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orleans

(34,059 posts) Sun Jan 29, 2017, 04:23 AM Jan 2017

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why 120 days? (for the refugee ban)

why not ban refugees for 90 days? or six months?

where did 120 days come from?

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why 120 days? (for the refugee ban) (Original Post) orleans Jan 2017 OP

Four months instead of three or six? ManiacJoe Jan 2017 #1

Optimistic estimate of the average American's attention span? DFW Jan 2017 #2

Memorial Day kicks off summer travel season HoneyBadger Jan 2017 #3

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)

1. Four months instead of three or six?

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 04:57 AM

Jan 2017

Any number seems arbitrary.

DFW

(54,405 posts)

2. Optimistic estimate of the average American's attention span?

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 05:06 AM

Jan 2017

Maybe he figures something else will come along to fill the headlines by then.

Maybe more flooding in Miami Beach that he can then blame on Cuba.

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)

3. Memorial Day kicks off summer travel season

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 05:19 AM

Jan 2017

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