Lets see if we can keep this thread a little more civil.

I found this interview very interesting.  A lot of soft balls thrown at Trump, he explained his back pedalling on his more extreme issues as a lot of his claims as opening bids for negotiation purposes.  Which .. whatever .. I still think that those are insincere claims he used to get elected.

He does now come across way more presidential then he did prior to the election.  A lot of his noise, yelling, and rhetoric has been scaled back.

Do respect this one though:

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Lesley Stahl: Are you gonna take the salary, the president’s salary?

Donald Trump: Well, I’ve never commented on this, but the answer is no. I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But it’s a -- I don’t even know what it is.

Donald Trump: Do you know what the salary is?

Lesley Stahl: $400,000 you’re giving up.

Donald Trump: No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/

8 minutes ago, bustamente said:

I'm not sure what she is qualified to do, maybe she could go back to being whatever she was before she spent time doing nothing in the House but take pictures of her kids with guns and saying stupid things

 

I thought she was just the resident GQP Howler MOnkey...

 

Warnock became a Senator the last time by run off and I think he does it again

38 minutes ago, bustamente said:

I'm not sure what she is qualified to do, maybe she could go back to being whatever she was before she spent time doing nothing in the House but take pictures of her kids with guns and saying stupid things

 

Unless I’m missing something, looking at at the current results, I’m not sure why at 6:25am he would tweet this out? Just under 2000 votes separate sanity and insanity with 96% counted. Nail biter.

40 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Unless I’m missing something, looking at at the current results, I’m not sure why at 6:25am he would tweet this out? Just under 2000 votes separate sanity and insanity with 96% counted. Nail biter.

They are statistically tied right now 62 votes separate them

11 minutes ago, bustamente said:

They are statistically tied right now 62 votes separate them

JC jinxed it. This vile person who hides behind religion and the 2nd amendment while grifting away needs to lose for the love of sanity.

43 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

JC jinxed it. This vile person who hides behind religion and the 2nd amendment while grifting away needs to lose for the love of sanity.

58 minutes ago, bustamente said:

They are statistically tied right now 62 votes separate them

Some media people / outlets have developed a habit of doing this...

 

4 hours ago, Mark F said:

blacks voted for him.

With only 13% of the US population being African American, I'd say Obama got elected by plenty of other people, as well.

3 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

Some media people / outlets have developed a habit of doing this...

 

With only 13% of the US population being African American, I'd say Obama got elected by plenty of other people, as well.

where did I say only black people voted for Obama?

Edited November 10, 20223 yr by Mark F

6 minutes ago, Mark F said:

where did I say only black people voted for Obama?

Statement: "If a black man with a name strongly associated with Islam can become president of the US, who knows what else is possible?"

Your response: "blacks voted for him."

 

44 minutes ago, bustamente said:

 

If true, Christmas came early.

2 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

If true, Christmas came early.

Agreed, get that howler monkey outta there.

12 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

If true, Christmas came early.

There are less than a 100 votes difference now. It's not over quite yet. 

It's amazing that it takes a couple of States this long to count votes

8 minutes ago, bustamente said:

It's amazing that it takes a couple of States this long to count votes

I have zero problems with it. Although, our system of paper ballots and machine counting seems farrrrrrr superior. That and we don't allow the politicians to mess with the electoral process. 

6 minutes ago, JCon said:

I have zero problems with it. Although, our system of paper ballots and machine counting seems farrrrrrr superior. That and we don't allow the politicians to mess with the electoral process. 

And if they attempt to do so, they're mocked and ridiculed for their stupidity.

The "method" of electing politicians in the US seems so needlessly convoluted.

The Georgia Senate race ate obscene amounts of money and did not yield a result and now they are about to do it all again and spend even more money 

16 minutes ago, JCon said:

I have zero problems with it. Although, our system of paper ballots and machine counting seems farrrrrrr superior. That and we don't allow the politicians to mess with the electoral process. 

PeePee has tried.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-elections-canada-lapdog-1.5170638

2 hours ago, bustamente said:

The Georgia Senate race ate obscene amounts of money and did not yield a result and now they are about to do it all again and spend even more money 

Democracy is worth the cost.

11 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

Democracy is worth the cost.

I believe he's referring to the amount spent by the campaigns, not the state to deliver the election.

5 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

Democracy is worth the cost.

I prefer the French system wherein potential candidates must first gather a certain amount of signatures from the riding to register as candidates and then spend a very  limited amount of money, but all media must give equal exposure to all qualified candidates for free. The runners-up get their expenses reimbursed if they get a certain percentage of the winners' votes. Winning candidates have their jobs ensured if/when they return to their previous jobs, and employers are reimbursed to train a backfill employee, and if the winning candidate's job is made obsolete or substantially changed, when s/he returns, s/he will be trained so as to either fit the old job or qualified for a new one.

2 minutes ago, JCon said:

I believe he's referring to the amount spent by the campaigns, not the state to deliver the election.

Apparently the candidates spent some 9 billion dollars during the recent campaign.

2 minutes ago, Tracker said:

 

Apparently the candidates spent some 9 billion dollars during the recent campaign.

The City of Troy still does not have clean drinking water. 

12 hours ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

Agreed, get that howler monkey outta there.

Howler monkey up by just under 400 votes. Welp.

10 minutes ago, JCon said:

The City of Troy still does not have clean drinking water. 

But the US military has 750,000,000,000 to play with. But America cannot afford a good public education system, clean drinking water for all or universal healthcare. And veterans' services are inadequate to the extent where more US servicemen have been lost to suicide since the Iraqi war than died in the war. The same is true for those who served in Viet Nam. Helluva war-glorifying system.

1 minute ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Howler monkey up by just under 400 votes. Welp.

She's going to hold on. 

Just now, JCon said:

She's going to hold on. 

I’m not agreeing with you until I hear the big boned person sing.