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Roughly translated, if Xi gives Trump money and/or a "win" on trade, Trump will stand aside and let China do whatever the fuck they want to Hong Kong and will say nothing. Unfortunately, Trump has pissed away any leverage we may have had on China, even if he cared about pro-democracy protesters being crushed, which he doesn't. Even more unfortunately for Trump, Xi is smart enough to know that Trump will be happy that he can cite the precedent of brutally smashing pro-democracy protests in the name of imposing "law and order", so we'll do nothing anyway and Trump will get nothing in exchange.

"Liberal" posters: If Bill is a pedo, lock him up and throw away the key. If Trump is a pedo, lock him up and throw away the key. For any pedo, regardless of political party, lock them up and throw away the key. "Conservative" posters: But Bill... The only people on this board not calling for all pedos to be thrown in prison are hypocratical "conservatives".

Burt lives smack dab in the middle of the people you are talking about and interacts with them every single day. FOX has been lying to them all day, every day for decades and they have bought it hook, line and sinker. You'll know they are changing their minds when FOX's ratings start to plummet. As of the end of July, FOX was the most watched cable news channel for the 211th consecutive month. FOX was the most watched channel on all of cable TV for the 37th consecutive month. Far from deserting FOX, Trump has made them watch FOX more, which is why FOX will not change. The lies will continue and they will get worse. FOX aside, these are proud people that are very averse to admitting mistakes. They are remarkably consistent in that, regardless of reality.

Blavatnik donated $7.25 million to the GOP for the 2016 election. $2.5 million to McConnell, $1.5 million to Rubio, $800K to Lindsey Graham, $1 million to Trump, $250K to Kasich and $200K to McCain. Blavatnik and Deripaska are business partners. Blavatnik co-owns a stake in Rusal with Viktor Vekelsberg, who gave illegal contributions to Trump's inauguration that were siphoned off. Rusal is the company opening the new aluminum plant in Kentucky after McConnell got sanctions dropped on Deripaska. They are all a bunch of crooked fucks. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns Oleg Deripaska is the founder and majority owner of RUSAL, the world's second largest aluminum company, based in Russia. Len Blavatnik owns a significant stake in RUSAL and served on its Board until November 10, 2016, two days after Donald Trump was elected. Deripaska controls RUSAL with a 48 percent majority stake through his holding company, EN+ Group, and the Russian government owns 4.35 percent stake of EN+ Group through its second-largest state owned bank, VTB. VTB was exposed in the Panama papers in 2016for facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to offshore companies linked to Vladimir Putin and is under sanctions by the U.S. government... Len Blavatnik's co-owner in RUSAL is his long-time business partner, Viktor Vekselberg, another Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin. Blavatnik and Vekselberg hold their 15.8 percent joint stake in RUSAL in the name of Sual Partners, their offshore company in the Bahamas. Vekselberg also happens to be the largest shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus.

Exactly, plus they are watching FOX much of the day. Everything that is happening to them is the Democrats fault and will be much worse if they vote for the Dem. Don't want any socialism creeping up, except the socialism they already benefit from.

Even referring to this should be an impeachable offense for both parties. It is completely unthinkable that any other President would do anything like this, let alone repeatedly. By referring to how other people will react, he is minimizing his own completely inappropriate behavior. He's not joking, he's incapable of joking in the sense that most people do. He's shifting the Overton Window, normalizing what should be a revolting idea to any patriotic American.

A conservative lunatic confronted Cuomo while Cuomo was out with his wife and 9-year old daughter. None of this happens without the Trumpkin instigating. It was a stupid insult too, especially when Fredo is DJT Jr. I have no problems whatsoever with Cuomo standing up to the harassment.

They are even lying about that. Death toll is at least 7. https://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-nuclear-powered-cruise-missile-fatal-explosion-russia/story?id=64924383

For supposedly being patriotic Americans, those motherfuckers love disrespecting the flag. 4 U.S. Code § 8.Respect for flag (g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature. (i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.

Here's an unrolled version of that Abramson thread. It makes it much easier to read. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1161006911560589319.html

He's a lying sack of shit married to a lying sack of shit.

Those tax cuts are really trickling down, but they leave off the second sentence. It's piss.

Thanks for the article. The USDA claims $1.2 billion of the bailout bought crops and milk that were distributed to school lunch programs and food banks. I'm glad to hear that at least some of it isn't rotting and is going to feed the less fortunate. The bail out package last year was $18 billion and $16 billion in May of this year, so most of it is still going to waste and not being distributed. That could solve a lot of the hunger problems in this hemisphere.

Hulk and Trump have the same hair, but at least Hulk has the balls to not try a ridiculous combover.

Welfare for me, but not for thee.

It's ridiculous that millions of people are starving in Central America from the drought that has been killing all their crops while we are paying farmers to let their crops rot rather than sell them to China. When we bail the farmers out again, which we all know we will, we need to buy the crops directly and ship them to food banks here, as well as to Guatemala and other Central American countries to feed them. We're paying for the crops anyway. It should have broad bipartisan appeal, but we all know it won't. Democrats will support it and want to feed them because it's the right thing to do. The GOP won't, because the government paying the farmers for their crops and letting them rot is apparently not socialism, but buying them and giving them to feed brown people would be. However, if the GOP really wants to slow illegal immigration, this is the quickest way to see tangible results. Just like the discussion of Appalachia upthread, people don't rip up their lives and risk everything to move if they don't have to. The choice the migrants have now, stay in Guatemala and starve to death versus risk death and incarceration trying to get into the United States, is an easy one.

The best way to order BBQ with Abbott is to wait and see where he's going and then go somewhere else.

Appalachia is incredibly insular. A lot of the people there don't really leave their county unless they have a very specific reason. The communities revolve around shift changes at the local plant/mine. Texans think nothing of hopping in the car/truck and driving 5 hours. That mentality is nearly non-existent in Appalachia.

He'd have to pull the crayons out of his nose first, but he has to pull the sharpie out of his ass, so I guess it's not really that different.

Narrator: It didn't.

At least they arrested him, unlike the fucking heavily armed lunatic that the cops let go in El Paso today. Open carry laws are the biggest small dick enabler law that has ever been passed.

Unlike George Conway, I give him a pass. Shep is the only dude there with a soul and you know it grates those racist, homophobic pieces of shit to see a gay dude have the audacity to go on their network and tell them the truth. FOX execs would rather have him out if they could. The execs only care about ratings and money. They don't care about cover, we're way past Shep providing them any veneer. Many FOX views turn it off when Shep is on and it's hurting FOX's ratings. They can't fire him, because he's part of a protected group they rail on and their viewers hate. Shep would sue the shit out of them. Half the time, I think he's daring them fire him.

FOX is so obvious every time they do this. If one of their people gets too much heat, they go on "vacation". When they come back, the outrage has died down enough. Fuck them. Keep the pressure on. Tucker is a White Nationalist Douchebag and other White Nationalist Douchebags say he is their spokesperson and main media ally. If that doesn't give you pause, you are part of the problem.

Ttom has been showing you evidence of an authentic ass all day.

#feralhogs is trending on Twitter right now. Maybe he could build a wall and make the hogs pay for it. Serious answer, since hogs run from gunshots, a starter pistol would probably be far safer than repeatedly shooting into his yard while it is occupied by small children. It might even give them a chance to grow into larger children.