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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Trump the mad genius!

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Oh, the mad genius of Donald Trump!

On the cusp of one of the biggest victories of his administration, cracking down on illegal aliens who commit vicious crimes inside our country, President Trump took to Twitter.

“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”

The only thing missing from this electronic presidential address was the Marine Band playing “Hail to the Chief.”

She was bleeding badly. Face-lift. Low I.Q. Psycho Joe.

It is all so delicious. Mercilessly inventive. Joyously vicious. Like an entire season of pro wrestling drama, all sewn up into two little Twitter messages.

Complete article, good read

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Originally posted by BMR:

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Trump the mad genius!

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Oh, the mad genius of Donald Trump!

On the cusp of one of the biggest victories of his administration, cracking down on illegal aliens who commit vicious crimes inside our country, President Trump took to Twitter.

“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”

The only thing missing from this electronic presidential address was the Marine Band playing “Hail to the Chief.”

She was bleeding badly. Face-lift. Low I.Q. Psycho Joe.

It is all so delicious. Mercilessly inventive. Joyously vicious. Like an entire season of pro wrestling drama, all sewn up into two little Twitter messages.

Complete article, good read

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by egregore:
Sorry if this is a distraction.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

Did you used to work at Two Cows or something?

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/kowtow?s=t

Actually, "cow" can be used to mean intimidate:


cow.
[kou]

VERB
cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation:

"the intellectuals had been cowed into silence"

synonyms
intimidate · daunt · browbeat · bully · tyrannize · scare · terrorize · frighten · dishearten · unnerve · subdue · psych out · bulldoze

The pharase "cow two" probably was intended to be "kowtow to" but that implies they had been cowed into it.

flashguy

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Originally posted by parabellum:
"They’re stupid as shit"

tsk, tsk, tsk

I tell ya, that mouth will get you in trouble.

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
rope-a-dope, do-si-do - watch the magic hand tweeting while the other is about to dope slap them again. Would be interested to hear from the Forum cognoscenti as to their thoughts on steel tariffs. As one of the deplorable base, I'm all for putting the smack down on Chinese steel dumping. Make Pittsburgh gray again!

Trump plots trade war



With the political world distracted by President Trump's media wars, one of the most consequential and contentious internal debates of his presidency unfolded during a tense meeting Monday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, administration sources tell Jonathan Swan and me.

The outcome, with a potentially profound effect on U.S. economic and foreign policy, will be decided in coming days.

With more than 20 top officials present, including Trump and Vice President Pence, the president and a small band of America First advisers made it clear they're hell-bent on imposing tariffs — potentially in the 20% range — on steel.

The penalties could eventually extend to other imports. Among those that may be considered: aluminum, semiconductors, paper, and appliances like washing machines.

One official estimated the sentiment in the room as 22-3 — but since one of the three is named Donald Trump, it was case closed.

No final decision has been made, but the President is leaning toward imposing tariffs, despite opposition from nearly all his Cabinet.

In a plan pushed by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and backed by chief strategist Steve Bannon (not present at the meeting), trade policy director Peter Navarro and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, the United States would impose tariffs on China and other big exporters of steel. Neither Mike Pence nor Jared Kushner weighed in either way.

Everyone else in the room, more than 75% of those present, were adamantly opposed, arguing it was bad economics and bad global politics. At one point, Trump was told his almost entire cabinet thought this was a bad idea. But everyone left the room believing the country is headed toward a major trade confrontation.

The reason, we're told: Trump's base — which drives more and more decisions, as his popularity sinks — likes the idea, and will love the fight.
The problem, according to top officials who argued strenuously that the move is ill-advised: The trade war wouldn't just affect China. The collateral damage would include a slew of allies, including Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Watch for: Trump was warned — and White House officials anticipate — that an affected industry like automakers is likely to seek a court injunction within hours of any tariffs on steel.

https://www.axios.com/axios-am-2450643147.html

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Originally posted by Tubetone:
From the files of it’s not very presidential . . .

“The trouble with Hooker is that he’s got his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.” Pres. Abraham Lincoln about General Hooker

“His ambition, his restlessness, and all his grandiose schemes come, I’m convinced, from a superabundance of secretions which he couldn’t find enough whores to absorb.” Pres. John Adams about Alexander Hamilton

“I have only two regrets. I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.” Pres. Andrew Jackson

“A blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous, hermaphroditic character with neither the force or fitness of a man, nor the gentleness or sensibility of a woman .” Pres. Thomas Jefferson about John Adams (See this but I haven't vetted all the quotes.)

Yet, somehow our country survived.

Bleeding from a facelift may be TMI but Presidents have not always been verbal tea totalers.

I am often reminded of how I would say to myself, “Oh, I wouldn’t have said that.” But, then I remember that in our overly-political correct times, President Trump’s rhetoric left him standing apart from all others to be elected.

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If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!

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Trump names former FEC member to voter fraud probe

President Trump on Thursday named a former member of the Federal Election Commission to his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.

Hans von Spakovsky, a member of the FEC nominated by former President George W. Bush, will join the presidential commission to investigate instances of voter fraud during the 2016 presidential election.

Spakovsky, who runs the Election Law Reform Initiative at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation, was the only appointee who was named but not described in a White House press release Thursday night.

Spakovsky is also a former Justice Department official and a top critic of Eric Holder, a former attorney general in the Obama administration. In 2014, he wrote a book titled "Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department."

He is quoted on Heritage's website in support of voter ID laws, calling the measures "vital" for upholding election integrity.

“In an era of razor-thin election margins, these issues are vital to the preservation of our republican form of government and the rule of law,” Spakovsky says on the website.

Von Spakovsky has been an ardent proponent of toughening voting laws for years, asserting the potential for massive voter fraud. But his push has drawn significant criticism from Democrats over the years, who have accused him of pushing measures that restrict voting rights.
He received a recess appointment to the FEC in 2006 but ultimately withdrew from the formal nominating process in 2008 amid vocal opposition from Democrats.

Trump established the voter fraud commission after making unsubstantiated claims that "millions" of illegal voters took part in the presidential election. The White House set up the group in May by executive order.

When The Hill reached out to the Trump transition team in November to ask for information backing up Trump's claim that he would have "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," a transition official sent The Hill a document that cited Von Spakovsky's research, among others.

On Wednesday, Vice President Pence, who chairs the committee, held the first organizational call and announced the commission's first meeting in July.

"The integrity of the vote is a foundation of our democracy," Pence said Wednesday, according to a White House press release. "This bipartisan commission will review ways to strengthen that integrity in order to protect and preserve the principle of one person, one vote."

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Originally posted by Ackks:

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If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!

Exactly!