That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://garbi.online/forum/
Honestly, Rip.... You didn't even get the joke, did ya?Rip wrote:Strawman of a strawman. Nice.
Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) left the meeting worried about Trump’s grasp on the basics of the Constitution. At a lunch with reporters afterward, he recalled that the candidate did not seem to know what he was promising to defend.
“I wasn’t particularly impressed,” said Sanford. “It was the normal stream of consciousness that’s long on hyperbole and short on facts. At one point, somebody asked about Article I powers: What will you do to protect them? I think his response was, ‘I want to protect Article I, Article II, Article XII,’ going down the list. There is no Article XII.”
Trump said at the meeting that he has yet to attack Flake hard but threatened to begin doing so. Flake stood up to Trump by urging him to stop attacking Mexicans. Trump predicted that Flake would lose his reelection, at which point Flake informed Trump that he was not on the ballot this year, the sources said.
Asked in a Senate hallway later about his exchange with Trump, Flake declined to elaborate.
“No, I’ll just leave it,” he told reporters, adding “my position remains, I want to support the nominee. I really do. I just can’t support him given the things that he’s said.”
Which I'm ashamed to admit we own.hepcat wrote:People aren't voting for him for his smarts, man! They're voting for him because they saw him on TV...and he had a board game named after him.
The Washington Post reported that when the Arizona Republican stood up and introduced himself, Trump said, "You've been very critical of me."
"Yes, I'm the other senator from Arizona — the one who didn't get captured — and I want to talk to you about statements like that," Flake responded, two Republican officials told the Post.
Flake was referring to Trump's comments from roughly one year ago when he questioned whether Sen. John McCain of Arizona was a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War. Trump said he preferred people who weren't captured.
Can you make it to the next Octocon with it?tgb wrote:Which I'm ashamed to admit we own.hepcat wrote:People aren't voting for him for his smarts, man! They're voting for him because they saw him on TV...and he had a board game named after him.
Will Rip be there?hepcat wrote:Can you make it to the next Octocon with it?tgb wrote:Which I'm ashamed to admit we own.hepcat wrote:People aren't voting for him for his smarts, man! They're voting for him because they saw him on TV...and he had a board game named after him.
The SPICE must flow...Zarathud wrote:I'm pretty sure my family's copy was destroyed when a pipe burst over the games closet--a month after I rescued my copy of Avalon Hill's Dune.
We've invited him numerous times, but he always declines because he says the smell of liberal filth in that room must be overwhelming.tgb wrote:Will Rip be there?hepcat wrote:Can you make it to the next Octocon with it?tgb wrote:Which I'm ashamed to admit we own.hepcat wrote:People aren't voting for him for his smarts, man! They're voting for him because they saw him on TV...and he had a board game named after him.
And don't overlook that this was Trump attempting to improve relations and reassure his allies.
The verification process for this strikes me as extraordinarily awkward.YellowKing wrote:If Trump chooses Newt Gingrich for VP, my stepdad is going to have a permanent hard-on from now through November.
But it will be a beautiful Trumptopia, the best, most fantastic Trumptopia we've ever had!Rip wrote:Newt would be perfect IMHO.
Throw in Bolton for Secretary of State and we are halfway to Trumptopia.
Roose or Ramsay?Rip wrote:Newt would be perfect IMHO.
Throw in Bolton for Secretary of State and we are halfway to Trumptopia.
Holman wrote:Roose or Ramsay?Rip wrote:Newt would be perfect IMHO.
Throw in Bolton for Secretary of State and we are halfway to Trumptopia.
Then again, maybe he has plans for expansion, beautiful wonderful plans."I wasn't particularly impressed," Sanford told reporters after Thursday's meeting at an event. "I think it was the normal stream of consciousness that's long on hyperbole and short on facts. At one point there was mentioned -- somebody asked about, you know, Article I powers and what would you do to protect them and you know, I think his response was 'I want to protect Article I, Article II, Article XII -- go down the list.' As we both know there is no Article XII."
Trump's answer came in response to a question from a House Republican about whether Trump as president would defend the prerogatives of Congress that are laid out in Article I of the Constitution. The issue is highly important to lawmakers who are frustrated by the powers of the presidency, which are defined in Article II of the Constitution but that have expanded in recent years by the increased use of executive authority.
There are a total of just seven articles to the Constitution although there are many more amendments to the founding document, which could be what Trump was referring to accidentally.
When Trump made his comments "a number of people looked around at each other at that point with a little bit of a quizzical or curious eye," Sanford told CNN Friday.
Wait! Isn't that one of the ones The Donald loves???hepcat wrote:Can we get Obama to run again and just toss out that pesky 22nd Amendment? Please?
hepcat wrote:No, you're thinking of the 43rd Amendment.
There is no evidence whatsoever that anyone has called for a "moment of silence" for the killer (or at least no one involved with these protests). But notice the main point, which is how he's characterizing the BLM protests as support for the Dallas shooter. It's revolting.Donald Trump wrote:“The other night you had 11 cities potentially in a blow-up stage. Marches all over the United States—and tough marches. Anger. Hatred. Hatred! Started by a maniac! And some people ask for a moment of silence for him. For the killer!”
I'm not sure whether I was more amused by:El Guapo wrote:Just a reminder that Donald Trump's campaign is still a garbage fire.
or alarmed by:n other garbage-fire news, the Trump campaign continues to barely exist. Sam Stein and Elise Foley attempted to contact the Trump campaign in all 50 states:
A few of the state operations had no websites or no numbers listed. Many of the other numbers didn’t work. When we left voicemails, we didn’t get callbacks.
On only six occasions did someone actually answer the phone. And in several of those instances, the person who picked up explained that a physical office would be opened up only after the convention.
Crazy times we live in.Also, Breitbart News reports that “Bikers for Trump” will patrol the streets in Cleveland during the Republican convention. “Bikers for Trump aren’t going to Cleveland looking to cause trouble,” the right-wing site assures readers, “but will be on hand to counter thousands of professional leftwing agitators planning to disrupt the Republican nominating convention.” So relax — there’s no way a riled-up paramilitary gathering of rabid bikers could react in any way that reinforces middle America's concerns about the Republican nominee.
