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**Kepler** · 05-11-2018, 01:23 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post

Shoulda stripped down to bra and panties like your soon to be fellow alum

I assumed you had seen that. Yellow fever.

**mookie1995** · 05-11-2018, 01:44 PM

Originally posted by Kepler View Post

I assumed you had seen that. Yellow fever.

It was in the Post

**joecct** · 05-11-2018, 02:03 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Originally posted by Kepler View Post

Ike didn't have the ego to supercede Washington. Reagan and Clinton certainly did, but Reagan was already a doddering, drooling doorstop in 86, let alone 88, so he'd have had to be wheeled off to the Old Frauds' Home. Obama I am guessing would have started out wanting to step down but when he saw Dump as a threat would have stayed on and beaten him in about 40 states.

So let's say for simplicity everything's the same until 00:

00 Clinton. No 9/11 happens because the government is competent and paying attention.
04 Some hapless Republican, let's assume Dubya. The Great Recession still happens since Clinton hasn't hemmed in the Plutes.
08 Obama
12 Obama
16 Obama

And things are humming along with the Obama recovery right now but Mitch and Paul are happily thwarting his every action. The GOP dodged a bullet with Dump failing in 2016 but now an even more extreme racist and anti-Semite is building strength for 2020, perhaps with strong Dominionist overtones.

I'm not so sure about Slick in 00. He had a scandal behind him. However, the man knew his electorate and probably could have charmed his way to 12 years. However he would have been out in 04. GWB would not have run in 04 as the 00 loser. So, let's for fun sake throw Mitt in the mix. Mitt v Al-Gore(??) in 04?

**mookie1995** · 05-11-2018, 02:10 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

if all y'all are playing make believe, you have to realize that jeb is the most likely bush to be elected on tape delay here.

**Kepler** · 05-11-2018, 02:15 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post

if all y'all are playing make believe, you have to realize that jeb is the most likely bush to be elected on tape delay here.

Fair point. Either way we still get the Haliburton War in Iraq. Maybe ! manages it better than ?

**mookie1995** · 05-11-2018, 02:24 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

maybe.

if someone other than 41 is there, what are the odds that saddam is left in place after kuwait? mookie is pretty sure that H.W. is the ONLY person who doesn't finish that job. anyone else continues into iraq (though that may be hindsight being 20/20 now by mookie). couldn't another puppet be put in place to buffer against the iranians then?

**rufus** · 05-11-2018, 02:35 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Originally posted by Kepler View Post

Yep. She was a grad student and it was her dorm. Nice.

And the cops wouldn't believe her at first, despite her taking them to her room and unlocking it with her key, just because her name was mis-spelled in the Yale student database.

**Kepler** · 05-11-2018, 02:39 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post

if someone other than 41 is there, what are the odds that saddam is left in place after kuwait? mookie is pretty sure that H.W. is the ONLY person who doesn't finish that job.

GWB was roundly applauded for not getting us into a meat grinder by invading Iraq after Oil War 1. Other than the handful of neocon morons who finally did get their pretext later I can't think of any US president who would have made that mistake.

No 9/11, stable Middle East with a counterweight against Iran, no spread of Russian influence, no Dump Belch. Pretty good world.

Thanks a lot, Katherine Harris.

**mookie1995** · 05-11-2018, 02:54 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Russia then is not Russia now. Can’t see them filling that void.

And while messy, driving up Baghdad highway wouldn’t have had the IED minefield that occurred 15yrs later.

But.... mookie’s point was stopping was a kinda new step. Sure, H.W. Could recall leaving the emperor in Japan... but everyone else who lost was removed.

Plus wasn’t OBL gonna happen anyway after the US set up camp in KSA? Some form or other anyhows.

**joecct** · 05-11-2018, 03:27 PM

Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post

if all y'all are playing make believe, you have to realize that jeb is the most likely bush to be elected on tape delay here.

I thought about that, but Jeb! has not acquitted himself well in campaigning on a national scale.

Maybe it's Bush hangover?

**The Sicatoka** · 05-11-2018, 04:18 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post

Shoulda stripped down to bra and panties like your soon to be fellow alum

Originally posted by Kepler View Post

I assumed you had seen that. Yellow fever.

Um, ... what? (Photos or nothing happened ... unless it's Kep in the lingerie and in that case I don't wanna know or see.)

**Rogie21** · 05-11-2018, 04:30 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Is this what Trump meant by "draining the swamp"?

A top State Department nuclear expert announced his resignation following Trump's Iran deal decision. The office he led at State, on Iran nuclear implementation, has now gone from 7 to 0 staffers.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/11/...ran-deal-exit/

**Kepler** · 05-11-2018, 04:30 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post

Um, ... what? (Photos or nothing happened ... unless it's Kep in the lingerie and in that case I don't wanna know or see.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32BcNwZNKm8

Stay away from the Comments if you don't want to give up on humanity.

**The Sicatoka** · 05-11-2018, 04:39 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Originally posted by Kepler View Post

Stay away from the Comments if you don't want to give up on humanity.

I gave up on the "ugly bags of mostly water" on this rock long ago.

**The Sicatoka** · 05-11-2018, 05:18 PM

Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

Outright spying?
Stumbling? Sure.
Ham-fisted. Sure.

But outright spying?
I need more than innuendo like "I believe I know the name of the informant, but my intelligence sources did not provide it to me and refuse to confirm it. It would therefore be irresponsible to publish it."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/about-t...rce-1525992611