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[b]Charlie Dent compares the GOP to a dysfunctional family with Trump as the drunk father[/b]
Retiring Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) likened the Republican partys efforts to avoid discussing difficult issues to a dysfunctional family. Dads drunk again but we dont talk about it, [link=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/01/trump-gop-unity-myth-383418]Politico[/link] reports.
Said Dent: DACA, debt ceiling, budget, agreement, omnibus? There arent 218 votes on those. Are we united on issues? No. We never are. Its not going to change now.
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another one flees the sinking ship
NY POST
K.T. McFarland, picked by President Trump as his nominee to become ambassador to Singapore, withdrew on Friday.
McFarland, a former Fox News national security analyst, had said in a written response to a question from a Senate Foreign Relations Committee member that she was not aware of communications between Flynn and Sergei Kislyak, when Kislyak was ambassador to Russia.
NY Times reported it had obtained an email McFarland sent on Dec. 29, 2016, the day former President Obamas administration authorized new sanctions against Russia, saying Flynn would talk to Kislyak that evening.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors delving into the actions of Trumps inner circle before he took office.
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Interesting article in Wapo
Character actress Jenifer Lewis has played the hilarious, take-no-prisoners grandmother Ruby Johnson to great acclaim for 3½ seasons on ABCs hit sitcom Black-ish.[b] [/b][i] [/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]
discuss her new memoir
The books subject matter, however, lies much more with bipolar disorder, with which she was diagnosed in 1990.
Lewis resisted the diagnosis at first and refused to take medication until a self-described nervous breakdown left her convulsing in sobs, a hostage to her untreated neurochemistry. A quarter-century later, she is thriving and happy because, as she says, she does the work. She takes her medication daily, was in therapy for nearly two decades, and still occasionally checks in for fine-tuning.
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Definition of treason defined down. Trump upset and attacks Democrats who didn’t applaud him during SOU speech as Un-American!
Even on positive news like that, really positive news like that, they were like death and un-American, Trump said here as he went off script during a speech on tax cuts. Somebody said treasonous. I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Shall we call that treason? Why not? I mean, they certainly didnt seem to love our country very much.
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Trump stroking his own ego with a military parade? Maybe. Seems like a waste of resources and makes us like look North Korea.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-marching-orders-to-the-pentagon-plan-a-grand-military-parade/2018/02/06/9e19ca88-0b55-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.d5fe6222f8d1]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.d5fe6222f8d1[/link]
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Delusions of grandeur by bipolar D
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Trump stroking his own ego with a military parade? Maybe. Seems like a waste of resources and makes us like look North Korea.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-marching-orders-to-the-pentagon-plan-a-grand-military-parade/2018/02/06/9e19ca88-0b55-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.d5fe6222f8d1]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.d5fe6222f8d1[/link]
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Daily Mail–Hope Hicks gets around???passed around??-Corey and now this –is Corey saying I hit it first
Hope Hicks’ new boyfriend Rob Porter RESIGNS from White House after BOTH ex-wives accuse him of abuse – including one who told DailyMail.com that he CHOKED and PUNCHED her[b][/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]
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saw this on WaPo comment section
Hope Hicks, ah yes, Hope Hicks. Hope Hicks is “proud” to serve alongside p grabbing Trump and wife punching Porter? I guess that says about all we need to know about the value of Hope Hicks’ character references. Oh Hope Hicks, the price to be paid for unfettered ambition. Poor, sad, pathetic little Hope Hicks.[b] [/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]-
“….Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor and I cant say enough good things about him, Kelly said in a statement Tuesday night. He is a friend, a confidante and a trusted professional. I am proud to serve alongside him., and I’m suppose to believe KELLY after he publicly attacked Rep. Frederica Wilson last year…..hahahahaha, I don’t think so.[b][/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]
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saw this on WaPo concerning Trump’s hiring of only the best
Trumps advisers and cabinet picks would make for a great episode of the Jerry Springer Show. Alledged Wife Beaters (Rob Porter, Andrew Puzder), an accused Nazi (Sebastian Gorka), obvious racists (Trump, Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, John Kelly), habitual liar with a lazy eye (Sarah Huckabee-Sandwich), weird sleepy looking doctor (Ben Carson), numerous climate change deniers, reality tv show villain (Omarosa), old ex-wife with bad plastic surgery (Ivana Trump). The only other place where these type of people would intersect is in a trailer park.
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when he says he hires only the best–it means the worst–Trump staff are like the disappearing white men
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How long were the GOP going to be silent–this Guy worked for Sen Portman( radiosilent)
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Omarosa telling. Not a fan of Trump anymore & less so for Pence.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/02/12/omarosa-on-mike-pence-he-thinks-jesus-tells-him-to-say-things]https://www.washingtonpos…ells-him-to-say-things[/link]
Omarosa, who previously declared on the show that she wouldnt vote for Donald Trump again in a million years, said during Monday nights episode that a Mike Pence administration would actually be worse.
As bad as yall think Trump is, you would be worried about Pence, she said. So everybody thats wishing for impeachment might want to reconsider their lives. We would be begging for days of Trump back if Pence became president.
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how can Jared get a security clearance???
Politico
Jared Kushner, a White House aide and President Donald Trumps son-in-law, appears to have drawn more money out of three separate lines of credit in the months after he joined the White House last year, a newly released document shows.
financial disclosure form filed by Kushners wife, Ivanka Trump, bumped up each of those debts to a range of $5 million to $25 million.[b][/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]-
Both Kelly and Hicks need to go as well as Javanka( they should have no influence on who comes on board–they are no nothings in terms of political experience)–The Trump’s just don’t get this fundamental fact-the WH/USA cannot be run as daddy’s family bizness–that is way too dysfunctional imho
Bannon
In Fire and Fury, Wolff includes this passage:
[blockquote] [i]You dont know what youre doing[/i], shouted a livid Bannon at Hicks, demanding to know who she worked for, the White House or Jared [Kushner] and Ivanka. [i]You dont know how much trouble you are in[/i], he screamed, telling her that if she didnt get a lawyer he would call her father and tell him he had better get her one. [i]You are dumb as a stone[/i]!
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You love your dad. I get that, Bannon told Ivanka, according to Kurtz. But youre just another staffer who doesnt know what youre doing.
Theres no indication she ran from the room.
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly dismissed Manigault in December after learning that the former director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison had violated federal rules with her use of the White House car service, three administration officials told Politico.[b][/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]
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[b]Just remember how LOW this President has taken us[/b]
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/02/18/weve-just-hit-a-new-presidential-low/?utm_term=.7019fceb5b0b]Karen Tumulty[/link]:
Imagine how history would have judged Franklin D. Roosevelt in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, if he had taken to the radio airwaves to declare that Tokyo was laughing their asses off. Or if George W. Bush had stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center with a bullhorn and launched a name-calling tirade against the Democrats.
There was no loss of life or destruction of a city in the Russian actions described in a sweeping indictment secured by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. But it was an act of war nonetheless, a sneak attack using 21st-century methods.
These are the moments that test a country and a president. They call for bringing people together in a sense of national purpose against a common adversary. Once again, Trump has failed that test.
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Bipolar Did off the rails this weekend–he spends the eve of President’s day attacking a professional black female who may have more money than he( Oprah)–pretty pathetic and sad to see a 71 year old act like a 5 year old but bipolar imho???
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This reaks of profitting off his position. Jr. Doing a foreign speech on unofficial business trip for $38k a plate.
“NEW DELHI The presidents eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is making what has been dubbed an unofficial visit to India to promote his familys real estate projects. But hes also planning to deliver a foreign policy speech on Indo-Pacific relations at an event with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Beginning Tuesday, Trump Jr. will have a full schedule of meet-and-greets with investors and business leaders throughout India, where the Trump family has real estate projects Mumbai, the New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon, the western city of Pune and the eastern city of Kolkata.
Indian newspapers have been running full-page, glossy advertisements hyping his arrival and the latest Trump Tower project under the headline: Trump is here Are You Invited? The ads also solicited home buyers to plunk down a booking fee (about $38,000) to join Mr. Donald Trump Jr. for a conversation and dinner. Public relations executives working with two local developers arranging the Trump dinner declined to give specifics about the event.”
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trump-jr-to-give-foreign-policy-speech-while-on-unofficial-business-trip-to-india/2018/02/19/37d00c37-d9e8-40c4-934b-0a26b8160dcd_story.html?utm_term=.3912864c334f]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.3912864c334f[/link]
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this is really disgusting greed–sad that India would drag their countries reputation into the gutter with these questionable shenanigans
I worked with a female rad from India and she really was not a good worker-liked to gab -was slow-lazy-spent time on phone as she said to me arranging potential marriages ( I recall her saying his family won’t accept that girl so they enlisted my help–she also said in India very little malpractice cases go to court-per her things are usually handled with cash payments and the case goes away)Quote from DICOM_Dan
This reaks of profitting off his position. Jr. Doing a foreign speech on unofficial business trip for $38k a plate.
“NEW DELHI The presidents eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is making what has been dubbed an unofficial visit to India to promote his familys real estate projects. But hes also planning to deliver a foreign policy speech on Indo-Pacific relations at an event with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Beginning Tuesday, Trump Jr. will have a full schedule of meet-and-greets with investors and business leaders throughout India, where the Trump family has real estate projects Mumbai, the New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon, the western city of Pune and the eastern city of Kolkata.
Indian newspapers have been running full-page, glossy advertisements hyping his arrival and the latest Trump Tower project under the headline: Trump is here Are You Invited? The ads also solicited home buyers to plunk down a booking fee (about $38,000) to join Mr. Donald Trump Jr. for a conversation and dinner. Public relations executives working with two local developers arranging the Trump dinner declined to give specifics about the event.”
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trump-jr-to-give-foreign-policy-speech-while-on-unofficial-business-trip-to-india/2018/02/19/37d00c37-d9e8-40c4-934b-0a26b8160dcd_story.html?utm_term=.3912864c334f]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.3912864c334f[/link]
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[b][i]This reaks of profiting off his position. Jr. Doing a foreign speech on unofficial business trip for $38k a plate. [/i][/b]
Where were your posts when VP Joe Biden’s son Hunter was appointed to the Board of Directors of Burisma, A Ukraine oil company the same time the Obama Administration was criticizing Ukraine and corruption? Where were you when Devon Archer, campaign adviser to John Kerry and college roommate to Kerry’s step son was also involved w Burisma? Two connected democrats, one the son of the current VP.
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Not really the same thing. I would see it more as nepotism and you could argue that Biden’s kid was actually qualified to do the job. He was a Yale trained lawyer. Whereas Trump Jr is straight up selling access. He’s not going to do a job and if it’s a so called business trip what business is it of Trump Org to talk foreign policy?
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Not really the same thing. I would see it more as nepotism and you could argue that Biden’s kid was actually qualified to do the job. He was a Yale trained lawyer. Whereas Trump Jr is straight up selling access. He’s not going to do a job and if it’s a so called business trip what business is it of Trump Org to talk foreign policy?
To add to that, Donald Trump still hasn’t divested from his enterprise. That means that Donald Jr.’s efforts will be directly enriching the President of the United States.
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So sorry my bad – did not realize that being a Yale trained lawyer automatically qualifies you to make it OK despite the fact that daddy as VP was discussing Ukraine energy. It looks bad for Biden then just as it looks bad for Trump now.
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So sorry my bad – did not realize that being a Yale trained lawyer automatically qualifies you to make it OK despite the fact that daddy as VP was discussing Ukraine energy. It looks bad for Biden then just as it looks bad for Trump now.
being a board member is a job and he got it through connections. It was personal profit for Hunter Biden. I agree it’s a bad look.
Going there to talk US Foreign Policy, and sell condos and access is different. Using his position to get in front of PM Modi and make Trump Org money is different. The Trump Org is being enriched through Trump’s position. When he goes to Florida why doesn’t he stay at a different venue? Why is he always on Trump golf courses? Why do they need to be in Trump tower? -
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So sorry my bad – did not realize that being a Yale trained lawyer automatically qualifies you to make it OK despite the fact that daddy as VP was discussing Ukraine energy. It looks bad for Biden then just as it looks bad for Trump now.
They are obviously very different situations and outcomes and if you can’t see the difference the onus is on you as to why not.
If you have to confuse the facts that are similar only in the most superficial way then you have already lost the argument.
This method is exactly what the Russians have been using since they started this cyber war confusing issues. Biden is not Trump, period. Biden & son are not selling influence for personal riches.-
Uncle Ben says in a meeting before congress with respect to HUD Budget-” I don’t want to open the book and look at the numbers”–time for this tired brother to GO
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I saw some video of the Donald in PA. He seemed to take credit for the Olympics and also called Chuck Todd a SOB. The man is Oozing presidential qualities.
[link=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/11/politics/trump-speech-pennsylvania/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2018/…ennsylvania/index.html[/link]
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he looked stark mad–manic–off med–the use of SOB–shows he has mommie issues–quite a pathetic weak insecure person
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I saw some video of the Donald in PA. He seemed to take credit for the Olympics and also called Chuck Todd a SOB. The man is Oozing presidential qualities.
[link=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/11/politics/trump-speech-pennsylvania/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2018/…ennsylvania/index.html[/link]
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The speech was brilliant. Unsurprisingly, mediocrities are unimpressed.
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he looked like a thug–cursing in a mixed audience–just trash
and if Saccone had any character he would have cut him off right there and said I don’t want your endorsement
-the thug trash manic is unraveling–even Numberg was like 38 or lower percent
Trash with mommie issues–just trashQuote from Jan the Third
The speech was brilliant. Unsurprisingly, mediocrities are unimpressed.
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You’re upset because we barely even remember BHO anymore.
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trust me everyone remembers BHO and are shaking their heads–put a white man back in the WH and U get this trash
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You’re upset because we barely even remember BHO anymore.
Understandable. Here’s me empathizing: boo-hoo.
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Quote from sentinel lymph node
trust me everyone remembers BHO…
Who?
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U brought his name up–I am sure U are so disappointed in the Flop Trump has been but Panama may stir other countries to dump the Trump trainwreck and what can US do sue them in their countries court system
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Quote from sentinel lymph node
trust me everyone remembers BHO…
Who?
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Trump bends the knee to the NRA.
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Americans, by and large, like the NRA. Whom they don’t like is… well, you.
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stop lying–they are losing membership and I Russia may be there new source of income which is quite ironic given that Putin won’t allow his fellow citizens to be armed like this country
but everyon is talking about Bipolar Donals
article in Politico describing that Manic know as Don the con–bipolar Donald was stark raving mad at that rally:
In a [size=”3″][b]raging, [u]manic[/u] performance[/b][/size] at a Saturday evening campaign rally for a House candidate in Pennsylvania, he attacked the fake American press corps, crowed about his accomplishments and belittled the low IQ Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) while stopping the rowdy crowd from booing at the mention of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un he will soon meet. As for Todd, Trump singled him out by name, calling the veteran political journalist a sleepy son of a ****.[b] [/b][i] [/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]
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Americans, by and large, like the NRA. Whom they don’t like is… well, you.
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Got to love the Trump vs Biden high school style bullying going on.
Biden says this
They asked me if Id like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, If we were in high school, Id take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
Trump tweets this
“Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesnt know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Dont threaten people Joe”
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/21/joe-biden-cant-stop-talking-about-beating-up-donald-trump/?utm_term=.d9ddc70093bc]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.d9ddc70093bc[/link]-
so given the Qatar blockade–is this China thing Trump’s way of extorting the world for his own personal greed under the guise of this America first
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I want a big, beautiful, gigantic wall and Mexico will pay for it. Oh wait the Military will pay for it.
“After floating the notion to several advisers last week, he told House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that the military should pay for the wall, according to three people familiar with the meeting Wednesday in the White House residence. Ryan offered little reaction to the notion, these people said, but senior Capitol Hill officials later said it was an unlikely prospect.”
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-privately-presses-for-military-to-pay-for-border-wall/2018/03/27/d79907a2-31c9-11e8-9759-56e51591e250_story.html?utm_term=.bf0d88838d6d]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.bf0d88838d6d[/link]-
so forget about Mexico–tax payers/Pentagon will PAY FOR THAT Wall
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A wall will be erected and you will be posting (complaining?) on an internet forum, having lost again.
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Yes there’s been just so much progress on the wall. I’m sure Mexico doesn’t have ladders, scaffolding, or ropes they could use to easily defeat the wall.
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The wall did a lot of good here:
[link=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/14/drug-catapult-arizona-mexico-border-fence/97929694/]https://www.usatoday.com/…border-fence/97929694/[/link]-
so now we see why Ronnie J told that 6 foot 3 borderline obese fib–he is getting a new job–head of VA
feel sorry for those vets–the drum beat for privatization will start
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Best description I have read of the present political climate and mythology and all from a review of the ‘Rosanne’ reboot.
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/opinion/roseanne-reboot-trump.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…anne-reboot-trump.html[/link]
I wasnt going to watch the reboot because I find Ms. Barr noxious, transphobic, racist and small-minded. Whatever charm and intelligence she brought to the first nine seasons of her show, a show I very much loved, are absolutely absent in her current persona, particularly as it manifests on Twitter. She is a supporter of Donald Trump, vocalizing her thoughts about making America great, claiming that with her vote, she was trying to shake things up. She tweets conspiracy theories, rails against feminism and shares Islamophobic opinions.
Where once she was edgy and provocative, she is now absurd and offensive. Her views are muddled and incoherent. She is more invested in banal and shallow provocation than engaging with sociopolitical issues in a thoughtful manner. No amount of mental gymnastics can make what Roseanne Barr has said and done in recent years palatable.
What I found is that the tensions in the TV show which more than [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/business/media/roseanne-revival-wins-huge-tv-ratings.html]18 million people watched[/link], a network TV high since 2014 are the same tensions that shape this current political climate. Roseanne the character voted for Donald Trump because he talked about jobs. For that she sacrificed so many other things. The promise of jobs and the myth of the white working class as the only people struggling in this country, which animates so much of our present political moment, are right there, in this sitcom.
When a lot of the mainstream media talks about the working class, there is a tendency to romanticize, to idealize them as the most authentic Americans. They are real and their problems are real problems, as if everyone else is dealing with artificial obstacles. We see this in the some of the breathless media coverage of Trump voters and in a lot of the online chatter about the Roseanne reboot. [b]What often goes unsaid is that when the working class is defined in our cultural imagination, we are talking about white people, even though the real American working class is made up of people from many races and ethnicities.[/b]
[b]During a Television Critics Association panel promoting the show, Ms. Barr said, it was working-class people who elected Trump.[/b]
[b]This myth persists, but it is only a myth. Forty-one percent of voters earning less than $50,000 voted for Mr. Trump while 53 percent voted for Hillary Clinton. Forty-nine percent of voters earning between $50,000 and $100,000 voted for Mr. Trump while 47 percent voted for Mrs. Clinton. The median income of these voters was $72,000, while the median income of Hillary Clinton voters was $61,000. [i]A significant number of middle-class and wealthy white people contributed to Trumps election.[/i][/b]
In the show, during an exchange about their political disagreement, Roseanne tells Jackie one of the reasons she voted for Mr. Trump is because he talked about jobs. And that was all the political ideology we got. If we are to believe the circumstances of this characters life, a few vague words about jobs was more than enough to compel Roseanne, with inadequate health care, with vulnerable grandchildren, and struggling to make ends meet, to vote for Mr. Trump.
This fictional family, and the shows very real creator, are further normalizing Trump and his warped, harmful political ideologies.
Rosanne herself is a multi-millionaire decades away from any past low income problems in her life but she’s still defensive and small minded & hasn’t grown over the decades of wealth & comfort.
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[h4]Why I left Fox News[/h4] [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-i-left-fox-news/2018/03/30/d1224648-32bb-11e8-8bdd-cdb33a5eef83_story.html?utm_term=.503f41b6a618]https://www.washingtonpos…utm_term=.503f41b6a618[/link]
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Oh oh, Ann Coulter, loyal Trumper – till now – gives Trump a failing grade.
If Ann abandons you…
Interesting video interview by Frank Bruni with Ann Coulter.
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/opinion/ann-coulter-trump-former-trumpers.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…p-former-trumpers.html[/link]
Winning quote, IMO:
Stormy says she and Trump had sex only once. I guess if you want the guy to screw you repeatedly you have to be one of his voters.
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Don the Con–faked his way onto Forbes list
-Wapo article–John Baron strikes again
But it took decades to unwind the elaborate farce Trump had enacted to project an image as one of the richest people in America. Nearly every assertion supporting that claim was untrue. Trump wasnt just poorer than he said he was. Over time, I have learned that he should not have been on the first three Forbes 400 lists at all. In our first-ever list, in 1982, we included him at $100 million, but Trump was actually worth roughly $5 million a paltry sum by the standards of his super-monied peers as a spate of government reports and books showed only much later.
The most revelatory document describing Trumps true net worth in the early 80s was a 1981 report from the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. OBrien obtained a copy for his book. Trump had applied for an Atlantic City casino license, and regulators were able to review his tax returns and personal and corporate debt, giving them the most accurate picture [u][/u]of his finances. They found that he had an income of about $100,000 a year, while his 1979 tax returns showed a $3.4 million taxable loss. Trumps personal assets consisted of a $1 million trust fund that Fred Trump provided to each of his children and grandchildren, a few checking accounts with about $400,000 in them and a 1977 Mercedes 450SL. Nowhere did the report list an ownership stake in the Trump Organizations residential apartments. Trump also possessed a few parcels of valuable but highly leveraged real estate, financed with $22.5 million in debt, all of it secured by his fathers assets. He did not own a safe deposit box or stocks in publicly traded companies. In sum, Trump was worth less than $5 million, not the $100 million that I reported in the first Forbes 400.
During our first interview in 1982, Trump informed me that he had bought the Barbizon Plaza Hotel and the adjoining 110 Central Park West for just $13 million, a steal. While I was in Trumps office, a broker supposedly called to offer him $100 million for the property. Trump refused the offer while looking me in the eye; he pointed out that his net worth should include an equity boost of $87 million profit. I believed then that he used a staffer to stage the call, and I resisted the fictitious valuation. But the $13 million price tag for a valuable parcel was recorded in Forbes 400 files, and it soon showed up in other publications, such as New York Magazine[link=https://books.google.com/books?id=SsEBAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=A+Different+Kind+of+Donald+Trump+Story+new+york+magazine&source=bl&ots=jrsOBW9oY5&sig=F7IuskkaT_AxQMiPNhVsGUP9GFg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2qMvN5YfOAhVBaT4KHZ9qCRAQ6AEISjAK#v=onepage&q=A%20Different%20Kind%20of%20Donald%20Trump%20Story%20new%20york%20magazine&f=false][color=”#1955a5″] [/color][/link]. It remains on Wickipedia[u][/u] today. Yet tucked away on Page 63 of the Casino Commission report was a section describing Trumps purchase of the property for $65 million, facilitated by a $50 million loan to Trump by Chase Manhattan Bank. As with many of his buildings, Trumps debt was far higher, and his true equity far lower, than he claimed.
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Wow! When is the last time you’ve seen a photo of Melania smiling with Don? And here she is beaming with Obama at Barbara Bush’s funeral.
[link=https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a19884409/melania-trump-smiling-at-barack-obama-picture/]https://www.elle.com/cult…-barack-obama-picture/[/link]
[link=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-melania-trump_us_5add41e4e4b089e33c896020]https://www.huffingtonpos…dd41e4e4b089e33c896020[/link]-
Macron turns on our Authoratative Idiot in Chief, our Potemkin President.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/26/after-hugging-trump-macron-tears-down-trumpism]https://www.washingtonpos…on-tears-down-trumpism[/link]
Before French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an address at a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, the headlines about his trip to Washington centered on [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/playful-dominance-the-touchy-feely-relationship-between-trump-and-macron/2018/04/24/c11c43c4-47ed-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html]his apparent bromance with President Trump[/link]. On Tuesday, the duo engaged in [link=https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/macron-trip-to-the-us-has-been-incroyable?utm_term=.meyM1LM7K#.tlyjPrjdX]a series of physical embraces[/link] and celebrated both their personal rapport as well as [link=https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/president-trump-calls-u-s-france-relationship-unbreakable-history-shows-hes-right/]the unbreakable bonds[/link] between France and the United States.
[b]But on Wednesday, as his three-day visit drew to a close, Macron shifted the story dramatically.[/b] In his speech to American lawmakers, he offered [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/french-president-macron-charms-both-parties-in-an-impassioned-speech-to-congress/2018/04/25/bbd600ba-4894-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_usfrance-420pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory]a comprehensive rejection of the main tenets of Trumpism[/link], excoriating extreme nationalism and protectionism, championing climate-change science and defending the international liberal order. You can play with anger and fear for a time, Macron said, alluding to the themes that fuel right-wing nationalist movements in the West, but they do not construct anything.
There’s no Planet B, Macron pointed out, echoing an earlier argument he made about [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/25/macron-steps-up-his-bid-to-save-the-iran-deal/]there being no Plan B for the Iran nuclear deal[/link] that Trump wants to dismantle. Then he drew thunderous applause from Democrats with this confident declaration: I am sure one day the United States will come back and join the Paris agreement.
Most importantly:
[b]The most likely result is that the American president wont pay attention to what Macron was trying to say indeed, that he wont even understand that he has been so openly challenged,[/b] [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/04/25/macron-embraces-trump-and-elegantly-knifes-him-in-the-back/?hjkeogjr&utm_term=.f4efd0a54382]wrote Post columnist Anne Applebaum[/link]. [b]And that may have been the point, for Macrons speech will be perfectly understood in France, in Europe, and even in the United States (at least outside the White House).[/b]
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if U ever want to see a case book manic episode–look at the Fox and Friends interview
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Read about it but rather not see it.
Stormy’s lawyer said, “Thank you!” to Fox & Friends for the interview though for allowing Trump to shove his own big feet in his own big mouth.
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Support for Trump for economic reasons is only a small part of his support. Many supporters are very middle class and affluent. The support is definitely associated with white resentment and perceived loss of influence. That has been what I’ve seen and heard form Trump supporters & this study supports that. It also explains how so-called Christians could support a man like Trump, anathema to everything Christian.
[link=http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/04/18/1718155115.full.pdf]Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences[/link]
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/opinion/the-white-rebellion.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…e-white-rebellion.html[/link]
Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to economic anxiety. Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington.
Or so that narrative goes.
A study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questions that explanation, the latest to suggest that Trump voters werent driven by anger over the past, but rather fear of what may come. White, Christian and male voters, the study suggests, turned to Mr. Trump because they felt their status was at risk.
Its much more of a symbolic threat that people feel, said Diana C. Mutz, the author of the study and a political science and communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. Its not a threat to their own economic well-being; its a threat to their groups dominance in our country over all.
The study is not the first to cast doubt on the prevailing economic anxiety theory. Last year, a Public Religion Research Institute survey of more than 3,000 people also [link=https://www.prri.org/research/white-working-class-attitudes-economy-trade-immigration-election-donald-trump/]found that Mr. Trumps appeal could better be explained by a fear of cultural displacement[/link].
Losing a job or income between 2012 and 2016 did not make a person any more likely to support Mr. Trump, Dr. Mutz found. Neither did the mere perception that ones financial situation had worsened. A persons opinion on how trade affected personal finances had little bearing on political preferences. Neither did unemployment or the density of manufacturing jobs in ones area.
It wasnt people in those areas that were switching, those folks were already voting Republican, Dr. Mutz said.
Her survey also assessed social dominance orientation, a common psychological measure of a persons belief in hierarchy as necessary and inherent to a society. People who exhibited a growing belief in such group dominance were also more likely to move toward Mr. Trump, Dr. Mutz found, reflecting their hope that the status quo be protected.
the prevailing economic theory lends unfounded virtue to his victory, crediting it to the disaffected masses, Dr. Mutz argues. More important, she said, it would teach the wrong lesson to elected officials, who often look to voting patterns in enacting new policy.
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Where are all the AM supporters of Trump these days? Only the Troll Cigar/F@gan shows up occasionally to say, “Yah-yah!” with no substance. Before the election is was so many behind Trump now you’d think no one voted for him on AM at all, at least from the deafening silence. I thought Trump was their dream candidate at the time. No more?
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So much for the art of the deal. Here is the man who said, “ONLY I!” about making America great again. Only he could really do negotiations with everyone so that we all are “WINNNINGGG!” so much we will be tired of it.
So far he has negotiated nothing but excuses. And a lot of photo-ops pretending progress. Like The Economists headline stated, “Kim Jong Won!” They’ve agreed to have an agreement someday about something to do with sanctions and North Korea’s nuclear. Likely the PR campaign is done, “Nothing to see here, folks, Move on, move on” to the next Twit thumbed out by Our Great Leader.
Canada is making America poor. That Canadian dairy industry; the Europeans, the list is endless of their theft; the South Koreans.
Even the Trumpets can’t explain but all they know is the Hispanic refugees must be kept out at all costs. They don’t know what Trump is doing but whatever it is he sounds tough, good enough for them.
Are they all so self-consciously emasculated they need a loud bully proxy? Is that the real attraction of Authroitarianism?
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“What is a fact” a Trump supporter wants to know when proven wrong.
On Fathers Day last week, the highest-paid employee of Washington State University tweeted out a video of a 2014 speech by Barack Obama that was altered to make him sound like a one-world-government tyrant.
When called on the fraud, Mike Leach, the head football coach and $3.5 million a year representative of the same school that gave us the legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow, said, Prove it.
It was easily proven as doctored. But instead of apologizing, and owning up to his dissemination of a fake conspiracy video, he then wrote, What is a fact?
Apparently Leach doesn’t know what a fact is. Nor does he care when a lie fits his beliefs better.
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Looks like Kanye might have convinced Donald about the 13th Amendment. Trump wants to revoke birthright citizenship granted in the 13th Amendment to certain people born on US territory. He claims, “They say I can do it by Executive Order.” He thinks you don’t need a Constitutional Amendment to do that.
So he thinks he can then deny citizenship to those “illegals” who are born here. I assume he wants to retroactively deny birthright citizenship so that opens a HUGE can of worms among other things. He can retroactively deny citizenship to those specific people the Amendment was designed for. And their descendants?
All by Executive Order. Amazing what you can do with an Executive Order. Unless you are an Obama.
So much for the Constitution. Any Amendment can be repealed by Executive Order then. Solves a lot of problems and limits imposed by the Constitution.
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Birthright citizenship is the 14th amendment I believe
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Coach Leach is a legendary philosophizer.
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German writer explains former East Germany’s angst about freedom vs security through East German’s unification with the West; they have freedom now but now are fearful of social decline. With freedom comes responsibility. It is a reflection of America, about all the Trump supporters who fear their social decline. All the fear and resentment from the Right is happening not just here but in Britain and the former Eastern Bloc countries. Dictatorship and dependence on some “great & strong” leader who reflects their fear and resentment is so much easier.
We are also at the point of choosing to continue to lead the world or retreat to petty and sophomoric nationalism.
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/opinion/wolf-biermann-merkel-refugees.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…n-merkel-refugees.html[/link]
Now, in the 21st century, we Germans are standing at yet another crossroads: between a bold advance to a liberal, cosmopolitan Europe and a cowardly retreat to 19th-century petty nationalisms.
Yet the past decades have taught us how much easier it is to build new roads and houses and modern factories than to turn subjugated subjects into tolerant democrats. In that peaceful revolution 30 years ago, the East Germans, the Ossis, liberated themselves at last but then they had to learn the tough lesson that the magic word freedom means nothing more or less than taking responsibility for yourself. Freedom hurts for people trained as slaves. Ostalgia was the new, mocking term I used to describe the clandestine longing for the conveniences of dictatorship. And in the former East Germany, the growth of Western prosperity also brought a new paranoia, a paradoxical fear of social decline.
In 2015, when our chancellor, Angela Merkel, decided to open Germanys borders to war refugees, especially from Syria and Afghanistan, the situation was tragic. Watching Shakespeare in the theater, you can grasp what tragedy means: Every possible solution is wrong. The dramatic hero does not have to choose between good and evil, but whether to make this mistake or that one. In a catastrophe of this kind, every choice is wrong.
For me, a traumatized child of the world, in the heart of Europe, it is clear and Ive learned this truth firsthand that the most imperfect democracy is better than the best dictatorship. Three years ago, in an emergency situation, Ms. Merkel chose not to use barbed wire, clubs, water guns, machine guns and tanks to chase away thousands of desperate refugees on the German border, not to chase them back to Austria, Hungary, Greece, Turkey and possibly back to the war in Syria or Afghanistan. Yes, yes, it was a mistake. But it was the smaller, better mistake. The right mistake.
I support our chancellor completely, because she proved herself to be an energetic humanist, because she has acted as a true Christian
Global conflicts have always brought great dangers. But the greatest danger is our lack of courage.
America is losing our courage. They think it comes from the mouth of a loud manipulative buffoon.
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Fantastic. Trump tweets today he never pushed the GOP tonpass goodlatte. If you scroll back his tweets a few days you’ll see where in all caps he tells them tonpass goodlatte. So either he’s mental, or maybe someone else wrote one of those tweets. I’m guessing maybe Sanders will get asked about that. Wonder how she’ll alternative facts his tweets
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Trump tweets he’s the most popular Republican in the history of the party. That is a really bold claim like I invented the question mark.
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Aw, come on. You’re protesting about “facts!” Trumps claims and the Trumpets’ support was never about facts. That’s why he had the largest crowd in history during his inauguration!
MUCH bigger than Obama’s!-
Hahahaha
Thats like claiming you are the biggest terrd in the pot
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Speaking of…
Omarosa taking advantage of being fired to make appearances to promote her tell-all book.
Trump twits about Omarosa signing an NDA as if that is legally binding. Oh yes, that’ll shut her up. And all the other WH staffers who are closed mouthed about NDAs. Now we definitely know their first allegiance & it’s not to Country.
And back to Omarosa, she’s learned very well from him, I’ll have to give her credit for that! And recording all kinds of conversations in the White House including in allegedly highly secure rooms taping her firing by Kelly. Very juicy. indeed!
Trump’s WH is better tabloid material than anything Clinton did under his desk.
She may be a manipulative narcissist, but shes behaving more honorably than any other former Trump appointee.
Thats not a high bar, and I wouldnt take most of the claims of Unhinged at face value. But we dont have to, because Manigault Newman has receipts. When I got a prepublication copy of the book on Friday, I wasnt sure what to think of the scene in which Trumps chief of staff, John Kelly, fires her, making thuggish threats to destroy her reputation if she doesnt go quietly. On Sunday, Meet the Press [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-omarosa-i-had-a-blind-spot-where-it-came-to-donald-trump-1297414211755]played her recording of the exchange[/link], which unfolds exactly as she described.
Similarly, I didnt quite trust her account of the post-firing phone call she received from Trump, in which the president expressed surprise and dismay that she has been let go. No one even told me, she quotes him saying, adding, I dont love you leaving at all. But on Monday, the Today show played Manigault Newmans [link=https://www.today.com/video/omarosa-manigault-newman-speaks-to-today-about-her-secret-recordings-alleges-there-is-audio-of-trump-saying-n-word-1297811523676]recording of this exchange[/link]. And that $15,000-a-month contract? You can [link=https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/proposed-consulting-agreement-and-companion-agreement-that-omarosa-manigault-newman-said-the-trump-campaign-offered-and-she-declined-after-she-was-fired-from-her-white-house-position/3166/]read it yourself[/link] in The Washington Post.
Ive always been mystified by how the presidents enablers, who understand his venality and incompetence, justify their behavior to themselves. (Even most bad people want to believe that theyre good.) Manigault Newman is an unreliable narrator, but her book is still the best account we have of how the Trump cult a term she uses repeatedly looks from the inside.
Her version of her own motivations is probably sugarcoated, but it still isnt pretty. Manigault Newman, who grew up in poverty, knew she owed her cherished celebrity to Trump. (As she points out, he likes to surround himself with fame-worshiping people whose fortunes depend on him.)
No matter how little credibility Manigault Newman has, the man who gave her a top-ranking job in his administration has less.
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Not saying Trump or any of the Republicans running like DeSantis and Stephen King, etc are racists, but the actual racists think they all are racists.
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/far-right-internet-trump.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…ht-internet-trump.html[/link]
On Wednesday, minutes after President Trump posted an incendiary campaign ad falsely accusing Democrats of flooding the country with murderous illegal immigrants, virulent racists on an online message board erupted in celebration.
I love it. We should be making videos like this, one said. Another approvingly compared the ad to With Open Gates, a [link=https://www.adl.org/blog/with-open-gates-racist-anti-refugee-video-goes-viral]viral 2015 video[/link]about the dangers of European immigration that drew praise from prominent neo-Nazis and white nationalists, and was broadly condemned by anti-hate groups.
These posts, which appeared on the politics forum of 4chan, an online message board known for hosting extreme speech and graphic imagery, were not a one-off. In recent weeks, as Mr. Trump and his allies have waged a fear-based campaign to drive Republican voters to the polls for the midterm elections on Tuesday, far-right internet communities have been buoyed as their once-fringe views have been given oxygen by prominent Republicans.
These activists cheered when Mr. Trump suggested that the Jewish billionaire George Soros [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-wouldnt-be-surprised-if-democratic-megadonor-george-soros-is-funding-the-migrant-caravan/2018/11/01/9ea196a0-ddcf-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?utm_term=.14798ed3c2f5]could be secretly funding[/link] a caravan of Latin American migrants a dog-whistle reference to an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that has been advanced by neo-Nazis and white nationalists for years. They have found traces of their ideas in Mr. Trumps rhetoric, including his concern for an [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/world/africa/trump-south-africa-white-farmers.html?module=inline]obscure land rights conflict[/link] involving white farmers in South Africa and his references to asylum-seeking migrants as invaders.
This was the province of Stormfront five, 10 years ago, the commenter said, referring to a neo-Nazi internet forum. Now, it is mainstream.
[size=”3″][b]Get out and vote. [/b][/size]
[size=”3″][b]The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. [/b][/size]
[size=”3″][b] Edmund Burke [/b][/size]
Don’t do nothing by staying home, VOTE!-
A few days after trump claims he is a nationalist
A white nationalist sends 14 pipe bombs to democrats
A white nationalist kills a bunch of elderly Jewish people in a synagogue
A white nationalist shoots 2 black people in Kentucky
He is not a race baiter though
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he’s in Cleveland today stumping. Best quote is they’ll “shutdown your coal mines, and your steel mills” Because in Cleveland we’re known for our coal mining and our steel mills. Well maybe in the 1880s when people like Rockefeller and Mather were around but not really so much anymore. There’s a carcass of a steel plant right up the road from the hospital. Singer Steel I believe.
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Dumbarse thought he was in Pittsburgh
Even though the Pittsburgh mills have been shut dow for 40 fng years
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reporting out there now that Bill Barr’s Son-In-Law just landed a job advising Trump on legal issues. Small world I guess where father lands a cabinet job and the SIL lands an advisory role in the WH.
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An editor in an Alabamian newspaper published an editorial that is roiling the waters! Bring out the KKK and the hemp ropes, he feels the need for some lynchings!
And, the KKK wasn’t so bad. It’s all them Liberals inventing lies. After all, the KKK “only” killed a few people.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/19/time-ku-klux-klan-night-ride-again-an-alabama-newspaper-editor-wants-bring-back-lynching]https://www.washingtonpos…ts-bring-back-lynching[/link]
[size=”0″] Goodloe Sutton is back in the news again this time because he recently called for mass lynchings and suggested that the Ku Klux Klan should return to clean out Washington, drawing strong rebukes from lawmakers and calls for an FBI investigation from the head of the Alabama NAACP.[/size]
[size=”0″] [/size]Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again, began a Feb. 14 editorial in the Democrat-Reporter. It went on to claim that Democrats, along with some Republicans, were planning to raise taxes in Alabama. It concluded, Seems like the Klan would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there.
If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., wed all been better off, he told the paper, explaining, Well get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.
During the same conversation, Sutton argued that the KKK didnt kill but a few people and wasnt violent until they needed to be, the [link=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/02/18/alabama-newspaper-ku-klux-klan-to-night-ride-again-linden-democrat-reporter-goodloe-sutton/2910436002/]Advertiser reported[/link] on Monday. He further suggested the Klan, a white supremacist hate group, was comparable to the NAACP.
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Would it be bad if he pressured Gary Cohn to get the DOJ after ATT merger due to what he deamed as bad press coverage. Retribution. That certainly seems impeachable abuse of power.
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You got to see the tweets this morning about how airplanes are too complex and he just wants a good old fashioned pilot flying his low tech plane. Trump’s stream of consciousness at it’s best. Also guy fly’s airforce 1 which is undoubtedly one of the most advanced planes (and safest).
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I don’t think you read his tweet. The only thing you wrote that is true was that planes are “too complex.”Never does he use the term old fashion pilot or low tech plane. In fact his point is that all the technology is not always better or that it can’t replace humans especially when split second decisions are made. As for AF1 it is almost 30 years old. By the way the new AF1’s are sitting in the Mojave Desert waiting to be retrofitted. The new ones are not going to be built from scratch and then fitted. They are sitting in the desert.
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All youve done is rephrase exactly what Dan said while arguing a contrary argument. I see little difference between what Dan said & yours except Dans was a bit more concise while yours had more verbiage.
You sound exactly like a Trump fan.
Perhaps you post little because defending Trump is confusing even for his fans.
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I don’t think you read his tweet. The only thing you wrote that is true was that planes are “too complex.”Never does he use the term old fashion pilot or low tech plane. In fact his point is that all the technology is not always better or that it can’t replace humans especially when split second decisions are made. As for AF1 it is almost 30 years old. By the way the new AF1’s are sitting in the Mojave Desert waiting to be retrofitted. The new ones are not going to be built from scratch and then fitted. They are sitting in the desert.
Am not a Trump fan but your endless dribble just for the sake of getting your hourly “high from posting” is ridiculous.
It’s equipped with things like onboard medical, airborne refueling, and evasive technology like flairs and other electronic counter measures. Other than that it’s like flying on Spirit airlines. Technology absolutely replaces humans in split second decisions. Look at most new autonomous car technology. The cameras, sensors, computers respond to stimuli like someone running into traffic faster than the human brain can move your foot to stomp the brake pedal.
I’m feeling that posting high.
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How about your girl Pelosi? I thought he was gonna be locked up? Again, a nothinburger. Like I said, is he greatest guy ever? Heck no. Is he doing anything different than anyone else has done? Nope
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Politics as usual. Maybe we can see another 50 page chain post about how he should be locked up even though apparently the people with access to all available info don’t think so
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I think Pelosi correctly stated that they shouldn’t do anything without bipartisan support. Basically it would be like Clinton part deux. I actulally took her words as a shot at Trump. Saying he’s not worth it is a shot at his ego. That being said I have a hard time finding Trump to be this unjustly persecuted man. If the USA actually prosecuted white collar crime he’d be taken down just on the scam he ran to inherit Fred’s $.
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Pelosi isn’t say that he doesn’t [b]deserve[/b] to removed from office.
She is simply acknowledging the political reality… that a House impeachment wouldn’t result in Trump’s removal from office because Republicans wouldn’t support it. Given that reality, it’s not worth the effort (or the political downside risk) of starting impeachment proceedings.
It should in no way be interpreted as Pelosi stating Trump isn’t a criminal, hasn’t committed impeachable offenses, or in a world in which the GOP wasn’t the boot-licking wing of the Trump party, shouldn’t be removed.-
He’s not worth it? Lol the president, the leader of the entire world. Not worth it
You guys crack me up.
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The bias is just hilarious. Whatever you can do to not accept your loss.
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I think Pelosi correctly stated that they shouldn’t do anything without bipartisan support. Basically it would be like Clinton part deux. I actulally took her words as a shot at Trump. Saying he’s not worth it is a shot at his ego. That being said I have a hard time finding Trump to be this unjustly persecuted man. If the USA actually prosecuted white collar crime he’d be taken down just on the scam he ran to inherit Fred’s $.
I’ve said it before but I think most of his problems are going to be related to money.
[link=http://time.com/5551306/nancy-pelosi-democrats-trump-impeachment/]Molly Ball[/link]: Conventional wisdom in Washington tends to treat impeachment as a fringe crusade, on a par with campaigns by antifluoridation activists or UFO enthusiasts, and views Pelosi as right to resist this momentum. Many believe it would be a political disaster for Democrats, galvanizing Trumps base and alienating moderates. Republicans have taken to goading their opponents to try it, while White House officials say they relish the prospect of the Democratic Party tearing itself apart over the issue.
But Pelosi is actually playing a deeper game. Her aides note that shes never ruled impeachment out. All shes done, they say, is set a standard: increased popular support and some degree of GOP backing. Behind the scenes, she and her team are working to see that standard is met.
Said one senior Pelosi aide: The easy thing to do would be to start down the path of impeachment. Thats a trap. Now that we have the gavel and can expose all of this wrongdoing, I think you will start to see a shift in public opinion and movement of Republicans.
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It is the Republicans who desperately want the talk of impeachment to continue.
It’s all they have.
Even if the Mueller report does show strong and direct evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors” it is not likely the Senate Republicans would convict. The Republicans have nowhere to go but support the crimes.
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Farmers in mid-west losing their crops to tariffs and now flooding from the bomb cyclone throwing water on the frozen earth.
When is Trump going to fly out there to show his concern & throw these farmers some paper towels? Maybe he can also lecture them on water control & drainage.
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So the Pentagon is moving $1billion to the wall effort. Which makes me question why they have an extra billion to begin with.
[link=https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706795716/pentagon-authorizes-1-billion-for-fence-construction-at-mexico-border]https://www.npr.org/2019/…ction-at-mexico-border[/link]
which also jives with the Marine Corp Commandant.
The top Marine general issued a warning Thursday saying combat readiness has been hurt, in part by troop deployment at the southern border, as well as two recent hurricanes. The memo from Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller lists nine factors posing “unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency.”
Two of them involve President Trump’s use of the military to clamp down on illegal immigration, sending troops to the border and building the wall. Neller’s biggest problem is $3.5 billion in damages to Marine bases from Hurricanes Florence and Michael. But the emergency declared by his commander in chief has made it worse.
Last month, when the president [link=https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/trump-rose-garden-expected-to-make-national-emergency-announcement-live-stream-today-2019-02-15/]declared the emergency[/link], empowering him to use $7 billion from the Pentagon budget to pay for the wall, he said the generals he consulted did not raise any objections.
“They think this is far more important than what they were going to use it for. I said, ‘What were you going to use it for?’ And I won’t go into details but it didn’t sound too important to me,” he said.
The Marines, which are the smallest service, would probably lose the least amount of money. But in his memo, Neller said he already has been forced to cancel or scale back Marine participation in four exercises, as well as reduce maintenance for combat equipment.
He warned the lost training “will degrade the combat readiness and effectiveness of the Marine Corps” as well as have “negative impacts” on other countries who are scheduled to take part in those exercises.
[link=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marine-commandant-robert-neller-warns-border-deployment-and-recent-hurricanes-could-impact-combat-readiness/]https://www.cbsnews.com/n…pact-combat-readiness/[/link]
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The left, and of course, AuntMinnie off pol, is off its rocker.
This is quite amusing. I see more winning ahead.
LOL-
“my father is German, was German. Born in a very wonderful place in Germany.” – DJT
Narrator Voice – Fred Trump was born in NYC.-
People and some media are figuring out that Trump is all twit and nothing else. He declares execution at dawn by the most painful means the body then to be drawn and quartered and then fed to the dogs because we won’t be pushed around anymore and because he is so tough, so tough.
But as dawn approaches the condemned get a year’s reprieve with a stern warning.
It’s all bad theater. A schlock horror movie where you see the wires and fake fur.
But that said this bull still can churn up a lot of china in the shops but then denies owning it.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/02/tuning-out-donald-trump]https://www.washingtonpos…uning-out-donald-trump[/link]
Sure, the administration has ratcheted up sanctions against Iran and Venezuela but both regimes remain unbowed and the administrations strategy for both countries is starting to seem stale. As for North Korea, not even Republicans are shameless enough to claim any accomplishments in that negotiation.
Simply put, the Trump administration has frittered away its ability to cow or coerce anyone on the global stage. It is not just that the rest of [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/22/the-world-hates-president-trump/?utm_term=.2d9d3d64cb19]the world hates Donald Trump[/link]; it is that they neither [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/02/trump-says-america-is-respected-again-he-is-quite-wrong/?utm_term=.47204d4c5e20]respect [/link]nor fear him.
The tricks that Trump deployed in his first few years to try to coerce allies no longer seem to work. U.S. corporations no longer fear the wrath of Trumps tweets, for example. the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/politics/trump-twitter-businesses.html]New York Timess Alan Rappeport[/link]reported last month that the presidents scattershot attention span has diminished his power to persuade the business world to bend to his will, corporate communications experts say, as once fearsome tweet storms have devolved into ephemeral annoyances.
Trump administrations efforts to cajole allies into blocking Huawei from building their 5G networks have failed, and failed badly.
[blockquote]Over the past several months, American officials have tried to pressure, scold and, increasingly, threaten other nations that are considering using Huawei in building fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless networks.
But the campaign has run aground. Britain, Germany, India and the United Arab Emirates are among the countries signaling they are unlikely to back the American effort to entirely ban Huawei from building their 5G networks.
It has also been hampered by a perception among European and Asian officials that President Trump may not be fully committed to the fight.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly undercut his own Justice Department, which unveiled sweeping criminal indictments against Huawei and its chief financial officer with accusations of fraud, sanctions evasion and obstruction of justice. Mr. Trump has suggested that the charges could be dropped as part of a trade deal with China. The president previously eased penalties on another Chinese telecom firm accused of violating American sanctions, ZTE, after a personal appeal by President Xi Jinping of China.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad [link=https://amp.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2189074/id-side-rich-china-over-fickle-us-malaysias-mahathir]told the South China Morning Post[/link]:
[blockquote]If forced to take sides in the high-stakes geopolitical rivalry and trade war between the United States and China, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad would prefer the economic largesse of Beijing.
He pointed to the current state of unpredictability of the American superpower as a negative factor when asked about the impact of Sino-American tensions on other, smaller nations in the region.
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There is a pattern here: When the rest of the world is not [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/26/world-is-laughing-president-trump/?utm_term=.1fd01fd39985]laughing [/link]at Trump, they are ignoring him. As [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/03/will-trumps-foreign-policy-blunders-amount-to-anything/?utm_term=.e3f893bdeb90]I feared in 2017[/link], Trump has become more predictable and less credible in foreign policy.
If that concern manifests itself, Trump will have to explain why the United States is no longer respected in the world. He will try to blame everyone else.
Won’t matter to Trumpets in 2020 as they go to his rallies but globally it’s becoming “Who cares about the US anyway?”-
Tough guy fighting with a dead person again
[link=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/04/donald-trump-barbara-bush-was-nasty-me-book-matriarch/3370901002/]https://www.usatoday.com/…-matriarch/3370901002/[/link]
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What a brag! Trump can beat up old dead ladies!
The Trumpets are eating it up! Their manly man who takes no crap from a dead woman.-
He is very tough and strong
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MY Judges, MY Court, Trump plainly states how the Conservative Judges owe fealty to him.
I expect the 5 will obey & fall in line.
Anyone doubt that?
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NYT just posted an article about trump losing 1.17 billion dollars in the 1980s. sorry can’t copy and paste
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His whole history is about losses and bankruptcies.
His sole genius is losing money.
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NYT just posted an article about trump losing 1.17 billion dollars in the 1980s. sorry can’t copy and paste
Early 90s. He was taking that loss piecemeal on his taxes into the early/mid 2000s.
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No, same ol same ol incompetent Trump, only now the carnival barker has Russian money.
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Economists leaving Agricultural Dept for publishing their findings that Trump policies havent benefitted farmers resulting in pressure from the White House for these findings.
1984 or North Korea in America, only good news is allowed to be published by Trumps Government.
[link=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/07/agriculture-economists-leave-trump-1307146]https://www.politico.com/…ts-leave-trump-1307146[/link]
Economists in the Agriculture Department’s research branch say the Trump administration is retaliating against them for publishing reports that shed negative light on White House policies, spurring an exodus that included six of them quitting the department on a single day in late April.
The Economic Research Service a source of closely read reports on farm income and other topics that can shape federal policy, planting decisions and commodity markets has run afoul of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue with its findings on how farmers have been financially harmed by President Donald Trump’s trade feuds, the Republican tax code rewrite and other sensitive issues, according to current and former agency employees.
The reports highlight the continued decline under Trumps watch in farm income, which has dropped about 50 percent since 2013. Rural voters were a crucial source of support for Trump in 2016, and analysts say even a small retreat in 2020 could jeopardize the presidents standing in several battleground states.
The administration didnt appreciate some of our findings, so this is retaliation to harm the agency and send a message, said one current ERS employee, who asked not to be named to avoid retribution.
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Another day at the office with our brilliant genius president. Tuesday was a very busy day for him. He insulted another ally while in another pique that Denmark would not sell Greenland, questioned loyalty of American Jews (loyalty to whom or what? Him personally, or America? Same thing in his mind?), pulled the rug out from under his advisors on the economy, ping-ponging on how excellent the economy is but yet how we urgently need a YUGE stimulus; and of course, ping-ponged on gun legislation restricting guns from violent people.
In other words, another normal day.
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The reality show is growing old and stale
Same sheet daily insults arguments lies and made up stories
I think the majority of people are tired of it. Maybe even exhausted by it
He is going to double down and try to get even more divisive as the election nears
Kinda like a rat trying to save himself from the imminent end
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I had to laugh when he looked up, he actually looked up, as if to the heavens, when he referred to himself as “The Chosen One.”
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I heard a chorus of angels singing.
It was wonderful.
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I had to laugh when he looked up, he actually looked up, as if to the heavens, when he referred to himself as “The Chosen One.”
It was funny, I can’t believe you all take things so seriously as if that wasn’t a joke.
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Actually Obama was the first Chosen One, cigar/IB.
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His dad made $53mil with one loss of $15mil investing in his sons apartment building
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Since in office, what “great, tremendous” things has Trump negotiated again? NAFTA is essentially just rebranded the same-ol-same-ol. He pulled out of Iran deal & has no replacement other than possible war with Iran. North Korea got some photo-ops for their on-going nuclear program. Europe sees him as a dangerous idiot bully. ‘
And he lost Greenland!
Where’s his “Art of the Deal?”
Anyone who studied his businesses since the 1980’s in New York and Atlantic City knows he loses everything his investors give him.
The Emperor’s clothes.
[link=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/trump-doesnt-know-how-to-negotiate/]https://www.theamericanco…know-how-to-negotiate/[/link]
Michael Hirsh [link=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/21/why-trump-cant-make-deals-international-negotiations/]reminds us[/link]that Trump has always been a lousy negotiator:
[blockquote]Michael DAntonio, a Trump biographer who interviewed him many times, agrees with Lapidus that there is no discernible difference in the way Trump negotiates today, as president, compared to his career in business. His style involves a hostile attitude and a bullying method designed to wring every possible concession out of the other side while maximizing his own gain, DAntonio said. As he explained to me, hes not interested in win-win deals, only in I win outcomes. When I asked if he ever left anything on the table as a sign of goodwill so that he might do business with the same party in the future he said no, and pointed out that there are many people in the world he can work with, one at a time.
[/blockquote] As we have seen, Trumps bullying, maximalist approach does not work with other governments, and this approach cannot work because the president sees everything as a zero-sum game and winning requires the other sides capitulation. The result is that no government gives Trump anything and instead all of them retaliate in whatever way is available to them. He cant agree to a mutually beneficial compromise because he rejects the idea that the other side might come away with something. Because every existing agreement negotiated in the past has required some compromise on our governments part, he condemns all of them as terrible because they did not result in the other partys surrender.
Here is another relevant point from the article:
[blockquote]Temperamentally, the president is unprepared for diplomacy and negotiations with sovereign states, said DAntonio. He doesnt know how to practice the give-and-take that would produce bilateral or multilateral achievements and he takes things so personally that he considers those with a different point of view to be enemies. He is offended when others decline to be bullied and angered by those who counter his proposals with their own ideas.
[/blockquote] The greatest trick that Trump pulled on Americans was to make many of them believe that he understood how to negotiate when he has never been any good at it.
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interesting foot note I saw about Pence’s Ireland trip. He’s staying at Doonbeg (Trump property) instead of near his meetings in Dublin. So were the fudge are ethics people or inspector general. Clearly this is wasteful and designed to line Trump’s pockets.
[link=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/mike-pence-ireland-doonbeg]https://www.vanityfair.co…-pence-ireland-doonbeg[/link]-
Is any of that surprising? Any IG investigation is just another persecutorial witch hunt. Besides, TRump has stated several times how he’s lost $5 Billion just by being president!
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Trumpers dont care
…. but Clinton foundation conspiracy theory OMG
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[h1][b]Slowdown Isnt Hurting Trump In Key Midwest Counties[/b][/h1]
More than two years into Mr. Trumps presidency, employment growth and other measures of economic robustness in these politically important counties have lagged behind the national trend, a [link=https://www.wsj.com/articles/slow-growth-hasnt-hurt-trump-in-key-midwest-counties-11568388601?mod=e2twp]Wall Street Journal[/link] analysis shows.
And yet, Mr. Trumps job-approval rating in the blue-collar counties has risen since he took office, polling shows. Together, the data suggest that even growth below the national rate could be enough to satisfy many voters that Mr. Trump has fulfilled his promises.
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It was never about performance or policies with his supporters, it was always about burning down the house & trash-talking those the supporters feel defensive about and the brown immigrants.
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[b]Trump Has Charged Secret Service $40K Since Leaving Office[/b][/h1]
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-secret-service-charges/2021/05/20/d328eb5c-9d36-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html]Washington Post[/link]: Federal spending records show that Trumps club charged the Secret Service $396.15 every night starting Jan. 20, the day he left the White House and moved full-time into his Palm Beach, Fla., club.
Those charges, ultimately paid by taxpayers, continued until at least April 30, the spending records show, for a total of $40,011.15. The charges were for a single room used as a workspace by Secret Service agents.-
Well at least theres a bathroom in this room I suppose
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[b]Trump Has Charged Secret Service $40K Since Leaving Office[/b][/h1]
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-secret-service-charges/2021/05/20/d328eb5c-9d36-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html]Washington Post[/link]: Federal spending records show that Trumps club charged the Secret Service $396.15 every night starting Jan. 20, the day he left the White House and moved full-time into his Palm Beach, Fla., club.Those charges, ultimately paid by taxpayers, continued until at least April 30, the spending records show, for a total of $40,011.15. The charges were for a single room used as a workspace by Secret Service agents.
The usual one sided nonsense you keep peddling here. The secret service is by regulation required to pay ‘fair market value’ for the space they use in the protectees property. Whether that is the Clintons Garage or the guest house on the palacial graft financed Biden estate. It’s a cheap shot and you know it.
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who set the rate of $396 a night for Roach-a-lago.
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I stand by my comments.
Trump is different in that his stays directly profited his own business. As of early 2020 he had already spent over 300 days at his own properties. And we have no transparency on the fair market rate whatsoever.
Eric Trump said that they were giving the rooms “at cost” and then documents leaked about charges of $650/ night and exorbitant golf cart charges.
It’s a fair criticism.
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[b]Trump To Go On Speaking Tour With Bill OReilly[/b][/h1]
Former President Donald Trump will go on a tour with Bill OReilly to talk about his presidency, with a series of paid ticketed events planned for December in Florida and Texas, [link=https://deadline.com/2021/06/donald-trump-to-go-on-speaking-tour-with-bill-oreilly-to-talk-up-his-presidency-1234770784/]Deadline[/link] reports.
Said Trump: These will be wonderful but hard-hitting sessions where well talk about the real problems happening in the U.S., those that the Fake News Media never mention.
