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I need no more evidence:

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WASHINGTON — Telecommunications giants like Verizon and AT&T will not have to take “reasonable measures” to ensure that their customers’ Social Security numbers, web browsing history and other personal information are not stolen or accidentally released.

Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase will not be punished, at least for now, for not collecting extra money from customers to cover potential losses from certain kinds of high-risk trades that helped unleash the 2008 financial crisis.

And Social Security Administration data will no longer be used to try to block individuals with disabling mental health issues from buying handguns, nor will hunters be banned from using lead-based bullets, which can accidentally poison wildlife, on 150 million acres of federal lands.

These are just a few of the more than 90 regulations that federal agencies and the Republican-controlled Congress have delayed, suspended or reversed in the month and a half since President Trump took office, according to a tally by The New York Times.

The emerging effort — dozens of additional rules could be eliminated in the coming weeks — represents one of the most significant shifts in regulatory policy in recent decades. It is the leading edge of what Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, described late last month as “the deconstruction of the administrative state.”
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:drool:
 
"A 70-year old man who watches 6 hours of TV a day, plays lots of golf, and always seems to be in Florida is a retiree, not a President."

 
2cents said:
Look who signed up for Twitter today (a/c not verified yet but looks genuine):

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Speaking of whom, this was probably one of SNL's better moments:

 
FBI director James Comey has rejected President Donald Trump's claim on Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, tapped his phone.
Mr Comey reportedly asked the US justice department to reject the allegation Mr Obama ordered a wiretap during last year's election campaign.
He is said to have asked for the correction because it falsely insinuates that the FBI broke the law.
The development was reported by the New York Times and confirmed by NBC.
The justice department has yet to issue a statement on the latest reports.
Mr Trump offered no evidence to support his allegation that phones at Trump Tower were tapped last year.
A spokesman for Mr Obama said the allegation was "simply false".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39175962
 
Beautifully presented essay from WSJ on Trump supporters and what they want.

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Any talk about impeachment before 2018 is fruitless, since no sitting president has ever been successfully impeached when his own party has control of one or both chambers of Congress (and I'm counting Nixon here even though he resigned and was pardoned, if you don't then there's no president ever successfully impeached, period).
 
InfiniteBoredom said:
Any talk about impeachment before 2018 is fruitless, since no sitting president has ever been successfully impeached when his own party has control of one or both chambers of Congress (and I'm counting Nixon here even though he resigned and was pardoned, if you don't then there's no president ever successfully impeached, period).
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Basically this. It's easy to get carried away, but Trump is not going anywhere, for at least 2 years, at worst 4.

On a broader scale, While it seems there are controversies dogging his rule, his government has pushed a lot of deregulation's and have empowered ICE and Immigration officials to turn back immigrants (legal and illegal) on flimsy grounds. His base is loving it. As with elections, there seems to be a big disconnect on public sentiment captured by media, TV and in real life. I spent the week in Indiana and everybody is more than happy with way things are going. They even had time to ask about my salary and my visa type during conversations.
 
senorgregster said:
Another missile launch by North Korea. What will he do?
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Blame it on either Obama or Clinton. Do you think he has any real grasp of anything beyond bullying people, inventing fake news and grabbing women by their genitals? He has particularly zero clue about anything that has to do with foreign politics and is unwilling to learn.
 
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Not that anyone in the US cares but reasuring for me that a big majority of Germans don't long for a German version of Trumpism.
 
Not sure when Last Week Tonight airs on SKY1 in the UK but don't miss it this week!

The Trump related round-up of the week at the beginning is an eye-opener

"I guess this is just how things are going to work now: The President once saw a banana with a bruise that looked like a picture in an article he read in a dream – and that is why we're at fecking war!"
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Check out Paul Ryan's face during Trump's recent address :lol:

It was mainly the way he handles the Trump stuff that I wanted to highlight but the Dalai Lama main topic is well worth a listen too. I thought I understood the BG of the whole Tibet/China thing but I didn't actually realise what events it might trigger when the exiled leader eventually dies (or technically reincarnates).
 
Trump actually could have had it all, had he & his team decided to be and behave somewhat sensible at times after the inauguration, making sure to adopt a more neutral populistic strategy. This fascinates me to no end.
 
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Henrik Larsson said:
Trump actually could have had it all, had he & his team decided to be and behave somewhat sensible at times after the inauguration, making sure to adopt a more neutral populistic strategy. This fascinates me to no end.
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he couldn't. he never could have been anything other than what is unfolding.

He simply does not have the skills necessary to be a statesman, and he has surrounded himself with people more inept than he is.

Remember, this is a man who bankrupted his own casino. Twice. A business that takes all your money and decides how much of it they will give back to you. And he went bust. Think about that.

Had he been born in the Bronx to a bus driver, instead of a very wealthy crook, the only speech he would ever have given in his life would have been 'do you want fries with that?'
 
sglowrider said:
Animal Farm unleashed!

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/322325-republicans-eye-strategy-for-repealing-wall-street-reform
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I get that the republicans HATE state regulations (unless they are about abortions and marijuana) seeing as they do nothing but destroy the economy and take away people liberty but even with that insane perspective these makes no sense.

- Having ISP's protect their customers personal information? Nah, why should that matter?
- Let the investment banks feck over people (again) with no risk of punishment
- Having mentally ill people buy handguns in clearly a brilliant idea
- feck the environment in general. Any regulations put in place that tries to protect the climate and nature is BAD FOR BUSINESS
- ACA is BAD. Let's just go back to the good old ways of insurance companies charging whatever the feck they want and denying people healthcare at their own pleasure.
 
Henrik Larsson said:
Trump actually could have had it all, had he & his team decided to be and behave somewhat sensible at times after the inauguration, making sure to adopt a more neutral populistic strategy. This fascinates me to no end.
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I said more or less the same a few weeks ago, and I think someone else replied with more or less the same as @Nogbadthebad :D He just can't help it, he's the God Emperor of Doubling Down.
 
Ødegaard said:
Been following the thread for a long time, but don't feel like I have anything of note to add, I do however feel like this is the kind of stuff that should have come forward during the election... Or did shit go down after the election?
Why wasn't this the kind of stuff that the media focused on instead of just hoping that Trump would take himself out of the race?

Anyone think this actually can have an effect on the presidency?
(as in, will Trump have to step down/be removed? or is it just what the media is hoping for and trying to drumroll up with nothing of substance to Trump himself?)
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It did, every day for like a year and still the republicans voted him in. The truth is they don't really care about these issues. They only care if Hillary does them, then it's lock them up. When the republicans do them they go all silent about it or find a way to change the subkect.
 
Another one bites the dust. Alex Oronov (Michael Cohen brothers father in law) died a couple of days ago. Though this time the death was in the US and not Russia.

 
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