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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 22

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Belz, I think you underestimate how much of the US are truly ******** and bigots. I'd like to think that our neighbors are on the whole good people who care for others, but evidence says not so much.

The election of Trump really is a reflection of our country.

I hope I'm wrong
 
Belz... said:
That's the thing about the modern US conservatives. They can't fathom that the tide has turned against them and that their way of life is dying out. They think the majority agrees with them, and that they only have to prevent those brown-skinned immigrants from defrauding the voting system to return the Union to the 50s.
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I can only assume trump will tweet for the silent majority that activist judges must be removed from the Supreme Court.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/863498848/supreme-court-delivers-major-victory-to-lgbtq-employees

"In Title VII, Congress adopted broad language making it illegal for an employer to rely on an employee's sex when deciding to fire that employee," the court held in Monday's decision. "We do not hesitate to recognize today a necessary a necessary consequence of that legislative choice: an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law."

The lawmakers who drafted and enacted the legislation didn't necessarily need to envision how it might be applied in cases like the ones the court has since considered, Gorsuch wrote for the majority.
 
So will we get a tweet storm from Trump about the Supreme Court ruling that the Civil Rights Act does protect gay and transgender people from workplace discrimination or will he simply stay silent since he backed the losing side.

I'm also wondering if this will hurt him with some of his base, after all one of the reasons certain elements backed him was so he would stack the Supreme Court and this shows he has failed to deliver despite his best efforts.
 
People who want to attend the MAGA rally in Tulsa have to sign a waiver saying they won’t sue the president or his campaign staff if they catch Coronavirus.

(Reported by MSN and others)

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Ooooo. I wonder if the RNC delegates will have to sign a waiver as well.
 
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pgwenthold said:
Belz, I think you underestimate how much of the US are truly ******** and bigots. I'd like to think that our neighbors are on the whole good people who care for others, but evidence says not so much.

The election of Trump really is a reflection of our country.

I hope I'm wrong
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Except that I don't think it's unreasonable to think that Trump voters turned out in greater proportions than Democratic voters in 2016 and still managed to get a minority of votes.

What helps conservatives is motivation and gerrymandering, cheating, etc. Not numbers.
 
Meanwhile, a report from GOP Fantasyland:

‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection

By most conventional indicators, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming a one-term president. The economy is a wreck, the coronavirus persists, and his poll numbers have deteriorated.

But throughout the Republican Party’s vast organization in the states, the operational approach to Trump’s re-election campaign is hardening around a fundamentally different view.

Interviews with more than 50 state, district and county Republican Party chairs depict a version of the electoral landscape that is no worse for Trump than six months ago — and possibly even slightly better. According to this view, the coronavirus is on its way out and the economy is coming back. Polls are unreliable, Joe Biden is too frail to last, and the media still doesn’t get it.

“The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump,” said Phillip Stephens, GOP chairman in Robeson County, N.C., one of several rural counties in that swing state that shifted from supporting Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016. “We’re calling him ‘Teflon Trump.’ Nothing’s going to stick, because if anything, it’s getting more exciting than it was in 2016.”
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Belz... said:
Except that I don't think it's unreasonable to think that Trump voters turned out in greater proportions than Democratic voters in 2016 and still managed to get a minority of votes.

What helps conservatives is motivation and gerrymandering, cheating, etc. Not numbers.
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True, but even now, 40% of the electorate think he's doing a good job as President, so there are tens of millions of ******* out there :mad:
 
Some news from the world of publishing...



From: The Guardian
Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, will publish a “harrowing and salacious” book about the president...the daughter of Donald Trump’s late brother Fred Trump Jr, will release Too Much and Never Enough with Simon & Schuster on 11 August....The book is expected to lay out how she was a primary source for the New York Times’ Pulitzer-winning investigation into Donald Trump’s “dubious tax schemes” during the 1990s and will share “harrowing and salacious” stories about the US president.

The timing certainly isn't bad, although you have to wonder where all this information was back in 2016 during Trump's first campaign. (I'm sure Trump will try to claim its all fake news, by a family member upset over issues with inheritance.)

And from: ABC News
Just a week before the much-awaited book by President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton is set to go on sale, the Trump administration is expected to file a lawsuit in federal court seeking an injunction to block the book from being released in its current form, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Not sure how I feel about this.

On one hand, seeing things embarrass Trump is a good thing. On the other hand, Bolton is far from a sympathetic figure, between his "Lets bomb everything" mindset, and his unwillingness to speak out during Trump's impeachment.

Best case scenario... Trump and Bolton get involved in a very expensive lawsuit, it gets tied up in the courts for a few months, the book gets released a few days before the election, but Trump loses badly so nobody buys the book as a result.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

The Far Left Fake News Media, which had no Covid problem with the Rioters & Looters destroying Democrat run cities, is trying to Covid Shame us on our big Rallies. Won’t work!
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I notice how he strongly implies that all the protesters were part of the "Rioters & Looters" when it's been shown that protesters were overwhelmingly peaceful. The "Rioters and Looters" were mostly local criminals and gangs taking advantage of the chaos of the protests.

Almost One Million people request tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!
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Another reason, besides tornadoes, that I don't want to live in Oklahoma even though it would be a far better place to retire financially than the Pacific NW.
 
Segnosaur said:
Some news from the world of publishing...



From: The Guardian
Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, will publish a “harrowing and salacious” book about the president...the daughter of Donald Trump’s late brother Fred Trump Jr, will release Too Much and Never Enough with Simon & Schuster on 11 August....The book is expected to lay out how she was a primary source for the New York Times’ Pulitzer-winning investigation into Donald Trump’s “dubious tax schemes” during the 1990s and will share “harrowing and salacious” stories about the US president.

The timing certainly isn't bad, although you have to wonder where all this information was back in 2016 during Trump's first campaign. (I'm sure Trump will try to claim its all fake news, by a family member upset over issues with inheritance.)
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Perhaps she didn't think Trump would win in 2016 so didn't want to air the family dirty laundry at that point. What would be the point in going public in that case? Now? She knows better.
 
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