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Old 09-07-2017, 01:17 AM
 
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One of the more intelligent feeds on twitter. he used his MBA from Berkeley and experience in the tech world to create dilbert and was one of the few to predict a trump victory

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Old 09-07-2017, 01:24 AM
 
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He's spinning Trump caving in to Democrats as a win to appease conservatives who opposed the debt ceiling deal
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Old 09-07-2017, 03:23 AM
 
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He's spinning Trump caving in to Democrats as a win to appease conservatives who opposed the debt ceiling deal
Exactly.

Now let's see if Republicans go along with this he's made.
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Old 09-07-2017, 06:48 AM
 
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He's spinning Trump caving in to Democrats as a win to appease conservatives who opposed the debt ceiling deal
I don't think he caved to Democrats.

I think it was a calculation, but I am not sure why. That may become obvious later.
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Old 09-07-2017, 06:49 AM
 
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He's spinning Trump caving in to Democrats as a win to appease conservatives who opposed the debt ceiling deal
I didn't see it that way at all. The GOP has been deliberately slow walking Trump’s agenda. They got their SCOTUS nominee and have jammed him up since. Eff the GOP and eff Ryan and McConnell. I expect Democrats to be a bunch of whining a-holes, just read all their nonsense here, but the GOP has been an absolute disgrace. They hold the House, the Senate, the Presidency and the majority of states across the country and they can't pass one major piece of legislation? That means they don't want to. They are ignoring the will of the people in the 2016 elections...eff those bastards, eff them all.
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Old 09-07-2017, 07:41 AM
 
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I didn't see it that way at all. The GOP has been deliberately slow walking Trump’s agenda. They got their SCOTUS nominee and have jammed him up since. Eff the GOP and eff Ryan and McConnell. I expect Democrats to be a bunch of whining a-holes, just read all their nonsense here, but the GOP has been an absolute disgrace. They hold the House, the Senate, the Presidency and the majority of states across the country and they can't pass one major piece of legislation? That means they don't want to. They are ignoring the will of the people in the 2016 elections...eff those bastards, eff them all.
I don't believe it's because the Republicans don't want to get anything done, I think the truth is that they can't even agree among themselves on what they want to get done. They are a coalition party, much more so than the Democrats, and the factions are all pulling against the whole, which makes getting consensus on anything impossible.

It's been so within the GOP for a long time, but was not so apparent when they didn't hold the White House because there was one thing they all agreed on, and that was opposition to the Democratic president. So as an opposition party, they were very effective. But they're not the opposition party any longer, and we're seeing just how ineffectual and incompetent the GOP is at leading.
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Old 09-07-2017, 07:43 AM
 
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Only a hardcore Trumper would try to convince us that Donald folding and attempting to work with Democrats was some kind of "master plan" by Trump.

This is by far the funniest thing I've read this week. Thanks for the laugh. Bwahahahahaha!
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Old 09-07-2017, 07:45 AM
 
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I don't believe it's because the Republicans don't want to get anything done, I think the truth is that they can't even agree among themselves on what they want to get done. They are a coalition party, much more so than the Democrats, and the factions are all pulling against the whole, which makes getting consensus on anything impossible.

It's been so within the GOP for a long time, but was not so apparent when they didn't hold the White House because there was one thing they all agreed on, and that was opposition to the Democratic president. So as an opposition party, they were very effective. But they're not the opposition party any longer, and we're seeing just how ineffectual and incompetent the GOP is at leading.
Nailed it.

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Old 09-07-2017, 07:46 AM
 
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The GOP is fighting within themselves so they can't get anything done. Democrats have no power in this matter so how could they be blamed? Ryan and MCConnell seem sometimes like they are smirking in the background when Trump is making a speech. Wonder what they've cooked up. Something is going to happen....
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Old 09-07-2017, 07:49 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Only a hardcore Trumper would try to convince us that Donald folding and attempting to work with Democrats was some kind of "master plan" by Trump.

This is by far the funniest thing I've read this week. Thanks for the laugh. Bwahahahahaha!


By doing this, Trump got ahead of the political play, in a critical time of domestic crisis along the Gulf and now approaching Florida.


What they are not telling you is, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were also there in the meeting. The 5 of them hashed it out.

It was not just Trump and the democrats, like they want everyone to think.
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