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Skeptic Ginger 1st September 2020 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Minoosh (Post 13208077)
...
I wonder if Ivanka or Jared ever cringe at the anti-Semitism coming from so many white supremacy advocates. Also, though Israel may back Trump, I imagine many American Jews look askance at Trump's acceptance of support from neo-Nazis. And what are Israelis to make of support from End Times evangelicals who see Israel as necessary to biblical prophecy?....

Doubt it bothers them, they probably see the white supremacists as votes for Daddy.

But I'm also reminded that Kissinger overlooked Nixon's blatant anti-Semitism.

The Atheist 1st September 2020 02:47 PM

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that two weeks is a long time in politics.

Three weeks is even longer, and this post was 3 weeks ago:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moi
Just a little nightmare scenario for you.

1 Trump will be seen as saviour by a lot of people for issuing the exec order on payment. They will see McConnell thanking Trump and blame the Dems for the delay.

2 Covid has peaked in USA, and rates will continue to fall, at least until the election. He will be smugly claiming to have been right all along.

3 The Dow & NASDAQ will set new records, thereby allowing Trump to praise himself over it.

4 Unemployment will drop by massive amounts by November, allowing him another easy victory to trumpet.

5 Biden stays doing the responsible thing, masked up at home as Trump recommences cheering rallies.

6 Four more years.

1 - ?

2 - Covid peaking.

When I suggested that, there were many posts pooh-poohing the idea.

Yet, 2 days later, the US infection rate is down 40% from its peak. Deaths, lagging, are down only 10% from its recent surge.

I'd be very surprised if it doesn't keep dropping.

3 - NASDAQ, check, Dow, very close.

4 - you can bet unemployment will be dropping sharply, simply because more places are open.

5 - check

There's also a very important new point - riots and looting driving support for Trump, with a genuinely large change in both Biden v Trump and Trump's approval rating in the past couple of days. I don't see any other reason for the change, and it's pretty likely that perceived violence on the streets drives support for authoritarianism.

6 - ...

Sleep well.

alfaniner 1st September 2020 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by alfaniner (Post 13208205)
Guess what the "secret word" is for today.
How did George Floyd die, again? Oh yeah... he was choked.

Just had to create this for Twitter.

Skeptic Ginger 1st September 2020 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop (Post 13208091)
Trump begins his interview with Laura Ingraham by saying "Portland has been burning for many years, for decades it's been burning,"

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I AGREE



We didn't start the fire, sorry, couldn't help it.

Skeptic Ginger 1st September 2020 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alfaniner (Post 13208629)
Just had to create this for Twitter.

I know, what was up with that? At first I thought he meant the police choked people. But he was talking about police who chicken out or something and let some rounds fly.

Captain_Swoop 1st September 2020 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Atheist (Post 13208624)
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that two weeks is a long time in politics.

Three weeks is even longer, and this post was 3 weeks ago:



1 - ?

2 - Covid peaking.

When I suggested that, there were many posts pooh-poohing the idea.

Yet, 2 days later, the US infection rate is down 40% from its peak. Deaths, lagging, are down only 10% from its recent surge.

I'd be very surprised if it doesn't keep dropping.

3 - NASDAQ, check, Dow, very close.

4 - you can bet unemployment will be dropping sharply, simply because more places are open.

5 - check

There's also a very important new point - riots and looting driving support for Trump, with a genuinely large change in both Biden v Trump and Trump's approval rating in the past couple of days. I don't see any other reason for the change, and it's pretty likely that perceived violence on the streets drives support for authoritarianism.

6 - ...

Sleep well.

you are funny

Captain_Swoop 1st September 2020 03:01 PM

Trump Tweets

Drudge didn’t support me in 2016, and I hear he doesn’t support me now. Maybe that’s why he is doing poorly. His Fake News report on Mini-Strokes is incorrect. Possibly thinking about himself, or the other party’s “candidate”.

Captain_Swoop 1st September 2020 03:03 PM

Trump Tweets

Not even a “minor” one. Thank you!
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Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
Weird that the media seems super excited about unsupported allegations in some liberal hit-piece book that Trump had a minor health issue a year ago, yet it is entirely unconcerned with Biden's manifest dementia on display yesterday.
Weird timing too, huh?

Captain_Swoop 1st September 2020 03:09 PM

Trump Tweets

There has not. They are the Enemy of the People. TDS!
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Saagar Enjeti
@esaagar
Not sure there's been a more dishonest news cycle in my lifetime twitter.com/nytimes/status…

Armitage72 1st September 2020 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop (Post 13208556)
Trump Tweets

It never ends! Now they are trying to say that your favorite President, me, went to Walter Reed Medical Center, having suffered a series of mini-strokes. Never happened to THIS candidate - FAKE NEWS. Perhaps they are referring to another candidate from another Party!


I'm seeing it claimed that nobody said anything about "a series of mini-strokes", until Trump himself brought it up.

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop (Post 13208646)
Trump Tweets

Not even a “minor” one. Thank you!
Quote Tweet

Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
Weird that the media seems super excited about unsupported allegations in some liberal hit-piece book that Trump had a minor health issue a year ago, yet it is entirely unconcerned with Biden's manifest dementia on display yesterday.
Weird timing too, huh?

Are they SERIOUSLY trying to claim Biden's excellent speech was a sign of dementia? I feel like I'm in an episode of

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...ecb057279c.png

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Armitage72 (Post 13208652)
I'm seeing it claimed that nobody said anything about "a series of mini-strokes", until Trump himself brought it up.

They weren't. He's projecting again. He can't help himself.

jnelso99 1st September 2020 03:34 PM

There's probably a sexual joke in there about Trump and "mini-strokes", but I'm not smart enough to come up with one.

Skeptic Ginger 1st September 2020 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shemp (Post 13208182)
If Tiger Woods had been there it wouldn't have happened!

Interesting that Trump uses that golf example about "choking on a short putt" given how he's famous for dragging the ball into the cup with a club from distances no other golfer would drag the ball into the cup.

His golf cheating denial is just under the surface.

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jnelso99 (Post 13208676)
There's probably a sexual joke in there about Trump and "mini-strokes", but I'm not smart enough to come up with one.

That's all he can manage with those teeny tiny little hands.

Lithrael 1st September 2020 04:07 PM

Something about you can’t take a long stroke off a short pier?

Craig4 1st September 2020 04:40 PM

http://www.digitaljournal.com/intern...article/577259

So I saw the Ingram interview. Um...what the **** just happened?

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig4 (Post 13208738)
http://www.digitaljournal.com/intern...article/577259

So I saw the Ingram interview. Um...what the **** just happened?

Another example of our "stable genius" at work.

SezMe 1st September 2020 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by alfaniner (Post 13207758)
I do wish he had used another word, considering 90% of the population probably wouldn't know what this one means if taken out of context.

Agreed. I wish he had included the GOP in his condemnation of Trump's racism. If the Dems don't take the Senate, Biden will be severely hampered in trying to pass legislation.

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 05:22 PM

I'm watching Tim Murtaugh, Trump's mouthpiece, twisting himself into a pretzel trying to explain away his master's ridiculous "plane full of thugs" lie on Anderson Cooper's show. It's hysterical! He keeps trying to claim that it's 'OK' because 120 people arrested in Kenosha were from out of state so that somehow justifies the claim. He's also using the tactic of just continually talking over John (the host filling in for Cooper, don't know his last name) when he's called on the fallacy of that argument. What a slime ball.

ETA: First that flight was coming into Washington. Later today he claimed it was leaving DC. He can't even keep his own lies straight.

kookbreaker 1st September 2020 05:36 PM

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And you have people coming over with bags of soup — big bags of soup. And they lay it on the ground, and the anarchists take it and they start throwing it at our cops, at our police. And if it hits you, that's worse than a brick because that's got force. It's the perfect size. It's, like, made perfect.

And when they get caught, they say, 'No, this is just soup for my family.' And then the media says, 'This is just soup. These people are very, very innocent. They're innocent people. These are just protesters. Isn't it wonderful to allow protesting?'"
Umm, yeah Mr. President....

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 05:58 PM

Pence says he "doesn't recall" being put on standby during Trump's unscheduled Saturday visit to Walter Reed last November. No denial. Just "doesn't recall". That's the standard 'non-denial' used when you can't honestly deny something. He so was put on standby.

SezMe 1st September 2020 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stacyhs (Post 13208492)
This is a picture of me this morning as I was going to the Fred Meyer Grocery Store.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e9d493b611.jpg

The Fake News won't mention how clean I keep the streets. Sad!

chrispy 1st September 2020 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by kookbreaker (Post 13208793)
Umm, yeah Mr. President....

Is this satire or real? I can't tell anymore. Please tell me it is satire

Norman Alexander 1st September 2020 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by chrispy (Post 13208832)
Is this satire or real? I can't tell anymore. Please tell me it is satire

Oh ******* dear.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1300909465412091906

I Am The Scum 1st September 2020 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrispy (Post 13208832)
Is this satire or real? I can't tell anymore. Please tell me it is satire

Recently uncovered footage from late July. I had to look it up myself because I assumed kookbreaker was making some obscure sitcom reference.

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrispy (Post 13208832)
Is this satire or real? I can't tell anymore. Please tell me it is satire

Nope.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1300909465412091906

I Am The Scum 1st September 2020 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norman Alexander (Post 13208834)

The full quote in the second post is just insane. It's like a 5-year-old making up a story.

Skeptic Ginger 1st September 2020 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Armitage72 (Post 13208652)
I'm seeing it claimed that nobody said anything about "a series of mini-strokes", until Trump himself brought it up.

That's interesting because all I read was a small stroke. So now we know, the diagnosis was a series of mini-strokes. They probably put him on anti-coags.

CapelDodger 1st September 2020 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stacyhs (Post 13208815)
Pence says he "doesn't recall" being put on standby during Trump's unscheduled Saturday visit to Walter Reed last November. No denial. Just "doesn't recall". That's the standard 'non-denial' used when you can't honestly deny something. He so was put on standby.

And it's on record.

carlitos 1st September 2020 06:29 PM

The Trump Presidency: Part 25
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by I Am The Scum (Post 13208839)
The full quote in the second post is just insane. It's like a 5-year-old making up a story.



Was that around the time of the cement milkshakes?

In Bad Boys, Sean Penn used cans of Soda in a pillowcase as a weapon. Bags of soup, sheesh.

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger (Post 13208844)
That's interesting because all I read was a small stroke. So now we know, the diagnosis was a series of mini-strokes. They probably put him on anti-coags.

I think that's likely. When my mom had a TIA, she had another shortly thereafter. I think he inadvertently let out more info.

Jim_MDP 1st September 2020 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by I Am The Scum (Post 13208839)
The full quote in the second post is just insane. It's like a 5-year-old making up a story.

This is the first I'm seeing this, missed it completely back whenever.
It starts as "cans" of soup. Sounds nasty, and effective (I'd go with the little single serving veg though... you could carry a lot more of those. [emoji1] ) but he goes immediately to "bags" of soup.
WTF?
Really... what the actual? Bags? Where did that thought even come from?
[emoji53]

TIAs baby. Walter Reed and TIAs, it's gonna come out. [emoji21]

Skeptic Ginger 1st September 2020 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stacyhs (Post 13208779)
I'm watching Tim Murtaugh, Trump's mouthpiece, twisting himself into a pretzel trying to explain away his master's ridiculous "plane full of thugs" lie on Anderson Cooper's show. It's hysterical! He keeps trying to claim that it's 'OK' because 120 people arrested in Kenosha were from out of state so that somehow justifies the claim. He's also using the tactic of just continually talking over John (the host filling in for Cooper, don't know his last name) when he's called on the fallacy of that argument. What a slime ball.

ETA: First that flight was coming into Washington. Later today he claimed it was leaving DC. He can't even keep his own lies straight.

So all the thugs from all over just happen to be connecting through a DC hub? :p

Jim_MDP 1st September 2020 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger (Post 13208851)
So all the thugs from all over just happen to be connecting through a DC hub? :p

I would have guessed Atlanta, to be honest.
[emoji1]

:ducks:

carlitos 1st September 2020 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger (Post 13208851)
So all the thugs from all over just happen to be connecting through a DC hub? :p



Maybe they are using Soros’ United miles and have to go through a hub to get the saver rate.

Norman Alexander 1st September 2020 06:36 PM

Come on, USA. You have a big, beautiful, powerful constitution, and the 25th Amendment in that big, beautiful, powerful constitution deals with removing a president who can no longer president properly.

Just bite the big, beautiful, powerful bullet and ditch the raving moron. It's getting to the stage that he can't even dress or toilet himself. Because this **** just keeps on dribbling out of him in public. It's embarrassing for everyone, and bad for your country.

Fix it.

Now.

CapelDodger 1st September 2020 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SezMe (Post 13208773)
Agreed. I wish he had included the GOP in his condemnation of Trump's racism. If the Dems don't take the Senate, Biden will be severely hampered in trying to pass legislation.

Biden's facing-off with Trump at the national level : Senate seats are a State-level subject. It's up to the State Democratic Party to point up the connection.

Stacyhs 1st September 2020 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carlitos (Post 13208855)
Maybe they are using Soros’ United miles and have to go through a hub to get the saver rate.

It can't be Soros because Trump said Biden is being controlled by people on the streets 'you've never heard of'.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...ef7cc19218.png

Norman Alexander 1st September 2020 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stacyhs (Post 13208858)
It can't be Soros because Trump said Biden is being controlled by people on the streets 'you've never heard of'.

But Trump apparently HAS heard of them. Shady underworld characters are the very type of people he mixes with, and has done for decades.


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