Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19

[Aridas]

“The homeless face difficult and sometimes seemingly overwhelming obstacles in getting back on their feet,

But President Reagan did sign the bill.

Here is the first Bush on homelessness. Not a speech dedicated to homelessness but talking about it.
The homeless face difficult and sometimes seemingly overwhelming obstacles in getting back on their feet,” he said in that message

Mmm. Those numbers mean that a supermajority in the House supported it. Looks like the Senate vote was even more lopsided.

Reagan not signing it wouldn't have stopped it, which dramatically minimizes credit due to him. Still, that he did sign it is worth some credit, as is that most of the Republicans in the Senate supported it (though with a much lower ratio than the Democratic support). Just nowhere even remotely close to as much as what the Democrats deserve for it. Credit where credit is due.

The large overall reduction of homelessness under the Bush Jr Administration is considered one of the successes of that administration. What's the cure for homelessness? A home, regardless of the reason for the homelessness. Potentially even a rent-free home. It's a pointedly liberal solution that did lots of good when it came to addressing the issue. I'm willing to give the Bush Administration credit for implementing it, either way.

 

[alfaniner]

Trump Tweets

Crazy Nancy Pelosi should spend more time in her her decaying city and less time on the Impeachment Hoax!

Well, we know The PDJT can't be bothered to read. We sure as hell can't expect him to proofread.

 

[a_unique_person]

Well, we know The PDJT can't be bothered to read. We sure as hell can't expect him to proofread.

If some one was going to proof read them they would stop many posts and also remove that indefinable Trump magic.

 

[TragicMonkey]

If some one was going to proof read them they would stop many posts and also remove that indefinable Trump magic.

The covfefeness of a Tweet is where the quality is.

eta: Sorry, grammar. It should be "covfefeity".

 

[PhantomWolf]

Trump has managed to hit 15,413 misleading and false statements in the 4 years since taking office.



And people didn't want to have Clinton as President because she was such a liar......

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Trump knows theprestige!

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Well, if he ends up helping the homeless isn't it a good thing in itself, regardless of the reasons he's doing it? I'd rather someone do something good for bad reasons than do nothing.

Sounds like something Trump supporters would rationalize.

And how does tearing up their encampments help when they have no place to go?

Trump claiming they could use this building or that building is more crap. Unless you are suggesting they get locked up in FEMA camps? Reminds me of Barbara Bush saying, "they're underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." re displaced Katrina victims staying in the Astrodome.

Snopes: True

 

[TragicMonkey]

Sounds like something Trump supporters would rationalize.

And how does tearing up their encampments help when they have no place to go?

Trump claiming they could use this building or that building is more crap.

I said "if", and I was alluding to the providing housing option that had been mentioned as being tried earlier.

Unless you are suggesting they get locked up in FEMA camps?

Of course not. What a stupid thing to say.

Reminds me of Barbara Bush saying, "they're underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." re displaced Katrina victims staying in the Astrodome.

Snopes: True

That seems unrelated to this.

 

[Cavemonster]

Trump Tweets

Crazy Nancy Pelosi should spend more time in her her decaying city and less time on the Impeachment Hoax!

I've noticed a bizarre implication in a number of Trump tweets that members if Congress are responsible for the current state of their district and should be tending to it directly.

I'm not sure what mechanisms he's imagining. As far as I'm aware, members of Congress to not have any power or authority to create state, or local level policy. T

 

[thaiboxerken]

It doesn't matter what the facts are, Trump just wants to smear and attack Nancy Pelosi. He used the same tactic to smear Elijah Cummings as well. He failed, and I'm sure this attempt will fail too.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I've noticed a bizarre implication in a number of Trump tweets that members if Congress are responsible for the current state of their district and should be tending to it directly.

I'm not sure what mechanisms he's imagining. As far as I'm aware, members of Congress to not have any power or authority to create state, or local level policy. T

Perhaps he thinks they're each CEOs of the companies that are their districts.

"Let's elect a businessman and run the country like a business!" I always thought that was an idiotic idea long before 2016 (I think I first heard it when Perot ran), but now we've seen it in action.

 

[Andy_Ross]

So sad to see that New York City and State are falling apart. All they want to do is investigate to make me hate them even more than I should. Governor Cuomo has lost control, and lost his mind. Very bad for the homeless and all!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

A Dirty Cop at the highest level. Scum!

Adriana Cohen
@AdrianaCohen16
Comey's cabal going down
https://galesburg.com/opinion/20191227/adriana-cohen-comeys-cabal-going-down #Comey #FBI #SpyGate #FISAAbuses @realdonaldtrump #MAGA #KAG @greggjarrett @foxbusiness @BonginoReport #mapoli

 

[Ladewig]

So sad to see that New York City and State are falling apart. All they want to do is investigate to make me hate them even more than I should. Governor Cuomo has lost control, and lost his mind. Very bad for the homeless and all!

This is getting scarier than I expected.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Trump Tweets

A Dirty Cop at the highest level. Scum!

Adriana Cohen
@AdrianaCohen16
Comey's cabal going down
https://galesburg.com/opinion/20191227/adriana-cohen-comeys-cabal-going-down #Comey #FBI #SpyGate #FISAAbuses @realdonaldtrump #MAGA #KAG @greggjarrett @foxbusiness @BonginoReport #mapoli

Is he trying for a slander charge now?? Is this some sort of legal charge bingo he is playing?

ETA: That's a subscription-only website (of some obscure place in Illinois, from what I can gather). There is NO POSSIBLE FREAKIN' WAY that Trump would have searched for, found, subscribed to, read and understood that report all on his own. This is the work of a "research assistant" toiling away somewhere deep in the GOP salt mines, delivered up to be read to him to make his own inimitable comment on.

 

[Random]

Sounds like something Trump supporters would rationalize.

And how does tearing up their encampments help when they have no place to go?

Trump claiming they could use this building or that building is more crap. Unless you are suggesting they get locked up in FEMA camps? Reminds me of Barbara Bush saying, "they're underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." re displaced Katrina victims staying in the Astrodome.

Snopes: True

Yeah. Trump doesn't see the problem as "People are homeless", he sees the problem as, "Homeless people are bringing down property values for rich people".

Ironically, wealthy foreign real estate investors are a significant source of rising housing costs. Rich people looking to park their money somewhere end up buying multi-million dollar condos, and don't even live in them. Just keep the property and hope rising housing prices will make it a valuable investment. Enough people do it, and housing prices will go up, even though there is not really an increased demand for housing.

 

[timhau]

Maybe Go-Golfing Donald should spend more time dealing with his dangerous country than whining on Twitter.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Any answers Nancy?

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Wow Crazy Nancy, what’s going on? This is big stuff! https://twitter.com/text88022/status/1210570523970850816

 

[Ladewig]

This is getting scarier than I expected.

I meant the projection is becoming scarier.

 

[Tero]

Can't Trump just add homeless to ISIS tasks? Just deport them to Mexico, nobody will notice!