Yes, has done one thing.

He has proven that he has the singularly spectacular ability to fuck up everything he touches.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Ok. I don't get why you replied to me then.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Isn't he running the administration with the highest turnover rate?

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He just wiped out all of Puerto Rico's debt.

"They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street. We will have to wipe that out," Trump told Fox News' Geraldo Rivera in an interview in San Juan, the Puerto Rican capital.

The U.S. territory has been struggling with a financial crisis for years. And that was before Hurricane Maria slammed into the island two weeks ago, causing widespread devastation and leaving millions of people without power or water.

Puerto Rico's huge debt burden -- totaling $73 billion -- forced it to file in May for the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy in history.

"I don't know if it's Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to that."

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I guess I replied to you because I agree that a dialogue existed surrounding the Bush presidency hurting the Republican party, but his faults were largely tactical errors. Politics in the middle east is difficult, a financial crisis that he had little hand in creating blew up in his face, etc. For all of the bad or good of Bush depending on who you are, he wasn't insulting or disparaging to any demographic group.

So I replied to you because I think there is a contrast between why people may have been calling for a doomed GOP after Bush (policy decisions - and any party/person in power for 8 years is going to have policy errors) versus the present situation where the current administration has consistently and repeatedly insulted, disparaged, humiliated, degraded, and objectified several ethnic groups that are (a) not currently strong supporters of the Republican party and (b) currently surging in terms of political power, whereas the political base of the Republican party, is quite literally, dying.

So I think there is a distinct difference between damage done to the Republican Party from Bush vs. Trump.

Even now though, you don't think the Republican Party is doomed, or at least refused to answer that question.

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No, I don't think they are "doomed", in trouble is the best way I could put it. The demographics and the actuarial tables are going to flip at some point on the party, and look political parties don't last for 150+ years because they are stupid. The Republicans will have to take positions on issues that are more appealing to demographics that the party currently does not cater to. It's the natural evolution of a political party to evolve in a way to continue to keep their leaders in office and in power.

Why I think they might be in more trouble now, and for longer, is that if you fuck up a policy call (Bush) it's easier to do a mea culpa, but when on a national level you call an entire constituency a glorified pile of shit, voters tend to hold on to that grudge a bit longer.

Rolled back the birth control mandate for insurance. Nobody has more respect for women than Trump!

Could be huge if true

Executive order banning the word Xmas next?

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Named the CEO of AccuWeather the new head of NOAA. Groundbreaking!

Add saving the lives of three very stupid men's basketball players on the UCLA team to the list.

If it weren't for Trump intervening, they would be rotting in a Chinese prison for the next 10 to 20 years. Are they so ignorant, that they don't know what happened to Warmbier in North Korea?

You go to a foreign country to represent your university and team, and you shop lift? These players are the worst excuses for human beings.

Wow, so death was on the table for those kids?

I thought they might be held there for a year or 2 at most.

I think Trump's trip to China was a good one and will have positive effects going forward.

I think he has the right idea on North Korea, just needs to tone down the rhetoric.

Shoplifting in China as Americans is not as big a deal as it was made out to be from the research I read. It could have been bad, but China usually wants to look good in the world view when it comes to foreign tourists. Remember when they hosted the Olympics? They did everything they could to tone down their atrocities and make themselves look great to the world.

Good on Trump for getting them out, but Dignified Rube's comparison to Otto Warmbier and North Korea is not accurate.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Fox News host Laura Ingraham going HARD after him for that.

To her credit going against the grain.

As long as it is monitored and done correctly, they aren't wrong in their thinking. Taking out a few old ornery bull elephants that can often times be detrimental to other herds while bringing in millions of dollars in revenue that could go to helping curb the real problems - poaching - is a good thing.

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I dont really have a take on this, but I assume MANY think shooting them for sport is wrong in and of itself so they want us to have no part of it.

Dang! Newsweek giving Trump some credit?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-apos-d ... 02449.html

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

Yeah, I won't say more here as there could be a separate thread for it, but that is their belief. Emotional over rational. And I actually don't like trophy hunting despite being a big hunter otherwise.

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of course. no reason to think otherwise

Agree on that as African governments are some of the most corrupt there are. But elephants are already being massacred without this happening, so what's to lose?

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By the time his presidency is over, he will have relieved Nixon as our most disgraced president.

Now, THAT is an accomplishment.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way