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Many sources are reporting that Trump finally signed the pandemic relief bill:
- Trump signs stimulus and government spending bill into law, averting shutdown
- Trump Signs Pandemic Relief Bill After Unemployment Aid Lapses
- Trump signs stimulus bill ahead of government shutdown, releasing checks and aid
- Trump signs COVID relief bill amid pressure, but adds conditions
Not gonna summarize all the bits in it - it's some 5k pages of legalese gobbledygook, but I understand it continues augmented unemployment benefits, eviction suspension, funding to prevent government shutdown, and another direct cash payment.
I'm sure it also has a bunch of "porky pork", but the people are suffering, time is of essence, and it should have been done months ago.
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The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
-- Fred Allen
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2020, @08:53PM (19 children)
Trump has done so much good for the US and the world, world peace, in spite of what the left media says. After all Trump as been through with vicious lefty media attacks, the pandemic itself, rioting, significant doubts about election integrity, courts not willing to hear cases nor order investigations? I'd have resigned already, except for not wanting to dump it all on Pence.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 28 2020, @09:21PM (18 children)
Yeah, Trump has accomplished things that no R and no D ever had the balls to even try. He got Lil Kim from North Korea to sit down and talk, at least half seriously.
I've spoken up for Trump when all the Squat Squads have tried to piss on him.
But, that has little to do with this time. WTF was he trying to accomplish? Senile is a plausible explanation. He has recovered from COVID, maybe it affected his mind, and pushed him 'round the bend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2020, @09:27PM (1 child)
"[Trump] has recovered from COVID, maybe it affected his mind, and pushed him 'round the bend."
He has been saying "turning the corner" for months, so...
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Tuesday December 29 2020, @12:20AM
If you keep turning the corner then you are going round in circles.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday December 28 2020, @11:02PM (9 children)
1: I remember quite clearly the conservative freakout when Obama said he merely MIGHT talk to North Korea.
2: Someone who is actually good at the Art of the Deal, like Obama, would have gotten something in return for the legitimacy you gain when you have a photo of you hanging out with a US President as a despot.
3: I'm sure you would have been totally fine with a picture of Obama saluting a North Korean general had be been dumb enough to oblige.
3: And after all that.....North Korea INCREASES their nuclear program. [nytimes.com]
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 28 2020, @11:26PM (8 children)
Tell me about Obama, kneeling and kissing up to everyone around the world. A president doesn't bow, he shakes hands as an equal, thereby bestowing a favor upon whoever he is shaking hands with.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 29 2020, @09:15AM
Now we see that your time in the Navy didn't lead to any cultural exposure, did you just sit on base except for the nights you got hammered and tried to nail some poor local who hoped to get a rich American hubby?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 29 2020, @03:39PM (6 children)
You're right, a truly manly President CURTSIES!
Donald Trump appears to 'curtsey' to Saudi king after mocking Barack Obama for bowing [independent.co.uk]
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 29 2020, @04:08PM (5 children)
So, squatting looks like a curtsey to the TDS crowd, got it. It would be more accurate to call it a bow, but the effeminate left felt the need to make Trump one of them by trying to make him look effeminate. Whatever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 29 2020, @06:48PM
"the effeminate left"
Heh, you're taking Trump's loss awful hard huh? I'd offer you sympathy if you weren't a racist baby nazi.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 30 2020, @05:10AM (3 children)
You literally said in this thread "A president doesn't bow." Rather than the witty comeback you think this is by correcting "curtsy" to "bow," it just makes you look more of an idiot by admitting president's do bow, literally in this case.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 30 2020, @05:27AM (2 children)
No, you're the idiot. Trump was receiving an award from a midget. He had to squat down for the short man to drape the necklace thing around his neck. FFS, you're really digging hard to prove that the Trump is as ignorant of protocols as Obama.
The president doesn't bow or curtsey to any foreign power. Ever. In fact, no member of the US armed forces ever bows to anyone, especially not in uniform. It isn't done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 30 2020, @07:22AM (1 child)
"It would be more accurate to call it a bow." or "The president doesn't bow." One or the other.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 30 2020, @09:31AM
Have you ever had a class in reading comprehension?
1. Curtsey is totally inaccurate.
2. Bow would be more accurate
3. but neither 1 or 2 is accurate.
4. Trump squatted to allow a short guy put an award around his neck.
Please, visit your community college and take some remedial reading classes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2020, @11:19PM
> He got Lil Kim from North Korea to sit down and talk, at least half seriously.
Dipshit - that was his leverage. Here take my leverage - now can you stop make nukes? No? Oh *sulks*
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 29 2020, @12:37AM (1 child)
Perhaps he was told he needed to sign, otherwise the election in Georgia would be in danger? Definitely not handled with great skill though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 29 2020, @02:02AM
Spoke too soon: Newsmax is reporting that the House has agreed to up the individual payments to $2k. If the House agrees, I think it should pass the Republican Senate.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday December 29 2020, @08:15AM
[...] He got Lil Kim from North Korea to sit down and talk, at least half seriously.
And all the while that talking went on the crazy fat kid played the stupid, fat, orange man like a violin. He advanced his illegal nuclear weapons program rapidly during that time. All the while he pretended to shut down the completed phases as a concession or tribute to the stupid, fat, orange man. Remember the early rounds of missile tests? Once that stage of missile testing was complete, he claimed to shut it down as a concession or tribute to the stupid, fat, orange man. Almost the same day, the plutonium-producing facilities started producing so much steam it could be seen in satellite images available to the public. etc. Same for Iran, though the interaction was more antagonistic on the surface. Both countries aim to use their newly acquired capabilities in offense as soon as they have enough of a stockpile for multiple strikes against key targets.
[...] Senile is a plausible explanation.
However,I think you're correct in that guess. Senility does explain a lot of the recent years' antics and utterances from the stupid, fat, orange man. SARS-CoV-2 is only like to make that worse. He has already had ministrokes, the virus can set him up for a more serious one (or two) if it works in old people like it does in younger ones.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday December 29 2020, @09:16AM (1 child)
Then again James Kelly went to NK in 2002, and Christopher Hill in 2007 too, it's not impossible to talk to North Korean dictators.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 29 2020, @02:54PM
Also Rex Tillerson could have accomplished something good if he wasn't being sabotaged from his own government.