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24 minutes ago, bendejo said:Please refer to him as former president. He goes ballistic when he hears it. Perhaps "twice-impeached former president" would be better, in underlines how unique his presidency was.
Former porn star bareback rider.
Because, while he did occupy the office, he really didn’t do much presidenting. Unless one considers a bull in a china shop to be the shop manager.- 3
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On 2/23/2021 at 5:43 AM, simple1 said:Finally! Based on the family track record I've always though trump organisation was involved with money laundering for corrupt Russians in the US, along with other criminal activities. Will be fascinating to read the outcomes of the investigation. Hopefully I'm incorrect with my assumptions, would be sad that millions of US citizens were duped to vote a criminal into Office.
oh yeah? Well you’ll be eating crow when Trump’s tax returns actually prove that Obama was born in Kenya and that Hillary eats babies.- 5
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I’m reminded of a quote that goes something like, “I’ve never killed a man, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
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8 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:This is quite literally the honest truth of it all. Trump didn't tell anyone to storm the capital and his rhetoric is certainly no more or less extreme than the people trying to prosecute him.
Trump supporters wearing Trump gear, heeding Trump’s call to gather on the 6th at a Trump rally where Trump spoke, after which they stormed the Capitol building with Trump flags chanting Trump! Trump! Trump!
But I guess we’ll never know who inspired them and their actions.
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21 minutes ago, candide said:He can still ask the kraken lawyer! ????
For a galaxy-sized lie, you need a galaxy-sized lawyer-creature. That’s just science.- 1
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30 minutes ago, webfact said:A third source said Trump had differences with Bowers over strategy ahead of the trial. The president is still contending that he was the victim of mass election fraud in the Nov. 3 election won by President Joe Biden.
I’m impressed. Not being able to find a lawyer willing to lie for you is quite an achievement.- 18
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5 hours ago, placeholder said:"5 of Trump's lawyers supposed to represent him in the Senate trial, including the lead attorney, have quit the case.
Former President Donald J. Trump has abruptly parted ways with five lawyers handling his impeachment defense, just over a week before the Senate trial is set to begin, people familiar with the situation said on Saturday.
Those departures include his lead lawyer, Butch Bowers, whose hiring was announced last week, a person familiar with the situation said. Four other lawyers who were reported to be joining, including Deborah Barbier, a criminal defense lawyer in South Carolina, are also leaving, according to multiple people familiar with the situation."{
Supposedly, they're leaving because Trump insists on a defense based on the grounds of electoral fraud. It is to laugh.
Bernie Madof had a lawyer. OJ Simpson had a lawyer. Harvey Weinstein had a lawyer. Bill Cosby had a lawyer. Charles f***ing Manson had a lawyer. The genocidal murderers at Nuremberg had lawyers. Think about how galaxy-sized your lie is when, with hundreds of millions at your disposal, you can’t find a lawyer (a lawyer!!!) to lie for you.- 3
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On 1/27/2021 at 1:20 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:
The challenge with these kinds of news reports is they give us the statistics... but not really the reasons.
Are the cases down now because we're a full month after the holiday period ended?
Are the cases down now because of the vaccine administrations beginning to have an impact?
Are the cases down because states and localities earlier were forced to escalate their protective measures amid the prior surge?
probably all of the above, plus other reasons you or I haven’t thought of. We’ll have to wait for epidemiologists to study the situation and report back. one week’s numbers don’t tell us much, and you’re right that it’s too early to relax measures, and certainly too early to celebrate. It certainly can’t be anything the Biden administration has done. The effects of any of that will only be known some weeks down the line. -
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6 hours ago, webfact said:The Denver-based company, Dominion Voting Systems Inc, filed
Don’t worry my peeps. Rudy’s got this covered. He’s right on top of the situation. He’s counter suing Dominatrices Inc. at Dominatrix Activity Center Food Court.- 1
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28 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:
Quite happy now to be able to pop up the news and not see many reports about the stupid and hateful things Trump did!!! What a breath of fresh air. Love it. Boring is good.
yeah, but now I have to trudge over to Entertainment Weekly to find out what the Kardashians are up to, instead of reading about it in the all the front pages because The President tweeted about it. What a chore.- 2
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1 minute ago, AMichigan said:All I can explain then kind of future I want looks different from what you guys hope for.
Let me guess: does that future look, er, less colorful?
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9 minutes ago, placeholder said:
Already I am pining for the sweet and dulcet tones of his tweets.
Tell me about it. I too pine for the soothing tones of Trump’s misspelled tweets.These grammatically correct, factually accurate, informative Biden tweets about policy and vision make me SO <deleted> angry! Grrr!!
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7 hours ago, AMichigan said:What were you guys talking about?? really ?
I run business - see in daily - people had more money to spend. Our customers are middle class American. They had more options to find jobs because the job marketing was opening while President Trump in charge. People felt confident in ability to support their own families. My business has grown 20-30% per year since he was a president. I don't understand what you guys talked about. Seriously.
These Bidenites keep going on about how good Biden is at governing. Hah! What a joke. Since taking office, Biden hasn’t golfed once, or sent out a single mean tweet, or talked about crowd size, or opined on some celebrity. What the heck kind of governing is that, hmm?- 1
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1 hour ago, Pmbkk said:
Is this like walking into the dentist and asking him to pick a number and saying yes, that's the one I'll have pulled. I usually go in hoping to get what I wanted..
that assumes you always know what you want, which isn’t always the case. We don’t know what we don’t know, and a little non exactness, a little fuzziness in search results can lead to a better understanding. Also, when a search engine doesn’t know you as intimately as google, some biases can be avoided by seeing results you wouldn’t otherwise see.- 1
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46 minutes ago, ncc1701d said:
I suppose I could use google to search - but the results may be tainted ????
can you offer some of the other search engines you use?
Alohafind - built into the Aloha browser, but can be used separately in other browsers
Ecoasia - browser cum search engine
Duckduckgo - they also have their own browser. Duck has a command that allows you to search using google, but without giving google any of your data.
iCab - an excellent, endlessly customizable, feature-rich browser which has a list of third party search engines you can set as defaults
Startpage.com - I believe (from memory when they initially launched) that this is a european initiative and endorsed by some EU agency
Bing - microsoft
Wolframalpha - narrow usefulness, but very good for fact based questions, or mathematical queries.
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9 hours ago, Pro1Expat said:So Google get blocked, so what? There are many other search engines just as good and better than Google
I use several different browsers, each with a different default search engine, none of them google.Still, I occasionally go direct to google for a particular search and find it to be the fastest and most intuitive, delivering the most relevant results right off the bat. I imagine how much *more* intuitive it would be if I used it regularly and it consequently knew more about me.
However, With search, I’d argue that less is more because the less perfect search engines inadvertently allow for serendipity. Like browsing at a large, less than perfectly organized bookstore; I find unexpected delights that I wouldn’t have using the oh so perfect google that would’ve promptly, unfailingly given me my answer and got me to just move on.
I encourage everyone to use google alternatives, and I encourage google to share some of their largess with the people who, by freely sharing their content, have helped google get to where they are.
*btw, google clearly recognize the serendipity angle with their “I’m feeling lucky” button. But to me, it seems contrived.
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22 minutes ago, stevenl said:Other search engines will have the same issues. Don't forget that the media that are shown on the search engine want a prominent position there. Search engines are providing a service requested by a client, free of charge. Why should they have to pay for that?
The main problem is the media not adapting fast enough.
it’s a complicated situation.news sites can actually block their content being searched by google so that google can’t profit off them. But then, since, for better or worse, google is so many people’s start page, the sites won’t get any traffic unless people go directly to them, which won’t be a lot.
news sites were among the slowest to adapt to the new age, and they have paid a heavy price for that mistake. The public is also all the poorer. But news isn’t just any business. A well functioning democracy, not to mention the smooth running of capitalism, needs robust, independent, financially viable, and varied news media.
while the news outlets need google more than google needs them, the fact is, the news outlets are struggling while google is making money hand over fist, and doing so partly because they have access to so much info produced by the news media. A listed company answerable to shareholders is not going to voluntarily give up some of that money to keep news orgs afloat, even if it (may)be in their long term interest.
if governments don’t intervene to force some kind of compromise, we will all be poorer, even google.
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On 1/21/2021 at 4:13 AM, webfact said:"To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy: unity," Biden, a Democrat, said after taking the oath of office
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6 hours ago, Bangyai said:
Mormons, Jehova Witnesses , Seventh day adventists , The Waco siege etc etc
The desire to find some wacky alternative religion to succumb to seems to be an abiding passion in the USA so I can well believe that a lot of people there have mental health issues on account of their gullibility.
Not just in the US. In my teens, I was briefly (well, not that briefly—over eight months) enticed into Jehova’s Witnesses. There were people from all walks of life and all income levels. The member whose home we met at was a multi millionaire. My best friend at the time (and today still my best friend) often tried to pull me out. I once mentioned to the minister under whom I studied the bible about this and his response was for me to ditch my friend. At that moment, something snapped into place in my head. My friend never threatened to abandon me if I didn’t ditch the church. But this guy, this minister of peace, his first suggestion was for me to ditch my friend. I walked out of there and never looked back.
Hopefully for some—dare I hope, many?—of these Q guys a sharp jab of awakening can lift the fog long enough for some sanity, some clear thinking, to prevail. Among some I know, it has happened over the last week. There is hope.
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41 minutes ago, vandeventer said:In 6 months you all will be on your hands and knees begging him to come back. He can take all the sh-t you can throw at him because he's the man for the job. Good luck Biden and watch out for Harris as she is coming for you.
oh, no doubt he’ll be back. Like a little floating turd that just won’t flush.- 3
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4 hours ago, webfact said:Before leaving the White House, Trump left a note for his successor
Here’s hoping it’s the Trump Healthcare Plan.- 9
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1 hour ago, simple1 said:Patriots Party
tag line: Can’t Spell ‘Patriots’ Without ‘Riots’!!- 5
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24 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:
Does trump have an iota of respect for his MAGA supporters? Here’s a clue: he just preemptively pardoned a man who was charged with ripping off his supporters. He disdains his MAGAS, but is happy to ride their waves of stupidity to enrich himself and cronies.Trump campaign manager indicted by Trump justice dept for ripping off Trump supporters to build a fake Trump wall gets pardoned by Trump to the delight of Trump supporters.
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4 hours ago, webfact said:Closing out his presidency
Wait! There’s still time for him to release his taxes, explain what “infrastructure week” was all about, get Mexico to pay for the 3% of wall he built, save coal jobs, and unveil his “great” healthcare plan.
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Thaksin Won’t Be Held In Police Custody Upon Release On Parole: Lawyer
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The whole saga is like a cooking show. We’ve known from the beginning what the final dish is; we’re now just watching how it’s done.