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Meanwhile, the right wing infosphere is still going at it hammer and tongs about whether it’s ok to embrace Nazis and White Nationalists in their movement.

 
BlueSteel said:
It was NEVER about the economy. It’s ONLY about the cult.

Congratulations MAGAts. You’ve killed America.
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Out of context as usual. Leavitt was responding to a specific question from a reporter about whether Trump had any other renovation/remodeling plans. Leavitt responded that the ballroom was his main priority as a building/renovation project.
 
lawtig02 said:
What a week! America has definitely been made great again over the last seven days. This brilliant administration has, without limitation:

1. Torn down 1/3 of the White House without letting anyone know in advance;
2. Kept the government shut down over an issue that almost 3/4 of Americans think should be resolved as the Democrats have proposed;
3. Accepted $130 million from an unknown source, potentially a foreign adversary, that will be used to pay our military;
4. Committed multiple war crimes by using US military assets to blow foreign nationals out of the water without anything resembling due process;
5. Deployed a huge percentage of our Navy to the oceans around Venezuela, which may be one of the least threatening places anywhere in the world;
6. Attempted to force Ukraine to give up the entire Donbas in exchange for ... nothing? ... while Russia refuses to make any commitments whatsoever;
7. Charged Letitia James for doing something that she did not do, but that at least two members of Trump's Cabinet did do;
8. Cut off trade negotiations with our largest trading partner and formerly friendly neighbor because they made an ad with an accurate video of Reagan calling Trump's economic policy spectacularly stupid;
9. Pardoned a guy who ADMITTED to using his crypto platform, which has raised Trump's personal wealth by billions of dollars, to facilitate massive amounts of money laundering; and
10. Yet again, not released the Epstein files.

Congrats, Ram! Congrats Zen! Congrats Pandemic! This has probably been Trump's best week yet!
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And another 3 + years to go.
 
Ramrouser said:
Out of context as usual. Leavitt was responding to a specific question from a reporter about whether Trump had any other renovation/remodeling plans. Leavitt responded that the ballroom was his main priority as a building/renovation project.
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Who fucking cares, dipshit. Your god NEVER comments or tweets in context or good faith. Nycfan already addressed this too.
 
Ramrouser said:
And another 3 + years to go.
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Trump is an appalling person, vindictive and cruel POTUS, and a dark stain our country. I liked him more when native American casino owners were making a PROFIT and Trump wasn't.

You should know that Reagan White House banned or snubbed Trump from visiting the WH in 1987 By the East Wing - ... Shortly thereafter Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and Trump met with Gorby. Twice - July and December - the image is from the 2nd.

The Reagan clips about the tariff tomfoolery is why Trump is now mad at Canada.

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Reagan White House Files Show Ronald and Nancy Repeatedly Snubbed Donald Trump and His 'Large Ego' - IMDb

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Duke Mu said:
Trump is an appalling person, vindictive and cruel POTUS, and a dark stain our country. I liked him more when native American casino owners were making a PROFIT and Trump wasn't.

You should know that Reagan White House banned or snubbed Trump from visiting the WH in 1987 By the East Wing - ... Shortly thereafter Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and Trump met with Gorby. Twice - July and December - the image is from the 2nd.

The Reagan clips about the tariff tomfoolery is why Trump is now mad at Canada.

www.imdb.com

Reagan White House Files Show Ronald and Nancy Repeatedly Snubbed Donald Trump and His 'Large Ego' - IMDb

IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
www.imdb.com www.imdb.com




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He’s meeting Gorby with George Schulz. Not exactly frozen out by the White House in that one.
 
Molotov Mocktail said:
Who fucking cares, dipshit. Your god NEVER comments or tweets in context or good faith. Nycfan already addressed this too.
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Remember when conservatives like rammy or Zen came here over a year ago and seemed reasonable and pleasant in their first several posts? Turns out that was all a sham - they're both very much trolls in their own way, and are mainly here just to divert threads and anger posters and talk trash. Same as it ever was for most Trumpers (including bosiding Trumpers).
 
"Out of context as usual. Leavitt was responding to a specific question from a reporter about whether Trump had any other renovation/remodeling plans. Leavitt responded that the ballroom was his main priority as a building/renovation project."

I'd have to see some attribution on that since the lying is so endemic among the MAGA cult. Truth is, that AFAIAC, anyone on the Right in these times needs to attribute any assertion that they make about facts, so loose they have been for the past decade with it.

My fundamental point being that moving forward the default setting for anything said by a trump backer is that it is a lie until proven not to be.
 
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How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and revealed a doctor’s decades of deception

Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they couldn’t figure out why.
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While there weren’t many surprises in her family’s ancestry, McKesson said when she navigated to the “family members” section of the site, she drew up short:

The test showed she had seven half-siblings.

“I just remember being shocked and my mind just swirling,” she said. “I’m like, how is this possible? … Did my dad have another family or something?”

Was she actually adopted? None of what she was learning made sense.

She sent screenshots of the results to a trusted group of friends, and they discussed different theories. Then, later that night, she sent a message to her newly discovered half-siblings through the 23andMe website.

“Humor has really gotten me through a lot of this,” McKesson said, so she opted for a lighter tone in her first note.

She sent the same message to each name listed on the site. And then, she waited. It would take more than a month for anyone to respond.

“I don’t want to cause any conflict,” one of them finally wrote, “but if you want to dig into this, I’d ask your parents if they went to see Dr. Peete.”

A doctor’s decades of deception​

In 1980, Laurie Kruppa and her husband, Doug, found themselves waiting for a fertility specialist named Dr. Charles Peete in a sterile exam room at Duke University Hospital.

The couple wanted children, Laurie told CNN, but Doug had a vasectomy during a previous marriage, so her OB-GYN referred them to the physicians at Duke for fertility treatment.
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“She drops this bomb that, my dad never wanted to tell me this, but they couldn’t conceive at the time, and they went to a fertility clinic at Duke University.

“It was early 1977,” he said, “and they got a sperm donor.”

Coming so soon on the heels of his father’s death, Harris said the confession caused him to spiral. He was raised as an only child, but 23andMe revealed he had multiple half-siblings.

And Harris said his conversations with one sibling in particular stood out.

At first, the woman was confused about their shared genetics, then curious. Maybe she was also donor-conceived, and their parents had used the same donor, she suggested.

But when Harris started researching the woman’s maiden name, he discovered her father was Dr. Peete. He sent her a message.

To Harris, the conclusion was clear: His mom’s doctor had used his own sperm instead of a donor’s.

It took Peete’s daughter days to respond to the revelation, and when she did, she admitted to being “stunned, shocked and completely baffled.”

“It didn’t even cross my mind that my dad would’ve been the donor, because my dad was the most honorable human being,” she wrote, “… being a part of whatever or however this happened just doesn’t add up.”

But as they continued to exchange messages, she later noted how Jim looked a lot like her father.

“I think there is more to this story we may never really know,” she said.

The country doctor​

Dr. Charles Henry Peete Jr. died in 2013 at the age of 89. CNN reached out to his immediate family multiple times during the reporting of this story, but did not hear back.

A public obituary posted online describes Peete as a “compassionate country doctor,” who discovered his passion for medicine by observing his father, the town physician.

Peete graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1947 and, according to the obituary, he completed a residency in obstetrics, gynecology and endocrinology before accepting a position as an assistant professor and physician at Duke in 1956.
 
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