My in real life identity is finally blown

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honorentheos wrote:Just when it seemed like 2017 couldn't be scripted more like a bad Hollywood pilot a billionaire evil drug lord is moved to proximity of a billionaire new president of the US essentially on the day he takes power. I feel like this is the premise of half the action flicks from the 80s.


I KNOW!!!!

The same sort of thoughts crossed my mind. I'm lying of course. I have no mind left. Which assumes I had one to begin with.
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Chap wrote:
Quasimodo wrote:On the bright side, Chap. It looks like you still have internet connectivity.


Hey! Maybe me and my good friend Donald can share a Twitter account! After all, we both hate the Mexican government. I can tell him lots of good ways to deal with all those illegal Mexicans that he wants to get rid of. No need to go to all the trouble of deporting them!

Maybe I could be in line for a cabinet post?

The movement to impeach Trump has already started. Maybe he will wind up becoming your cellmate before his term is supposed to end. :wink:
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Possibly adding fuel to the case for impeachment is the fact that the Whitehouse website is now promoting his wife's jewelry line.
This comes on the same day that two separate campaigns to impeach her husband were launched on the grounds of his refusal to separate his business assets from his new responsibilities as President of the United States.

Changes to American .gov websites also include removing all mention of climate change and pages that affirm the federal government’s commitment to helping the LGBT community and people with disabilities enter the workforce.
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Can I ask a dumb question? How did he refuse to separate his business assets? In what way? Got a link where I can read details about this?
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Gunnar wrote:Possibly adding fuel to the case for impeachment is the fact that the Whitehouse website is now promoting his wife's jewelry line.
This comes on the same day that two separate campaigns to impeach her husband were launched on the grounds of his refusal to separate his business assets from his new responsibilities as President of the United States.

Changes to American .gov websites also include removing all mention of climate change and pages that affirm the federal government’s commitment to helping the LGBT community and people with disabilities enter the workforce.


Gunnar, I couldn't get the American.gov website, I'll try again later. I did just look at the other.

The thing about promoting his wife's jewelry line, no. I'm going to call BS on that because how slanted could that possibly get? No, Gunnar, it's simply one mention in her bio. Here is her bio:


First Lady Melania Trump. 


First Lady of the United States Melania Trump is the wife of President Donald J. Trump, and was born on April 26, 1970 in Slovenia.  
Melania Knavs began her modeling career at the age of sixteen. She would pursue a degree at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, but pause her studies to advance her modeling career in Milan and Paris before moving to New York in 1996.  As a model, Melania has appeared in high profile ad campaigns and worked with some of the top photographers in the fashion industry, including Patrick Demarchelier, Helmut Newton, Arthur Elgort, Ellen Von Unwerth, Peter Arnell, Antoine Verglas and Mario Testino. She has graced the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, British GQ, Ocean Drive, Avenue, In Style, and New York Magazine. Her major layouts include the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Allure, Vogue, Self, Glamour, Vanity Fair, and Elle. In addition, Melania has appeared in numerous television commercials and television programs, including co-hosting The View with Barbara Walters. 
With a penchant and passion for the arts, architecture, design, fashion and beauty, Melania has thrived on the cultural diversification of New York City. This passion can only be surpassed by her dedication to helping others, and her generosity has been noted. She was Honorary Chairwoman for Martha Graham Dance Company in April 2005, is an active member of the Police Athletic League which honored her with Woman of The Year 2006, has been an Honorary Chairwoman for The Boy's Club of New York for five consecutive years, and in 2005 The American Red Cross awarded her with Goodwill Ambassador which she has proudly served for four years.  In April of 2008, she was asked by Love Our Children USA and NASDAQ to participate in the Fifth Annual National Love Our Children Day and the beginning of National Child Abuse Prevention month by ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ.  In 2010, Melania was the Chairwoman for The American Heart Association which raised $1.7 Million for research.  Melania's philanthropic interests represent her humanitarian side, and she remains an indefatigable and dedicated New Yorker.
Melania married Donald Trump in January 2005.  In March of 2006 they welcomed their first child, Barron William Trump. 
Melania is also a successful entrepreneur. In April 2010, Melania Trump launched her own jewelry collection.
In 2006, Melania Trump proudly became a citizen of the United States of America.  She is only the second First Lady born outside of the United States. The first since Louisa Adams, wife to John Quincy Adams, the nation’s sixth president.  
Mrs. Trump cares deeply about issues impacting women and children, and she has focused her platform as First Lady on the problem of cyber bullying among our youth.  


So in that whole bio, your takeaway or the takeaway is that her bio is promoting her jewelry line? That's not intellectually honest, Gunnar. I'm not gonna let that pass.
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I can't believe you posted that. I honestly cannot.
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Seriously Gunnar, I just did a search and see reports that the website is promoting her jewelry line AND her modeling career.

AYFKM??

There's an entire biography there, including her charity work. Those are her accomplishments. Are you seriously trying to portray this as if they're trying to make money off her new status as FLOTUS? Is there a link to QVC or something there?? Link to PayPal?

If she authored a book, would that be promoting her book sales?

As a woman, I object to this mischaracterization of another woman. Honestly, it annoys the hell out of me because it's an attempt to cheapen her.

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Is Trump's bio promoting his books? Or are those listed among his accomplishments?

Do you think there's a problem with the singling out of his wife? Because I sure as heck do.
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I can't wait for the next piece of abject sensationalism to go up on this board, seriously I can't wait. My god.
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Perhaps the criticism of them for mentioning her jewelry line in her biography is a bit overblown, but there are plenty of other things that Trump has done in the past or has promised to do that are far from admirable or benign. I just don't trust the man! I will grant that his advocacy of abolishing the prohibition against negotiating with pharmaceutical companies for better drug prices is promising. If Congress manages to pass a bill to accomplish that and he signs it, he will deserve kudos for that. I hope that public pressure from the public, scientific community and his daughter Ivanka will get him to seriously reconsider his opposition to addressing the problems of climate change and reducing CO2 emissions, but so far, there seems little hope of that, considering the people he has chosen for his administration. It almost seems as if he deliberately and systematically sought out and chose the worst qualified and/or most corrupt people he could possibly find.

His wife does seem to be a basically decent person, though. Hopefully she can succeed in being a moderating influence on him.
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