TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
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Those Oxford dudes are really good. Of course, none compare to the brilliance of 2 of our own scholars - kiki & Sig.
SGG
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Originally posted by second:
I have to say that these OED folks are remarkably up to date. Very impressive.
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/05/word-day-apophasis
Donald Trump is in the Oxford English Dictionary because he is an excellent example for a definition of Apophasis
Late Latin < Greek
denial < apophania to speak off, deny < from apo- + phanai to say.
Rhetoric the artful mention of something by denying that it will be mentioned.
1952 R. NIXON Checkers Speech 21:24 http://bit.ly/1XFW7hV And as far as Mr. Sparkman is concerned...He's had his wife on the payroll. I don't condemn him for that, but I think that he should come before the American people and indicate what outside sources of income he has had.
2016 D. TRUMP Wash. Post http://wapo.st/22mE5lC On Vince Foster's suicide: I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder. I don’t do that because I don’t think it’s fair.
2016 D. TRUMP NY Times http://nyti.ms/24ejJKx On Bill Weld: I don’t talk about his alcoholism.
2016 D. TRUMP PolitiFact: Pants On Fire http://bit.ly/1sj7UXR On a National Enquirer report that Ted Cruz’s father may have been involved in JFK's assassination: I was on a show...And I just asked, what was that all about?
2016 D. TRUMP Meet the Press http://nbcnews.to/1TG1nBI On retweeting a hoax video claiming that a guy who rushed the stage at one of his rallies was an ISIS sympathizer: Now, I don’t know. What do I know about it? All I know is what's on the internet.
2016 D. TRUMP Wash. Times http://bit.ly/1RcrcFM On George Bush lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: Well, a lot of people agree with what I said. And I'm not talking about lying, I'm not talking about not lying. Nobody really knows why we went into Iraq.
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Hey Second...............You see!
SGG
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
But then, who's more frightening - a confabulating blowhard - or a person bent on provoking nuclear war with Russia?
Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!
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I remember reading an article, or was it on the internet, around 2008 when Obama was about to become our president. Actually, during his run for office. Several conservatives and Tea Party people swearing up and down how Obama was going to abolish the 2d Amendment.
Fast Forward to 2016. People still own guns and not a black helicopter in site.
Pause for a SIG moment: But we have Drones! among other things.
Time back in: That's just an observation. You see, that's what I do. I observe
things. I may not post reams of articles and such, but that's what I bring. And now, we have the Donald wanting to bring back the good old days, Nazi Germany, and
regurgitating that old chestnut - Hilary is looking to abolish the 2d Amendment.
Quick, you guys should catch him up on current affairs - Hilary is a neo-con and
spoiling for war. Of course, he's trying desperately to tie her in with Obama, so
you should catch him up.
Notice I didn't mention Russia once.
SGG
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Hugh Hewitt exposed the fact that Trump lacks basic understanding of the structure and mission of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. But Trump can't stop talking as fast as possible to hide that he has no idea what "nuclear triad" means.
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While under oath, Ex-Employees Criticize Trump University, Calling It ‘Scheme’ and ‘Total Lie’ in newly released testimony from lawsuit against school.
www.wsj.com/articles/several-ex-employees-at-trump-university-call-it-
a-scheme-1464787317
Jason Nicholas, another witness for the plaintiffs who worked as a sales associate for five months in 2007, also said he was appalled by what went on at the university. “They were unqualified people posing as Donald Trump’s ’right-hand men,’” he wrote. “They were teaching methods that were unethical, and they had had little to no experience flipping properties or doing real estate deals. It was a facade, a total lie.”
In his sworn declaration, Mr. Schnackenberg he quit his job after refusing to pitch the seminars to a couple that he thought couldn’t afford them. “They had no money to pay for the program but would have had to pay for the program using disability and taking out a loan based upon equity in his apartment.” He said another sales manager “talked them into buying a $35,000 seminar.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-involved-in-crafting-controversi
al-trump-university-ads-executive-testified/2016/05/31/f032a488-2741-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html
Donald Trump was personally involved in devising the marketing strategy for Trump University, even vetting potential ads, according to newly disclosed sworn testimony from the company’s top executive taken as part of an ongoing lawsuit.... “Mr. Trump understandably is protective of his brand and very protective of his image and how he’s portrayed,” Michael Sexton, Trump University’s president, said in the 2012 deposition. “And he wanted to see how his brand and image were portrayed in Trump University marketing materials. And he had very good and substantive input as well.”
www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/us/politics/donald-trump-university.html
Corrine Sommer, an event manager, recounted how colleagues encouraged students to open up as many credit cards as possible to pay for classes that many of them could not afford. “It’s O.K., just max out your credit card,” Ms. Sommer recalled their saying.
....Ms. Sommer recalled that a member of the Trump University sales team, who had previously sold jewelry, was promoted to become an instructor. He had “no real estate experience,” she said. She added that many of the instructors had the quality that the school seemed to value most: “They were skilled at high-pressure sales,” she said.
www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/3d988c22-2811-11e6-8329-610495492
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It's always been a little bit unclear to what extent anyone believes Hillary shot Vince Foster in the head as opposed to cynically peddling murder theories for partisan advantage. Trump is seeking partisan advantage because he is in a fight with Hillary. See how Trump might be a liar?
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:None of your false choices.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Are your referring to the fake suicide, or the coverup and whitewash?
Or are you trying to blend them together, muddy the facts.
So you are incapable of answering the simple question?
Are you confused, or is it because you shun the truth at every turn?
How Foster died is very clear. In the days before his death, Foster was having trouble eating or sleeping. He told his sister that he was suffering from depression but was afraid that seeing a psychiatrist would cost him his security clearance. His sister provided him with the names of two DC-area psychiatrists anyway, and urged him to see one "off the record" to alleviate his clearance concerns. He called one, but got an answering machine. He spoke to his doctor on the phone in Little Rock and got a prescription for antidepressants.
Then his body was found in a park with a bullet through his head and a gun in his hand.
The US Park Police had jurisdiction over the matter and concluded, in conjunction with the FBI, that it was a suicide. Later investigations by independent counsels Robert Fisk and Kenneth Starr concluded the same thing. When a depressed man is found dead in a park with no sign of a struggle and gun residue on his hand, the natural conclusion is suicide, and every subsequent piece of evidence confirmed that finding. Depression plus easy access to firearms lead to an avoidable death, as it all too often does in the United States.
Sometimes your gullibility is amazing.
Libtards are defined as retards who believe any Talking Points the Democraps spoon feed them.
Libtards believe that gravity is a force which can be suspended by Democraps upon demand. The blood from Vince Fosters gunshot head would was able to traverse his face it the direction opposite gravity - meaning up, towards the sky. Unless, of course, after shooting himself and falling down and having his cranial blood ooze out of his wound and then set, he then decided to move his head around so that the gravity-driven blood was finally in position to indicate the suspension of gravity.
And Libtards believe that the Parks are regularly covered in carpeting, which explains why carpet fibers were stuck in the blood from his head wound. Unless he decided that after shooting himself, he would travel miles to find an area of carpet to rub his bloody head into, before returning to the scene of the "suicide" and resting himself again.
How convenient that the body was placed - or "discovered" - in a place which would be under jurisdiction of somebody that was a Clintonista suck-up appointee who could control the progress and direction of the so-called "investigation".
The United States Park Police are within the Department of the Interior, under the Secretary of the Interior.
Your Strawman argument that Hilliary herself shot somebody is quite lame. The Clintons have a long history of killing off their inconvenient "friends" via hired hands. The only in-person crimes they participate in are the conspiracies, lawyer tricks for Hilliary, and serial Rapes for Slick. Why would any reasonable person try to refute or shun the facts by claiming that Hilliary herself shot somebody? Nobody but Libtards claim this to be the facts of the case - do you know something that none of the rest of us know about Hilliary shooting her friends herself?
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Quote:Thank you for straightening me out.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Sometimes your gullibility is amazing.
Donald Trump just outlined a plan to profit personally off a Trump administration
It's traditional for American presidents to put their financial assets in a blind trust when they become president, meaning that they still own what they own, but for the duration of their time in office they have no control over the assets. This isn't a legal requirement, but it's a customary way for chief executives to set people's minds at rest over the obvious conflicts of interest inherent in actively managing a stock portfolio while also serving as leader of the free world.
Donald Trump has indicated in the past that he wouldn't follow this practice, and the particular nature of his assets — many of which literally have his name on them — would make blindness difficult to achieve. Be that as it may, in a Thursday midday tweet he for the first time said clearly that if he wins the election he intends to seek to personally profit off his office.
www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-financial-conflicts-20160314-stor
y.html
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
After the litigation is disposed of and the case won, I have instructed my execs to open Trump U(?), so much interest in it! I will be pres.
10:02 AM - 2 Jun 2016 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/738415541203832832
Trump University is pretty clearly a scam, for which Trump is seeking to avoid legal accountability through a racist smear campaign against a federal judge and campaign contributions to state attorneys general. Serving as president would presumably give Trump new tools with which to help get the "university" (which, to be clear, is not in any sense a university) out of legal trouble and create invaluable opportunities to publicize it.
You might wonder why a person who says he's worth $10 billion is so eager to find new ways to make money, and the answer may well have something to do with the considerable evidence that he's massively overstating his net worth.
www.vox.com/2016/5/14/11671650/how-rich-is-trump
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Cable news has often struggled with how to cover Trump accurately given his habit of constantly saying things that aren't true or don't make sense. Today, CNN took a big step forward with this chyron:
TRUMP: I NEVER SAID JAPAN SHOULD HAVE NUKES (HE DID)
This goes back to March, when Donald Trump was talking about the security situation in Northeast Asia.
He'd suggested earlier that the United States was spending too much money on stationing soldiers in South Korea and Japan, which are both high-income developed countries that can afford to defend themselves against North Korea.
This led to the suggestion that Korea and Japan should develop their own nuclear arsenals — obviously a big change from current American foreign policy, which tries to discourage the spread of nuclear weapons. It's also a politically sensitive issue in Japan, which is the only country that's actually been hit with nuclear weapons. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said flatly, "It is impossible that Japan will arm itself with nuclear weapons."
Today at a rally in Sacramento, Trump said, falsely, that Hillary Clinton was lying when she said he had proposed this.
"She made a speech, she’s making another one tomorrow, and they sent me a copy of the speech" Trump said. "And it was such lies about my foreign policy, that they said I want Japan to get nuclear weapons. Give me a break."
In fact, Trump very explicitly said this. Here he is in an April interview with Chris Wallace:
TRUMP: It’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them. So, North Korea has nukes. Japan has a problem with that. I mean, they have a big problem with that. Maybe they would in fact be better off if they defend themselves from North Korea.
WALLACE: With nukes?
TRUMP: Including with nukes, yes, including with nukes.
Start at 9 minutes to catch Trump in another lie:
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Speaking of mentioning her illustrious history, you do that enough for the entire website. Plus, no matter what I say you'll only come up with more "examples" of how cruel she is, and how she plans to nuke the world, cause war and famine, and pull
the wings off butterflies - oh, and drown puppies and kittens.
Besides that's not my strong suit, that's more your department. That and posting articles nearly verbatim. Anyway, I'm not here for your entertainment. I post what I please, you just have to deal with that fact. Whenever I'm of the mind, I post
articles that catch my eye and comment on them (or at least I used to), I got slammed a number of times for posting my take on things, then I answer in kind and I get slammed for it.
I'm not falling for the old "hook" routine. Nope, not gonna do it. So go ahead slam Hilary, Donald, Bernie or whoever. Me, I'm gonna do my thang!
SGG
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Meanwhile, you've avoided mentioning her illustrious history called Libya/Ukraine/Syria or her foreign policy platform posted on the Internet or her speeches.
For someone who's pretending to be for Hillary you sure seem awfully reluctant to discuss the facts about her.
Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!
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Second, I admire your approach to the tactics used by some here to ridicule, manipulate and deflect. Bravo! Very shiny!
Trump University:
I saw an interview with NY State AG Eric Schneiderman, who said "We have a law against running an illegal, unlicensed university. This never was a university."
He's investigating the Donald and the university for Fraud. It is nothing but a scam, which some refuse to believe because, well, they're stupid.
"Trump University engaged in deception at every stage of consumers' advancement through costly programs and caused real financial harm,"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/08/24/trump-universi
ty-fraud-ny/2696367/
Posted this article for all you sports fans.
SGG
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Thank you for straightening me out.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Sometimes your gullibility is amazing.
Donald Trump just outlined a plan to profit personally off a Trump administration
It's traditional for American presidents to put their financial assets in a blind trust when they become president, meaning that they still own what they own, but for the duration of their time in office they have no control over the assets. This isn't a legal requirement, but it's a customary way for chief executives to set people's minds at rest over the obvious conflicts of interest inherent in actively managing a stock portfolio while also serving as leader of the free world.
Donald Trump has indicated in the past that he wouldn't follow this practice, and the particular nature of his assets — many of which literally have his name on them — would make blindness difficult to achieve. Be that as it may, in a Thursday midday tweet he for the first time said clearly that if he wins the election he intends to seek to personally profit off his office.
www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-financial-conflicts-20160314-stor
y.html
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
After the litigation is disposed of and the case won, I have instructed my execs to open Trump U(?), so much interest in it! I will be pres.
10:02 AM - 2 Jun 2016 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/738415541203832832
Trump University is pretty clearly a scam, for which Trump is seeking to avoid legal accountability through a racist smear campaign against a federal judge and campaign contributions to state attorneys general. Serving as president would presumably give Trump new tools with which to help get the "university" (which, to be clear, is not in any sense a university) out of legal trouble and create invaluable opportunities to publicize it.
You might wonder why a person who says he's worth $10 billion is so eager to find new ways to make money, and the answer may well have something to do with the considerable evidence that he's massively overstating his net worth.
www.vox.com/2016/5/14/11671650/how-rich-is-trump
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