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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 5:49pm On Mar 20, 2017
Comedy central, though. LOL.

Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 5:54pm On Mar 20, 2017
vedaxcool:
Micro waves








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHejC6M0goI

got to give it to trump - he has made comedy great again

that shit is lit cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 6:06pm On Mar 20, 2017
FBI Director Comey, and NSA Director Admiral Rogers are testifying before the House Select committee on Intelligence
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by TheShopKeeper(m): 7:16pm On Mar 20, 2017
So amazing as stated by the FBI Director, that the Trump Campaign - Russian links has been under investigation since July 2016.

Why didn't he mentioned this during the election time, but instead harped upon Hillary's emails to the Congress in his letter to them in early October 2016, just few weeks to the presidential elections?

I think the FBI Director should be under investigation as well.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Lucasbalo(m): 7:16pm On Mar 20, 2017
CFCman:
FBI Director Comey, and NSA Director Admiral Rogers are testifying before the House Select committee on Intelligence
I like Director Comey opening statement that they are probing the Russian connection and I sincerely believe that the Russiagate is going to be like the Watergate scandal and we all know how that ended.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 8:38pm On Mar 20, 2017
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by raumdeuter: 9:54pm On Mar 20, 2017
LordReed:
His approval rating is at 37±3, lowest in recent years for the same time in the presidency.

You still believe all those polls approval ratings and BS stats that the media pulls out of their asss?

What was the chance of Trumo winning the election 24hrs to November 8?

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 10:38pm On Mar 20, 2017
raumdeuter:


You still believe all those polls approval ratings and BS stats that the media pulls out of their asss?

What was the chance of Trumo winning the election 24hrs to November 8?
You know what's funny about these polls? Just recently Politico did theirs on Trump to find out if Trump is doing great on Job performance. Result: 52% say Trump is doing great on Job performance; While 43% said he's not. They (Politico) quietly hid d Poll results at almost second to the last article, whereas it was suppose to be on their front page, how hypocritical they can be? grin
So they manipulate even their own polls. After all, A certain Hillary, who is now hiding in the woods, was polled with 95% chance of winning with even double digit lead...hahahahahaha

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 10:41pm On Mar 20, 2017
oyb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySTQk6updjQ
Continue to watch those liberal lunatic comedians...ain't got time for those fools. I can't even remember d last time I heard or watched them speak for even 1 minute.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by LordReed(m): 11:10pm On Mar 20, 2017
During the hearing today:

Q: It wasn't simply that the Russians had a negative preference for Secretary Clinton, they had a positive preference for Donald Trump. Is that correct?

A: Correct.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Lucasbalo(m): 11:14pm On Mar 20, 2017
obixcel:
Continue to watch those liberal lunatic comedians...ain't got time for those fools. I can't even remember d last time I heard or watched them speak for even 1 minute.
Funny you, do you even have electricity in your bunker to watch the shows ?.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Lucasbalo(m): 11:16pm On Mar 20, 2017
LordReed:
During the hearing today:

Q: It wasn't simply that the Russians had a negative preference for Secretary Clinton, they had a positive preference for Donald Trump. Is that correct?

A: Correct.
That is not a surprise. Russiagate is loading.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 11:47pm On Mar 20, 2017
Lucasbalo:
That is not a surprise. Russiagate is loading.
No evidence of Russia manipulating votes - u heard that grin
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by paschu: 11:47pm On Mar 20, 2017
You guys will literally wait till 2025. grin In fact the US depends on it.

Lucasbalo:
That is not a surprise. Russiagate is loading.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 11:50pm On Mar 20, 2017
Rogers/Comey being asked, state by state, if there is evidence of interference with election day vote tallies. Answer for all: No
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 11:50pm On Mar 20, 2017
paschu:
You guys will literally wait till 2025. grin In fact the US depends on it.

They ain't seeing nothing yet, 2020-2024 Loading.....
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 12:00am On Mar 21, 2017
Lucasbalo:
I like Director Comey opening statement that they are probing the Russian connection and I sincerely believe that the Russiagate is going to be like the Watergate scandal and we all know how that ended.
Let them probe na, till 2024. grin grin Ain't u also interested in the probing of recent leaks of classified infos. Don't u think all should be probed at once instead of focussing on Russia only.
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by obixcel(m): 12:08am On Mar 21, 2017
Trump-induced Insomnia...Trending now among d so-called ''tolerant'' Liberals grin grin
Appetite....Gone!
Sleep.....Gone!
grin grin
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by paschu: 12:13am On Mar 21, 2017
Here's the REAL deal:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrR7Fq5OQa0

Happening right now live.

grin grin grin

#MAGARallyKentucky

Folks started lining up since 8 hours ago. Yet, up till now, the "Madman" is yet to arrive. grin

obixcel:
Trump-induced Insomnia...Trending now among d so-called ''tolerant'' Liberals grin grin
Appetite....Gone!
Sleep.....Gone!
grin grin

Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by LordReed(m): 4:57am On Mar 21, 2017
raumdeuter:


You still believe all those polls approval ratings and BS stats that the media pulls out of their asss?

What was the chance of Trumo winning the election 24hrs to November 8?

Trump's win was due to many interacting factors so it's not as as simple as saying the polls were wrong. Besides polls are not the end all be all of what society is thinking, just a snapshot of the likely direction of that thinking.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by LordReed(m): 5:12am On Mar 21, 2017
obixcel:
Rogers/Comey being asked, state by state, if there is evidence of interference with election day vote tallies. Answer for all: No

Strawman argument. Nobody is claiming that the vote tallies were hacked.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Lucasbalo(m): 5:55am On Mar 21, 2017
obixcel:
Let them probe na, till 2024. grin grin Ain't u also interested in the probing of recent leaks of classified infos. Don't u think all should be probed at once instead of focussing on Russia only.
Go and Google Watergate and see what is coming to your god . Russiangate loading.

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 6:22am On Mar 21, 2017
raumdeuter:


You still believe all those polls approval ratings and BS stats that the media pulls out of their asss?

What was the chance of Trumo winning the election 24hrs to November 8?


do you approve of trump? do you think the 24 million americans about to lose their health insurance approve of trump? do you think people who grew up watching sesame street approve of trump? or the meals on wheels beneficiaries?


the only clear beneficiaries of trump today are the military industrial complex. which means another round of flip flopping [ wasnt it trump who was lambasting the f35 as wasteful?]



you guys [the conservatives, not the brainwashed wanna be white supremacist nutcases on this thread] are in a very interesting place.
you say you are not trump supporters, but you are clearly trump defenders

your party has been hijacked by white supremacists

Say what you will about the democrats and the DNC, they were able to contain bernie sanders. the republicans on the other hand allowed a lunatic and a band of nationalist racists to take it over.

with everything that has happened what do you think america would look like in 4 years?
what will the effect of trumps 3 million dollar mars a lago weekends have on the national budget?

let me ask you - i know you are a very smart guy - are you sure you will still have a job in the us by 2020? it is crystal clear to you that trump is enabling hostility to all immigrants, not just muslims or mexicans.

you are a first generation immigrant in a red state - how long before the MAGAs start pointing at immigrants like you who have 'stolen' their jobs?
or are you quiety working a way to canada, one of the few western nations that is still immigrant friendly?

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Lucasbalo(m): 6:34am On Mar 21, 2017
oyb:



do you approve of trump? do you think the 24 million americans about to lose their health insurance approve of trump? do you think people who grew up on sesame street approve of trump? or the meals on wheels beneficiaries?

the only clear beneficiaries of trump today are the military industrial complex. which means another round of flip flopping [ wasnt it trump who was lambasting the f35 as



you guys are in a very interesting place.
you say you are not trump supporters, but you are clearly trump defenders

your party has been hijacked by white supremacists

Say what you will about the democrats and the DNC, they were able to contain bernie sanders. the republicans on the other hand allowed a lunatic and a band of nationalist racists to take it over.

with everything that has happened what do you think america would look like in 4 years?

let me ask you - i know you are a very smart guy - are you sure you will still have a job in the us by 2020? it is crystal clear to you that trump is enabling hostility to all immigrants, not just muslims or mexicans.

you are a first generation immigrant in a red state - how long before the MAGAs start pointing at immigrants like you who have 'stolen' their jobs?
or are you quiety working a way to canada, one of the few western nations that is still immigrant friendly?
Especially with an immigrant with an accent as thick as The Rock of Gilbatrar. Lol

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 8:51am On Mar 21, 2017
https://secure.politico.com/story/2017/03/ivanka-trump-white-house-236273

Ivanka Trump, who moved to Washington saying she would play no formal role in her father’s administration, is now officially setting up shop in the White House.

The powerful first daughter has secured her own office on the West Wing’s second floor — a space next to senior adviser Dina Powell, who was recently promoted to a position on the National Security Council. She is also in the process of obtaining a security clearance and is set to receive government-issued communications devices this week.

In everything but name, Trump is settling in as what appears to be a full-time staffer in her father’s administration, with a broad and growing portfolio — except she is not being sworn in, will hold no official position and is not pocketing a salary, her attorney said.

Trump’s role, according to her attorney Jamie Gorelick, will be to serve as the president’s “eyes and ears” while providing broad-ranging advice, not just limited to women’s empowerment issues. Last week, for instance, Trump raised eyebrows when she was seated next to Angela Merkel for the German chancellor’s first official visit to Trump’s White House.

As her role in the White House grows — a role that comes with no playbook — Trump plans to adhere to the same ethics and records retention rules that apply to government employees, Gorelick said, even though she is not technically an employee. But ethics watchdogs immediately questioned whether she is going far enough to eliminate conflicts of interest, especially because she will not be automatically subjected to certain ethics rules while serving as a de facto White House adviser.
FBI’s Trump-Russia probe knocks White House on its heels

FBI’s Trump-Russia probe knocks White House on its heels

By Shane Goldmacher and Matthew Nussbaum

"Having an adult child of the president who is actively engaged in the work of the administration is new ground,” Gorelick conceded in an interview on Monday. “Our view is that the conservative approach is for Ivanka to voluntarily comply with the rules that would apply if she were a government employee, even though she is not.” A spokeswoman for Ivanka Trump said her role was signed off on by the White House counsel’s office, and the conflict issues were “worked through” with the office of government ethics. A White House spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment about the unique arrangement.

People close to Ivanka Trump said that she sees nothing unusual about the arrangement — it’s simply how she has worked with her father for years, as a senior official at the Trump Organization and as Donald Trump’s partner on “The Apprentice.”

But in the White House, the unprecedented arrangement for a child of the president has raised new questions about potential conflicts of interest — and about why Ivanka Trump can’t simply join the administration as a government employee. Her husband, Jared Kushner, serves as an official senior adviser in the White House and was sworn in, but his hiring also raised questions of whether it violated anti-nepotism laws. The Justice Department ruled that those laws applied only to agency appointments.

Ivanka Trump still owns her eponymous fashion and jewelry brand, even though she stepped down from her position at the company ahead of her father’s inauguration. She is also publishing a book, “Women Who Work,” which is due out in May.

"I will continue to offer my father my candid advice and counsel, as I have for my entire life,” Trump said in a statement. “While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president, I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees."

The arrangement, however, was greeted with more questions about what freedoms Trump was trying to preserve for herself — and why.

“They're not saying she's going to voluntarily subject herself to ethics rules to be nice,” said Norm Eisen, the former ethics czar in the Obama administration. “There’s recognition that they're in very uncertain territory here. The better thing to do would be to concede she is subject to the rules. It would create some outside accountability, because if she can voluntarily subject herself to the rules, she can voluntarily un-subject herself to the rules.”


Under the new rules, Trump has divested her common stock, tech investments, investment funds — and they will all appear on Kushner’s 278 financial disclosure form, required by all Cabinet nominees. Bloomberg News reported on Monday afternoon that Trump and Kushner sold as much as $36.7 million in assets to comply with federal ethics rules, according to the Office of Government Ethics.

But when it comes to divesting from her business, however, Gorelick admitted there is no way to make it a conflict-free zone.

“The one thing I would like to be clear on: we don’t believe it eliminates conflicts in every way,” Gorelick said. “She has the conflicts that derive from the ownership of this brand. We’re trying to minimize those to the extent possible."

Gorelick argued that the area is murky because outstanding contracts with third party vendors mean that Ivanka Trump cannot simply close her business — those vendors could continue using her brand. She also can’t sell the business, her attorney argued, because the buyer would have the right to license her name and potentially create other ethical issues.

Instead, Trump will be distancing herself, as much as possible, from the day-to-day operations of the Ivanka Trump brand and convey her interests to a trust.

The trust, Gorelick said, will be controlled by her brother-in-law, Josh Kushner, and her sister-in-law, Nicole Meyer, who will be prohibited from entering the brand into any agreements with foreign countries or agencies. Ivanka Trump has appointed Abigail Klem to serve as president of her company, overseeing the day-to-day operations, and prohibited the company from using her image to sell the brand. The first daughter, however, will retain veto power to kill any deals that would be “unacceptable from an ethics perspective.”
President Donald Trump's approval rating dipped to a new low in Gallup's daily tracking poll.


Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, will also serve as the outside ethics adviser to the trustees. The business will also be prohibited from using her image to market the brand.

Under the trust, her attorneys said, Ivanka Trump will receive only the information she needs for disclosure requirements and to facilitate compliance with conflict of interest and impartiality rules.

As for the money she will make from her book, Trump is planning to donate the royalties and net proceeds to charities that focus on women in the workforce, with the help of a donor-advised fund.

The measures that Ivanka Trump is undergoing to comply with federal ethics laws, ethics watchdogs said, are better than nothing. But they argued they are weak in the face of the flagrant violations of ethics standards by the president. Donald Trump’s hotels and golf courses, for instance, continue to engage in business with foreign and national groups that have interests in front of the White House.

“You might be inclined to view this differently and more generously if the White House had shown a stronger commitment to ethics enforcement,” Eisen said.

so now we have office of the first daughter. can naija style first daughter business cards be far behind?
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by edi287: 8:58am On Mar 21, 2017
raumdeuter:


You still believe all those polls approval ratings and BS stats that the media pulls out of their asss?

What was the chance of Trumo winning the election 24hrs to November 8?
At least 3 polls had Trump winning on Nov 7. Hillary's lead shrunk drastically as soon as Comey said FBI would be opening the investigation into the email thing.
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by LordReed(m): 9:50am On Mar 21, 2017
So I guess Obama has left the microwave. LoL!
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Nobody: 11:29am On Mar 21, 2017
LordReed:
So I guess Obama has left the microwave. LoL!



After a mic drop in the microwave
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by paschu: 4:07pm On Mar 21, 2017
The fake news media keep making things up - yet without apologies or retractions. wink




oyb:




After a mic drop in the microwave

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Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by raumdeuter: 5:13pm On Mar 21, 2017
LordReed:


Trump's win was due to many interacting factors so it's not as as simple as saying the polls were wrong. Besides polls are not the end all be all of what society is thinking, just a snapshot of the likely direction of that thinking.

So if the polls pre elections were very wrong so why do we still put any belief in the polls? The same pols who said Wisconsin was safe?

If you were that wrong on your job as the polls were, you wont have a job today

A day to election all polls pointed to Hillary winning a landslide, you can go back on this thread where everyone 24hrs to election thought it was a post mortem foor Trump. He won and won well
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by raumdeuter: 5:14pm On Mar 21, 2017
edi287:

At least 3 polls had Trump winning on Nov 7. Hillary's lead shrunk drastically as soon as Comey said FBI would be opening the investigation into the email thing.

3 polls out of how many polls?
Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by LordReed(m): 5:22pm On Mar 21, 2017
raumdeuter:


So if the polls pre elections were very wrong so why do we still put any belief in the polls? The same pols who said Wisconsin was safe?

If you were that wrong on your job as the polls were, you wont have a job today

A day to election all polls pointed to Hillary winning a landslide, you can go back on this thread where everyone 24hrs to election thought it was a post mortem foor Trump. He won and won well

Polls have never claimed to be 100% certain or right, if you took polling to mean that, then that's on you.

EDIT: Same way weather forecasts work. If it doesn't rain when it was forecasted to, do you go "oh I'm never believing the weather forecast again!"? Or do they sack the weatherman?

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