delldude
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Didn't realize you are a Chicken Rancher too.
I think there's 18 dem senate seats up for grabs in 2018.
With DNC in an unrecoverable dive, GOP most likely will expand on their lead.
Didn't realize you are a Chicken Rancher too.
I think there's 18 dem senate seats up for grabs in 2018.
With DNC in an unrecoverable dive, GOP most likely will expand on their lead.
delldude
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“We knew that President Trump would need someone who could practice magic,” said US political expert Simon Williams.
“Building a wall, repealing Obamacare, deporting three million people. That’s all on the first day. I can’t see any way of getting that done without the use of some pretty powerful magic.
“But appointing the evilest wizard for thousands and thousands of years? That is a bold move.”
http://newsthump.com/2016/11/14/donald-trump-appoints-lord-voldemort-as-chief-of-staff/
“Building a wall, repealing Obamacare, deporting three million people. That’s all on the first day. I can’t see any way of getting that done without the use of some pretty powerful magic.
“But appointing the evilest wizard for thousands and thousands of years? That is a bold move.”
http://newsthump.com/2016/11/14/donald-trump-appoints-lord-voldemort-as-chief-of-staff/
Glenn Quagmire
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Rudy Giuliani fought federal government to defend undocumented immigrants as NYC mayor
"As New York City mayor, Giuliani praised the contribution undocumented immigrants made to the city and even went to court to protect them from being reported to the federal government."
"Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens," Giuliani said at a 1994 press conference. "If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair."
Appearing on WABC in 2001, Giuliani said, "The city of New York, quite frankly, is quite tolerant of undocumented immigration and this shouldn't surprise you because I've been the mayor for a long time and outspoken on this issue, even nationally, I happen to agree with that."
"I think New York City should not deal with undocumented immigrants in a harsh way. I think they make a big contribution to the life of the city and were much better off being sensible and practical about it," he continued. "And the reality is that restaurants are going to have a certain number of people who are undocumented, you know people that come here to make a living trying to help themselves and their families"
Well, well...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/16/politics/kfile-rudy-giuliani-undocumented-immigrants/
"As New York City mayor, Giuliani praised the contribution undocumented immigrants made to the city and even went to court to protect them from being reported to the federal government."
"Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens," Giuliani said at a 1994 press conference. "If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair."
Appearing on WABC in 2001, Giuliani said, "The city of New York, quite frankly, is quite tolerant of undocumented immigration and this shouldn't surprise you because I've been the mayor for a long time and outspoken on this issue, even nationally, I happen to agree with that."
"I think New York City should not deal with undocumented immigrants in a harsh way. I think they make a big contribution to the life of the city and were much better off being sensible and practical about it," he continued. "And the reality is that restaurants are going to have a certain number of people who are undocumented, you know people that come here to make a living trying to help themselves and their families"
Well, well...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/16/politics/kfile-rudy-giuliani-undocumented-immigrants/
KCFlyer
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How many Cubans made it to Florida without boarding an airplane? The only difference was that if a Cuban set foot on American soil, they were "home free"...but if their raft were intercepted - back to Cuba. Just off either side of Mexico is something called an "ocean" and these things called "boats" and "rafts" exist. If the Cubans knew how to use an ocean, don't you think some Mexicans would as well?
Of course, they could always catch a plane and fly over the wall AND over the US and touch down in Canada - then cross from the side with no fence.
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2018 is do or die for the Democrats. There are 8 GOP and 25 Dems, and many of the Dem seats are in places that went big for Trump. At least 8 D seem likely to flip based on this election, and MN could be in jeopardy as well if 2018 follows the track statewide offices have been on.
If that happens, the R's would have 60 seats in the Senate, which is an end-game situation for the D's.
Toss-up or flip to R: 9
FL: Bill Nelson (T +1, Rubio(R) +8)
IN: Donnely (T +19, Young(R)+10)
MO: McCaskill (T +19, Blunt(R) +3)
MT: Tester (T +21)
ND: Heitcamp (T +36, Hoeven +62)
OH: Brown (T +8, Portman +21)
WV: Manchin (71 in 2017, Trump won state +42)
WI: Baldwin (T +1, Johnson(R) +3)
MN: Klobuchar (C +1)
Somewhat safer D seats to defend assuming they run: 17
MI: Stabenow (T +1)
NV: Heller (C +2)
PA: Casey (T +1, Toomey(R) +2)
ME: King (74 in 2018))
NJ: Menendez
VA: Kaine
CA: Feinstein (will be 85 in 2018?...)
CT: Murphy
DE: Carper (71 in 2018)
HI: Hirono (71 in 2018)
MD: Cardin (75 in 2018)
MA: Warren
NM: Heinrich
NY: Gillebrand
RI: Whitehouse
VT: Sanders (77 in 2017)
WA: Cantwell
Somewhat safe seats the R's keep: 7
AZ: Flake ()
MS: Wicker
NE: Fischer
TN: Corker
TX: Cruz
UT: Hatch (84 in 2018 and said to be retiring, state won't ever flip to D...)
WY: Barrasso
Glenn Quagmire
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A scramble to assess the dangers of President-elect Donald Trump’s global business empire
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...bdc2a2-ad18-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html
I find it laughable that many on here were crowing about the slightest hint of impropriety of the Clinton foundation. Pedaling his GSA owned hotel to foreign dignitaries and meeting with Indian Business leaders to whom he has sold his name to go on building projects. We know that Trump has and will act in the interest of himself. Now he can do it through the use of the power of the POTUS. But hey, at least were not talking about emails any longer...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...s-to-give-up-his-trump-hotel-lease-right-now/
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...-hails-pm-modis-work/articleshow/55465060.cms
Some companies reflect long-established deals while others were launched as recently as Trump’s campaign, including eight that appear tied to a potential hotel project in Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich Arab kingdom that Trump has said he “would want to protect.”
'Many of those deals involve licensing the Trump name: a valuable quantity when Trump was a famous businessman, now made more lucrative when attached to a U.S. head of state. Trevor Potter, a former Federal Election Commission chairman and general counsel for George H.W. Bush, said foreign investors could seek to seal deals with Trump’s children in hopes of cozying up or currying favor with America’s businessman in chief.
Other Trump properties, like most large projects in the real estate industry, are buoyed by a river of loans, including from big banks in China and Germany. Deutsche Bank, Trump’s biggest lender, is negotiating what could be a multibillion-dollar settlement over housing-crisis-era abuses with the Justice Department, whose leaders will be Trump appointees.
[Trump’s unusual conflict: Millions in debts to German bank now facing federal fines]
That foreign presence has become inseparable from the Trump brand and marketing. After Trump’s electoral victory, the Trump Organization congratulated the president-elect and then shortly after posted a flyover video of the “ultra exclusive” Trump Tower Punta del Este, a helipad-topped condo tower licensing Trump’s name on the coast of Uruguay.
Trump’s presidential biography on a government website, greatagain.gov, originally included a celebration of Trump’s foreign holdings and “properties around the globe.” That reference has since been removed. Trump representatives would not say why.
Foreign investors have nevertheless taken pride in Trump’s accomplishment. In India, Trump has licensed his brand to Trump Tower Mumbai, a luxury condo project being developed by Lodha Group, a real estate giant whose founder is a wealthy politician in the country’s governing party.
The president-elect and his children also met with some of Trump’s Indian business partners on Tuesday, during which they discussed the U.S. relationship with India, according to the Economic Times, an Indian newspaper. Lodha declared in one promotion: “Congratulations Mr. President-Elect. The Trump name is rising high in Mumbai too.”
'Many of those deals involve licensing the Trump name: a valuable quantity when Trump was a famous businessman, now made more lucrative when attached to a U.S. head of state. Trevor Potter, a former Federal Election Commission chairman and general counsel for George H.W. Bush, said foreign investors could seek to seal deals with Trump’s children in hopes of cozying up or currying favor with America’s businessman in chief.
Other Trump properties, like most large projects in the real estate industry, are buoyed by a river of loans, including from big banks in China and Germany. Deutsche Bank, Trump’s biggest lender, is negotiating what could be a multibillion-dollar settlement over housing-crisis-era abuses with the Justice Department, whose leaders will be Trump appointees.
[Trump’s unusual conflict: Millions in debts to German bank now facing federal fines]
That foreign presence has become inseparable from the Trump brand and marketing. After Trump’s electoral victory, the Trump Organization congratulated the president-elect and then shortly after posted a flyover video of the “ultra exclusive” Trump Tower Punta del Este, a helipad-topped condo tower licensing Trump’s name on the coast of Uruguay.
Trump’s presidential biography on a government website, greatagain.gov, originally included a celebration of Trump’s foreign holdings and “properties around the globe.” That reference has since been removed. Trump representatives would not say why.
Foreign investors have nevertheless taken pride in Trump’s accomplishment. In India, Trump has licensed his brand to Trump Tower Mumbai, a luxury condo project being developed by Lodha Group, a real estate giant whose founder is a wealthy politician in the country’s governing party.
The president-elect and his children also met with some of Trump’s Indian business partners on Tuesday, during which they discussed the U.S. relationship with India, according to the Economic Times, an Indian newspaper. Lodha declared in one promotion: “Congratulations Mr. President-Elect. The Trump name is rising high in Mumbai too.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...bdc2a2-ad18-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html
I find it laughable that many on here were crowing about the slightest hint of impropriety of the Clinton foundation. Pedaling his GSA owned hotel to foreign dignitaries and meeting with Indian Business leaders to whom he has sold his name to go on building projects. We know that Trump has and will act in the interest of himself. Now he can do it through the use of the power of the POTUS. But hey, at least were not talking about emails any longer...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...s-to-give-up-his-trump-hotel-lease-right-now/
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...-hails-pm-modis-work/articleshow/55465060.cms
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Glenn Quagmire
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Trump tweet:
"Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world.Only the crooked media makes this a big deal."
I sincerely want someone here who was foaming at the mouth about Clinton foundation. Them having some donation given to a foundation that has improved millions of lives.
Now we have this with Trump. So is it the media that makes this a big deal? Do you really have an issue with a POTUS cashing in on office? Or is it just a POTUS Clinton that you have issues with?
Serious questions.
Let's see how the oversight committee handles this.
"Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world.Only the crooked media makes this a big deal."
I sincerely want someone here who was foaming at the mouth about Clinton foundation. Them having some donation given to a foundation that has improved millions of lives.
Now we have this with Trump. So is it the media that makes this a big deal? Do you really have an issue with a POTUS cashing in on office? Or is it just a POTUS Clinton that you have issues with?
Serious questions.
Let's see how the oversight committee handles this.
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Glenn Quagmire
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Plenty of Hillary shade thrown around here about this. Now the Donald says (paraphrase) 'hey, you knew what you were gettin''
Double standard Dude. You good with Trump changing his brand name to POTUS?
I can see the POTUS Plaza Hotel, POTUS Airlines, POTUS Mumbai.
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You don't seem to be taking this well if you're regurgitating mother of all "fake news" off HP.
Kev3188
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With WI's resdistricting now having been found unconstitutional (and likely going to SCOTUS), all the races will be interesting to watch...
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