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Donald Trump Elected President of the United States

pirate_girl

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Wooooot!

Donald Trump considering Ben Carson for HUD secretary

President-elect Donald Trump is considering one of his rivals from the primaries to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development: Dr. Ben Carson.The president-elect described Carson, who eventually became a supporter of Trump’s, as “a greatly talented person who loves people.”


Carson had told The Washington Post that he is likely to remain an informal adviser rather than serving in the Cabinet.
Carson is a retired neurosurgeon who was once the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...arson-for-hud-secretary/ar-AAkD7zw?li=BBnb7Kz
 

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Gunsrus

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Now, I for one am worried about the U-turn that Mr. to be president is taking. Is he being sincere? If so, why did he mislead us during the campaign?
 

EastTexFrank

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I, personally, am really quite encouraged by the people he has brought onboard so far. He's not handing out lollipops to his supporters. He's not surrounding himself with yes-men or yes-women. He's trying to run it like a business, hire the best people that you can and let them do what you hired them for. If they don't pan out, move them on and out the door, case in point, Gov Christie.
 

Gunsrus

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Which issues are you most concerned about?

All of a sudden, Trump's current attitude is the complete opposite of the one he had during the election campaign. He's trying to make it look like he wasn't as harsh or critical as he was leading us to believe.

The racist remarks, the sexual harassment of women, the ignorant remarks like Brussels is a village in Belgium, were all made with complete confidence and now the man who made them is trying to make us like him as if he hadn't done any of those things.

Maybe he doesn't know what the issues are.

I actually know quite a bit, sweetheart, enough to know that Trump ain't the right choice for president. He's got no political experience and he sure as hell doesn't know when to let grudges go. He's bashing Hillary and his peers for the recounting of the votes, something that no dignified man ought to do. He should just stop blowing his horn and have faith in his fellow politicians. If there was indeed foul play, they've got to uncover it.
 

pirate_girl

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I actually know quite a bit, sweetheart, enough to know that Trump ain't the right choice for president. He's got no political experience and he sure as hell doesn't know when to let grudges go. He's bashing Hillary and his peers for the recounting of the votes, something that no dignified man ought to do. He should just stop blowing his horn and have faith in his fellow politicians. If there was indeed foul play, they've got to uncover it.

Have you been under a rock or something?
And don't call me sweetheart, if you are attempting to be facetious.
 

Danang Sailor

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All of a sudden, Trump's current attitude is the complete opposite of the one he had during the election campaign. He's trying to make it look like he wasn't as harsh or critical as he was leading us to believe.

The racist remarks, the sexual harassment of women, the ignorant remarks like Brussels is a village in Belgium, were all made with complete confidence and now the man who made them is trying to make us like him as if he hadn't done any of those things.
You have apparently been getting too much of your "news" from the Main Stream Media (MSM), which has been proven
to have been biased in favor of Clinton to the point that they should be required to register as DNC lobbyists! He has
been vilified for remarks that are not at all racist, sexist, or ignorant if they are examined in their entirety and in context.

He "belittled" and "fat-shamed" a poor woman because of her weight gain? This woman was the winner of a beauty pageant
that Trump owns, and had certain contractual obligations to that beauty pageant and to Trump personally, among them to
represent Trumps' beauty pageant across the entire world.
She was obligated to maintain the looks that enabled her to
win the beauty pageant, and putting on enough weight to alter those looks significantly was a violation of her contract. She
was, or certainly should have been, aware of this and its possible consequences; instead of giving her a chance to "shape
up" Trump could have instead exercised his contractual rights, dropped her, and replaced her with the First Runner-up. He
did not, giving her a chance to correct the discrepancy; not what I would call rampant, misogynistic sexism.

I won't even discuss the women that came out of the woodwork to accuse him of sexual abuse in the past, as it has

they have been exposed as paid shills of the DNC. And the open mic "p*ssy grabbing" comment, while certainly in bad
taste, looks different when context is applied (he was talking very specifically about the raunchy moral standards, or lack
thereof, in Hollyweird).

As to the charges of racism, nearly all disappear when his comments are examined in their entirety, and context applied.
His biggest sin here is his penchant for talking off the cuff before thinking it through.

I actually know quite a bit, sweetheart, enough to know that Trump ain't the right choice for president. He's got no political experience and he sure as hell doesn't know when to let grudges go. He's bashing Hillary and his peers for the recounting of the votes, something that no dignified man ought to do. He should just stop blowing his horn and have faith in his fellow politicians. If there was indeed foul play, they've got to uncover it.
Donald Trump was not my idea of an ideal candidate; I supported Governor Scott Walker during the primaries.
When Trump won the nomination and became the Republican candidate he did get my support; the alternative was to put
a congenital serial liar, thief, and thoroughly corrupt career politician in the Oval Office, one who would not only
continue the destructive policies of Obama but would indeed work even harder to consolidate her own power at the expense
of the Constitution and our liberties.

And the recount? Even Hillary's chief legal advisor has stated that no recount will change the results of the election, and
indeed that no recall is even justified! In fact to get a recount in at least one state, since the margins are too narrow to
justify one, the Green Party will have to go to court and show at least prima facie case for one. Since most reputable computer
experts have said there is no evidence of malicious hacking that could have changed the vote count result, it seems
unlikely they could prevail in court. Trump is well within his rights to complain about this vast waste of time and money.

Finally, there has been much brouhaha about Trump not being "qualified" for the Presidency; most of this seems to be coming
from the same ignorant snowflakes that are protesting (okay, rioting) about the results of a fair election. Since these fine
young college students, many of whom didn't even bother to vote, think Hillary should "sue the country" because she
didn't win, it is clear they don't know what the actual qualifications for the office are, so ...

US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution,
shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to
the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

Clearly, Trump meets these qualifications ... and these are the only qualifications that exist! Nothing about prior political
experience, nothing about ever holding another government position, just the ones enumerated here.

You are located in Spain; I have no way of knowing whether or not you are a natural born Spanish citizen, an ex-pat, or what.
which is why I have taken all this effort to explain to you why your facts are wrong. It is my personal belief that your
opinions are also wrong but all I can do to change those is to give you the facts and let you either revise your opinion or not,
as you see fit.
 

Doc

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Trump has lots of business experience. He has dealt with politicians for years from the other side of the table. For all this I think he has 10 times the experience that rookie senator Barrack Obama had when he entered office. He has never had a real job. Had mainly been a community organizer. We see what that has got us. He has shown that he knows how to spend money and does not care about balancing budgets in the least.

So... I prefer Trump and his business experiance to what we have now.
 

mla2ofus

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Gunsrus, be sure to let us know when your next presidential election is so we can read all about the campaigns and put in our two cents worth about the qualifications of the candidates!! I'll be blunt and tell you you don't have a dog in this fight. You're welcome to express your opinion but don't get your feel bads hurt if you get blowback.

Mike
 

Gunsrus

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Have you been under a rock or something?
And don't call me sweetheart, if you are attempting to be facetious.

No pun intended. Just letting my informal american jargon run too wild. Sorry. I like girls who call themselves pirates. A man's heart is a valuable treasure to steal. :biggrin:

Actually, bugs live under rocks and they're very safe from predators above ground. I wouldn't know what it's like because I happen to live in urban civilization, but I can imagine that subterranean dwellers have the advantage of being out of sight.

Now, it's true that a lot of what I know comes from the media, but that's not wrong because if the media was as false as they say, it'd have been shut down decades ago and their employees thrown out on the street or in jail for conspiracy and fraud.

Neither of those two things have happened so I'm reasoning that what the media is feeding us ain't bs. The people involved work all day to bring us news so I doubt they're working hard to falsify facts.
 

MrLiberty

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No pun intended. Just letting my informal american jargon run too wild. Sorry. I like girls who call themselves pirates. A man's heart is a valuable treasure to steal. :biggrin:

Actually, bugs live under rocks and they're very safe from predators above ground. I wouldn't know what it's like because I happen to live in urban civilization, but I can imagine that subterranean dwellers have the advantage of being out of sight.

Now, it's true that a lot of what I know comes from the media, but that's not wrong because if the media was as false as they say, it'd have been shut down decades ago and their employees thrown out on the street or in jail for conspiracy and fraud.

Neither of those two things have happened so I'm reasoning that what the media is feeding us ain't bs. The people involved work all day to bring us news so I doubt they're working hard to falsify facts.

Think again......

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26...klist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/

The Washington Post on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda.” The article by reporter Craig Timberg — headlined “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say” — cites a report by an anonymous website calling itself PropOrNot, which claims that millions of Americans have been deceived this year in a massive Russian “misinformation campaign.”


The group’s list of Russian disinformation outlets includes WikiLeaks and the Drudge Report, as well as Clinton-critical left-wing websites such as Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Truthdig, and Naked Capitalism, as well as libertarian venues such as Antiwar.com and the Ron Paul Institute.
This Post report was one of the most widely circulated political news articles on social media over the last 48 hours, with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of U.S. journalists and pundits with large platforms hailing it as an earth-shattering exposé. It was the most-read piece on the entire Post website on Friday after it was published.


Yet the article is rife with obviously reckless and unproven allegations, and fundamentally shaped by shoddy, slothful journalistic tactics. It was not surprising to learn that, as BuzzFeed’s Sheera Frenkel noted, “a lot of reporters passed on this story.” Its huge flaws are self-evident. But the Post gleefully ran with it and then promoted it aggressively, led by its Executive Editor Marty Baron:


This is a long article, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. CNN, NBC, and other news organizations, and social media have all lied or been caught working with democrats to smear Trump. And they have continued their assault on him even after the election.



The unfortunate thing about this is, the media hates it when they are proven liars and are proven wrong, so now they are doubling down their efforts to bring down Trump before he even takes office.
 

road squawker

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... it's true that a lot of what I know comes from the media, but that's not wrong because if the media was as false as they say, it'd have been shut down decades ago and their employees thrown out on the street or in jail for conspiracy and fraud....


... and lets not forget about when the same clinton supporting media (ABC) was caught red handed CREATING false videos about the Trayvon Martin shooting in Fl............

NOTHING was done even though they were guilty and admitted it.
 

pirate_girl

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Nooooooooooooooo...:hammer:

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Yessssssss!

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mla2ofus

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Rudy and Petreaus both have some baggage but I'll take either over Mitt. When he choked up over Benghazi in the 3rd debate that told me his balls don't quite measure up to the SoS job. The next SoS is going to have several overseas staredowns to do not long after being confirmed!! He won't be able to just speak into a mic and call them bad names like he did with Trump.
mike
 

tiredretired

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It's officially official! :yum:

Trump picks Carson for HUD secretary

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/308720-trump-picks-carson-for-hud-secretary

Excellent pick. I am glad that Carson took the job.


She obviously has an agenda and it is most certainly not the good of the country in mind. She needs to go away and go away fast. She is a nothing, did she even get 1% of the vote? I would doubt it.
 

mla2ofus

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She claims all the donations are in a separate account and used strictly for paying for the recounts, yet she told Michigan they don't have the $$ for a bond. I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of her as I'm sure most of the donations will go in her '20 war chest.
Mike
 

bczoom

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Let's hope he still does. It's a worthless department.
Bring him to shut it down.
 

tiredretired

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It is with great joy I wish to announce that tonight Obama is giving his farewell speech.

Never thought an Obama speech would be exciting to hear about!

Good Bye! And don't let the door hit you in the ass Barry Boy.

:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:
 

pirate_girl

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It is with great joy I wish to announce that tonight Obama is giving his farewell speech.

Never thought an Obama speech would be exciting to hear about!

Good Bye! And don't let the door hit you in the ass Barry Boy.

:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

I think it would be effective if he did a cartwheel on the White House lawn, then a little shuffle in his black wing tips, a la James Brown.



Aloha! and Toodles!!

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