Trump isn’t doing much today (I could write that quite often) other than holding another campaign rally, this one in Cincinnati.
With the help of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump did get his UN ambassador nominee, Kelly Craft, approved. Her major qualifications:
a) She and her current coal CEO husband have donated millions of dollars to Trump and McConnell (the Crafts live in Kentucky). Journalist James Fallows says this is the first time that a big-money donor has been named UN ambassador, another sign that expertise is irrelevant in the Trump Swamp.
b) She most recently was US ambassador to Canada, a job she didn’t seem to like very much. Ambassadors can spend no more than 26 work days per year away from their post; Politico reportedthat Craft took 128 flights between Ottawa and the US in just 15 months. That’s the equivalent of one round trip per week. And 70 of those trips originated in or departed from Lexington, Kentucky, where she lives. Hmm. Officials in Canada and at the State Department privately complained that she was an absentee ambassador.
And of course, in keeping with this administration’s policy of coverup, the US embassy in Ottawa and the State Department refuse to say how many days she was actually at her post.
c) She’s had as many husbands as Trump has had wives (3).
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Diane We can add THAT to our long list of examples of Trump’s and McConnell’s cronyism. CBK
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I don’t Tweet, but Trump is coming to Cincinnati for a rally this evening.
A pathetic editorial in our local newspaper asked him to be nice and not produce bad PR for Cincinnati. The editorial also included a plea for Trump to do an infrastructure project on the aging bridge to Kentucky. Protests are planned on each side of the downtown arena where Trumpsters will gather. And there are other events that will be drawing big crowds. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/2019/07/31/trump-rally-2019-dont-turn-presidents-visit-into-embarrassment-cincinnati/1859550001/
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Laura H. Chapman : Editorial, “We don’t need more inflammatory rhetoric that puts us at one another’s throats.”
Is there any other way that Trump can express his hatred? Good luck on that thought.
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Maybe he will tell everyone in Cincinnati who didn’t vote for him to “go back where they came from”
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The GOP should go back to where they came from- the 1950’s. They should send time travelers forward who reject bigotry and who will re-enact the progressive taxes of the era.
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No doubt the event will attract the MAGA hat-wearing male students from Covington Catholic (D.C. pro-birth event).
Rep. Ted Lieu (D- Calf.) is a Cov Cath grad and he, in contrast, reflects well on institution.
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Trump attracts stupid- Some attendees wore QAnon t-shirts and held up QAnon signs at the event. The FBI identifies QAnon as a potential source of domestic terrorism.
At a former Trump event in Cincy, attendees sported t-shirts that read, “Better Russian than an (American) Democrat”. Now, that’s a group that should “love it or leave it”.
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Count me underwhelmed. Expertise = Unspecified BA from U of Ky, plus unidentified period as head of own business consulting firm in Lexington. Bush made her an alt delegate to UN in 2007, where she advised on US/ Africa policy (?!) [she was a major Bush supporter]. $2 million to Trump campaign bought her Canadian & now UN ambassadorships. I don’t count 3 marriages against anyone, just wondering why she gets tapped for positions bought by her CEO husbands’ largesse…
I’m thinking the Bush appt was a figurehead position awarded to donors, but you never know. Shirley Temple had a couple yrs of active Rep Party experience, & per Kissinger was well-versed on SWAfrica policy before she started getting UN appts (incl ambassador to Ghana, later Czechoslovakia… but never US Ambassador to UN: that position– back then, & until now– has always been held by folks w/considerably more experience as office-holders &/or govt policy advisors.
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As you know, one qualification of a great diplomat is that he or she be a gifted communicator and negotiator, in addition to having knowledge of history, geopolitics, economics, and current issues. So, with that in mind, I did a verbatim transcription of this answer that Ambassador Craft gave to a reporter who asked Craft, in an interview, to share her thoughts about climate change:
“You know, there’s good sciences on both, uh, issues, and I believe that we are committed to our environment. Obviously, there are a lot of people on this Earth, and this is going to be the result of some of the damages to the planet, but I know that the President and all of the cabinet has the best interests of what is good for United States and what is good for our environment.”
I think that we can safely say that Kelly Craft has every bit as profound a command of the English language as Donald Trump does, OK? She has the best words. And believe me she’s gonna do an incredible job. Incredible job. Am I right? Cause she’s winner. I like winners. No collusion. Covfefe.
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https://giphy.com/gifs/thehills-l0G16IPIdp0pobWU0
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Hey, she had jet lag! She must have had jet lag every freaking day! I know that from sciences.
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It is indeed the case that she has some lag.
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I don’t know, Akademos. There is good sciences on both sides.
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Trump keeps appointing these incredible people to these posts. The question is, who is really in charge if the regime is run by incompetence. Are all these people real? Who is running the country?
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Putin
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on the ritz?
https://giphy.com/gifs/gene-wilder-young-frankenstein-peter-boyle-l0MYNoUhOd2ZqhucE
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Roy,
No one.
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This admin is such a hot, radioactive mess, with a lumbering Trumpenshteyn monster raging at all perceived opposition or recognition of what it is, radioactive mud.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cinemasojourns.com/2017/07/29/the-radioactive-mud-monster/amp/
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Another mud monster? Are we getting infested with Ratcliffe?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1US046
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/455925-wapo-report-raises-questions-about-record-of-trumps-dni-pick%3famp
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Which of the Democratic candidates is most likely to be able to defeat Trump? Warren? Harris? Sanders? Beiden? It’s between those four I think.
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I suspect that at this point it is only the most deplorable who will vote for the guy and that the pile of dog excrement on my lawn could defeat him.
Trumpty Dumpty
Railed for his wall
And built half a mile of it
Before his phat fall.
All Putin’s hacking,
To Trump’s great chagrin,
Couldn’t give Trumpty
Another thin win.
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Real intelligence by professionals is way above the understanding level of the Orange Swamp Monster.
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The president is increasingly conflating what he watches on TV with reality.
The symbiotic relationship between Fox and the Trump White House is well documented. But the president’s latest Twitter-and-TV binge serves as a stark illustration of the disproportionate role Fox News and Fox Business are playing in setting the country’s agenda.
https://www.vox.com/2019/7/30/20747141/trump-fox-news-presidency-elijah-cummings
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But, Carol, Trump got a call from “the African American community” telling him how grateful it was for being the subject of racist attacks. LMAO!!!!
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Based on announced retirements, Republicans won’t have a single black representative in the House and will have only 11 women. Someone should tell the GOP to go back to where they came from- the 1950’s…wait…back then, America had greater income equality so the Repubs have only preserved the bigotry of the era.
The critical question for the Dems is which candidate has the fire to stop the GOP redistribution of wealth to the richest 0.1% and, to counter the devastating effects of racial and gender prejudice.
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So well said, Linda! Bravo!
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This is Trump acting presidential. 43,281 liked this Tweet? It shows how much is lacking in the minds of people.
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Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad!
4:58 AM – 2 Aug 2019
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In case you missed having news about Trump, here is an update.
Trump is gone, but Cincinnati was the host for an estimated 13,000 devotees for his rally here yesterday, August 1. You can see Trump’s self-aggrandizing performance here. There was lots of applause, no chanting. The crowd loved his main themes: Immigration, abortion, gun rights, law and order, patriotism and loyalty to the flag, military might, GOD, and the economy. Trump reaffirmed that all of these were Republican Party values, evidently to ward off the growing use of “the party of Trump” by disgruntled but still loyal Republicans. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/01/watch_live_president_trump_hosts_maga_rally_in_cincinatti.html
The local television had brief clips showing several hundred protesters gathered on each side of the arena where Trump spoke. One clip featured some fisticuffs initiated by a Trumpster who jumped out of his pickup truck to assault a gray-haired man. Both quickly got into slug-em boxing mode. The police intervened, but not before the Trumpster had given the gray-haired man a whack near the eye.
The Cincinnati Enquirer published some of the reasons people gave for liking Trump. One couple said they liked the President’s “conservative Christian values.” A woman said Trump should probably keep off Twitter, and stick with “core values.” A man compared Trump’s direct communication through Twitter to “FDR’s fireside chats. A man said “God only knows what could have been accomplished by now without the opposition.” Another man said “Democrats label anyone they disagree with a racist.” His wife said: “Trump is ever bit as good as Reagan, if not better.”
The latter comment appears to be uninformed by knowledge of this widely publicized tape, and just released recording of Reagan speaking about UN delegates from Africa with Richard Nixon….
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/
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Trump is many things but not a conservative Christian
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Trump loves the flag? Wow. That’s news to me. So glad to hear it.
They deserve Hillary’s label: they ARE deplorable, if “deplorable” means to reek of self-imposed ignorance. “Trump’s conservative Christian values”? Go back to your rabbit hole? CBK
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Here’s what my brother says about religion and Trump. [This is the abbreviated version.] “Jesus will heal your hatred for our great president.’ I don’t think so.
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Go look up Romans 3:23 and 6:23. Jesus said I did not come to abolish the law but for fill it. I vote for people who stands with scripture not the other way around. Your party stands with anti-semitism, hating Christians and Jews and Israel and America. We all will stand before Christ, either in judgement or rewards. It’s your choice. Satan is the God of this world. Repent, Jesus will heal your hatred for our great president!!!
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Why does it feel like Groundhog Day?
Keep proceeding to impeachment until you get it right.
This POTUSSR who attacks the vulnerable across the board, attacks the media, truth, SCIENCE!, decency, attacks foreign allies and THE RULE OF LAW, invites hate and violence . . . Whoever stands with him should be imprisoned.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/white-house/455180-an-impeachment-inquiry-has-begun%3famp
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What a crooked, crooked man.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/455936-nikki-haley-to-trump-on-response-to-robbery-attempt-at-cummings-home%3famp
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I’m surprised at your conception of what is a prosecutable crime. The constitution protects voting. But as emotional expression, that it is incomprehensible to you how anyone could possibly support Trump, I fully understand your position. However, unless the Democrats can offer a candidate in opposition less crazy than most of those running, you may see many voters in the middle as last time holding their noses and voting for him again. Impeachment is useful in keeping him on the defensive, but ultimately not practical. As Yossarian (I think, or was it in a Vonnegut book), said, “So it goes.”
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Vonnegut.
Not talking about voting.
The enablers.
Also, not being literal.
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Trump/Ratcliffe withdraws.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/policy/national-security/455953-trump-withdraws-ratcliffe-as-intelligence-pick%3famp
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Somewhat related, the NAACP released a report on how this regime is weaponizing the judiciary:
Click to access WeaponizingTheBench.pdf
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Leonard Leo, a father of 7, is the central figure in the Federalist Society. Wikipedia reports that in a single recent year he rec’d $120,000 from the Catholic Association for his work (in addition to his Federalist Society paycheck). The renaming of the public George Mason University School of Law to burnish Scalia’s image was his doing. UnKochMyCampus discovered anonymous donors to GMU whose gifts came with questionable strings attached.
IMO, it is unwise to underestimate the connection between conservative politics and the influence of some powerful members of the Catholic church who think that creation of a parallel school system will financially benefit Catholic schools.
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Here’s the GOP way to keep in power.
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Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years
Areas with discriminatory history purging at higher rates
Purges accelerated following 2013 supreme court decision
“US election jurisdictions with histories of egregious voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report released on Thursday.
At least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018, according to a study by the Brennan Center for Justice. The number was basically unchanged from the previous two-year period…
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See if this link works.
Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/01/voter-purges-us-elections-brennan-center-report?CMP=share_btn_link
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