Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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Armitage72 said:
Also true, but the new rules are currently causing new delays in mail delivery.
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They certainly are causing distinct problems. Still, my implicit point there was that without the damage that's been done by that Republicans' Sabotage the USPS law, the rule change likely wouldn't matter anywhere close to as much. It's worth the reminder that the USPS is extremely successful, in general, and has fairly consistently more than handled its costs without additional government funding - at least until that nonsense was forced on it and they've had to scramble to try to reduce the damage.
 
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Trump does end-run around Senate, naming Tata to Pentagon role over Republican objections

The end result here is that The Artist Formerly Known as Tata is now the acting deputy of the still-acting undersecretary role he was nominated for, doing effectively the same job. And there's a bonus: Federal law prevents anyone from assuming the title of "acting" undersecretary unless they've worked at least 90 days in the deputy's role, law professor Steve Vladeck noted to CNN.

That means in 90 days, Trump's desired (and partisan, and racist) conspiracy crank can assume the "acting" authority of the very job the Senate rejected him for. It's a White House move to openly defy the Senate's constitutional authority by … simply ignoring it.
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ETA: Also... Census Door Knocking Cut A Month Short Amid Pressure To Finish Count

"It's going to be impossible to complete the count in time," said one of the bureau employees, an area manager who oversees local census offices. "I'm very fearful we're going to have a massive undercount."

Asked why and when the decision was made to move up the end of door knocking, the Census Bureau replied in a written statement Friday: "We are currently evaluating our operations to enable the Census Bureau to provide this data in the most expeditious manner and when those plans have been finalized we will make an announcement."

About 4 out of 10 households nationwide have still not participated in the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the U.S., and self-response rates are even lower in many communities

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"The end result would be [overrepresentation] for the White non-Hispanic population and greater undercounts for all other populations including the traditionally hard-to-count," Thompson wrote in written testimony for a Wednesday hearing on the census before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
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Of note there, Trump has publicly been supportive of getting a complete count. It's the Republican legislators that have been fighting against such, by the look of it, and Democrats are the only ones who have acted to try to actually try to help the situation.
 
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Axios on HBO has an interview with trump coming out later today, and the preview makes it sounds like a doosy (video embedded in tweet):
.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”

@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”

Swan: “Why can’t I do that?”
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https://twitter.com/axios/status/1290497186489348096

The Guardian's live blog has kindly trawled through the whole thing and offers up a few more tidbits:
Here are a few tasters of the wisdom of the 45th President of the United States, rifling through a sheaf of graphs that he seems to be having trouble with in so many way.

Trump: “Right here, US is lowest in numerous categories. We’re lower than the world...”

Trump again, when Swan compares death as a proportion of population in South Korea to the US: “You don’t know that.”

Swan: “You think they’re faking their statistics? South Korea?”

Trump: “Errrr. I won’t get into that because I have a very good relationship with the country. But you don’t know that.“

And again: “Death is way down from where it was...It’s going in Arizona. It’s going down in Florida. It’s going down in Texas.”

Swan. “It’s going down in Florida?”

Trump: “Yeah. It levelled out and now it’s going down. That’s my report as of yesterday.”

(As ever, it’s not clear where Trump is getting his info but the Worldometers.info seems pretty clear that deaths in Florida have been increasing - slowly since March but steeply since June 15th. As of today, there have been 7,157 deaths across Florida.)

Swan’s facial expressions say it all, as does his twitching foot. Well worth a watch.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...089d9b758a6202#block-5f290dc58f089d9b758a6202
 
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Donald Trump says the government should get a cut from the sale of TikTok's US unit if an American firm buys it.

The US president said he made a demand for a "substantial portion" of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft's boss.

He also warned he will ban the app, which is owned by China's ByteDance, on 15 September if there is no deal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53633315
 
Ryokan said:


Here's the interview.
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https://sciencebeta.com/17-ways-to-tell-when-somebody-is-lying/
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8. Eye movement is another thing to look for when spotting a liar. All people naturally move their eyes, unconsciously, one way or another when they are in conversation. If a person looks to their right (your left) they are often constructing lies. If they look to their left (your right) they’re truly drawing upon their memory in response.

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(The above should be taken with a bag of salt as to being accurate - I thought of it when watching his responses and how he keeps looking up to the right before his next sentence lie.)
 
I'm glad I read it because watching it would make my head explode.
Trump: “We’re testing so much because we had the ability to test, because we came up with – Jonathan, we didn’t even have a test. When I took over, we didn’t even have a test.”

Swan: “Why would you have a test? The virus didn’t exist! How would you have a test?”

Trump: “I was going to say, there was no test for this new – we didn’t have a test, because there was no test.”

Swan: “Of course!”
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"It never came to my desk" is the new excuse for any non-action against Russia...

Wish he'd pushed more on the 'But you said you read your briefs and it was in your briefs'...

Also wished he'd picked him up on number of cases as a proportion of tests rather than just number of deaths (though that was good too) as it still did allow him to claim that cases were only up because they are testing more.

Loved the 'You don't know the figures from South Korea are accurate' 'Are you saying they are lying?' 'No, we have a very good relationship with South Korea but you don't know those figures are accurate - nobody knows'.

Also loads of 'Lots of people are saying' 'Who, who is saying that' 'Lots of people' and the equally impressive 'You can do too much testing, it's in the manuals' 'What manuals? You have manuals for this?' 'You need to do more reading' 'Yes but what manuals' 'Lots of places' or something to that effect.

Oh and the absolute classic 'But Russia are supplying arms to the Taliban' 'Well we supplied arms when they were fighting Russia' 'That was a different era' 'I'm just saying'.
 
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Donald Trump says the government should get a cut from the sale of TikTok's US unit if an American firm buys it.

The US president said he made a demand for a "substantial portion" of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft's boss.

He also warned he will ban the app, which is owned by China's ByteDance, on 15 September if there is no deal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53633315
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How is this not extortion? Public, published, open extortion? That alone, if he'd done nothing else at all ever, should be grounds for impeachment in a sane world.
 
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Ryokan said:


Here's the interview.
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He says the USA has a lot of tests so finds more cases, and then boasts about having a low death rate relating to the number of cases and says “you can’t” consider per capita death rates. He really is a moron.
 
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