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Botany

(70,483 posts) Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:17 PM Dec 2018

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I might be wrong but Trump's new "thing" about deporting Vietnamese refugees might just be a ...

... desperate move to change the news cycle for 24 hours. His cruel and unneeded move has gas
lighting all over it.

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I might be wrong but Trump's new "thing" about deporting Vietnamese refugees might just be a ... (Original Post) Botany Dec 2018 OP

Pretty sure you're right. Turbineguy Dec 2018 #1

+1. A sadist in constant search of his next victim dalton99a Dec 2018 #5

Trump is Still Smarting by Getting Owned by Pelosi & Schumer Yesterday dlk Dec 2018 #2

Squirrel!!! n/t ginnyinWI Dec 2018 #3

Beat me to it! 2naSalit Dec 2018 #8

That, and a nice big serving of fresh cruelty to get his base salivating. NT enough Dec 2018 #4

Viewed cynically, it seems like an attempt to knock Michael Cohen's sentencing off the front page. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Dec 2018 #6

This like the kid who decides that the best way ThoughtCriminal Dec 2018 #7

Plus Stephen Miller needs to be fed. applegrove Dec 2018 #9

How do we find out if it's real or not? ecstatic Dec 2018 #10

Of course it is! Cha Dec 2018 #11

Turbineguy

(37,312 posts)

1. Pretty sure you're right.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:20 PM

Dec 2018

Trump Scout Creed:

Do something rotten every day.

dalton99a

(81,432 posts)

5. +1. A sadist in constant search of his next victim

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:26 PM

Dec 2018

dlk

(11,540 posts)

2. Trump is Still Smarting by Getting Owned by Pelosi & Schumer Yesterday

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:22 PM

Dec 2018

Like any bully, he needs to take out his rage on someone.

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)

3. Squirrel!!! n/t

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:24 PM

Dec 2018

2naSalit

(86,509 posts)

8. Beat me to it!

Reply to ginnyinWI (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:33 PM

Dec 2018

enough

(13,256 posts)

4. That, and a nice big serving of fresh cruelty to get his base salivating. NT

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:24 PM

Dec 2018

LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(12,578 posts)

6. Viewed cynically, it seems like an attempt to knock Michael Cohen's sentencing off the front page.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:32 PM

Dec 2018

Doesn't the prosecution read a complete description of the crimes Cohen is pleading guilty to, including the fact that Trump instructed him to violate campaign finance laws by paying off Stormy Daniels and the Playboy Playmate?

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)

7. This like the kid who decides that the best way

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:33 PM

Dec 2018

to detract from failing all his classes is to beat up another kid at school and set fire to the gym.

Yeah, it sort of works, but it's not really a winnable strategy.

applegrove

(118,595 posts)

9. Plus Stephen Miller needs to be fed.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:34 PM

Dec 2018

ecstatic

(32,678 posts)

10. How do we find out if it's real or not?

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:51 PM

Dec 2018

Cha

(297,089 posts)

11. Of course it is!

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 08:52 PM

Dec 2018

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