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True, but it does become grating after awhile. She has some truly strong proposals, but we talk about Pocahontas instead. This is a perfect example of the media giving Trumpism its oxygen when they should be starving it instead.

 

You know, I know this is nowhere near Maria's power, its just a storm, but I'm having an anxiety attack. When I say we still have post-Maria PTSD its no joke.

SEND THE NUKES NOW DONNIE! SAVE US!

 

Of course it isn't a joke. I'm sorry that you all have to suffer. I walked through the ash of 9-11 so I have an inkling. Hoping you stay safe and it all works out.

 

I read the whole thing. I don’t see how it was an attempt to kill Warren’s candidacy.

Look at the title.

That is a weak title, and it may very well be true.

Look at the first line.

This is trying to kill Warren’s candidacy?

This is absolutely correct analysis. Guaranteed this happens if she goes up against Trump.

I agree, or at least that’s what he’ll try. It’s hard to say if it will succeed.

It is a fact that the Native American controversy did damage her campaign, and that she hasn’t reached moderates.

What I find dubious is the idea that moderates really care all that much about the Pocahontas thing...yet. I think her relatively progressive views are the biggest reason why she doesn’t receive support from moderates.

Moderates like things like pragmatism, realistic goals, and incremental change. So the best way for Warren to reach them may be to keep hammering that she has a realistic, working plan for everything she proposes, and to show that there is substance to her catchphrase. Or the best thing for her may simply be for Biden to drop out. Biden’s supporters may support Warren if the choice is between Warren and “crazy Bernie”, or Warren and Trump.

 

Take a spin down I-40 from Benson to Wilmington and you'll really smell the effects of pork.

 

The walmarts by my house are already out of every water except Dasani. MIL says Miami is already out of gas. Was told by my new employer im an emergency responder since i work for the county...drug testing people? Idk man this state is crazy.

Granted I'm in florida. Hope you guys over in PR are ok.

Time to summon the national thread guess.

 

I bet, whatever happens here, Trump will say we already got enough money, no more for us. And he still clings to that 92 billion in aid received when it is nowhere close to that.

Congress has approved 42 billion or so in aid, and still today, almost 2 years after the event, we have received less than 20 billion.

 

I actually laughed out loud at her reaction:

https://www.newsweek.com/angela-mer...german-blood-visit-g7-ancestry-family-1456256

 

Trump almost played the President in "Sharknado 3," where they apparently nuke a hurricane.
He decided to actually run for President instead, so Mark Cuban played President, making Trump "furious."
Coincidence?

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-almost-played-president-sharknado-3-2017-8

 

Officially it might be for "border enforcement". But with Trump and his lackeys grabbing money from any and everywhere they can to build the wall Trump promised Mexico would pay for, who knows. I've never been sure if his supporters actually believed that or didn't care as long as they got to insult liberals. Maybe they'll put the money back if a Republican state gets hit by a hurricane.

The Washington Post had an update on the border wall-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...b80018-c821-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

That line sums it up. He also wants it to be pointy on top and painted black (and painting it will cost extra money). And Trump wants the wall money to go to one certain North Dakota company. Sources say Trump wants them to really rush it and that he'll pardon them for any laws they break. Another source says he's "joking" but we know what Trump's sense of humor is like. Well, seeing something so stupid in progress is kind of funny. Well, its either laugh or cry at how ridiculous this situation is.

 

All I have to say is.....Alabama.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/alabama-republicans-urging-rep-ilhan-001655560.html

WASHINGTON – Alabama's Republican Party is calling for its congressional delegation to have Rep. Ilhan Omar, a freshman lawmaker, prominent progressive and one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to Congress, removed from the House of Representatives.

A resolution calling for the launch of expulsion proceedings got the stamp of approval from the state's Republican party at a retreat over the weekend in Auburn, according to AL.com. The resolution cites a number of comments Omar has made about terrorists and Israel that sparked controversy throughout the last several months, including remarks that were denounced by even some Democrats as playing into anti-Semitic tropes.

 

"The president's ancestors were from the village of Kallstadt in the west of Germany. His grandfather Friedrich—later Frederick—came to the U.S. in 1885 and made his fortune during the Yukon gold rush in Alaska. He became rich by establishing a series of hotels that also served as brothels."

So abusing woman is in his blood.....makes sense

 

This to me shows how people underestimate Warren. She doesn’t need to call Trump a liar. Saying Trump is a liar is saying water is wet, grass is green, and the sky is blue. People know these facts. Those who pretend they don’t are not suddenly going to be shocked out of their stupor by Warren. Instead, she has focused in on the human cost of his policies- the financial ruin he has laid on farmers, the cruelty of his immigration plan, the dangerous game of chicken he has played with the economy and the heartless treatment of children. There is more than enough for her to go after then Trump’s lies. Far more. And she’s continued to focus on that. And that is why she is rising. She is making that connection with the very voters Hillary struggled with. And she is reaching them based on her plans and her humanity. Trump has neither and that is going to be what does him in.

 

Probably not, but who would enforce it, especially given the appeals courts just dismissed the Emoulents Clause suit by Maryland and D.C. for lack of standing?

 

Corruption has been normalized at a staggering rate.

 

The Teapot Dome Scandal and Watergate were the most serious Presidential scandals for Harding and Nixon.

For Trump, it's just another Tuesday.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ligarchs-co-signed-trumps-deutsche-bank-loans

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell says he has a source who told him Russian oligarchs signed off loans given to President Trump by Deutsche Bank.

"This single source close to Deutsche Bank has told me that the Trump — Donald Trump's loan documents there show that he has co-signers. That's how he was able to obtain those loans. And that the co-signers are Russian oligarchs," he said.

A shocked Maddow replied, "What? Really?"

"That would explain, it seems to me, every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin, if true, and I stress the 'if true' part of this," O'Donnell added.

 

I want that investigated, YRoomate.

 

Hillary Clinton taking a brave position.

 

Clinton: We should not nuke hurricanes.
Trump:

 

I appreciate Wilson's point. For anyone who glances at his Twitter feed with any sort of regularity you'll know he's both a Floridian and a Republican who hates Donald Trump with a white hot passion. But Trump's MO in these situations is well established. Florida is the richest bounty of swing states and he'd never win Puerto Rico in a hundred years of dedicated campaigning. FEMA would find the funds one way or another should a hurricane wreak havoc there. Puerto Rico would have to get by on old paper towels and hope.

 

Dude just send the nukes and get rid of us brown people you hate so much.