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I just received a call from @VP Mike Pence, thanking Washington state for our efforts to combat the coronavirus, Inslee tweeted. I told him our work would be more successful if the Trump administration stuck to the science and told the truth.What Dr Dim Donny Tenflusher, POS said @ CDC:
I told Mike not to be complimentary of that governor because that governor is a snake, Trump said, referring to Vice President Mike Pence. So Mike may be happy with him but I'm not, OK?
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/donald-trump-jay-inslee-coronavirus-123114
The Great State of Washington is plagued by a deadly disease and all Trump can do is act like a spoiled brat.
Why is Pence wearing tRumps make up and his multiple necks?
Sorry, it had to be asked.
Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Some people say it has something to do with Lectroids from Planet 10.
sheshe2
(83,319 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)sandensea
(21,526 posts)To say nothing of Orange Amin!
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)Give us 15 minutes and save 15%
John Fante
(3,479 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)The more that Donald Trumps latest coronavirus press avail sinks in, the angrier I get. There he is, wearing a campaign cap and mugging for the camera. Interrupting Alex Azar when hes on the verge of telling the truth about something. Bloviating about how hes an innate medical genius. Complaining that he doesnt want to unload passengers from a cruise ship because it might hurt his numbers. Griping that the Dow was all set to hit 30,000 until this whole virus thing hit. Bragging about the small number of deaths so far. Apparently demanding that every actual professional kowtow to him in public. Saying that hes not to blame for cutting back on pandemic preparedness because this is something that you can never really think is going to happen. Clowning about how the testing has been perfect, like the letter was perfect. Snickering about how he told Mike Pence not to compliment a governor who had been mean to him. Bragging that hes not bothering to take any special protections.
Jesus. Does he think this whole thing is just a big joke? Is he going to keep acting like a combination of court jester and Pollyanna-in-chief when the number of deaths hits a hundred? Or a thousand? Is there anyone left on his staff who can tell him to start acting like a president?
I have never wished medical problems on anyone. I didnt want George Bush to choke on a pretzel or Dick Cheney to have a heart attack. Just not my style. But honest to God, if theres one person on this planet who deserves to be infected with coronavirus, its Donald Trump.
Via Mother Jones
malaise
(267,784 posts)and that was a hoax
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)It's long past time for America to do anything but point and laugh at it. It's fucking pitiful.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 7, 2020, 09:15 PM - Edit history (1)
Not even Stalin and Hitler could so damage the Constitution.
misanthrope
(7,405 posts)Without McConnell, none of this unfolds in this manner. Trump is just a useful idiot.
J.Edgar Hoover did a hell of a lot of damage as well.
DFW
(54,047 posts)McTurtle actually knows what he's doing. Tramp has no earthly clue.
Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)After 40 years of scorched-earth politics and bowing to special interests, will Mitch McConnell finally pay the price?
By BOB MOSER
Rolling Stone, Sept. 2017
Excerpt...
His first taste of political triumph came at an even younger age. And the way he managed it would set the tone for everything that came later. As a junior at Louisvilles Manual High School, McConnell decided to run for student-body president. The hitch, as he confessed to his mother earlier in high school, was that I dont have even one friend. As he recounted in his 2016 memoir, The Long Game, McConnell set out to make his lack of popularity irrelevant by manipulating those who had it.
Just like Kentucky candidates today seek the endorsement of the Louisville Courier-Journal, he wrote, I began to seek the endorsement of the popular kids, like Janet Boyd, a well-known cheerleader; Bobby Marr, the best high school pitcher in the state; and Pete Dudgeon, an All-City Football player. I was prepared to ask for their vote using the only tool in my arsenal, the one thing teenagers most desire. Flattery.
McConnell ran a relentless campaign and vanquished his well-liked opponent. And having had my first taste of the responsibility and respect that came with holding elected office, he wrote, I was hooked.
As an undergraduate at the University of Louisville, and a law student at the University of Kentucky, McConnell would further hone his skills in winning student-body presidencies. In the 1960s, he worked as an intern to Kentucky Rep. Gene Snyder, a hardcore segregationist. But McConnells brand of Republicanism hed chosen the party because his father fought under Dwight Eisenhower in World War II was more moderate. Young Mitch was gung-ho for civil rights. In 1963, while an undergraduate, McConnell spoke at a university rally, urging students to join Martin Luther King Jr. in marching to the state capitol. That same year, he wrote an op-ed urging Republicans to eschew the constitutional arguments that Barry Goldwater and other conservatives cited as reasons to oppose the Civil Rights Act. One must view the Constitution as a document adaptable to conditions of contemporary society, McConnell wrote. Any strict interpretation of the founding document was inherently evil if it meant that basic rights are denied to any group.
In his first bid for office, in 1977, McConnell challenged the Democratic incumbent for Jefferson County judge executive basically, the official in charge of Greater Louisvilles government. He courted womens groups by supporting abortion rights, and promised unions that hed press for collective-bargaining rights for public workers. But for the first time, he also showed how willing he would be to cast aside principles. Forced busing had recently been imposed by the courts to desegregate Louisvilles public schools, and McConnell ran in opposition to it; the former civil-rights champion was now pandering to white voters anxieties and resentments.
In that first race, he also gave a glimpse of the kinds of campaign tactics hed use for the next 40 years. McConnell was never much good when it came to mixing with folks on the campaign trail, but he had no compunction about asking big donors for money. They were the popular kids hed now be using for his own ends. Raising $355,000 for the race, well beyond any amount ever spent in Jefferson County, he hired a top ad maker and pollster. With their help, McConnell zeroed in on the vulnerabilities of his opponent, Todd Hollenbach. He blew up some minor ethical lapses into darkly ominous controversies. And because Hollenbach was going through a divorce, McConnells ads were full of smiling family images of the Republican newcomer, his wife, and his daughters. (McConnells first wife, who went on to become a noted feminist scholar, divorced him in 1980.) Decades later, Hollenbach was still fuming about McConnells tactics, bitterly telling The New York Times Magazine, Hes whatever he needs to be for the occasion.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mitch-mcconnell-man-who-sold-america-880799/
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Initech
(99,909 posts)Is definitely a contributing factor!
spanone
(135,627 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-keep-passengers-on-grand-princess-cruise-ship-coronavirus-2020-3
Such compassion is rare in legless reptiles.
Initech
(99,909 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Known widely as the lesser of two evils.
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)We are all less safe with Trump anywhere near the Oval Office.
Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)One other important point is Trump works for Putin.
Rep. Swalwell has chronicled the sordid history:
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties
ancianita
(35,812 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Excerpt...
The president (sic) called the White House's plan to combat the growing outbreak in the U.S. "perfectly coordinated and fine tuned."
"We moved VERY early to close borders to certain areas, which was a Godsend," he tweeted. "V.P. is doing a great job. The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to make us look bad. Sad!"
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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/486497-trump-fake-news-media-is-doing-everything-possible-to
Here in Michigan over the last week, I have heard several 2016 Trump voters intimate they will not vote for him in November. People arent going to be so easy to fool again.
Good luck to all in Washington, and everywhere else affected in the pandemic.
Dan
(3,524 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Democratic leadership and climate action are what our future needs.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)Warpy
(110,900 posts)Any right wing water cooler bore in the future should be answered with one word to shut him down and let him know we know he's full of shit: our current president's last name.
I hope Inslee and everybody else tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's the one thing that sack of garbage can't stand to hear.
maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)It was all true, of course.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I have nightmares about that face coming at me. And this is the face the women saw when he forced a kiss on them. He is vile!!
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)His immense jowls really show from the side. He really has the face of a hog.
Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)by Jerry LambeLaw & Crime | 1:29 pm, August 26th, 2019
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Recounting one of her first memories of life in Epsteins orbit, Maria Farmer said she remembered one particular interaction between Epstein and President Donald Trump, during which Epstein appeared to shoot down the future president of the United States after he allegedly ogled the 25-year-old Farmer.
Farmer was an artist who moved to New York City in 1993 to pursue a career in the arts. She said she was introduced to Epstein and Maxwell after graduating from the New York Academy of Art, both of whom took an immediate interest in the young woman. Epstein quickly offered her a position acquisitioning art and managing his townhouse entrance, which meant she frequently found herself in the palatial estate.
Farmer was in Epsteins office when she first met Donald Trump. According to the report, Trump was eyeing Farmer when Epstein jumped in, telling Trump shes not for you. The Times said Farmers mother, Janice Swain, vouched for the account of the Trump-Epstein interaction, saying her daughter detailed it to her around the time it happened.
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Source: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-when-donald-trump-eyed-me-epstein-remarked-shes-not-for-you/
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)The president keeps inveighing against all the con jobs he imagines surrounding him. You could say that it takes one to know one.
Ben Zimmer
The Atlantic, SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
Excerpt...
But perhaps the most significant word of all for Trump was a three-letter one: con. More than a dozen times he used it in the phrases con artist, con job, or con game. First, he called out Democrats as con artists for destroying the reputation of his Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, characterizing the mounting accusations of sexual misconduct as a big fat con job. The lawyer Michael Avenatti, representing one of the accusers, got singled out as a con artist, and he insisted that even George Washington would be voted against 100 percent by [Senator Chuck] Schumer and the con artists.
Amidst all of this con talk, Hannah Thomas-Peter from Sky News asked Trump, Are you at all concerned at the message that is being sent to the women who are watching this when you use language like con job? Trump interrupted her, saying, Ive used much worse language in my life than con job. Thats, like, probably the nicest phrase Ive ever used. He then offered an etymological lesson: Its a con job. You know, confidence. Its a confidence job. He proceeded into a discussion of the Russia investigation, whichyou guessed itis nothing but a con job. After all of that, he had the chutzpah to add, And its not a bad term. Its not a bad term at all.
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By the time young Donald Trump was growing up in mid-20th-century Queens, con jobs and con artists were part of the urban scenery. Not surprisingly, the word shows up several times in the book he cowrote in 1987 with Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal. Ive always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, he opines. A less-than-trustworthy project manager named Irving is described as a con man who had done all sorts of con jobs and swindles. And one of his major precepts in the chapter on The Elements of the Deal states, You cant con people, at least not for long If you dont deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on. (Trump would quote this line in a 2011 tweet, directed at House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor when they were pushing through their plan to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis.)
Trump likes to portray himself as a man who knows all the cons and cant be conned himself. You could say that it takes one to know one. In the 2016 Republican primaries, Senator Marco Rubio referred to Trump on several occasions as a con man or con artist, a characterization he stood by even after dropping out of the race and supporting Trump as the nominee. And Schwartz, his Art of the Deal co-author, said on MSNBC last year that when Trump talks about con artists, its classic projection: That notion that hes a con man, believe me, that is deep inside what he knows himself to be. No wonder he keeps inveighing against all the con jobs he imagines surrounding him, all the better to deflect attention from his presidential confidence trick.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/donald-trump-and-the-art-of-the-con/571528/