Just don’t invest with borrowed money. For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Back on-topic (FTR, haven’t been to Buffalo in 50 years, so no opinion of it).
Regarding Trump’s comments after his meeting with Putin, Senator McCain (acting in his role of Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, issued a statement: https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=E613ABF3-C784-447B-BC59-D8FCC1A734F8
Really, that’s about as close to punching someone in the face verbally as you can get. Interested to see if Trump tweets anything when he reads that.
We seriously need a Like button.
Some pretty cool pushback against President That Guy’s administration has come in the form of a shadow U.S. delegation has emerged at the conference of representatives from cities, states, universities, and advocacy groups that are committed to reassuring the rest of the world that most of the country is against Trump’s derailing of progress on environmental protection. at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn recently.
The alternative alliance, which seeks to speak on behalf of U.S. cities, states, businesses, and other institutions, represents the equivalent of an economy larger than Japan and Germany combined.
“It is important for the world to know, the American government may have pulled out of the Paris agreement, but the American people are committed to its goals, and there is nothing Washington can do to stop us,” [Micheal]Bloomberg said, according to the Associated Press.
[Jerry]Brown added: “In the United States, we have a federal system, and states have real power as do cities. And when cities and states combine together, and then join with powerful corporations, that’s how we get stuff done.”
And meanwhile, just to show’em that they’re not gonna get pushed around, President Alltime Fuckin The Shitz’s friends are down in Texas for their counter-climate-something-or-other:
Trump administration energy and environmental officials chose to snub the U.N. climate summit to attend a conference hosted by climate change deniers in Houston, TX. That includes Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who sent a video welcome to attendees of the America First Energy Conference, hosted by the Heartland Institute.
Speakers at the Houston event include a former ExxonMobil executive now advising the State Department on energy, a person who helped stack the EPA with climate change deniers, and a Department of Interior official who backs energy development on public lands, among others, Frontline reported.
:smack:
Russia denies that Trump and Putin talked about Russian meddling in the election.
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not discuss alleged election meddling on Saturday, despite Trump saying they did, according to Putin’s office.“No,” Putin’s press secr…
And i fully expect the tangerine nightmare to walk back his statements, for fear of jeopardizing that awesome chemistry they have.
Locrian
November 12, 2017, 5:44am
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In Russia, meddling gets you!
Well, of course they deny it. “Vat is these CCCP letters you deesribe? Ve have nyet knowledge of…”
AI_Proofreader:
Wow, you came back after 4 years to bitch about Buffalo a second time.
That’s some serious commitment to hating a city. I mean, I don’t like St. Louis, but I wouldn’t spend 4 years proselytizing about how everyone should hate St Louis on random message boards.
Maybe he thinks the thread is for ALL clusterfucks; and Buffalo qualifies as a clusterfuck, so…
…all right, I got nothing.
Siam_Sam
November 12, 2017, 8:12am
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Maybe he’ll tell us in four years. It’s like that joke with the monastic order who has only one member, a different one each time, say something once a year.
Could it be because the nation was buffaloed by a New-Yorker?
Gyrate
November 12, 2017, 10:40am
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This whole thing of Trump saying he keeps asking Putin about this is so ridiculous. I’m pretty sure he never has. But apparently Trump thinks that people will believe that Putin would tell the truth so he keeps throwing it out there. He’s such a fucking moron.
Alessan
November 12, 2017, 12:45pm
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It’s not about belief, it’s about dominance. Putin has Trump say that not because he expects anyone to believe in, but because it makes Trump look like Putin’s bitch.
In the authoritarian mind, facts are a matter of fealty. You say the words you’re expected to say not because you actually think they’re true, but rather to show your loyalty. Some sad souls even end up believing their own lies.
Like this?Trump distances himself from remarks on Putin over election meddling
…At a news conference in Vietnam, Trump distanced himself from remarks he made on Saturday in which he suggested he believed Putin when he said there had been no Russian meddling in the election that took him to the White House.
The comments had drawn criticism at home because U.S. intelligence agencies have long since concluded there was Russian meddling.
“As to whether I believe it or not, I’m with our agencies, especially as currently constituted,” Trump said at a news conference with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang.
“As currently led, by fine people, I believe very much in our intelligence agencies.”
He was careful to make clear he sided with the intelligence agencies under his own leadership…
:smack:
Smapti
November 12, 2017, 1:54pm
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He might consider our intelligence specialists to be “fine people”, but then again, he considers Nazis to be “very fine people”.
The_Stainless_Steel_Rat:
Back on-topic (FTR, haven’t been to Buffalo in 50 years, so no opinion of it).
Regarding Trump’s comments after his meeting with Putin, Senator McCain (acting in his role of Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, issued a statement: https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=E613ABF3-C784-447B-BC59-D8FCC1A734F8
Really, that’s about as close to punching someone in the face verbally as you can get. Interested to see if Trump tweets anything when he reads that.
So the guy who picked Sarah Palin to be his veep thinks Trump is unfit to be President.
He’s not thinking with his dick when he looks at Trump.
RickJay
November 12, 2017, 5:48pm
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Sarah Palin would be a terrible President. She would also be closer in Presidential quality to the likes of Lincoln and FDR than she would be to Donald Trump.
Uncle_Jocko:
I saw this when I was at the gym Wednesday morning. All the other morning news shows are talking about the elections the night before and the Democratic gains; Fox had a bunch of Trump voters on to talk about the anniversary of his “historic” victory.
What exactly was “historic” about it? We’ve had Presidents elected while losing the popular vote before, that’s not it. While Trump replaced a black man in the White House, the other 43 Presidents were all white men, so nothing historic about that. Hmm … perhaps the first white-supremacist Nazi-sympathizer President? That’s pretty damn “historic,” although I don’t think that’s what Fox News meant.
Fox News has gone even further down the Trump-cheerleader/GOP-apologist rabbit hole than I ever thought possible. And there’s still a significant number of Americans who get their news there and don’t trust anyone else. To have a good number of voters actually using Fox News propaganda to tell them who to hate, who to be afraid of, and who to vote against … that’s pretty damn scary.
We went from a Black president to an orange one ! That is historic but not in a good way.