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Our POTUS is now officially cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. The GOP must be so proud.

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Seems like they've both had experience.

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It might be worth bringing back "corruption of blood" to put Uday, Qusay and Victim-of-Incest in jail with him.

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45 needs to listen to his lawyers. He also needs to shut up because this is becoming embarrassing. When I'm lying I commit to the lie the story doesn't change, has he ever seen Law and Order at all Classic Lennie or SVU? Shut up. Lawyer up. One lie only.

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...nor are we dealing with a rocket scientist. Trump can't follow threads. Nor does he necessarily think fundamentally violating your duties means you should face consequences.

Regardless, the heading makes it sound like he outright. But in fact what he said was so ambiguous that the reporter had to ask directly--at which point Trump evaded.

Dunno why 5$F even included the direct question and evasion if the previous part was so conclusive.

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The GOP controls Congress, and with them it's been Party Before Country since 1992....

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Sounds like he's talking about life insurance.

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Speak for yourself. He ain't my president! You're the president!

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Trump doesn't know that much about shapes.

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Because this is where America had arrived by 2016. Part of the apotheosis of unchecked capitalism is the 'customer's always right' idea that any consumer's ignorance is equally valid to another's expertise.

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Yeah, but you have to factor in the growing decrepitude of conservative politics on the whole. Sure, the figureheads they hide behind become more and more inept and TV-friendly (horrifying as it is, Trump is the face that degenerate white Baby Boomers want to see staring back at them, since he validates their wasted, stupid lives), but all the while the agenda continues to go further in terms of normalizing sociopathy, government dysfunction, and handouts to wealthy people who bear no responsibility to the American public.

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In America, being rich (or, considering the case of Trump, mostly appearing rich) basically translates to being good. I hate to say it, but I don't think we've even scratched the surface of what this guy and his family can and will get away with.

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Yeah, I've definitely come to see the advantages of a parliamentary system. This fucking electoral college, for instance. An obsolete holdover-and one of many-of the devil's bargain we signed at the beginning to keep the whiny-ass southern slave holders on board. We've been paying the price for that ever since.

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*eyeroll* I've seen that specious interpretation of "the customer's always right" and it never fails to irritate me. The axiom has nothing to do with the customer's "expertise" or lack thereof. It has to do with the fact that if a retailer doesn't give the customer what they want, he stands to lose business. And that, by definition, is something a retailer does not want. Thus, the customer is always right - meaning, whether you agree with what they're saying or not, you give them what they want. Because otherwise, pissed-off customer, lost sale, possible bad publicity losing him more customers. (In this day of Twitter, that last is a given.)

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Which is odd because Sesame Street was around during his formative years - ages 24 through 50.

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Shutting up is not an option. His arrogance and narcissism compels his braggadocio. He couldn't shut up if you stitched his lips together.

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