Seems unfair not to give proper attribution for my last few remarks about wrestling. So here you go, a Ted talk I think is well worth watching right till the end.
Thatâs a pretty interesting TED Talk. One of the many reasons I stopped using social media was because I always felt like I was fighting for control of my emotions. It was a burden, and I donât need that. A similar, rage-inducing model has now taken over many news organizations, unfortunately.
Lincoln loved to show off his strength. There are stories about him betting spectators how long he could hold a pine log by his fingertips and with his arm fully stretched out, horizontally, before finally dropping it. He loved to show off that way, and stories say he made a lot of money doing it. Itâs really not wise to judge a book by its cover.
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This could go here, in the funny political image thread, in the slippery slope thread⊠Maybe even in the typhoon thread.
Majestic beyond comprehension.
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Good to see a couple of Republicans standing up for political oversight and rationality, but disappointing (not surprising) that the great majority continue to be craven sycophants.
âI canât vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasnât been appropriated by Congress,â Paul said at a GOP dinner Saturday night at Western Kentucky University, according to the Bowling Green (Ky.) Daily News.
âWe may want more money for border security, but Congress didnât authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, itâs a dangerous thing.â
I quite like Rand Paul, overall he has been quite supportive of Trump, if he is voting this down it would make me think he is doing so out of principle rather than a deep seated hatred of the President.
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Yeah. I also like rand and his father. They stick to their principles and I respect that.
I prefer Doom Paul Senior, but even Junior is a good guy.
Though I donât see the point in trying to delay the inevitable Trumpâs Enabling Act. Maybe theyâre playing a role? That would be 5D underwater strip curlingâŠ
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I hear theyâre going to make this an official sport in the next Olympics. They say it puts trans women and vag women on a more equal footing.
Hopefully will turn out to be more than a couple, but I agree: itâs good news. Trump would exceed the Executiveâs Constitutional powers if Congress doesnât block his declaration of a national emergency. More Republicans need to find their spines, especially in the House.
Paul joins fellow Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) in opposing Trumpâs move, a reflection of some resistance within the GOP to what lawmakers see as executive overreach and a test of the constitutional separation of powers.
Numerous other GOP senators have also expressed reservations about Trumpâs move, among them are Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), leading to widespread expectations that the resolution will easily pass the Senate. [Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, too]
Trump has said he would veto the legislation, and the vote margin in the House last week â 245 to 182 â was well short of the two-thirds majority that would be required to override his veto.
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A fascinating interview about one manâs political awakening (Brandon Straka of the #WalkAway movement).
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Really?
the entertainment will be Trumpâs live twitter commentary during Demsâ debates.
Itâs amazing that they donât realize that they have literally been trying to de-legitimize the 2016 election since the moment they realized that Trump somehow won.
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CNN isnât big on self-reflection.
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more likely to be someone rubber-necking, I would think.
Ever since the Steele dossier was published by Buzzfeed, 4Chan has been crowing that the more salacious part, Trumps pee pee story was a shitpost on 4Chan. I never thought Steele would have been that stupid, until I saw his testimony just released a couple of days ago.
In his testimony he admits getting details for his dossier from CNN iReport, a site that allows for users to submit their own content and has the following disclaimer. âiReport.com is a user-generated site. That means the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked, or screened before they post.â
âDo you understand that they have no connection to any CNN reporters?â
Steele replied, âI do not.â
âDo you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individualsâ assertions on the Internet?â
Steele replied: âNo, I obviously presume that if it is on a CNN site that it may has some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site."
As if putting CNN actual reporters comments in an intelligence report would have been much better.
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Yeah well, âblabber mouthâ Barbie is still defending him, her mouth forms words not generated by her brain, just blabbering about. Flooding everything with noise.
Well, CNN was at the front of the âSdrumpf didnât condemn the neo nazis in Whateverville!!1â, which he actually very clearly did if you read the whole transcriptâŠbut if you just so happen to limit your reporting to his first sentence, you get a nice click baity narrative that can go on for years. So itâs not like Iâd trust their fact checking anyway.
To this day there are still people who didnât read/listen to the whole thing and think that he said that neo nazis are very fine people, and outlets like Cnn & Co are those to blame.
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