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  • Trump endorses the Presidency for life!

    Trump supports President Xi as president for life and says he wants to try that someday!

    Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'

    Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html



    (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a "rigged system" that still doesn't have the "right people" in place to fix it, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida on Saturday.

    In the closed-door remarks, a recording of which was obtained by CNN, Trump also praised China's President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn't mind making such a maneuver himself.
    "He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."

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    Hail Caesar!
    Last edited by shunyadragon; 03-04-2018, 10:49 AM.
    Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
    Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
    But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

    go with the flow the river knows . . .

    Frank

    I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

  • #2
    Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
    Trump supports President Xi as president for life and says he wants to try that someday!

    Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'

    Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html



    (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a "rigged system" that still doesn't have the "right people" in place to fix it, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida on Saturday.

    In the closed-door remarks, a recording of which was obtained by CNN, Trump also praised China's President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn't mind making such a maneuver himself.
    "He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."

    © Copyright Original Source



    Hail Caesar!
    Those words will go in one ear of Trump supporters and out the other and then they will thoughtlessly continue to defend and support him.

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    • #3
      Listening to the actual recording and not just reading the transcript, everyone is laughing and the general tone is very light and not at all serious. It all sounded more like joking around than anything else to me.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by CMD View Post
        Listening to the actual recording and not just reading the transcript, everyone is laughing and the general tone is very light and not at all serious. It all sounded more like joking around than anything else to me.
        Of course he was joking.
        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
        Than a fool in the eyes of God


        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
          Of course he was joking.
          Of course. The only person fit to be president for life is Mountain Man. And Trump knows that.
          "Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing." Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler Jr.

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          • #6
            Not having to worry about re-election certainly allows one to be more flexible. At least that's what Obama told the Russian official that one time.
            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
            Than a fool in the eyes of God


            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
              Not having to worry about re-election certainly allows one to be more flexible. At least that's what Obama told the Russian official that one time.
              And another benefit if you were president for life was that we would no longer have to take into consideration that the president sometimes, even though not very often, actually says something that is true.
              "Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing." Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler Jr.

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              • #8
                this is the guy you want to take away our guns, Jimmy?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by CMD View Post
                  Listening to the actual recording and not just reading the transcript, everyone is laughing and the general tone is very light and not at all serious. It all sounded more like joking around than anything else to me.
                  Joking around on TV conversing with the president of China?!?!?!? The laughter I heard was a nervous uncertain laughter hoping it was a joke.
                  Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
                  Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
                  But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

                  go with the flow the river knows . . .

                  Frank

                  I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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                  • #10
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                    Last edited by Sparko; 03-06-2018, 09:53 AM.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                      Edited by a Moderator
                      Bit harsh.

                      Though it is one of those rare first world countries with capital punishment, so perhaps it is a place where you can actually get executed for treason.

                      Do they still drag them behind a horse & cart?
                      Last edited by Sparko; 03-06-2018, 09:53 AM.

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                      • #12
                        Although I did see a lot of the usual right wing conspiracy theories doing the rounds under Obama claiming he was going for a third term or some such.

                        Imagine the frothing fear-rage on here were Obama to make the same joke. I’m sure it would have been just as shrugged off then as it is now

                        It’s hard to tell what the buffoon means when he speaks or twits- if he’s joking, or if he hasn’t really thought it through *again* so will claim it is a joke later, etc.

                        Although everyone thought it was a joke when he first started talking about running for president, too...

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by EvoUK View Post
                          Although I did see a lot of the usual right wing conspiracy theories doing the rounds under Obama claiming he was going for a third term or some such.

                          Imagine the frothing fear-rage on here were Obama to make the same joke. I’m sure it would have been just as shrugged off then as it is now

                          It’s hard to tell what the buffoon means when he speaks or twits- if he’s joking, or if he hasn’t really thought it through *again* so will claim it is a joke later, etc.

                          Although everyone thought it was a joke when he first started talking about running for president, too...
                          Unfortunately the situation, and the problem of making light of a very serious political issue precludes it from being just a joke.

                          Dictatorship, president for life, in history is not a joke.
                          Last edited by shunyadragon; 03-05-2018, 08:58 AM.
                          Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
                          Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
                          But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

                          go with the flow the river knows . . .

                          Frank

                          I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                            Unfortunately the situation, and the problem of making light of a very serious political issue precludes it from being just a joke.

                            Dictatorship, president for life, in history is not a joke.
                            Of course it is a joke:

                            see here

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                              Hail Caesar!
                              Hail!!!
                              Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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