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1. People who don't know much, complain constantly and are suggestible tell Trump a bunch of crap.2. Someone shows Trump if he constantly barraged those people with their complaints, he could win the Presidency by wrecking the Republican party, an easy target, by getting those people to vote in primaries, then the general election. Just had to keep up the siren call so they'd follow.3. As President, his job description is "keep calling."

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Shocking!

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The universe that we somehow fell out of:

https://twitter.com/i/momen...

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Careful, Boeing! Don't want to give the Cheeto Bandito another reason to demand a discount on AF1.

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I predicted bad things when Glass Stegall was repealed. I'm so sorry I was right.

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Imma just trying to get by and support my family so the most important thing I wonder about is "What can we do to make rich peoples lives easier?"

Said no one ever.https://media2.giphy.com/me...

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I saw "Santa" Trump, and then I realized that I'm dyslexic.

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And we gave that Thiel bastard a free citizenship, I don't think he's Specht more than 10 days in the country. Stupid bloody right wing government. (Although my right wing is still further left than your democrats) honestly, it's pathetic our government trying to pretend they're big league. ... we're 4 million people. However because we're so innocuous an NZ passport might get a dodgy business man into a country where a US passport is not so welcome.

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Too bad, so sad .....Palantir Has Been Dumped By Another Blue-Chip ClientPalantir started working with Home Depot after its massive credit card hack in 2014, but the retailer recently decided the cyber services were no longer worth it.

Palantir Technologies, the secretive Silicon Valley data analysis firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has lost a marquee cybersecurity client, BuzzFeed News has learned, continuing a string of defections by corporate customers.The cancellation means one of the world’s largest retailers has joined a list of blue-chip companies that have stopped doing business with Palantir since 2015. Others, including Coca-Cola, American Express, and Nasdaq, also balked at Palantir’s price tag, BuzzFeed News reported last year, or raised doubts about its usefulness.

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Small government! Free markets! No more corruption!

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When oh when is the fucking pendulum going to swing back?

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A slowly diminishing cry in the distance.....Benghaaaaazzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiii......

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Deregulation is all about shoveling more money to already rich white men (and a few white women). It has nothing to do with jobs and never will with the exception of lowering the pay for current jobs. Once unions are completely destroyed jobs will go to the lowest bidder. Whoever will work for the least money to feed his or her starving children will get the job. Sooner or later the idiots that keep voting Republican will catch on and the pitchforks will come out. Trump, Tillerson, de Vos, can you pay some poor people enough to keep the other poor people from stringing you up? Remember the Praetorian Guard?

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Yeah, and doesn't Dr. Nick deserve to be a doctorb too?

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Pay is identically equal to status among CEOs. They certainly don't want their fellow CEOs to know exactly what they are paid!

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I know it's long but check this. they''re NOT GONNA fill all the unfilled positions, why bother?from John Frum

Bannon runs his mouth while Sessions bats his eyes at private prisons. What's the common theme of all the Trump Monkeys besides their incompetence and toxicity? What does Tillerson want for national security? What does Mnuchin want for the economy? What does DeVos want for schools? What does Pruitt want for safe water and food? What does Price want for medicine? And now, what does Sessions want for law enforcement and the justice system?Bannon says "deconstructing" America". What he means is, Trump and the Republicans are selling us.They don't just want to break America. They want to break it and hawk the pieces like Canal Street cart vendors.Think about decades Republican hostility to civil rights, labor rights, consumer protections, education, and accountability for stewardship of our public trust. This is another common theme on the right for the last 20 years: Trashing decades of plausible deniability by being too incompetent, juvenile, and complacent in their impunity to keep it on the downlow.We've never been anything but commodities to them, and they prey on our decency to get away with it. They escalate until there's no place in a functioning society for what it takes to make them stop. In this escalation, they're going from discreetly selling us out to openly cashing us out. They're cutting open the golden goose.It's good that most of the cabinet argument have been along the lines of "prove to us you're something other than an amoral money grubber going for the Big Con." But it's not enough. Democrats also need to make the case that these people will be rich, privileged assholes whether America lives or dies, and they don't give a fuck.For one thing, angry town halls need to become recall elections. And not just for Republicans unwilling to stand up to Trump, but Democrats unwilling to stand up to Republicans. Go after members of the Ethics Committee, the Intelligence Committee, and anyone else in a position to obstruct investigations and impeachment. Launch smear and muckraking campaigns against Chaffetz, Ryan, Pence, and McConnell. Do whatever it takes. Fight hard and fight dirty. Time to get unruly, people. We may not have till 2018. John Frum

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