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5 minutes ago, Bat Guano said:

Only $78 for 3 Extreme Survival Warfare Bottles? 3 of them? Holy shit, sounds like a steal to me. I'ma get right on that deal.

How did evangelicals and survivalists start to overlap anyway?  Aren't they supposed to get taken away in the rapture while the rest of us struggle to survive?

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8 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

How did evangelicals and survivalists start to overlap anyway?  Aren't they supposed to get taken away in the rapture while the rest of us struggle to survive?

The overlap is "old folks who are scared shitless of everything."  They need Jesus to comfort them about the afterlife.  But they also need guns to protect them from scary....well, ya know.  And they need plenty of food.  Which they certainly won't share with your commie ass.

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2 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Perhaps a well coordinated and orchestrated foreign influence campaign united the extremist elements in the population behind a demagogue populist candidate.

Perhaps, but the overlap started before the internet even existed, much less candidate Trump.

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When President Trump hosts French President Emmanuel Macron next week for his first state dinner, no Democrats or members of the media will be in attendance.

Politico reported on Friday that Trump has not invited any Democratic lawmakers to the Tuesday dinner, nor has he extended invitations to members of the media - a departure from past state dinners.

Of the roughly 150 people that are set to attend the dinner, only four are members of Congress: House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.); Rep. Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), according to Politico.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was invited, but is unable to attend, Politico reported. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was not extended an invite.

Lea Berman, the White House social secretary under former President George W. Bush, told Politico that the exclusion of Democrats and members of the media is "a break with tradition."

During the last state dinner for a French president, Macron's predecessor Fran?ois Hollande, then-President Obama featured lawmakers from both parties, and an appearance by singer Mary J. Blige.

Also at that dinner were a number of representatives from major news outlets. CNN President Jeff Zucker was there, as was Jill Abramson, then The New York Times's top editor. Representatives from other media companies, like The Associated Press and Reuters, were also present.

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/384195-trump-shuts-democrats-and-media-out-of-first-state-dinner

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Here comes the Friday News dump

Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, explored plans to get Chinese dissident Guo Wengui expelled from the US in hopes of receiving payoffs from China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), documents obtained by the New York Times appear to show.

 

According to a report published on Friday in the US newspaper, Broidy proposed working with George Nader, the adviser to Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, to use their combined influence in the White House and Abu Dhabi for personal gain.

Broidy allegedly sent a proposal for the three-way deal to Nader in May 2017, 20 pages of emails from Broidy's account reportedly show.

In the plan, as outlined by the newspaper, Nader would try to sway Mohammed bin Zayed to ask the US to hand over Guo.

The grounds for the extradition request would reportedly be a business dispute between the billionaire Chinese dissident and the UAE.

Broidy, for his part, would use his influence in the White House to try to persuade the administration to comply with the UAE's request.

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Broidy wrote that the UAE could then hand Guo over to China in exchange for them paying off Guo's $3bn debt to UAE investment funds, according to the New York Times report.

In the draft email, Broidy reportedly wrote that "China would agree to pay" Nader and himself.

"Abu Dhabi would pay" as well, the New York Times quoted the email as stating. 

A source familiar with the case allegedly told the New York Times that Broidy had not sent the email but did approach Nader "in general terms" about the proposal.

It is unclear if Broidy's plan has had any results. Guo Wengui is currently still in New York.

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President Trump has reportedly voice complaints in recent days about his Supreme Court pick, Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Administration officials familiar with the situation told The Washington Post that Trump was upset that Gorsuch had been too liberal in some recent cases, and that he feared the justice was not a reliable conservative.

The report comes just two days after Gorsuch cast the deciding vote in an immigration deportation case, siding with the court's four liberal justices against the Trump administration.

Shortly after the decision, Trump called on Congress to pass stricter immigration laws.

 

http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/384073-trump-complaining-that-gorsuch-is-becoming-too-liberal-report

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6 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

Did Trump get that 93% number from some Fox & Friends report or is he just making up highly specific fake stats? 

In fairness that number isn’t wrong, it’s just misleading.

Trump drives most of the media with his crazy tweets and awful behavior so the media has to cover those events which are inherently negative, there’s really no way to put positive spin on Trump shitting all over the free press and asking to jail his opponents.

In typical Trump fashion, he plays the victim.

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Well, for the low low price of only 16 playmate payoffs, I can get your sanctions lifted.  But wait, there's more!  For another 4 playmate payoffs, I can get you an exclusive meet and greet with the President at Mar A Lago!*

* Limit one scoop of ice cream per person; only Dear Orange Leader gets two scoops.

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4 hours ago, Lurch said:

I love the part where he acquired a building for $65M with a $50M loan, so he thinks he bought it for $15M (which he then lowers to $13M to exaggerate the “steal” he bought it for)

This kind of makes sense when you remember that he doesn't like to pay back loans.  He's basically only out the downpayment in his mind.

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14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, for the low low price of only 16 playmate payoffs, I can get your sanctions lifted.  But wait, there's more!  For another 4 playmate payoffs, I can get you an exclusive meet and greet with the President at Mar A Lago!*

* Limit one scoop of ice cream per person; only Dear Orange Leader gets two scoops.

That's funny, I don't  care who you are.

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1 minute ago, Tyler Durden said:

This kind of makes sense when you remember that he doesn't like to pay back loans.  He's basically only out the downpayment in his mind.

Well, if he got someone to give him a $50 million unsecured loan to purchase real estate, then he deserves to screw them.

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1 hour ago, FondrenRoad said:

How did evangelicals and survivalists start to overlap anyway?  Aren't they supposed to get taken away in the rapture while the rest of us struggle to survive?

There isn't much of an overlap. A minor sect of dispensationalist evangelicals subscribe to a theory that they will live through a period of "tribulation" prior to the rapture. It's a fringe belief amongst dispensationalist evangelicals.

Jim baker, previously a prosperity preacher, adopted these views after getting out of prison. Basically he found a niche market to exploit after burning a bridge elsewhere.

 

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There isn't much of an overlap. A minor sect of dispensationalist evangelicals subscribe to a theory that they will live through a period of "tribulation" prior to the rapture. It's a fringe belief amongst dispensationalist evangelicals.
Jim baker, previously a prosperity preacher, adopted these views after getting out of prison. Basically he found a niche market to exploit after burning a bridge elsewhere.
 

It’s not a “Fringe belief” among evangelicals. Fear is the foundation, and its the core belief of the conservative evangelical movement.
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7 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

North Korea says they are suspending future nuclear and long-range missile tests and will close their nuclear test site. 

Good job, Trump. 

And we believe them! Just like that! Great going Trump! All you had to do was back channel with little Kim and tell him to declare he was denuclearizing, it doesn’t have to be true because that doesn’t matter anymore.

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4 hours ago, Anastasis said:

 

 

 

 

 

According to this guys analysis, Comey is a monster. He uses double sentence spacing and capricious font selection. 

Yeah, I saw that. I wondered if that was partly to make it harder to interpret where things are redacted, or if he has it set differently on different devices or something. 

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:


It’s not a “Fringe belief” among evangelicals. Fear is the foundation, and its the core belief of the conservative evangelical movement.

Yes, it's a fringe belief. The mainstream belief is Pre-tribulation not the version that is being peddled by Bakker. That is a fringe belief that is condemned by mainstream rapture folks.

Your minister wife out front should have told you so.

 

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39 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

North Korea says they are suspending future nuclear and long-range missile tests and will close their nuclear test site. 

Good job, Trump. 

Not the same as disarmament. He's not giving up his nukes.  

When are the three American prisoners coming home?

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39 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

Paying $1,600,000 to coerce an abortion, soliciting bribes from Russian companies under sanction to try to influence the US government on their behalf, apparently scheming with China and the UAE to get paid blood money for arranging to have a dissident sent back to certain death ... you know, this Elliott Broidy guy is a real jerk.

Trump's kind of guy. 

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