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Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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I know liberals who signed up for tickets. I am not going to assert that some specific percentage were people who were people planning on showing up with plans to not cheer. But I am going to say that number is not zero.
 
More Trump lies:
President Trump is not very precise with numbers, but this is getting ridiculous. He keeps citing U.S. jobs supposedly at risk if arms sales are cut off with Saudi Arabia after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Not only has the purported number of jobs from a highly tentative arms deal with the Saudis kept climbing day after day, but in the course of few minutes, Trump appeared to go from 600,000 jobs to 1 million.

To be fair, he appeared to be saying that all of the deals he struck in Saudi Arabia — which he valued at $450 billion — would create 1 million jobs. But that’s just as fanciful. (We had earlier documented that the commercial agreements announced after his 2017 trip to the kingdom were mostly smoke and mirrors, with many of the purported deals aimed at creating jobs in Saudi Arabia, not the United States.)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...grows-by-leaps-bounds/?utm_term=.5c67744c9d21
 
Delphic Oracle said:
I've worked event production enough to know that online RSVP means 20% of the number at best.
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Personally, it reminds me of when Scientologists would go out to book stores and each buy a dozen copies of one of L. Ron Hubbard's books, to artificially inflate his sales figures and his position on the best seller lists.
 
zorro99 said:
Trump supports the Saudis who enjoy cutting people into pieces.

We never Trumpers oppose dismembering people. We must be crazy.
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Also a fake news reporter of the failing Washington Post. More reason to celebrate his death. I think we need to send Huckabee sanders some bone saws to bring to her press conferences if she ever has one again. That should send the administrations message of the proper role of the press loudly and clearly. He was an enemy of the american people, so why the big hubbub about this little bit of an interrogation going to far? I am sure the CIA director and the new supreme court judge understands that this happens now and then.
 
Ladewig said:
Both Texas A&M University and University of Texas Austin have stadiums that seat more than 100,000. And there are two or three others than can handle upwards of 90,000, including Rice University. JFK gave his we-choose-to-go-to-the-moon speech there (but it was nowhere close to full).
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Rice Stadium has a rated capacity of 70,000 seats* - Super Bowl VIII was held there- but has been reconfigured to a nominal 47,000 seat capacity, changeable to 59,000 with removal of large decorative covers.

*This was back when the spring intrasquad game used to draw 25,000 people, in the Cotton Bowl days, not the wretched C-USA cellar-dweller present. Fun fact: Rice is still undefeated (3-0) against Alabama.
 
Hellbound said:
This doesn't surprise me. There's a strong belief in integrity and personal responsibility in the military (not that even the majority live up to those values, but they're more common there than in the general population, I think...and those are a core part of the "warrior mythos" the military embraces). Trump's constant scapegoating, lying, and refusal to take responsibility for his actions would grate against that.
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Wouldn't show it by the former military people in the administration. Though I guess one can be for concentration camps and have integrity and personal responsibility. Just like it would never do to prosecute american tortures who were only following orders. That would be right out and unacceptably lacking in integrity and personal responsibility.
 
Aridas said:
There are a lot of Republicans who are sickened by such tactics.
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Yea like McCain was bothered by the use of torture, it makes good sound bites and makes you look like you care with out having to do anything about it or pay any cost for opposing it. Really it is slacktivism at its finest.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Re: this recent Trump tweet:

“Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them.”

The whole concept of a country keeping people from leaving is disturbing.

Brings to my mind images of East Berlin and “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
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No worries. Those governments will announce measures, take the cash and let the people go. Trump will crow about his achievement. Meanwhile nothing will be done - those countries want the remittances and are probably thrilled to see people go. Now if there was a way of targeting foreign aid for individual grants, some of the funds might actually be used to better ordinary people's lot in life. But as it is, it will disappear down the black hole of a corrupt government on the take.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
The only ethnic group I've not heard the same from are Hispanics.
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I've seen several examples of Latin American-style community organizing, in which a groundswell rises up somewhat exponentially, and not with a great deal of attendant publicity. Latinos by the hundreds of thousands showed up at events aimed at defeating some of the more draconian immigration reforms. The whole family joined in, as often they had mixed citizenship status with parents supporting their kids, kids supporting their parents and plenty of tios and tias, primos and primas and grandparents too. Now, this was before the economy crashed, when the U.S. clearly needed immigrant labor and when GWB was president. They were relatively friendly times.

This stuff you could see sometimes coming from Spanish-language media, with walkouts coordinated by text messages, all somewhat under the radar. Will sheer fear defeat some of that spirit? Maybe. But there's quite a lot of multigenerational solidarity there.
 
Slings and Arrows said:
"People camping out for Trump Rally tomorrow in Texas! It’s gunna be YUGE!

Just look at this line already!" [Here]

#HoustonRally
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Good thing the Trump camp doesn't tell lies about crowd size, because that way we know we can believe whatever figures Trump announces.

ETA: Besides, plenty of folks just plain don't like Ted Cruz. For good reasons as I understand it.

Someday I hope someone breaks down the costs and determines if taxpayer bread is paying for these circuses.
 
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Can't remember seeing this here:

Trump is 'planning' another round of tax cuts (these ones aimed at the middle class) for sometime before November (despite the fact that Republican party leaders don't seem to know anything about it.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...x-cut-plan-may-come-days-before-november-vote

A couple of notes:
- This certainly smells of desperation... they realized the original tax cuts were not popular and Trump wants to keep republicans from losing seats in the mid-terms.

- Of course no word on how exactly that will impact the deficit, which has skyrocketed. (Despite republican claims that the last round of tax cuts would "pay for themselves")
 
Minoosh said:
Good thing the Trump camp doesn't tell lies about crowd size, because that way we know we can believe whatever figures Trump announces.

ETA: Besides, plenty of folks just plain don't like Ted Cruz. For good reasons as I understand it.
Someday I hope someone breaks down the costs and determines if taxpayer bread is paying for these circuses.
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Not tough enough for Texas.
 
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