Remember how Stubby McBonespurs was going to bring jobs back to the U.S.? Remember all of his trade wars that were meant to deal with companies being "unfair" to the United states?

From The Hill
The trade deficit in July spiked 18.9 percent to $63.6 billion, the highest since July 2008...

Much like so may other times before, Trump promises one thing, and delivers completely the opposite (such as his claims of eliminating the fiscal deficit, which started increasing because of republican tax cuts.)

Unfortunately, things like Trade deficits are not something that gets a lot of attention from voters.

Maybe the beauty parlor owner should be US president. Couldn't do a worse job than you.

I don't know what authority you're talking about nor what they did. Please explain.

Don't forget...
- Taking money from military projects (some that were meant to improve the lives of military families) in order to fund his wall.
- Increasing military deployments to the middle east, not because there is a security issue but because Saudi Arabia is paying

(And the article also mentions Trump not giving a speech in France to commemorate vetrans because the rain would mess up his hair.)

I got a haircut today. Mask throughout - I put it on in the car as usual. Almost everyone around here wears one outdoors downtown. I held the mask on when they did around the ears.

Here is the memo itself. I'm biased but I hear Steven Miller talking as I read it.

You'll enjoy this: The guideline for taking action is .... wait for it .... two weeks.

Bahahahahahaha.

Fox ran the story, Tucker Carlson amplified it, the salon owner is making money off it plus she's a Trump supporter, a twofur for her, Pelosi had to respond that it was a set-up... so yeah it is all over the news.

But it belongs in the 2020 election thread so I'll copy paste this post over to there.

The CDC. Not only handing ammunition to downplayers by splitting up causes of death (so I've already heard all about less than 10k have died of covid, it's not serious at all) but now they've bought up a million doses of flu vaccine for Trump to hand out to whoever kisses his butt hard enough, that were supposed to be going to clinics to be dispensed there. Doses those clinics ordered last year and now suddenly aren't getting, but perhaps they might if their state's governor brown noses enough?

Commander Bone Spurs honors fallen soldiers again.

What a leader!! Jesus ******* Christ, just imagine any other president ******** on veterans the way this piece of garbage does. But he'll just call it fake news (everyone else is lying) and his idiotic sycophants will nod and drool. **** him and **** them.

Gosh, it's like God stopping the rain for his inauguration.

Touché!

Yes, yes, but still you have to concede that Trump was sent by God.

Well, to be fair... it wouldn't be His first plague.
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Would be funny if this "sweep" netted the people responsible, and found they were all Trumpistas and white nationalists and other scummery associated with the Trump campaign. Because so far, that's who is almost completely responsible.

Let's pile on Pelosi because of a (single?) slip-up, but shrug when the Orange Douche gathers 1500 into close quarters for his dose of cult-love.

She sucks. One of her senior staffers the boss's outlook as, "You know what you call someone who is 99% loyal? Disloyal."

She also ****** up by saying Joe Biden shouldn't dignify Trump with a public debate. She also blew the initial round of Coronavirus relief negotiations. She's a historically savvy operator who has had some iconic moments in recent years, but lately... she's a ****-up.

To weigh in very slightly -

AOC, not OAC.

As for Pelosi, I'm a bit neutral about her, slightly leaning positive overall. There's a number of things that are both good and bad when it comes to her - but it's generally best to take a step back and consider a couple things when it comes to her. For example, she's a very prominent and powerful Democrat, which means that Republicans will generally do their best to attack her in every way that they think might help them (including things that will hurt both them and her if they think that Democrats will suffer more for it, like what fairly certainly happened with the COVID relief negotiations) - and so will more than a few Democrats who would prefer to shift the balance of power in their favor.

As far as I'm concerned, the salon story is pretty much a nothingburger, either way.

I'm seeing election day listed as Nov. 3, myself.

Nom'd and I'm still laughing. :D


Shoot, my brain is failing me. :o

Others are seeing Nov 4 as a house-cleaning day.

*sigh*

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

The exact situation is unclear from the article (a bunch of shots were fired, no particular indication that the suspect was doing any firing), but seems like he's dead now. A somewhat... convenient end for a guy who was apparently actively being hunted by right-wingers. Of note, he claimed to have had a good case of acting in self-defense when it came to what he did and, well...

Unfortunately, a fear that is not particularly unreasonable.

Trump loves vets, except when he doesn't:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...uckers/615997/

This could set off another level of *********.
I hope the Marshals have some very good evidence why they had to shoot him instead of bringing him in.

The White House/Trump denies it, of course. On the other hand, it's apparently been verified by a military official source when other news dug into it.

Given Trump and how Trump ticks, of course, it's pretty much easily expected behavior. The man's mind just doesn't work like a normal person's.

Hmm. This opinion piece makes a fair point...


As election nears, Trump builds the very 'deep state' he railed against

White House manipulation of US intelligence on Russian and Chinese interference may rival WMD fiasco that led to Iraq war, say experts

It... looks like it's getting to be that time again. Trump and the Republicans are turning their wild outrage-stoking accusations into reality in the exact opposite direction, yet again.

Yeah, it's an obviously true story. And it won't change the minds of his mindless, enraged base. Just more fake news, probably financed by that rootless, cosmopolitan Jew, Soros. Time to be fed with the daily piece of outrage and hatred by the Republican propaganda machine instead.

Why do you think the day of reckoning is not Election Day, but the day after?

Trump has no references apart from what he has directly experienced, he can't learn something unless it directly relates to him, and he can't put himself in another person's shoes. This is why we keep saying he is "projecting", he actually isn't as he just cannot comprehend other people have different motivations, reactions and goals. Therefore he has learned the FBI can investigate I. e. spy on someone therefore Obama spied on him, because that is what Trump does. Washington is a swamp because that is the only environment he knows can exist.

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Again, this is 100% false. I was next to @POTUS the whole day! The President was greatly disappointed when told we couldn’t fly there. He was incredibly eager to honor our Fallen Heroes.
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New, from @TheAtlantic: Trump skipped a visit to an American military cemetery in France after calling the dead "losers" for getting killed: Full story here:
https://theatlantic.com/politics/arc...uckers/615997/

Trump tweets

I was never a big fan of John McCain, disagreed with him on many things including ridiculous endless wars and the lack of success he had in dealing with the VA and our great Vets, but the lowering of our Nations American Flags, and the first class funeral he was given by our....

..Country, had to be approved by me, as President, & I did so without hesitation or complaint. Quite the contrary, I felt it was well deserved. I even sent Air Force One to bring his body, in casket, from Arizona to Washington. It was my honor to do so. Also, I never called..

....John a loser and swear on whatever, or whoever, I was asked to swear on, that I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES. This is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 Election!

Link doesn’t work. Here’s another: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...suckers-report

Trump Tweets

Why aren’t the Portland Police ARRESTING the cold blooded killer of Aaron “Jay” Danielson. Do your job, and do it fast. Everybody knows who this thug is. No wonder Portland is going to hell! @TheJusticeDept @FBI

Perhaps there's a reason they haven't yet, and probably never will... :rolleyes:



Also, if this tweet was blurted out well after the suspect was known to be killed by police, it would seem that that particular bit of news is not yet on AON or Fox. Because they don't want to report police-initiated killings in a hurry or even at all. Doesn't go with the narrative of POLICE=GOOD, BLM=BAD. Which means Donny-Two-Weeks is not up-to-date...yet.

I reject this claim unti the person making the claim (reporter) publishes all their data for peer review.

I also reject Trump's denial claim because he is a liar.

Riiiight...

(And the photo for that article is so irony-laden- Trump at a "Family Leadership Summit" in front of a sign reading "Leading With Principle Over Politics.")

I suppose that President Trump didn't specifically call John McCain "a loser" - just that he lost :boggled:

That's about the whiniest (whingiest) thing I recall him blurting.
Something strike a nerve?
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It was Air Force Two, but ok.

About that "lowering of our Nations American Flags", though:

"Mr. President, this is not true. You were angry that DHS notified federal buildings to lower the flags for Sen. McCain. I would know because your staff called and told me."

Miles Taylor, then DHS chief of staff
https://twitter.com/MilesTaylorUSA/s...38420466114560

ETA: and, of course, about "the lack of success he had in dealing with the VA and our great Vets", Senators McCain and Sanders were the main negotiators for the "Veterans Choice Act", passed and signed into law by President Obama in 2014.

Aren't they part of NATO?

To be fair, shouldn’t we give Kayleigh a chance to tell us what he really said/meant?

Did Trump just tweet (or retweet) a link to the article that made accusations against him?

Seems kind of foolish... What if some of his MAGAchuds actually reads the link and thinks "maybe there is some truth there".


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It's a long article.

280 characters is more their pace.

edited to add....

and the author is called (((Goldberg)))

I'm not surprised he retweeted that. He doesn't pay any attention to what he retweets. He thought it was something good about him.

Well, Air Force One is per definition the AC that has the president on board. So it may have been the one Trump usually flies on, he is just unaware of that little detail.

Hans

He knows it doesn't matter. His followers don't study articles for things they disagree with, they skim them for things they do agree with.

Fact checking isn't worth the time in a post-fact world.

Looks like the white house and the house democrats have come to a deal to avoid a shutdown over funding;

From;ABC News
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Trump administration have informally agreed to keep a stopgap government-wide funding bill — needed to avert a shutdown at the end of this month...The duration of the temporary funding measure or what noncontroversial items might ride along haven't been settled...There is sentiment among some Democrats for the stopgap legislation to extend into next year, but December appears to be the administration's preference and a more likely result.

That they would come to an agreement is not surprising... Democrats actually like the idea of government actually functioning, and the last time there was a shutdown, it negatively affected Trump's polling numbers (so he would want to avoid it too.)

I have one really major concern...what if republicans lose both the senate and the while house in the November election... If the funding bill only lasts until December, I could see either Stubby McBonespurs or Moscow Mitch failing to negotiate further funding in order to trigger a shutdown right before Biden is sworn in, just as a final 'screw you' to the country.

Not this year. The absentee ballots will make for a slow count.

As of this morning, we're still in step 1 of the "bad news about Trump" playbook. Denial.

I wonder how long until we get to the step where they concede the news is true but...

The officers that shot him were unlikely to have been Marshalls. That headline really doesn't follow from the text.

Taskforce is an important word. Usually these things are a combo of jurisdictions, like city/county/state officers who are coordinated by the feds. There are a lot of drug task forces like that where the feds are mostly in the wings.

If the elections are close it may take a while to sort things out.

But, if Biden manages to maintain a large lead, we will probably have enough election results on election day itself to know who the election winner is. (Even if they don't have final vote counts).

I don't know the timing of the tweet, but I think that I'll note that shortly after I posted that Guardian link on it, I got curious and checked Fox's website. It was the top headline story when I checked.

Also... AON? Did you mean OAN?

I read that as retweeting a refutation that had an embedded link to what it was refuting.