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Does anyone else watch the President's daily briefings?
What he says is is usually very entertaining even while being so frustrating. I truly believe the man is doing his best during this crisis, but damn, what comes out of his mouth is sometimes simply preposterous!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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I do give Trump credit for saying what he thinks. He's probably the first president of my time who's comfortable doing that. Cajones = Trump.
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I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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I can watch him talking long enough to find the remote.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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Uh, thats damn funny.Originally Posted by UTAH
I can't watch the impromptu stuff. I can tolerate the prepared remarks.
"Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.
don"
Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Nope. I don't want to break my wife's TV by throwing something at it....to be fair I didn't watch many of the previous 3 administrations press conferences either. they were all full of Horse****
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Uh, thats damn funny.
It's the impromptu stuff that makes it worth watching. It's like a comedy show.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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I enjoyed the news conferences. Trump is what Trump is what he is at least he's real. I couldn't stomach professional politician news conferences in a crisis like this.
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It's just that I find it very hard to laugh at
I'm with Joe on this one
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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Yeah, but have your heard the PRESS?!?!?!?! Nutty stuff coming from them, and downright nasty as well!Does anyone else watch the President's daily briefings?
What he says is is usually very entertaining even while being so frustrating. I truly believe the man is doing his best during this crisis, but damn, what comes out of his mouth is sometimes simply preposterous!
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I think this is one crisis he can't BS his way out of or sue. Just looks like Nero fiddling away while the town burns or the deer in the headlights look.
As a leader he's not the brightest bulb in the group but like others here have said I really think he says what's on his mind, though I suspect the language has been cleaned upon the script.
As to watching him or the news not much there either.
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stayed alive."
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One of those nimrods actually asked him why he doesn’t close all the grocery stores!
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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I thought a nimrod was a hunter? How about dilrod?
"Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.
don"
Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Both are correct:
nim·rod
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noun
plural noun: nimrods
1. LITERARY
a skillful hunter.
"nimrods take to the field after everything from prairie dogs to grizzly bears"
2. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN
an inept person.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I’m #2, an informal North American, not a literary folk like brother Curt, so in this instance I was referring to an inept person.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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O.K., the interest here made me watch Trump’s press conference today, and my opinion was that he was impressive not in the sense of his speaking abilities or smooth glibness, which most associate with “presidential bearing,” but with his willingness to stand there and answer all comers and with his command of facts. Yeah, I’m a Trump butt-boy, so I take that in account, but he was absolutely running circles around their attempts to trip him up. It was obvious the reporters, who were all junior twenty-somethings, we’re on a mission to score coups with a gotcha question of the day, yet they could not. For instance, in one exchange a reporter started asking the president about the price of oil, and Trump asked him what the price of oil is to which the reporter had to admit he did not know. Trump curtly told him that if he did not know what he was talking about it was next reporter up and pointed to the next one. Another started grilling Trump about a particular Inspector General and what that IG had done with Trump asking him who had appointed the IG. The reporter did not know, but came back later and had to admit it was an Obama appointee to which he just shuck his head in answer. Another series of questions centered on the Wisconsin primary vote today trying to pin possible future coronavirus infections on Trump somehow as a result of people standing in voting lines. Trump was ready pointing out that it was up to the Wisconsin authorities to arraign that and the Democrat governor was just fine with carrying out the primary until Trump endorsed a state Supreme Court candidate a couple of days ago and they suddenly demanded a postponement because they feared a loss due to his endorsement. He then pointed out the obvious, that he had nothing to do with the SCOTUS ruling against the postponement.
All of this amounted to Trump-3 reporters-0. The rest was the the same.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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