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I see Flynn was an even poorer choice than we already thought

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/09/michael-flynn-foreign-agent-sean-spicer

And yet more republican logic regarding health care
[url= http://shareblue.com/republican-lawmaker-says-cancer-patients-can-go-to-the-er-for-health-care/ ]cancer patients can go the ER.[/url]

Trump's ratings looking almost as bad as the ratings for The Apprentice.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar10

I'm surprised even Trump's presidency could be as bad as the Apprentice.

So it seems that the exclusion of Iraq from the new travel ban might have been simply to make it "different" to the previous travel ban.

This is how the new ban differs from the previous one :

1. Iraq is removed from the list.

2. Existing visa holders will not be subjected to the ban.

3. Religious minorities are no longer given preferential treatment.

4. Syrian refugees are no longer singled out.

5. The rollout will occur in 10 days.

[url= http://uk.businessinsider.com/whats-different-in-trump-new-travel-ban-2017-3 ]Here are 5 things different about Trump's new travel ban[/url]

What's the significance of the new different travel ban? Well it means that the judge's first ruling on the initial travel ban allegedly no longer applies.

[i]"The justice department had argued that since the initial travel order ban had been revoked, the judge's first ruling could no longer apply. Those opposing that argument said the new travel ban had the same effect as the original."[/i]

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39241321 ]Trump travel ban: Judge declines to reinstate ruling[/url]

Although it's already hit obstacles :

[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-new-travel-ban-first-legal-setback-challenge-syria-syrian-muslim-wisconsin-judge-a7624156.html ]Donald Trump's new travel ban suffers first legal setback[/url]

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And it seems that the United States tourism industry, which is worth $2.1 trillion, is suffering since the US chose an odious and obnoxious man to lead them :

[url= http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-slump-tourism-united-states-travel-ban/ ]The Trump Slump[/url]

[i]“I don’t want to spend any of my euros in this version of United States. It’s not the one I’ve known for long time.”[/i]

Nobody seems to have picked up on the tourism bit but it's going to be a lot of jobs and money gone until trump goes. And for anyone saying it's nonsense I can say we were planning to go as a family and now will chose somewhere less dumbly ruled.

Nobody seems to have picked up on the tourism bit but it's going to be a lot of jobs and money gone until trump goes. And for anyone saying it's nonsense I can say we were planning to go as a family and now will chose somewhere less dumbly ruled.

And yet more republican logic regarding health care

I liked [url= http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/03/07/jason-chaffetz-invest-in-healthcare-instead-of-phones-sot-newday.cnn ]Jason Chaffetz suggesting[/url] that if lower-income families want healthcare then [i]"maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love, and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own healthcare"[/i]

Something that I missed earlier was a few questions to Sean Spicer on the phone taps - Is it not a bad thing for Trump that he could have been investigated to the extent that they needed to wire tap Trump Tower? Mumble Fumble Mumble
the biggest issue for the Republicans is the Tax Credits they are available on the HC bill are basically cash in hand or subsidy (not a good word from Republicans) They are about to rate the cost and coverage of the bill this week so Spicer has been briefing against the group that does that (currently overseen by a Republican) for the moment it ends up costing more and covering less people.

Have we done this yet?

[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-barack-obama-spying-through-microwave-claims-a7626826.html ]Kellyanne Conway suggests Obama could have spied on Donald Trump through a microwave[/url]

Ah, "suggests" 🙄

In other news: [url=http://]Buzzfeed[/url] (yeah, I know...) say:

[i]Even some Democrats on the Intelligence Committee now quietly admit, after several briefings and preliminary inquiries, they [u]don’t expect to find evidence of active, informed collusion between the Trump campaign and known Russian intelligence operatives[/u], though investigators have only just begun reviewing raw intelligence. Among the Intelligence Committee’s rank and file, there’s a tangible frustration over what one official called [u]“wildly inflated” expectations [/u]surrounding the panel’s fledgling investigation.[/i]

😆

Ah, "suggests"

In that video she literally says: [i]"...microwaves that turn into cameras etc. So we know that that is just a fact of modern life."[/i]

I think I missed that particular "fact" in the Vault 7 leaks. 😆

Is she talking about the Samsung TV hack?

I suppose you could get voice activated internet ready microwave ovens.

Do you think she went round get house chucking out anything made by Samsung? 😉

Might explain why she's never been able to get a decent picture on that little TV in the kitchen 🙂

Nah, she's just seen the documentary Transformers The Movie.

Seriously though, how? What? Just generally whu noises. She should be presenting an internet radio show not part of a government.

out of breath - Member

Who was the aircraft designer who ended up in the Gulab because he once went to an airshow in Paris?!

Andrei Tuplolev.

But TBH, if you build, command, design or even read, you were sent to the Gulag.

Korolev (Father of Russian rocketry) was sent there too because he'd been using research funds for aircraft on rockets...how dare he - what future in rockets?!

I guess Stalin was the precursor to Gove/Farage/Trump - they too were done listening to experts, whilst harbouring feelings of insecurity wrapped up in a healthy blanket of xenophobia and racism and with a desire, above all else, to have POWER.

She should be presenting an internet radio show not part of a government.

My microwave takes pictures of me FFS

Keeping quiet for few days in the hope that your previous bizarre attempt to justify the Orange One will have been forgotten, so you can continue your desperate attempts to defend the indefensible, doesn't work, ninfan...

Is the Trump admin doing less now than in the first few weeks, or has the shock value already worn off and its rabid wordfarts are now the new normal and not worth reporting?

If the latter, job done.

Eek!

How long before Sean Spicer has a breakdown? Presumably he just lies in the feotal position in the shower overnight waiting for whatever the tangerine Bawbag tells him to say today.

they don’t expect to find evidence of active, informed collusion between the Trump campaign and known Russian intelligence operatives, though investigators have only just begun reviewing raw intelligence.

From "The Good Shepherd"

Mafia boss: "What have you people got?"

W.A.S.P CIA boss: "What do you mean?"

MB: "Well, the Italians - we've got the Church and the family. The Jews, they've got their traditions. Even the ****s, they've got their music. What have you people got?"

CIA boss: "The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting..."

Who would have thought that the early mornming tweets were in fact completely mis typed and missing several key words...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-14/white-house-appears-to-soften-trumps-claim-on-wiretapping/8351694
Meanwhile they just can't seem to find the box marked incriminating evidence
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-06/trump-white-house-calls-for-investigation-into-wiretapping-claim/8326744

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Sums it up kimbers. Anyway I've just activated my microwave spy network and Donald letting Steve bannon do whatever he wants while the pot noodle cooks.

Forget microwaves:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/we-vibe-vibrator-tracking-users-sexual-habits

Has he been impeached yet, I thought he wasn't going to last 5 minutes ?

I wonder what the real reason is behind Merkel's cancelled visit. Seems a bit odd to blame it on the weather particularly as it hasn't turned out nearly as bad as forecast.

Not being impeached in your first 50 days in office is hardly a major achievement but you big it up as much as you need.
she does not want to be seen sharing a platform with this [s]racist lying bigot[/s]person with these policies and these actions. She is too polite to say the real reason . Not exactly sherlock levels of deduction required but HTH.
Anything else you need explaining?

Whent the best you can say is Donald Trump - Not impeached yet it's not looking good. 50 days in and less popular, less trusted and still not managed to fill a cabinet or the senior positions. As may people have spotted that will be coming to bite hime next as there are not many number 2's around when the boss is out of town.

Has he been impeached yet, I thought he wasn't going to last 5 minutes ?

[url= http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar14 ]Ratings[/url] down again today.

If he was a TV show, he would be in big trouble.

she does not want to be seen sharing a platform with this racist lying bigotperson with these policies and these actions. She is too polite to say the real reason

It wasn't Merkel who postponed the meeting it was Trump.

Trump prefers his women with more tits and less opinions.

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Besides, it probably interfered with his busy golfing schedule.

[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-golf-intelligence-briefings-white-house-us-president-mar-a-lago-doral-florida-a7598396.html ]Donald Trump 'played golf more than taking daily intelligence briefings' since entering White House[/url]

I suppose you could get voice activated internet ready microwave ovens.

So do we think it's good to know how the person steering the tax changes would benift from them?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html?_r=0

Nothing in the two pages produced on Tuesday night suggested any ties with Russia. Nor did they provide much information about his businesses that was not previously known. But they showed that the vast bulk of the federal income taxes he paid in 2005, $31 million, was paid under the alternative minimum tax, which Mr. Trump wants to abolish.

That tax serves as a backstop to the ordinary income tax and is intended to prevent wealthy Americans from paying no income tax at all. Without it, Mr. Trump would have paid about $5 million in regular taxes, plus nearly $2 million in self-employment taxes, on $153 million in income in 2005.

“Trump’s return shows that he’s pushing tax changes that benefit multimillionaire heirs like him, not the middle class,” said Lily Batchelder, a tax law professor at New York University and former majority chief tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee. “His proposal to repeal the A.M.T. would have slashed his own tax burden by $31 million, and his income tax rate would be lower than the average rate paid by families earning $75,000 to $100,000.”

Customs bills reportedly show Trump's daughter’s company had 53.5 of tonnes of Chinese goods steaming towards American ports during inauguration speech

Ah, so THAT'S what "jambafact" means.

According to jambalaya:

I wonder what the real reason is behind Merkel's cancelled visit. Seems a bit odd to blame it on the weather particularly as it hasn't turned out nearly as bad as forecast.

From The Independent:

Air travel was perhaps the hardest hit sector - nearly 6,000 flights were canceled all across the region with 3,300 of them in the New York area.

American Airlines cancelled all flights to and from John F. Kennedy, Laguardia, and Newark airports in the New York area.

Delta alone cancelled 800 flights in the northeast corridor between Philadelphia and Boston.

Television news reports showed nearly empty airports normally bustling with thousands of travelers.

Despite the early warnings of the storm and sub-optimal flying conditions, hundreds were stranded and the ripple effect has caused approximate 1,600 flight delays across the country, according to CNBC.

Sad. Terrible. Muchly big.

So has he leaked his own tax return?

Possibly the only one he could find in the last two decades where he has actually paid any tax?

martinhutch - Member
Possibly the only one he could find in the last two decades where he has actually paid any tax?

That's what I'm thinking, why else would only one year from so long ago be [s]released[/s] 'leaked'?

The stamp 'client copy' on the release also suggests it may not originate from the IRS... 😀

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It wasn't Merkel who postponed the meeting it was Trump.

Trump prefers his women with more tits and less opinions.

Besides, it probably interfered with his busy golfing schedule.

Doesn't Merkel get the message yet? Why the thick skin on insisting to be important?

President Trump should simply brush her aside coz she is Not important nor is Germany in the grand scheme of things. They should know their place. 😛

So, it seems that a plan to 'drain the swamp' isn't actually a terribly good one when it turns out that the swamps main inhabitants are mostly people working for yourself..... 😉

So he paid some tax ages ago and now he's trying to make sure he doesn't do it again. Even if he was draining the swamp we'd neber know as the EPA will soon be one guy with a clipboard.

So he paid some tax ages ago and now he's trying to make sure he doesn't do it again

I'm confused, I though that Donald hadn't paid [u]any income tax for eighteen years[/u]

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