Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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dmaker said:
NY AG James to make major national announcement tomorrow at 11:30 AM.

I wonder what this could be about?
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I hope it's a new flavor of Doritos! I remember the excitement when Cool Ranch came out, and haven't experienced that kind of snack-based thrill since.
 
newyorkguy said:
There was a scary part to the Swan interview, too. It illustrated how trump is so rabidly fixated on China in a way that is very likely to destabilize international relations and world peace for years to come. Not that trump would understand that. While other presidents were attending foreign relations seminars this lunatic was probably watching Rambo movies. Spliced down to only the 'good parts.'


Why is it so important to trump -- as the American president -- that China (on the off-chance this is fact) had it's worst economic year since 1953 (?) and he takes credit? It's a very powerful nation. Why taunt them? What is that supposed to gain? Is he so stupid he doesn't realize the Chinese are going to read that statement, too.
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Yes, he is that stupid. In fact, he is too stupid to understand that
China owns about 20% of US Treasury instruments. Trump can trash-talk the Chinese all he wants, but we make huge interest payments to them.

And Trump asserting that we will remember things for a long time. Really?
Yeah, the electorate forgets political stuff from last week. And Trump can’t even remember what he said yesterday.
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Tero said:
I'm puzzled by the polls:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Trump has gained half a percent. A bit more for likely voters.
Sympathy for president hounded by press?
And, I thought everybody knew who they are going to vote for. The question is approve or not approve. Why would you change your vote on that?
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Me too. What in the world has Trump done in the past few weeks to make his approval rating go up? I just don't get it.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump tweets

Sally Yates has zero credibility. She was a part of the greatest political crime of the Century, and ObamaBiden knew EVERYTHING! Sally Yates leaked the General Flynn conversation? Ask her under oath. Republicans should start playing the Democrats game!
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Why is he talking about Yates now? She hasn't been in the news for months (years?)?

It does make quite a contrast. Yates is everything Trump is not. Night and day. She's the definition of a class act while he is .....

Oh, never mind. You know.
 
newyorkguy said:
There was a scary part to the Swan interview, too. It illustrated how trump is so rabidly fixated on China in a way that is very likely to destabilize international relations and world peace for years to come. Not that trump would understand that. While other presidents were attending foreign relations seminars this lunatic was probably watching Rambo movies. Spliced down to only the 'good parts.'


Why is it so important to trump -- as the American president -- that China (on the off-chance this is fact) had it's worst economic year since 1953 (?) and he takes credit? It's a very powerful nation. Why taunt them? What is that supposed to gain? Is he so stupid he doesn't realize the Chinese are going to read that statement, too.

He also clings doggedly to the fiction that his tariffs produce revenue from China. Tariffs raise the price of products and the buyers, in this case American companies and consumers, pay the tab. (On this I wonder if he truly DOES NOT understand how tariffs work. That administration officials may have tried to explain it to him but trump refused to listen. It's the old, 'Ignorance is bliss,' syndrome. My speculation is based on comments I've read from people who served in trump's administration. One comment I read recently was along the lines of, "You cannot imagine how difficult it is to explain something to trump when it's something trump doesn't want to know. It's just absolutely impossible to get through to him.")

* - Rev dot com seems like a pretty junky site but is the only one I have found with a quotable transcript of the Swan interview. Be forewarned, if you follow the link you may have a 'Get your coupon' ad popup and then it's very hard to go back to the interview without starting all over.
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He's focused on China as a personal scapegoat, the thing for Trump to blame for Trump's failures.

As long as he can blame China he can protect his fragile ego.
 
SezMe said:
Why is he talking about Yates now? She hasn't been in the news for months (years?)?

It does make quite a contrast. Yates is everything Trump is not. Night and day. She's the definition of a class act while he is .....

Oh, never mind. You know.
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She was just called as a witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Lindsay Graham is on a mission to prove the investigation into the Trump camp for connections to Russia was some sort of CT against Trump.:rolleyes:

It was hard to watch because Yates had horrible audio and the Republicans kept interrupting her answers. I kept having to mute it and just read the closed captions.
 
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SezMe said:
Why is he talking about Yates now? She hasn't been in the news for months (years?)?

It does make quite a contrast. Yates is everything Trump is not. Night and day. She's the definition of a class act while he is .....

Oh, never mind. You know.
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Hell, Krusty the Clown looks like a class act when he is standing next to President Trump.
 
SezMe said:
Me too. What in the world has Trump done in the past few weeks to make his approval rating go up? I just don't get it.
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I have noticed that too - maybe Portland, maybe demon sperm, who can tell. The world is upside down, and will remain as long as he has above 20% approval rating. The USA is seriously weakened as an international actor as long as about 40% of the electorate remains deranged and anti-empirical and catered for by a corrupt and extremist major party which doesn't care about hostile foreign interference, and basically welcomes it.
 
SezMe said:
Me too. What in the world has Trump done in the past few weeks to make his approval rating go up? I just don't get it.
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He’s virtually neck and neck with Biden in the latest (Harris?) poll and ahead of him with white voters. It also seemed to say that he was also ahead with those with over 4 years college education which I find particularly surprising as I thought that was always the opposite way round...

If this poll is even remotely accurate then America is ******.
 
To poke in the direction of some of the usual line of developments in WTF is wrong with the Trump Administration -

'Nobody can find them': Trump administration has been expelling migrant kids without a trace, advocates say

But Lomi Kriel reports in The Texas Tribune and ProPublica that this criminal administration has been expelling these young asylum-seekers in far more terrifying secrecy—and outright cruelty—than previously known.

“Under this new policy, the administration is not deporting children—a proceeding based on years of established law that requires a formal hearing in immigration court,” she writes. “It is instead expelling them—without a judge’s ruling and after only a cursory government screening and no access to social workers or lawyers, sometimes not even their family, while in U.S. custody.” Because these kids aren’t even assigned identifying information after they’re taken into custody, advocates say they’re now “virtually impossible” to locate after being expelled.

“Between April and June, Customs and Border Protection officials encountered 3,379 unaccompanied minors at or between ports of entry,” Kriel reports. “Of those, just 162 were sent to federal shelters for immigrant children run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the Health and Human Services agency tasked with their care. CBP would not say whether the remaining minors had been expelled or explain what had happened to them. The precise number of children who are detained or to what situations they are returned is difficult to ascertain.”

Advocates told Kriel that they liken this process to when U.S. officials failed to properly track families they were tearing apart under the inhumane “zero tolerance” policy back in 2018. “What’s different now is that children are not entering the U.S. system for migrant children at all,” the report said. Of these expelled kids, only a few dozen have since been located by advocacy groups. “’Nobody can find them,’ said Jennifer Podkul, vice president for policy at KIND, the advocacy group,” Kriel’s report said.
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This is horrifying - and those involved in creating the policy deserve serious punishment. Those carrying it out are a tougher call, but this is wrong on so many levels. It can pretty literally be said that the US government is making thousands of kids just vanish, now, after being handled by a group of people with huge numbers of abuses and illegal actions reported.
 
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Ethan Thane Athen said:
He’s virtually neck and neck with Biden in the latest (Harris?) poll and ahead of him with white voters. It also seemed to say that he was also ahead with those with over 4 years college education which I find particularly surprising as I thought that was always the opposite way round...

If this poll is even remotely accurate then America is ******.
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50% or more of the electorate are desperate to support the President because they think that it's the patriotic thing to do. President Trump keeps giving enough of them reasons to not support him that his approval is consistently around 40%.

If he manages not to do or say anything outrageous for a couple of days, people think he's pivoting to presidential (despite all the evidence to the contrary) and so his approval numbers will start to rise. Of course the bar for outrageous has also been continuously raised for the last four years or so. Something which would have been a major scandal, hardly causes a ripple these days.

I'm sticking with my (depressing) forecast that President Trump has a greater than 50% chance of reelection. Look for the grand announcement that there is a vaccine about 2 weeks before the election.
 
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