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Idiocracy

hockeyfan1 said:
Ivanka Trump  @IvankaTrump
A great discussion with two world leaders about the importance of women having a seat at the table!  🇺🇸🇨🇦

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There would be a point to that if the family didn't attempt to enrich themselves through this. Why hand it to Ivanka? Ridiculous conflict of interest being dressed up as a good thing. Classic misdirection.

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Sean Spicer just told everyone that Trump had a very successful meeting yesterday with Joe Trudeau so all is right on track.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
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Hilariously enough - Linda McMahon as head of Small Business Administration was one of the least contested members of Donald Trump's cabinet by the Senate at 81-19, because she was one of the few of his picks that actually has, you know, experience in the field.

*adjusts nerd glasses*
 
Significantly Insignificant said:
Heroic Shrimp said:
The local wealthy businessman however, despite being a huge Flyers fan, on even cursory inspection clearly doesn't know much about hockey in general and how to run a hockey team in particular.  He proposes trades that any reasonable hockey fan would scoff at as ridiculous, he clearly doesn't understand how the salary cap works, he flouts tampering rules, he knows virtually nothing about the draft, and he's antagonistic toward other GMs and to the league office.  Further to that, he's repeatedly conducted illegal business practices, and he treats anybody who doesn't give him unreserved deference with contempt.  But he's a good salesman and he promises he's going to make the Flyers great again because he's been so successful in business.
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Brian Burke wants to run the Flyers?
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If you're going to pick a hockey guy anyway for that one-liner, I think the more obvious choice would be Don Cherry.
 
Heroic Shrimp said:
Sadly, I need somebody to explain this to me.
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin was a very popular professional wrestler. The family in the photo are the McMahons who own what the professional wrestling venture that was known as the WWF but now goes by the WWE. Various members of the family(and Trump) participated in the family business during the period when Austin was at the height of his popularity and Austin, whose character was always anti-authority, used his signature move, The Stone Cold Stunner, on various members of the McMahon family in their matches and on Trump during one of his appearances.

Here's a Deadspin article on the Stunner:

http://deadspin.com/the-stone-cold-stunner-is-the-most-important-wrestling-1566797510
 
Donald Trump was also featured in the WWF/WWE multiple times. At one point one of their weekly shows was "sold" to Trump. And at one of their WrestleMania's Stone Cold gave Trump the Stunner:

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The photo that they're holding in that tweet is from this illustrious moment in Trump's career:

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Nik the Trik said:
Heroic Shrimp said:
Sadly, I need somebody to explain this to me.
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin was a very popular professional wrestler. The family in the photo are the McMahons who own what the professional wrestling venture that was known as the WWF but now goes by the WWE. Various members of the family(and Trump) participated in the family business during the period when Austin was at the height of his popularity and Austin, whose character was always anti-authority, used his signature move, The Stone Cold Stunner, on various members of the McMahon family in their matches and on Trump during one of his appearances.

Here's a Deadspin article on the Stunner:

http://deadspin.com/the-stone-cold-stunner-is-the-most-important-wrestling-1566797510
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Things I knew:

- Steve Austin was a pro wrestler
- WWF became WWE
- Vince McMahon owned WWF/WWE

Things I didn't know:

- Austin's personality
- Stone Cold Stunner
- Austin's take-downs of those various figures
- what Linda McMahon had to do with any of this scene

I'm undecided whether I should be ashamed or proud of my ignorance.
 
I assume it's only a matter of days before Trump explains that the reason Obama got more Electoral College votes than him, twice, is because of illegal voting.
 
Instructive. And NSFW (coarse language)

Skip ahead to 2m-ish for bit pertinent to the reality of Trump's unreality.

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Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull had some advice for Trump:

US president Donald Trump was wasting his time deriding the media over their coverage of his administration, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday, citing the example of British wartime leader Winston Churchill.

Mr. Turnbull...said the 45th American president should stop focusing on the media.

"A very great politician, Winston Churchill, once said that politicians complaining about the newspapers is like a sailor complaining about the sea," Mr Turnbull told reporters in New Zealand on Friday.


With his promise to put "America First", Mr Trump has also scrapped or promised to renegotiate trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the North American Free Trade Agreement since coming to office, but Mr Turnbull warned against a more protectionist US trade stance.

"Protectionism is not the ladder to get you out of the low growth track, it is the shovel to dig it deeper and deeper and deeper," he said.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/like-sailor-complaining-sea-australian-pm-quotes-winston-churchill/
 
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