I thought it was Kim Jong-Il with the mythic golfing prowess.
I think all dictators tend to excel at their chosen sport. Golf, judo, etc.
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No, Jong-Il, like Trump are excellent gymnasts, you should see what they can do on the pommel horse.
(my apologies to anyone that will be eating in the next few hours, though I may have a new diet to suggest).
Pfft. How many 300 games has he bowled?
Now it’s being announced Trump’s pick for Navy Secretary is withdrawing his nomination, the second military pick to do so after the Army Secretary nominee earlier.
CNN is pointing out that news outlets reported a week ago the Navy guy was going to do this, prompting Sean Spicer to accuse everyone of more fake news.
She is the living example of
“Beware what you ask for, you might get it”.
What happened to States Rights? :dubious:
Those are only for discriminating against undesirables and promoting a state-sponsored religion.
That’s what I thought. Kinda like the way at one time, States Rights were used expressly for supporting slavery, or Jim Crow laws.
Just more of the right’s hypocrisy. Personally, I’m a huge advocate of state sovereignty and states’ rights, even though I know many states are going to make horrible, even evil, choices and decisions (I’m looking at you North Carolina). The right pretends to support states’ rights, but has no compunctions about trampling all over them when the state supports something other than the right’s agenda. At least the left (generally) doesn’t lie about trampling all over states’ rights. Everyone knows the left is going to do it. It really is mind-boggling how supporters of the right apologize or even not notice when their side does it (and they do it as often as the left does), but cry bloody murder when the left does it. I guess simply saying “we are for states’ rights” is enough; no need to actually act in that manner.
“I have always been a friend of states’ rights and a foe of states’ wrongs.” - Benjamin Butler
Granted the quote is ~150 years old and may not have been recorded accurately, but I believe it goes “I was always a friend of southern rights but an enemy of southern wrongs.”
Off the top of my head–I don’t think any of the states that have legalized recreational weed went for Trump in the election. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
There was Seward’s Folly, but they barely count.
Could that be proof that marijuana improves cognitive thinking?
Donald Trump: “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,”
That one is pretty rich. I sure hope the Democrats successfully land the message that the Republicans own this lock, stock and barrel. The President and both houses of Congress have run on this for 8 years, and they need to get it right or die on this hill.
IMHO it is not a coincidence that the threat of going after marijuana in those states is because they did legalize it. The threats are made with the understanding that a lot of the money from Marijuana regulation and sales is going to those states and does wonders to their balanced budgets.
Can not have the people from conservative states like Kansas with busted budgets wonder if they are being left behind and should consider solutions like that.
There is also, I think, the issue that it is very likely that people involved in Marijuana production and sales do give more money to liberal causes. So, it is just as what Nixon and henchmen realized in the 60’s.
What is going on is more evidence for what I pointed out years ago in the SDMB: The people arrested for drug offenses that do not involve the use of deadly force are our political prisoners.
Sure, nobody knew; at least, none of those in mindless opposition, who voted to repeal it 40 times and never gave a thought to how to fix or replace it. Yup, nobody. Sooo complicated.
Now, the hundreds of policy wonks in the Clinton and Obama administrations who actually studied the issue: they might have had a clue as to the complexity of the issue; but Donald probably didn’t include them.