Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

[Stacyhs]

It may even be worse than that. Let's say that in July 3 million jobs were added but there were also 2 million new claimants - so only 1 million net new jobs. Pence will claim 3 million

They weren't even 'new' jobs. Just the same jobs being reopened.

 

[Blue Mountain]

Has anyone actually seen one of these anti-Trump Pharma ads? I haven't.

Also, is there any evidence prices on any drugs have been lowered substantially?

 

[Parsman]

Also, is there any evidence prices on any drugs have been lowered substantially?

Evidence? EVIDENCE??? What are you, some sort of Commie Pinko Expert????? We don't need no steenkin evidence!

 

[turingtest]

It may even be worse than that. Let's say that in July 3 million jobs were added but there were also 2 million new claimants - so only 1 million net new jobs. Pence will claim 3 million

They weren't even 'new' jobs. Just the same jobs being reopened.

When it comes right down to it, there's so much wrong in Pence's brag that it's hard to believe even he really believes it. It's not meant to function as information; it's a talking point for the mindless Trumpkins that pass along that sort of thing on FaceBook or whatever- it's meant to be only disseminated, not seriously questioned.

 

[Belz...]

Since when does trump give a flip about the safety of birds?

Only since doing so discredits cleaner energy techs.

 

[varwoche]

The brazen destruction of the USPS culminating in the mind boggling escalation in today's "pandemic briefing" is a stunning attack on US democracy. When the talking heads say it will hurt the bad guys worse than the good guys, I lack confidence.

Trump is making it impossible to trust the election outcome. Not for the BS reasons he foists, but because of him.

If he pulls it off, I think dublab may be right. The **** will hit the fan big time, and Trump will be the architect.

 

[Jim_MDP]

I wasn't aware of any conflict between Israel and the UAE.

That would be what makes the peace agreement "historic".
Isn't Jared just the best? [emoji1]

 

[Jim_MDP]

He said he wouldn't boost funding, although he's clearly trying to tank the election through this act of scumbaggery.

Who are you and what did you do with our rocky?
Pick a side or declare your intentions... "cain" you are not. [emoji21]

 

[Jim_MDP]

Has anyone actually seen one of these anti-Trump Pharma ads? I haven't.

Me either. And they bailed on that big meeting he touted the day before (3 weeks ago?).
I haven't seen any text so I have no idea of each side's position... but I feel safe for the moment in presuming (yes PREsuming) that Trump is full of crap.

 

[SezMe]

Meanwhile ...

House Oversight chair introduces new bill to reverse organizational changes at USPS

Just showboating. Even if it gets passed in the House, Moscow Mitch won't even consider it. And even if it did pass the Senate, Trump wouldn't sign it. Big waste of time.

 

[Ladewig]

Trump Retweeted

Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022)
@TeamTrump
President @realDonaldTrump: It's amazing the way Sleepy Joe buys into the Radical Left
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Yeah. There’s going to be trash talk. But FFS can’t we have a leader who can keep his ****** straight?

One day Biden is writing the agenda and the next day he is buying into the agenda.

One day Biden is accused of telling everyone what the plan is and the next day he is accused of being a Trojan Horse.

It really is verbal diarrhea.

How do the Republicans in Congress lap this all up?

 

[grunion]

Just showboating. Even if it gets passed in the House, Moscow Mitch won't even consider it. And even if it did pass the Senate, Trump wouldn't sign it. Big waste of time.

I think the brinksmanship would be worth the effort. Even an impeachment proceeding over high level vote suppression could be huge. Nobody likes to see the mail delayed, especially in rural (Republican) areas. Senate majority would have to think long and hard if it is worth saving Trump to lose their seats.

 

[slyjoe]

I think the brinksmanship would be worth the effort. Even an impeachment proceeding over high level vote suppression could be huge. Nobody likes to see the mail delayed, especially in rural (Republican) areas. Senate majority would have to think long and hard if it is worth saving Trump to lose their seats.

Let's not forget that delaying the mail is a federal offense. A postmaster general going to jail a couple times might make them rethink the approach.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Let's not forget that delaying the mail is a federal offense. A postmaster general going to jail a couple times might make them rethink the approach.

You'd have to get rid of Barr first.

 

[slyjoe]

You'd have to get rid of Barr first.

Not so sure. He always tries to maintain deniability. Like with Flynn. If SDNY brought charges, what would Barr do?

 

[The Great Zaganza]

How is the GOP going to recover from a Republican President rigging the postal vote?
Seriously, Republicans should be scared ******** of their guy being caught in massive voter fraud.

 

[thaiboxerken]

How is the GOP going to recover from a Republican President rigging the postal vote?
Seriously, Republicans should be scared ******** of their guy being caught in massive voter fraud.

They just hope it works, then it's one-party rule for the USA and our democracy is ended. That's what they want.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

They just hope it works, then it's one-party rule for the USA and our democracy is ended. That's what they want.

It might be what they hope for, but it isn't what they think will happen: anyone with any sense of US history knows that something like this won't last long.


To me it seems that the top GOP echelons and their donors see their power at a peak for decades to come, and have to cash in NOW before the very hard Downfall.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Not so sure. He always tries to maintain deniability. Like with Flynn. If SDNY brought charges, what would Barr do?

Let Trump take the lead to replace the NY AG. They work in tandem.

 

[Aridas]

In your country they are known as the Democratic Party.

That's where I expected that going... and I find myself largely unable to disagree. The Progressive part of the Democratic Party is helping move the party back closer to where it should be on the left, but... while progressives are gaining ground, they're nowhere close to influential enough at the moment to change that assessment, despite the hype.

Ok, so he can't be in a room alone with a woman not his wife, and he can't do math.

Hmm? I'm not so sure that his math is wrong - rather than selective. Much like Trump touting the stock market going up massively - after it plummeted immensely more. It's not that it was false - it's that it was being deceptively used.

Meanwhile ...

House Oversight chair introduces new bill to reverse organizational changes at USPS




Financial disclosures reveal postmaster general's business entanglements and likely conflicts of interest, experts say

To poke at another related bit of news to the Post Office that I didn't see posted here -

Sorting machines are being taken from post offices!



Also, the Republican Party is more generally working to sabotage mail in voting for obviously political purposes.

On the fun facts side of things for the Post Office - Lincoln was a Postmaster. So the Republican attack on the USPS is yet another rejection of Lincoln.

And a bit more tangentially, but on the far too rare good side of things -

Judge orders Trump campaign to produce evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania

A federal judge in Pennsylvania told the Trump campaign and the Republican Party that they must produce evidence they have of vote-by-mail fraud in the state by Friday.
The judge's order, in a high-profile case about vote-by-mail in the battleground state, essentially forces the Trump campaign to try to back up President Donald Trump's false claims about massive voter fraud in postal voting.
"The Court finds that instances of voter fraud are relevant to the claims and defenses in this case," District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan wrote on Thursday, telling Republicans that they need to provide evidence of fraud to the Democratic Party and the Sierra Club, which are part of the lawsuit.

The Democrats had asked for information and documents that would show steps the Republicans took to study the possibility of fraud, especially related to the use of dropboxes, ballot collection and mailed-in ballots in the primary elections.
The Trump campaign and Republicans had refused to do so. But with Thursday's court order, they must answer questions from the Democratic groups and turn over records of communications -- or say they have none. The Trump campaign has until Friday to respond, the judge said.

Also, is there any evidence prices on any drugs have been lowered substantially?

Given that there are a lot of drugs out there and prices fluctuate for various reasons, the Trump team's tactic on that since he started pushing the claim years ago has been to cherry pick some one or couple that went down - while studiously remaining silent about the prices going up notably in the big picture all along.

How is the GOP going to recover from a Republican President rigging the postal vote?
Seriously, Republicans should be scared ******** of their guy being caught in massive voter fraud.

Baby murdering Demoncrats hate America and must be opposed at every turn so that they don't send conservatives to the gulags and let your daughters get raped in the bathrooms by "trans" people.

That's the kind of thing that they've been pushing to hold on, after all. They take a grain of truth, then spin the crap out of it to create a picture barely connected to reality. That's pretty much what they'll just keep trying to do, too, by the look of it.

To poke at some other things...

Trump pick to run Voice of America, other U.S. global media accused of carrying out 'purge'
Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., accused the administration of trying to turn the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which runs the Voice of America, into a Trump mouthpiece.

Since he was confirmed as CEO in a party-line vote in June, Pack has fired all the heads of the four news outlets under his agency as well as the members of the bipartisan boards that governed them. Pack replaced the boards mostly with political appointees of the Trump administration, and named himself as chairman. He also reassigned an editor for standards at VOA. Last month, the executive editor of Radio Free Asia was fired.

That article comes on the heels of what looks like 7 more firings as part of illegal retaliation for raising concerns about potentially illegal actions by Trump's pick.

...That's the kind of thing that makes warnings like - I Resigned from U.S. Government After My Own Leaders Began to Act Like the Autocrats I Analyzed all the more poignant. Especially parts like -

I left government service after more than a decade because I lost faith in the courage of the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to refuse unlawful orders from the President.

Were these times anywhere close to 'normal,' that would be a stunning indictment. This is the Trump Abnormal, though, where it's all too expected.

Elsewhere -

New Mexico militia eager for 'civil war' receives warm embrace from state's Republican officials

I'm not sure if anything else needs said on that front, so moving on.

If you have the urge, you could read the forward from Cohen's new book here.

Alternately, you could... Watch: Trump Stunned When Asked if He Regrets ‘All the Lying You’ve Done to the American People?’

Trump just moves on to the next question and doesn't give an answer, unsurprisingly, for that one.

Oh, and...

Great News! New Hampshire Has Made Flying Cars Road-Legal

That one got a good laugh out of me.