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Fake news or not?

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 17, 2017 12:04 pm

The AP broke an apparently leaked draft memo saying Trump was going to order 100,000 National Guardsmen to help round up undocumented immigrants. The White House immediately denied that it was real.

I think the memo was a proposal, not intended for implementation. At the very least its release has torpedoed that from being done in the future as they've denied crafting the plan at all.

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#2 Post by SpacemanSpiff » Fri Feb 17, 2017 12:32 pm

I think one post I read might have had the right concept -- it changes the subject away from Russia.
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#3 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 17, 2017 12:36 pm

SpacemanSpiff wrote:I think one post I read might have had the right concept -- it changes the subject away from Russia.
True, but there are so many other things happening simultaneously. This may be below the fold.
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#4 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 17, 2017 12:46 pm

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#5 Post by Pastor Fireball » Fri Feb 17, 2017 12:51 pm

Again, "leaked" is not the right word to use so close in a sentence to "Trump".
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#6 Post by Buster Snopes » Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:07 pm

IMPOSSUMBLE!!!!

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#7 Post by BackInTex » Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:08 pm

Bob Juch wrote:I think
Wrong again.
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#8 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:47 pm

Pastor Fireball wrote:Again, "leaked" is not the right word to use so close in a sentence to "Trump".
Or Russians. :P
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#9 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:48 pm

That's nothing more than a summary of the news reports.
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#10 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Fri Feb 17, 2017 5:15 pm

#FAKE NEWS
Your friendly neighborhood racist. On the waiting list to be a nazi. Designated an honorary snowflake... Always typical, unlike others.., Fulminator, Hopelessly in the tank for trump... inappropriate... Probably a tucking sexist, too... A clear and present threat to The Future Of Our Democracy.. Doesn't understand anything... Made the trump apologist and enabler playoffs... Heathen bastard... Knows nothing about history... Liar.... don't know much about statistics and polling... Nothing at all about biology... Ignorant Bigot... Potential Future Pariah... Big Nerd... Spiraling, Anti-Trans Bigot.. A Lunatic AND a Bigot.. Very Ignorant of the World in General... Sounds deranged... Fake Christian... Weird... has the mind of a child... Simpleton... gullible idiot... a coward who can't face facts... insufferable and obnoxious dumbass... the usual dum dum... idolatrous donkey-person!... Mouth-breathing moron... Dildo... Inferior thinker... flailing hypocrite... piece of shit

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#11 Post by Bob Juch » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:56 pm

flockofseagulls104 wrote:#FAKE NEWS
No, the memo is real. Apparently the White House decidied not no implement it though,
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Re: Fake news or not?

#12 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Sat Feb 18, 2017 1:10 pm

The memo may be real. The spin is #FAKE NEWS.
Did you ever see the old movie War Games? Apparently, government bureaucracies come up with countermeasures for every possible situation they can dream up. I have heard that this is one of those. Do I know for sure? No. But neither do you. But it seems to be a much more rational explanation than yours.
Do you really think that anyone would stand by and let something like this actually happen? Of course you do. And you think people like me are just clamoring for it to happen. Let me put it in terms you might more readily understand: F&*K You.
Your friendly neighborhood racist. On the waiting list to be a nazi. Designated an honorary snowflake... Always typical, unlike others.., Fulminator, Hopelessly in the tank for trump... inappropriate... Probably a tucking sexist, too... A clear and present threat to The Future Of Our Democracy.. Doesn't understand anything... Made the trump apologist and enabler playoffs... Heathen bastard... Knows nothing about history... Liar.... don't know much about statistics and polling... Nothing at all about biology... Ignorant Bigot... Potential Future Pariah... Big Nerd... Spiraling, Anti-Trans Bigot.. A Lunatic AND a Bigot.. Very Ignorant of the World in General... Sounds deranged... Fake Christian... Weird... has the mind of a child... Simpleton... gullible idiot... a coward who can't face facts... insufferable and obnoxious dumbass... the usual dum dum... idolatrous donkey-person!... Mouth-breathing moron... Dildo... Inferior thinker... flailing hypocrite... piece of shit

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