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kleinbl00  ·  2710 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump registered eight companies in Saudi Arabia during campaign

I think the consensus is that it's time for the Republicans to run things and so we're going to let Republicans run things.

Outrage wears me out. I'm giving money, donating time, and protecting the stuff that matters to me and recognizing that this shit is cyclical.

    I think that the possibility of everything being out the window exists. But, as a practical matter, what I’ve been saying to people, including my own staff, is that the federal government is an aircraft carrier, it’s not a speedboat. And, if you need any evidence of that, think about how hard we worked over the last eight years with a very clear progressive agenda, with a majority in the House and in the Senate, and we accomplished as much domestically as any President since Lyndon Johnson in those first two years. But it was really hard.” Obama said that he had accomplished “seventy or seventy-five per cent” of what he set out to do, and “maybe fifteen per cent of that gets rolled back, twenty per cent, but there’s still a lot of stuff that sticks.”

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