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stui magpie 
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Your not 5 either. Stop believing all the rubbish cant. real threat? To what?
The system doesn't allow wildcards.
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| David wrote: | | If people are concerned about the direction their country is headed in, they should do something about it. |
Like say the Reclaim Australia protestors?
Or voting for One Nation?
Surely that is acceptable if people are genuinely concerned?
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Skids 
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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| David wrote: | | Stui, the ramifications of Trump's presidency are rather more significant than who gets to say they're a winner and who's a loser, and you're not 5. Some people may be in denial, but the vast majority of people rallying against him are very well aware of the real threat he represents and are right to demonstrate their opposition. If people are concerned about the direction their country is headed in, they should do something about it. |
Like reducing the number of unemployed people?
U.S. President Donald Trump pushed the chief executives of General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV on Tuesday to increase production in the United States and boost American employment.
Trump opened a meeting with GM CEO Mary Barra, Ford CEO Mark Fields and Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne at the White House by saying he wants to see new auto plants built in the United States.
The new Republican president vowed to cut regulations and taxes to make it more attractive for businesses to operate in the United States. He promised frequently during his election campaign to be a job-creating president and stressed that message in his inaugural speech last Friday.
"We have a very big push on to have auto plants and other plants - many other plants," he told reporters at the start of the meeting with auto executives. "It's happening."
The meeting was the latest sign of Trump's uncommon degree of intervention for a U.S. president into corporate affairs as he has repeatedly pressured automakers and other manufacturers to "buy American and hire American."
Gee... tragic stuff.
http://fortune.com/2017/01/24/donald-trump-auto-executives-increase-production/
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watt price tully 
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It's very funny: I posted that link months ago.
Oh I miss the daily show but Samantha Bee has taken it up big time & is doing a terrific job. Samantha Bee's husband Jason Jones an executive producer on the show is a very funny man.Both were regular "correspondents" on the show.
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Morrigu
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^ I tried to watch some of the links you posted for Samantha Bee - sorry but I don't get the love 
Shrill +++ and well just not even remotely amusing let alone funny - maybe just my predudice when I hear that accent 
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watt price tully
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| Morrigu wrote: | ^ I tried to watch some of the links you posted for Samantha Bee - sorry but I don't get the love
Shrill +++ and well just not even remotely amusing let alone funny - maybe just my predudice when I hear that accent |
Each to their own: You're too angry to enjoy it currently  but it is very funny. Let the voice go & you'll find it's very tight, well produced & spot on - I think she's from Canada originally. Then again if you set out not to like it you won't; you might not have liked Jon Stewart either.
Although the subject matter is more sad really. No one else has shown the the nasty recent background of the new US treasurer & it's been done well.
I'm sure one of the topics coming up will be the funding withdrawal for 3rd world women to have pregnancy terminations linked to US overseas aid a decision made by powerful post middle aged white rich males.
Then again humour (in the form of political satire) is in the eye of the beer holder I'm told.
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watt price tully
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Just the start.
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Skids
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Just the start. |
No actually.... it's almost complete.
The project was planned for delivery by January 1, 2017.On November 26, 2016, the project was reported to be 87% completed.
The $3.78 billion project was announced to the public on June 25, 2014 and informational hearings for landowners took place between August 2014 and January 2015
Ummmm, who was president when it was approved?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline
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watt price tully
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| Skids wrote: | | watt price tully wrote: |
Just the start. |
No actually.... it's almost complete.
The project was planned for delivery by January 1, 2017.On November 26, 2016, the project was reported to be 87% completed.
The $3.78 billion project was announced to the public on June 25, 2014 and informational hearings for landowners took place between August 2014 and January 2015
Ummmm, who was president when it was approved?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline |
I should have been more specific: it was the environmental one I was concerned about because of the environmental issues associated with it. Don't care who approves it shouldn't happen period. I heard it on the radio Midday news before heading out to work yesterday.
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And since it began, they have been fighting to stop the pipe going near tribal land. Go around, More jobs for. Longer!
I've followed this story. And it's been. appalling the way the protesters have been treated.
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David
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| Morrigu wrote: | | David wrote: | | If people are concerned about the direction their country is headed in, they should do something about it. |
Like say the Reclaim Australia protestors?
Or voting for One Nation?
Surely that is acceptable if people are genuinely concerned? |
Of course. I support the right to protest, not just when it's for a cause I agree with. Better than tuning out and switching one's critical faculties off, which seems to be the course of action suggested by the "Donald Trump is president, deal with it" rhetoric.
Hopefully these protests won't be the high point of anti-Trump action but merely the first warning shot. I'm not proposing denial; rather, acceptance and then careful strategising. Time to fight back and find out where he bleeds.
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MJ23
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| David wrote: | | Morrigu wrote: | | David wrote: | | If people are concerned about the direction their country is headed in, they should do something about it. |
Like say the Reclaim Australia protestors?
Or voting for One Nation?
Surely that is acceptable if people are genuinely concerned? |
Of course. I support the right to protest, not just when it's for a cause I agree with. Better than tuning out and switching one's critical faculties off, which seems to be the course of action suggested by the "Donald Trump is president, deal with it" rhetoric.
Hopefully these protests won't be the high point of anti-Trump action but merely the first warning shot. I'm not proposing denial; rather, acceptance and then careful strategising. Time to fight back and find out where he bleeds. |
Good on them for getting out there, even if a heap of them don't really know why they are there. It's going to take a lot of time, effort, patience and persistence for these organisers to "maintain the rage of the vocal minority" for 4 years.
Still I'd have thought the best form of protest is the vote. Democrats need to sort themselves out, understand what messages majority voters sent at the election and put forward a halfway decent candidate.
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