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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4890 on: February 08, 2019, 01:53:49 am »
Well this is the funniest, weirdest story of 2019 thus far.
https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f

TL;DR: Jeff Bezos had his dick pics leaked to a US tabloid and they allegedly tried to blackmail him with them.

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« Reply #4891 on: February 08, 2019, 11:24:46 am »
Well this is the funniest, weirdest story of 2019 thus far.
https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f

TL;DR: Jeff Bezos had his dick pics leaked to a US tabloid and they allegedly tried to blackmail him with them.
whos that

Also I think UK had lower gdp growth than Netherlands.
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4892 on: February 08, 2019, 10:33:04 pm »
Check out my YT channel where I post NW www.youtube. com/c/CluelessWill
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4893 on: February 08, 2019, 10:40:14 pm »
Ukraine had Darth Vader running for president previous election, so this is pretty boring.

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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4894 on: February 08, 2019, 10:56:35 pm »
I honestly hope he'll get elected. Better than Tymoshenko or Poroshenko.


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« Reply #4895 on: February 14, 2019, 05:56:41 pm »
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« Reply #4896 on: February 15, 2019, 08:13:07 am »
I thought we were supposed to be better than them.
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4897 on: February 15, 2019, 06:40:13 pm »
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Unamed 'senior EU diplomat': "In a no-deal scenario, Ireland would have to choose between setting up a physical Border with Northern Ireland and de facto leaving the single market. If there is no physical Border, the customs checks would have to take place on all goods coming from Ireland."
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/editorial/editorial-eu-cannot-allow-us-to-burn-as-may-fiddles-over-brexit-37818812.html


Oh, so it's not about peace then?

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« Reply #4898 on: February 15, 2019, 08:03:52 pm »
That is the point of pressure with which Europe will whip the Brits back in submission.
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4899 on: February 15, 2019, 08:10:08 pm »
It's what happens when you trust G*rmanics in the first place.
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4900 on: February 15, 2019, 09:34:35 pm »
That is the point of pressure with which Europe Germany will whip the Brits back in submission.

It's more likely than not that Berlin will back down over the NI/Eire border.

It's what happens when you trust G*rmanics in the first place.

Of course. Angela Merkel is extremely untrustworthy for a start.

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« Reply #4901 on: February 16, 2019, 11:47:28 am »
So Trump's gone full dictator. Not hugely surprising considering his idols but anyway.
Sets an interesting precedent for future Democratic presidents. One could very easily argue national emergencies on school shootings (even if they wait until the next one that won't be far off) or those lacking health insurance.

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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4902 on: February 16, 2019, 12:35:28 pm »
So Trump's gone full dictator. Not hugely surprising considering his idols but anyway.
Sets an interesting precedent for future Democratic presidents. One could very easily argue national emergencies on school shootings (even if they wait until the next one that won't be far off) or those lacking health insurance.

Presidential power has expanded rapidly in the last 25 years, every incumbent has abused the office in one way or another.  For example Obama did so via the prolific use of executive orders. I don't blame Trump-he has a clear mandate to build the wall.

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« Reply #4903 on: February 16, 2019, 05:00:58 pm »
So Trump's gone full dictator. Not hugely surprising considering his idols but anyway.
Sets an interesting precedent for future Democratic presidents. One could very easily argue national emergencies on school shootings (even if they wait until the next one that won't be far off) or those lacking health insurance.

Presidential power has expanded rapidly in the last 25 years, every incumbent has abused the office in one way or another.  For example Obama did so via the prolific use of executive orders. I don't blame Trump-he has a clear mandate to build the wall.
Oh boy...

Obama used 276, 15 fewer than Bush and 88 fewer than Clinton (to look at historical context). Trump has also used more per day in office than Obama so far.
If we're talking about "prolific use" then we'd have to take a look at the 15 Presidents who used more than Obama, including Harding (522), Hoover (968) or Coolidge (1203). The grand daddy of them all was Roosevelt at 3728 but I figured I'd let him off the hook for having a World War to deal with.

Any other bollocks you want to get fact checked?

Edit: Grant was the first President to use far more than his predecessors at 217, all the way back in 1877, in case you were wondering
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