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[Clocker]

Originally Posted by wisconsin

The threat, if it was made good, was designed to have Mexico give him the money. We send $24 billion a year via wire transfers to Mexico. You deny this?

I don't deny that, and you just agreed that he called for Mexico to give us the money. Which he denies.

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[PaceAdvantage]

^^^ how world finally ends

[elysiantraveller]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

^^^ how world finally ends

Both of these are funny...

[fast4522]

Originally Posted by elysiantraveller

This ends now with Trump being told the Senate is going to break and declaring the National Emergency to avoid embarrassment.

Or maybe the shutdown lasts 6 months until Chancy caves.

[chadk66]

Originally Posted by fast4522

Or maybe the shutdown lasts 6 months until Chancy caves.

not gonna happen Ely promised it would be open by weeks end

[fast4522]

Ely being a Nostradamus is as good as Pa being a lawyer.

[sammy the sage]

Originally Posted by fast4522

Ely being a Nostradamus is as good as Pa being a lawyer.

They're both better than the "Q"man RR was...

[Burls]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

How many compared to Obama and Bush?

Oh, you don't know? Because they never kept track before?

Oh, ok then...

Of course they do.
It's 2019.
Everyone knows how to google.

Comparing unprecedented Trump White House turnover with Bush, Obama

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ouse-turnover/

By his 365th day as president, 34 percent of Trump’s most senior staffers had quit, switched roles or were forced out, according to a study by the Brookings Institution’s Katie Dunn Tenpas that tracked staffers with the help of a list compiled by National Journal. That statistic has now climbed to 43 percent.

That’s more than double every other administration since 1981, when National Journal began the list.

Dunn Tenpas found that Barack Obama had lost 9 percent of his most senior staffers by the end of his first year and George W. Bush 6 percent. Ronald Reagan set the previous record at 17 percent.

[Lemon Drop Husker]

Originally Posted by Burls

Of course they do.
It's 2019.
Everyone knows how to google.

Comparing unprecedented Trump White House turnover with Bush, Obama

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ouse-turnover/

By his 365th day as president, 34 percent of Trump’s most senior staffers had quit, switched roles or were forced out, according to a study by the Brookings Institution’s Katie Dunn Tenpas that tracked staffers with the help of a list compiled by National Journal. That statistic has now climbed to 43 percent.

That’s more than double every other administration since 1981, when National Journal began the list.

Dunn Tenpas found that Barack Obama had lost 9 percent of his most senior staffers by the end of his first year and George W. Bush 6 percent. Ronald Reagan set the previous record at 17 percent.

Awesome.

So you're saying he is 2 x's better than Reagan?

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Burls

Of course they do.
It's 2019.
Everyone knows how to google.

Comparing unprecedented Trump White House turnover with Bush, Obama

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ouse-turnover/

By his 365th day as president, 34 percent of Trump’s most senior staffers had quit, switched roles or were forced out, according to a study by the Brookings Institution’s Katie Dunn Tenpas that tracked staffers with the help of a list compiled by National Journal. That statistic has now climbed to 43 percent.

That’s more than double every other administration since 1981, when National Journal began the list.

Dunn Tenpas found that Barack Obama had lost 9 percent of his most senior staffers by the end of his first year and George W. Bush 6 percent. Ronald Reagan set the previous record at 17 percent.

"Most senior staffers." I'm glad they were able to narrow that subjectivity down enough to manufacture a viable news story.

[davew]

How long will it be until federal prison guards stop going to work? The dims don't need no dang wall or fence anyway.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

But he did often say "one way or another" which led me to believe that yes, Mexico wouldn't actually send the US money to build the wall. Nobody believed that. But we would get the money through some other indirect means.

So, theoretically, could Trump be correct? Is this renegotiated deal (which, you would have to concede, is Trump's doing), saving the US money? If so, how much money.

As the left here have pointed, Mexico CANNOT send us money to build it. It would have to go the general fund, just like the GoFundME money.
Trump making the best of a bad situation.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by fast4522

Ely being a Nostradamus is as good as Pa being a lawyer.

Nostradamus?
I thought it was Nosferatu!

[FantasticDan]

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