Yep. In fact, I’d wager he would say he did more than “let it happen”–he would claim to have deliberately ‘played’ the Russians, and beaten them at their own game.
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You guys are hilarious with all this.
That sounds a whole lot like 4D chess to me.
Not really. It’s just unprecedented. It doesn’t take a genius to realize the average American breathes through his/her mouth and will eat that shit up. It just takes balls to attempt it.
I never accused Trump of not having balls.
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If 4D chess is hurting your own travel ban case, possibly getting yourself looked at for obstruction over your tweet, having your approval rating go in the tank right after you use social media then Trump is playing 4D chess. The reality is he doesn’t have a horribly low floor even Nixon had approval ratings in the mid 20’s I believe after all the Watergate stuff.
I can’t see an argument for how he is really helping himself with any of these things. His own party forced to apologize for him time and time again or saying we wish he wouldn’t do that.
If he’s playing a game it’s how low can my approval ratings go because I have zero willpower. If he gets linked to the Russia stuff it certainly won’t be seen as advanced thinking on his part.
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I don’t know, anonym.
I don’t think that guys having deep financial ties to Russia (especially Flynn and Manafort); who stood to gain even more with a Trump win; then telling Putin:
“Hey…do what you have to do…but keep us out of it!” represents some advanced Political Strategy and Manipulation.
It’s as basic as greed and power…no more…no less.
I’m sorry, I forgot you all couldn’t see me rolling my eyes as I typed that.
It’s an asinine conspiracy theory because Trump is, generally speaking, an asinine individual. The credit that strategy would confer upon his foresightedness and political savvy is, frankly, absurd, given his general behavior.
edit: not sure why I quoted a random piece of text.
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Understood!
Every time I check in here, my eyeballs roll around & around like crazy…
If you want every one in the world to know something, tell Trump, and tell him it’s a secret.
Trump couldn’t mastermind a conspiracy if his hair depended on it.
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Question:
Why can’t they just use social security number as a unique identifier? If the states provide ONLY the SSN’s of voters and not party affiliation, names and addresses etc… It would be as simple as a reverse vlookup or ‘highlight duplicate values’. Sort and bam, all duplicate registrations are caught. Send the massive excel file back to all 50 states attornies general and let them run down the list.
@anon50325502 or I could do that in 10 minutes or less. Duplicate voter registration solved.
That’ll be a $50M consultancy fee please.
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I donno, man… The VA and OPM have both lost my SSN already. Not sure I’d want 50 AGs having it, lol.
Next thing you know I’ll be getting Trump hotel flyers in the mail…
*But, ya, it’d be pretty simple to eliminate duplicates.
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It just blew my mind they tried to match on name. An entry level $35k/year data analyst could have told them that’s wrong. Duplicate registration is stupidly easy to solve, if we actually wanted to.
The dems and Reps should both want it. If they want to get faith back into the establishment, start with an easy win. “We purged 5 Million duplicate names from voter roles! You can have faith in free and fair elections.” If anyone turns up on election day incorrectly purged have them fill out an absentee ballot with a form (like most states do now). Boom, no disenfranchisement.
Government has some tough problems to address, this isn’t one of them.
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From the trenches of medical research, let me tell just reiterate…yes, an entry-level data analyst can tell them that’s wrong, but people with much higher degrees and salaries are still conducting research studies by matching records using either patient names or “medical record numbers” (patients can have more than one MRN; in some cases we’ve had patients with up to seven different MRN’s).
Anyone that works with data knows this. Sadly, most people aren’t educated in working with data.
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So long as duplicate voting isn’t occurring, is duplicate registration really a problem? If it is, someone be sure to tell the Trump family:
Make sure Jared Kushner and Sean Spicer get the word as well:
Finally, they should also tell the whack job who is pushing the ‘3M illegal votes’ conspiracy theory:
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The idea is that if you clean up the rolls of duplicate registrations, dead people etc. Then you eliminate the potential for voter fraud.
It’s just like having one person issue checks and another person sign them. If nobody is stealing from the treasury then why have that control in place?
Several times a year we hear about states and municipalities sending some little old book keeper lady to jail because she stole $500k over 10 years while nobody was looking and the controls were weak.
We had a contractor in our area prosecute his secretary for stealing $300k over 5 years. That’s just what they caught. He let her sign the checks.
Why not implement a control that takes almost no resources to implement, causes no harm and prevents potential fraud?
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Huh?
Poland has taken steps to remain Polish. No refugees, and no immigrants.
Defend our civilization = stop race replacement of white people
About 30 minutes before the speech, an advisor explained to Trump what Western civilization is.
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Ummm, Trump is the President of the United States where we have a whole bunch of different colored people that are citizens…
*Misread civilization as citizen. I still don’t get it, though.
**Oh, wait, nevermind. I forgot you think America is a White only civilization. Now I get.
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