Donald Trump’s Presidency 2017 - 2021 AND 2025-202X
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DHS Under Boss: We're Taking This National
When asked about calls for an investigation into DHS police tactics in Portland, Oregon, Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Mark my words. This is practice. All that bitching about mail in ballots ain't for naught.
It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
They have come for your uncool niece
Portland PD are the goosesteppers. Seriously. It was a problem when I lived there 20 years ago.
GEORGE WILL: This is what national decline looks like
July 15, 2020 at 4:00 a.m. PDT
Because of his incontinent use of it, the rhetorical mustard that the president slathers on every subject has lost its tang. The entertainer has become a bore, and foretelling his defeat no longer involves peering into a distant future: Early voting begins in two states (South Dakota and Minnesota) 61 days from Sunday, which is 107 days before Election Day.
Never has a U.S. election come at such a moment of national mortification. In April 1970, President Richard M. Nixon told a national television audience that futility in Vietnam would make the United States appear to the world as “a pitiful, helpless giant.” Half a century later, America, for the first time in its history, is pitied.
Not even during the Civil War, when the country was blood-soaked by a conflict involving enormous issues, was it viewed with disdainful condescension as it now is, and not without reason: Last Sunday, Germany (population 80.2 million) had 159 new cases of covid-19; Florida (population 21.5 million) had 15,300.
Under the most frivolous person ever to hold any great nation’s highest office, this nation is in a downward spiral. This spiral has not reached its nadir, but at least it has reached a point where worse is helpful, and worse can be confidently expected.
The nation’s floundering government is now administered by a gangster regime. It is helpful to have this made obvious as voters contemplate renewing the regime’s lease on the executive branch. Roger Stone adopted the argot of B-grade mobster movies when he said he would not “roll on” Donald Trump. By commuting Stone’s sentence, Stone’s beneficiary played his part in this down-market drama, showing gratitude for Stone’s version of omertà (the Mafia code of silence), which involved lots of speaking but much lying. Because the pandemic prevents both presidential candidates from bouncing around the continent like popcorn in a skillet, the electorate can concentrate on other things, including Trump’s selection of friends such as Stone and Paul Manafort, dregs from the bottom of the Republican barrel.
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history,” Don DeLillo wrote in his sprawling 1997 novel “Underworld” about the United States in the second half of the 20th century. Today, there is a vast longing for respite from the 21st century, which — before the pandemic, two inconclusive wars and the Great Recession — began with a presidential election that turned on 537 Florida votes and was not decided until a Dec. 12, 2000, Supreme Court decision. Given Trump’s reckless lying and the supine nature of most Republican officeholders, it is imperative that the Nov. 3 result be obvious that evening.
This year, the pandemic will be an accelerant of preexisting trends: There will be a surge of early and mail voting. So, an unambiguous decision by midnight Eastern time Nov. 3 will require (in addition to state requirements that mailed ballots be postmarked, say, no later than Oct. 31) a popular-vote tsunami so large against the president that there will be a continentwide guffaw when he makes charges, as surely he will, akin to those he made in 2016. Then, he said he lost the popular vote by 2.9 million because “millions” of undocumented immigrants voted against him. Making a preemptive strike against civic confidence, Trump has announced that the 2020 election will be the “most corrupt” in U.S. history.
The 2020 presidential selection process began with Iowa’s shambolic Democratic caucuses, a result not of corruption but incompetence, an abundant commodity nowadays. It is scandalous that in many places casting a ballot requires hours of standing in line. Larry Diamond of the conservative-leaning Hoover Institution at Stanford discerns another scandal:
“The hard truth is that there has been a rising tide of voter suppression in recent U.S. elections. These actions — such as overeager purging of electoral registers and reducing early voting — have the appearance of enforcing abstract principles of electoral integrity but the clear effect (and apparent intent) of disproportionately disenfranchising racial minorities. One example was the decision of Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp to suspend 53,000 predominantly African-American voter registration applications in 2018 because the names did not produce an ‘exact match’ with other records.”
This nation built the Empire State Building, groundbreaking to official opening, in 410 days during the Depression, and the Pentagon in 16 months during wartime. Today’s less serious nation is unable to competently combat a pandemic, or even reliably conduct elections. This is what national decline looks like.
July 15, 2020 at 4:00 a.m. PDT
Because of his incontinent use of it, the rhetorical mustard that the president slathers on every subject has lost its tang. The entertainer has become a bore, and foretelling his defeat no longer involves peering into a distant future: Early voting begins in two states (South Dakota and Minnesota) 61 days from Sunday, which is 107 days before Election Day.
Never has a U.S. election come at such a moment of national mortification. In April 1970, President Richard M. Nixon told a national television audience that futility in Vietnam would make the United States appear to the world as “a pitiful, helpless giant.” Half a century later, America, for the first time in its history, is pitied.
Not even during the Civil War, when the country was blood-soaked by a conflict involving enormous issues, was it viewed with disdainful condescension as it now is, and not without reason: Last Sunday, Germany (population 80.2 million) had 159 new cases of covid-19; Florida (population 21.5 million) had 15,300.
Under the most frivolous person ever to hold any great nation’s highest office, this nation is in a downward spiral. This spiral has not reached its nadir, but at least it has reached a point where worse is helpful, and worse can be confidently expected.
The nation’s floundering government is now administered by a gangster regime. It is helpful to have this made obvious as voters contemplate renewing the regime’s lease on the executive branch. Roger Stone adopted the argot of B-grade mobster movies when he said he would not “roll on” Donald Trump. By commuting Stone’s sentence, Stone’s beneficiary played his part in this down-market drama, showing gratitude for Stone’s version of omertà (the Mafia code of silence), which involved lots of speaking but much lying. Because the pandemic prevents both presidential candidates from bouncing around the continent like popcorn in a skillet, the electorate can concentrate on other things, including Trump’s selection of friends such as Stone and Paul Manafort, dregs from the bottom of the Republican barrel.
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history,” Don DeLillo wrote in his sprawling 1997 novel “Underworld” about the United States in the second half of the 20th century. Today, there is a vast longing for respite from the 21st century, which — before the pandemic, two inconclusive wars and the Great Recession — began with a presidential election that turned on 537 Florida votes and was not decided until a Dec. 12, 2000, Supreme Court decision. Given Trump’s reckless lying and the supine nature of most Republican officeholders, it is imperative that the Nov. 3 result be obvious that evening.
This year, the pandemic will be an accelerant of preexisting trends: There will be a surge of early and mail voting. So, an unambiguous decision by midnight Eastern time Nov. 3 will require (in addition to state requirements that mailed ballots be postmarked, say, no later than Oct. 31) a popular-vote tsunami so large against the president that there will be a continentwide guffaw when he makes charges, as surely he will, akin to those he made in 2016. Then, he said he lost the popular vote by 2.9 million because “millions” of undocumented immigrants voted against him. Making a preemptive strike against civic confidence, Trump has announced that the 2020 election will be the “most corrupt” in U.S. history.
The 2020 presidential selection process began with Iowa’s shambolic Democratic caucuses, a result not of corruption but incompetence, an abundant commodity nowadays. It is scandalous that in many places casting a ballot requires hours of standing in line. Larry Diamond of the conservative-leaning Hoover Institution at Stanford discerns another scandal:
“The hard truth is that there has been a rising tide of voter suppression in recent U.S. elections. These actions — such as overeager purging of electoral registers and reducing early voting — have the appearance of enforcing abstract principles of electoral integrity but the clear effect (and apparent intent) of disproportionately disenfranchising racial minorities. One example was the decision of Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp to suspend 53,000 predominantly African-American voter registration applications in 2018 because the names did not produce an ‘exact match’ with other records.”
This nation built the Empire State Building, groundbreaking to official opening, in 410 days during the Depression, and the Pentagon in 16 months during wartime. Today’s less serious nation is unable to competently combat a pandemic, or even reliably conduct elections. This is what national decline looks like.
My guess would be that person would suddenly have about 50 new holes in their torso.
Fuck George Will
www.mediamatters.org
All these assholes that have for years pushed or at best not opposed the republican party's progression towards this inevitible conclusion need to seriously shut the fuck up and apologize.
George Will Whitewashes Racism From Pro-Segregation Presidential Campaigns
All these assholes that have for years pushed or at best not opposed the republican party's progression towards this inevitible conclusion need to seriously shut the fuck up and apologize.
However, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
Literally with his mouth around betsy devos's dick
www.grandforksherald.com
Fuck'im
He's not an enemy of trump. He helped pave the way for trump.
GEORGE WILL COLUMN: Kids, do as your nanny state says
WASHINGTON -- Only two things are infinite: the expanding universe and Democrats' hostility to the District of Columbia's school choice program. Killing this small program, which benefits 1,300 mostly poor and minority children, is odious and ind...
www.grandforksherald.com
Fuck'im
He's not an enemy of trump. He helped pave the way for trump.
Karen and Ken, you're hired!
www.cbsnews.com
Trump campaign event features St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters
They were interviewed by Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. and former Fox News personality who now hosts a web series for the campaign.
www.cbsnews.com
got the covid shitz!
That face appears to be a few suitures away from sloughing off onto the floor.
I don’t know if any of this is true, but it’s an entertaining read!
gregolear.substack.com
Tinker, Tailor, Mobster, Trump
What happens when a Confidential Informant becomes President?
gregolear.substack.com
That is a good read.I don’t know if any of this is true, but it’s an entertaining read!
Tinker, Tailor, Mobster, Trump
What happens when a Confidential Informant becomes President?
Boy, that would be....... something.I don’t know if any of this is true, but it’s an entertaining read!
Tinker, Tailor, Mobster, Trump
What happens when a Confidential Informant becomes President?
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And free weed, man...
y'all hear about the shooting at the NJ judge's house? Looks like an assassination attempt. I only post it in this thread because she just signed on to a Deutsche Bank/Epstein related case.
On the other hand:y'all hear about the shooting at the NJ judge's house? Looks like an assassination attempt. I only post it in this thread because she just signed on to a Deutsche Bank/Epstein related case.
ok good. I could believe gang/org crime too.
The idea that jerry brown is the gestapo is pretty fucking funny right now
So, daily Covid briefings are coming back.
but I guarantee it’s got very little to With Covid, the Dumpster just needs a national mouthpiece for his campaign, and he found one.
but I guarantee it’s got very little to With Covid, the Dumpster just needs a national mouthpiece for his campaign, and he found one.
Yeah, but the ratings, the beautiful ratings. No one has ever seen ratings like that, tremendous, everyone is saying so.
And you can definitely 1000% Bigly trust any numbers they use now that the CDC is cut out of the loop!
Surprise. The shooter is dead. Suicide.
Had a case on the target Judge's schedule.
Also reportedly lived in Russia for a decade, which may be an awful coincidence considering the Deutsche bank tie.
Man,
Where are RenegadeRick and The Desmondo when we need them?
Where are RenegadeRick and The Desmondo when we need them?
More of this theme.
www.independent.co.uk
Trump official says federal troops may be deployed to other Democrat-run cities
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says federal troops are president's "stormtroopers"
www.independent.co.uk
Man, does this mean I need to drive all the way up to Denver just to throw a Molotov Cocktail at generic white vans?More of this theme.
Trump official says federal troops may be deployed to other Democrat-run cities
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says federal troops are president's "stormtroopers"
You could do a road ride.
With all the road construction on I25?
Is your helicopter broken?With all the road construction on I25?
/monocle
