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I fucking love this President. My 2 faves during my lifetime are Trump and Nixon. They share a lot of similarities and were besieged by the same groups of assholes. No I’m not trolling. Y’all, the lef

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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of.  And which,

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For those of you in Austin, former Director Brennan and McRaven are giving a joint talk together on campus tomorrow.  It’s about National Security obviously, but certainly Trump will come up.  If you have the ability to leave work for lunch, you should attend. 

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2 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Well of course, DJ. Because the CURRENT Senator from 'The' South Carolina was away hanging with his Flaming Racist friend, and when it was discovered, the tweet was deleted. I hope his political career is OVER!

 

 

2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

JFC, what's the deal w/ that watermelon sized head?

Too much cowbell

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Attempt to meet with the Taliban ominously close to September 11th at Camp David, aka Naval Support Facility Thurmont, classified military installation, ... to uh, ... you know, uh ... I guess to own the libs?  Right?  Triggered snowflakes or something.  Sweet.  Haha.  Take that libs!

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3 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

They'd all be far superior presidents and businesspersons than Donald Trump? They're all smarter than POSUS? All better looking? All people you'd rather have as a friend? All people who are more believable? All are people who show no public signs of racism or fascism?

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3 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Well of course, DJ. Because the CURRENT Senator from 'The' South Carolina was away hanging with his Flaming Racist friend, and when it was discovered, the tweet was deleted. I hope his political career is OVER!

 

 

3 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

JFC, what's the deal w/ that watermelon sized head?

That's the ugliest parade float I've ever seen.

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3 hours ago, Gooby said:

Read this.  It's fucking pathetic....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-kind-of-like-an-addiction-on-the-road-with-trumps-rally-diehards-11567762200?emailToken=9d69f76415a72c88776935e84bc33832C+4EdCa76sG6F1QTwMwjbSRU4BgkOGNlsOTtv3rCJa30agN5l/rgSgKYMQFC1+Y2nb5FLSL1PA4yX1uV/MBwPNiPsz2Z0UTSwZCyeSF7jwDRVkph6LXEs4lA7rHPN1QdqUvftqIx61Vft3taEF9xIA%3D%3D&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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The 57-year-old Air Force veteran’s disability check is reduced by $5 every month by an automatic donation to the Trump campaign

 

It really is a cult. These people are beyond saving.

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Well of course, DJ. Because the CURRENT Senator from 'The' South Carolina was away hanging with his Flaming Racist friend, and when it was discovered, the tweet was deleted. I hope his political career is OVER!

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/climate/hurrican-dorian-trump-tweet.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

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The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion.

That threat led to an unusual, unsigned statement later that Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disavowing the office’s own position that Alabama was not at risk. The reversal caused widespread anger within the agency and drew criticism from the scientific community that NOAA, a division of the Commerce Department, had been bent to political purposes.

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The actions by the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., are the latest developments in a political imbroglio that began more than a week ago, when Dorian was bearing down on the Bahamas and Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter that Alabama would be hit “harder than anticipated.” A few minutes later, the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Ala., posted on Twitter that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.”

Mr. Trump persisted in saying that Alabama was at risk and a few days later, on Sept. 4, he displayed a NOAA map that appeared to have been altered with a black sharpie to include Alabama in the area potentially affected by Dorian.

 

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Mr. Ross, the Commerce Secretary, intervened two days later, early last Friday, according to the three people familiar with his actions. Mr. Ross phoned Neil Jacobs, the acting administrator of NOAA, from Greece where the secretary was traveling for meetings and instructed Dr. Jacobs to fix the agency’s perceived contradiction of the president.

Dr. Jacobs objected to the demand and was told that the political staff at NOAA would be fired if the situation was not fixed, according to the three individuals, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the episode. Unlike career government employees, political staff are appointed by the administration. They usually include a handful of top officials, such as Dr. Jacobs, and their aides.

 

 

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However, a senior administration official who asked not to be identified when discussing internal deliberations said that the Birmingham office had been wrong and that NOAA had simply done the responsible thing and corrected the record.

That official suggested the Twitter post by the Birmingham forecasters had been motivated by a desire to embarrass the president more than concern for the safety of people in Alabama. The official provided no evidence to support that conclusion.

On Monday, Craig N. McLean, NOAA’s acting chief scientist, sent an email to staff members notifying the agency that he was looking into “potential violations” in the agency’s decision to ultimately back Mr. Trump’s statements rather than those of its own scientists. He called the agency’s action “a danger to public health and safety.”

Dr. Jacobs is scheduled to speak Tuesday at a weather industry conference in Huntsville, Ala.

On Monday, the National Weather Service director, Louis W. Uccellini, got a standing ovation from conference attendees when he praised the work of the Birmingham office and said staff members there had acted “with one thing in mind, public safety” when they contradicted Mr. Trump’s claim that Alabama was at risk.

 

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To be fair, even the boring amongst us wanted to "Roll Up" after 9/11.  Amazing though he went with Lice, for Life and then Roll for Rose.  I can't wait to hear what my wife's leftist speech therapist friends think of this.  And rightfully so.  The good news is you're allowed to speak incorrectly when you're a woefully unhealthy 73 year old asshole who was never that terribly bright or articulate to begin with.  It's okay.  It's a rite of passage in today's age.  Just don't give so many speeches that you know...influence millions of people.  

 

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Michael Lewis's latest book is called the 5th Risk and it's largely about garbage government. By coincidence, one of its big examples in there is about how good the NOAA has become at both predicting weather lately and using people with insight in communications about how to best transmit that information such that it is usable for the masses.  Lifesaving stuff.  And he talks about how it has been sabotaged by Trump's people so that weather businesses (can't remember which) can look better than what the government says.  Now it is front page news that the NOAA is being attacked for putting out correct information.

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15 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/climate/hurrican-dorian-trump-tweet.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Mr. Ross,

Bless your heart, you are 81 years old and still having to wield the big stick for your boss. Instead of traveling to Greece for pleasure, here you are, stuck defending the man whom you already bailed out once before when he was just a dumb schmuck mismanaging his casinos. Ah, the stories you could tell. So, why aren't you relaxing in the home in the Berkshires with your third wife and regaling her with stories of the good old days when you stole money from your colleagues? Or kicking back at one of your places in Palm Beach and thinking of how fortunate you are to have so much valuable art due to not divesting any of your financial investments after you switched parties and became Secretary (and we won't worry about the  shorting stocks, I'm sure that was just a BIG misunderstanding).

Instead of enjoying your life of white collar crime at the expense of others you are having to roll up your sleeves and yell at Neil the Weather Boy for such brazen insubordination. Why he could have been one of those furloughed federal workers you suggested to  "apply for a personal loan" instead of visiting a food bank . The nerve of him for caring whether the weather forecast is correct or not. It's not like FEMA is going to do 'these' people any good. So, go ahead, Mr. Ross, take your retirement and take a nap (like you do in meetings) and rest assured the real scientists will keep watch. It's what they do.

 

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10 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Michael Lewis's latest book is called the 5th Risk and it's largely about garbage government. By coincidence, one of its big examples in there is about how good the NOAA has become at both predicting weather lately and using people with insight in communications about how to best transmit that information such that it is usable for the masses.  Lifesaving stuff.  And he talks about how it has been sabotaged by Trump's people so that weather businesses (can't remember which) can look better than what the government says.  Now it is front page news that the NOAA is being attacked for putting out correct information.

 

Accuweather.  Trump even nominated an Accuweather CEO (Barry Myers) to head NOAA.  

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8 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

The Trump administration has really highlighted how many people in positions of power are spineless cowards.  If this collection of worthless chucklefucks had been in charge at various other points in American history, this country would have collapsed long ago.

Trump picked these people ("the best people" (tm)) for important positions exactly BECAUSE they are spineless cowards and they have sworn fealty to him.  We know that Trump values loyalty above integrity, intelligence, work ethic, and temperance.

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19 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Michael Lewis's latest book is called the 5th Risk and it's largely about garbage government. By coincidence, one of its big examples in there is about how good the NOAA has become at both predicting weather lately and using people with insight in communications about how to best transmit that information such that it is usable for the masses.  Lifesaving stuff.  And he talks about how it has been sabotaged by Trump's people so that weather businesses (can't remember which) can look better than what the government says.  Now it is front page news that the NOAA is being attacked for putting out correct information.

 

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Accuweather.  Trump even nominated an Accuweather CEO (Barry Myers) to head NOAA.  

But aren't the forecasts and models by those private weather businesses based on the NWS materials? The thing with privatizing certain government functions especially in the case of weather is that the profit margin would seem to frequently over-ride the goals and objectives of the function. If an entity can make money by telling people to evacuate or stock up on supplies or whatever, they will do that regardless of the duty to the public. Because when people are harmed, literally or otherwise, the two entities (private sector and government) point at each other in blame and the public has no chain of command with which to find remedy.

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5 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Legitimate LOL on this one. 

 

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On whether the president asked Pence to stay at his Irish golf club, Short said: "I don't think it was a request, like a command. ... I think that it was a suggestion."

"It's like when we went through the trip, it's like, well, he's going to Doonbeg because that's where the Pence family is from," Short said before describing the president's suggestion. "It's like, 'Well, you should stay at my place.'"

Pence's own chief of staff.

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20 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

 

But aren't the forecasts and models by those private weather businesses based on the NWS materials? The thing with privatizing certain government functions especially in the case of weather is that the profit margin would seem to frequently over-ride the goals and objectives of the function. If an entity can make money by telling people to evacuate or stock up on supplies or whatever, they will do that regardless of the duty to the public. Because when people are harmed, literally or otherwise, the two entities (private sector and government) point at each other in blame and the public has no chain of command with which to find remedy.

Yes.

 

However, the Accuweathers of the world do not want competition from the NWS.  They want access to the raw data and other information, but want the ability to put out the forecasts without non-profit (the government) competition.

 

 

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