Trump's bad decision(s) of the day

[*Anya*]

Trump Oil Policies Are Bad for Planet, French Minister Says

by Francois De Beaupuy

January 25, 2017, 12:13 AM PST

****Minister Segolene Royal comments in interview with RMC radio

****Trump administration has taken steps to advance oil pipelines

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decisions to get two stalled pipeline projects moving again, to promote shale oil and gas and to remove references to climate change on the White House’s website are bad for the world, a leading French minister said.

“These are very bad decisions for the future of the planet,” Environment and Energy Minister Segolene Royal said Wednesday on RMC radio. “I hope they aren’t definitive. If the production of fossil energies gain in the U.S., it will contribute to global warming.”

Trump took steps to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, while stopping short of green lighting either. He put a deadline on the government’s review of TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Keystone XL to transport Alberta oil sands crude to U.S. refineries.

The moves, taken on Trump’s fourth full day in office, are a major departure from Barack Obama’s administration, which rejected the Keystone proposal in 2015 and has kept Dakota Access blocked since September.

Environmentalists, concerned about climate change and damage to water and land, now face an executive branch that’s less sympathetic to their efforts. For the oil industry, it heralds more freedom to expand infrastructure and ease transportation bottlenecks.

Royal, whose ministerial tenure will end when France elects a new president in May, said she hopes the views of American and other scientists on climate change will prevail. The U.S. may exit the Paris climate accord that’s been ratified by 126 countries, Royal said, but the deal to “fight” against fossil fuels and air pollution “is irreversible” and will continue with U.S. states, companies and investment funds.

Trump has pledged to drop out of the Paris climate accord and cut funding for United Nations climate programs. He’s skeptical of the science behind global warming, famously Tweeting in 2012 that it’s a hoax perpetrated by China to make U.S. manufacturers less competitive.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-25/trump-s-oil-decisions-are-very-bad-news-french-minister-says

[A. Spectre]

A Tale of Two Tornados (one under cheeto and the other PBO)


TRUMP*

January 25, 2017: Four days after the tornadoes began on the 21st, DT still has not issued a disaster declaration and there is little FEMA presence in the affected states. (DT hasn’t even nominated a new head of FEMA.)

Contrast that to Obama’s FEMA response in May 2013 to a tornado disaster in Oklahoma. (See timeline below) The disaster declaration was made within 2 days and 400 personnel were on the ground within 4 days.


January 21-22, 2017: a vast storm system claims at least 19 lives in the Southeast.

Jan 22, 2017: DT pledges tornado aid for Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

Jan. 22, 2017: Georgia Governor declares a state of emergency

Jan. 23, 2017: Governor of Mississippi officially requests disaster aid.

In Georgia: “The chair of the county’s Board of Commissioners called out the federal government Monday morning.’ We need help,’ Christopher S. Cohilas said during a news conference. “FEMA, please get people on the damn ground.”

“While Cohilas singled out the federal government for his ire, it is state officials who must first make a disaster declaration, clearing the way for federal assistance. Soon after Cohilas’ comments, Gov. Nathan Deal’s office announced that nine more counties had been declared disaster areas. One of them was Dougherty County.

http://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/south-georgia-need-help/SNOPQLEJIUJwjTvsIKRASO/

Jan 25, 2017
No major Disaster Declarations have been posted on FEMA's site related to the January tornados.

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President Obama


MAY 2013, another tornado disaster handled by Obama’s FEMA

May 18-20, 2013: tornadoes hit Oklahoma

May 20,2013: “As the President told Governor Fallin tonight, the administration — through FEMA — is committed to providing all the assistance it can to Oklahoma as the response effort unfolds. Already, FEMA has deployed an Incident Management Assistance Team, Urban Search & Rescue Teams, and an Medical Emergency Response Support Team to provide resources to hard-hit areas in Oklahoma.”
“The President approved a Major Disaster Declaration for Oklahoma, making federal funding available to support affected individuals, as well as additional federal assistance to support immediate response and recovery efforts.

May 21, 2013: tornado victims began to register for assistance
“The President received a briefing in the Oval Office on the response by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco and other senior members of the President’s response team.”

May 22, 2013: by 2 a.m. more than 1000 people had registered for tornado assistance;
“FEMA has more than 400 personnel already on the ground supporting the response, including three national Urban Search and Rescue Teams, an Incident Management Assistance Team, as well as personnel focused on helping survivors register for and receive the federal assistance made available by the major disaster declaration signed by the President on Monday night.”

May 23, 2013: “According to FEMA, since Monday night, the national Urban Search and Rescue teams completed searches of more than 1,200 structures in the affected area.
FEMA and federal partners have established an Incident Support Base to stage commodities. More than 127,000 liters of water and nearly 30,000 meals have been delivered to the state to support response efforts.”

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/05/21/president-obama-responds-tornadoes-oklahoma


Heckuva job trumpy* Where is FEMA?

https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/v/0122_GA_Albany_Tornado_Damage_Fb_Live_No_Audio.JC_ WINGZ_CONCESSIONS_2_1280x720_7307333933.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0

[*Anya*]

National Security

Trump to sign executive orders enabling construction of proposed border wall and targeting sanctuary cities

President Trump is turning his focus to immigration, and is planning to sign executive orders on Jan. 25, to allow construction of his proposed border wall and to target sanctuary cities.

By Jerry Markon, Robert Costa and Abigail Hauslohner January 25 at 12:14 AM

President Trump plans to sign executive orders Wednesday enabling construction of his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and targeting cities where local leaders refuse to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation, according to White House officials familiar with the decisions.

The actions, part of a multi-day focus on immigration, are among an array of sweeping and immediate changes to the nation’s immigration system under consideration by the new president. The moves represent Trump’s first effort to deliver on perhaps the signature issue that drove his presidential campaign: his belief that illegal immigration is out of control and threatening the country’s safety and security.

Trump’s immigration blitz this week is widely seen inside the White House as a victory for the self-described populist wing of his inner circle — which includes chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions and top policy adviser Stephen Miller.

But discussions were ongoing Tuesday about just how far to go on some policies, in particular the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. The 2012 initiative has given temporary protection from deportation to hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in the United States as children. Trump vowed during the campaign to reverse it.

It was not yet clear late Tuesday whether DACA would be addressed as part of Trump’s immigration actions, according to a White House official, because of differing views among Trump’s advisers and associates about the timing, scope and political benefits of ending the program or suspending it for new entries. “Many options are being worked through on DACA,” the official said.

Officials are considering, but have not decided yet, whether to indefinitely shut down the program that allows refugees from war-torn Syria into the United States. Trump may also put the entire refugee program for all countries on hold for four months, according to an administration official familiar with the options under discussion.

This official said that Trump will also potentially bar for 30 days the issuance of U.S. visas to people from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — all Muslim-majority countries — until new visa procedures are developed. Residents from many of these places are already rarely granted U.S. visas. Trump may ask DHS and the director of national intelligence to evaluate whether immigrants are being adequately screened for potential terrorist ties.

On Wednesday, Trump plans to speak to a town hall of employees at the Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters in Washington, where he is expected to sign the orders relating to the wall and “sanctuary cities.” The effort to crack down on these localities will resonate with the Republican base, which has long criticized local officials who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Several people familiar with the discussions emphasized that the week’s actions are intended to start fulfilling Trump’s campaign promises on immigration and bring Republicans behind Trump on the issue, one day before he speaks at Thursday’s congressional GOP retreat in Philadelphia. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the executive orders were still being finalized.

White House aides said Trump planned to meet Wednesday with several parents of children who were killed by immigrants who are in the country illegally. These activists, who refer to themselves as “angel moms,” were frequently featured during Trump’s campaign rallies and during the Republican National Convention.

Any immigration measures announced by the president will set up a fierce battle in Trump’s first week between the White House and advocates for immigrants, who were reacting with alarm Tuesday as word spread that immigration was on the table.

The planned visit to DHS will be Trump’s second to a security agency since he took office Friday. He spoke to employees at the CIA’s headquarters in Northern Virginia on Saturday.

The presidential visit to DHS would symbolize some of the more controversial parts of Trump’s agenda. He centered his campaign to some degree on his proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants, a plan that has been vehemently opposed by Democrats and immigrant advocates.

Trump’s proposed wall is perhaps his most famous and disputed campaign proposal, and he feels so strongly about it that he told The Washington Post in an interview last year that building the structure “is easy. . . . It’s not even a difficult project if you know what you’re doing.’’

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will visit the United States next week to meet with Trump. The Mexican government has said it would not pay for Trump’s border wall despite Trump’s insistence that the country would provide funding at a later date.

House Republicans have said they plan to fund the barrier, which some experts have estimated will cost more than $20 billion. But experts say the wall would face numerous obstacles, such as environmental and engineering problems and fights with ranchers and others who would resist giving up their land.

Trump has also promised to beef up immigration enforcement along the border and inside the United States — notably by tripling the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — in an expensive and logistically difficult operation to remove millions of people from the country.

Perhaps most in dispute were Trump’s campaign comments on Muslims. He called at one point for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States as a counterterrorism measure and said he would halt immigration from Syria and deport Syrian refugees already in the country.

It is unclear how this week’s executive actions, orchestrated from the White House, will sit with the man who would enforce them: Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly. Kelly, a retired Marine general who was confirmed Friday, struck a markedly different tone from the president during his confirmation hearing, saying the controversial southwest border wall might not “be built anytime soon.’’

Kelly noted that when he was a Marine officer in Iraq, his forces secured stability in part by reaching out to clerics and other Muslim leaders. He vowed to promote “tolerance” and said he didn’t think it was appropriate to target any group of people solely based on religion or ethnic background, including through the development of a registry.

DHS declined to comment Tuesday. But people familiar with the matter said Kelly, known for his blunt manner, is already under intense pressure from the White House to enforce the immigration crackdown on which Trump built his campaign.

Karen DeYoung, Ashley Parker and David Nakamura contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/president-trump-is-planning-to-sign-executive-orders-on-immigration-this-week/2017/01/24/aba22b7a-e287-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?utm_term=.f7a52efeb63d&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[*Anya*]

Donald Trump stopping US government scientists from speaking out publicly is 'chilling'

The American Association for the Advancement of Science warns against 'censorship and intimidation'

Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent 1 hour ago

The Trump administration’s decision to stop Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and other government staff from speaking out publicly has prompted the country’s leading scientific organisation to warn against “censorship and intimidation”.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific society in the world, said many federal agencies had policies that “prohibit political interference” in how they relay information to the public.

And the World Resources Institute think tank said the move to stop the “free flow of information” would have a “chilling effect on staff”.

In addition to the media blackout at the EPA, some other federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, were also told to suspend external communications, although the latter department's gag order was subsequently lifted.

The ban includes the issuing of press releases, blogs, messages on Twitter and Facebook posts, according to information leaked to several media organisations. All media requests must be “screened” by the administration.

The decision came after the new administration ordered a “temporary suspension” of grants to the EPA, stopping new business activity.

Donald Trump appointed Scott Pruitt, who is known as a climate science denier, to run the EPA, an organisation he has taken to court on a number of occasions.

In a statement, Rush Holt, the AAAS’s chief executive, said: “We are concerned about reports that federal agencies – including the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency – have issued directives to staff that may silence the voices of scientific researchers and others working for the federal government.

“Our hope is that this is a temporary measure put into place until the new government agency heads are confirmed by the Senate.

“Many federal agencies have existing scientific integrity policies that prohibit political interference in the public dissemination of scientific findings.

“As the AAAS Council stated in 2006: Censorship, intimidation, or other restriction on the freedom of scientists employed or funded by governmental organisations to communicate their unclassified scientific findings and assessments not only to each other but also to policymakers and to the public is inimical to the advance of science and its appropriate application in the policy domain."

And Sam Adams, the US director of the World Resources Institute, called for the bans to be lifted.

“These actions will stem the free flow of information and have a chilling effect on staff in these agencies,” he said.

“This flies in the face of effective policymaking which requires an open exchange of ideas, supported by the best science and evidence available.

“Curtailing communications from these agencies will hinder their ability to provide clean air and water and protect people’s health across the country.

“The administration should lift these bans as soon as possible and ensure that the role of science is respected within our government agencies.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-gag-us-government-scientists-environment-stop-speaking-public-tweeting-twitter-climate-a7544971.html

[kittygrrl]

Executive Order to complete Keystone Pipeline that borders Lakota Reservation land.

[Kätzchen]

The last current article I could find online about 45's ability to destroy the credibility of long time public and social institutions with bad decisions, was from last fall, September of 2017, an news article in The Atlantic, although in January of this year, the NYT published an Op-Ed about 45 too, but I think The Atlantic article is somewhat better (see archived link below).

https://www-theatlantic-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/537921/?amp_js_v=a1&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fmagaz ine%2Farchive%2F2017%2F10%2Fwill-donald-trump-destroy-the-presidency%2F537921%2F




What spurred me to go in search of this type of phenomena (bad decisions, et al) was Anya's article about 45 silencing the EPA. Issuing edicts to limit what people can say or do, issuing edicts to agency's that limit their ability to provide useful information about anything x, y or z, to me, in my own opinion, is nothing more than a huge red flag about abuse of power, in the form of fascism.

45 is no different than any dictator of historical record in the past or present/current day (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Gaddafi, Imin, Hussein, Un, etc).



https://www.thefamouspeople.com/dictators.php

[Abigail Crabby]

It's so good to see this thread on the Planet!! We must remove this orange dung beetle from office in 2020!!

[Kätzchen]

Published by CNN New York-Business, August 3rd 2019:

T^^^P Is Playing A Dangerous Game With Economy (LINK (https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/03/business/trump-trade-war-economy-china/index.html))

Statements snipped from the news article, as follows:

"... escalating trade war against China threatens to inflict a powerful shock to the American economy that not even the Federal Trade Reserve can fully absorb."

"It could be incredibly damaging to the global economy. The risk of a recession has gone up because of the ratcheting up of the trade war," said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco.

"The Fed keeps cutting rates, trade policy keeps getting more hawkish and the Fed runs out of ammunition to fight the next recession."


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I can barely read headline news about what the head-narcissist-in-DC is doing next to people's lives. I once read Nancy Pelosi's statement about how this whole ordeal (the T^^^P debacle/fiasco) is like a gigantic civics lesson on how narcissist's upend your life and the lives of others. For anyone who has never had to suffer the cyclonic effect by a narcissistic personality, then all you have to do is observe what T^^^P does on a daily basis: they implode the news feed with their latest mind-f^ckery, they f^ck with anything that will get them back into the news feed, etc.

I do wonder, though, how much longer this a-Hole will get away with upending peoples lives and the economy and how much longer it will take for people, in general, to see how horrible the GOP truly is. There are many members of the GOP who are master manipulators, masterful sycophants, and illustrate daily the level of depravity they operate from.

Just this past week on NPR, I heard on a radio news show that the T^^^P legacy will be how far he went in destroying the credibility of the Supreme Court and seating a gazillion right-leaning conservative judges to Federal Judge seats of power. This kind of thing is exactly what happens when inequity (tyrannical-dictatorships modes of power) is privileged over shared economies of power (democracy).


So scary, that this person (T/P) and his cronies do on a daily basis.

[A. Spectre]

Trump is delighting in the chaos he has wrought





Trump has wanted to see America BURN for years. That has always been his plan to Make America Great Again. In 2014 Trump wanted riots... and in 2020 he has got what he wants - yesterday he was basically calling on his cult to come and disrupt protests with the rallying call of 'Tonight, I understand, is MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE???' He wants the country to be torn apart. He wants the Floyd protesters to be very badly hurt indeed. Seemingly he is a unique mix of nazi, anarchist and sociopath. After all who wishes for an economy to crash and burn for their own white supremacist and pecuniary advantage?

This is MF in 2014:

You can look at the president-elect himself for a vision of what is to come. He has told you his plans all along, though most choose to downplay or deny them. You can even look back before his candidacy, when in 2014 he when on FOX news to defend Russia. Why a reality show host was defending Russia is its own story, but here is what he said about his desired outcome for the United States. "You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have [a chuckles], you know you'll have riots to go back where we used to be when we were great."

* Pay attention everyone, we're in for a wild ride. The establishment of white men and women who like them will not go away quietly.

[C0LLETTE]

Why is it that Trump's "National Security Advisor" was so confident that the "chaos" was caused by Antifa but didn't know ( or wouldn't answer ) if right wing or white nationalist, or foreign forces are involved.

And why didn't the CNN interviewer ask him this rather than allowing him to go on and on about Antifa.

If you're not going to confront him, at least cut him off as he keeps repeating triggers that he won't substantiate.
If you don't know who causes the chaos why allow propagandists to repeat and repeat. These are huge failings of even the media that claims to be "objective".

I don't know much about Antifa but I do know when I'm being bullshitted with one point of view for one manipulative goal.

[Stone-Butch]

Trumps first bad decision was running for president and changing things for others around the world.
I "accidently" heard him on our local news flash that some people are coming from far away just to get into the destruction and theft of property of innocents. He says that they are thugs looking for an excuse to do their harm. He stated that it has nothing to do with the unfortunate death of yet another black person taken by police and his memory is being disrespected by their actions where others are showing their grief and demanding justice. First time I ever heard that man make any sense. I did not get his speech exact for sure but the idea of what he was saying sure did make a lot of sense.

[C0LLETTE]

Is it possible that some ANTIFA people are "very fine people"?

[Stone-Butch]

I think it is very possible there is good and bad to the majority of the worlds people, however, I was referring not to an individual group but individuals who use any excuse to create chaos and loot and pillage just because the opportunity arises. This is a terrible crime that has been committed again and again and to use it to other than support the family and protest against police who will use their uniform and a given situation to go beyond what they are suppose to do concerning their jobs. So, I would suggest that the involved police and those who do so are as bad if not worse than any criminals they arrest. The police are suppose to be sworn to protect and serve ALL PEOPLE not the ones they select to. These peaceful protesters should be applauded for supporting those who have been wronged and murdered by police and seeking justice for them and for all others dealing with the police as this killing and other injustices need to stop being perpetrated against all people but especially black people who are constantly being harassed for little reason by police and treated worse than animals at their hands. Police need to be scrutinised before being given a gun and a badge and put out to keep the law. Those police should be punished more than the criminals they arrest every day because they swear and oath and are trusted with peace and service to the people that rely on them and pay them to do so.

[Femmewench]

[QUOTE=C0LLETTE;1269201]Why is it that Trump's "National Security Advisor" was so confident that the "chaos" was caused by Antifa but didn't know ( or wouldn't answer ) if right wing or white nationalist, or foreign forces are involved.

Antifa simply means Anti-Fascist. I think we're all anti-fascist. Some definitions state that this includes a "militant movement" or through "direct action."

It may be a movement, but it is in no way organized as all of the identified home-grown terrorist organizations identified by the FBI (in pre-Trump days) or the Southern Poverty Law Center (today.)

It's more smoke and mirrors to deflect the harm his inaction and rants have on the lives of Americans.

[A. Spectre]

So who advised Trump to do his Jimmy Swaggert Impression?


Holding a Bible up in front of a church could not have been his idea. I am guessing it was the Falwell Freak. That picture is going to make a great negative ad, by the way.

Maybe he came up with it, it reeks of unawareness.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

[nhplowboi]

OMG Donald....really?! Did you create a photo op on the backs of peaceful protestors?? You ordered them to be unlawfully abused by the federal government so you could take a walk and hold/wave a bible in your hands. You are a godless man and your photo op proved it. Staring at the bible like it was a foreign object you had never seen before. You are sick.

[homoe]

OMG Donald....really?! Did you create a photo op on the backs of peaceful protestors?? You ordered them to be unlawfully abused by the federal government so you could take a walk and hold/wave a bible in your hands. You are a godless man and your photo op proved it. Staring at the bible like it was a foreign object you had never seen before. You are sick.

:goodpost:

At one point someone noticed he had held it upside down..

[homoe]

b-XOV5dLZJs

[~ocean]

LOLOLOL he topped himself ! He never looked more stupid than he did during that whole photo op ~ what an embarrassment for our country. maybe he is suffering from medical side effects ? naaaaaa he's just an A - Hole ~

[nhplowboi]

Trump calling up the 82 Airborne for operation "Divine Law and Order". Oh and he made sure they were all issued bayonets?!

[A. Spectre]

It appears MF45s' Bible stunt is backfiring

The whole purpose of this shameless fiasco was to shore up his evangelical base, sans them, his numbers would probably be in the 20's.

When the trump lost Pat Robertson (whack job) you know there is a problem.

Pat Robertson:

"You just don't do that, Mr. President" referring to doll-hands sending the military against US citizens.

You know, THAT Pat Robertson who earlier this year blamed covid-19 on same-sex marriage and abortion rights. This guy is a couple of french fries short of a happy meal. This little spat will be interesting to see it play out.

Anus chose the wrong church, The Episcopal church tends to lean left. Their basic beliefs are not harmonious with his. The national church is livid that he was such a pretendian in front of THEIR church.

One last note, today June 3, my President Barack Obama will be speaking at a town hall live at 5:00 ET. Live stream here.

https://www.obama.org/

Nothing soothes the savage breast like the clarity and judgement of PBO.

[Kätzchen]

It appears MF45s' Bible stunt is backfiring

The whole purpose of this shameless fiasco was to shore up his evangelical base, sans them, his numbers would probably be in the 20's.

When the trump lost Pat Robertson (whack job) you know there is a problem.

Pat Robertson:

"You just don't do that, Mr. President" referring to doll-hands sending the military against US citizens.

You know, THAT Pat Robertson who earlier this year blamed covid-19 on same-sex marriage and abortion rights. This guy is a couple of french fries short of a happy meal. This little spat will be interesting to see it play out.

Anus chose the wrong church, The Episcopal church tends to lean left. Their basic beliefs are not harmonious with his. The national church is livid that he was such a pretendian in front of THEIR church.

One last note, today June 3, my President Barack Obama will be speaking at a town hall live at 5:00 ET. Live stream here.

https://www.obama.org/

Nothing soothes the savage breast like the clarity and judgement of PBO.

I listened to President Obama this afternoon. Hearing his talk was the calmest rationale I've longed to hear. I call it the tranquilizer dart effect, lol.


I miss the Obama's. Big time. But so glad they both speak up and do what they've always done: Speak truth to power. Sane, airtight arguments.

For the people. By the people. Of the people. That's the Obama's.

Thanks for posting that link today. I appreciated it, very much.

[A. Spectre]

Anus is giving us a speech this week?!


Hardy! Har Har

Trump & Co. are so painfully obvious. The stunt at the church didn't turn out quite like they planned. Clearing protestors using military police tactics didn't make them look strong. Even Trump's tweets have lost their bite.

Now he's going to speak to the nation, and the world, about the racial problems we're facing.

Trump is the most racist leader we've had in modern times. The idea that he's going to unify and heal the country is ludicrous!

But it does give me a laugh early on a Monday morning. You just know he will be under strict orders to read ONLY from the teleprompter and not ad lib. He will sniff sniff a ton just like a 6 year old with a cold.

I wonder if the speech will start like this:

"My fellow Americans and black people, I LOVE black people, I've done more for the black than Obama, MLK AND Oprah. Law and Order! Law and Order! There are just a few bad apples, but like Donny Osmond says, one bad apple don't spoil a whole bunch girl. I saved D.C. NOT that nasty Mayor. Law and Order, bad governors, Law and Order. You need me black people, even George Floyd understands that, looking down from above.

Thank you and God bless America, but not Antifa. Bad people, they don't like me. They don't like Law and Order, but Bill Barr is the best man.

Remember, I saved the blacks, I saved America and I made America great again.!"

[~ocean]

Anus is giving us a speech this week?!


Hardy! Har Har

Trump & Co. are so painfully obvious. The stunt at the church didn't turn out quite like they planned. Clearing protestors using military police tactics didn't make them look strong. Even Trump's tweets have lost their bite.

Now he's going to speak to the nation, and the world, about the racial problems we're facing.

Trump is the most racist leader we've had in modern times. The idea that he's going to unify and heal the country is ludicrous!

But it does give me a laugh early on a Monday morning. You just know he will be under strict orders to read ONLY from the teleprompter and not ad lib. He will sniff sniff a ton just like a 6 year old with a cold.

I wonder if the speech will start like this:

"My fellow Americans and black people, I LOVE black people, I've done more for the black than Obama, MLK AND Oprah. Law and Order! Law and Order! There are just a few bad apples, but like Donny Osmond says, one bad apple don't spoil a whole bunch girl. I saved D.C. NOT that nasty Mayor. Law and Order, bad governors, Law and Order. You need me black people, even George Floyd understands that, looking down from above.

Thank you and God bless America, but not Antifa. Bad people, they don't like me. They don't like Law and Order, but Bill Barr is the best man.

Remember, I saved the blacks, I saved America and I made America great again.!"



(((( spectre))))) thank you soooooo much for my Monday morning laugh ! I showed my daughter I guess I laughed rather loudly ~ she said touche' !!!

[A. Spectre]

Trump just tweeted that he's rescheduling the Tulsa rally for June 20th



We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal. Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out...

...of respect for this Holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents. I have therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th, in order to honor their requests...

...We have already had ticket requests in excess of 200,000 people. I look forward to seeing everyone in Oklahoma!




***Okay, I will break this down.

Ticket requests from 200k people? Sure, bunker boy keep telling yourself that.

Exactly WHO are his African American supporters? Ben Carson and Kanye?!

Do you really think he knows the history behind Juneteenth? Nope.

*****He got busted with the timing and he is lying his way out of it. (trying to) Incidentally, anyone who enters the coronapalooza ( his rallies) will need to sign a waiver releasing MF45 from damages if they catch covid-19. His cult really are maroons. They should all be packed in like sardines......

[Kätzchen]

The current T---p administration has aggressively rolled back Obama era LGBTQ rights and protections. They've even gone as far as supplanting their own fucked up 'laws' which will protect medical industry staff who choose not to provide medical care or medical supplies or (fill in the blank).

Here is an news article from two years ago that appeared on BuzzFeed.

BuzzFeed: We Made A List Of All The Anti-LGBT Stuff That T---p Has Done As A President. (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/trump-lgbt-anti-actions-administration-pride-month)

I wanted to provide the latest news about this today, but somehow the article I read on CNN yesterday disappeared from public view.

[homoe]

Washington (CNN)The Trump administration announced Friday it is eliminating an Obama-era regulation prohibiting discrimination in health care against patients who are transgender.

The move -- coming during Pride Month, an annual celebration of the LGBTQ community that takes place throughout the month of June, and on the four-year anniversary of the deadly Pulse nightclub shooting, in which 49 people were killed at a popular LGBTQ venue in Orlando -- was swiftly denounced by LGBTQ groups, which see the action as discriminatory.
Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, known as the Health Care Rights Law, "prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in certain health programs and activities." A rule enacted in 2016 interpreted the ban on sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity, building on similar interpretations in other federal civil rights laws and court rulings, and termination of pregnancy.
But the US Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Friday that it was eliminating "certain provisions of the 2016 Rule that exceeded the scope of the authority delegated by Congress in Section 1557. HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government's interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word 'sex' as male or female and as determined by biology."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/politics/trump-administration-transgender-health-care-protections/index.html

[C0LLETTE]

Wish I had CNN. I'd be better informed.

[homoe]

Trump just tweeted that he's rescheduling the Tulsa rally for June 20th



We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal. Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out...

...of respect for this Holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents. I have therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th, in order to honor their requests...

...We have already had ticket requests in excess of 200,000 people. I look forward to seeing everyone in Oklahoma!




***Okay, I will break this down.

Ticket requests from 200k people? Sure, bunker boy keep telling yourself that.

Exactly WHO are his African American supporters? Ben Carson and Kanye?!

Do you really think he knows the history behind Juneteenth? Nope.

*****He got busted with the timing and he is lying his way out of it. (trying to) Incidentally, anyone who enters the coronapalooza ( his rallies) will need to sign a waiver releasing MF45 from damages if they catch covid-19. His cult really are maroons. They should all be packed in like sardines......

:goodpost:

I would be willing to bet my last dollar the ONLY holiday he MIGHT have a inkling about would be Martin Luther King Day if even that!

[homoe]

Washington (CNN)The Trump administration announced Friday it is eliminating an Obama-era regulation prohibiting discrimination in health care against patients who are transgender.

The move -- coming during Pride Month, an annual celebration of the LGBTQ community that takes place throughout the month of June, and on the four-year anniversary of the deadly Pulse nightclub shooting, in which 49 people were killed at a popular LGBTQ venue in Orlando -- was swiftly denounced by LGBTQ groups, which see the action as discriminatory.
Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, known as the Health Care Rights Law, "prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in certain health programs and activities." A rule enacted in 2016 interpreted the ban on sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity, building on similar interpretations in other federal civil rights laws and court rulings, and termination of pregnancy.
But the US Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Friday that it was eliminating "certain provisions of the 2016 Rule that exceeded the scope of the authority delegated by Congress in Section 1557. HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government's interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word 'sex' as male or female and as determined by biology."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/politics/trump-administration-transgender-health-care-protections/index.html

Susan Collins vows to overturn Trump rule rolling back LGBT patients' protections.

Glad I was sitting down when I heard this! She is facing a tough re-election tho so.....

[A. Spectre]

MF45 tweeted that if we stopped testing, we wouldn't have nearly the cases.

OMG! The lunacy, and of course this is not the first time he has asserted this. So, let me get this straight, if a woman doesn't take a pregnancy test, she will never be pregnant. The big bump in her stomach is from too many Twinkies.

You know, if he hadn't been elected president, he might have gone into medicine.

It's truly amazing how Trump is so expert at so many things. He knows more about ISIS than the generals. He knows more about Covid-19 than the doctors. He knows more about policing than the cops. He's made the best vodka, the best steaks, the best casinos, the best airlines and football team and even the best university and charitable foundation. It's incredible that he has such an array of talents that he can tell us about. He did say, after all, that he's like a really smart guy who is really, really rich.

In the words of PBO, "Please proceed {fill in name}"

[homoe]

~~~
No doubt after yesterdays Supreme Court decision Trump is classifying his worst decision of the the day was the one in which he nominated Neil Gorsuch...:giggle:

[~ocean]

MF45 tweeted that if we stopped testing, we wouldn't have nearly the cases.

OMG! The lunacy, and of course this is not the first time he has asserted this. So, let me get this straight, if a woman doesn't take a pregnancy test, she will never be pregnant. The big bump in her stomach is from too many Twinkies.

You know, if he hadn't been elected president, he might have gone into medicine.

It's truly amazing how Trump is so expert at so many things. He knows more about ISIS than the generals. He knows more about Covid-19 than the doctors. He knows more about policing than the cops. He's made the best vodka, the best steaks, the best casinos, the best airlines and football team and even the best university and charitable foundation. It's incredible that he has such an array of talents that he can tell us about. He did say, after all, that he's like a really smart guy who is really, really rich.

In the words of PBO, "Please proceed {fill in name}"

If it wasn't for "Donny Dolly Hands " moronic statements TV would be so serious lol

[Kätzchen]

MF45 tweeted that if we stopped testing, we wouldn't have nearly the cases.

OMG! The lunacy, and of course this is not the first time he has asserted this. So, let me get this straight, if a woman doesn't take a pregnancy test, she will never be pregnant. The big bump in her stomach is from too many Twinkies.

You know, if he hadn't been elected president, he might have gone into medicine.

It's truly amazing how Trump is so expert at so many things. He knows more about ISIS than the generals. He knows more about Covid-19 than the doctors. He knows more about policing than the cops. He's made the best vodka, the best steaks, the best casinos, the best airlines and football team and even the best university and charitable foundation. It's incredible that he has such an array of talents that he can tell us about. He did say, after all, that he's like a really smart guy who is really, really rich.

In the words of PBO, "Please proceed {fill in name}"

What a scary thought, Dr. T---p. YIKES! Very scary.



I thought I'd would look for a scholarly article about the Hippocratic Oath. People often mis-attribute the philosophical notion of "Do No Harm" to Hippocrates, which is not exactly what the Hippocratic Oath is about.

Here is what I found, from Harvard Health:

First, Do No Harm (https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/first-do-no-harm-201510138421)

by Robert H. Schmerling, M.D.
(Senior Faculty Editor Harvard Health Publishing)

As an important step in becoming a doctor, medical students must take the Hippocratic Oath. And one of the promises within that oath is “first, do no harm” (or “primum non nocere,” the Latin translation from the original Greek.)

Right?

Wrong.

While some medical schools ask their graduates to abide by the Hippocratic Oath, others use a different pledge — or none at all. And in fact, although “first, do no harm” is attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, it isn’t a part of the Hippocratic Oath at all. It is actually from another of his works called Of the Epidemics.


So why the confusion?

Admittedly, there is similar language found in both places. For example, here’s a line from one translation of the Hippocratic Oath:

“I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.”

Yes, the pledger commits to avoiding harm, but there’s nothing about making it a top priority. Meanwhile, Of the Epidemics says

“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”

Again, there is no clear priority given to the avoidance of harm over the goal of providing help.


Is “first, do no harm” even possible?

The idea that doctors should, as a starting point, not harm their patients is an appealing one. But doesn’t that set the bar rather low? Of course no physician should set out to do something that will only be accompanied by predictable and preventable harm. We don’t need an ancient ancestor, however well-respected, or an oath to convince us of that!

But if physicians took “first, do no harm” literally, no one would have surgery, even if it was lifesaving. We might stop ordering mammograms, because they could lead to a biopsy for a non-cancerous lump. In fact, we might not even request blood tests — the pain, bruising, or bleeding required to draw blood are clearly avoidable harms.

But doctors do recommend these things within the bounds of ethical practice because the modern interpretation of “first, do no harm” is closer to this: doctors should help their patients as much as they can by recommending tests or treatments for which the potential benefits outweigh the risks of harm. Even so, in reality, the principle of “first, do no harm” may be less helpful — and less practical — than you might think.

How practical is “first, do no harm”?

Imagine the following situations:


Your diagnosis is clear — say, strep throat — and there’s an effective treatment available that carries only minor risks. Here, “first, do no harm” is not particularly relevant or useful.



Your diagnosis isn’t clear and the optimal course of testing or treatment is uncertain — for example, you have back pain or suffer from headaches. It may be impossible to accurately compare the risk and benefit tradeoffs of one particular course of action against another. So you can’t tell ahead of time whether a test or treatment will “do no harm.”



Your diagnosis is serious — for example, an inoperable cancer — and treatment can only cause harm. Here, the “first, do no harm” mandate is irrelevant again. The only reasonable course of care is to offer comfort, support, and relief of suffering. This is already a guiding principle of palliative care and is widely accepted.


The bottom line

The fact is that when difficult, real-time decisions must be made, it’s hard to apply the “first, do no harm” dictum because estimates of risk and benefit are so uncertain and prone to error.

But it is a reminder that we need high-quality research to help us better understand the balance of risk and benefit for the tests and treatments we recommend. Ultimately, it is also a reminder that doctors should neither overestimate their capacity to heal, nor underestimate their capacity to cause harm.

(October 13th, 2015)


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The past four years have proved beyond doubt that the disturbed person in the WH is not capable, nor worthy to hold office, much less be in charge of any organization.

I certainly hope people have internalized this 4 year lesson on the cost of what happens when monsters like 45 are given any "power" at all.

Especially with all the prior examples on record, going as far back as, dare I say, time immemorial.

[A. Spectre]

Taxpayers on the hook for 66 millions doses of hydroxychloroquine


MF45 was cuckoo for chloroquine

The Food and Drug Administration rescinded its “emergency use authorization” for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 on Monday. The decision left President Donald Trump —who had touted the malaria drugs as potential coronavirus cures and even said he had taken one—and his administration with 66 million doses of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine without an evident use. The White House had mobilized the federal government to stockpile the drugs for use against the virus before medical experts were sure of its efficacy. Peter Navarro, the president’s trade adviser, raged against the decision Monday and mustered a familiar conspiracy theory in defense of Trump: “This is a Deep State blindside by bureaucrats who hate the administration they work for more than they’re concerned about saving American lives.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-administration-stuck-with-66-million-doses-of-near-unusable-chloroquine-and-hydroxychloroquine?ref=home

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Follow the money. I have an idea! Place those doses in candy jars at all of his upcoming rallies! Anus could sprinkle quadruple doses on his Big Macs!

[A. Spectre]

MF45 claims Americans are wearing masks to show their disapproval of HIM!

Are you f&%^$ing kidding me?!

tRump said some Americans might wear face masks not as a way to prevent the spread of coronavirus but as a way to "signal disapproval of him."

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump also said a big issue he has with masks is that people fidget with them.

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Applying that logic, if someone coughs and sneezes in his face mean that they APPROVE of him?

Does he want a future jury to believe him insane? Hell, let's cut to the chase and find the rubber room right now!

They are planning to distribute masks at his rally, guess that is meant to be a purity test eh?


ps. John Bolton is NOT a hero or patriot. Just another R cashing in.

[~ocean]

MF45 claims Americans are wearing masks to show their disapproval of HIM!

Are you f&%^$ing kidding me?!

tRump said some Americans might wear face masks not as a way to prevent the spread of coronavirus but as a way to "signal disapproval of him."

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump also said a big issue he has with masks is that people fidget with them.

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Applying that logic, if someone coughs and sneezes in his face mean that they APPROVE of him?

Does he want a future jury to believe him insane? Hell, let's cut to the chase and find the rubber room right now!

They are planning to distribute masks at his rally, guess that is meant to be a purity test eh?


ps. John Bolton is NOT a hero or patriot. Just another R cashing in.



BOZO also said you don't have to wear a mask at his RALLY !!! is that involuntary homicide ~ kind of like telling someone "Go ahead and kill yourself . I'm here waiting " very Michelle Carter KNOWING there's a deadly pandemic and express verbally not to protect yourself from a leader ???

[Kätzchen]

So much propaganda in the news lately, but here at home the current T***p regime has sent waves of "Federal agents" to dominate dowtown inner-city blocks and arrest peaceful protestors for things they have not done, including things done to veterans, medics and tear gasing our city mayor.

It reminds me of WW2's gestapo. Super scary stuff going down in our metro area.

And, not covered in the news was a mugging that happened in a downtown structure that led to a major shutdown of the Standard Insurance building, which led to thousands of employees losing their jobs permanently because as i was told, Standard Insurance will not reopen in their decades old building until other arrangements can be made for reasons of security and safety.

Also. Local city government offices will not reopen until sometime next year, maybe not until next summer.

So there is an overwhelming back log of city and state agency business that wont be conducted until .... no one knows exactly when.

But residents of our tricounty area will not bow down to Capt Chaos or his henchmen.

[~ocean]

Trump wants to sell South Korea submarines and Melania talked him out of it along with the top cheif of staff retired Col. Kathy Spletstoser, She laso made a statement saying Melania is smarter and more inquisitive than Donny Dolly Hands.

[Kätzchen]

Washington Post published a late coming news release concerning tactics deployed by the top dog at USPS who is a T----P supporter. The latest tactic to cause mail-in ballot/voteing fiascos during the up coming presidential election is super concerning. :firetruck: <<<<<~~ x 5-alarms

I live in a state where we have utilized mail-in ballots for many years. Since T---P has occupied the WH, I dont mail my ballot in but take it directly to voting headquarters. It is too big of a risk not to do so, since USPS mail systems have been upended earlier this year as far back as March (covid). I mailed a birthday card to my mother back in May, which she didnt get until after her birthday in July. Not a two day delay, as suggested in the WAPO news story. USPS delays of longer than 30 days has been going on since this past spring, and now i know why: USPS is headed by a T---P supporter who is by no coincidence fucking around with rules governing USPS.

LINK to article(below):
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/usps-mail-in-voting-2020-election/index.html


Exercise caution early when you get your ballots. I plan to take mine in person to our county ballot drop off center asap.

[A. Spectre]

NEVER FORGET

NEVER FORGET - Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic


Jan 21: "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China."

Jan 28: Rally in NJ

Jan 30: "We think we have it very much under control." Rally in Iowa

Feb 01: Golfed

Feb 02: "We pretty much shut it down, coming from China." Golfed

Feb 10: Rally in NH Feb 14: “We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12… Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.”

Feb 15: Golfed

Feb 19: Rally in AZ

Feb 20: Rally in CO

Feb 21: Rally in NV

Feb 25: "People are getting better, they're all getting better."

Feb 26: "And the 15 in a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero."

Feb 28: "Coronavirus. This is the new hoax... You'll be fine." Rally in SC

Mar 02: "They're going to have vaccines very soon." Rally in NC

Mar 03: "Not only the vaccines, but the therapies. Therapies is sort of another word for cure."

Mar 04: "We're talking about very small numbers in the United States."

Mar 06: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault… I like the numbers where they are.”

Mar 06: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect…”

Mar 07: “It came out of China, and we heard about it. And made a good move: We closed it down. We stopped it.” Golfed

Mar 08: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House.” Golfed

Mar 10: "It's really working out, and a lot of good things are gonna happen. Just stay calm. It will go away."

Mar 12: "It's gonna go away."

Mar 13: "No, I don't take responsibility at all."

Mar 16: “I’d rate it a 10. I think we’ve done a great job.”

Mar 17: "This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."


The fucker can cheat at golf, but not life. Hopefully, if he doesn't burn it all down, we can come back from this stronger and better. The D's controlling the oval office and both chambers for 8 years will be a good start. Anyone here who still supports this nightmare.......go pound sand.

[Kätzchen]

NEVER FORGET

NEVER FORGET - Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic

*snip*


The fucker can cheat at golf, but not life. Hopefully, if he doesn't burn it all down, we can come back from this stronger and better. The D's controlling the oval office and both chambers for 8 years will be a good start. Anyone here who still supports this nightmare.......go pound sand.

I like how you thought of the burning down effect, Ace. Sometimes it is Fire Science that is the only tool (remedy) available to rid diseased components from nature. Silviculture (Fire Science) is one tool available to rid diseased understory components from tracts of forest. It is an under-utilized tool. If the last 4 years produces the by-product by which society chooses to rid itself of diseased political components, then it's time to watch the fire burn down every political player who has had a hand in destroying democracy. A democracy is: For the people, By the people, and Of the people. Democracy in America will and can survive, if only people will vote out the politicians who have been in power for far too long.

I also liked how you brought up the golfing issue. LOL (or not), Mara-TaX-0 is just one of many so-called business tax coverup's for the T---P clan. I can hardly wait until TP-culture is vanquished from American society.

As a start, tax culture can be reformed to make all oligarchs pay for all the taxes they've evaded due to mal-formed tax policy that lets them off the hook. Pronto.

But FIRST: American's need to vote out the T---P regime and all the key players who have played along with T---P and used T---P to drag America down the pathway to a fascist takeover.

<<<<<<<~~~~ Voting Blue (Democrat Ticket)

[Kätzchen]

I remember back in the summer of 2015, how people across the hardest hit local economies were enamored by T---P.

Well, all of his so-called "promises" to help the blue collar working class has turned out to be one of many biggo lies. Which lot of us could see those lies up front, but many people in the hardest hit local economies felt left behind and not represented by any governing authority who would look out for their best economic interest.

Well, I found an excellent article over on CNN, which talks about most all of T---P' s bad decisions and false promises, etc.

Here is the link to the CNN news article:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/opinions/how-trump-has-betrayed-blue-collar-workers-greenhouse/index.html

Don't kid yourself into thinking T---P cared about you or anybody. T---P has proven over the past 4 years who and what he is with the litany of bad decisions made by him and the puppet masters who helped him do it.

Maybe the last will and testament that describes T---P best is: Here Lies the Great American Liar of All Time.

[homoe]

CATCoXH7lzY

[Kätzchen]

Remember how the monster in the WH recently bragged how he was going to use his presidential powers to give tax payers a break?

Well ... we all know that is a load of baloney.

That so-called "tax cut break" is nothing more than a stroke of a pen telling employers to stop withholding FICA (in my state) and I view it as nothing more than supposedly saving an employee, maybe $20/each pay period, and chipping away at SSA, yet again?

And then, by the Cheeto's masterplan, pay it all back, PLUS INTEREST, next year.

Ummmm. NO.

Thankfully, my employer refuses to follow the master puppets plan.

WTH. We all know that the GOP party has been undermining FDR's Social Security insurance for seniors and the disabled for several several years.

Bad, bad decision, this so-called "tax" plan.

Sorry, no links to a recent article, but thought I would post about it because I am proud to say that my employer won't kowtow to the toddler in the WH.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

. . . pay it all back, PLUS INTEREST, next year.

Ummmm. NO.

Thankfully, my employer refuses to follow the master puppets plan.

I didn't know employers had a choice about whether or not to participate. Thank goodness, some of them are aware and won't take part in cheating their employees.

[homoe]

Donald Trump Was Unaware Russia Had Already Invaded Ukraine

"[Vladimir Putin] is not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down."

—Apparently unaware that Russia had already annexed Crimea in a 2014 intrusion into Ukraine that left thousands dead (July 31, 2016)

[homoe]

Donald Trump Smears Gold Star Mother.
"His wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. She probably— maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say."

—Smearing Ghazala Khan, the mother of a fallen American soldier, by implying that she was not allowed to speak, despite the fact that she has spoken publicly about her son's death (ABC News interview, July 30, 2016)

"'You do know you just attacked a Gold Star family?' one adviser warned Trump. "What’s that?' he asked."

Trump didn’t know what a Gold Star family was.

[homoe]

“When Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn’t be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water."

—Threatening to go to war with Iran over rude hand gestures, Pensacola, Florida (Sept. 9, 2016)

[homoe]

Donald Trump on His Daughter

"I don't think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."

—When asked how he would react if Ivanka posed for Playboy

[homoe]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday night launched into a racist diatribe against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), saying this isn’t her country and mocking her birthplace.

“She’s telling us how to run our country!” he said at a rally in Pennsylvania. “How did you do where you came from? How is your country doing?” Omar was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States as a child when her family fled the violence there. She’s been a U.S. citizen for 20 years.

Ilhan Omar Hits Back After Trump’s Racist Rally Attack

"Firstly, this is my country & I am a member of the House that impeached you".

"Secondly, I fled civil war when I was 8. An 8-year-old doesn’t run a country even though you run our country like one".

[C0LLETTE]

This Week in WH Receptions.

Amy Coney Barrett...get those folks some nice folding chairs to sit on.

Blexit...let 'em stand, wtf we gave 'em blue tee-shirts.

[homoe]

SSPUP4siQx8

[Kätzchen]

T---p's latest bad decision (s) can be seen in who he elects to pardon. Pardoning criminals who have committed heinous crimes against other human beings as well as against the State (our country) will hopefully never work in his favor. I was just listening to Rachel Maddow discuss this with another former-US Attorney and it appears that pardoning the convicted criminals he has pardoned will be the connect-the-dot trail in documenting how he has obstructed justice during the past four years.

All these bad decisions, but hopefully the litany of documented proof will prove to be his biggest downfall, yet to date.

It scares me that T---p is considering misusing and abusing the Presidential Pardon power to pardon the Saudi Prince who ordered Kashoggi's murder. The fact that he pardoned the Blackwater convicts should scare everyone.

Vicious, cruel, sadistic and unhinged seem to be common traits aptly describing criminals of this caliber. I worry that our country will be forever ruined by T---p and the ReTrumplican's who follow him blindly and exhibit no conscience or ability to say NO to his sickening political agenda that has ruined and scarred the lives of American's and those of our allies and global partners.

[C0LLETTE]

But Trump may never pay the price: either his pardon for himself works or he gives power over a few days early to Pence and Pence just pardons him. Either way the scumbag escapes...

But that's Federally so I hope the State of New York just rises on its hind legs like a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex and swallows him and his entire corrupt family, whole, and shits them out all over Vladimir Putin with the remaining crap washing out over the China Sea.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

[homoe]

As word spread Sunday of President Trump’s astonishing phone conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger the day before, there was widespread speculation that the president had committed one or more crimes in his effort to overturn the results of the election in Georgia, including extortion and, ironically, election fraud.

A recording of the one-hour call was released Sunday by the Washington Post. The president is heard pressuring Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” that would put him in the lead over President-elect Joe Biden in Georgia, which has already certified its results.

Trump also threatens Raffensperger with the possibility of criminal charges unless he comes up with the votes to overturn the election results.

“You know, that’s a criminal — that’s a criminal offense. And you know, you can’t let that happen,” Trump says on the call. “That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. That’s a big risk.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-lessthanperfect-call-to-georgia-officials-could-also-be-a-crime-221455096.html

[homoe]

Republican leaders are skipping President Trump’s farewell event to instead attend church with incoming President Joe Biden on the day of his inauguration.

Senate Majority Leader, soon-to-be Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will both attend church with Mr Biden, Axios reports. It’s a snub symbolising a possible GOP establishment break with Donald Trump and a sign of unity for the country.

Vice President Mike Pence is also skipping Mr Trump’s event but is reportedly not going to attend church with Mr Biden. Washington Post White House reporter Josh Dawsey tweeted that attending both Mr Trump’s event and Mr Biden’s inauguration would be logistically challenging for Mr Pence.

Mr Trump’s sendoff will take place at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. He has requested the event to include the military, with a band and maybe a flyover.

[Stone-Butch]

Trump should pick the most scenic spot he can find, stand at the edge of the highest point, put on a wing suit of his choice of color and then do his own flyover.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Mr Trump’s sendoff will take place at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. He has requested the event to include the military, with a band and maybe a flyover.

I heard the Pentagon turned Trump down for a military-type sendoff - no band, no flyover. Sorry, I can't remember where I heard it and I can't find a reputable source with a quick Google search.

[nhplowboi]

I read the same thing GeorgiaMa'am.
I can only hope it is true.
Hey Trump just leave. I hope this will be your LAST government perk and waste of our tax payer dollars although only impeachment will guarantee that.
A military send off really?! Just what every draft dodger should be afforded.
The saying "Good riddance to bad rubbish." does not even begin to state my disdain for you and your grifter family.
I heard the Pentagon turned Trump down for a military-type sendoff - no band, no flyover. Sorry, I can't remember where I heard it and I can't find a reputable source with a quick Google search.

[homoe]

Delusional Trump Makes Bizarre 'Hugging And Kissing' Claim About Capitol Riot


Former President Donald Trump claimed his supporters involved in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol posed “zero threat” and involved people “hugging and kissing the police.”

One police officer was killed in the attack, and at least 138 suffered injuries that included burns, concussions and fractures.

The Capitol was overrun with a mob attempting to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s Electoral College win.

The former president also claimed his arrested supporters were being “persecuted” for involvement in the violence.

Trump conceded that the rioters “shouldn’t have done it” but saved most of his criticism for anti-fascist activists (also called antifa) and the Black Lives Matter movement:

[homoe]

Trump Crashes Mar-a-Lago Wedding to Whine About Election Loss.





https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-crashes-mar-a-lago-wedding-to-whine-about-2020-election-loss

[homoe]

Manhattan DA could pursue racketeering charge in Trump Org probe, experts say...

Let us hope he does! The state law — sometimes called “little RICO” — can be invoked with proof of as few as three crimes involving a business or other enterprise and can carry a prison term of up to 25 years, along with a mandatory minimum of one to three years.

https://news.yahoo.com/manhattan-da-could-pursue-racketeering-174946746.html

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Trump's blog permanently shuttered 1 month after debut. The blog was an outlet for Trump to post his thoughts publicly after he was banned from many social media platforms. But after he launched it in early May, Internet traffic tracking showed that it wasn't getting much traction.

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Trump to return to D.C. for 1st time since calamitous White House exit.

Former President Donald Trump will make his first return to Washington at the end of July, speaking before a group of his former administration officials, a year and a half after his calamitous departure from the White House.

The America First Policy Institute announced Tuesday morning that Trump would headline its America First Agenda Summit on July 26. The group, which is made up of a large number of former Trump White House and campaign officials, has been informally dubbed the “White House in waiting” among conservatives and Republican campaign operatives.

[Kätzchen]

I'm guessing that the greatest of all time narcissist (that orange colored cheat-o) thought that committing crimes and constantly lying about x, y or z things would be ignored like it was during his four years in executive office and that he would get away with grifting millions of dollars for his own personal use from his own political pac organization or even still be viewed as a choice to ruin our nation beyond repair.

But it looks like the DOJ, FBI and other investigative agencies are closing in on..... disqualifying DT....from ever holding office again.

If our agencies bring DT to a complete stop, on all fronts, we as a nation will survive the harrowing bullshit he has put our nation through.

Please, please.

Let social order and peace prevail and send a major message to other people of the same caliber as T---p and Madoff: You commit crime, you do time. Lots of time.

News article LINK from CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-search-explainer/index.html

[Kätzchen]

See, to me, when somebody who has been a life long narcissist keeps doing the same crap all the time, it makes me angry and both sad because I can hardly believe people still support that spray tanned sycophant who does not stand behind bedrock American democratic norms.


Today, his latest terrible in-your-face decision was to bulldoze his “message” to Judge Engoron — who promptly shut his a$$ down even after extending the chance at the last second to regale us all of the same damn shit he’s been spewing for over 6 decades.

Here’s the stink eye to all of you who empowered this mangy person to represent America.


He does not represent me or the vast majority of Americans who still believe in American values that espouse democratic values.


GO BLUE!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉