The Trump Presidency, Season 2

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He may have spilled the beans on Epstein. That hardly makes him an informant, especially if the FBI threatened to go after him if he didn't talk.
More like the FBI was sent after him (Epstein) because he threatened to talk.
 

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There are informants who feel compelled to "turn state's evidence" due to their own sense of duty or sense of ethical obligation. And then there are informants who are trying to protect their own ass or stay out of jail or other legal consequence. I don't want Trump to be flagged as the former.
Yes, there are multiple avenues for becoming an informant. But you don't get to categorically deny the use of that term simply because you don't like the potential ambiguity of it.
 
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To nobody's great surprise

Trump Mobile delays plan to launch gold-coloured smartphone this year (Evernote link because FT £wall)




Trump Mobile, the phone company launched by the Trump Organization, has delayed plans to ship its gold-coloured smartphone by the end of this year. It marks the latest setback for the project, which had originally promised to offer a US-made smartphone this year costing $499 to compete with mainstream devices from Apple and Samsung but has subsequently scaled back its ambitions. Trump Mobile’s customer service team told the Financial Times that the recent US government shutdown had delayed deliveries of the phone. It added there was a “strong possibility” the device would not be shipped this month.
 

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Remember, if ONE DOLLAR of welfare money is abused, that is grounds to just abandon all poor people by Right wing logic.

The right has also just been 100% blatantly racist about this whole thing.
 

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I am at the point of not knowing whether to cackle hysterically or cry hysterically at the continuous ineptitude of the 4th Reich.

South Park writer buys 'Trump Kennedy Center' domain name

Perhaps your reactions can provide some guidance.

Also, if someone could remind me why I quit drinking .......
 

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Blood is thinner than water.
 
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Don't get your hopes up, this is a parody:

Spurious News: Trump: "I take twelve nitroglycerin pills a day"

PALM BEACH, FLA (Spurious News Network) -- King Donald Trump claims no one has ever been as healthy as he is. Some of his recent statements seem to put that in dispute.

While giving a speech to students at the Navy's Corry Station base in Pensacola, Fla., he told the students, "there's this new drug out there now called nitro...nitrogly...nitroglycerin. It's the greatest drug that's ever been made. I take twelve a day and I've never felt better, not that I felt bad before."

"TWELVE?" screamed Jennifer DiMarco, MD, professor of cardiovascular surgery at Harvard Medical School. "Nitro is a weird drug in that you don't take it at all unless you feel an angina attack coming on. If you pop it routinely it won't really do anything for you. I'm not saying this is absolute, but if Trump needs to take twelve nitro pills a day he's having twelve heart attacks a day. The Secret Service needs to rent the forklift they'll use to move Trump's casket around now because they'll need it really soon."

"There's another problem," said Jean'ne Shreeve, Ph.D., a professor of chemistry specializing in explosives at the University of Idaho. "Under most conditions nitroglycerin as a drug is completely safe to handle because it's been stabilized by mixing it with other things that can't explode. Alfred Nobel did this when he invented dynamite by mixing nitro with diatomaceous earth and stuffing it into empty paper towel rolls. This is an unusual situation: because he's taking so much nitro and your body extracts the explosive from the filler, if he keeps taking as much as he says he is he'll explode when someone bumps into him. You've seen the video on YouTube of the Oregon highway department trying to blow up a whale carcass that washed ashore back in the 1970s, and flying chunks of whale meat took out several cars. It'll be like that, just not as much fun."

Administration spokesmen confirmed to Spurious News Network that precautions are being taken to ensure the safety of the public. "We have calculated President Trump's blast radius and are taking steps to ensure no one enters the danger zone."
 

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he's taking so much nitro and your body extracts the explosive from the filler, if he keeps taking as much as he says he is he'll explode when someone bumps into him.
My brain instantly went straight to this scene from Top Secret: