Ronald McDonald just called Trump a clownI’m not sure if he attempted to hand out any paper towels, sounds like he was too busy accepting his most recent commendation.
Trump awarded tone-deaf 'french fry certification pin' at hurricane site
Donald Trump has been slammed for accepting the bizarre award after his McDonald's shift from North Carolina Republican Chuck Edwards.www.the-express.com
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I mean, how does the room not just burst out laughing when he says insane stuff like this?
Rex Chapman retweeted that above post and noted:
Rex Chapman retweeted that above post and noted:
This brings new meaning to an “exchange student”
CrazyNotCrazie
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I mean, theoretically when I did dissections in my public middle school in the 1980s I think I removed sexual organs so he has a point...
The questions I ask once again are 1) Are people really dumb enough to believe this moron, 2) If they don't, how are they OK with this, 3) If he is actually right about this, why does it matter? How does it impact their lives? Are they worried about wasting tax-payer dollars on this? But they are OK with spending millions of dollars on Secret Service agents watching Trump play golf, or the amount wasted on defense items that sit collecting dust, or whatever else?
There I go, being logical again...
Duke79UNLV77
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And yet that was the line that connected with the guy sitting down getting his hair cut as it drew a big head nod from him ...
He needs those disapproving women from the Univision town hall at all his stops for a real time BS-check.
sagegrouse
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Don't disagree. Moreover, I find Ohio, Iowa, and Idaho were profligate in creating three syllables out of so few letters.
sagegrouse
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Also, she can retrieve her tax return for the specific year, I believe.
Furniture
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They do believe these things. My wife’s best friend is a retired teacher. The other day at lunch her friend showed a Facebook post of one of her ex-pupils saying that Biden is making it rain on Asheville. Imagine how she feels…..
DangerDevil
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Even if we don’t wander into #3 too deeply, what is he logically offering?
Is he saying on the one hand that the Department of Education is funding and pushing these operations or is he saying that “they” do these operations in some places?
If it is the latter, how is letting the local authorities or people that care handle the school problems or whatever
his concepts for a solution for fixing the failing schools in the Bronx is?
Or is he proposing that the two people that it sounds like he thinks can effectively run the Department of Education and our nation’s schools are a lot more efficient at doing their jobs than I imagine being possible.
As often happens after listening to his “answers”, I’m confused.
SouthernDukie
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My family hosted a beautiful exchange student from France one year. Being a heterosexual male I'll have to admit I'd have been really bummed if she came home one day from school no longer a girl. LOL
Other than woodshop, I’m not aware of where transgender operations could happen in a school…
PackMan97
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I would argue not even in wood shop. The few that I knew took wood shop did like to use the tools in a "non-tradititional" manner, but none of them where *THAT* careless with the tools. They did some stupid stuff, but um, never that stupid.
edit to add: *stupid* as it applies to performing complex surgeries using power tools in a non-sterile environment without medical supervision and counseling.
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Matches
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From time to time I wonder if he actually believes this. Would he pass a polygraph? Did Jane’s fiancée kidnap Sydney and take her to Vegas and, if so, did she like it? “It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Then I remember that it doesn’t matter whether he believes it. It’s still an outrageously stupid lie.
Not unless you opted into the retirement plan.
Just two dudes trying to stay out of jail.
Phredd3
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That white-haired guy actually does burst out laughing. He doesn't make a big deal out of it, but it's definitely an audible snort of derision and you can just barely see his grin.
bundabergdevil
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Spend a little time with certain crowds. They believe all the bad things are happening. That’s how evil the liberals are. Pedophiles and pizza chains. Weather weapons action for politics. Mandatory abortions. Sex changed at schools.
That’s his base.
These and similar questions get to the heart of Trumpism. In what follows, I refer principally to Trump’s tens of millions of MAGA supporters. I realize that some other tens of millions millions who have voted for Trump do not identify as MAGA; but if the not-MAGAs are disgusted by the MAGAs, they certainly do not forcefully object to MAGA-ism.
How did the GOP jettison all but the vaguest semblance to conservatism in favor of MAGA’s cult of Trump? We could list Trump’s own character and personality traits. We could detail the many GOP leaders who have blasted Trump, only to bend the knee, or simply turn away from questions about his latest bizarre fulminations.
But for me, the overwhelming issue is the tens of millions who have voted for him twice and will do so again. The problem is The People. The profound-in-its-day Pogo-ism — “We have met the enemy and he is us” — is now but a pale trope that cannot begin to do justice to the intricate layers of MAGA conceit and deceit.
To CNC’s (1), my mantra for some years now has been, “Willful ignorance is dangerously stupid.” Untold numbers of MAGA true believers, certainly not innately stupid, have chosen to think Fox evening commentators are presenting news, facts, truth. They have made themselves unwitting co-conspirators in Trump’s plan to destroy our constitutional democratic republic. They have become deranged. This is the Real Trump Derangement Syndrome.
To CNC’s (2), MAGA folks, especially but not solely evangelicals, are, yes, OK with outrage after outrage. They have dug in, at first denying that Trump did or said X, but ultimately asserting that even if he said or did X, they do not care.
The evangelicals and other MAGAs have come to inhabit a different moral universe. Call it “parallel,” perhaps, if we need to avoid judging MAGA an immoral or amoral movement. But it’s absolutely a different moral universe, one in which Trump’s most fervent evangelical acolytes can enthusiastically claim, fearing not the sin of blasphemy, that he has been “anointed” by God.
Thus, in the different moral universe of MAGA-Trumpism, untold numbers of things previously thought embarrassing, outrageous, immoral, disgusting, in extreme cases evil — such things are now tolerable, a bit uncomfortable for some, perhaps, but, OK.
BandAlum83
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Tax return and income information are not available on the IRS website after 10 years.
There's no way I can prove I worked for my local 5&10 as a teen, or that I worked at the Duke University stores all 4 years at Duke (a few on these boards could vouch, I'm sure), or even the first few jobs I worked out of college.
Even at that, the transcripts will only show totals. They don't show the individual sources of the income. They do show the last 4 of an EIN for w-2 income.
There's also the issue of whether or not she even had to file a tax return during that time anyway. You have to reach a certain income level to even have to file. If she was working there part-time as a high-school or college teenager, she likely wouldn't have had to file at all. As a dependent, I didn't make enough money to have to file until I got my first real job at age 22.
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