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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

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With your VOTE, we are going to lift our nation to extraordinary new heights – we are going to turn the page forever on the failed political class – and we are going to Defend our Jobs, our Families, our Borders, and our treasured way of Life! http://vote.donaldjtrump.com

I did more in 47 months than Joe Biden did in 47 years!

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Stacyhs said:
Trump is too stupid to realize that this is just his own MAGA version of what he's accusing the 1619 Project of doing: conservative propaganda vs liberal propaganda.
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I disagree. You seem to be assuming moral values and levels of honesty that Trump does not demonstrate to reach this conclusion. Again, it's worth remembering that Trump was literally taught to use Nazi tactics, very much including the Big Lie. I'd say that it's nigh certain that he knows quite well that he's applying inconsistent standards and is doing so quite intentionally.

As part of a larger theme, though... while it's not wrong to call Trump stupid, it's also worth remembering that a lot of the problematic things that he's done have far less to do with stupidity than they do with a set of values and tactics that, normally, can be called outright evil.
 
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"They grabbed a guy - ‘I'm a reporter! I'm a reporter!' - ‘Get out of here!' They threw him aside like a bag of popcorn. But honestly, when you watch the crap we've all had to take it's actually a beautiful sight"-Trump glorifies violence against journos
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Stacyhs said:
Nah, he's not fanning the flames of hate or encouraging violence. Not at all.
I really do hate that POS.
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Jesus ******* Christ. Well, Republicans in particular and Trumpkins in general can surely be proud- they will get that SC Justice to make the conservative majority they wanted, and all they had to do was to turn the U.S. into an endless episode of The Jerry Springer Show.
 
Trump Tweets

I hardly know Cindy McCain other than having put her on a Committee at her husband’s request. Joe Biden was John McCain’s lapdog. So many BAD decisions on Endless Wars & the V.A., which I brought from a horror show to HIGH APPROVAL. Never a fan of John. Cindy can have Sleepy Joe!

(This was in response to the following tweet)
Cindy Mccain
@cindymccain
· 11h
Joe and I don't always agree on the issues, and I know he and John certainly had some passionate arguments, but he is a good and honest man. He will lead us with dignity.
 
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turingtest said:
Jesus ******* Christ. Well, Republicans in particular and Trumpkins in general can surely be proud- they will get that SC Justice to make the conservative majority they wanted, and all they had to do was to turn the U.S. into an endless episode of The Jerry Springer Show.
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Indeed.
I find your characterization of the current state of the U.S. as "an episode of Jerry Springer" to be spot on.

I feel like we are on an endless loop of re-runs, and the "off" switch is encrypted.
 
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@JudicialWatch
Judicial Watch has filed an official complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics about Rep. Ilhan Omar potential violations of law. Let us know if you agree that Rep. #IlhanOmar SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED by signing the petition HERE:
 
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Trump Retweeted

Judicial Watch Scales
@JudicialWatch
Judicial Watch has filed an official complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics about Rep. Ilhan Omar potential violations of law. Let us know if you agree that Rep. #IlhanOmar SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED by signing the petition HERE:
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Care to identify what she has done that has you all hot and bothered?

Or are you really desperate to get a REAL heavy duty suit for harassment...
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Or read or watch “The Handmaid’s Tale”?

Then again, we might be dealing with people who think Gilead would be a nice place to live!
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That's the essential problem with pointing to stories like this as a cautionary tale - if there weren't people who really would think it was a nice place to live in real life, we wouldn't need the cautionary tale in the first place.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Care to identify what she has done that has you all hot and bothered?

Or are you really desperate to get a REAL heavy duty suit for harassment...
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I tried a quick Google search, but based on the search results, they've apparently filed complaints every few months for the last couple years. I couldn't be bothered to narrow it down.
 
To poke at something as a warning -

“We are accustomed to choosing electors by popular vote, but nothing in the Constitution says it has to be that way. Article II provides that each state shall appoint electors ‘in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.’ Since the late 19th century, every state has ceded the decision to its voters. Even so, the Supreme Court affirmed in Bush v. Gore that a state ‘can take back the power to appoint electors.’ How and when a state might do so has not been tested for well over a century.”

“Trump may test this. According to sources in the Republican Party at the state and national levels, the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority. With a justification based on claims of rampant fraud, Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly. The longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires.”
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Trump repeats his lie Mexico is paying for the wall: "They said, 'Yeah, but Mexico is not paying for it.' But they ARE paying for it. Mexico is paying for the wall at the border you know, all those trucks that go back and forth"

Does he think they are paying some kind of toll that goes towards the wall?
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump repeats his lie Mexico is paying for the wall: "They said, 'Yeah, but Mexico is not paying for it.' But they ARE paying for it. Mexico is paying for the wall at the border you know, all those trucks that go back and forth"

Does he think they are paying some kind of toll that goes towards the wall?
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Who knows, ?

His supporters probably think they do.

Flat out lying has worked so far.
 
Armitage72 said:
I tried a quick Google search, but based on the search results, they've apparently filed complaints every few months for the last couple years. I couldn't be bothered to narrow it down.
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IIRC, Judicial Watch files a heck of a lot of things that have very little basis in reality.


To poke elsewhere as a point of potential interest... It looks like Facebook is taking actions to disrupt and undermine attempts to fight climate change. That's including, to poke at a tweet -

So Facebook censors climate scientists like ⁦@KHayhoe⁩, marking their content “political,” while allowing disinformation from oil industry front groups to circulate as “opinion?” This is not a fact-checking policy.
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BobTheCoward said:
Which is what the states would do by assigning electors.
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Indeed, the rules are the rules, which is exactly why the Trump campaign and Republican Party should be taken very seriously when they're talking about invoking rules in a technically legal way to seize power in ways that much of the public doesn't even know is a real possibility.
 
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