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güero said:
Get a grip Cuckley, it's not even polyester:

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Spend your money with good conscience then. I'm sure you'll look splendid in it.

It's the hoodie that has the polyester content in. I can assure you that ain't union made in the USA.

If you ain't clean and serene across your whole supply chain, you're exposed.

Is her supply chain robust enough to be audited against UN anti-slavery declarations?
 
www.bbc.com

Jerrold Post: The man who analysed the minds of world leaders

The former psychological profiler for the CIA died from coronavirus complications aged 86.
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"He was a psychological profiler for the CIA, examining the minds of world leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il.

But in his later years turned his attention closer to home, penning a book on the mindset of US President Donald Trump."

"In a interview with news site Salon ahead of the release of the book, he predicted Mr Trump's moves following the 2020 election.

'Should Trump win, as he did in 2016, he will make it a much bigger win and talking [sic] about the fraudulent election support on the Democratic side. But should Trump lose narrowly, I think we can be assured that he will not concede early.'

'Trump may not even recognise the legitimacy of the election,' he said."

Pretty spot on.

"Following the book's publication, Post's health began to decline and he suffered a stroke in July.

He spent his final weeks at home and died on 22 November, a week after testing positive for coronavirus."

Rest in peace although I don't know how you suffer a stroke and are incapacitated and still contract coronavirus.

Age 86. When President elect Biden finishes his two terms he will be the same age.
 
Rambo said:
www.newyorker.com

Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats

Older lawmakers’ foibles and infirmities are coming under new scrutiny, violating an unspoken culture of complicity and coverup.
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Maybe she asked the question twice for rhetorical effect but lacked the respiratory capability to emphasize a key word in the second go around?

For example: Do you believe social media is contributing to disinformation in the public? *Do* you believe social media is contributing....
 
Pimpernel Smith said:
Seems very much onside with the workers this Trump fella.
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wrong take away. he's trying to stick his finger in biden's eye. biden is even more of an austerity hawk than trump is.

Pimpernel Smith said:
I wonder if there'll will be a reassessment of his legacy in the years ahead?
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doubtful. i think it'll go the other way and he'll be looked at even less favorably.
 
Rambo said:
wrong take away. he's trying to stick his finger in biden's eye. biden is even more of an austerity hawk than trump is.


doubtful. i think it'll go the other way and he'll be looked at even less favorably.
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Let's wait and see what the Manhattan DA and other districts find. I'm with Grand Potentate Grand Potentate on this one. There's a lot of downside and not much upside, legacy-wise
 
belinmad said:
Let's wait and see what the Manhattan DA and other districts find. I'm with Grand Potentate Grand Potentate on this one. There's a lot of downside and not much upside, legacy-wise
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you misunderstand me, this is a brilliant move by trump. he just outflanked the entire democratic party. if he pulls this shit off it will be a HUGE win for him.

i just think in the long run we'll look back on this covid time as such a disaster. of course, in the end they all get rehabed. and i think trump will end up running again if he doesn't die.
 
Rambo said:
you misunderstand me, this is a brilliant move by trump. he just outflanked the entire democratic party. if he pulls this shit off it will be a HUGE win for him.

i just think in the long run we'll look back on this covid time as such a disaster. of course, in the end they all get rehabed. and i think trump will end up running again if he doesn't die.
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Gotcha. You probably have a point there.

Still, on the legacy front, my point is that unless the Dems agree to not pursue (which would not be an easy feat given how fractured they are currently), we are going to see 2-3 years of case after case (rightly) targeting him and his cronies. In the end he'll probably move forward unscathed (let's face it, the guy is like fucking Teflon - absolutely nothing sticks), yet I am just not sure how any legacy survives such a process.
 
belinmad said:
Depends on who you ask, I guess. Personally, I think that with all its flaws, America was already great, and he made it less so. But hey, that's just me.
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I think it’s a testament to America that it survived the last four years.

As far as legacy goes, to ‘Trump some think up’ will always be a fuck-up. However, we always measure by the standards of the present. We thought Bush2 was bad, but in light of Trump suddenly he wasn’t quite so bad and his legacy wasn’t quite so dark. In four years we could get an administration even worse and look back on Trump a little more fondly ‘he was an incompetent fool, but at least he was incapable of making any of the changes he wanted to’.
 
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