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03-13-2018, 10:31 AM
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#4816
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Re: Dumbest ever.
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The Kim meeting strikes me as just an authoritarian recipe swap. They'll talk about manipulating the press, stirring hatred to keep control, the usual stuff.
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It's a can't lose for both of them. If Trump gets anything at all, he'll claim victory. If Kim gets anything at all, he'll claim victory.
Kim will offer nothing dressed up as something, and then cheat on the terms of even that small carrot. Trump will offer some minor mix of concessions and incentives and then tell the media he's brilliantly interfered with Chinese control of NK.
For both, it's like taking on an unwinnable/unsettleable case for a really rich defendant. Why not? It'll be ugly and irritating, but ultimately, there's nothing but upside.
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03-13-2018, 11:12 AM
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#4817
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Washington
Posts: 228
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
Rex Tillerson is gone.
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03-13-2018, 11:16 AM
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#4818
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
Rex Tillerson is gone.
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Well, it's not there is much of the State Department to run at this point.
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03-13-2018, 11:23 AM
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#4819
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 17,113
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
Rex Tillerson is gone.
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Didn't even know he was sick.
Or, yeah, that's sort of been anticipated but funny it happened the day after he said Russia was behind the gas attack in the UK.
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03-13-2018, 11:47 AM
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#4820
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Government Yard in Trenchtown
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
Well, it's not there is much of the State Department to run at this point.
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He's been a disaster.
The next guy will be worse.
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03-13-2018, 12:22 PM
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#4821
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Location: Government Yard in Trenchtown
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Re: Dumbest ever.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
It's a can't lose for both of them. If Trump gets anything at all, he'll claim victory. If Kim gets anything at all, he'll claim victory.
Kim will offer nothing dressed up as something, and then cheat on the terms of even that small carrot. Trump will offer some minor mix of concessions and incentives and then tell the media he's brilliantly interfered with Chinese control of NK.
For both, it's like taking on an unwinnable/unsettleable case for a really rich defendant. Why not? It'll be ugly and irritating, but ultimately, there's nothing but upside.
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It's completely farcical. I'd call it a diplomatic special olympics, but the special olympics athletes have so much more heart.
But it's better than the missile measuring contest they were having.
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03-13-2018, 01:02 PM
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#4822
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 32,939
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Adder
Didn't even know he was sick.
Or, yeah, that's sort of been anticipated but funny it happened the day after he said Russia was behind the gas attack in the UK.
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Appears that he knew it was coming and felt free to speak his mind.
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03-13-2018, 02:00 PM
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#4823
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Washington
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
Trump personal assistant, John McEntee, escorted out of the White House by Homeland Security; alleged financial crimes.
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03-13-2018, 02:46 PM
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#4824
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Wearing the cranky pants
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pulling your finger
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
Trump personal assistant, John McEntee, escorted out of the White House by Homeland Security; alleged financial crimes.
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And immediately hired by Trump 2020 campaign.
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03-13-2018, 03:31 PM
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#4825
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by LessinSF
And immediately hired by Trump 2020 campaign.
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They're expecting to lose many of the '16 veterans to the federal prison system, and his experience is attractive to them.
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03-14-2018, 09:58 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Washington
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
Steady stream of high school students from Maryland suburbs getting off the Red Line at Farragut Square in DC and heading for the White House. Several hundred at a time. The gun control march later this month looks like it is getting up a head of steam.
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03-14-2018, 11:13 AM
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
Steady stream of high school students from Maryland suburbs getting off the Red Line at Farragut Square in DC and heading for the White House. Several hundred at a time. The gun control march later this month looks like it is getting up a head of steam.
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Or maybe Trump realizes Melania is leaving him soon and he is starting the audition process for the next wife?
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03-14-2018, 11:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
It appears that someone at United Airlines is attempting to figure out how absurdly awful the airline's service can be before people stop flying with them. I thought that canceling the ticket of a woman who was going to visit her dying mother on a technicality, after the woman was already on the plane, was devilishly twisted. But puppy killing has really raised the bar. What could possibly be the next move?
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03-14-2018, 11:52 AM
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#4829
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 32,939
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
It appears that someone at United Airlines is attempting to figure out how absurdly awful the airline's service can be before people stop flying with them. I thought that canceling the ticket of a woman who was going to visit her dying mother on a technicality, after the woman was already on the plane, was devilishly twisted. But puppy killing has really raised the bar. What could possibly be the next move?
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I don't want to do their job for them, but it seems like airplane lavatories are inherently disgusting places and yet that their full potential in this vein has not yet been realized.
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03-14-2018, 11:56 AM
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#4830
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Government Yard in Trenchtown
Posts: 20,182
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
It appears that someone at United Airlines is attempting to figure out how absurdly awful the airline's service can be before people stop flying with them. I thought that canceling the ticket of a woman who was going to visit her dying mother on a technicality, after the woman was already on the plane, was devilishly twisted. But puppy killing has really raised the bar. What could possibly be the next move?
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Trump branding?
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