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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    You might be right. Problem is, Trump’s monstrous ego won’t allow him to quit, and his appetite for power has him longing for another term, perhaps more if he could only subvert the Constitutional rule that only allows him to serve two terms. Trump wants to be president for life like his buddies Kim and Putin, if he can find a way to make it happen, he will.
    Exactly, and my fear, with the GOP standing for him in fear of being wiped out in the next election, is that it might already be too late. that he will cheat the next election and break the constitution. What will you do then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    You might be right. Problem is, Trump’s monstrous ego won’t allow him to quit, and his appetite for power has him longing for another term, perhaps more if he could only subvert the Constitutional rule that only allows him to serve two terms. Trump wants to be president for life like his buddies Kim and Putin, if he can find a way to make it happen, he will.
    I still think his goal is to lose so he can spend the rest of his life claiming to be the "real" president. But then I thought that in 2016 too, so what to I know...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Trump retweets Jerry Falwell Jr. suggesting his term should be extended by two years



    Yeah, right. Two years in prison seems more fitting for Trump.
    If we go by Falwell jr's logic then they owe Bill Clinton some time too since Whitewater didn't turn up anything. But they went outside the scope of that with the Monica affair. And maybe extend Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointment too since they wasted her time with Benghazi investigations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iron Maiden View Post
    If we go by Falwell jr's logic then they owe Bill Clinton some time too since Whitewater didn't turn up anything. But they went outside the scope of that with the Monica affair. And maybe extend Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointment too since they wasted her time with Benghazi investigations.
    How many years were wasted with dismantling the ACA? Obama has about another term and a half coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    You might be right. Problem is, Trump’s monstrous ego won’t allow him to quit, and his appetite for power has him longing for another term, perhaps more if he could only subvert the Constitutional rule that only allows him to serve two terms. Trump wants to be president for life like his buddies Kim and Putin, if he can find a way to make it happen, he will.
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    I still think his goal is to lose so he can spend the rest of his life claiming to be the "real" president. But then I thought that in 2016 too, so what to I know...
    I think he's desperate. Trump knows that there are state attorney generals with sealed indictments against him and his family so that they can't get away with crimes by citing the statute of limitations, and those indictments being announced... that's on the backburner for him to be out of office so he can't pardon anyone, or avoid indictment himself. If he's not the president, it begins the "gonna die in prison" chapter of his life. Assuming that another Republican president doesn't take pity on him and pardon him, like Ford did for Nixon (nobody likes Trump enough to do that).
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    U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier And Bombers To Send ‘Unmistakable Message’ To Iran

    National security advisor John Bolton said the deployments were in response to “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran. It goes without saying Congress should demand Johnny Warhawk give a full explanation as to just what's going on with Iran.

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    Boeing Delayed Telling FAA Warning Light Was Shut Off On Many 737 Max Planes

    Two of the company’s planes have crashed in recent months, killing everyone on board. Ladies and gentlemen, start your lawyers! Lawsuits from families who lost loved ones in those crashes will be flying fast and furiously.

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    Donald Trump Says Robert Mueller ‘Should Not Testify’ Before Congress

    The president said last week that he would let Attorney General William Barr decide the matter. So, what changed Dolt45's mind? Antsy over what Mueller might say? Meanwhile....

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    Omarosa Accuses Trump Administration Of Destroying Boxes Of Evidence For Mueller

    The ex-Trump aide says upon her firing, she was told to leave boxes of documents that should’ve been given to the special counsel. It's hard to take anything Dragon Lady Omarosa says seriously, but if this story is true, then it's damn troubling.

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    Joe Biden Gives Trump A Nickname Of His Own: ‘Clown’

    “There’s so many nicknames I’m inclined to give this guy,” the former vice president and 2020 Democratic contender said Saturday. My suggestion----DON'T! There's no reason to sink to Trump's childish level of insulting people like a grade schooler.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Joe Biden Gives Trump A Nickname Of His Own: ‘Clown’

    “There’s so many nicknames I’m inclined to give this guy,” the former vice president and 2020 Democratic contender said Saturday. My suggestion----DON'T! There's no reason to sink to Trump's childish level of insulting people like a grade schooler.
    What was John Stewart's moniker for Trump? Baron F***face von Clownstick?

    Leave it to the pros, Joe. They do just fine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    What was John Stewart's moniker for Trump? Baron F***face von Clownstick?

    Leave it to the pros, Joe. They do just fine.
    Hell, even rank amateurs all over the Internet do better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    What was John Stewart's moniker for Trump? Baron F***face von Clownstick?

    Leave it to the pros, Joe. They do just fine.
    He could have at least thrown "Cookie The..." in front of it. While I'm not usually one to take pokes at people based on their looks, the trip from the guy in question to Cookie is about a stumble and a fall.

    Never mind that the whole joke about wanting to lead the Grand March is right there.

    Finally, got to agree on that there is no reason to get stupid just because Trump's go to is "Stupid".

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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
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    Omarosa Accuses Trump Administration Of Destroying Boxes Of Evidence For Mueller

    The ex-Trump aide says upon her firing, she was told to leave boxes of documents that should’ve been given to the special counsel. It's hard to take anything Dragon Lady Omarosa says seriously, but if this story is true, then it's damn troubling.

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    One thing that I couldn't help but think when I heard about that assertion.

    She was obviously taping what was going on, but there isn't so much as a picture of these documents? Never mind that it's kind of hard to believe that this bit is the one thing that the investigation would have failed to turn up.

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    It was on this date in 2015 that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” had a profile of Bobby Franklin, a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives who in 2008, he wrote an opinion editorial in the Georgia Journal where he said President George H.W. Bush was “worshipping pagan Gods”, and that we didn’t has much to fear from Obama bin Laden as we did “God’s coming wrath”. Over the course of a month in late 2010 and early 2011, Franklin was pushing for a law to require taxpayers in Georgia to pay their state taxes in gold or silver coins, only and then campaigned for Georgians’ rights to erect 40-foot-tall walls around their houses, and f attempting to resolve Georgia’s metaphysical issues, by proposed the “Freedom of Choice and Security Act” which sought to legally define the nature of evil within Georgia. He would still go on to argue against the issuing of Driver’s Licenses in Georgia, trying to use the Magna Carta as his justification, and used the Book of Corinthians as his argument to try to prevent the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” from being enacted. On women’s rights, Franklin sought to change the legal definition of the “victim” in a rape or sexual assault to the “accuser”, and to charge the accuser with the cost of the trial if the defendant was found not guilty (because that would TOTALLY encourage victims to come forward). Franklin also submitted a bill that would criminalize miscarriages if it could not be proven that the mother did nothing to be part of the cause, and the punishment for not carrying a child to term successfully would be… THE DEATH PENALTY. Which is pretty terrible when you consider one in four pregnancies result in a miscarriage, and now, 25% of pregnant women, already devastated that the baby they were hoping for was not to be, would also be the subject of a police investigation with their own life in the balance. For whatever reason in March 2011, he criticized the United States for establishing a “No Fly Zone” in Libya to aid its rebels in overthrowing Qaddafi in a bizarre way because he apparently sympathized with the dictator’s regime, and compared it to our own country’s tolerance of abortion. Bobby Franklin died of a heart attack suddenly in July of 2011.



    In 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented profiles of Richard “Dickie” Bell, a Republican representing District 20 of the Virginia State Assembly since 2009, when he was appointed to his seat by disgraced former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. Dickie Bell, who not coincidentally is a church deacon, got everyone’s attention when he forgot about that whole separation of church and state and sponsored a creationist bill, HB 207. That might be putting it mildly, as Bell’s legislation looked a lot like it was cut-and-paste written based on the “Academic Freedom Act”, which would allow students to question scientific discussion based on their faith. Upon a lot of voices getting raised in caution at what Bell was pitching, he actually tried arguing that his bill was just “misunderstood”, which was hard to believe, when he started citing how the debate would center around discussions on evolution and climate change. The creationist effort failed, but maybe folks in Virginia should have been paying attention prior to that moment in 2014 (and since), because there’s a lot of “WTF?” in Dickie Bell’s legislative record, that contains some extreme policy stances on top of some support for downright insane bills, including the time he submitted HB 154, which would have placed everyone in Virginia on an organ donor list, unless they placed themselves on an “opt out” registry. And he was surprised… SURPRISED that people got online to complain about Dickie Bell trying to turn the state into a bad version of “Repo: The Genetic Opera”.

    A smattering of examples from the rest of his voting record includes votes for a ban on human microchip implantation, to prevent something that’s only happening in dystopian science fiction novels, that he voted for HB 505, which authorizes citizens to carry concealed firearms in establishments that serve alcohol (because booze does such wonders for impulse control, and gun added to the mix is a winning combination), voted to bring back the electric chair as a method of execution in Virginia, voted for HB 189, which would allow adoption agencies to refuse to allow people to adopt for “religious reasons”. Y’know, like if the adoptive parents are gay and voted for Virginia’s HB 1, which if passed, would have defined life at conception, and thus made not just abortion, but using most methods of contraception murder. After the mass shooting at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, their state legislature voted to remove the Confederate flag from being displayed at the state grounds. Going the opposite direction, Dickie Bell decided to co-sponsor and vote for HB 587, to make it HARDER to remove Confederate iconography from around Virginia. Nice priorities, Dickie.

    Dickie Bell did not have to face a Democrat in an election in 2011, 2013, or 2015 and the GOP hasn’t had anyone oppose him in a primary since he was appointed to office back in 2009. And while Democrats did manage to pull off a wave election and take control of the Virginia State Assembly in 2017, they could not wrest Dickie Bell from his spot in office, and the 80 year old legislator held on with 54% of the vote. However, we are thrilled to report that Dickie Bell announced in December of 2018 that he would be retiring at the end of this term, and we can’t be more excited to with him the warmest of “GOOD RIDDANCE” greetings.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    You might be right. Problem is, Trump’s monstrous ego won’t allow him to quit, and his appetite for power has him longing for another term, perhaps more if he could only subvert the Constitutional rule that only allows him to serve two terms. Trump wants to be president for life like his buddies Kim and Putin, if he can find a way to make it happen, he will.
    Trump has created his own version of Tartarus. He's trapped himself, just like Sisyphus was trapped with the boulder. Trump hates it in the White House and he fears leaving. What that creates is a person with nothing to lose, if he is miserable he is going to make everyone else miserable as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    I think he's desperate. Trump knows that there are state attorney generals with sealed indictments against him and his family so that they can't get away with crimes by citing the statute of limitations, and those indictments being announced... that's on the backburner for him to be out of office so he can't pardon anyone, or avoid indictment himself. If he's not the president, it begins the "gonna die in prison" chapter of his life. Assuming that another Republican president doesn't take pity on him and pardon him, like Ford did for Nixon (nobody likes Trump enough to do that).
    This is exactly why I think he’ll win in 2020. He has to or he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison. Trump and the GOP are going to break every law in the land in order to keep him in office. They’ve been able to get away with countless lies and crimes thus far. May as well add voter fraud and suppression to this list. It’s terrifying to think that this may be our last election.

    Obviously at first he didn’t like being President. Too much work. But I think he’s grown to love the job for the power it grants him. He knows that he can say absolutely anything at his rallies and get endless ego boosts. Losing is not an option.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier And Bombers To Send ‘Unmistakable Message’ To Iran

    National security advisor John Bolton said the deployments were in response to “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran. It goes without saying Congress should demand Johnny Warhawk give a full explanation as to just what's going on with Iran.

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    I had a panic attack last night, just reading Twitter and laughing at fake Game of Thrones spoiler, when I looked over and noticed "Iran" was trending.

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    It feels like everything is coming to a head to ensure a Trump 2020 win.

    Bummer.

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