Teresa Hanafin writes a delightful daily feature for the Boston Globe called “Fast Forward,” where she summarizes the highlights of the day.
There is no public schedule for the golfing Trump (although he will strictly adhere to his private insult-tweeting routine), so you can amuse yourself with this breathtaking yet accurate report from the pool reporter assigned to write an account of Trump’s speech at that Pennsylvania factory yesterday, a speech that was supposed to be about the manufacturing and energy situation in the US:
“In a 67-minute speech that at times resembled a campaign rally, the president meandered through several topics — many having little to do with energy. He talked about trade, immigration, trucks, emoluments, his 2016 victory, union leaders, his poll numbers, the media, steel, China, the amount of money he believes he’s losing as president, the Green New Deal, windmills, the WTO ‘screwing us’, President Obama’s book deal, Hillary Clinton’s comments on coal workers, pipelines and New York, Iran, veterans choice and more.
“While this was listed as an official event, the president regularly drifted into explicit politicking — including asking the thousands gathered to support him in the next election and lobby union leadership to back him. He also mentioned his political mottos ‘Make America Great Again’ and ‘Keep America Great’ and criticized his Democratic rivals using nicknames like ‘Sleepy Joe’.”
Besides the bizarre stream-of-unconsciousness, the latter point raises a red flag: Trump isn’t supposed to campaign for reelection when he is on official government business. But he doesn’t think any rules or laws apply to him. He replaced all of the smart people in the ethics offices with seat-warming lackeys, so he can continue to use as much taxpayer money to subsidize his 2020 campaign as he wants.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
80,000 people signed a petition to rename the street in front of Trump Tower to honor Obama. It should be named Ravitch/Bernie Avenue.
Actually, I think Obama Street would be fitting – after all, Obama leads to Trump.
Difficult to keep up.
Here’s another take on the same speech: Trump is “nuts”.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp28697908/donald-trump-veterans-choice-lie-80th-time/
Thanks for the link. My favorite line: “These spectacles, where the world’s most powerful man rants and raves like a guy with whom you’d studiously avoid eye contact on public transportation, happen so regularly that nobody even much remarks on it anymore.”
The above line says it all. We are numb to his lies and delusions.
What caught my eye:
“It feels like it should be a bigger story that the world’s most powerful man is nuts.”
This is freaky!!
He invited the workers in attendance to troll the media with tweets about how he should serve a third or fourth term.
Hey, that’s our PotUS!!! Ignoring legality and morality, as usual.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/13/trump_drive_the_left_stone_cold_crazy_call_for_a_third_term.html
Revealing once again the maturity level of a 3rd-grader trying to get his playground friends to gang up on somebody.
This is serious. No need to be fatuous and condescending.
Bye
The Intercept reported yesterday, “The Koch’s funded Third Way to Push Free Trade to Dems”. The Dem.’s name in the story was Rep. Crowley, who was defeated by AOC.
Third Way backs the “anyone but Bernie campaign”.
Bill Gates gives money to DINO centrists like the Center for American Progress and Booker. And, I’d speculate he’s “anybody but Bernie”, too.
Bernie in 2020.
Third Way wants public pensions eliminated and it wants school choice. Of course, they wrap it in PR packaging that obfuscates the truth.
The establishment Dem. Party would be protecting Crowley against AOC, if the 2016 election was held in 2020, instead. The DINO’s would blackball firms that AOC wanted to hire to help her campaign.
Crowley, out of a job in 2016, is now a lobbyist continuing with free trade.
IMPEACH! So sick of that traitorous liar and immoral moron.
Go BERNIE.
In the past week, Donald (J for Jabba) the Trump has a) gutted the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act; b) tied Aid to Dependent Children to an immigration check, thus ensuring that a lot more kids will go hungry; c) referred to the mass shooting in Dayton as having taken place in Toledo; d) made yet another taxpayer-paid trip to one of his golf courses; e) praised his buddy Kim for writing a nice letter after testing more missiles; f) blamed the mass shootings on mental health and video games; g) ignored the ramping up of the arms race as the US withdrawal from the INF treaty goes into place; h) visited surviving victims of the El Paso shooting that he instigated with his inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric and talked, there, about his crowd sizes; g) blamed the death of his pedophile buddy Epstein on the Clintons; and so much more. He is the gift that keeps on giving. Our leader. Vlad must be overjoyed by results of his considerable investment in Agent Orange.
While Trump was giving that (another one of his endless) rambling speeches full of how great he is and more lies, he also claimed responsibility for a factory in Pennsylvania being built.
“MONACA, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to take credit Tuesday for a major manufacturing complex in western Pennsylvania in his latest effort to reinvigorate the Rust Belt support that sent him to the White House. He was cheered on by fluorescent-vest-clad workers who were paid to attend by Shell, their employer, which is building the facility.
“Despite Trump’s claims, Shell announced its plans to build the complex in 2012, midway through President Barack Obama’s term in the White House.”
https://www.apnews.com/00061b19834849f8b6e1aa73ecdf54e4
I predict that 2020 will be a record-breaking year for the number of lies Trump spews from his cesspool mouth and toxic twitter fingers.
It gets tiring to read about Trump’s hatred and ignorance that is being spread day after day after day after day. It never ends. Now he wants discrimination of workers based on sex, race, LGBT and who knows what else. How about four more terms of this IDIOT?
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Trump Proposes New Rule Allowing Businesses With Federal Contracts to Discriminate By LGBT Status, Race
Shira Feder
Published 08.14.19 1:15PM ET
REUTERS
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed allowing businesses with federal contracts to discriminate against workers on the basis of sex, race, LGBT status, and other characteristics. The rule, if passed, would be in direct opposition to Donald Trump’s declaration in January 2017 that he would leave the Obama administration’s LGBT protections intact. The 46-page draft made public by the Labor Department would apply to any organization that could prove it serves a religious purpose. The organization need not be a church to qualify, just any organization that can claim it is guided by faith, which could include schools or corporations. “The contractor must be organized for a religious purpose, meaning that it was conceived with a self-identified religious purpose. This need not be the contractor’s only purpose,” the document reads. Labor spokesperson Megan Sweeny told BuzzFeed News the rule could also protect for-profit businesses with federal contracts if they make religious claims.
In a statement, the National Center for Transgender Equality said the new rule would allow “firing or refusing to hire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. It could also lead to federal contractors refusing to hire women or unmarried workers who are pregnant or parents, or even discrimination on the basis of race.”
Read it at BuzzFeed News
I could only stomach about 20 min of the speech. It did seem to me to be a rather lukewarm reception. Very little applause at many of the planned applause lines. It sounded like there was someone in the audience who was very enthusiastic who managed start some applause.
Goebbels and Trumpty Tumpty both recognized that at a rally, you can let in only the faithful, and that the applause of morons plays well in the media. Trump has the problem, however, that he can’t control the media entirely, as Goebbels did.
My stab at writing a Trump rally: https://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/trump-rally/
“They want to take away your cows! I’m serious.”
Hilarious, but so close to reality.
You could do this and have the IQ tick down from 90 to 45. At 45 he raves incoherently and is hugging and throwing things. Security personnel carry him off and his enablers try to finish up in a bizarre fractured manner.
LOL. It could happen!!!
I seriously doubt that he starts at 90. I would peg him, and I am quite serious about this, at somewhere in the high 70s or low 80s.
Bob Shepherd: I’ve heard U-tube videos of Trump speaking when he was younger. There is a noticeable decline. He uses simple words, rambles a lot and changes topics. I believe he is suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s.
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Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?
STAT asked experts to compare Trump’s speech from decades ago to that in 2017. All noticed deterioration, which may signal changes in Trump’s brain health.
…In interviews Trump gave in the 1980s and 1990s (with Tom Brokaw, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, and others), he spoke articulately, used sophisticated vocabulary, inserted dependent clauses into his sentences without losing his train of thought, and strung together sentences into a polished paragraph, which — and this is no mean feat — would have scanned just fine in print. This was so even when reporters asked tough questions about, for instance, his divorce, his brush with bankruptcy, and why he doesn’t build housing for working-class Americans.
Trump fluently peppered his answers with words and phrases such as “subsided,” “inclination,” “discredited,” “sparring session,” and “a certain innate intelligence.” He tossed off well-turned sentences such as, “It could have been a contentious route,” and, “These are the only casinos in the United States that are so rated.” He even offered thoughtful, articulate aphorisms: “If you get into what’s missing, you don’t appreciate what you have,” and, “Adversity is a very funny thing.”
Now, Trump’s vocabulary is simpler. He repeats himself over and over, and lurches from one subject to an unrelated one, as in this answer during an interview with the Associated Press last month:
“People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall, my base really wants it — you’ve been to many of the rallies. OK, the thing they want more than anything is the wall. My base, which is a big base; I think my base is 45 percent. You know, it’s funny. The Democrats, they have a big advantage in the Electoral College. Big, big, big advantage. … The Electoral College is very difficult for a Republican to win, and I will tell you, the people want to see it. They want to see the wall.”…
https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/
Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change? Mad Cow Disease
So, start at his age.
And BTW I’m not really qualified to be saying any of this.
Great job capturing the delusional stream of consciousness! You should write for Saturday Night Live.
Golly. Thanks!
It never ends.
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A new policy rolled out by the Interior Department’s inspector general puts strict limits on the office’s interactions with reporters.
The press office for the agency’s internal watchdog, which is investigating a number of Interior officials, including Secretary David Bernhardt, is now prohibited from providing journalists with information on its work beyond, “Our report speaks for itself,” or “We have no comment.”
The policy, which took effect Aug. 5, is a change from the previous practice of sometimes providing reporters with background or additional information.
When asked this week about a new report released by the IG office, the press office told The Hill it could use one of two statements: “Our report speaks for itself” or “We have no comment.”
The policy change comes under the leadership of acting Inspector General Gail Ennis.
Unlike most IG officials, who are usually career government employees, Ennis is a political appointee who previously contributed to Trump’s campaign.
She donated $4,275 in total to Trump’s Make America Great Again Committee and his presidential campaign, according to Federal Election Commission data.
love th8is
I just sent this to my British friend in Malaysia, a friend in Australia, a local friend in Malaysia and some people in the US.
Ewwww.
He looks bad no matter the setting. I like the earrings, however.
Yes. He really should wear the earrings. These would complement the hair he picked up from his mother.
This is truly SICK. Millions of people visit this garbage site each month. Unbelievable that this country can sink so low. I felt slightly ill just reading about 8chan.
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How 8chan Became A Breeding Ground For Violent Extremism
Throughout 8chan’s existence, it has been a vehicle for online hate campaigns and targeted harassment. Videos and images of mass killings and murders circulate on its discussion boards, as do extremist manifestos and propaganda. Some of the site’s forums have also coordinated fake emergency calls to police departments that result in armed officers showing up at the address of their targets, an attack known as “swatting.” Google delisted the site from its search results in 2015 over concerns about it hosting child pornography, but it still reportedly averages millions of visitors per month…
As an entirely anonymous forum, 8chan has made it near-impossible to know who’s saying what on its platform, creating an ideal environment for trolls to post wicked and vile messages that will likely never be traced back to them. As a result, the site traffics in xenophobia, racism, queerphobia, misogyny and Islamophobia, as well as targeted harassment and threats…
8chan, like other online intermediaries, is also afforded immunity from liability for third-party content, meaning it can’t get in legal trouble for the things its users post….8chan users are already hailing the suspected El Paso shooter as a “saint.” …
Article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-to-know-about-8chan-the-extremist-forum-where-mass-killers-find-an-audience_n_5d476ff5e4b0acb57fce642b
Good criminals know how to game the system.
Connect the dots…
IS he conscious?