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Look! I just dropped $1million of bombs on your thread, so stop going on about #Russiagate (Trump cont.)

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illegitimateMortificadospawn · 07/04/2017 22:01

Old thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2893017-Dont-look-at-that-old-thread-its-FAKE-Look-at-this-one-Trump-cont

Sorry about the rubble and orphans Confused

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GingerIvy · 08/04/2017 15:51

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President Trump is seen reading inside his SUV as he heads to the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

Back to the golf club.

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illegitimateMortificadospawn · 08/04/2017 15:52

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day

Does this mean Trump is going to stop dissing Senator John McCain?

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cozietoesie · 08/04/2017 15:53

Apparently, the border between the US and Mexico is set - in places - in the middle of the Rio Grande. Some wags have been querying how you build a wall (even if made of eyelashesWink) in the middle of a river?

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 08/04/2017 15:56

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Main takeaway from Palace Intrigue Week: Trump is the saw, everybody else, including Bannon, is just sawdust.

AcrossthePond55 · 08/04/2017 16:02

CNN is reporting a new attack on the village that was subject to the chemical air strike that prompted Scrotus to go all Schwarzenegger.

I must admit I'm holding my breath. Scrotus 'threatened' another one if Syria didn't 'toe the line'. I'm afraid all this 'willy wagging' between Scrotus and Assad/Putin will result in the deaths of many, many innocent people as well as members of the Armed Services (thinking of the Sailors sitting out there in the Gulf.

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illegitimateMortificadospawn · 08/04/2017 16:14

Scrotus to go all Schwarzenegger

I feel duty bound to point out that Schwarzenegger would no doubt be behaving far more presidentially in the current circumstances.

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cozietoesie · 08/04/2017 16:16

Would he get the ratings though, illegitimate? Wink

cozietoesie · 08/04/2017 16:21

I've just read that report, Across. Sad

PausingFlatly · 08/04/2017 16:22

I'm not really late to this thread, I've just been holding important meetings at my Winter Golf Course.

originalbiglymavis · 08/04/2017 16:23

I'd rather see Arnie as POTUS. Shame he wasn't born in the US.

AcrossthePond55 · 08/04/2017 16:24

Maybe I should have said "go all Buck Turgidson" instead.

GingerIvy · 08/04/2017 16:27

Trump plans centrist push and Priebus is on board

www.axios.com/how-steve-bannon-lost-his-mojo-2350891180.html

AcrossthePond55 · 08/04/2017 16:27

original there were rumours at one time of trying to get the Constitution amended so he could run (as a Republican), but it caused quite an uproar lest we get a 'person of divided loyalty' Muslim in the White House.

GingerIvy · 08/04/2017 16:28

Arnie is just as much a womaniser as Trump is. Sorry to tell you. Lots of publicity over it.

cozietoesie · 08/04/2017 16:30

That's what I figured. Ginger. (The centrist approach.)

GingerIvy · 08/04/2017 16:31

J.M. Berger‏Verified account @intelwire 3m3 minutes ago
Warplanes return to Syrian town devastated by chemical attack wapo.st/2nNVZi7?tid=ss_tw …

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illegitimateMortificadospawn · 08/04/2017 16:34

Arnie is just as much a womaniser as Trump is. Sorry to tell you. Lots of publicity over it.

I am not surprised by this at all. It wasn't his moral fibre I was thinking of, more his ability to exercise restraint when commanding the resources of the US and having access codes for the nukes.

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AndHoldTheBun · 08/04/2017 16:47

Mavis, in the 1993 film Demolition Man, in the background, Arnie is Potus (they changed the law to allow it). We can only hope!

Personally I think that law should be changed. Any American citizen should be able to run (although maybe it would be prudent to have a qualifying period, say 10 years after the date of being granted citizenship, or after 15 years living in the USA as a resident, if you are then granted citizenship (which ever comes soonest).

whosafraidofabigduckfart · 08/04/2017 16:55

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AcrossthePond55 · 08/04/2017 17:06

The list of 'womanizers' in the WH goes as far back as Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. As a rule (in the past) 'these things' were kept out of the limelight by the press (JFK's womanizing for example) as a 'gentleman's agreement' with a few notable exceptions. President Grover Cleveland had a 'love child' and it didn't stop him being elected, despite his opponent's scurrilous rhyme:

"Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?
Off to the White House, ha ha ha!"

As a rule I think we Americans tend to separate a person's ability to govern well from his 'peccadillos', feeling that marital infidelity is a 'personal matter' between the Pres and the First Lady and that it does not affect his ability to run the country. I'm not saying this is right or wrong, just that it 'seems that way'.

GingerIvy · 08/04/2017 17:10

Across agreed. I was simply pointing out that Arnie is no Knight in Shining Armour. (Armor). Grin

GingerIvy · 08/04/2017 17:13

AFP news agency‏Verified account @AFP 57s57 seconds ago
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#BREAKING North Korea blasts US strikes on Syria, says justify nukes: state media

cozietoesie · 08/04/2017 17:14

Goodness.

cozietoesie · 08/04/2017 17:16

I think that's right, Across. Unless they want the President gone for other reasons and 'peccadillos' are easier............

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 08/04/2017 17:21

Congress Loves The Syria Strike. But Senators Can’t Say Why Trump Thinks It’s Legal.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58e814b0e4b05413bfe32901

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