Amid numerous political scandals and an unfurling trade war with China that shows little sign of de-escalation, President Donald Trump lacks the broad confidence of the American public, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job, compared with 36 percent who approve. Predictably, the partisan divides swing favorably or unfavorably towards the president depending on political affiliation. But, notably, the coveted class of self-identified political independents remains opposed to the president, with 65 percent disapproving of the way he is handling his job.
Trump’s approval ratings have not been this low in the monthly AP-NORC survey since January.
While many of the conflicts and controversies that have emerged in recent months pertain to the trade war and Trump’s management of the economy — including a warning sign that a recession may be on the horizon due to a metric known as the inverted yield curve — the public has not been scared off by the president’s economic stewardship. Fifty-one percent disapprove of his handling of the economy, and 46 percent approve. Though this is a net negative rating, it indicates the public is largely divided on the matter, and represents Trump’s highest job approval rating for any category measured in the AP-NORC poll.
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Please don’t be one of those Freepers who replies: “Why post this?”I posted it because we need to know what’s out there, even if it is from the far left propaganda media.
2 posted on 8/22/2019, 7:42:19 PM by E. Pluribus Unum (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”)
Though the adult film star previously denied the affair, she’s now arguing that she should be released from the agreement and be free to speak publicly of her former relationship with Trump as the president did not sign the document.
Cohen has admitted to paying Daniels $130,000. Trump’s lawyers are threatening to make her pay $1 million every time she violates the nondisclosure agreement. The White House has denied any affair occurred.
“He knows I’m telling the truth,” Daniels said of the president.
The adult film star and her lawyer Michael Avenatti have claimed before she has photographic evidence of her affair with Trump.
Just so you know the latest MSM ploy.
So now The Darnold fucking a porn star while his wife sits home with their young son is a “ploy”. Good to know.
I don’t care if he did.
Yeah – we’ve kinda figured that out already.
I don’t care if he didn’t. But we have to keep abreast of all the latest sleazoid tactics, so we know what not to give a sh!t about.
Well, when you vote for a reality show schmuck, exactly what did you expect?
To: Eleutheria5
Do I care if she slept with the President?
So you don’t care if she did?
Except he wasn’t President when it allegedly happened.
So you do care if he did, but you don’t because the election hadn’t happened yet?
If I want to watch porn, I’ll go to Pornhub.
Apparently, you’re not the only one.
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Stormy Daniels’ account is yesterday’s news. Yawn.
7 posted on 3/25/2018, 6:34:05 PM by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
Nope. I just looked, and it’s still today’s news. Even on FOX.
To: Eleutheria5
This issue is not what did or did not happen
The whore sold her story for $130K and now wants to break the contract If courts let this happen, NDA’s are useless
11 posted on 3/25/2018, 6:36:33 PM by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn’t stand for much of anything)
“The NDA took my baby away…..”
To: Eleutheria5
Her story is preposterous. She had to have sex because she made a bad decision going to his room alone.
She HAD to have sex? Or he HAD to ask her to?
The woman is a PORN star.
32 posted on 3/25/2018, 6:44:56 PM by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
How dare you! She’s a porn-again christian.
To: Bogie
I’m not buying a word she says.
So you don’t believe her?
She’s worried about her daughter?
So you DO believe her?
Maybe she should of(sic) thought of her daughter when she chose her career,
Her career wasn’t fucking The Darnold, as I recall. Nobody from the porn industry came up to her and threatened her family if she ever made another film.
The flip-flopping is getting harder and harder to track, good people. How did Freeperville react to the incredibly callous and insensitive comments to the wife of Sgt. La David T. Johnson?
Depends on which way the wind’s blowing.
If he said it, it’s good. If he didn’t, it’s evil.
Trump told Widow Soldier ‘Must’ve Known What He Signed Up For’: Rep. [Florida Trump Hater] NBC BAY AREA ^
I can see him saying this, especially if it was part of the conversation lauding his bravery and desire to do good. My family knows that I have signed up for this and that death could be a possibility.
5 posted on 10/18/2017, 5:12:16 AM by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
Other Freepers concur.
To: wbarmy
Yes, I can see Trump saying that…in a true, caring way of course.
The guy did know what he was signing up for and yet he still signed up for it which seems quite commendable to me.
10 posted on 10/18/2017, 5:27:47 AM by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
Hell, they even start rewriting what he said so it doesn’t sound so embarrassing :
To: SoFloFreeper
Try this version.
“He must have known what he signed up for …. and still he was willing to serve this great Nation that he loved.”
11 posted on 10/18/2017, 5:29:33 AM by airborne (I don’t always scream at the TV but when I do it’s hockey playoffs season!)
Hell, why stop there? Try THIS version:
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“He had no idea what he signed up for…well, enough about him – let’s talk about me now.
Say – are you doing anything later on? Now that you’re unattached?”
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So, to reiterate – if The Darnold said it, it’s good.
To: SoFloFreeper
And if he did……so what. He called her and YES the soldier did know what he signed up for……..that is just stating a fact
33 posted on 10/18/2017, 6:16:33 AM by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution – read it and weep)
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See?
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Then:
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To: exit82
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 4m4 minutes ago Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!
37 posted on 10/18/2017, 6:30:44 AM by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
And now, suddenly –
To: exit82
You know this is really out of hand. These bastards cannot keep getting away with making up these lies.
Well, the widow AND her family verified this happened, so there’s that.
It is sick evil and it must be stopped. I think this is the most despicable piece of media inflamed lies that has happened yet.
I thought it was a matter of: “And if he did……so what.“?
I cant even put into words the contempt I have for these sickos. I hope they all burn in hell – McCain can go first.
38 posted on 10/18/2017, 6:33:10 AM by UKrepublican (Laurence Norris)
So – there ya go.
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If he said it, it’s good. If he didn’t, it’s evil.
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If you think THAT’S turning on a dime, wait until you see what all the Freepers who loved them some Dubya when he was President said about him last Friday – after the clicky thingy…
Lordy, lordy, lordy – will The Darnold EVER quit providing me with material?
Making fun of the right-wing nutjobs who populate Free Republic has always been easy, but these days, the limbo bar of stupidity has gotten about an inch off the ground. Also, they’re starting to run out of “conservatives” to throw under the bus.
Example?
Limbaugh: Trump’s comments on NFL ‘starting to make me nervous’ The Hill ^ | October 11, 2017
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday voiced concerns about President Trump’s comments on NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem to protest racial injustice, saying Trump should not have the power to dictate who can kneel during the anthem.
“There’s a part of this story that’s starting to make me nervous, and it’s this: I am very uncomfortable with the president of the United States being able to dictate the behavior and power of anybody. That’s not where this should be coming from,” Limbaugh said on his show. Limbaugh said he believed Trump’s motives were “pure,” but he argued that the president’s actions were unhelpful in the broader debate on players kneeling.
“Trump is continually tweeting — I know what he’s doing, and I understand why he’s doing it, and his motives are pure; don’t misunderstand. But I don’t think that it is useful or helpful for any employee anywhere to be forced to do something because the government says they must,” he continued.
“We don’t want the president being able to demand anybody that he’s unhappy with behave in a way he requires,” Limbaugh added.
Ah so Rush is bothered by talking. Interesting turn of events.
2 posted on 10/12/2017, 4:41:56 AM by mad_as_he$$(Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
Love your sig line.
To: SMGFan
stfu Rush, you are past your sell by date
21 posted on 10/12/2017, 5:25:27 AM by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
Ah – I remember when using the word “damn” on FR would get you banned without warning, with the statement “that kind of language is for DUmmies and lefties”. Now Shut The Fuck Up is acceptable. Groovy!
To: SMGFan
Is it finally time to panic now that O’bunghole’s message of “America Sucks” has taken root in El Gordo de Oxycontino’s beloved NFL? /s
30 posted on 10/12/2017, 5:37:25 AM by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
To: SMGFan
It’s called the bully pulpit. He used it effectively and it was his right.
Good morning, all – you already know about right-wing nutcases and their love/hate relationships with women. They hate to love them, and love to hate them.
This Obsession deals with the Freeperati and their desires for women to get back in the kitchen and make them a goddamn sammich. First up?
Ivanka climaxes!!
Eyeing climate role, Ivanka Trump to meet with Al Gore
Posted on 12/5/2016 10:41:05 AM by GIdget2004
Ivanka Trump is meeting Monday with climate change activist and former Vice President Al Gore.
The president-elect’s daughter, who reportedly wants to make global warming one of her signature issues, will meet with Gore at Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to transition spokesman Jason Miller.
The former vice president will not be meeting with the president-elect, Miller said in a conference call with reporters on Monday morning. He would not elaborate on the contents of the meeting.
1 posted on 12/5/2016 10:41:05 AM by GIdget2004
I know we hear how bright and impressive she is, but I only see and hear a typical, privileged, NYC airhead.
7 posted on 12/5/2016 10:44:09 AM by 9YearLurker
Dang woman needs to learn her place!
To: GIdget2004
Donald, you need to get Ivy in check.
9 posted on 12/5/2016 10:44:33 AM by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in ’67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: GIdget2004
Please don’t include “climatic” and “Ivanka” in the same sentence. I’m seventy. 😉
16 posted on 12/5/2016 10:47:26 AM by DCPatriot (“It aint what you don’t know that kills you. It’s what you know that aint so” Theodore Sturgeon))
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One Freeper takes the new irony meter out for a spin…
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To: GIdget2004
:: The president-elect’s daughter, who reportedly wants to make global warming one of her signature issues ::
Fake News
18 posted on 12/5/2016 10:48:20 AM by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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And runs it into a tree…
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Love your handle, BTW.
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Hope – quickly dashed:
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To: MNJohnnie
Washington Times has confirmed this sad to say
46 posted on 12/5/2016 10:56:11 AM by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that’s all folks…….)
Well, good people, the Freeperati have gotten everything they’ve always wanted.
Or have they?
Remember Mitt Romney? The Mitt Romney that could get your thrown off Free Republic if you supported him? The Mitt Romney you Freepers hate with every fiber of your twisted beings?
Mitt Romney Is Preparing Apology to Trump – Is Very Interested in Secretary of State Job TheGatewayPundit.com ^ | November 24,2016 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 11/24/2016 5:33:16 PM by Hojczyk
Former Governor Romney was one of Donald Trump’s harshest critics during the election. He assisted his opponents and was essentially working to get Hillary Clinton elected.
Donald Trump met with Mitt Romney in New Jersey last week. Sources said he was interviewing for the Secretary of State position with the Trump administration.
Trump supporters HATE the idea.
Now this… Transition Team sources told Ed Henry from FOX News that Mitt Romney is preparing a public apology. Mitt Romney is reportedly very interested in the Secretary of State job.
1 posted on 11/24/2016 5:33:16 PM by Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
I hope Trump doesn’t fall for this RINO bait.
2 posted on 11/24/2016 5:34:58 PM by Blue Highway
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Too late!!
To: Hojczyk
No RINO spies in the administration
4 posted on 11/24/2016 5:36:01 PM by jsanders2001
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And no – I didn’t make that one up.
To: Hojczyk
Can’t have someone in there who is likely to make it about self gain and profits.
So much of the Federal government needs to be fumigated.
20 posted on 11/24/2016 5:40:09 PM by Bayard
“plain talk” sees an upside:
To: Hojczyk
Romney must grovel and beg …
42 posted on 11/24/2016 5:52:38 PM by plain talk
Several Freeperati think that The Darnold is just getting ready to go all Lucy Van Pelt on Mittens:
To: Hojczyk
Trump should make a sincere apology from Romney a requisite for the job…wait until Romney apologizes, then don’t give him the job.
45 posted on 11/24/2016 5:53:34 PM by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t’aidera)
Did any of you jerkoffs ever actually READ “The Art Of The Deal”?
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“I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do.”
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And now – the post of the thread!!
To: Hojczyk
I really can’t believe Romney is being considered in the least. He degraded Mr. Trump continuously.
Does the nation lack good leaders to the extent that Romney is even an option?
228 posted on 11/24/2016 9:32:56 PM by Cedar
Good morning, people – still not much going on at Freeperville other than the “The FBI is gonna arrest Killary ANY DAY NOW“ crapola that’s been going on for – let’s just say – a number of years now. (Oops – scroll to the bottom for late-breaking Freeper news hearts on this)
Of course, the Freeperati haven’t figured it out yet.
To: Trump20162020
Now that we know he’s white (in a trashy sort of way) we can assume he will be portrayed as a Trump-All-The-Way type….like the recent (and old) news that most Trump supporters are “uneducated white males”…..
9 posted on 11/2/2016 8:29:06 AM by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
I know! Shillary done sneaked over in the dead of night and planted that sign in his yard two weeks ago!
Hillary Clinton has vaulted to a double-digit advantage in the inaugural ABC News 2016 election tracking poll, boosted by broad disapproval of Donald Trump on two controversial issues: His treatment of women and his reluctance to endorse the election’s legitimacy.
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I need to confirm the sampling for this poll, but I do not believe for a minute that this is anywhere near accurate.
You are wrong. I am a Trump supporter and I don’t believe any of the MSM polls. I posted several polls on FR since I joined. Do you always get angry and jump to conclusions?
Read his other posts. He does not seem like a troll.
People here need to knock it off with the troll stuff and pull their heads out of the sand.
Donald Trump, the only candidate I’ve ever sent money to, and I’ve now sent him money on multiple occasions, is losing bigly. I will stand in line however long it takes to cast my vote for Trump/Pence here in the swing state of Florida but it will be for naught. Trump will be defeated. Fifty years of allowing the Democrats to import voters from the Third World is not without consequences.
People think this is the same country that elected Reagan twice. It isn’t. That country is gone. It’s now the same country that elected Obama twice.
Trump will do better than polling indicates but it won’t be enough. This hidden “monster vote” is the stuff of legend, 2016’s version of the “unskewed polls” nonsense we were buying last time around.
It will take divine intervention to put Trump in the White House.
131 posted on 10/23/2016, 9:39:38 AM by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
You need to get out more.
That’s my problem. Life was easier when I never left Free Republic, a magical world of unicorns and fairy dust where it’s still Mulberry ( I think he meant “Mayberry” – Tommy ) of 1955.
Posted on 10/7/2016 3:26:33 PM by Viper652
It only shows him to being a non PC regular guy, lol
1 posted on 10/7/2016 3:26:33 PM by Viper652
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Freepers have proof he didn’t say this!
To: RoosterRedux
Sorry…He had just married Melania….so I call BS.
6 posted on 10/7/2016 4:00:28 PM by Sacajaweau
Yeah – because if he had said this, months after his latest marriage, that would be sick.
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To: RoosterRedux
The despicable turds are really getting down there and licking the toilet seat. No surprise.
12 posted on 10/7/2016 4:02:06 PM by GoldenPup
The Freeper psyche – it never fails to astound me.
To: RoosterRedux
CCN broke into the “The most devastating hurricane caused by global warming” coverage to pass this on as breaking news..
15 posted on 10/7/2016 4:02:37 PM by cardinal4 (“Sat stonefaced while the building burned..”)
Well, it’s easy to see how they could get the two stories mixed up.
One story is about a huge wind blowing so hard it destroys everything it touches, and the other is about a hurricane.
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To: fwdude
A tape of a presidential candidate talking about trying to #### a woman and taking her to buy furniture is desperation?
no, it’s bad.
But it’s done.
Trump has to issue a direct apology to women or we will lose those morons (not FReepers) by 25 percent.
20 posted on 10/7/2016 4:03:28 PM by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
So – women are morons? Or just all women who don’t have Free Republic accounts?
To: Verginius Rufus
Trump…Alpha male.
LIKE
35 posted on 10/7/2016 4:09:06 PM by ThE_RiPpEr. ( Dyin’ Hillary’s new campaign slogan: Hillary 2016 – She is Shovel Ready!)
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Follow me beneath the fold as the realization that this might just possibly be a bad thing seeps slowly into the Freeperati hive mind.
Let’s hear it from people who can’t take the Clinton/Trump debate any more. I turned it off after 26 minutes.
This whole thing is such a farce. Really, Hillary Clinton has “solutions” for people out of work? SHE’S A SOCIALIST! Any “plan” she has is for MORE GOVERNMENT! Why can’t Trump come out and say that?
24 posted on 9/26/2016, 8:36:54 PM by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
To: Bringbackthedraft
And…..I’m gone….and off of Free Republic for the night.
Trump is definitely losing by providing too much passion.
(from the Crack Van) Yelling: “I have a much better temperament!!
He needs to get control of himself.
47 posted on 9/26/2016, 8:43:29 PM by RoosterRedux (An unidentified enemy is safe from defeat — Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady)
From the “Duh, motherfucker” department :
To: onevoter
WOW-she just hit him hard talking about his businesses. Said she has an architect in audience that Trump didn’t pay him what he was suppose to be paid; how he has stiffed so many little people building his business, how he has gone bank rupt 6 times, etc.
31 posted on 9/24/2016, 12:54:32 AM by Heart-Rest (Make America Great Again!)
Hillary responds:
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“Everything I have ever told you is a lie – including this.”
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Let’s get all of the conspiracy theories out of the way in one fell swoop, shall we?
To: Robert357
Do you still have those 1100 raw FBI files you obtained illegally while you were first Wench?
Who did you ask to stage Vince Foster’s murder? What did you do with the whitewater documents you had taken out of his office the night you had him killed?
When did Bill find out you actually had sex with Web Hubbell. Before or after Chelsea was spawned?
Why did you wack Ron Brown?
Did you ever hit Bill with any of the ashtrays you threw at him?
When did you find out Huma is a agent of a foreign Terrorist group, before or after you hired her?
10 posted on 9/24/2016, 12:17:19 AM by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
Thenk yew.
And, just in case any of our First Draft readers were thinking of not voting this year:
To: SpaceBar
There aren’t enough sturdy trees or solid street lamps to solve our progressive traitor problem.
I’m afraid the queue will have to begin behind her.
Well, folks, The Darnold did his hotel commercial stressed the stage he was on to the point of collapse slapped the birther wingnuts in the face last Friday with his non-apology apology.
So – how did that play in Freeperville? Glad you asked.
Donald Trump (Birther-N.Y.) is at it again. In double-barrelled interviews on NBC’s “Today Show” and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Trump continued his disgusting and dangerous dabbling in the disproved conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the United States. This might be good for the ratings of his television show. This might even be good for his business. But it is terrible for the nation and public discourse that someone who claims to be so smart is so willing to perpetuate a lie.
Alex Koppelman snipped this strand of the conspiracy in Dec. 2008 and again in July 2009. And he’ll most likely have to do it again now that Trump has embraced the fallacy with both hands. This all stemmed from a interview of Sarah Obama, the second wife of the president’s grandfather, by Ron McRae, a street preacher, through a translator over the phone. As Koppelman reported in 2009, “Sarah Obama is not the president’s biological grandmother, but he calls her ‘Granny Sarah.’”
In a clear lost-in-translation moment (and over an international phone line), which you can listen to in full here, Mrs. Obama said she was there for her grandson’s birth. When McRae asks where in Mombassa the president was born, the translator, Vitalis Akech Ogombe, repeatedly corrected him….
The Donald is looking better and better all the time.
He is doing the work that should have been done by all of the slobbering MSM pre 2008 election.
2 posted on 4/7/2011, 10:52:58 PM by Mountain Mary (Kathy Nickolaus for President ,)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The only one in danger is Barry, and if it’s proven he’s a fraud he should be tried and convicted as a spy and promptly executed.
17 posted on 4/7/2011, 10:59:45 PM by E. Pluribus Unum (“…crush the bourgeoisie… between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” –Vladimir Lenin)
To: tenger
Then any law or bill he has ever signed and every person appointed to any position is null and void. All the deficit spending money sent to unions, Acorn and bailouts of Democrat(sic) donors/supporters etc. should then be paid back, in full, to the American taxpayer by the Democrat(sic) party that certified him as being eligible to hold the highest office in our Republic.
Then arrest all conspirators involved for treason and give them swift and final judgment.
Posted on 9/16/2016 3:38:41 PM byJim Robinson
Claim: A 1991 literary promotional booklet identified Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya.
1 posted on 9/16/2016 3:38:42 PM by Jim Robinson
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So – Trump was telling the truth this past Friday?
To: Jim Robinson
Jim, This is like revisiting history. This was my first introduction to FR back 2008. No one would listen to us. I figure we’ll see justice in history. Obama will become a pariah, a usurper in office. Today, though, all we can do is grimace and just focus on defeating Clinton. The lies, the damage they have both caused America are unforgivable.
17 posted on 9/16/2016 3:51:32 PM by Reno89519 (It is very simple, Trump/Pence or Clinton/Kaine. Good riddance Lyn’ Ted, we regret ever knowing you)
To: Jim Robinson
Obama is an (Raila) Odinga Kenyan. Everyone knows it. Our old friend Kenny Bunk was a scholar on the subject. He knows it. He got into schools because of it. There’s no question about it. Either you understand the “Birther” (Long form / COLB / hospital) issue… Or you think “trhere’s nothing to it he was born in Hawaii. Trump did scholarship and his own legacy a great disservice today.
18 posted on 9/16/2016 3:52:14 PM by golux
So – Trump was lying last Friday?
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We’ll find out more after you click on the “read more” link.
Welp, I’ve been putting this off since forever, but it’s time to dig out some artisanal hand-crafted barrel-aged bullshit from the archives.
Since the Summer’s never-ending freepathon has finally ground to a halt with only three weeks to go until the Fall one starts, it’s probably a good time to ask:
Where DOES the money go?
Freepathon question
Posted on Friday, July 03, 2009 10:54:28 AM by Rodamala
I’m very new here and don’t want to get perceived as a “troll”, but I see the Freepathon fund drive meter every day and have a question. I don’t even know if posting on the forum like this is the right way to ask.
Every quarter, there seems to be a fund drive for $80,000. I’d donate, but 1) money is tight right now, and 2) where does the $320k/year go?
I really like this place… I finally get to be around people that “get it”. I feel I should contribute, but… well, see 1 & 2 above.
Rodamala
1 posted on Friday, July 03, 2009 10:54:28 AM by Rodamala
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Let’s just get this out of the way right now:
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To: Rodamala; Jim Robinson
I think most of it goes toward popcorn, which JR provides free, for threads like this.
Where’s my popcorn, Jim?
5 posted on Friday, July 03, 2009 11:01:34 AM by BykrBayb (Somebody should tell those people they voted for this, but still ask God not to punish them. ~ Þ)
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That has to be a record! Only four posts until “I’m gonna tell JIM ROB!” pops up.
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To: Rodamala
Freedom is not free.
4 posted on Friday, July 03, 2009 10:57:32 AM by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
PAY-GO? I’ll probablly donate… after I get paid for the last job I did. I need to buy groceries first because groceries aren’t free either. 🙂
9 posted on Friday, July 03, 2009 11:03:17 AM by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala
Someone has to pay the bills. There are a whole bunch of us who aren’t rich, but just a few bucks a month tossed into the hat keeps the lights on
“Keeps the lights on”??
You dumb fuck, $300,000.00 would pay the electricity bill at Trump Tower for a year, provided he doesn’t declare bankruptcy again to screw the utility provider.
and you won’t even miss it.
Kinda like your soul, actually.
If you check the profiles you will find that a lot of people have been here for years, it’s like a family, it’s a brotherhood. It’s a 24/7 support system, shoulders to cry on, friends to pray for you, Free Republic is unique.
11 posted on Friday, July 03, 2009 11:06:22 AM by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: eclecticEel
I’m not certain, I think the mods are also on salary.
OK folks – you know the drill. ISO suits on, airlock open – let’s open the first drum of…
EEYAHHHH!!! The floor and walls are covered in Freeper slime! What in the hell could have caused that front drum to rupture and spray like that??
Oh.
Clinton ad ties Trump to KKK, white supremacists
A video released Thursday by Hillary Clinton’s campaign makes the case that Donald Trump is the candidate of racists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
“The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in,” a robed man identified as the Imperial Wizard of the Rebel Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan says at the top of the video, followed by images of a Confederate flag fluttering in the wind, Trump waving after a speech, and a man performing a Hitler salute at what appears to be a Trump rally.
1 posted on 8/25/2016 11:55:40 AM by Scythian_Reborn
At Freeperville, they’re finally starting to realize that some extremely unsavoury people are stinking up their “movement”.
To: Scythian_Reborn
What’s the message? “The Klan supports Trump, all other Democrats should too!”
4 posted on 8/25/2016 11:57:58 AM by wheatmiller (No one thinks anymore….)
OK – make that “bowel movement”.
To: Scythian_Reborn
Maybe Trump will get Smersh to counter with the history he uncovered that the Kkk was a creation of the democrats
5 posted on 8/25/2016 11:58:07 AM by stanne
You know, I could just stop the thread right here.
b. Freepers are completely aware of history, are lying out their asses about the Democratic Party being the current abode of racists, and have cognitive dissonanced themselves into a fugue state of denial.
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To: Scythian_Reborn
Those are not KKK people, they are actors in KKK robes
At least the left found white guys to play the KKK parts this time
So they got part right for once
The last time they did this the KKK actors at Trump rallies were black, oops
12 posted on 8/25/2016 12:03:27 PM by arl295
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I’m going with “b”.
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To: Scythian_Reborn
WOW – Trump really must be making an impact on the black vote.
19 posted on 8/25/2016 12:06:34 PM by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH – AMERICA STRONG)
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Of course he is. Why, one poll has him all the way up to 6%.
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To: nhwingut
Maybe Trump is making in roads(sic) with blacks and Hispanics. They can’t have that. They must keep them on the government plantation
43 posted on 8/25/2016 12:15:56 PM by Trumplican
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“Government plantation”?
I’m so glad we cleared up the misconception that Trump supporters are racists.
OK gang – I’ve beefed up the seals on the iso chamber door, put new rubber walkway covers in, and there is now an emergency shower handle every 15 feet with a “You’ve GOT to be fucking kidding me” sign marking each one. Maybe NOW the RCRA guys will get off my ass.
Let’s get started.
The Freeperati are beginning to freep out since The Darnold’s poll numbers have started going in the shitter.
Is it the skewed polls? The dreaded Em Ess Em? Lord Xenu and the Marcabs? (the name of my next band)
It couldn’t POSSIBLY be that Freepers are a fringe of a fringe, and that the majority of sane people in this country are realizing that Orange Julius is a couple of tacos shy of a combination plate. No way.
First up in our paranoia parade –My TV’s spying on me!!
TOM BAUERLE: CAN SATELLITES REPROGRAM VOTING MACHINES? Bear Witness ^ | August 5, 2016 | Judi McLeod
Posted on 8/5/2016 9:26:29 PM by dontreadthis
A fervent prayer that radio talk show host Tom Bauerle and Yours Truly won’t become the ‘dearly departed’ following “mysterious deaths” while walking our dogs, hoisting barbells down at the gym or walking home.
Bauerle is the braver of the two because he is right in the U.S., in graver danger for digging like a terrier at the truth about the satellite-reliant election equipment that may now be being “rigged” to get Hillary Clinton elected as the next U.S. president.
1 posted on 8/5/2016 9:26:29 PM by dontreadthis
I love your handle, but if you don’t want people to read your gigglesnort material, you shouldn’t post it.
To: dontreadthis
Pretty sure they are doing this with my wife and making her claim it is menopause.
6 posted on 8/5/2016 9:46:36 PM by disndat
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Come on, guys – this is serious stuff here!
To: dontreadthis
“They” can do anything they want to do. TV has been spying on us for years.
12 posted on 8/5/2016 10:51:38 PM by VerySadAmerican (“…if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it…” Acts 5:39)
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Some of the Freeperati are skeptical :
To: dontreadthis
Does this mean that the voting machines need to be wrapped in tin foil?
14 posted on 8/6/2016 12:55:16 AM by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
To: dontreadthis
Satellites are basically repeaters. They retransmit what they receive. That does not include the ability to reprogram anything.
15 posted on 8/6/2016 4:13:58 AM by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
No! NO!! I have the proof right here!!
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SEE?????
To: I want the USA back
Maybe that’s what happened in the town of 105 voters that cast 1,500 votes for obozo.
16 posted on 8/6/2016 7:11:04 AM by oldasrocks (rump)
Not much new to report at Freeperville re: the Dem convention – how many different ways can you write: “ZOMGPANTSUITSNOTENOUGHFLAGS!” ?
What I DO have is – Scarborough Unfaire!
Scarborough calls on GOP to cut ties with Trump
July 29, 2016 | Eddie Scarry
Posted on 7/29/2016 7:44:15 PM by kevcol
Scarborough said Friday on “Morning Joe” that Donald Trump has become too toxic for the GOP’s congressional candidates this year.
“The center cannot hold when you have the speaker of the House [Paul Ryan] calling the Republican nominee a racist but saying he’s still endorsing the nominee,” he said. “It is so bizarre on its face that you have people chuckling in the background.”
Scarborough referenced the often tense relationship Ryan has had with Trump on foreign and domestic policy issues as well as the tone of the celebrity businessman’s campaign.
1 posted on 7/29/2016 7:44:16 PM by kevcol
When you’ve lost Morning Schmoe…
And immediately, the “No True Scotsman” machine starts regurgitating:
To: kevcol
They need to cut ties with Ryan and Scarburrow..
2 posted on 7/29/2016 7:46:31 PM by freespirit2012
To: kevcol
He’s got to say what they tell him to say. Dead intern, you know.
4 posted on 7/29/2016 7:47:10 PM by OKSooner
I’m sorry – have I wandered onto the Great Orange Satan?
To: kevcol
Joe has marbles rolling around in his head. A common mental illness of the leftist liberal, who have(sic) abandoned all truth for a lie that will cause bloodshed everywhere.
5 posted on 7/29/2016 7:47:31 PM by kindred (Time for a third party for Christians and conservatives and overtaxed patriots.)
“Leftist…….LIBERAL”???
The Joe Scarborough who said : “This right wing, radical, reactionary tea party crew has meekly gone along with their statist party leaders far too often for my tastes. As a result, they added $1 trillion to the national debt their first year in power and got outmaneuvered by President Barack Obama at every turn.” ??
THAT “leftist liberal”???
Oy.
To: kevcol
What a turd Joe has turned out to be.
7 posted on 7/29/2016 7:48:02 PM by LongWayHome
Oh, don’t be so quick to judge him.
He was always a turd.
To: freespirit2012
Just like you cut ties with your wife for Mika
11 posted on 7/29/2016 7:49:20 PM by Kozy (new age haruspex)
Gee – maybe he should run for President?
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One Freeper slips up and admits that Joe is no “leftist liberal” :
To: kevcol
He’s very bizarre.
Six months ago he was the only guy anywhere, fairly covering Trump. Just about the only one, anywhere.
Now, he’s gone completely to the dark side. Sell-out.
16 posted on 7/29/2016 7:51:22 PM by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
To: kevcol
What the f has happened to him?
44 posted on 7/29/2016 8:16:44 PM by BlueCat
Dunno – tired of being on the losing side?
To: kevcol
If people quit watching Scarborough then no one would care what he said. He only says this kind of crap to get attention
51 posted on 7/29/2016 8:23:04 PM by MichelleWSC3
Yeah.
Dontcha just hate people who say outrageous things just to get attention?
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To: kevcol
It’s disgusting to think that a man who received a 95% rating from the American Conservative Union while in congress could be so polluted and corrupted by MSLSD and his leftist buddies that who he is today bears almost no resemblance to who he was.
66 posted on 7/29/2016 8:42:20 PM by Two Kids’ Dad (((( Hillary Clinton is a felon. As yet unindicted, but a felon nonetheless ))))
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But what could have prompted this sea change?
What??
To: kevcol
Mika will cut his bollocks off if he didn’t say this. If she says “bark like a dog” he’ll bark!
74 posted on 7/29/2016 8:54:59 PM by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
I’ll put it this way – I got a phone call from the Quicken Loans Arena asking if I could lease them some of our ISO room clean-up gear for afterwards.
In Freeperville? They’re getting right to the important stuff!
It’s – Plagarism for thee, but not for me!
Melania Trump speech appears to plagiarize Michelle Obama The Hill ^ | /19/16 | Lisa Hagen
Posted on 7/18/2016 11:39:43 PM by Typical_Whitey
Melania Trump’s highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention Monday night appears to have nearly copied a paragraph from Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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Media is attacking Melania Trump.
1 posted on 7/18/2016 11:39:43 PM by Typical_Whitey
And by “attacking”, he means “reporting the news”.
And love your handle, BTW.
To: Typical_Whitey
Give me a ******* break!!! Idiots.
5 posted on 7/18/2016 11:41:44 PM by FlingWingFlyer (Let’s Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
I’m sorry, sir – you’re stuck here for the duration of the Freepathon. Which never ends.
To: Typical_Whitey
I’ll bet anyone a beer that this paragraph has appeared in spouses convention remarks since the turn of the century.
6 posted on 7/18/2016 11:41:45 PM by JohnBrowdie
So it’s exactly like every other spouses’ convention speech?
To: arl295
Mooch said she was never proud of USA
Melania said the USA is the greatest
Doesn’t sound like the same speech at all.
8 posted on 7/18/2016 11:42:31 PM by Zenjitsuman (Y)
So it’s NOT exactly like every other spouses’ convention speech?
To: Coronal
It’s plagiarism. Yeah Obama and Biden did it too but this is politically devastating given the timing and the setting.
I know you’ve all heard the story about Donald Trump, one of his ex-wives and the rape allegations made in a 1993 book. His ex has denied it, and I’ll let others deal with that aspect of the story. What I am interested in is the thuggish response of Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. Strike the word lawyer, he comes off as more of a gangster’s mouthpiece than an attorney. (Cohen reminds me of Gotti’s lawyer Bruce Cutler, only with better hair.) And that is why Michael Cohen is malaka of the week.
Cohen is not only as arrogant and obnoxious as his client, he’s as ignorant. He claimed that marital rape is NOT illegal. He’s wrong about that. It has been against the law in New York state since 1984. Before I get to Cohen’s thuggish and boorish threats against two reporters, he issued a non-apology apology Tuesday but I think he’s only sorry for getting caught:
““As an attorney, husband and father there are many injustices that offend me but nothing more than charges of rape or racism. They hit me at my core. Rarely am I surprised by the press, but the gall of this particular reporter to make such a reprehensible and false allegation against Mr. Trump truly stunned me. In my moment of shock and anger, I made an inarticulate comment – which I do not believe — and which I apologize for entirely.”
Inarticulate is a good word to describe this tirade in apology drag. I’m uncertain as to what exactly Counselor Malaka is apologizing for. The rape mistake? Or is it over the mob lawyer style threats made against the reporters? Beats the hell outta me. He should apologize for both. Here are the malakatudinous threats in question:
“I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse,” Cohen threatened writers Tim Mak and Brandy Zadrozny, if they reported on the 1993 book “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” by Harry Hurt III. “And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know. So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”
“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up…for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet…you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it.”
It’s a pity that Mr. Cohen wasn’t old enough to have worked for CREEP in 1972. He sounds like John Mitchell’s kind of guy. These threats reek of malakatude and everything about the legal profession that I despise. Cohen also lost his cool: competent counsel does not yell and scream threats, they get all icy and shit. The best way to stick a shystery shiv in is with a smile on your face.
If Cohen’s non-apology apology is supposed to apply to his blustery threat against the reporters, I don’t buy it. He meant what he said when he said it. It’s the Trumpian style: talk big, yell, scream, bully, and call people LOSERS. The accumulation of malakatude will eventually catch up with Trump. I realize that’s an unfashionable view right now but the MSM depends on hive-mind thinking and I’m a lone wolf even if I rarely howl at the full moon:
Back to the Nixonian analogy. It’s an apt one since Nixon tattoo wearing veteran GOP ratfucker and conspiracy theorist Roger Stone is in the Trump camp as a “strategist.”Stone is more of a saboteur than anything else. His presence as a Trump adviser is indicative of the kind of asshole that Trump is. Right now, he’s a popular asshole but a few more outbursts from malakas such as Michael Cohen and the Trump campaign will be sleeping with the fishes.
This seems like as good a place as any to tell a story about a lawyer I worked for as a young legal assistant. Let’s call him Phil. He was very intelligent and very angry. His face was always red and his eyes full of scorn for his inferiors, which seemed to be everyone who wasn’t a partner or well-heeled client. He was a very impatient man with an annoying habit of asking “Are we speaking the same language?” when hearing something that displeased him. One day I’d had enough. He said “Are we speaking the same language?” one time too often so I replied, “I’m speaking English. I don’t know what language you’re speaking.”
Phil threw me out of his office but didn’t fire me. The ways of the malaka can be mysterious and most high-powered lawyers are malakas, especially those with malakas as clients. And that is why Michael Cohen is malaka of the week.
Apology, my ass. I wonder what language he’s speaking…
As Athenae pointed out yesterday, the entire Trump “campaign” is an epic troll. It makes the freak show that is the GOP nomination process even more farcical. Call me sick but I love it, especially the thought of Trump in a debate going all Noo Yawk on Jeb, Rubio, and whoever else he feels like pounding on. I may even watch myself in the way that some rubberneck at car wrecks. The 2016 Republican race is God’s gift to satire. It almost gives me religion..
“I think Oprah would be great. I’d love to have Oprah,” Trump said. “I think we’d win easily, actually.”
Trump had suggested Oprah as a potential sidekick once before — while considering a bid for the presidency in 1999.
Now that he’s officially running, he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that she’s a perfect fit.
“She’s great, she’s talented, she’s a friend of mine,” he said.
“She’s a good person. I’ve been on her show. In fact, I was on her show last week, she said, could I be on her show with the whole family?”
The Republican hopeful emphasized that everybody loves Oprah.
Well, I don’t but she has more than enough self-love to compensate. I love the thought of the two biggest egomaniacs in American public life as a team. Who would do the listening? Can you imagine Trump telling Oprah she’s fired? Trump’s style is to throw shit against the wall and see how much of it sticks. Oprah deserves this since she’s on speaking terms with this bilious birther blowhard. There’s been no response from Winfrey World as the odious Mark (Pilates with Romney) Halperin would surely call it.
When Donald Trump strode on to the stage at Trump Tower on Tuesday to announce that he would enter the Republican race for president, a rock and roll anthem blared: Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” It was an odd choice, given that the 1989 song seemed to slam a Republican administration for not giving a damn about the poor. And Young has taken exception to Trump’s appropriation of his tune. A statement issued to Mother Jones for Young by his longtime manager Elliot Roberts suggests Young was not pleased by Trump’s use of the song:
Donald Trump’s use of “Rockin’ in the Free World” was not authorized. Mr. Young is a longtime supporter of Bernie Sanders.
In other words, it may be a free world, but you’re not free to steal my song.
I suspect Trump saw this and said: “Hey, I made Mother Jones whatever the hell that is. All publicity is good.” Here’s the 1989 Neil Young video, which doesn’t look very Trumpian to me:
Finally, I stumbled into a wonderful separated at birth picture that was tweeted yesterday showing blowhard London Mayor/Tory MP Boris Johnson side-by-side with the blowhard Yank troll candidate:
