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    Excellent article in the Atlantic about the Trump admin.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...8T10%3A00%3A10

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    "When Kelly left in December 2018, chaos, which had been held in abeyance for at least some of the previous months, returned in full force. One of the unending debates of the Trump presidency is whether Trump intentionally creates this chaos or is somehow helpless against it, against the very disorder he causes daily, if not hourly."

    I would think it deliberate.

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    article is biased in the extreme to make anything look like chaos -not that there isn't some chaos.

    What was Trump elected for but to disrupt and cause chaos towards the Swamp?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    article is biased in the extreme to make anything look like chaos -not that there isn't some chaos.

    What was Trump elected for but to disrupt and cause chaos towards the Swamp?
    The gist of the article appears to be that despite the chaos, real or imagined, a hell of a lot gets done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    The gist of the article appears to be that despite the chaos, real or imagined, a hell of a lot gets done.
    *grudgingly agree*..don't mind me -i'm in campaign mode -ready to push back on the avalanche of Fake News to come

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    That's a full-time job! You are up against the likes of Sinner Barmy, Reagan's Gonads, Nonads, Dumber69, Center Loony, McSquawker, and a couple of new clowns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    That's a full-time job! You are up against the likes of Sinner Barmy, Reagan's Gonads, Nonads, Dumber69, Center Loony and a couple of new clowns.


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    true. JPP has become clown central.
    add in a few spammers and trolls ( and just plain dumb), and it's manifest we have seen better days

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    The gist of the article appears to be that despite the chaos, real or imagined, a hell of a lot gets done.
    That tells the tale on it.

    If the administration was truly chaotic it would be paralyzed by it. The media narrative is that chaos rules the WH so when Trump orders out for pizza it’s announced as ‘chaotic’ by the media.
    Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    true. JPP has become clown central.
    add in a few spammers and trolls ( and just plain dumb), and it's manifest we have seen better days
    Bump

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Excellent article in the Atlantic about the Trump admin.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...8T10%3A00%3A10
    This needs to be shown again, nobody can call Atlantic Magazine right wing.

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    Chaos in America is Putin's primary strategy to attain his lifelong goals.....destabilize NATO, get rid of US sanctions (costing him billions), and wreck our democracy

    Bannon even confirmed it just after Trump and Putin stole the election, openly admitted the "deconstruction of the administrative state" is their intent


    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi..._redirect=true

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    Very good article. Some people thrive on a chaotic environment. Trump seems to and in the process
    gets a lot of stuff done. He compartmentalizes well and deals with one thing while he's simultaneously
    planning the next.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    Chaos in America is Putin's primary strategy to attain his lifelong goals.....destabilize NATO, get rid of US sanctions (costing him billions), and wreck our democracy

    Bannon even confirmed it just after Trump and Putin stole the election, openly admitted the "deconstruction of the administrative state" is their intent


    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi..._redirect=true
    Is there an October surprise, Bucky?

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