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Pesqueeb

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JohnE said:
Yet again, a headline that makes me want to stick my head on the train tracks because I just dont know where it belongs...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/trump-florida-school-without-a-weapon/index.html
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"“I’m not good for medical. In other words, if you cut your finger and there’s blood pouring out, I’m gone,” he told Stern.

The former reality-TV host then shares a story with Stern about the time he thought a man died in front of him during a charity event at his Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago and, rather than helping the injured man, Trump turned away in disgust at the sight of his blood.

“I was at Mar-a-Lago and we had this incredible ball, the Red Cross Ball, in Palm Beach, Florida. And we had the Marines. And the Marines were there, and it was terrible because all these rich people, they’re there to support the Marines, but they’re really there to get their picture in the Palm Beach Post… so you have all these really rich people, and a man, about 80 years old—very wealthy man, a lot of people didn’t like him—he fell off the stage,” said Trump.

Trump proceeds to explain that it was a $100,000-per-table fundraiser filled with deep-pocketed billionaires, and that the Marines were—for whatever reason—given tables in the very back of the ballroom (“the worst table in the whole place”). Oh, and that he was more preoccupied with his ballroom’s pristine marble floor than the octogenarian bleeding out on it.

“So what happens is, this guy falls off right on his face, hits his head, and I thought he died. And you know what I did? I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away,” said Trump. “I couldn’t, you know, he was right in front of me and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him… he’s bleeding all over the place, I felt terrible. You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed color. Became very red. And you have this poor guy, 80 years old, laying on the floor unconscious, and all the rich people are turning away. ‘Oh my God! This is terrible! This is disgusting!’ and you know, they’re turning away. Nobody wants to help the guy. His wife is screaming—she’s sitting right next to him, and she’s screaming.”

Thank God for the Marines. “What happens is, these 10 Marines from the back of the room… they come running forward, they grab him, they put the blood all over the place—it’s all over their uniforms—they’re taking it, they’re swiping [it], they ran him out, they created a stretcher. They call it a human stretcher, where they put their arms out with, like, five guys on each side,” shared Trump.

“I was saying, ‘Get that blood cleaned up! It’s disgusting!’ The next day, I forgot to call [the man] to say he’s OK,” said Trump, adding of the blood, “It’s just not my thing.”"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-time-donald-trump-turned-away-in-disgust-while-a-man-bled-to-death-in-front-of-him
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

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i'm picturing trump running around the school with a limp, and has one arm extended using his thumb and forefinger to make a pretend gun yelling "bang! bang!"
 
Pesqueeb

Pesqueeb

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jonKranked said:
part of me is definitely conflicted about the use of FISA.
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I'm inclined to agree, however the continued renewals of a FISA warrant against Page kind of proves that the system sort of works. It shows, at the very least, that they kept finding shit on page. For a continuation of the FISA warrant the FBI has to show that "progress" is being made every so often (60 days IIRC) to the court.

Whether or not FISA should exist the way it is/at all is another argument, and maybe one that has less validity given the above case.
 
dan-o

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When support/distain of things like FISA and the Electoral College hinge upon personal biases regarding individual events, rather than a broader/longer term review, I'm reminded that emotional decisions tend to be bad decisions.
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

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dan-o said:
When support/distain of things like FISA and the Electoral College hinge upon personal biases regarding individual events, rather than a broader/longer term review, I'm reminded that emotional decisions tend to be bad decisions.
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agreed. but its easy to see why the electoral college is bad. FISA, not so much given how much secrecy surrounds it.
 
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