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LordMortis wrote:If this is what criticism catches the eye, it feels like we're in for long road to and through 2020.

YellowKing wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:03 pm I guess we should all be thankful he didn't just trot out fried chicken and watermelon.

geezer wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:10 pm

YellowKing wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:03 pm I guess we should all be thankful he didn't just trot out fried chicken and watermelon.

That's 'cuz Trump ordered from "Burger King," not "Steve King."

geezer wrote:That's 'cuz Trump ordered from "Burger King," not "Steve King."

LordMortis wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:42 pm

Remus West wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:14 pm 19-22 year olds playing at that level are just as likely to be on a very strict diet. Hell, the girls I coach that are 15 or 16 watch what they eat and avoid fast food as much as possible and their athletic future doesn't involve a possible million dollar pay day.

I don't doubt it. I also don't doubt that a portion of the team (and likely most of the staff) like their strict diet. I still think the gesture is nice and memorable in isolation and appeals to youth more than a fancy dinner does right up until (I paid).

If this is what criticism catches the eye, it feels like we're in for long road to and through 2020. *shrug*

LordMortis wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:42 pm

Remus West wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:14 pm 19-22 year olds playing at that level are just as likely to be on a very strict diet. Hell, the girls I coach that are 15 or 16 watch what they eat and avoid fast food as much as possible and their athletic future doesn't involve a possible million dollar pay day.

I don't doubt it. I also don't doubt that a portion of the team (and likely most of the staff) like their strict diet. I still think the gesture is nice and memorable in isolation and appeals to youth more than a fancy dinner does right up until (I paid).

If this is what criticism catches the eye, it feels like we're in for long road to and through 2020. *shrug*

Remus West wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:44 pm

LordMortis wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:42 pm

Remus West wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:14 pm 19-22 year olds playing at that level are just as likely to be on a very strict diet. Hell, the girls I coach that are 15 or 16 watch what they eat and avoid fast food as much as possible and their athletic future doesn't involve a possible million dollar pay day.

I don't doubt it. I also don't doubt that a portion of the team (and likely most of the staff) like their strict diet. I still think the gesture is nice and memorable in isolation and appeals to youth more than a fancy dinner does right up until (I paid).

If this is what criticism catches the eye, it feels like we're in for long road to and through 2020. *shrug*

Don't get me wrong, on the list of things wrong with this administration this is a tiny line on the last page of War and Peace. Its just embarassing to have them fed fast food in the wrappers. If he wanted to make it burgers then feed them burgers but fast food is just ugh.

Fake Quote wrote:President Trump got all our favorite foods, it was the best meal we ever had. Then we go and see the coastal elite media trashing it for not being organic vegan. We're football players, not bloggers. This was a perfect blue collar party.

Last April, telecom giant T-Mobile announced a megadeal: a $26 billion merger with rival Sprint, which would more than double T-Mobile’s value and give it a huge new chunk of the cellphone market.

But for T-Mobile, one hurdle remained: Its deal needed approval from the Trump administration.

The next day, in Washington, staffers at the Trump International Hotel were handed a list of incoming “VIP Arrivals.” That day’s list included nine of T-Mobile’s top executives — including its chief operating officer, chief technology officer, chief strategy officer, chief financial officer and its outspoken celebrity chief executive, John Legere.

They were scheduled to stay between one and three days. But it was not their last visit.

Instead, T-Mobile executives have returned to President Trump’s hotel repeatedly since then, according to eyewitnesses and hotel documents obtained by The Washington Post.

By mid-June, seven weeks after the announcement of the merger, hotel records indicated that one T-Mobile executive was making his 10th visit to the hotel. Legere appears to have made at least four visits to the Trump hotel, walking the lobby in his T-Mobile gear.

LawBeefaroni wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:02 am

Fake Quote wrote:President Trump got all our favorite foods, it was the best meal we ever had. Then we go and see the coastal elite media trashing it for not being organic vegan. We're football players, not bloggers. This was a perfect blue collar party.

malchior wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:51 pm Hear that? It is the drumbeat for impeachment starting to become louder.

I'm with Pelosi - impeachment without conviction is pointless. Worse it could make him stronger unifying his party behind him. Something has to happen to crack GOP support first.

Skinypupy wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:58 pm

malchior wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:51 pm Hear that? It is the drumbeat for impeachment starting to become louder.

I'm with Pelosi - impeachment without conviction is pointless. Worse it could make him stronger unifying his party behind him. Something has to happen to crack GOP support first.

Why would a story like that in The Atlantic move the needle at all? Everyone with a brain already agrees, and the MAGA's will view it the same as we would a Fox News headline.

malchior wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:51 pm Hear that? It is the drumbeat for impeachment starting to become louder.

I'm with Pelosi - impeachment without conviction is pointless. Worse it could make him stronger unifying his party behind him. Something has to happen to crack GOP support first.

milo wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:57 pm

malchior wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:51 pm Hear that? It is the drumbeat for impeachment starting to become louder.

I'm with Pelosi - impeachment without conviction is pointless. Worse it could make him stronger unifying his party behind him. Something has to happen to crack GOP support first.

The linked essay addresses this point and lists a number of benefits to the impeachment process whether or not it results in conviction. Can you explain why you disagree? Given that none of the three impeachment cases (Johnson, Nixon, Clinton) in our history have resulted in presidential removal by the senate, do you think those impeachments were equally pointless?

Kraken wrote:(edit) Well, he does make a persuasive argument that the process of impeachment is at least as important as its ultimate outcome. If it would constrain Trump's anti-democratic actions, then it's hard to argue against doing it.

Kraken wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 7:26 pm I don't agree that the House should act before Mueller reports,

Remus West wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:39 am The only way I support impeachment is if they are damned certain conviction comes with it because having the Democrtaic House impeach only to have the Republican Senate find him not guilty merely reaffirms how much the Republicans are willing to protect him (and I'd say they are willing to do nearly anything) and he is thus untouchable while they control the Senate. Give him that proof and our nation may very well end on that day.

Zarathud wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:14 am Congress needs to do this right. The evidence is starting to pile up, but there is at best only one shot at impeachment.

The more Trumpster fires burn, the more likely enough Republicans might put country first. If only to save themselves.

Kraken wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:57 pm it could take years to draft those articles of impeachment

. . . by means whereof the said Andrew Johnson Donald Trump has brought the high office of the President of the United States into contempt, ridicule and disgrace, to the great scandal of all good citizens, whereby said Andrew Johnson Donald Trump, President of the United States, did commit, and was then and there guilty of a high misdemeanor in office.

Chris Christie actually wrote:By this point in the presidential campaign, I’d become a semi-permanent fixture on the 26th floor of Trump Tower. The Secret Service agents didn’t bother me anymore. I didn’t have to check in with Donald’s executive assistant, Rhona Graff, or anyone else. On this particular morning, I walked past the receptionist —“Hello.” I nodded good morning to everyone, and I breezed into the main office.

“Hi, Chris. What’s up today?” Donald said without looking up as I dropped into one of the chairs in front of his desk.

“I’m doing the transition stuff,” I said.

“Oh, come on,” he said with a sigh, finally glancing up at me and scrunching his face a little. “I hate that stuff. It’s bad karma, Chris. You know that.”

I just smiled. “I know, Donald,” I assured him. “But you gotta do it.”

“I know, I know,” he admitted. “Let’s get Corey in here, and let’s finish this up.”

He called to Rhona, who summoned the campaign manager. Half a minute later, Corey Lewandowski walked in. Corey and I had talked about my chairing the transition, and we were on the same page. He handed me a draft of a news release announcing my appointment.

“Is this OK with you, Governor?” Corey asked as he sat in the chair next to mine.

I gave the release a quick glance. “Looks fine to me,” I said. Then Corey handed the paper to Donald, who picked up a black Sharpie, made a couple of minor edits and handed the sheet back to me. “I’m really happy you are doing this for me,” he said. “And I think it’s going to be good for you, too.”

“Yeah,” I answered cheerfully. “I think it will be good for both of us.”

The meeting was over. Our business was finished. Or so I thought. Actually, the meeting had hardly begun.

Without fanfare or even notice, the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women made significant changes to its definition of domestic violence in April. The Obama-era definition was expansive, vetted by experts including the National Center for Victims of Crime and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The Trump administration’s definition is substantially more limited and less informed, effectively denying the experiences of victims of abuse by attempting to cast domestic violence as an exclusively criminal concern.

The previous definition included critical components of the phenomenon that experts recognize as domestic abuse—a pattern of deliberate behavior, the dynamics of power and control, and behaviors that encompass physical or sexual violence as well as forms of emotional, economic, or psychological abuse. But in the Trump Justice Department, only harms that constitute a felony or misdemeanor crime may be called domestic violence. So, for example, a woman whose partner isolates her from her family and friends, monitors her every move, belittles and berates her, or denies her access to money to support herself and her children is not a victim of domestic violence in the eyes of Trump’s Department of Justice. This makes no sense for an office charged with funding and implementing solutions to the problem of domestic violence rather than merely prosecuting individual abusers.

President Trump on Tuesday said he directed White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to stop holding regular briefings, citing unfair treatment by the news media.

“The reason Sarah Sanders does not go to the ‘podium’ much anymore is that the press covers her so rudely & inaccurately, in particular certain members of the press,” Trump tweeted. “I told her not to bother, the word gets out anyway!”

stessier wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:25 pmShe was holding regular briefings?