Travis Tritt? No idea, but ok. Hooray for Elvis, a fine fellow I am sure. Is he a Trump supporter in ghost form?

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Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
Joe Biden likes to say “No miracle is coming.” But it’s not a miracle.
It’s SCIENCE.
And thankfully we have a president who believes in it and launched Operation #WarpSpeed so that America can develop a vaccine in record time.

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The Democrats know that they are creating havoc on Election night. This is what they want. WE WILL WIN!

The Democrats, together with the corrupt Fake News Media, have launched a massive Disinformation Campaign the likes of which has never been seen before. They will say anything, like their recent lies about me and the Military, and hope that it sticks... But #MAGA gets it!

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Dan Crenshaw
@DanCrenshawTX
US House candidate, TX-2
The Governor is understating the success of his policies.
Hospitalizations are at 4,203, the lowest it’s been since June 23. Decreased by 61% since the peak in July.
Daily new cases have drastically decreased by 78% from 10,791 at its peak in July to 2,374 reported yesterday.
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Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
I said last month that Texas wouldn’t have anymore lockdowns—despite demands from mayors & county judges insisting on lockdowns.
Since my last orders in July, Covid numbers have declined—most importantly hospitalizations.
I hope to provide updates next week about next steps. twitter.com/texasT_20/stat…

Do at least some Drumpf voters and supporters want to see the world burn? The evidence would seem to be right before our eyes.

I think that has been suitably demonstrated.

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Big Ten Football is looking really good, but may lose Michigan, Illinois, and Maryland because of those Governors’ ridiculous lack of interest or political support. They will play without them?

Wonder why he didn't mention Ohio State. Republican governor?

Evidently. Or they have given up on Trump and rather than admitting they were wrong, they've resorted to trolling the forums to get some last triggering done before it's curtains.

There's only one suitable response to this.

Why is he obsessed with Big 10? Never tweets about other conferences.

He's been stealing art from US embassy in Paris.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/...allen-soldiers

"help us, we're sinking"
"RINO, that's socialism"

The Daily Beast:

While strolling around the lavish ambassador’s residence in Paris, he reportedly took a fancy to a number of pieces of artwork, including a bust of Benjamin Franklin and some Greek mythical figurines.
So he ordered them removed from the residence and packed into Air Force One and brought to the White House, according to Bloomberg.
White House spokesman Judd Deere confirmed the poaching, telling Bloomberg, “The president brought these beautiful, historical pieces, which belong to the American people, back to the United States to be prominently displayed in the People’s House.” The ambassador, Jamie McCourt, was surprised but didn’t interfere after Trump reportedly told him they would get their art back “in about six years.”

Right wing America will love that!

Well all the grifting money has to come from somewhere. Dumbo got lucky last time out in that all the networks were willing to give him free airtime and pretend that he wasn't a sociopathic madman.

This time, there's proper news out there with Covid and most people finally realising that cops murdering black people is not a good thing, so he's not getting the traction. And what coverage he's getting (outside OANN) is either people pointing out that the Covid problems are of his own making, people letting him hang by his own racism or carcrash interviews even his Faux news lackeys aren't willing to cover up.

That's just a given. It's one of the basic tenets of the universe.

Woman + unflattering comment about Trump = Nasty.

Probably the only one he can remember the name of.

I don't think he's much of a sports fan.

Especially when the brag is actually a lie. Trump is polling at the same levels with Hispanics and Latinxs that he did in 2016, one very wide outlier notwithstanding. If you're going to lie, at least try to make your side look good.

Some of the more extreme Evangelical Christians probably do.

He’s derided the Pac-12 before for postponing their football season. Unfortunately, they’re looking at ways to start play before the spring, too. Our nation's universities are run by greedy scum.

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Congratulations to the U.S. Marshals on a job well done in Portland. LAW & ORDER!

I think that it's long since been demonstrated that nihilism has a very heavy influence on the Trump side. Which... honestly isn't a surprise reaction to GOP propaganda and efforts. Fear and hate takes a toll on any and everyone (though conservatives physically measurably more, at last check, given that their brains tend react notably more quickly and strongly to the stimuli) and applying a dirty bandage over festering wounds isn't solving problems, even if you can dupe people into thinking that it helps.

Not just probably... and not necessarily even the ones that we would normally consider more extreme. The rapture and end of the world coming sooner means that they get to be reunited with God sooner (without dying or suffering in their calculations, generally).

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Lunacy!
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Trump Orders Purge of ‘Critical Race Theory‘ from Federal Agencies https://breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/0...eral-agencies/ via @BreitbartNews This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish!

I'm confused. He shouting lunacy at his own tweet?
It's like he's seeing it for the first time.

Not as confused as Trump.

It seems the figurines were replicas, made in the 20th century as copies of much older works. It seems just about right that he'd be attracted to them. They're gaudy, overdone, don't match the room and childishly pretentious. The man has no taste.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...-replicas.html

ETA
oops. I was assuming they were originals.

While I might put it in the list of top 30 gauche things DJT has done after taking office, I would not put it in the top 100 things to complain about.
Now, if he were to take them with him when he leaves, I might say top 60 things to complain about. If he sold them and pocketed the money, then maybe the top 40 things to complain about.

Although in the top 40 things to complain about, it would probably be practical to leave maybe 10 empty spaces for things that are going to come out in the next 6-18 months.


ETA
I hope to god that it later comes out that the originals were in the embassy, but the ambassador had the foresight to make and display copies when he heard DJT was coming.

No, not really. Nihilists are almost always atheists who are more often liberal than the average American.

If that's so then who is anxious about the earth being inhabitable in 30 years because of climate change?

That's good to hear, twitter radicals shouldn't be able to force workers to take their "all white men are evil" course.

It's not Nihilism, it's Eschatology.
And it meshes perfectly with Trumpism.

Given there are 2 more pages I've yet to read, I've probably been ninja'd

Suspect in Portland killing of far-right protester 'shot dead' by US marshals

IOW they killed the guy that killed a far-right demonstrator. And Trump Tweets that. Disgusting isn't sleazy enough to describe that slime.

Perhaps I am being too cynical, but I think that should read “selling them a dirty bandage to apply over festering wounds.”
Maybe even “insist that the whole concept of festering wounds is a myth started by the Chinese.“

Exactly.
Why should we be stewards of the Earth if we and the other real Christians will be raptured in 2-25 years?

Ignore post, please.

Is Pelosi running for POTUS? :rolleyes:

Oh wait, isn't that a QAnon CT?

Notice he combines his annoyance that he's been accused of really ******* up relations and negotiations with two of those leaders and of being conned by the third.

So you have to read past the headline? :rolleyes:

:crazy:

Trump: "See, there's some very fine people on both sides."

From Slate: Trump Took Art From Ambassador’s Home in Paris, But Pieces Were Fakes and Replicas If Trump said they belong in the People's House then you know he didn't realize they were fakes. Yep, he knows now, you can bet he made excuses.

:dl:

Edited by Agatha:

Edited to remove breach of rule 12

Louis DeJoy is in trouble for getting employees to make donations to the GOP in return for a pay bonus.

Washington Post reported DeJoy’s decade-long scheme of getting his employees into donating to the Republican party, and then illegally reimbursing them through company bonuses.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein from bringing a criminal case on state charges. Stein issued this statement today:

Some varieties, perhaps. I admit that I'm using the term a little loosely, though, and have no problem with agreeing to use a more accurate term, if you'd like to suggest such?

Nice try at a gotcha. It works at a very superficial level, of course, but not really much past that on real examination. To tie this together with the previous statement, though... when, for example, big fossil fuel providers have *known* with great certainty about their role in climate change for longer than most people have been alive and much about the consequences of such, and their leadership, in libertarian fashion, decided that it's not as important as increasing profits right then - to the point that they've spent big for a long time on creating and sowing disinformation and doubt to prevent action that would reduce immediate profits, but also help make things much more sustainable, that's a problem. When that works, as it has far better on the "conservative side" of things for a number of reasons, of course there will be less alarm about a problem that isn't being recognized as real.


If they actually were such, you might have a point.

Here's a link not paywalled:

Mother Jones: Report: Louis DeJoy Used Bonuses to Reimburse Employees for Donations to GOP Campaigns And TPM: Ex-Staffers At DeJoy’s Former Business Say He Reimbursed Them For Donations To GOPers That's not just some disgruntled employees.

But if you expect anyone from this over-the-top in-plain-sight corruption to actually do anything about it, you will likely be disappointed. DeJoy knows he can be pardoned and many many Republicans are in it neck deep themselves.


BUT AG Josh Stein is a Democrat and DeJoy can be charged under state law, no pardon, so we'll see.

Donnie won't be pleased that donations were made to McCain.

Hmm. Well, here's another blow to some of the GOP's attack lines.

Anita Hill vows to vote for Joe Biden and work with him on gender issues

Elsewhere... Rick Wilson comments...

Seems to be referring to this.

Oh, and...

One of the statements in a lawsuit is now that Epstein showed a 14-year-old girl To Trump, saying "This is a good one, right?" and Trump smiled and nodded.

Just saw this one from George Takei and liked it.

Overheard: Can we call the swamped Trump boat people "Proud Buoys" from now on?

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...58280e0dc0.bmp

Link to original story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...1c4_story.html

Trump retweets

Andrew Surabian
@Surabees
It says everything about how broken the media is that after @JeffreyGoldberg helped lie this nation into the Iraq War, he wasn't run out of journalism in embarrassment, but rather given promotions to continue his shoddy "journalism" unabated. Our "elites" constantly fail upwards.

Not only does @JeffreyGoldberg have low editorial standards, he's long been a propagandist for the Military Industrial Complex.
He pushed their lies to get us into the Iraq War & is pushing their easily debunked lies about Trump, b/c unlike Biden, Trump won't support their wars.

Trump Retweeted
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Thousands of Americans died and even more came home wounded because career politicians like Joe Biden voted to send them to Iraq!!!
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Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022
@TrumpWarRoom
Donald Trump in 2007 on the terrible cost of the Iraq War:
"Nobody talks about the soldiers that are coming back with no arms and no legs... The most beautiful people I've ever seen"