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Are people suggesting that the Republicans need to destroy the GOP in order to save it?
Because, that sounds a lot like what Tony Blair did to the Labour party in the 1990s, here in the UK!
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
Easy E wrote: Bernie won WV. His streak is impressive, but futile.
Futile or not, it is awakening more every-day people to the rigged system of delegates and superdelegates.
Especially if he ends up winning more of the popular vote than Clinton but she still becomes the nominee due to the system's failsafe against challengers to the party favorites.
jreilly89 wrote: I would argue that in this case not supporting Trumpo is the better move, as he is a very close embodiment of Hitler.
He's not a close embodiment of Hitler. He's not even really that conservative if you look at his well-documented history - he's functionally a moderate who is playing to the base in an extremely exaggerated, "no one's going to call me on my gak" manner. And why not? It's totally working, it's worked the whole campaign, because he's expertly played a media which cares about drama more than honesty.
But at the end of the day he's just clownish dude who says ridiculous gak which I don't think anyone thinks he really believes, which incidentally revealed an ugly side of the American voting public in 2016, and I think he'd probably not be a great president, but calling him Hitler is more than a little ridiculous, I'm sorry.
Are we including his pretty verbal anti-Mexican and Anti-Muslin statements? And he did suggest Muslims should be registered, so calling him similar to Hitler is not that far off.
Easy E wrote: Bernie won WV. His streak is impressive, but futile.
Futile or not, it is awakening more every-day people to the rigged system of delegates and superdelegates.
Especially if he ends up winning more of the popular vote than Clinton but she still becomes the nominee due to the system's failsafe against challengers to the party favorites.
Clinton has over 2 million more votes than Sanders at last count. And more delegates. While the DNC primaries are rigged to prevent some crazy pants takeover ala Trump, this election is not such an example. HRC may not be inspiring, but she is soundly beating Sanders.
Comparing Trump to Hitler is almost as ridiculous as the stuff Trump says. He is a grandstander with ever shifting positions and a nationalist streak. Saying that because Trump is similar to Hitler because of his nationalist rhetoric and some anti-immigrant statements is a narrow, superficial comparison at best. Trump has plenty of problems and is a terrible candidate that is easy to critique without resorting to hyperbole and Godwinesque argument.
I said *if* he does....there are a number of states left and a few favor him quite heavily.
And if you could please edit your post to quote whomever it was that was comparing Trump and Adolph, that would be swell....I certainly don't want folks assuming it was me that did it thank you kindly!
Easy E wrote: Bernie won WV. His streak is impressive, but futile.
Futile or not, it is awakening more every-day people to the rigged system of delegates and superdelegates.
Especially if he ends up winning more of the popular vote than Clinton but she still becomes the nominee due to the system's failsafe against challengers to the party favorites.
Clinton has over 2 million more votes than Sanders at last count. And more delegates. While the DNC primaries are rigged to prevent some crazy pants takeover ala Trump, this election is not such an example. HRC may not be inspiring, but she is soundly beating Sanders.
Comparing Trump to Hitler is almost as ridiculous as the stuff Trump says. He is a grandstander with ever shifting positions and a nationalist streak. Saying that because Trump is similar to Hitler because of his nationalist rhetoric and some anti-immigrant statements is a narrow, superficial comparison at best. Trump has plenty of problems and is a terrible candidate that is easy to critique without resorting to hyperbole and Godwinesque argument.
It was me, and I'll post this link for the third time, and hopefully be addressed rather than talked around.
He flat out says in interviews he'd like to see Muslims signed up on a registry and hinted at basically having Muslim areas be patrolled/watched by guards. If that's not pre-Hitler behavior, I don't know what is.
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TheMeanDM wrote: I said *if* he does....there are a number of states left and a few favor him quite heavily.
And if you could please edit your post to quote whomever it was that was comparing Trump and Adolph, that would be swell....I certainly don't want folks assuming it was me that did it thank you kindly!
It was me, and I'll post this link for the third time, and hopefully be addressed rather than talked around.
TheMeanDM wrote: SPolls are highly suspect.... in many polls in sates bernie has won, Clinton had been "polling" as leading by double-digits rather frequently.
Colorado:
Quinnipac poll projected Clinton at 55 and Sanders at 27
--Sanders took 59% of the vote
Minnesota:
Star Tribune poll had Clinton @ 59, Sanders at 25
PPP poll had Clinton at 50, Sanders at 32
- Sanders won with 61.6% of the vote
Oklahima:
Minmouth Clinton 43, Sanders 48
Sooner/News 9 Clinton 40, Sanders 31
PPP Clinton 46, Sanders 42
- Sanders win with 51.9%
Illinois:
Chicago Tribune Clunton 67, Sanders 25
PPP Clinton 60, Sanders 23
WeAskAmerica Clintin 62, Sanders 25
- Clintin won 50.5%, Sanders won 48.7%
Most famously, she led Sanders by *significant* numbers...and squeaked out about a 0.5% or so win.
So really...polls mean not very much, in my opinion.
**all poll research fiund at realclearpolitics.com
I think it'll be a lot closer than the media is painting a picture of, but sadly I think Clinton will win due to the Super Delegates, unless they all jump sides at the last moment.
TheMeanDM wrote: I said *if* he does....there are a number of states left and a few favor him quite heavily.
TheMeanDM wrote: SPolls are highly suspect.... in many polls in sates bernie has won, Clinton had been "polling" as leading by double-digits rather frequently.
(snip)
So really...polls mean not very much, in my opinion.
**all poll research fiund at realclearpolitics.com
So which remaining states is Bernie Sanders heavily favored in? What can we expect?
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Easy E wrote: Bernie won WV. His streak is impressive, but futile.
In 2008 HRC won ALL 55 WV counties...
In 2016 HRC lostALL 55 WV counties...
Also, heard on radio that almost half of the Sander voters won't vote for HRC.
That's a hella swing and ought to be a concern for team Clinton...
It may be a concern but I don't think it's a big concern. Exit polls showed that most Republican voters wouldn't vote for Trump but he's still winning primaries. Sanders supporters obviously prefer Sanders to Clinton but I doubt they would vote for Trump instead of Clinton. As long as they either vote Clinton or stay home it shouldn't stop Clinton from winning. In a battle of who has the lower negatives and appeals to the most people Trump is literally the only opposing candidate that Hillary has lower negatives than. Trump is going to have to flip some very blue states to have any chance at all and I didn't see how he can do that with high negatives and a narrow base of support.
TheMeanDM wrote: I said *if* he does....there are a number of states left and a few favor him quite heavily.
TheMeanDM wrote: SPolls are highly suspect.... in many polls in sates bernie has won, Clinton had been "polling" as leading by double-digits rather frequently.
(snip)
So really...polls mean not very much, in my opinion.
**all poll research fiund at realclearpolitics.com
So which remaining states is Bernie Sanders heavily favored in? What can we expect?
Sanders should have good showings in Oregon, Montana and New Mexico with the potential to win all 3. California might be close but I think the Clintons still have a strong support base there and Hillary should win it.
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NM is going to go squarely Clinton (Latino vote is huge there). California will likely be Clinton as well. Montana and SD are interesting in that they don't have a lot of liberals, but what they do have are pretty strongly left. The rest will Go Sanders most likely. It still doesn't matter. Unless Sanders wins upwards of 60-70% of all of the rest, he will still be behind in pledged delegates, forget about super delegates.
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Are people suggesting that the Republicans need to destroy the GOP in order to save it?
Save it from what, exactly? They own most of the political power available in the country, bad presidential nominee aside.
The Republican top brass might think that the party needs to be saved from ordinary people, the group that stubbornly refuses to vote for 'approved' candidates.
This is not unique to America, but the political elites in the West seem to resent the common people these days.
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deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
On Monday, the State Department said that it couldn’t find any emails from senior information technology staffer Bryan Pagliano from when he worked for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“The Department has searched for Mr. Pagliano’s email pst file and has not located one that cover the time period of Secretary Clinton’s tenure,” a State Department spokesman told ABC News, adding they did find emails from his time as a contractor. The latest revelation is a result of a FOIA lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee. Now if Pagliano’s name sounds familiar, that’s because earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (likely through a federal judge) reportedly granted immunity to Pagliano. He helped set-up Clinton’s privately maintained email server.
So understandably, there are a lot of questions right now about how it could be possible that the State Department could not find a single work-related email from his time with Clinton. So to figure this all out, LawNewz.com spoke with FOIA legal experts from around the country. Here’s what’s interesting, all contend that what happened is very, very unusual, and even “suspicious.”
One of most interesting comments came from Dan Metcalfe who served as the founding director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy. For decades, Metcalfe served as the federal government’s information disclosure guru. Not only does he believe that this raises suspicions, he summed up the situation with Pagliano’s missing emails this way: “the whole thing stinks to high heavens.”
The Federal Records Act requires federal employees (like Pagliano) who are leaving office to maintain certain records (which often includes emails). Every employee meets with a ‘records manager’ to ensure they are maintaining the proper records.
Here are the FOIA experts’ reactions to this latest development:
Dan Metcalfe, Founding Director, Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy (1981-2007):
“If it is true that federal records directly documenting his work no longer exist, then that is awfully coincidental, to put it most charitably — especially given the nature of his work and the role he has played in the Clinton e-mail controversy.
Indeed, it is more than ironic, given that what appear to be “missing” are e-mails.
And it certainly now raises reasonable suspicion, as it did with the Senate a few months ago, that something was very much amiss here — either with record creation or record preservation, or both.
For someone who has taken the Fifth regarding his government activity, it is more than suspicious that his agency suddenly determines that the records that you would ordinarily expect it to have maintained about his work are just not there.
Several competing conclusions are possible: 1) either these records weren’t properly created and preserved to begin with, 2) they were improperly disposed of between then and when the state department did its records search, or 3) the records search, like so many at the state department lately, was a poor one, perhaps afflicted by other considerations.
In short, the whole thing stinks to high heavens. It is difficult to imagine how anyone associated with Secretary Clinton in any way could envision getting away with something such as this.”
Anne Weismann, FOIA attorney and Executive Director at the Campaign for Accountability:
“It is pretty suspicious that there is nothing from him from that period of time. It certainly seems at the a minimum he didn’t comply with his record keeping responsibility. When he left government, he had an obligation to go through his emails, and other records – and identify records that needed to preserved. They have no emails for this person, for a long period of time, means that I don’t buy the explanation that he didn’t create any emails worthy of preservation…. He would have known how to wipe everything clean. I think it is very suspicious that his email is gone as we’ve learned through the IRS it might suddenly appear in other places.”
Mark S. Zaid, Washington, DC legal expert on FOIA:
“It’s inexplicable that these e-mails would no longer exist. This appears to be yet another example of poor record keeping policies at the Department of State. Certainly a legitimate question would be if there exists something more sinister to explain the absence, although I am not aware of any prior example of this magnitude.
There are regulations and laws in place that would dictate the maintenance of these records. I don’t know offhand, however, what the time period would be but I’m confident we’re still within it.
Beyond embarrassing for the State Department it’s particularly unfortunate that this will be used to fuel further conspiracy theories involving former Secretary Clinton’s e-mail fiasco.”
Jeez...the idea that Pagliano didn’t send or receive any emails while managing Clinton’s email services is pretty fething insulting. Now that Pags has been granted immunity and has sat down for interviews with the FBI... hopefully, we should get some gooey details once the report becomes public. At a minimum he should at least be on record saying that he did, in fact, send emails... even if he can’t remember what they were about. At that point it will be obvious that somebody at the Staes Dept is lying asses off.
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Are people suggesting that the Republicans need to destroy the GOP in order to save it?
Save it from what, exactly? They own most of the political power available in the country, bad presidential nominee aside.
The Republican top brass might think that the party needs to be saved from ordinary people, the group that stubbornly refuses to vote for 'approved' candidates.
This is not unique to America, but the political elites in the West seem to resent the common people these days.
Well they need those filthy peasants to survive, they just don't like having to listen to them.
TRANSCRIPT: President Trump’s First State of the Union Address, January 2017
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans -- tonight I look around this room and I see two types of people. My friends who want to make America great again, and the rest of you losers who were too stupid to vote for me. I mean, seriously; I won…you didn’t…and that’s why you’re down there in the loser pit because you didn’t have what it takes to be a winner like me.
Now, America is going to win because I won and I will make it happen.
So to all you losers tonight I say this: You’re fired. No, no. Stop laughing. I’m not joking. You’re fired. Go home. Take a vacation to Loser Island. I don’t need you here. America doesn’t need you here. I don’t need you to make America great again. I don’t need a bunch of losers in Congress talking about rules, and procedures, and votes, and filibusters, and closure or cloture or whatever it is you in the Senate use to avoid making decisions. All these things just get in the way. I don’t need them.
So how am I going to make America great again? Easy. I have a plan and the best people. I only hire the best people. I don’t tolerate anything but the best. I fire losers. I will take those plans and make them a reality. We are going to start winning again in so many places. It will be great. And it will be very fast. And the Congress will only get in the way and slow things down.
We’re going to win on trade and make trade great again. One of my first actions will be to fire all the CEOs who want to take their businesses to other countries. You know, capitalism and free markets are great, but they need a guiding hand like my big hands [see; they are big] to keep winning. I know business and markets and economics – just look at how much money I made by winning in business.
CARTOONS | Steve Kelley
View Cartoon
All these loser economists talk about trade wars and higher costs to consumers as the result of my policies, but they’re morons with calculators; and none of them has ever run a business before like me who’s run a bunch of highly successful businesses (aside from a few bankruptcies that weren’t my fault).
We’re also going to start winning at foreign policy again and make our foreign policy great again. A bunch of losers at the Geneva Convention tell us we have to play by their rules. Their rules! No more. No way. From now on, we’ll do whatever it takes to defeat the terrorists and anyone else who gets in my way, even if it means we have to loosen up on our morals and our laws a little bit.
And we’re going to build a wall. It’s going to be a great wall. It’s going to be so high and so long and so wide that anybody trying to climb it will die of oxygen deprivation. And Mexico is going to pay for the whole thing because I’m a great negotiator. I’ve negotiated some of the biggest deals in history – and I’ll get them to pay. And if they don’t pay we’ll sue them; and if there is one place you don’t want to mess with me, it’s in court, because I don’t settle unless my lawyers tell me to settle . . . and I never hire lawyers who tell me to settle
We’re going to make America’s national security great again by stopping the NSA, FBI and others from harassing good Americans, and instead use them to start spying on those who don’t want America to win; people like Muslims, illegal immigrants, and anybody who insults my presidency. We’re going to tap their phones, emails, text messages – whatever – and then we’re going to listen to what they say, and if I don’t like it, we’ll either sue them or send them to Guantanamo, which will once again be great!
Thank you. If you need me, I’ll be at the White House.
And, by the way, what’s with the name the “White House?” White is for losers; it’s for those who surrender, and I never surrender. White is boooooring. We will paint the “White House” gold, because gold is for winners, and I’m a winner. It will be called the “Gold House.”
And where did the name “Air Force One” come from? I mean, who came up with that? I’m not in the “Air Force.” “Trump” is for winners. So I’m going to rename the plane “Trump Force Won” because I’m a winner and I won.
The next time you hear from me, it will be to send you my budget. And you’d better approve it. Otherwise, I will hire you again just to fire you again.
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Um.....what's so ironic about it? I've been to college. As I majored in Engineering I was basically in the last bastion of neutrality on the campus. My major required me to take Fact based courses, not fell-good political indoctrination classes. I'd watch as people that can only be described as "not quite cool enough to be hippies" shouted for socialized everything. This was all 16 years ago. I'm sure it hasn't gotten better since then.
You aren't at all politically neutral, tho. I bet you have, say, gender studies or sociology or psychology or the like in mind when you talk about "feel-good political indoctrination classes" and not economics or engineering. This is aside from that about the only thing that could possibly be described as being "politically neutral" is being utterly unaware of the concept of politics itself and even then that's open to debate.
TRANSCRIPT: President Trump’s First State of the Union Address, January 2017
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans -- tonight I look around this room and I see two types of people. My friends who want to make America great again, and the rest of you losers who were too stupid to vote for me. I mean, seriously; I won…you didn’t…and that’s why you’re down there in the loser pit because you didn’t have what it takes to be a winner like me.
Now, America is going to win because I won and I will make it happen.
So to all you losers tonight I say this: You’re fired. No, no. Stop laughing. I’m not joking. You’re fired. Go home. Take a vacation to Loser Island. I don’t need you here. America doesn’t need you here. I don’t need you to make America great again. I don’t need a bunch of losers in Congress talking about rules, and procedures, and votes, and filibusters, and closure or cloture or whatever it is you in the Senate use to avoid making decisions. All these things just get in the way. I don’t need them.
So how am I going to make America great again? Easy. I have a plan and the best people. I only hire the best people. I don’t tolerate anything but the best. I fire losers. I will take those plans and make them a reality. We are going to start winning again in so many places. It will be great. And it will be very fast. And the Congress will only get in the way and slow things down.
We’re going to win on trade and make trade great again. One of my first actions will be to fire all the CEOs who want to take their businesses to other countries. You know, capitalism and free markets are great, but they need a guiding hand like my big hands [see; they are big] to keep winning. I know business and markets and economics – just look at how much money I made by winning in business.
CARTOONS | Steve Kelley
View Cartoon
All these loser economists talk about trade wars and higher costs to consumers as the result of my policies, but they’re morons with calculators; and none of them has ever run a business before like me who’s run a bunch of highly successful businesses (aside from a few bankruptcies that weren’t my fault).
We’re also going to start winning at foreign policy again and make our foreign policy great again. A bunch of losers at the Geneva Convention tell us we have to play by their rules. Their rules! No more. No way. From now on, we’ll do whatever it takes to defeat the terrorists and anyone else who gets in my way, even if it means we have to loosen up on our morals and our laws a little bit.
And we’re going to build a wall. It’s going to be a great wall. It’s going to be so high and so long and so wide that anybody trying to climb it will die of oxygen deprivation. And Mexico is going to pay for the whole thing because I’m a great negotiator. I’ve negotiated some of the biggest deals in history – and I’ll get them to pay. And if they don’t pay we’ll sue them; and if there is one place you don’t want to mess with me, it’s in court, because I don’t settle unless my lawyers tell me to settle . . . and I never hire lawyers who tell me to settle
We’re going to make America’s national security great again by stopping the NSA, FBI and others from harassing good Americans, and instead use them to start spying on those who don’t want America to win; people like Muslims, illegal immigrants, and anybody who insults my presidency. We’re going to tap their phones, emails, text messages – whatever – and then we’re going to listen to what they say, and if I don’t like it, we’ll either sue them or send them to Guantanamo, which will once again be great!
Thank you. If you need me, I’ll be at the White House.
And, by the way, what’s with the name the “White House?” White is for losers; it’s for those who surrender, and I never surrender. White is boooooring. We will paint the “White House” gold, because gold is for winners, and I’m a winner. It will be called the “Gold House.”
And where did the name “Air Force One” come from? I mean, who came up with that? I’m not in the “Air Force.” “Trump” is for winners. So I’m going to rename the plane “Trump Force Won” because I’m a winner and I won.
The next time you hear from me, it will be to send you my budget. And you’d better approve it. Otherwise, I will hire you again just to fire you again.
Ouze wrote: Those are the only Democratic primaries remaining. Some of those numbers are really old, so if you have better ones, please improve what I have.
Washington State primary is at the end of May. I just sent in my ballot. I gave Bernie my vote since there really wasn't any point to do otherwise.
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TRANSCRIPT: President Trump’s First State of the Union Address, January 2017
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans -- tonight I look around this room and I see two types of people. My friends who want to make America great again, and the rest of you losers who were too stupid to vote for me. I mean, seriously; I won…you didn’t…and that’s why you’re down there in the loser pit because you didn’t have what it takes to be a winner like me.
Now, America is going to win because I won and I will make it happen.
So to all you losers tonight I say this: You’re fired. No, no. Stop laughing. I’m not joking. You’re fired. Go home. Take a vacation to Loser Island. I don’t need you here. America doesn’t need you here. I don’t need you to make America great again. I don’t need a bunch of losers in Congress talking about rules, and procedures, and votes, and filibusters, and closure or cloture or whatever it is you in the Senate use to avoid making decisions. All these things just get in the way. I don’t need them.
So how am I going to make America great again? Easy. I have a plan and the best people. I only hire the best people. I don’t tolerate anything but the best. I fire losers. I will take those plans and make them a reality. We are going to start winning again in so many places. It will be great. And it will be very fast. And the Congress will only get in the way and slow things down.
We’re going to win on trade and make trade great again. One of my first actions will be to fire all the CEOs who want to take their businesses to other countries. You know, capitalism and free markets are great, but they need a guiding hand like my big hands [see; they are big] to keep winning. I know business and markets and economics – just look at how much money I made by winning in business.
CARTOONS | Steve Kelley
View Cartoon
All these loser economists talk about trade wars and higher costs to consumers as the result of my policies, but they’re morons with calculators; and none of them has ever run a business before like me who’s run a bunch of highly successful businesses (aside from a few bankruptcies that weren’t my fault).
We’re also going to start winning at foreign policy again and make our foreign policy great again. A bunch of losers at the Geneva Convention tell us we have to play by their rules. Their rules! No more. No way. From now on, we’ll do whatever it takes to defeat the terrorists and anyone else who gets in my way, even if it means we have to loosen up on our morals and our laws a little bit.
And we’re going to build a wall. It’s going to be a great wall. It’s going to be so high and so long and so wide that anybody trying to climb it will die of oxygen deprivation. And Mexico is going to pay for the whole thing because I’m a great negotiator. I’ve negotiated some of the biggest deals in history – and I’ll get them to pay. And if they don’t pay we’ll sue them; and if there is one place you don’t want to mess with me, it’s in court, because I don’t settle unless my lawyers tell me to settle . . . and I never hire lawyers who tell me to settle
We’re going to make America’s national security great again by stopping the NSA, FBI and others from harassing good Americans, and instead use them to start spying on those who don’t want America to win; people like Muslims, illegal immigrants, and anybody who insults my presidency. We’re going to tap their phones, emails, text messages – whatever – and then we’re going to listen to what they say, and if I don’t like it, we’ll either sue them or send them to Guantanamo, which will once again be great!
Thank you. If you need me, I’ll be at the White House.
And, by the way, what’s with the name the “White House?” White is for losers; it’s for those who surrender, and I never surrender. White is boooooring. We will paint the “White House” gold, because gold is for winners, and I’m a winner. It will be called the “Gold House.”
And where did the name “Air Force One” come from? I mean, who came up with that? I’m not in the “Air Force.” “Trump” is for winners. So I’m going to rename the plane “Trump Force Won” because I’m a winner and I won.
The next time you hear from me, it will be to send you my budget. And you’d better approve it. Otherwise, I will hire you again just to fire you again.
Holy gak. I'm dying over here
Gotta admit, I enjoyed reading that. LOLz
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Easy E wrote: Bernie won WV. His streak is impressive, but futile.
I was happy to cast my vote yesterday for the lost cause.
That said, it's really time for Sanders to exit stage left. If a Trump Presidency is as dire a prospect as he's been espousing, the very least he can do is stop going after Clinton and use his pulpit to campaign against Trump exclusively. Campaign finance reform is an incredibly important issue, but this whole "Hilary is the spokeswoman for campaign corruption" is getting pretty old
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TRANSCRIPT: President Trump’s First State of the Union Address, January 2017
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans -- tonight I look around this room and I see two types of people. My friends who want to make America great again, and the rest of you losers who were too stupid to vote for me. I mean, seriously; I won…you didn’t…and that’s why you’re down there in the loser pit because you didn’t have what it takes to be a winner like me.
Now, America is going to win because I won and I will make it happen.
So to all you losers tonight I say this: You’re fired. No, no. Stop laughing. I’m not joking. You’re fired. Go home. Take a vacation to Loser Island. I don’t need you here. America doesn’t need you here. I don’t need you to make America great again. I don’t need a bunch of losers in Congress talking about rules, and procedures, and votes, and filibusters, and closure or cloture or whatever it is you in the Senate use to avoid making decisions. All these things just get in the way. I don’t need them.
So how am I going to make America great again? Easy. I have a plan and the best people. I only hire the best people. I don’t tolerate anything but the best. I fire losers. I will take those plans and make them a reality. We are going to start winning again in so many places. It will be great. And it will be very fast. And the Congress will only get in the way and slow things down.
We’re going to win on trade and make trade great again. One of my first actions will be to fire all the CEOs who want to take their businesses to other countries. You know, capitalism and free markets are great, but they need a guiding hand like my big hands [see; they are big] to keep winning. I know business and markets and economics – just look at how much money I made by winning in business.
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All these loser economists talk about trade wars and higher costs to consumers as the result of my policies, but they’re morons with calculators; and none of them has ever run a business before like me who’s run a bunch of highly successful businesses (aside from a few bankruptcies that weren’t my fault).
We’re also going to start winning at foreign policy again and make our foreign policy great again. A bunch of losers at the Geneva Convention tell us we have to play by their rules. Their rules! No more. No way. From now on, we’ll do whatever it takes to defeat the terrorists and anyone else who gets in my way, even if it means we have to loosen up on our morals and our laws a little bit.
And we’re going to build a wall. It’s going to be a great wall. It’s going to be so high and so long and so wide that anybody trying to climb it will die of oxygen deprivation. And Mexico is going to pay for the whole thing because I’m a great negotiator. I’ve negotiated some of the biggest deals in history – and I’ll get them to pay. And if they don’t pay we’ll sue them; and if there is one place you don’t want to mess with me, it’s in court, because I don’t settle unless my lawyers tell me to settle . . . and I never hire lawyers who tell me to settle
We’re going to make America’s national security great again by stopping the NSA, FBI and others from harassing good Americans, and instead use them to start spying on those who don’t want America to win; people like Muslims, illegal immigrants, and anybody who insults my presidency. We’re going to tap their phones, emails, text messages – whatever – and then we’re going to listen to what they say, and if I don’t like it, we’ll either sue them or send them to Guantanamo, which will once again be great!
Thank you. If you need me, I’ll be at the White House.
And, by the way, what’s with the name the “White House?” White is for losers; it’s for those who surrender, and I never surrender. White is boooooring. We will paint the “White House” gold, because gold is for winners, and I’m a winner. It will be called the “Gold House.”
And where did the name “Air Force One” come from? I mean, who came up with that? I’m not in the “Air Force.” “Trump” is for winners. So I’m going to rename the plane “Trump Force Won” because I’m a winner and I won.
The next time you hear from me, it will be to send you my budget. And you’d better approve it. Otherwise, I will hire you again just to fire you again.
Holy gak. I'm dying over here
Gotta admit, I enjoyed reading that. LOLz
How many here wish that happens though
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Thats what terrifies me. I never realized there was a contingent of the population that thinks life is a gameshow.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Frazzled wrote: Thats what terrifies me. I never realized there was a contingent of the population that thinks life is a gameshow.
The silent majority though that watches game shows are racists and bigots though. I'm pretty sure I'm not oozing racist aura here or that I am a bigot. I just hate career politicians and Trump makes me laugh
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thank you kindly!
