I misunderstood.
It apparently didn't get him to try very hard at anything. As far as I can tell, his only job (apart from his reality show) has been throwing his father's money around like he earned it.
Good for her. Her son has been a piece of **** for a very long time.

With the potential Supreme Court nominee being a catholic woman, already there are accusations that the democrats are "anti-catholic." Despite the fact that the 2020 democratic presidential nominee is catholic, and Nancy Pelosi is also catholic.

Clearly, the party is anti-cath9l8c.

I saw a survey today where 49% if catholic Republicans said that Joe Buden is at least "somewhat" religious.

63% said that about Donald Trump.

Get that? 2/3 of republican catholics think Donald Trump is at least "somewhat religious."

Would the fact that he worships himself make that technically true?

Todays Trump presser

"I wish a lot of luck to Harry, 'cause he's gonna need it" -- Trump disses Meghan Markle

"I have tremendous trust in these massive companies that are so brilliantly organized in terms of what they've been doing w/the tests. I mean, I don't know that a government as big as we are could do tests like this"- Trump downplays govt's role in approving a coronavirus vaccine

Asked for his thoughts on the Breonna Taylor case, Trump praises Kentucky's AG (whose name he can't remember!) as "a star"

Trump says he has to take "an emergency phone call" and walks away while ignoring a reporter's shouted question about what his message is to people who are upset over Breonna Taylor's killing

"I have tremendous trust in these massive companies that are so brilliantly organized in terms of what they've been doing w/the tests. I mean, I don't know that a government as big as we are could do tests like this"- Trump downplays govt's role in approving a coronavirus vaccine

She is black, and Trump don’t like ‘em. Uppity women!

Q: Will you commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election?

TRUMP: "We're gonna have to see what happens."
"get rid of the ballots and there'll be a peaceful ... it won't be a transfer frankly it will be a continuation."

Kids who crave attention can seek it in good ways or bad. Sounds like Trump got his attention by lying, stealing and hurting people.

The family way.

Doesn't matter if they read it or not if they're quite willing to lie. It's even fair to say that they might be motivated to lie if 1984 serves as a potential stumbling block to their tactics and goals - which for certain parts of the right have long been to create exactly the situation that 1984 is warning against.



I suppose that I may as well respond to that with a little bit of a semantic reminder. In the disputed sentence, I said "I'd say that it's nigh certain that he knows quite well that he's applying inconsistent standards and is doing so quite intentionally." That's not saying or implying that Trump actually has standards, that's just pointing out that he knows that he's being inconsistent and is being intentionally inconsistent much of the time. That sentence is largely just building on the previous sentence that points out, for example, the Big Lie tactic.

I see 1984 as not anti-right are anti-left wing dictatorships so much as anti all totalitarian regimes, even though it reflects Orwell’s disillusionment with the Soviet system in particular. What is most scary is how predictive it is of Trump’s tactics: the big lies, the unfazed ability to maintain one “truth” and then switch to the opposite “truth” with no apology or even recognition of there being a change, the “one minute of hate,” etc. What amazes me is how ramped up Trump’s approach is even to the book. Not just a few “big lies” but many each day. The number of self-contractions within a single speech. Not a minute of hate each day but a vomiting up of hours of hate day after day. I can’t wrap my brain around how it isn’t recognized by most of his audience.

I understand he liked the original Aunt Jemima. Made great pancakes. Said “sir” a lot. I understand she was not a recent “immigrant.”

I think he recently quoted her: “Sir I have to thank you again for giving me that recipe. They are perfect beautiful pancakes. And my husband Ben thanks you for the rice. You are a genius cook.”

To be clear, I wasn't saying that 1984 was anti-right. Rather, I was pointing out that certain groups with sway on the right in the US have been working to embrace and implement authoritarianism or otherwise upend the government (and, for example, make it small enough that it can be "drowned in a bathtub" so that the very rich can run roughshod over the rest of us) for a long while now.

the shape of things
 

Historian KC Johnson tweeted, "'It's hard to imagine a figure less qualified (or appropriate) to launch this sort of initiative than Trump." Elsewhere he offered a critique of the 1619 project. He and others have pointed to a lengthy rebuttal of this project at the World Socialist Web Site, which interviewed a number of distinguished historians. More recently the WSWS wrote, "The Times’ “disappearing,” with a few secret keystrokes, of its central argument, without any explanation or announcement, is a stunning act of intellectual dishonesty and outright fraud."

I have little doubt that Trump's preferred telling of our history would be sanitized and Bowdlerized. It is not that actual American history lies in between him and the 1619 project. I prefer to think of the truth as being the third point in an isosceles triangle.

We have a choice this election between two people who have been to that church. One was invited and walked through the front door. The other needed the National Guard, police on horseback and tear gas to just be able to stand on its patio.

If you're still voting for Trump in November, it means you're a moral sinkhole.

yeah, but Trump talks directly to God...

...and God tells him he would definitely like to go golfing this weekend. Right after eating that bucket of fried chicken.

I suggest you read up on the importance of the relationship between mother and child in the healthy psychological/emotional development in early childhood. That he, like his siblings, hungered for their father's attention and approval speaks volumes. Trump's own children, especially Don Jr. and Eric, do exactly the same thing for the same reason: they were pretty much ignored as children by him and their almost doggish devotion to him now is embarrassing to watch.

The fundamentalists don't think Trump is a real Xian anyway. They regard him as a useful heathen.

Interesting article, Chris. I enjoyed reading it.

I have the strongest impression that Trump is just making this one giant piss-take. He is what we would call here a ****-stirrer. Someone who revels in needling and provoking people simply for the enjoyment it gives him making other people being uncomfortable and annoyed and outright angry. It's the massive dick move of someone who has no skills, nothing to offer, no care to engage, and is just the attention-seeking behaviour of a pre-teen lout.

I would REALLY like to see the last week or two of the election process have all the media without exception suddenly go dark on Trump. Nothing mentioned at all. Not a word, not a picture. It would drive him (even further) insane.

I think it would be hilarious if someone said to DJT, “Sir, this would be a perfect time for you to lead us in a prayer. Unless, of course, you think someone else could do it better.”

Maybe when he was visiting shooting victims in El Paso.

Or just after he threw rolls of paper towels at Puerto Ricans.

I thought Trump didn't like losers.

Sure. All words, no action. What do the Cubans in FL think Donnie's going to do? Invade Cuba?

Silly rabbit ! The Cubans in the US aren't losers, they're winners. They escaped the communist hellhole which is Cuba and live in the greatest country in the history of the world.

The fact that they predominantly vote Republican only reinforces how much of winners they actually are ;)

They are losers for trusting the US to have their back when they tried to invade Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs Award should be awarded for getting abandoned by the US.

"US President Donald Trump has declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the 3 November election to Democratic rival Joe Biden.

"Mr Trump has also said he expects the election battle to end up before the Supreme Court.

"We're going to have to see what happens," Mr Trump, a Republican, told reporters at the White House when asked whether he would commit to transferring power.""

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pjGyO-V0AQ

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I AGREE

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2020/0...rump-election/

Shocking news! No one could have predicted that!

Yeah, though, Trump's telegraphed that he intends to try to cause serious problems should he lose since well before he was elected. It's just outright worse, now that he's had time to f up the systems that we have in place to minimize such damage much more directly.

"there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation." is rather more than just declining to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, though.

He's claiming that the only way he could possibly get less votes than Biden is if the Democrats cheat. He can't countenance the idea that more people might actually, genuinely, be intending to vote for Biden than for him. Remember how he blamed Hilary Clinton getting more votes than him last time on cheating? It's the same thing.

From the BBC

US election: Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54274115

US President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses November's election.

"Well, we'll have to see what happens,You know that."

Trump also said he believed the result could end up in the Supreme Court

"I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster."
"Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation."


Mitt Romney tweeted on Wednesday: "Fundamental to democracy is the peaceful transition of power; without that, there is Belarus.
Any suggestion that a president might not respect this Constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable."

Biden said Mr Trump's comments on the transition of power were "irrational".
His campaign said it was prepared for any "shenanigans" from Trump.
"the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House".


Trump commented on the Supreme court.

"I think this will end up in the Supreme Court, and I think it's very important that we have nine justices," the president said.
I think it's better if you go before the election, because I think this scam that the Democrats are pulling, it's a scam, the scam will be before the United States Supreme Court."

I thought he’d sworn to uphold the constitution.

Personally, again, I disagree. I think that such both is more part of a cynical and dishonest strategy than an actual inability to comprehend - and is far better to treat as strategy, regardless, than treating it as an actual inability, for pretty much every practical purpose.

Politicians and specific curricular decisions
 

Snopes has an article about a plaque at one Mr. Trump's golf courses (in Virginia). It commemorates a battle that did not take place. KC Johnson (whose politics might be described as centrist) also tweeted, "To me, K-12 history should be shaped primarily by educators. Trump (& other pols) have no business making specific curricular decisions..."

I don't see how Trump could possibly be a Xian. That would require him to acknowledge the existence of an entity more perfect and powerful than himself.

Unbelievable. Anybody left out there that thinks it's not possible that even trump would try and contest the election result in order to justify refusing to leave office?

There are still issues with the critique, however. Of courser, the first is the matter of what, exactly, they mean by "our founding". Whose? They don't mean that it's when the Constitution was enacted, obviously. They could quite reasonably mean what set us on the path we've taken - and certainly the desire to continue enslaving others was one monetary reason for the Revolution. - I've noticed that people tend to avoid the noticeable accumulation of wealth and political power that rebellion immediately handed to the Founding Fathers - the Boston Tea Party wasn't just a bunch of dudes chilling at brunch, only to have the redcoats show up and steal their brie and mimosas, after all.

(I've noted, myself, that the first Africans in the US were kept as indentured servants, rather than as chattel slaves, so I also disagree with some of the claims. Still, if by "our" they mean black Americans, it's supported far better than 1492 - which is what Dolt 45 intends to teach. I do note, regarding his "1776 program" - it's just like a white supremacist to outright steal a black person's idea and use it to oppress.)

"And a voice said to me, 'Sir, if you had been responsible for creating the universe, it would have been done in only three days, instead of the six I needed, it would work much better, and you wouldn't have needed to rest for a day afterward. Nobody knows more about design and construction that you or has more energy than you.'"

He does!
He upholds his very own constitution:

1st amendment: Lie

2nd amendment: Lie even more

3rd amendment: Go back to 1st amendment

Not true in my experience.

My evangelical family members regard Trump as chosen by God, like Saul. I don't recall Saul being a total dick and incompetent after the conversion, but you know, God works in mysterious ways.

In any case, it's God who chose him, not the evangelicals, and who are we to question God's judgment?

How do they know?

Trump wouldn't be the first person to balance delusions of grandeur and martyrdom in religious terms.

Only thing which scares me more than idiot president with nukes is idiot president with nukes and God.

I thought the usual comparison was to King Cyrus of Persia, a non-believer chosen by God to benefit the actual believers.

But of course, to even suggest the possibility that Trump might actually carry out the old "Stay in power after the election" conspiracy theory is just TDS. He's just like every other President has been, speculating about the death of democracy is just hyperbole and nonsense from a bunch of fringe losers.

Trump met with chanting protesters while pretending to pay respects to Ginsburg.

As much as I like to see him uncomfortable, you just know the revenge hamsters in his head are recording every chant and planning to punish people.

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-to-ruth-bader

Footage: https://twitter.com/murray_nyc/statu...51487122120706

And I am certain he will telling us all on Twitter later on today that the crowd was shouting "vote him out" about Biden.

They were shouting "Boo-urns!"

Trump Tweets

Sleepy Joe Biden just closed down his campaign for the day (Again). Wants to rest! He is a very LOW ENERGY INDIVIDUAL, and our Country cannot make it in these exciting, but complex and competitive times, with a Low Energy President !!!

North Carolina looking good! See you later.