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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by munroburton   » Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:56 pm

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Michael Everett wrote:...just out of interest, does the White House have anti-drone tech that applies when the drone is hovering a few meters above the pavement... say, just high enough to see over the truck?


Sure. They've got stinger AAMs on various rooftops. Overkill? No such thing! Move along, nothing to see here...

A five metre long selfie stick would be safer. That is, assuming the snipers didn't mistake it for some kind of weapon... :P
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by dscott8   » Fri Dec 29, 2017 1:25 pm

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Trump just fired every member of the Council on HIV/AIDS. He sent the pink slips by FedEx letter.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by gcomeau   » Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:01 pm

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dscott8 wrote:Trump just fired every member of the Council on HIV/AIDS. He sent the pink slips by FedEx letter.


If they defy all expectation and precedent and replace them with other *actual qualified health experts* I can give that a pass.

But if previous performance is any guide we'll be seeing people who think HIV/AIDS is a globalist hoax... or maybe a proponent of the healing power of shark cartilage...
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by dscott8   » Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:31 am

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gcomeau wrote:
dscott8 wrote:Trump just fired every member of the Council on HIV/AIDS. He sent the pink slips by FedEx letter.


If they defy all expectation and precedent and replace them with other *actual qualified health experts* I can give that a pass.

But if previous performance is any guide we'll be seeing people who think HIV/AIDS is a globalist hoax... or maybe a proponent of the healing power of shark cartilage...


If Trump does not let the Council die, he will probably re-staff it with evangelicals and advocates of "conversion therapy". You know---- Pence clones.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by gcomeau   » Sat Dec 30, 2017 6:16 pm

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gcomeau wrote:As part of their ongoing campaign to pretend Trump doesn't spend an absolutely absurd amount of time golfing they now appear to have a big white truck tasked to drive back and forth in front of the White House press pool cameras blocking the gaps in the hedges they were getting shots of Trump golfing through a few days ago (when be tweeted he was going "back to work")... while Trump is back golfing again.

Which the White House refuses to confirm even though everyone knows what he's doing.

FFS this is pathetic. How much more juvenile can this get?


Brief update, Trump now reported to be golfing for the 5th day in a row after tweeting to his followers he was going "back to work"...
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by Annachie   » Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:21 am

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To be fair to President Trump, I suspect he is doing as much work during his golf trip as he would do if he was in the White House.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by gcomeau   » Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:21 am

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Annachie wrote:To be fair to President Trump, I suspect he is doing as much work during his golf trip as he would do if he was in the White House.


Sooo.... none?

Not a bad assumption.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by biochem   » Sun Dec 31, 2017 3:17 pm

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dscott8 wrote:Trump just fired every member of the Council on HIV/AIDS. He sent the pink slips by FedEx letter.


Do we actually still need a Council on HIV/AIDS? Look, there really isn't much new on the medical front from year to year. A new treatment here or there but nothing the CDC and FDA couldn't brief the executive branch and the public on just like they do for every other major disease. It made sense back when it was a new problem and the science etc was moving fast. But that is no longer true, everything has slowed down to a steady pace.

We have a council for this and a council for that. All formed to address some critical and often short-term need, but which never go away! At some point we really need to start getting rid of the old ones. But in DC old programs never die.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by biochem   » Sun Dec 31, 2017 3:24 pm

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And one libertarian commentator picked up on something from one of Trumps ubiquitous anti-Amazon tweets. "Now that you mention it, why *does* the Postal Service charge Amazon so little for shipping?"


Trump may have accidentally stumbled on something.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by gcomeau   » Sun Dec 31, 2017 4:40 pm

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biochem wrote:And one libertarian commentator picked up on something from one of Trumps ubiquitous anti-Amazon tweets. "Now that you mention it, why *does* the Postal Service charge Amazon so little for shipping?"


Trump may have accidentally stumbled on something.


That the postal service is a *service* not a business? And it exists to provide the nation with important mail delivery infrastructure not make money? And that acts as a stimulative factor for the entire national economy?

Yeah, most people "stumbled onto that" a very long time ago.
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