questions that would be asked by a 'journalist' ahead of time so they can review and discard any they don't wish to respond to in order to prepare for the interview because it is usually slotted for a specific amount of time as well. I'm not talking about a four or five minute slot as a 'guest' shot....I'm talking about a well planned out actual one on one interview that isn't a 'presser' where questions are asked by various news media. Take for example, the BO interview that O'Reilly did before the Superbowl a few years back......those questions are prepared and okayed ahead of time by the WH and BO knew how and what he wished to respond to. If (and he was notorious for it) he had fifteen minutes slotted, he would spend ten of them eating up the clock answering ONE or TWO questions knowing the last question was one he would never have to answer. He also did that with 'pressers'.

A candidate running for office is NOT supposed to know what questions were going to be asked by the mediator........but CNN and the DNC didn't follow those 'rules' for hilLIARy. Other news outlets deliberately softened their questions to her compared to ones they asked Sanders or Trump during debates.

So Trump jumped the gun on the 'rules' and announced a great jobs report number that was coming out anyhow a few hours later.....how does that compare with 'rules' being broken in order to 'fix the outcome' of an election?

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When a person knows they are going to a "debate"
Aug 6, 2017 7:24PM PDT

Hopefully they KNOW what the debate is going to be about.....Boilerplate questions receive boilerplate answers.....DUH!!!!!

It's not like they were going to have a gotcha moment and ask questions on time travel OR computer science at the "debate".


Boilerplate.....Boilerplate is a standard language template of any kind, that can be reused without greatly changing the original.

Perhaps you could give an example of the question that she was forewarned of that upsets you most...the ONE that she would never have expected at the debate.

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Are you having a hard time
Aug 7, 2017 2:36AM PDT
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Aug 7, 2017 2:58AM PDT

As I have asked of YOU

Perhaps you could give an example of the question that she was forewarned of that upsets you most...the ONE that she would never have expected at the debate.

YOU pick ONE question....post it here....YOU PICK...I'll discuss....

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I gave you two....is that too many for
Aug 7, 2017 5:41AM PDT

your mind to wrap around? ONE of those two questions was about Flint water and was not only GIVEN to her ahead of time, but the heads up to hilLIARy also included what the woman would be WEARING who would be ASKING it. You can't get much more blatant than that when you are the 'chosen one' with the DNC and battling a real contender for that job. The 'fix' was in right from the start and poor Sanders was proven correct that it was rigged against him. BUT the DNC allowed him to run on the Dem ticket rather than as the Independent Socialist he's always run on before because they needed to make it appear that hilLIARy wasn't a 'shoo-in' and that she actually had competition....little did they know that she actually DID have competition and from a Socialist to boot so they had to manipulate and cheat to beat him.

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RE:ONE of those two questions was about Flint water and was
Aug 7, 2017 6:33AM PDT
ONE of those two questions was about Flint water and was not only GIVEN to her ahead of time, but the heads up to hilLIARy also included what the woman would be WEARING who would be ASKING it.

AND here is Hillary's position on Flint...MONTHS BEFORE THE DEBATE

Clinton has made Flint a focus of her campaign since early January and her aides say she wanted to visit Flint earlier this year, but was concerned that the horde of journalists, Secret Service agents and aides that come with her would overwhelm the city's already strapped resources.
Clinton, instead, dispatched her top political aide, Amanda Renteria, to visit Flint and meet with Mayor Karen Weaver in January. Weaver, at the time, invited Clinton to visit the city and later endorsed Clinton's presidential campaign.


Earlier this week in New Hampshire, Clinton charged that Gov. Rick Snyder and the state's government "allowed children in Flint to drink poison water just to save a buck, as if their lives weren't worth even that much."


So Hillary would be "prepared" for that question, no need to be forewarned....she had already made her feelings known....

Perhaps they told her what the woman would be wearing is so that Hillary didn't wear the same outfit?
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So, she couldn't make it to Flint
Aug 7, 2017 9:58AM PDT

because she was afraid she would 'inconvenience' people with her presence? And therefore, she had to get the DNC and CNN to cheat for the debate against Sanders......why? Because she was afraid she wouldn't get a question about Flint? Her 'feelings' about 8 MONTHS earlier doesn't matter, does it? Considering that she changed her mind about so many of her earlier positions over time?

Get real about the clothing issue, JP........even YOU don't believe what you suggested but it's a way for you to babble nonsense again when you have no REAL response to give.

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RE:rather pull out all of your fingernails
Aug 5, 2017 8:19PM PDT