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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 23

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carlitos said:
I really doubt that someone is going back and hacking online archives of the Spokane Spokesman-Review from 2004 and then editing wikipedia. :rolleyes:

I really only wanted to thank you for mentioning something that I had meant to look up, having recently remembered the King County ballots being misplaced and then found in odd places after the election. It was mail trays and storage lockers, and I had misremembered the reports as having said there were ballots found in parking garages and basements. It's probably a mix of my memory being wrong and conservative media lying about it at the time.
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Believe me, one doesn't need to change what is in the paper, the Spokesman is the Spokane news on the very red side of the state. There's no doubt had whomever edited Wiki used the Seattle Times as a source, there would be a different slant to that story.

But no worries, thanks for the thanks. Let's put it this way, "found" ballots were not the issue. Republican's challenging signatures in King County was the issue. My very Libertarian/always votes GOP neighbor had his sig challenged. He thought the Democrats had challenged his ballot. But party affiliation is not on the ballots and the sigs are checked before any votes are counted or looked at.

It was the GOP that sent members in to examine signatures in King County. That's why it annoys me to read someone remembering it was because King County found lost ballots.
Sorry for jumping on you.
 
Segnosaur said:
Its not an achievement. (If 'credit' goes to anyone, its Moscow Mitch, who's obstructionism during Obama's years have allowed slots to go unfilled.)

Actually, I'd even go further... Trump's actions to fill judicial slots have been a failure. Yes, he has gotten right-wing judges on the bench. But whom he appointed and the way it was done may cause the GOP more harm and limit their ability to appoint judges in the future.

Take for example Judge Drunky McRapeface. Yeah, republicans are happy that they got someone else on the supreme court who will help overturn abortion rights... but his nomination was one of the factors that seems to be driving some voters away from the GOP, both in congress and for the white house. (That nomination alone might cause the senate to flip, as the senate race is tight, and Collin's vote to confirm seems to be one of the main reasons she is in trouble in her reelection campaign.)

Trump could have easily withdrawn Kavanaugh's nomination and found someone who was less obvious about his bias. It might have saved a few GOP votes, maybe even made Trump look like he cared (while still giving the anti-abortionists more power on the bench) . But he stuck with Kavanaugh, and now republican control of the senate is at risk.

And while it may not get as much attention, Trump's habit of nominating people who are unsuitable to be judges is drawing unwanted attention to something that is often a rather... uneventful activity.
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A fact and a speculation.
But President Trump holds that being right is far more important than looking like he cared.

It is possible that he doesn’t know what it means to look like he cares, much less know what actually caring is. Some days it feels like he views us as a collection of malfunctioning NPC’s.
 
Trump Tweets

We MUST protect our National Parks for our children and grandchildren. I am calling on the House to pass the GREAT AMERICAN OUTDOORS ACT today. Thanks @SenCoryGardner and @SteveDaines for all your work on this HISTORIC BILL!
 
Trump Retweeted

The White House
@WhiteHouse
"My first duty as President is to protect the American people, and today I am taking action to fulfill that sacred obligation."

"Today, I'm announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent crime. We'll work every single day to restore public safety, protect our nation's children, and bring violent perpetrators to justice."

President @realDonaldTrump's message to American communities plagued by violent crime: "Help is on the way!"

President @realDonaldTrump on Operation Legend: We will soon send federal law enforcement to other cities that need help stopping violent crime
 
Trump Retweeted

The White House
@WhiteHouse
"Today, my Administration reached a historic agreement with Pfizer, to produce and deliver 100 million doses of their vaccine immediately following its approval."

"From the beginning, we have made it our top priority to shelter our seniors."

Our nationwide positive Coronavirus test rate is on the decline.

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my friend Charles Evers. Charles was a trail blazer in politics and a fearless leader, alongside his brother Medgar, for Civil Rights.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted

The White House
@WhiteHouse
"Today, my Administration reached a historic agreement with Pfizer, to produce and deliver 100 million doses of their vaccine immediately following its approval."

"From the beginning, we have made it our top priority to shelter our seniors."

Our nationwide positive Coronavirus test rate is on the decline.

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my friend Charles Evers. Charles was a trail blazer in politics and a fearless leader, alongside his brother Medgar, for Civil Rights.
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Except for the vaccine part, I think, this tweet is FOS.
 
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“The way he deals with people based on the colour of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening,” the former vice president said."

“No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed. They’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has.”

Is this actually true?
 
RolandRat said:
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“The way he deals with people based on the colour of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening,” the former vice president said."

“No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed. They’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has.”

Is this actually true?
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Nixon was heard badmouthing Jews on his tapes. One wonders if Kissinger cringed or ignored him.

I imagine POTUSes from about the 60s back were likely racist as the whole country was.
 
Stacyhs said:
While I'm glad to see some Trumpers actually angry with him, in all probability, they will still vote for him. These tweets reveal just how stupid they are. "Scamdemic"? "@BillGates Warp Speed Vaccine"? Face palm.
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We don't even know if these are real people.

If Democrats wanted to try some dirty tricks, or if some foreign government wanted to attack Trump, it might make sense to gin up some fake members of his "base" making stupid arguments about how bogus masks are.

I tend to think foreign governments of the sort we fear - China and Russia - would not be trying to discredit Trump, though. They would want a weak patsy heading a rickety ship, not a group of civic-minded Americans united in resolve to put the Trump presidency in the rear-view mirror.

Either way, though. Don't forget how social media can be manipulated to distort reality.
 
Stacyhs said:
The GOP won't drop him unless he loses the election. Even then, some are so invested in him that they'll echo his 'rigged election' nonsense but they're such cowards I doubt they'd support any effort to stay in office.
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But the Trumpsters down in Gooberville won't be the determining factor, rather, it will be the mega-donors who are politically cleared-eyed and who, when Trump loses, will tell the GOP to dump him....which will soon thereafter happen.
 
I'd rather the GOP donors stick with Trump and don't ditch him before the election in favor of salvaging the Senate.
 
Bob001 said:
Woodrow Wilson was an outspoken racist. He RE-segregated the federal civil service.
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He screened Birth of a Nation at the White House. If it was revealed that Woodrow Wilson was secretly a member of the KKK, I wouldn't be suprised.

So Trump is certainly not the first racist president of the USA, and I'm not sure there is anything to be gained from claiming it.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted

President @realDonaldTrump on the U.S. preforming 50 million tests: "We have conducted nearly three times as many tests as all of the other countries in the western hemisphere combined"
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Trump didn't write that. He probably thinks the "western hemisphere" is his right butt cheek.

Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted
President @realDonaldTrump: My Administration has ZERO outstanding requests for equipment from the states

Fatalities have fallen nationwide, and we are surging supplies, personnel, and therapeutics where they are needed.
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Huh? Those two sentences can't both be right.
 
RolandRat said:
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“The way he deals with people based on the colour of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening,” the former vice president said."

“No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed. They’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has.”

Is this actually true?
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Given that several presidents actually owned human beings based on the color of their skin and national origin, I’m going with no. Also, have a look at Woodrow Wilson sometime. He showed “The Birth of a Nation” in the White House.


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EETTAA - “preforming 50 million tests” does sound like Trump’s illiteracy to me.
 
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Armitage72 said:
Part of a July 16th speech on “Rolling Back Regulations to Help All Americans.”


Dishwashers — you didn’t have any water, so you — the people that do the dishes — you press it, and it goes again, and you do it again and again. So you might as well give them the water because you’ll end up using less water. So we made it so dishwashers now have a lot more water. And in many places — in most places of the country, water is not a problem. They don’t know what to do with it. It’s called “rain.” They don’t have a problem."
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If there is ever a contest for the dumbest thing Trump has ever said, I'll nominate that paragraph and sentence.
 
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