Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19

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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump claims at his rally that he chose to end the Aids epidemic and childhood cancers. Previous administrations chose not to.

Does he actually believe this?
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The only reference I can find to this is a claim by Trump back in August. I can't find anything more recent. Factcheck.org, unsurprisingly, does not support Trump's claims:

In fact, the Obama administration spent about the same per year on AIDS research and prevention as the Trump administration has. And that’s only because Congress actually writes the budgets. Because while Obama routinely sought to increase funding, until this year, Trump has proposed cutting it.

The president also has falsely stated that his plan would “eradicate AIDS in America once and for all.” That’s not what ending the epidemic means, and not what his plan proposes.
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https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-spin-on-aids-epidemic/

As for ending childhood cancer,

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during his State of the Union address that he was asking Congress to allocate $500 million over the next 10 years for pediatric cancer research.
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The National Institutes of Health estimates its 2019 spending in this area to be $462 million, according to research portfolio data. So, $500 million over 10 years, or an average $50 million a year, amounts to a bit more than a 10 percent increase.
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Barack Obama announced during his 2016 State of the Union that he wanted to “make America the country that cures cancer once and for all,” launching what came to be known as the “Cancer Moonshot” initiative. In his initial announcement, Obama proposed $1 billion to be parceled out over fiscal years 2016 and 2017. That amounts to an average of $500 million over two years.
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https://khn.org/news/trumps-pediatr...cket-compared-with-past-presidential-pitches/
 
Stacyhs said:
The only reference I can find to this is a claim by Trump back in August. I can't find anything more recent. Factcheck.org, unsurprisingly, does not support Trump's claims:


https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-spin-on-aids-epidemic/

As for ending childhood cancer,




https://khn.org/news/trumps-pediatr...cket-compared-with-past-presidential-pitches/
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Wow, that proves my point.
I can see Trump rejecting, in the case of a coronavirus outbreak, the advice of medical experts as to what measures to take, because it will not play well with his "base".
 
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Steve said:
Best that nobody tells them. Let the health professionals work on their own.
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Problem is that you would probably have to invoke or gets laws and emergency measure in place on some point. You have to go to the federal government for that, and,voila, Trump is involved.
 
Ladewig said:
Of course, if the 175K claim were true, we’d have to ask why POTUS is speaking at 7000-seat venue instead of 30,000-seat venue.
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I suspect that the GOP itself bought ~100,000 seats. Like when a new book by a conservative author comes out, they buy in bulk to drive up its place on the New York Times bestseller list. In fact, as I type this, I realize I don't "suspect" this to be the case, I would bet on it.
 
Segnosaur said:
Politifact has done an analysis and has found that roughly 60% of the statements the looked at were either False or "Pants on fire".

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/rush-limbaugh/

Some of the more notable ones:
- Claimed that the Jacksonville shooter was part of the 'Trump resistance' (Fact: the shooter did not appear to be acting with any political goals)

- Has suggested human evolution isn't correct because "there are still gorillas around"

- Claimed that Obama wanted to 'mandate circumcision'

- Claimed that having a batman villain named 'Bane' was an attempt to harm Romney's election bid (who had a company called 'Bain capital'). Fact: the 'Bane' character had been around for over a decade before Romney's election bid.

- Claimed that Ted Kennedy sent a letter to Russia "apologizing" for Reagan. (No such letter has been found to exist.)

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/rush-limbaugh/
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There's plenty more that can be poked at to address Limbaugh's nonsense, incidentally, including, for example, a book.
 
TRump has made me want a Constituional Amendment forbidding the POTUS from ever using Twitter again....
 
Deleted. I posted the same PolitiFact link already posted by others.

Hey Brooklyn, seems to me you have two choices:

- Quit listening to Limbaugh as you stated you would; or
- Admit you lied to us.

A classic Hobson's choice. I can't wait for your answer dodge.
 
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Or maybe Donnie will peddle a phony cure for the virus..remember the Jude Law character in "Contagion" ( a movie which has skyrocketed in popularity on the streaming chats since the outbreak began).
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

There is much talk that certain Democrats are going to be voting with Republicans on the Impeachment Hoax, so that the Senate can get back to the business of taking care of the American people. Sorry, but Cryin’ Chuck Schumer will never let that happen!

On the Iraq War Resolution being voted on tomorrow in the House of Represenatives, we are down to 5000 soldiers, and going down, and I want everyone, Republican and Democrat, to vote their HEART!
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Except in the Impeachment Hoax Trial! Any Republican that votes to hear witnesses or votes in any way against me will feel the entire weight of my wrath on twitter!
 
Wow.

Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds Wednesday, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border.

The area is part of an ongoing construction project to improve existing sections of the wall.

Agent Carlos Pitones of the Customs and Border Patrol sector in El Centro, California, told CNN that the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.
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Trump's border wall. Losing to the wind now, because basic power tools weren't bad enough.
 
SezMe said:
I suspect that the GOP itself bought ~100,000 seats. Like when a new book by a conservative author comes out, they buy in bulk to drive up its place on the New York Times bestseller list. In fact, as I type this, I realize I don't "suspect" this to be the case, I would bet on it.
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The tickets are actually free. All you need is a phone number and an e-mail address.and you’ll get two tickets. Of course, only the first 7000 in line will get in.

There is a certain cleverness to it. Only the most die-hard Trumpers will be willing to stand outside in January temperatures for hours. So the president is assured of having a very responsive crowd. I can only imagine how many different Republican fund-raising organizations will get ahold of those phone numbers and e-mails. “Yes, waitress, I’d like to order the Spam, Spam, Spam, egg, and Spam.”
 
Seems to me that lying about a blowjob so you will get re-elected would be in the National Interest, too, according to Dersh's definition.
 
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