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by Imploding Turtle » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:13 pm
So. Trump's made a promise on a phone call to the Ukrainian president that prompted an intelligence official to make use of whistleblower protections to inform the Inspector General of this latest threat to national security. The inspector general, by law, is required to inform congress of this threat because it meets the threshold of "urgent concern". But for some reason, Trump's handpicked and unconfirmed acting Director of National Intelligence has intervened and prevented congress from being informed of Trump's latest corruption.
What promise could trump have made? Well, since the new Ukrainian president took office Trump has been trying to extort him and his country by denying them military aid while also pressuring him into instructing Ukrainian prosecutors into investigating Trump's political opponent Joe Biden. Who wants to bet that Trump promised him US military aid in return for personal political favours like this?
Any of you still fans of this guy? Is "owning the libs" really worth it if it means supporting this?
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by tarkys_ears » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:17 pm
Great guy! I love him!
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by box_of_frogs » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:23 pm
Excellent. Yet another political post.
Come on Mods, time to create a football area on this supposedly football related message board.
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by Bordeauxclaret » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:24 pm
box_of_frogs wrote:Excellent. Yet another political post.
Come on Mods, time to create a football area on this supposedly football related message board.
What were you expecting this thread to be about?
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by box_of_frogs » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:26 pm
Bordeauxclaret wrote:What were you expecting this thread to be about?
That’s not the point. It’s a football related message board, time to have a football area, and an ‘anything else’ area.
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by Bordeauxclaret » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:27 pm
Just don’t open the threads that are clearly not about football.
Job done.
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by box_of_frogs » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:28 pm
Or create a separate area. Also job done.
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by THEWELLERNUT70 » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:30 pm
Bordeauxclaret wrote:What were you expecting this thread to be about?
Snooker player Judd ?
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by claretonthecoast1882 » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:30 pm
Bordeauxclaret wrote:What were you expecting this thread to be about?
Sharting
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by bfcjg » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:45 pm
I've had a few very corrupt trumps in my time, especially after Boltmaker for some bizarre reason.
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by Imploding Turtle » Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:58 pm
Bordeauxclaret wrote:Just don’t open the threads that are clearly not about football.
Job done.
Some people are kinda pathetic and can't control themselves though. They need an authority figure to make their decisions for them. Just look at his complaint, for example. Not only is it not his fault that he can't prevent himself from opening a thread he's clearly not interested in, but he's actually upset that other people are interested in it and wants other people to remove their interest from his view. It's truly pathetic.
No doubt he's also someone who whines about the "nanny state".
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by willsclarets » Sat Sep 21, 2019 7:53 am
Imploding Turtle wrote:
So. Trump's made a promise on a phone call to the Ukrainian president that prompted an intelligence official to make use of whistleblower protections to inform the Inspector General of this latest threat to national security. The inspector general, by law, is required to inform congress of this threat because it meets the threshold of "urgent concern". But for some reason, Trump's handpicked and unconfirmed acting Director of National Intelligence has intervened and prevented congress from being informed of Trump's latest corruption.
What promise could trump have made? Well, since the new Ukrainian president took office Trump has been trying to extort him and his country by denying them military aid while also pressuring him into instructing Ukrainian prosecutors into investigating Trump's political opponent Joe Biden. Who wants to bet that Trump promised him US military aid in return for personal political favours like this?
Any of you still fans of this guy? Is "owning the libs" really worth it if it means supporting this?
While there seems to be no doubt there was requests by
Giuliani on behalf of Trump to look into Biden and his son, it's conjecture at the moment to link it explicitly to blocking foreign aid or that the whistleblowers complaint was connected to extortion directly on the phone to the Ukrainian president. He'd have to be even thicker than he appears to be to do that. I'm not saying corruption's not at play here, but you seem to have put singular pieces of evidence into a jigsaw that tells the story you want to be true without definitive proof. Cutting foreign aid for instance and favouring the Russian cause, is hardly inconsistent with his political position is it?
That said it's bad enough that any request would be made to a foreign government to meddle in domestic affairs, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was more to come. Is the request linked to a threat to remove foreign aid, or a quid pro quo, and the personal phone call from Trump? Well we don't know yet, do we. Not a defense of Trump, but I think there's a lot of murky water here that needs filtering.
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by Darnhill Claret » Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:36 am
CNN are all over this along with every other news agency so Congress are fully informed.
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by williamjblazkowicz » Sat Sep 21, 2019 12:59 pm
box_of_frogs wrote:Excellent. Yet another political post.
Come on Mods, time to create a football area on this supposedly football related message board.
Imploding Turtle won't be having that. He wouldn't get as much attention if there was a separate sub-forum for political threads.
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by Imploding Turtle » Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:43 am
In case the Trump lovers on here missed it, Trump's admitted it.
Do any of you want to renounce your support for him?
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by KRBFC » Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:48 am
More agenda driven nonsense about nonsense politics, great.
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by martin_p » Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:51 am
williamjblazkowicz wrote:Imploding Turtle won't be having that. He wouldn't get as much attention if there was a separate sub-forum for political threads.
You do realise that if it wasn’t for people complaining he’s attention seeking he’d only get about half the attention he does don’t you?
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by Imploding Turtle » Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:54 am
martin_p wrote:You do realise that if it wasn’t for people complaining he’s attention seeking he’d only get about half the attention he does don’t you?
DuuUUUuude! Shhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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by NottsClaret » Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:54 am
Imploding Turtle wrote:Do any of you want to renounce your support for him?
Ha.. yeah. Never gonna happen now. Trump (and Brexit) have people so entrenched it really doesn't matter what he's done or admitted to, nobody is changing their mind at this stage. Much rather the world burn than lose face on the internet.
He could launch a drone strike on an orphanage in Swindon and he'd still get defended by half the UK*.
* I know that's a 'straw man' but honestly, who gives a s**t anymore.
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by martin_p » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:00 am
Imploding Turtle wrote:DuuUUUuude! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Quick everyone! Come and look at the attention seeker!
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by Untinted Glasses » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:12 am
Imploding Turtle wrote:In case the Trump lovers on here missed it, Trump's admitted it.
Do any of you want to renounce your support for him?
Do you really think Trump is running the show? How naive.
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by Bosscat » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:15 am
Bordeauxclaret wrote:What were you expecting this thread to be about?
The scientific reason a fart smells?
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by Lord Beamish » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:19 am
Bosscat wrote:The scientific reason a fart smells?
It’s so you can “Dutch Oven” a loved one, isn’t it?
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by conyoviejo » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:24 am
box_of_frogs wrote:That’s not the point. It’s a football related message board, time to have a football area, and an ‘anything else’ area.
Didn't we have a forum vote on this subject?
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by box_of_frogs » Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:57 pm
conyoviejo wrote:Didn't we have a forum vote on this subject?
Possibly! But then the radical left/hard right (delete as appropriate) took it to the Supreme Court and, hey presto, we’re still without a solution.
Or is that another discussion......
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by Imploding Turtle » Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:02 pm
box_of_frogs wrote:Possibly! But then the radical left/hard right (delete as appropriate) took it to the Supreme Court and, hey presto, we’re still without a solution.
Or is that another discussion......
Following the law is now "radical/hard left"? lol. You people are ****** in the head.
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by Darthlaw » Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:34 pm
Imploding Turtle wrote:Following the law is now "radical/hard left"? lol. You people are ****** in the head.
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by Bosscat » Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:44 pm
Imploding Turtle wrote:Following the law is now "radical/hard left"? lol. You people are ****** in the head.
Only one person on here is ****** in the head and thy name is Turtle
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by box_of_frogs » Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:53 pm
Imploding Turtle wrote:Following the law is now "radical/hard left"? lol. You people are ****** in the head.
Please re-read my unchanged message. It says radical left / hard right, covering both spectrums you plonker.
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by GodIsADeeJay81 » Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:55 pm
box_of_frogs wrote:Please re-read my unchanged message. It says radical left / hard right, covering both spectrums you plonker.
In all fairness he just deleted as appropriate, as per your original post

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by box_of_frogs » Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:00 pm
I can still see it!? Either way, whatever!
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by Claret-On-A-T-Rex » Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:46 pm
Nancy Pelosi to announce a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump later today.
What a glorious day.
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by Bordeauxclaret » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:07 pm
Wonder which option he’ll go for to deflect, twitter rant or bomb Iran?
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by Lord Beamish » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:43 pm
Bordeauxclaret wrote:Wonder which option he’ll go for to deflect, twitter rant or bomb Iran?
Or the third way; put a Hit out on Stormy Daniels.
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by AndrewJB » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:47 pm
Lord Beamish wrote:Or the third way; put a Hit out on Stormy Daniels.
She’d take it on the chin.
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by Lord Beamish » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:05 pm
AndrewJB wrote:She’d take it on the chin.
And make a clean breast of it.
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by Uwe Noble » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:06 pm
Imploding Turtle wrote:In case the Trump lovers on here missed it, Trump's admitted it.
Do any of you want to renounce your support for him?
Here we go again. Then we have Biden on tape threatening to withhold 1 billion unless the Ukrainian govt. sacked the prosecutor investigati his son's firm and laughing about it. You can't make this up
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by Uwe Noble » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:07 pm
Claret-On-A-T-Rex wrote:Nancy Pelosi to announce a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump later today.
What a glorious day.
Yawn.
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by icu81b4 » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:10 pm
box_of_frogs wrote:That’s not the point. It’s a football related message board, time to have a football area, and an ‘anything else’ area.
Corrected the title for you..... Should solve any confusion
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by LoveCurryPies » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:16 pm
Bosscat wrote:Only one person on here is ****** in the head and thy name is Turtle
Not true, there are several of us.

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by LongsideFacingUp » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:19 pm
74th time is the charm Turtle.
Trump's finished for sure this time! Any day now...
You clown.
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by Claret-On-A-T-Rex » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:26 pm
box_of_frogs wrote:That’s not the point. It’s a football related message board, time to have a football area, and an ‘anything else’ area.
"'owt else"
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by Claret-On-A-T-Rex » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:30 pm
LongsideFacingUp wrote:74th time is the charm Turtle.
Trump's finished for sure this time! Any day now...
You clown.
You know the journey is more fun than the destination, I have a feeling it will be his tax returns or Stormy Daniels payment that will bring him down but he now has to go on trial in front of the entire world. I remember when they impeached Clinton.
It'll be very difficult for his advisers to stop him digging his grave with his own teeth.
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by Stayingup » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:31 pm
Imploding Turtle wrote:Some people are kinda pathetic and can't control themselves though. They need an authority figure to make their decisions for them. Just look at his complaint, for example. Not only is it not his fault that he can't prevent himself from opening a thread he's clearly not interested in, but he's actually upset that other people are interested in it and wants other people to remove their interest from his view. It's truly pathetic.
No doubt he's also someone who whines about the "nanny state".
Summed yourself up to a tee there. Patheticbut also dull boring and most of all no idea about life. Just do one silly old sod.
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by Imploding Turtle » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:46 pm
Democrats finally grew a pair of balls and decided to do their ******* jobs. Good for them.
Nice to see that some of you are still attacking me instead of facing up to the reality that you placed your faith in a corrupt piece of ****.
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by Claret-On-A-T-Rex » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:47 pm
Well, that's a shame, I reckon today spells doom, one way or another, for this budding romance.
They look so carefree and happy too.
"He feeds upon his face by day and night, And he with true kind eyes looks back on him, fair as the moon and joyful as the light."
<sniff>

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by Imploding Turtle » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:52 pm
Uwe Noble wrote:Here we go again. Then we have Biden on tape threatening to withhold 1 billion unless the Ukrainian govt. sacked the prosecutor investigati his son's firm and laughing about it. You can't make this up
You literally just made it up.
Provide your source.
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by Claret-On-A-T-Rex » Tue Sep 24, 2019 11:02 pm
You can have great fun with that picture, check it out...
"Ok boys, who brought weed into the school?"

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by Claret-On-A-T-Rex » Tue Sep 24, 2019 11:03 pm
"So President Trump, rumour has it someone is getting impeached today, any idea who it could be?"

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by Imploding Turtle » Tue Sep 24, 2019 11:07 pm
"Impeach? I'm not peach. It's the climate change lightbulbs making me look peach".