That's exactly the fear. The impeachment process will only recharge his basket of deplorables. The best way to get him out is overwhelm them at the ballot box.
That's exactly the fear. The impeachment process will only recharge his basket of deplorables. The best way to get him out is overwhelm them at the ballot box.
Bolton’s not nuts enough for the Dotard?!? Stand by for the next truly despicable swamp creature to take us down even more rungs.
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The Apprentice President just can't help himself from insulting women especially women of color.
The internet woke up on Monday morning to a surprising Twitter feud. Chrissy Teigen, the supermodel, entrepreneur and wife of singer John Legend, was trending, along with the hashtag “FilthyMouthedWife.” This was not all that unusual given Teigen’s current status as one of the true celebrity stars of Twitter.
- b.c.,
- b.c.,
With all the SHIT provocateurs and propagandists are trying to stir among the Democrats for trying to narrow their field, one would THINK there'd be equal flak over the states that won't even BOTHER to hold primaries. But NO, not a fkng PEEP.
Trump defends states scrapping GOP primaries and calls his challengers a 'laughingstock' - POLITICO
. . .
And AGAIN, why the fuck does the media report Trump's AGAIN talking of extending his term as "a JOKE"? This fkr ISN'T JOKING. He's PLANTING THE NOTION into the heads of his followers (and critics alike). He INTENDS ON BEING PRESIDENT FOR LIFE. Wake the fuck up.
Trump again jokes about extending his term past 2024Politico
MEANWHILE:
Even some White House officials are balking at Trump's unprecedented $28 billion farm bailout
Trump defends states scrapping GOP primaries and calls his challengers a 'laughingstock' - POLITICO
. . .
And AGAIN, why the fuck does the media report Trump's AGAIN talking of extending his term as "a JOKE"? This fkr ISN'T JOKING. He's PLANTING THE NOTION into the heads of his followers (and critics alike). He INTENDS ON BEING PRESIDENT FOR LIFE. Wake the fuck up.
Trump again jokes about extending his term past 2024Politico
MEANWHILE:
Even some White House officials are balking at Trump's unprecedented $28 billion farm bailout
"Donald Trump's trade war with China has so devastated American farmers that the administration's bailout to try ease their pain has ballooned to an epic $28 billion, and now even some White House officials are balking at the figure."
- b.c.,
IN RELATED NEWS:
Judge Promoted by Trump Administration Threatened a 2-Year-Old With an Attack Dog – Mother Jones
Pence family boondoggle in Ireland cost U.S. taxpayers $600,000 for the limos alone
Trump has been a national security risk since inauguration and a US spy might (still) be in jeopardy
And for his zombie constituency who think recession talk is just "a LIE":
Bloomberg: Recession already starting in some areas
Judge Promoted by Trump Administration Threatened a 2-Year-Old With an Attack Dog – Mother Jones
Pence family boondoggle in Ireland cost U.S. taxpayers $600,000 for the limos alone
Trump has been a national security risk since inauguration and a US spy might (still) be in jeopardy
And for his zombie constituency who think recession talk is just "a LIE":
Bloomberg: Recession already starting in some areas
Trump is the country’s top meteorologist. If you don’t agree NOAA you’re fired.
WASHINGTON — The White House was directly involved in pressing a federal scientific agency to repudiate the weather forecasters who contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian would probably strike Alabama, according to several people familiar with the events.
White House Pressed Agency to Repudiate Weather Forecasters Who Contradicted Trump
White House Pressed Agency to Repudiate Weather Forecasters Who Contradicted Trump
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Party of Jesus - the Republicans? One question. Do you believe Donald Trump knows Jesus, the Jesus that is portrayed in the Gospels? Apparently the Republicans read a different biography of Jesus than the one I have read that is in the four Gospels of the New Testament: The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
I really did not believe that a person holding the office of president could end the American Republic and replace it with a totalitarian right wing government, Now I am not so sure!
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More on "Sharpiegate" - from last night's The 11th Hour with Brian Williams: "But God looked down and said, 'We're not going to let it rain on your speech'." - Trump
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Sadly, it is not a movie. It is for real. That makes it a tragedy that we all will have to pay for with compound interest!
The only good to come out of Trump's role in weather predicting is that with that pen of his, he was able to show proof that Trump suffers from a at least one very serious personality disorder.
It would have been hilarious except that it was for real. Trump drew in an alternate route for the hurricane to take. Trump wrote it in. It must be so!
Getting the real experts to tell the world that the Donald was right speaks volumes of just how far this ship has traveled toward an Armegedden if something is not done to lasso this out of control creature and soon! This is not going to get any better until Trump and Co are out of office!
If all this were a long movie, it would have crossed from comedy to a farce long time ago.
Sadly, it is not a movie. It is for real. That makes it a tragedy that we all will have to pay for with compound interest!
The only good to come out of Trump's role in weather predicting is that with that pen of his, he was able to show proof that Trump suffers from a at least one very serious personality disorder.
It would have been hilarious except that it was for real. Trump drew in an alternate route for the hurricane to take. Trump wrote it in. It must be so!
Getting the real experts to tell the world that the Donald was right speaks volumes of just how far this ship has traveled toward an Armegedden if something is not done to lasso this out of control creature and soon! This is not going to get any better until Trump and Co are out of office!
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LATE-NIGHT COMICS have had quite a field day with “Sharpiegate.” How could they not? From the start, the events surrounding President Trump’s false claim that Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama seemed like some sort of silly joke. But what has played out over the past week — an administration threatening scientists and undermining a critical government agency to back up a president who can’t just say he made a mistake — is not at all laughable. It is serious and dangerous and, sad to say, par for the course for a White House that is clearly scornful of both science and federal workers.
Can’t weather forecasting be free from politics? Not in the Trump administration.
Can’t weather forecasting be free from politics? Not in the Trump administration.
An American president arguing with the National Weather Service for ten straight days. Yeah, this about what we expected when it was determined that sick joke of a human being trump had won the 2016 election. Pitiful. Absolutely pitiful.
"clearly scornful of science" the one phrase that spells America's tragic decline.
The relentless campaign to destroy everything everywhere continues unabated.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday is expected to complete the legal repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation, which had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and water bodies.
Trump Administration to Finalize Rollback of Clean Water Protections
Trump Administration to Finalize Rollback of Clean Water Protections
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Trump might as well just nuke the USA ... this slow death by Trump is worse!
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unfortunately
i think it will take out the next years
you folk dont seem to readily change
apart from not having a strong opposition
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In my Sunday column I wrote about Sharpiegate, which has become the shorthand description for President Trump's now more than week-long obsession with being proved correct in his false claim that Hurricane Dorian was going to hit the state of Alabama.
The scandal "is emblematic," I wrote, "of the president’s frightening inability to accept and acknowledge reality."
In retrospect, I underestimated the depths to which this story would go. At the time, I noted that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had "offered no comment on Trump’s Dorian falsehoods — basically allowing the president’s lie to stand."
Then things got interesting.
On Friday, the NOAA put out an anonymous press release claiming that it had provided the president with information that "tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama," and it chastised the Birmingham National Weather Service for tweeting a week ago Sunday that "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian."
Alabama being subjected to tropical-storm winds is not quite the same thing as being hit by a hurricane - as Trump claimed at the time. And the criticism of the Birmingham weather service's statement, which was correct and proper and came in response to public fears raised by Trump's tweet, has sparked widespread anger within the weather service for politicizing the work of the agency.
But it gets even worse.
Over the weekend, we found out that the NOAA had instructed agency staff to avoid making any public statements that would contradict the president.
As Jane Lubchenco, a NOAA administrator under President Obama, put it in The Washington Post: “This looks like classic politically motivated obfuscation to justify inaccurate statements made by the boss. It is truly sad to see political appointees undermining the superb, life-saving work of NOAA’s talented and dedicated career servants.”
Trump's manipulation of the federal government to lie on his behalf is, in itself, is a huge scandal ... but wait, there's more!
On Monday, the New York Times reported that the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, "threatened to fire top employees at the federal scientific agency responsible for weather forecasts last Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama." NOAA is under the purview of the Commerce Department.
Over the next several days, news emerged that Ross had been told by White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to get NOAA in line ... and by Wednesday it was revealed in the New York Times that Mulvaney was acting on the president's orders.
In one sense, Sharpiegate is the scandal that keeps on giving. It has everything - man-child narcissism, badly doctored weather maps, terrifying presidential tweets, and now public corruption. (As Daniel Drezner rightly put it, Sharpiegate is the "perfect synecdoche" for this White House).
In another deeper more profound sense, Sharpiegate is yet one more example of the extraordinary harm that Trump and his coterie of minions of bootlickers are doing to American democracy. The Secretary of Commerce instructing public officials to lie about weather forecasts - and threatening to fire them if they don't - is, even for this administration, a remarkable abuse of power. That Ross still has his job - and that few in Congress have called for his resignation - is one more reminder of how inured we've become to the Trump administration's astonishing corruption. That it turns out the rot goes all the way into the White House and the president himself is an even greater scandal - and also completely predictable.
Keep in mind: The Commerce Department includes the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is responsible for issuing a host of key economic statistics. Is it so hard to imagine Ross instructing the bureau to manipulate data in order to avoid contradicting the president?
To be sure, the federal bureaucracy is run by the president, but that doesn't mean Trump has the right to instruct federal employees to lie and obfuscate on his behalf. Their responsibility is not to the president, but to the American people and the Constitution they all swear an oath to uphold.
As we've seen over and over again, this concept of professionalism and probity is one that the president is not able to wrap his head around. Doing the right thing will always take a back seat to him being proved right, even when he is unambiguously wrong. What makes this situation so much worse is that Trump has surrounded himself with individuals who are more than willing to lie, threaten, and violate the public trust on his behalf.
Trump's corruption is not just restricted to the many ways in which he is enriching himself (and there was more news on that front this week), but he is also infecting the entire government with his amorality.
unfortunately
i think it will take out the next years
you folk dont seem to readily change
apart from not having a strong opposition
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September 12, 2019 | Follow Michael Cohen on Twitter
ALL HE TOUCHES HE CORRUPTS
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty
In my Sunday column I wrote about Sharpiegate, which has become the shorthand description for President Trump's now more than week-long obsession with being proved correct in his false claim that Hurricane Dorian was going to hit the state of Alabama.
The scandal "is emblematic," I wrote, "of the president’s frightening inability to accept and acknowledge reality."
In retrospect, I underestimated the depths to which this story would go. At the time, I noted that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had "offered no comment on Trump’s Dorian falsehoods — basically allowing the president’s lie to stand."
Then things got interesting.
On Friday, the NOAA put out an anonymous press release claiming that it had provided the president with information that "tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama," and it chastised the Birmingham National Weather Service for tweeting a week ago Sunday that "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian."
Alabama being subjected to tropical-storm winds is not quite the same thing as being hit by a hurricane - as Trump claimed at the time. And the criticism of the Birmingham weather service's statement, which was correct and proper and came in response to public fears raised by Trump's tweet, has sparked widespread anger within the weather service for politicizing the work of the agency.
But it gets even worse.
Over the weekend, we found out that the NOAA had instructed agency staff to avoid making any public statements that would contradict the president.
As Jane Lubchenco, a NOAA administrator under President Obama, put it in The Washington Post: “This looks like classic politically motivated obfuscation to justify inaccurate statements made by the boss. It is truly sad to see political appointees undermining the superb, life-saving work of NOAA’s talented and dedicated career servants.”
Trump's manipulation of the federal government to lie on his behalf is, in itself, is a huge scandal ... but wait, there's more!
On Monday, the New York Times reported that the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, "threatened to fire top employees at the federal scientific agency responsible for weather forecasts last Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama." NOAA is under the purview of the Commerce Department.
Over the next several days, news emerged that Ross had been told by White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to get NOAA in line ... and by Wednesday it was revealed in the New York Times that Mulvaney was acting on the president's orders.
In one sense, Sharpiegate is the scandal that keeps on giving. It has everything - man-child narcissism, badly doctored weather maps, terrifying presidential tweets, and now public corruption. (As Daniel Drezner rightly put it, Sharpiegate is the "perfect synecdoche" for this White House).
In another deeper more profound sense, Sharpiegate is yet one more example of the extraordinary harm that Trump and his coterie of minions of bootlickers are doing to American democracy. The Secretary of Commerce instructing public officials to lie about weather forecasts - and threatening to fire them if they don't - is, even for this administration, a remarkable abuse of power. That Ross still has his job - and that few in Congress have called for his resignation - is one more reminder of how inured we've become to the Trump administration's astonishing corruption. That it turns out the rot goes all the way into the White House and the president himself is an even greater scandal - and also completely predictable.
Keep in mind: The Commerce Department includes the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is responsible for issuing a host of key economic statistics. Is it so hard to imagine Ross instructing the bureau to manipulate data in order to avoid contradicting the president?
To be sure, the federal bureaucracy is run by the president, but that doesn't mean Trump has the right to instruct federal employees to lie and obfuscate on his behalf. Their responsibility is not to the president, but to the American people and the Constitution they all swear an oath to uphold.
As we've seen over and over again, this concept of professionalism and probity is one that the president is not able to wrap his head around. Doing the right thing will always take a back seat to him being proved right, even when he is unambiguously wrong. What makes this situation so much worse is that Trump has surrounded himself with individuals who are more than willing to lie, threaten, and violate the public trust on his behalf.
Trump's corruption is not just restricted to the many ways in which he is enriching himself (and there was more news on that front this week), but he is also infecting the entire government with his amorality.
ALL HE TOUCHES HE CORRUPTS
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This photo should immortalize the Trump presidency signifying how low a "superpower" has fallen. It submit it should go to the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
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Notice how all of Trump's henchmen and cronies now feel they're so far above the law THEY don't have to answer to or explain SHIT:
https://theweek.com/speedreads/8643...ion-wants-end-humanitarian-immigration-policy
Official refuses to tell lawmakers why Trump administration wants to end humanitarian immigration policy
https://theweek.com/speedreads/8643...ion-wants-end-humanitarian-immigration-policy
Trump court pick sparks frustration for refusing to answer questions | TheHill
MEANWHILE,
Trump admin won't give temporary protected status to Bahamian victims of Hurricane Dorian
https://theweek.com/speedreads/8643...ion-wants-end-humanitarian-immigration-policy
Official refuses to tell lawmakers why Trump administration wants to end humanitarian immigration policy
https://theweek.com/speedreads/8643...ion-wants-end-humanitarian-immigration-policy
Trump court pick sparks frustration for refusing to answer questions | TheHill
MEANWHILE,
Trump admin won't give temporary protected status to Bahamian victims of Hurricane Dorian
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also...
Why the man Trump once called ‘my African American’ is leaving the GOP | PBS NewsHour
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ublican-Party-with-harsh-words-on-his-way-out
Man Trump once called 'my African American' leaves Republican Party, with harsh words on his way out
"After two years of frustration with [Trump's] rhetoric on race and the lack of diversity in the administration, Cheadle told PBS NewsHour he has decided to leave the Republican party and run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representative as an independent in 2020."
He WOKE THE FUCK UP AFTER TWO YEARS??? Bro, what TOOK you so long?
Why the man Trump once called ‘my African American’ is leaving the GOP | PBS NewsHour
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ublican-Party-with-harsh-words-on-his-way-out
Man Trump once called 'my African American' leaves Republican Party, with harsh words on his way out
"After two years of frustration with [Trump's] rhetoric on race and the lack of diversity in the administration, Cheadle told PBS NewsHour he has decided to leave the Republican party and run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representative as an independent in 2020."
He WOKE THE FUCK UP AFTER TWO YEARS??? Bro, what TOOK you so long?
- b.c.,
Seems the Air Force is loving Trump's money grab (NOT):
Report: Air Force calls diversion of funds for border wall a national security risk | Facts Behind News
"The U.S. Air Force, in a report revealed Friday, said the planned $3.6 billion diversion of military funds for a border wall is a risk of national security.
The report, obtained by NBC News, outlines 51 military projects scheduled to lose funding, and their importance to national security.
... projects supporting the European Defense Initiative, which deters Russian aggression in Europe, is among the most notable.
It cites that without properly constructed buildings, personnel and 12 F/A-22 fighter planes at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany “will have no shelter facilities in case of enemy attack, making the assets vulnerable to destruction.”
Funding for airport upgrades in Germany, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Slovakia and Hungary have been cancelled because of the request to divert funding."
Meanwhile Trump can literally stand before his bamboozled hoard and recite Mother fkng GOOSE, and they'd cheer him for it:
Trump Gives A Rambling Mess Of A Speech At The GOP's Baltimore Retreat -- And He's A Hit | HuffPost
While his HENCHMEN like Barr, Ross, and Mulvaney continue to cover for him:
The US Department of Justice is obstructing evidence... again
in other news:
Trump finally agrees to release military aid to Ukraine after apparent blackmail effort fails
Kremlin-Controlled Russian Bank Hires Trump Insider as a Lobbyist – Mother Jones
Report: Air Force calls diversion of funds for border wall a national security risk | Facts Behind News
"The U.S. Air Force, in a report revealed Friday, said the planned $3.6 billion diversion of military funds for a border wall is a risk of national security.
The report, obtained by NBC News, outlines 51 military projects scheduled to lose funding, and their importance to national security.
... projects supporting the European Defense Initiative, which deters Russian aggression in Europe, is among the most notable.
It cites that without properly constructed buildings, personnel and 12 F/A-22 fighter planes at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany “will have no shelter facilities in case of enemy attack, making the assets vulnerable to destruction.”
Funding for airport upgrades in Germany, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Slovakia and Hungary have been cancelled because of the request to divert funding."
Meanwhile Trump can literally stand before his bamboozled hoard and recite Mother fkng GOOSE, and they'd cheer him for it:
Trump Gives A Rambling Mess Of A Speech At The GOP's Baltimore Retreat -- And He's A Hit | HuffPost
"In disjointed, jumbled remarks delivered in a city that he proclaimed in July was “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” [Individual numero uno] addressed House Republicans at their annual retreat Thursday night and delivered a preview of his central reelection message: “You have no choice.”
Speaking from the stage of a grandiose hotel ballroom in downtown Baltimore, Trump largely ignored the Twitter feud he started with the city earlier this summer, saying only he would fix its “failed and corrupt rule” ― without providing any details.
Instead, he chose to speak on just about anything else that crossed his mind for an hour and 10 minutes."
Speaking from the stage of a grandiose hotel ballroom in downtown Baltimore, Trump largely ignored the Twitter feud he started with the city earlier this summer, saying only he would fix its “failed and corrupt rule” ― without providing any details.
Instead, he chose to speak on just about anything else that crossed his mind for an hour and 10 minutes."
While his HENCHMEN like Barr, Ross, and Mulvaney continue to cover for him:
The US Department of Justice is obstructing evidence... again
"The US Department of Justice is trying to keep evidence gathered in a criminal investigation of Trump away from Congress - which, under our Constitution, holds "sole power of impeachment."
in other news:
Trump finally agrees to release military aid to Ukraine after apparent blackmail effort fails
"Three House committees are now investigating the scam in which both Giuliani and Trump have been leaning on Ukrainian officials in an effort to get them to claim that Vice President Joe Biden is under investigation. Which he definitely is not.
As part of this plot, Trump has even been holding up military aid to Ukraine to place pressure on the new pro-Western government.
The New York Times reports that Trump has folded on this part of the scheme after the idea of withholding aid from a U.S. ally created outrage on both sides of the aisle."
and:As part of this plot, Trump has even been holding up military aid to Ukraine to place pressure on the new pro-Western government.
The New York Times reports that Trump has folded on this part of the scheme after the idea of withholding aid from a U.S. ally created outrage on both sides of the aisle."
Kremlin-Controlled Russian Bank Hires Trump Insider as a Lobbyist – Mother Jones
