| |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
| |
| Political Threads This section is for Political Threads - Enter at your own risk. If you say you don't want to see what someone posts - don't read it :hihi: |
08-27-2020, 07:02 PM
|
#1
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,182
|
WTF is going on at the Whitehouse???
Seriously who is ok with this?
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2020, 07:07 PM
|
#2
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,109
|
How do you say Donald Trump in Spanish Nicolas Maduro
Why would Americans expect the POTUS to lead by example  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2020, 07:16 PM
|
#3
|
|
Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
Posts: 8,391
|
It’s not the people’s house it’s his house, at least until November, it’s reality TV Trump style.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2020, 08:58 PM
|
#4
|
|
Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,069
|
Just keep in mind
There were 673 murders in New York in 2000, the last year of Rudy Giuliani's reign.
There were 319 murders in New York last year.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 03:32 AM
|
#5
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 12,632
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
Seriously who is ok with this?
|
squeeze your stress ball and take a deep breath.. it will be ok in the morning...maybe...hey, at least nobody spray painted graffiti and tried to burn the place to the ground...yet |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 04:41 AM
|
#6
|
|
Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,069
|
My eight word review of his speech: Junior must have used up all the coke.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 04:49 AM
|
#7
|
|
Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,069
|
In case you’re confused about what went on at the White House last night, The Hatch Act is not a “norm” or a “tradition” - it’s a federal law that any staffer who worked on this convention has absolutely broken and can be prosecuted for.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 05:11 AM
|
#8
|
|
Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
Posts: 8,391
|
No chit, nothing wrong with fireworks for a campaign rally over federal land and on White House grounds, just another example of this guys attempt to reshape what government can do and past laws be damned.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 06:19 AM
|
#9
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,556
|
To put it into perspective, Republicans attempted to rake Al Gore over the coals when he once used a whitehouse phone to make a few fundraising phone calls. And yet somehow they all magically ignore the rules.
I really liked melanoma’s Eva Braun dress. All she was missing was a Luger on her hip
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 07:23 AM
|
#10
|
|
Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,069
|
18 USC 610 makes it a crime to command or attempt to command (or coerce, intimidate or threaten) any federal employee to participate in political activity, like the RNC event at the WH. That statute applies to POTUS.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 07:33 AM
|
#11
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,428
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottw
hey, at least nobody spray painted graffiti and tried to burn the place to the ground...yet
|
you spoke a bit too soon, the party of free speech, tolerance, and diversity...had a riot in DC last night. Apparently they are angry that republicans exist.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 09:38 AM
|
#12
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,428
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebe
To put it into perspective, Republicans attempted to rake Al Gore over the coals when he once used a whitehouse phone to make a few fundraising phone calls. And yet somehow they all magically ignore the rules.
I really liked melanoma’s Eva Braun dress. All she was missing was a Luger on her hip
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
Any republican who criticized Gore but is OK with Trump, is a hypocrite. Personally, I feel that politics is so ingrained in the day-to-day job, I could care less. If the POTUS is working in the oval office, I don't expect him to leave the building and use his own personal phone every time he talks to campaign staff or a potential donor. That's not the same thing as using the SS trust fund to pay for campaign commercials.
I thought the same exact thing about Melanias dress, looked like something Castro would wear. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 09:59 AM
|
#13
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,182
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim in CT
you spoke a bit too soon, the party of free speech, tolerance, and diversity...had a riot in DC last night. Apparently they are angry that republicans exist.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
|
It was bad, I heard there was chanting and dancing. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 10:20 AM
|
#14
|
|
Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,069
|
Accusing political opponents of "living in walled off compounds" while delivering a speech on White House grounds at a convention that featured the McCloskeys is an interesting strategy.
|
Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 10:21 AM
|
#15
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,428
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
It was bad, I heard there was chanting and dancing.
|
and cops getting shoved in order to get to Rand Paul, but that was an innocent omission on your part, not a deliberate misrepresentation of what happened. Right? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 10:24 AM
|
#16
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,182
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim in CT
and cops getting shoved in order to get to Rand Paul, but that was an innocent omission on your part, not a deliberate misrepresentation of what happened. Right?
|
A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 10:33 AM
|
#17
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,428
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.
|
Paul says the cop was shoved. Please show me the evidence you have, to say he tripped. I'm surprised you didn't say he tripped while reading his skinhead magazine.
No lengths you won't go to. None. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 10:33 AM
|
#18
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,428
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.
|
If it's no big whoop, why do you have to distort what happened? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 10:40 AM
|
#19
|
|
Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,069
|
|
Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 11:31 AM
|
#20
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,428
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.
|
video. Certainly not a riot.
Were they peaceful protesters, or a mob? Id say closer to a mob. At the 1:45 mark, look at the huge guy screaming right in a cops face from two inches away. Thats not threatening?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 11:33 AM
|
#21
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,428
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete F.
|
At the 0:28 second mark of Pete's video, the cop is very clearly shoved. Spence, you go ahead and tell us he tripped. Id like to hear you say that.
TELL US WHO TOLD YOU HE TRIPPED. Where do you get that information? Either you made it up, or you were lied to. Which is it? Because there isn't a third option.
Spence, we would all like to hear you say that the cop tripped, and that this video was doctored by the RNC.
Frigging liars...
Last edited by Jim in CT; 08-28-2020 at 11:39 AM..
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 11:46 AM
|
#22
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,182
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim in CT
At the 0:28 second mark of Pete's video, the cop is very clearly shoved. Spence, you go ahead and tell us he tripped. Id like to hear you say that.
TELL US WHO TOLD YOU HE TRIPPED. Where do you get that information? Either you made it up, or you were lied to. Which is it? Because there isn't a third option.
Spence, we would all like to hear you say that the cop tripped, and that this video was doctored by the RNC.
Frigging liars...
|
I didn't say the cop wasn't pushed, I said he tripped when he bumped into Paul which the video clearly shows. The cops are trying to move through a group of protesters, this isn't a riot or anything even close to one. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 12:02 PM
|
#23
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 7,688
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.
|
Gee, the way you put it, the cops weren't even necessary. They should have just stepped aside. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 12:02 PM
|
#24
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,428
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
I didn't say the cop wasn't pushed, I said he tripped when he bumped into Paul which the video clearly shows. The cops are trying to move through a group of protesters, this isn't a riot or anything even close to one.
|
you said he tripped. He did not trip. DO any of you bother to read the nonsense you post? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 12:14 PM
|
#25
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,182
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by detbuch
Gee, the way you put it, the cops weren't even necessary. They should have just stepped aside.
|
I would think police would usually be present to move a high profile person through a crowd. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 12:49 PM
|
#26
|
|
Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,069
|
The ratings of Trump's acceptance speech from last night are in. Biden beat him like a drum!
Democratic - Biden - 17.5
Republican - Trump - 14.1
Mr. "I get the highest rating" is going to lose his mind! 
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 12:59 PM
|
#27
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,182
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete F.
The ratings of Trump's acceptance speech from last night are in. Biden beat him like a drum!
Democratic - Biden - 17.5
Republican - Trump - 14.1
Mr. "I get the highest rating" is going to lose his mind!
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
Good WaPo article today that Trump pretty much misstated every single Biden position. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 01:44 PM
|
#28
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 7,688
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
I would think police would usually be present to move a high profile person through a crowd.
|
According to Paul, the crowd wasn't merely there. It gathered around him in a threatening way when they recognized who he was and were yelling threatening things at him. And he and his wife made their way to where the police were in time to get their assistance to make it to the hotel. He saw that the crowd/mob was getting bigger and it would be wise for the police to call for back up, which never came. He actually thought that he and his wife were in danger of being killed or severely beaten.
Of course, not being there, you know better, it was just a crowd. No big deal. Just need a few cops to help get through the peaceful crowd. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 01:44 PM
|
#29
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,109
|
With rand Paul's stunt and it was a deliberate act. I'll do what Republicans do
He should have gone a different way
He should have complied with the police and went out the correct exit
Maybe you dont bring a perm to a knife fight
Do stupid things win stupid prizes
Have I missed any?
Hes all over fox he thought the mob would have killed him if wasn't for those brave police with bikes which he put in a bad spot. Hes a tool
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2020, 01:49 PM
|
#30
|
|
Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,069
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by wdmso
With rand Paul's stunt and it was a deliberate act. I'll do what Republicans do
He should have gone a different way
He should have complied with the police and went out the correct exit
Maybe you dont bring a perm to a knife fight
Do stupid things win stupid prizes
Have I missed any?
Hes all over fox he thought the mob would have killed him if wasn't for those brave police with bikes which he put in a bad spot. Hes a tool
|
 |
Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:08 PM.
|
| |
Linear Mode
