Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 23

[Andy_Ross]

This slipped through

Trump abruptly removed the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) independent watchdog late Friday – the same night he announced plans to fire the State Department Inspector General (IG).
At DOT, the acting IG was overseeing a high profile investigation of Secretary Chao’s alleged favoritism benefiting her husband Senator Mitch McConnell’s political prospects, but has now been replaced with a political appointee from within the agency.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/...ng-elaine-chao-chaos-husband-mitch-mcconnell?

 

[thaiboxerken]

Note that it's a much smaller venue in a much bigger city than the Tulsa debacle.

Right, it's like bragging about having packed an arena with a capacity of 50.

 

[thaiboxerken]

I found this on CNN or a link from CNN. It's just a throw away piece of information that is from an article about nepotism in the high ranks of the GOP in Washington:



$95K to coordinate sports teams visits!! Jesus Christ on a cracker, what a soft gig. It's probably not possible to fault Trump for this but it sure seems to me to be a prime example of "waste, fraud and abuse" the GOP is always kvetching about.

But but.. .HUNTER BIDEN!!! [/trumpanzee speak]

 

[varwoche]

I didn't think it possible for this unhinged imbecile to act quite this sociopathic. It's so flat out surreal that its like a comic book or a nightmare, take your pick.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Trump Tweets

It is ashame that Congress doesn’t do something about the lowlifes that burn the American Flag. It should be stopped, and now!

I wonder why he left out "Repeal the 1st amendment now!" from this tweet.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

This slipped through

Trump abruptly removed the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) independent watchdog late Friday – the same night he announced plans to fire the State Department Inspector General (IG).
At DOT, the acting IG was overseeing a high profile investigation of Secretary Chao’s alleged favoritism benefiting her husband Senator Mitch McConnell’s political prospects, but has now been replaced with a political appointee from within the agency.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/...ng-elaine-chao-chaos-husband-mitch-mcconnell?

If you don't test for corruption, there is no corruption.

 

[TragicMonkey]

This slipped through

Trump abruptly removed the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) independent watchdog late Friday – the same night he announced plans to fire the State Department Inspector General (IG).
At DOT, the acting IG was overseeing a high profile investigation of Secretary Chao’s alleged favoritism benefiting her husband Senator Mitch McConnell’s political prospects, but has now been replaced with a political appointee from within the agency.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/...ng-elaine-chao-chaos-husband-mitch-mcconnell?

Much like reducing testing for a disease reduces the spread of the disease, so does removing watchdogs reduce theft!

Next he'll remove the smoke alarms in the White House to reduce the risk of fire.

 

[Ladewig]

Much like reducing testing for a disease reduces the spread of the disease, so does removing watchdogs reduce theft!

Next he'll remove the smoke alarms in the White House to reduce the risk of fire.

Exactly.
It’s as silly as saying if we prevent the Federal Elections Committee from doing its job then there will be fewer violations of campaign spending laws.

Oh, wait. They are doing that.
My bad.

 

[Horatius]

What it is about is providing fodder for anti-Trump attack ads. I guarantee you, someone at the Lincoln Project is editing that "I told them to slow down the testing" line into a video right now. And if we can back that up with Trump ignoring a question about why he's "joking" about the pandemic, it's a double-whammy. He's either serious, and hence evil, or joking, and hence insensitive and evil. They'll get him going and coming.

And here we go: Three ads from different campaigns each with their own take on his line.

 

[Armitage72]

What it is about is providing fodder for anti-Trump attack ads. I guarantee you, someone at the Lincoln Project is editing that "I told them to slow down the testing" line into a video right now. And if we can back that up with Trump ignoring a question about why he's "joking" about the pandemic, it's a double-whammy. He's either serious, and hence evil, or joking, and hence insensitive and evil. They'll get him going and coming.

The Lincoln Project ad using it was released yesterday.

“The most deceptive, lying president in history finally told the truth. Somehow, it was more shocking than all his deceptions,” the narrator in the ad, titled "Truth," said, referring to Trump’s Saturday comments.

“Slow the testing down? Slow down our chance to save tens of thousands of lives. Slow down our understanding of where COVID is and how it’s spreading. Slow down the steps to reopen the economy. Every single expert told him to test more and test faster, and now we know his response,” the narrator continued.

The video ended with their image of an American flag formed from red, white, and blue body bags that I think they've used before.

 

[Dr.Sid]

I didn't think it possible for this unhinged imbecile to act quite this sociopathic. It's so flat out surreal that its like a comic book or a nightmare, take your pick.

Not really. You're just underestimating how stupid people can be. There is no limit to that, as already Einstein noted.

 

[Belz...]

This slipped through

Trump abruptly removed the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) independent watchdog late Friday – the same night he announced plans to fire the State Department Inspector General (IG).
At DOT, the acting IG was overseeing a high profile investigation of Secretary Chao’s alleged favoritism benefiting her husband Senator Mitch McConnell’s political prospects, but has now been replaced with a political appointee from within the agency.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/...ng-elaine-chao-chaos-husband-mitch-mcconnell?

Gods, I hope Americans vote him, and as many Repugnicans, out in November. They are seriously damaging the democratic process.

 

[JoeMorgue]

They are seriously damaging the democratic process.

Which is exactly why a lot of Americans will still vote for them.

Democracy is getting distasteful to certain people. Too many of the "wrong" people.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Is James Comey and his band of Dirty Cops going to apologize to General Michael Flynn (and many others) for what they have done to ruin his life? What about Robert Mueller and his Angry Democrat Cronies - Are they going to say, SO SORRY? And what about Obama & Biden?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted


Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
The President tweets that people should stop breaking the law and Twitter moves to censor him.
The left is uncomfortable that in a vibrant democracy, citizens have a right to hear directly from their President and decide for themselves what to think about it.
#StopTheBias!

The left-wing mob presents a serious threat to the American way of life. They won’t stop at statues. They've already torched police precincts, low-income housing, and churches.
This violence against people and property cannot go unpunished.

 

[acbytesla]

Pedantic quibble.

A knot is one nautical mile per hour. So, “knots per hour” is redundant.

Pedantic response. No, it's not. A knot (nautical mile) is a measure of distance. An hour is measure of time. So it could be knots per second, per hour or per day even.

But I give you that an aviator or boater would assume it to be per hour.

 

[Andy_Ross]

A Knot is not a measure of distance.
A Nautical Mile is a measure of distance. - 1 minute of arc at the Equator

A Knot is a velocity of one nautical mile per hour.

 

[TragicMonkey]

What is not a knot? Not what you might not know a knot is not, rather know that a knot is not that what you thought a knot was not!

 

[JoeMorgue]

I love the term Pedantic Quibble. As if there's any other type of quibble or any other type of pedanticness.

 

[TragicMonkey]

pedanticness.

"Pedantry", not "pedanticness".