Individual-1, a joke or a threat? (talk Trump)

[Scot Dutchy]

Well the Repugs failed with this one.

Trump-Russia: Republican probe of alleged FBI bias ends 'with a whimper'

Committee chairs issue just a letter rather than final report after inquiry that was condemned as ploy to undermine Robert Mueller

Republicans have quietly and unceremoniously ended their congressional investigation of whether the FBI and Justice Department were biased in their handling of inquiries into Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.

House judiciary chairman Robert Goodlatte and oversight chairman Trey Gowdy, who are retiring next week, sent a letter rather than a full report to the Justice Department and the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. It wraps up an inquiry that was conducted mostly behind closed doors but also in public as Republican lawmakers often criticised interview subjects later and suggested they were conspiring against Trump.

Democrats have blasted the GOP-led congressional inquiry, saying it was merely meant as a distraction from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Its termination comes less than a week before Republicans cede the House majority to Democrats.

[pErvinalia]

Ended wars, Cunt? What are you talking about?

I just read in the news about the Koreas being joined by rail. Is that due to advances in rail technology? Or something about Trump meeting with the Koreas, and agreeing to stop bombing like crazy around there?

And he decided to stop warring in Syria. I think I remember that one being fairly recent...

The war is still on in Syria. And the Koreas are still officially at war. So you're wronger than a wrong thing.

[Cunt]

Ended wars, Cunt? What are you talking about?

I just read in the news about the Koreas being joined by rail. Is that due to advances in rail technology? Or something about Trump meeting with the Koreas, and agreeing to stop bombing like crazy around there?

And he decided to stop warring in Syria. I think I remember that one being fairly recent...

The war is still on in Syria. And the Koreas are still officially at war. So you're wronger than a wrong thing.

But the US isn't spending money to make explosions in Korea anymore. Someone else might be, but the US is out.

Ditto for Syria. For US troops, the war is over.

Do you expect him to end everyone elses wars, too?

[Svartalf]

Walls do not work, Cunt
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... Lt7jdS1xFI
your example was a single family home. Country walls fail.

Here is a subtle point you will miss. It doesn't matter if you are convinced it won't work. The voters voted for a guy, who ran on a platform which included walls. Now he is doing what his bosses told him to do - get walls built.
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He said Mexico would pay for it.

But now he says trade with mexico loses money to the US... so who's paying for what?

[Cunt]

Doesn't matter, or doesn't matter as much as the 'closed borders / open borders' divide.

The trouble is there hasn't been a good reason offered for not building it, except if you want more illegal entrants. Waste of infrastructure money? How about paying congressional salaries while they deliberately shut down the government? Waste of money is what government does at almost every turn.

[JimC]

A wall that Mexico would pay for.

Maybe they could pay in drugs...

[Cunt]

A wall that Mexico would pay for.

Maybe they could pay in drugs...

I think one of the US government folk suggested it...(was it Cruze? Beto?) anyway, it was about a Mexican Cartel leader who is up for harvest...doubt it would work though...I think any money which falls into government hands shrinks immediately.

[Animavore]

Americans would rather pay for an environmentally destructive wall than help people affect by environmental neglect.

[Animavore]

[Animavore]

Government workers share their shutdown stories.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw7 ... dSvymOCwVk

[Brian Peacock]

I cant wait for asbestos cigarettes to be legal again.

[Brian Peacock]

Doesn't matter, or doesn't matter as much as the 'closed borders / open borders' divide.

The trouble is there hasn't been a good reason offered for not building it, except if you want more illegal entrants. Waste of infrastructure money? How about paying congressional salaries while they deliberately shut down the government? Waste of money is what government does at almost every turn.

What do you mean by a 'closed borders / open borders' divide? What do closed or open border policies look like in this context?

[Tero]

Walls do not work, Cunt
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... Lt7jdS1xFI
your example was a single family home. Country walls fail.

Here is a subtle point you will miss. It doesn't matter if you are convinced it won't work. The voters voted for a guy, who ran on a platform which included walls. Now he is doing what his bosses told him to do - get walls built.

Oh, and I think they DO work, but our disagreement on that matter is of little value, since the voters have spoken. (clearly, I would say)

And your candidate has 39% support.

[Scot Dutchy]

But is for them is a majority. The rest dont matter.

[Tero]

Everything going according to plan

We Democrats sometimes have a hard time grasping just what Trump supporters wanted to achieve. There may not be a wall, but he certainly took a swipe at everything global. We apparently do not need the world, even if they make all our socks shoes and underwear.

So now that the government is shut down, he takes this opportunity to freeze federal wages for all of 2019 once they come back. This is because (Fox News, Trumpists) "the government does not do anything." Only the functions of border security, immigration and a few infrastructure jobs are needed. Oh, there might be a few other things, but they do not affect Trump's main activity.

So people that work for NIH, Center For Disease Control, all government funded medical research, climate change and all them nasty things that are too difficult for the Trump voter to understand, they are not needed. Maybe in their old age, but that is too far to plan ahead.

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