Cohen spills beans on Trump/Russia: Trump cancels on Putin

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Re: Cohen spills beans on Trump/Russia: Trump cancels on Put

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Doctor Steuss wrote:
ajax18 wrote:[...]
Who cares that we've finally found a candidate serious about enforcing the border. He gave Putin a $50 million penthouse.

for what it's worth, border patrol apprehensions for 2017 were the lowest since 1971 (over 100,000 less than in Obama's final year).

meaningless stat as is, could be a result of "less" people to apprehend, less border patrolmen, change in apprehension policy, etc...
Obama's was likely high because it was a key aspect of their voter registration policy.
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Doc, I think you hit the nail on the head. Repeatedly.
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Re: Cohen spills beans on Trump/Russia: Trump cancels on Put

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subgenius wrote:
meaningless stat as is, could be a result of "less" people to apprehend, less border patrolmen, change in apprehension policy, etc...
Obama's was likely high because it was a key aspect of their voter registration policy.


And yet you didn't provide any data to actually back up anything that "could" have caused the decrease. I don't doubt there were other factors involved but how about, instead of doing your pathetic, childish and entirely expected contrarian hand waving routine, you actually provide data to show what caused the decrease if its not Trump's incompetence. Please try really hard not to descend into your typical incoherent excuse making where you don't know what you are trying to say, just show numbers.
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Here's where subgenius and ajax18 (and perhaps people like Ceeboo and Markk) come into play. He knows that if he tells scared blue collar workers what they want to hear he'll get their support. He knows when he tells the scared White people that he'll get rid of the "bad" non-White people he'll get their support. He knows if the tells the scared Christians that he'll take get Conservative judges into place and get rid of abortion he'll get their support. None of what he says matters to him. They're just words. It's all a means to an end, and him getting what he wants, those billions of sweet deal-dollars, is the only thing that matters to him. You know what? Typing this out I can just go ahead and state for sure that Trump is a narcissistic psychopath, and he's a bully.


This is what Glenn Beck said during the Republican primaries. Supposedly they had a tape of DJT telling the New York Slimes that, "build the wall," was just campaign rhetoric and that he was really a lifelong Democrat disguised currently as a Republican with no intention of enforcing the border. I think this has proven to be untrue.
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subgenius wrote:meaningless stat as is, could be a result of "less" people to apprehend, less border patrolmen, change in apprehension policy, etc...

what about all of those hordes streaming up from Central America? Are Trump’s hysterical hair-fire declarations about our imminent invasion just hysterical hair-fire declarations designed to manipulate his easily-duped Base, or is Trump just cognitively handicapped?

subgenius wrote:Obama’s was likely high because it was a key aspect of their voter registration policy.

I see. These illegals would all vote for Republicans, you’re saying. Got it.

In any event, at least we don’t appear to need to spend billions on a wall that’s not needed with so few apprehensions occurring these days. Although, Mexico might still kick in a few bags of cash for that if it will help keep Trump voters confined within the USA.
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mostly ignored the op-ed that preceded this portion:
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: Here's where subgenius and ajax18 (and perhaps people like Ceeboo and Markk) come into play. He knows that if he tells scared blue collar workers what they want to hear he'll get their support.

Not always true...but as a general rule and regardless of party - telling people what they want to hear for their support is kinda Politics 101...heck its business 101 and dating 101.


Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: He knows when he tells the scared White people that he'll get rid of the "bad" non-White people he'll get their support.

No, its when you tell scared brown people that you'll get rid of the bad white people that you get support...or is it when you tell scared poor people that you'll get rid of bad rich people?....no, its telling scared homosexuals that you will make bad Christians bake a cake for them.


Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: They're just words. It's all a means to an end, and him getting what he wants, those billions of sweet deal-dollars, is the only thing that matters to him.

Aww, and just when all the other politicians and Americans in our country had proclaimed that they were in it "just for the fellowship" (which i think is the sub-title to Michelle Obama's book tour).


Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: You know what? Typing this out I can just go ahead and state for sure that Trump is a narcissistic psychopath, and he's a bully.

Maybe - but he is an American bully that is needed on the global playground of bullies.

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: For Trump, bless his heart, he thinks that by virtue of being President he's like Putin, or Kim Jong-Un, and he's all-powerful and is above everything and everyone.

Nope, he doesn't appear to be that - you just think that because clearly have a cult of president hangover from Obama behaving that way (a.k.a. Putin lapdog from hot-mic incident of 2012).

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: He has no frame of reference for what's happening.

and just what is happening?

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: Getting push back doesn't make sense to him. What he's doing is not an act; they're the actions of a deeply deluded individual.

You confuse tweets with the policies that are actually being accomplished in the non-twitterverse.

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: And when it comes time to answer for his crimes, once the Republican justice-blockade crumbles, he'll go down swinging like every other dictator, feeling wronged, bewildered at what's happening to him, and claiming to be a martyr for his country.

And what crimes has he committed? That way we can make sure history reflects that a President was still in office after shooting someone on 5th avenue....last time i checked a person commits a crime they get charged with a crime....sometimes even arrested.

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: Total BS, but it is what it is.

More accurately it is just your wishful thinking.

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canpakes wrote:
subgenius wrote:Obama’s was likely high because it was a key aspect of their voter registration policy.

I see. These illegals would all vote for Republicans, you’re saying. Got it.

Um, it appears you don't got it...Obama practiced catch and release (preferably release outside a polling location)...see the difference?

canpakes wrote:In any event, at least we don’t appear to need to spend billions on a wall that’s not needed with so few apprehensions occurring these days. Although, Mexico might still kick in a few bags of cash for that if it will help keep Trump voters confined within the USA.

Maybe we do, maybe we don't.
But let us take a quick sidebar on this point....do you ever think/imagine that it would be necessary to "build a wall" ? or rather, is the concept of a "border" abhorrent to you?
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subgenius wrote:Um, it appears you don't got it...Obama practiced catch and release (preferably release outside a polling location)...see the difference?


but, but, but OBAMA!?!!?

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ajax18 wrote:This is what Glenn Beck said during the Republican primaries. Supposedly they had a tape of DJT telling the New York Slimes that, "build the wall," was just campaign rhetoric and that he was really a lifelong Democrat disguised currently as a Republican with no intention of enforcing the border. I think this has proven to be untrue.

I don't suppose you remember Beck's exact words (or close to them)? My Google-fu is pulling up unrelated stuff (I can't seem to land on the right search terms).

I remember Garrett Jackson (from Romney's campaign) suggesting that Trump better hope that a recording didn't exist of Trump urging Romney's presidential campaign (circa 2012?) to use birtherism because "rightwing crazies will believe it." But I don't remember this particular thing from Beck -- then again, he was kind of a whirlwind there for a while, so it's hard to really remember anything from him.
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subgenius wrote: ... let us take a quick sidebar on this point....do you ever think/imagine that it would be necessary to "build a wall" ? or rather, is the concept of a "border" abhorrent to you?

I did not realize that all borders must have a hugely expensive and ineffective wall built on them to qualify as borders.

Aside from the question of how you manage to process this sort of border security issue with the intellectual firepower of a caterpillar, I’d recommend that you might want to travel outside of this country someday to see how this sort of thing works elsewhere.
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