New Strategy: ‘Leaning In’ To The Pandemic
[guest post by Dana]
When you are the President of the United States and a pesky pandemic hasn’t worked to your political advantage and just won’t go away in spite of your efforts to wish it away, and as a result, you find yourself being judged by Americans for your incompetence and lack of an effective response to a virus impacting the entire nation that you lead, and you finally get a clue and mutter to yourself, “Oh, shit, I could lose the election because of this,” there is only one thing left for you to do: embrace the pandemic:
We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance. There is nobody more Patriotic than me, your favorite President! pic.twitter.com/iQOd1whktN
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2020
President @realDonaldTrump: "We're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask." pic.twitter.com/pfpssIqJjH
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 21, 2020
"As one family, we mourn every precious life that's been lost. I pledge in their honor that we will develop a vaccine, and we will defeat the virus." pic.twitter.com/OZJWhL9A9t
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 21, 2020
Meanwhile, Joe Biden has weighed in on the issue of masks in a new campaign ad:
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:31 pmBetter late than never.
I can’t wait to see his about-face on DACA.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:35 pmThe jitter you just felt in the rotation of the earth was all the Trump supporters suddenly turning a 180 and running with Trump’s new message.
(At least he’s getting closer to the right message. Too bad it’s months late.)
Nic (896fdf) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:38 pmToo bad it’s 140,000 deaths later.
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:39 pm2. That will take place about a week from now – it’s really a reversal on a president’s authority, since he has always said he is for DACA, but wanted to extract concessions on immigration law from Congress, except he kept raising the ante.
Meanwhile today he ordered the Census Bureau not to count unauthorized immigrants as part of the population of the United States. Besides being against all precedent and the law, how are they supposed to do it?
Sammy Finkelman (5b43a3) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:41 pmNot only a 180 but they will claim they and Trump have been saying this all along.
DRJ (aede82) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:46 pmDonald Trump gave a coronavirus briefing today, all alone.
The opposition or somebody was quick to point out that Trump attended a fundraiser without wearing a mask ad mingled with people. His Press Secretary said Trump is tested (by the way he gets results, too, and it’d also a point with them that anyone who gets in close proximity with him or Mike Pence is tested too and must have a negative test result before they get close) she said sometimes more than once a day.
When Trump was asked about it, he said he couldn’t think of any day when he was tested twice.
Sammy Finkelman (5b43a3) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:47 pmOf couse they will. And they’ll say it through their brand new masks.
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:48 pmJust call him Waffles. How long until he needs to warm the other side?
(I’m actually really glad he finally pulled his head out.)
john (cd2753) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:49 pm@5 Sammy, if Trump was for DACA, then why was he trying to end it up until recently? If it was because he thought Congress was the proper, Constitutional way to address it, why is he now going to issue an executive order (and not only continue DACA, but throw U.S. citizenship as well)? SMDH
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:49 pm*in
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:50 pmUgh:
Interestingly, at today’s revival of the coronavirus pressers, only Trump spoke. When questioned why the team wasn’t speaking, he said that Dr. Birx was right outside the door listening. It’s enough to make a person suspect that informing Americans about where we’re at with the crisis really wasn’t the goal today…
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:53 pmTrump also said that things are going to get worse before they get better, which is considered new for him, at least recently.
Sammy Finkelman (5b43a3) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:53 pmNotice the weaselly language–“many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask”. I’m not saying it, mind you, but here’s a photo of me in a face mask. Plus, I’m patriotic!
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:54 pmHe echoed that same sentiment back in April, Sammy, when he said we would have a “rough two weeks ahead”. Just two weeks though…
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:58 pmBiden’s ad is similar to the others. Sure it’s a nice contrast to the negativity. The responsibility comments and the image of red Texas and Florida sure seem to be intentional. They let the audience finish the point.
But he’s not really promising much.
Meanwhile Trump is just awful. I heard he wished ghislaine maxwell well. I didn’t think he wanted to be president in 2016 and I don’t think he wants it today either. Why else would he say that?
Dustin (064e00) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:59 pmBut he’s not really promising much.
Here’s the thing: I don’t think he has to promise much. Anyone but Trump is a thing now. And only one person is responsible for that.
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:02 pm@5 norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:49 pm
Politics. But he always would say he’s for it in principle. It;s a little like him trying to have the courts overtrn Obamacare without replacing it, although he says he;s for replacing it and especially keeping no refusal because of pre-existing conditions.
He says it is because of the recent Supreme Court decision on DACA. I do;t see how he can throw in anything about U.S. citizenship. We’ll see what he comes up with. He can always throw in a request for legislation.
Meanwhile he’s tacking the other way, too, at least with the Census.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-taking-action-ensure-american-citizens-receive-proper-representation-congress
This is so vague you have n idea what he;s talking about.
He’s also talking about “merit-based” immigration (translation less family reunification) Does he think he can add restrictions not enacted into law?
Sammy Finkelman (5b43a3) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:03 pm16. Dustin (064e00) — 7/21/2020 @ 4:59 pm
To avid an accusation of hypocrisy. He was friendly with her. Maybe 20 years ago, And it sounds neutral.
Sammy Finkelman (5b43a3) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:05 pmClearly you’re right. If Biden were to roll up his sleeves and try any risk taking leadership, Trump and the russian bot net, and amazingly, the MSM, they would all find a way to get a sensationalist fight out of it. Suddenly the race would tighten right up.
By laying low, making the most meaningless campaign in history, there is only one thing to pay attention to. And when the story is just ‘here’s Trump doing Trump stuff’ it’s not the same look as ‘here’s Trump fighting with some RINO loser or Hillary’.
I really hope they let Kanye onto the debate stage. imma let you finish but
Dustin (064e00) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:08 pmI’m sorry for the multiple comments, but this is a target-rich environment.
Trump is back to calling it the China Virus, which he said he was going to stop doing months ago. Anybody who is vertical and breathing knows the virus came from China. Trump is just stoking animosity and casting things as us-versus-them in order to deflect from his own shortcomings. He’s been doing it ever since his ride down the escalator, when he used a broad brush to depict Mexicans (not some, but in general) as rapists and criminals.
This assortment of his new take on masks, the impending executive order on DACA, nationalistic drum-beating, and replacing his campaign manager, reeks of desperation.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:08 pmTrump on Ghislaine Maxwell at today’s Covid presser:
That was an interesting (and disturbing) comment he made about Maxwell, who is now criminally charged. Why would he say that? Perhaps to signal to her that she better not turn on him, or a reminder that he will look after her if she is found guilty, or just Trump being a clumsy fool?
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:09 pm@18 He can always throw in a request for legislation.
That’s what he could have done after the Supreme Court overruled him on ending DACA. That, or he could have taken the steps laid out by the Court to properly end DACA, and then let Congress deal with it.
But no. He’s going to see Obama’s unconstitutional order, and raise it!
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:17 pmNormally it’s wise to resist that kind of assumption.
But he just did this with Stone. So yeah, that’s how this looks.
He really should have said ‘I want justice served but can offer no other comment in this tragic matter’
Dustin (064e00) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:20 pm22. Well, the Nixon/Manson snafu comes to mind from back in the day. Believe it or not, it was probably the safest thing the CIC could have said next to ‘no comment.’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:20 pmNo no no no. Social distance AND wear a mask. Or stay home.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:20 pmHow can people too stupid to understand statistics or exhibit any of knowledge of the virus judge Trump as incompetent? How can idiots who believe what they read in the NYT/Wapo or watch on ABC/NBC/MSNBC/CNN etc. know whether Trump was incompetent or not?
How can anyone who respects the moronic WH correspondents -who spent today’s press conference asking Trump six times about wearing a mask and zero about vaccines – know whether Trump was incompetent?
rcocean (fcc23e) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:21 pmBesides being against all precedent and the law, how are they supposed to do it?
Check here if you are in this country illegally ___
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:21 pmI believe that Ghislaine Maxwell has a lot of people looking after her, maybe all the way up to Benjamin Netanyahu and Jared Kushner, never mind a mere minion like Alan Dershowitz, and one or more of them whispered in Trump’s ear. The more I learn about her, the more I am convinced that she was the puppeteer and Epstein just another of her toys and means of support, and she is my number one suspect for his murder.
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:22 pmLike in Clear and Present Danger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3-FbseDp2w
Dustin (064e00) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:22 pmIt’s not really Trump’s fault he took this long. You can’t just get a bespoke mask overnight.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:22 pmYou mispelled ehud barak, just like with george mitchell and bill richardson
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:24 pmHow can people too stupid to understand statistics or exhibit any of knowledge of the virus judge Trump as incompetent?
Actually, speaking for myself (and probably Dave), some of us DO understand statistics quite well. 99% of the population has no effing idea how to property evaluate statistics, and it shows.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:25 pmWe’ll find it was Allison Mack running the whole thing.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:27 pmNah, he was waiting for the Kushners’ new mask factory in Xinjiang (where the Uighurs are) to begin production.
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:27 pmThe lockdown rules neil ferguson was too careless to follow, much like fredo cuomo
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:28 pm@33. And the other 1% are meteorologists. 😉
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:28 pmOther real life hellfire club,
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:28 pm@27 rcocean, two things can be true at once. Yes, the mainstream media has a left-of-center bias (as demonstrated by the way they went after Reagan and both Bushes). However, Trump’s awfulness cannot be blamed solely on depictions by the media. We have the man’s tweets directly!
Why do you think so many people who previously supported Republican presidents cannot support Trump? Media bias? No! The media was also biased against the previous Republican presidents, yet those presidents did not cause massive disenchantment on the right like Trump has.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:29 pmXinjiang where the nba has a training camp in urumqi.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:29 pm@28 @35 🙂
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:31 pmTrump’s mask message was only 109 days after the CDC recommended that Americans use masks. Too late.
Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:34 pmBiden’s message was decent, and his slogan is a decent retort: Unite for a Better America.
You want to lose your liberties, explain it to your children when the flame of freedom is gone, and since may you have no excuse to say otherwise.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:36 pmNo hes not a good man he was a soviet stooge since the 70s, he was the racketman for the subprime manager the stooge behind the stimulus.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:43 pm“I wish her well” is not the thing a person with a conscience and semi-functioning moral compass would say to a gal who was a years-long pimp to a serial pedophile.
Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:44 pmSo what do you think will happen with biden adopting cortezs energy plan, omars abolish the police stance, seriously you think anything good will happen.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:50 pm@4: Too bad it’s 140,000 deaths later.
How many would be dead if Trump had done everything you wanted him to do?
Pick a number. Be generous to yourself. Let’s say, only 1,000 would be dead. Surely, that’s not ridiculous given your supreme wisdom and medical expertise. Or Biden’s.
If it were 1,000 we would still be here blaming Trump for it, and George Floyd too.
What you like to forget is that if Kasich or Jeb(!) were president, they’d be in exactly the same position politically no matter the 139,000 lives they no doubt would’ve saved.
beer ‘n pretzels (04e0ab) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:50 pmRemember they give cuomo a pass with his 33,000 death, same for murphy whitmer wolf et al.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:56 pmOh really
https://spectator.us/fox-news-lawsuit-ed-henry-tucker-carlson-cathy-areu-jennifer-eckhart/
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 5:58 pmAustralia – 126 Covid deaths
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:07 pmEven accounting for population, Australia is almost 100 times better on Covid than the U.S.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:11 pmHe allowed discretion, tens of thousands died on the east coast and the west. So did many businesses the most effective treatment was criminally demagogued by corrupt press the worse perpetrators are celebrated, the one who did anything to try to block the soread is denounced
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:14 pmAnyone but Trump is a thing now.
A thing now!?!? That’s been a thing since late 2015, lol.
Colonel Haiku (2fa2ca) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:15 pmMy estimate is tens of thousands fewer dead Americans had (1) Trump taken the virus seriously, starting in late January, (2) lit a fire under CDC to develop workable tests inside and outside their organization, (3) had Trump lifted the red tape so that corporate and university labs could jump in and quickly mass-produce their own test kits, (4) had Trump encouraged afflicted states to socially distance even one week sooner, (4) had Trump picked up on the April 3rd mask recommendations by CDC and urged Americans to wear them.
Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:16 pmEasily tens of thousands of lives, and the blood of those dead Americans is on Trump’s hands.
Not just a pimp to a serial pedophile, but according to the complaint, she was also an active participant in sexually abusing minor girls. She is as morally bankrupt as Epstein.
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:16 pm48… why yes… yes they do.
Colonel Haiku (2fa2ca) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:17 pmHow can we know? The question is, how can we not know? Have you not been paying attention? Trump has been speaking and tweeting all along. By his own words, we can know. By his own actions, we can know. By his own lack of interest in the virus, we can know. By his own dismissal of the virus, we can know. My God, how can anyone not know?
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:20 pmMaking the Trumpkins’ nightmares come true if Biden is elected and the Democrats control both Houses of Congress is not a deterrent for me. It’s something I gleefully look forward to.
You see, Simon Jester was right after all. As far as I’m concerned, anyway. I have become like the people I hate. What I want most is what Trumpkins wanted most when they elected Trump. They wanted to give the rest of us the finger. Now, what I want most is to give them the finger.
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:21 pmEasily tens of thousands of lives, and the blood of those dead Americans is on Trump’s hands.
Clearly my hypothetical wasn’t ridiculous to you. LOL
Tens of thousands saved, had he hired you instead of Fauci, that Trump would not have been given credit for.
Tens of thousands (hundreds??) still dead, even with you guiding Trump through the crisis, that you would still blame him for.
beer ‘n pretzels (a7db7c) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:24 pmDon’t throw out the baby with the bathwater, nk. Divided government is good. Keep at least one chamber Republican.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:26 pmAll the media that dined at epsteins table and more so, landon thomas having run interference for him at new york times and magazine, carter at vanity fair, same with weinstein, now they pretend to be outraged.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:27 pmEw. Trump might as well have pulled down his zipper and pissed on the Epstein/Ghislaine rape victims.
Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:36 pmMore like tens of thousands saved had Trump taken the virus and Fauci seriously. The sad part is that all this is finally penetrating Trump’s thick skull, six months after the fact.
Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:38 pmI see her, Ghislaine Maxwell, as a cheaper and nastier version of Glenn Close’s character in “Dangerous Liaisons”. But she is Robert Maxwell’s daughter.
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:41 pmThis:
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:46 pmDon’t throw out the baby with the bathwater, nk. Divided government is good. Keep at least one chamber Republican.
Nah! I want the DHS thugs who are now breaking heads in Portland for Trump to be breaking heads in Sarasota for Biden; and the FBI agents who were seizing private stocks of PPE for Jared Kushner under the Defense Procurement Act to be seizing stockpiles of ammunition in Orange County for Kamala Harris.
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:46 pmWhen you ride with slo jo
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2020/07/21/biden-you-know-what-we-need-more-islam-in-the-schools-n669103
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:50 pmI really have discovered much in 10 years here, something i didnt expect. That justice would be denied so readily for an innocent man, even when the evidence is crystal clear, that there would be a united front against a terrorist laundered by corporate and charitabld fronts that denial of freedom of speech would be not accepted as par for the course
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 6:57 pmThat’s a weird comment to get stuck in moderation.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (305827) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:05 pmWhy do you think so many people who previously supported Republican presidents cannot support Trump?
Because unlike 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012, establishment types didn’t get the candidate they wanted, and they had a hissy fit.
Why do you think so many people not aligned with the establishment still backed those pre-2016 nominees?
But, no more. Will follow your hissy fit example from now on, if we don’t get our way. Congratulations.
beer ‘n pretzels (c63793) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:15 pmBush jr broke his tax pledge, dole struggled against clinton, w gave us nclb in partnership with the traitorous kennedy, mccain threw the match and the huntress under the bus, romney did a good marcel marceau act.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:22 pm@70 I didn’t have a hissy fit. I voted for Trump. But, that doesn’t mean I’m going to defend him no matter what he does.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:28 pmThere’s another possibility: Traditional conservatives and Republicans saw through Trump’s lies, bullsh*t, shallowness, immorality, amorality and general unfitness, that he was so deficient that there was no way he could be supported. We’re also wondering why it’s taking so long for that hardcore 30% who are supporting him hasn’t figured that out yet.
Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:29 pmSo thats why you side with terrorists and rioters, objectively with the chinese regime that enabled this epidemics spread with the willing cooperation of adhanom, wirh cuomo who has killed more people with pharoah follow this garbage impeachment which was a criminal waste of time
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:34 pmnk,
You have a gift for comedy. You could easily be a writer on The Daily Show or Real Time. Happyfeet was entertaining in his twisted way, but you are broadly funny.
Thanks for making me laugh.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:36 pmWe’re also wondering why it’s taking so long for that hardcore 30% who are supporting him hasn’t figured that out yet.
I don’t support Trump. I support the Republican nominee (just as I did from 1988 on) because I see through the “lies, bullsh*t, shallowness, immorality, amorality and general unfitness” of the Democrats — unlike you.
beer ‘n pretzels (04e0ab) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:39 pm45.“I wish her well” is not the thing a person with a conscience and semi-functioning moral compass would say to a gal who was a years-long pimp to a serial pedophile.
In this instance, as CIC, the broken clock was right that time of day: it was actually the best thing he could have said aside from ‘no comment.’
Revisit President Nixon cracking wise about Charlie Manson:
Nixon Calls Manson Guilty; Attorneys Move a Mistrial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh9Bk17jTHg
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:43 pmAh real time and stewart, is there a more pretensious pose, also camelbert who pwned rick wilson.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:44 pmCriticizing Trump doesn’t make me a Democrat or unable to oppose Democrats, let alone siding with terrorists, rioters, China, etc. If you have to see the world as an endless binary choice, so be it, but that doesn’t mean everyone does.
DRJ (aede82) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:46 pmAlinsky Rule Number 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
He was from Chicago, you know. He opposed Mayor Richard J. Daley when Chicago Machine Democrats were the conservatives and the Republicans were the “Lake Shore Liberals” (except in Cicero where the Republicans were the Al Capone conservatives).
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:47 pmI still dont get it, he was a murderer, didnt his minions confess didnt bernardine dorn grove on it. I picked up the book on chinatown, i thought it would inform how this world came about, but it was more inside baseball.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:47 pmLike his compadre gramsci he should have been in prison, ayers should have dispatched readily. Nixon was a piker in so many ways.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:49 pmOr maybe Trump wishes Ghislaine well because he doesn’t want her to divulge anything she knows about him. Maybe her SDNY criminal case and specifically what she knows about Trump are the reasons Barr wanted Berman out.
DRJ (aede82) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:50 pmWhat was that thing really about, did the protesters misunderstand daley or was it just one of those pantomime acts. There is so pretense and manufactured outrage over certain things but not others.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:55 pmWell gloria allred is her atty, so who knows she’ll come up with.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:56 pm83,
That’s what I’m guessing. I suggested it above:
But I wondering, too, can he just ge that incredibly tone-deaf?
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/21/2020 @ 7:59 pmEvidence is the thing, well it didnt matter with roy moore, but thats how it usually works.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:00 pmSigh. Narciso, Narciso, Narciso! Gloria Allred is the attorney for several of Maxwell’s and Epstein’s accusers, not for Maxwell.
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:00 pmI think Trump’s signal was to Maxwell’s circle of friends and obligors many of whom are also in Trump’s circle of friends and obligors.
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:06 pmOne the one i realize that the war was lost by the time of the marine landing in 65, but then all of hayden and hoffmans werent going to do anything but encourage the enemy,
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:07 pmThere was nothing to michael cohen except trying to defraud the irs he should have used geithners excuse. Stone was stupid beyond belief but thats a jailable offense in dc otherwise you could never have a quorum
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:10 pmThe U.S. reports more than 1,000 deaths in a day for the first time in July
I guess the twelve week decline is over. Sorry Gryph.
Rip Murdock (361788) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:13 pmTwo headlines:
Rise in Virus Cases Near Bases in U.S. and Abroad Poses Test for Military
Trump threatens to veto military bill over Confederate-named bases …….
Way to support the troops!
Rip Murdock (361788) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:21 pmnk is doing a very convincing impression of Telly Savalas in The Dirty Dozen…
🙂
Dave (1bb933) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:23 pmYeah, right, Biden will be worse than Trump:
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:28 pmnk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:28 pm
Lies, nk, lies. I heard that Trump had asked for the B.O. to be moved to the Trump National Doral Golf Club, in Florida.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:34 pmThird hand gossip yawn,
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:34 pmAn obama holdover, who was totes for sadik stabby khan
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:37 pmKeep hope alive, the walls are closing in, shirley.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:44 pmnk is doing a very convincing impression of Telly Savalas in The Dirty Dozen…
Seriously? Maggott was a Southern racist and rapist. Charles Bronson’s character, on the other hand, had only fragged his officer ….
nk (1d9030) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:49 pmWho loves ya, baby?
Dave (1bb933) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:54 pm95. You drive for show and ‘putz’ for dough. 😉
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/21/2020 @ 8:59 pmActually there are two named individuals with contemporary knowledge of Trump’s alleged corruption, who would be able to corroborate the charge.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/21/2020 @ 9:00 pmWell they were criminals kind of the barbouzes that degaulle employed against the plastiquers, that gave them free reign in the narcotics trade the french connection
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 9:11 pmYes but she feels pure about it:
https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1285776659812175872
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 9:17 pmDid i say she was more stable than jean carroll, my mistake
https://mobile.twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1285625323044909061
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 9:33 pmHah
https://mobile.twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1285632480125607936
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/21/2020 @ 9:37 pmInside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus
Each morning at 8 as the coronavirus crisis was raging in April, Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, convened a small group of aides to steer the administration through what had become a public health, economic and political disaster.
……
……[T]heir ultimate goal was to shift responsibility for leading the fight against the pandemic from the White House to the states. They referred to this as “state authority handoff,” and it was at the heart of what would become at once a catastrophic policy blunder and an attempt to escape blame for a crisis that had engulfed the country — perhaps one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in generations.
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……..[A]n examination of the shift in April and its aftermath shows that the approach he embraced was not just a misjudgment. Instead, it was a deliberate strategy that he would stick doggedly to as evidence mounted that, in the absence of strong leadership from the White House, the virus would continue to infect and kill large numbers of Americans.
He and his top aides would openly disdain the scientific research into the disease and the advice of experts on how to contain it, seek to muzzle more authoritative voices like Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and continue to distort reality even as it became clear that his hopes for a rapid rebound in the economy and his electoral prospects were not materializing.
Rip Murdock (361788) — 7/21/2020 @ 9:39 pm…….
At a briefing on April 10, Mr. Trump predicted that the number of deaths in the United States from the pandemic would be “substantially” fewer than 100,000. As of Saturday, the death toll stood at 139,186, the pace of new deaths was rising again and the country, logging a seven-day average of 65,790 new cases a day, had more confirmed cases per capita than any other major industrial nation.
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I guess the twelve week decline is over. Sorry Gryph.
Hey Rip, pop the champagne!
beer ‘n pretzels (8dac67) — 7/21/2020 @ 10:13 pmhttps://i.postimg.cc/mgcxMhKx/F270-D7-BB-56-E7-4002-BE27-A62686-B9027-D.jpg
harkin (5af287) — 7/21/2020 @ 11:15 pmDear Mr President:
You run and you lose, not one hand will be raised as they put you in jail. Make a deal now.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/21/2020 @ 11:31 pmYeah, right, Biden will be worse than Trump:
Trump: Get the British Open for me.
Biden: End 401(k)s
That damn Trump!
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/21/2020 @ 11:33 pmThis country has chronic perspective loss.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/21/2020 @ 11:34 pmKeep your hands off my 401(k). I worked too hard to get where I am.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/21/2020 @ 11:36 pmSource, Mr. Perspective?
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 12:17 am#27.
Here’s my question, rcocean: Liz Cheney, leftist RINO or full blown Stalinist?
lurker (d8c5bc) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:45 amShe is the daughter of a war criminal, and is a hack for the military complex. A vile pos.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/22/2020 @ 3:17 amWait, I thought war criminals were cool now.
Didn’t The Great Leader pardon three of them a few months back?
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 3:50 amThis was Trump’s moment of candor yesterday….
And then realizing that he inadvertently said something that was true, that he never had a strategy for combating this virus, followed up with this…
Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:23 am119. Y’all are so busy ragging on Trump, and justifiably so, but where is your mistrust and criticism for Fauci? You know, the “expert” who has actually formulated the strategy that torched our economy for three months?
Gryph (08c844) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:26 amThose moments are pure magic.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:09 am120.
First of all, what we did wasn’t the Fauci strategy, unless you think wearing a condom, then taking it off midway during sex, is birth control. Spoiler alert: It isn’t. You may think it’s terribly unfair, but you don’t even get half the benefit despite having had only half the fun. Stopping midway through your antibiotic prescription is a terrible idea too. So no, we did not follow the Fauci strategy. Most of Europe did follow it, which is why they’re now in a position to re-open their economies responsibly. We can’t even visit Europe because, again, we did not follow the Fauci strategy.
But do I understand you correctly that not only don’t you think we should have stayed the prescribed course like Europe did, but if you could do it over again, you wouldn’t have shut down at all? How many additional deaths do you think that would have caused?
lurker (d8c5bc) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:15 amAnd had Fauci not advised social distancing for the most afflicted states, it’s not hard to conclude that the economy would’ve been even more torched, with ERs and ICUs even more stressed to the limits.
Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/22/2020 @ 6:04 amI’ll also note that Fauci supported a CDC reopening plan that Trump and his sycophants basically ignored, and which has only extended this economic downturn. We’re seeing it right now in all the states that rushed it.
People are looking at how Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Free Asia did it, how they contained this virus (and it wasn’t by herd immunity), and they’re looking at these United States and how we’re failing badly. Trump is the president. This is a national pandemic, exactly the sort of thing a president should be handling, and he’s killed tens of thousands of Americans by his ongoing failure that has emanated from his downtalking, his not taking this seriously, and his utter lack of a strategy to beat this.
I guess the twelve week decline is over. Sorry Gryph.
Hey Rip, pop the champagne!
Taylor’s gonna Taylor…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/22/2020 @ 7:04 amtroll droppings really stink up the place, I remember leo (dana ward) required power washing, at my favorite site, which typepad makes more selective, there were worse manifestations, which our host seems to forget,
narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 7:10 amquelle surprise,
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/who-official-promotes-conspiracy-theory-website-to-bolster-chinas-coronavirus-disinformation-campaign/
narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 7:32 am“where is your mistrust and criticism for Fauci? You know, the “expert” who has actually formulated the strategy that torched our economy for three months?”
Fauci is a member of the President’s CV task force chaired by Mike Pence, and has said he would step down if the President asked him to. Any and all of his media appearances have to be vetted by the White House. He’s where he is because The President wants him there.
The problem wasn’t Fauci’s strategy. “Wear a mask” was treated as a joke, hoax, or threat by half the country, and is only now (apparently) being approached somewhat seriously by the President. The messaging has been all over the place.
JRH (52aed3) — 7/22/2020 @ 7:56 amThe Pandemic is exposing the difference between the essential people and people the government considers non-essential.
The non-essential people are out of work, out of money and stating to end their lives.
Is this how the Hunger Games start?
BillPasadena (e482e2) — 7/22/2020 @ 8:00 amCapitol thinking, which is located in Denver, which district are you,
narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 8:03 amMore Coronabros !!!
Colonel Haiku (2fa2ca) — 7/22/2020 @ 8:19 amwell it would make me drink heavily,
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/dr-antony-fauci-the-silver-fox-of-the-cdc-or-an-anti-trump-alarmist/
narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 8:21 amit’ll be fine,
http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/20/0720/072220.html
narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 8:30 amthe same schools that sang songs to obama no doubt,
https://freebeacon.com/campus/mi-school-fires-popular-teacher-for-saying-trump-is-our-president/
narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 8:38 amI think Gryph will find it impossible to resist this new stylish, hi-tech, eco-friendly mask…
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 12:57 pmPut everyone back to work, put everyone back in schools. Let’s get America back rolling again. The worst case scenarios are not happening and not in the playbook anymore.
The Coronabros have to acknowledge that New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Illinois made disastrous decisions in following Andrew Cuomo’s lead.
As long as everyone else doesn’t do that, the death rate is going to be a pin prick as what it was in New York.
We know this because in the states of Texas and Florida where the media loves to criticize the governors, they are actually approaching the same numbers of confirmed cases but they have 1/10th of the death rate.
If New York would have had the same response as Texas and Florida, instead of 30,000+ deaths, they would have had around 3,000 deaths.
The story here is not Florida and Texas, it is how did Andrew Cuomo and everyone who followed his lead, did so bad in those states.
https://www.outkick.com/the-coronabros-are-sad-because-people-arent-dying-enough/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:02 pmI guess the twelve week decline is over. Sorry Gryph.
Hey Rip, pop the champagne!
I take no pleasure in being right. But it was a logical assumption that a sharp rise in CV cases would be followed by a higher death count. Gryph is living in his SD bubble.
RipMurdock (d2a2a8) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:10 pmGeraldo Rivera: Trump Was ‘Brave’ to Wish Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Well’
RipMurdock (d2a2a8) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:15 pmFox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera on Wednesday once again rallied to the defense of accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, claiming it was “brave” for President Donald Trump to wish the Jeffrey Epstein associate “well” during a Tuesday press conference.
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“When asked @realDonaldTrump said he wished #GhislaineMaxwellArrested well,” the Fox star tweeted Wednesday morning. “With media mob eager to see her lynched it was brave to weigh in. Fact: cases vs her are for crimes allegedly committed more than 25 years ago. She deserved bail & got solitary confinement: woke politics.”
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@137, I’m still trying to figure out why he wished her well and stressed that he’d met her many times. Even if he likes her personally and doesn’t believe the charges it’s odd.
Time123 (53ef45) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:20 pmI mean, i know this is a guy who found the ‘do you have dementia’ test very hard and is bragging about passing it but this still hard to figure.
Time123 (53ef45) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:26 pm106, why do Fox News Channel personalities put their career on the line harassing dogfaced 5s and 4s? If you’re gonna do the time, be proud of the crime.
urbanleftbehind (5df91f) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:36 pm@138-
Trump, Maxwell, and Epstein share an affinity for young women, it’s just that Maxwell and Epstein liked them even younger.
Here’s Every Time Donald Trump And Ghislaine Maxwell Have Been Photographed Together
RipMurdock (d2a2a8) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:38 pm@141 I know. But why would he say that at a press conference? He has no commitment to truth and lies whenever it’s even slightly convenient regardless of how transparent it is. So did this statement help him in some way? Was it just a dumb thing to say? I have a lot opinion of the man, but media interaction is something he’s good at. It’s puzzling.
Time123 (b87ded) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:45 pmMeanwhile, back here in reality, deaths are up 38% in the last two weeks, and rising.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:46 pmPfft.
He only knows two tricks – self-promotion and slander.
I’m wondering how Ivanka, who her father has sexualized since she was a little girl (yes, those two birds in the foreground of this exquisitely tasteful photo are f*cking…) and who was exactly the relevant age at the relevant time (that’s Nepotism Barbie plying her trade in 1997, at the tender age of 16) might fit into this, and whether Trump also used his beauty pageants like Miss Teen USA to supply Epstein and Maxwell with new “talent” in return for … consideration.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:09 pm#142.
My impression from his demeanor and the sound of his voice was that he’s genuinely fond of her. If that’s so, then my all-consuming contempt for the man notwithstanding, I don’t begrudge him wishing her well, however monstrous she may be. I doubt that view finds much agreement from people of any persuasion, but I simply don’t believe anyone is obligated to abandon a friend or loved one, whatever they’ve done.
Don’t get me wrong, if a friend of mine did something heinous, I’d stand behind whatever the justice system decided they had coming. But I’d like to believe I’d also still be there for them as a friend. If that’s what Trump was conveying, I say good for him.
lurker (d8c5bc) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:18 pmCovid seems to wax and wane, Dave. Anecdotally, the folks in my town seem to adjust their behavior when cases surge, so maybe isolating, distancing and masks are the keys. But there seems to be more involved. Maybe the disease has spread more than we realize (20-40% instead of the 2-4% shown in the studies) or there is increasing T cell immunity even without antibodies?
DRJ (aede82) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:18 pmTrump used to be an Epstein fried, too, but dropped him when it became an inconvenient friendship. Maybe Trump has nothing to fear from his 15-year friendship with Epstein and Ghislaine but I doubt it.
DRJ (aede82) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:27 pmI wonder if the D and G mutations are why some folks get Covid twice and/or it can recur so quickly
DRJ (aede82) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:37 pm@145
It seems to me extremely important whether the friend is remorseful for the heinous thing they did.
I don’t think being someone’s friend entitles them to your friendship unconditionally.
Also, I think it’s one thing to make a mistake in the heat of the moment, under difficult or unique circumstances, and quite another to systematically prey on the vulnerable for decades.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:38 pmThis type of speculation about Ivanka is gross. Attack/Criticize her for her work in the white house all you want but this speculation about her being abused is just gross.
Time123 (b87ded) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:59 pmI agree, but her father is a proudly professed sexual predator whose words and deeds prove that nothing is beyond him.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 3:25 pm#45.
I agree that’s very important. I’d expect the judge to take it into account at sentencing. I just don’t believe it obligates me to exclude the wrongdoer from my personal life.
I don’t think anyone is ever entitled to friendship. I believe my friends are in my life by grace, not entitlement.
Again, I agree. That’s an important consideration for the justice system. I also understand many people would decide it disqualifies the wrongdoer from being their friend. I might very well decide that myself. I’m only saying I don’t accept that there’s any obligation to purge someone from your life if they do something awful.
lurker (d8c5bc) — 7/22/2020 @ 3:44 pmSorry, that’s for Time123 @150.
lurker (d8c5bc) — 7/22/2020 @ 3:45 pmWe’re gonna miss this drunken, 14 time facelifted Malig-Nancy…
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/07/22/nancy-pelosi-calls-the-wuhan-coronavirus-the-trump-virus-n670314
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/22/2020 @ 3:54 pmMeanwhile at the White House, Kelly Anne when asked about the states and the Covid spikes…
A) It’s almost like she thinks video of her, and him, telling the states to reopen by Easter doesn’t exist.
B) While he’s also demanding schools reopen now, you know, without science getting in the way, like with A.
C) When he’s dispatching federal agents to cities against the wishes of the governors and mayors in “Operation Legend”. I don’t think federalist means what she thinks it means.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (305827) — 7/22/2020 @ 3:55 pmIn case you’re wondering, Trump declined to clean up his well-wishes for Ghislaine Maxwell as he left today’s briefing.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (305827) — 7/22/2020 @ 3:57 pm@155-
Kelly Anne and Kayleigh McEnany are “like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.”
Don Regan
RipMurdock (d2a2a8) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:06 pmAlso, Trump wants to send in more federal, agents or something, to Chicago becuase of the shooting at a Funeral yesterday.
This is Chicago, why not after this shooting at a funeral, or this one at a memorial after a funeral, or this one?
It’s almost like there was a nickname for Chicago that would lead you believe that people are getting shot left and right. Like Chi-Raq or something. Maybe a movie is in the future…oh, nevermind.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (305827) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:08 pmObligation, of course not.
But I think the attitude “my friend, right or wrong” is morally perilous and responsible for a great deal of evil in the world.
(You and DRJ have expressed more nuanced positions; the point still remains)
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:11 pmWhat we need is a Law and Order president, not from the TeeVee show. Donald Trump’s the man who can fix it, he alone. It will be easy, if only he was president.
Hillary is doing a terrible job keeping all of this violence down.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (305827) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:11 pmTick tick boom.boom
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2020/07/22/devin-nunes-dossier-steele-brookings
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:15 pmIn other news, Devin Nunes tried to sue @DevinNunesMom and @DevinNunesCow, plus Twitter for $250M, failed. He’s sued, or suing, various people (well getting kicked out of court) to the tune of $1.35 Billion. Sure, why not.
Devin Nunes and fail, words that harmonize perfectly.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (305827) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:25 pmHistory responded with “Ahh..aktshually…”
Colonel Klink (Ret) (305827) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:28 pmHe only knows two tricks – self-promotion and slander.
Which is enough win the Presidency of the United States of America.
And in a neat trick on it’s own, he’s married to a shapely Hot Mama #3– not a waxen Mommie #2.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:28 pmAnd in a neat trick on it’s own, he’s married to a shapely Hot Mama #3– not a waxen Mommie #2.
Call me crazy, but I think Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, is hotter than Melania. Marla looks real. There is something fake-looking about Melania.
norcal (a5428a) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:34 pmStrobe talbott was the soviet stenographer from the 70s when victor louis got him the kruschev memoirs to the 80s
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:34 pmShe made herself fake, she’d have been “aaight” with natural aging/ no surgery. But then I look forward to Amber Heard courthouse walks the same way DC looks forward to AF1 stairway walks.
urbanleftbehind (c43dd7) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:41 pm163.Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that Donald Trump is the first racist elected president.
Which would be news to anyone who ever listened to the Nixon tapes, read upon Woodrow Wilson or Andrew Jackson…
‘Throughout American history, presidents have uttered comments, issued decisions and made public and private moves that critics said were racist, either at the time or in later generations. The presidents did so both before taking office and during their time in the White House.
Many of the early presidents, George Washington to Zachary Taylor, owned black slaves and held power when African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos did not have the right to vote or serve on juries and could be refused service in public accommodations. They often repeated racist views that were commonly held in their times, even when challenged by scholars or civil rights leaders.
Before he became the nation’s third president, Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.” But in his only book, “Notes on the State of Virginia,” published in 1785, the future president expressed a series of beliefs about African Americans that would be seen today as racist.
He wrote that blacks were cursed with “a very strong and disagreeable odor” and were incapable of producing art and poetry. And though he said he believed slavery was immoral, he owned slaves and, historians say, carried on a sexual relationship with at least one of them, Sally Hemings. If every black slave were ever freed, he wrote, they should be deported since he believed blacks and whites could not live together peacefully.
Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, was also a slaveholder from the South. Before he became president, he offered in an 1804 advertisement $50 for the return of a runaway slave and $10 extra “for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of 300.” In Jon Meacham’s 2008 book “American Lion: Andrew Jackson and the White House,” Meacham wrote that Jackson owned around 150 slaves and freed none of them in his will.
As president, Jackson allowed his postmaster general to let Southerners seize anti-slavery publications, in direct violation of the First Amendment. He called the abolitionist pamphlets urging black equality “unconstitutional and wicked.”
Jackson is widely vilified today among Native Americans for his role in forcibly removing indigenous people from their land, especially for the Trail of Tears. The removal of the Cherokee people from Georgia led to thousands of deaths.
“The philanthropist will rejoice that the remnant of that ill-fated race has been at length placed beyond the reach of injury or oppression,” Jackson said in his farewell address.
The Virginia-born Woodrow Wilson worked to keep blacks out of Princeton University while serving as that school’s president. When he became president of the U.S., the Democrat refused to reverse the segregation of civil service, though he had won the White House with the support of some African American men.
In 1915, Wilson sparked outrage by screening the racist film “The Birth of a Nation” at the White House. The silent movie was the retelling of Reconstruction through the eyes of the Ku Klux Klan. The movie portrayed the KKK as heroes and African Americans as uncivilized.
“No explanation or apology followed” after the screening, Patty O’Toole wrote in “The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made.”
Wilson appeared oblivious during the “Red Summer” of 1919 — a time when communities across the country saw white mobs attack African Americans, resulting in hundreds of deaths. He spoke out against lynching but did not use the federal government’s resources to stop the violence.
Democrat Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency in 1963 after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and sought to push a civil rights bill amid demonstrations by African Americans. Johnson famously convinced skeptical lawmakers to support the measure and gave a passionate speech about his days as a teacher in Mexican American schools to urge Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.
But according to tapes of his private conversations, Johnson routinely used racist epithets to describe African Americans and some blacks he appointed to key positions.
His successor, Republican Richard Nixon, also regularly used racist epithets while in office in private conversations.
“We’re going to (place) more of these little Negro b-stards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family,” Nixon once said about what he saw as lax work requirements. Nixon also made derogatory remarks about Jews, Mexican Americans, Italian Americans and Irish Americans.
Recently the Nixon Presidential Library released an October 1971 phone conversation between Nixon and then California Gov. Ronald Reagan, another future president… Reagan in venting his frustration with United Nations delegates who voted against the U.S. dropped some racist language.
“Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did,” Reagan said. “To see those, those monkeys from those African countries — damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes.”
Nixon began laughing hard.
Reagan would launch his 1980 general election presidential campaign in Mississippi’s Neshoba County — a place where three civil rights activists were murdered in 1964.’ -source, AP
Ahhh, JoeyBee…
Idiot Supreme.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:42 pm@165. No arguement there- the Georgia Peach is still ripe to bite; but wouldn’t kick any of ’em outta bed.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:44 pm138 Time123 (53ef45) — 7/22/2020 @ 1:20 pm
I don’t think he studied the charges at all.
It may be that he feels being friendly with her in the past could be taken as a reflection on him, especially if she were to be treated as obviously guilty.
Of course she did all this in secret, one on one.
Sammy Finkelman (1c27d2) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:56 pm@167. Herself– and MGM. A straight deck carrier had more curves.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:58 pmDCSCA (797bc0) — 7/22/2020 @ 4:42 pm
He was born in Virginia, but he grew up in the Deep south. He was present in Georgia, as a 7-year old when Sherman was marching through it. Woodrow Wilson was an intellectual racist.
Princeton University drew much of its student body from the south,
You can say that Jimmy Carter was not the first president from Georgia.
And Harry S Truman had some Confederate roots.
When he became president of the U.S., the Democrat refused to reverse the segregation of civil service, though he had won the White House with the support of some African American men.
In 1915, Wilson sparked outrage by screening the racist film “The Birth of a Nation” at the White House. The silent movie was the retelling of Reconstruction through the eyes of the Ku Klux Klan. The movie portrayed the KKK as heroes and African Americans as uncivilized.
“No explanation or apology followed” after the screening, Patty O’Toole wrote in “The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made.”
Wilson appeared oblivious during the “Red Summer” of 1919 — a time when communities across the country saw white mobs attack African Americans, resulting in hundreds of deaths. He spoke out against lynching but did not use the federal government’s resources to stop the violence.
Democrat Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency in 1963 after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and sought to push a civil rights bill amid demonstrations by African Americans. Johnson famously convinced skeptical lawmakers to support the measure and gave a passionate speech about his days as a teacher in Mexican American schools to urge Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.
But according to tapes of his private conversations, Johnson routinely used racist epithets to describe African Americans and some blacks he appointed to key positions.
His successor, Republican Richard Nixon, also regularly used racist epithets while in office in private conversations.
“We’re going to (place) more of these little Negro b-stards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family,” Nixon once said about what he saw as lax work requirements. Nixon also made derogatory remarks about Jews, Mexican Americans, Italian Americans and Irish Americans.
Recently the Nixon Presidential Library released an October 1971 phone conversation between Nixon and then California Gov. Ronald Reagan, another future president… Reagan in venting his frustration with United Nations delegates who voted against the U.S. dropped some racist language.
“Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did,” Reagan said. “To see those, those monkeys from those African countries — damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes.”
Nixon began laughing hard.
Reagan would launch his 1980 general election presidential campaign in Mississippi’s Neshoba County — a place where three civil rights activists were murdered in 1964.’ -source, AP
Ahhh, JoeyBee…
Idiot Supreme.
Sammy Finkelman (1c27d2) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:02 pm167) ambers a texas gal who speaks fluent spanish, no i have no sympathy for depp
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:03 pmSorry I didn’t eliminate the quotes.
Everything after the Truman line is from DCSCA
Sammy Finkelman (1c27d2) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:05 pmI briefly had a thing for natalie, but that faded after v for victory.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:08 pmBokasa amin mengistu those charming fellows do tell. The last two were the british and american versions of kilmonger.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:11 pmI would have preferred tsombe over mobutu, both better than kabila savimbi over dos santos.
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:14 pm136. You take no pleasure in being right?! The hell you don’t.
Gryph (08c844) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:29 pmYoure over the target gryph
https://mobile.twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1286034497117360128
Narciso (7404b5) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:44 pmIt’s so peculiar how badly people want to justify their cowardice, they’ll accept anything from the “experts” as “truth” no matter how many counterfactuals there are.
Gryph (08c844) — 7/22/2020 @ 5:59 pm@180
Narcissists and Psychopaths Are More Likely to Refuse to Wear Masks, Says New Research
Shocker!
Dave (1bb933) — 7/22/2020 @ 6:36 pm147. DRJ (aede82) — 7/22/2020 @ 2:27 pm
There are two versions of the story I heard, and in both cases it was precipitated by the manager at Mar-a-Lagoecause he tried ti get involved with a worker at Mar-a-Lago. In one Epstein started to recruit a daughter (18-years old) of one of his members to massage him (which is the way it would start) and in the other version, told by Giuliani on his radio show, and probably garbled, he wanted somebody massaging him (did that go on at Mar-a-Lago?) to do more. The manager told him he wasn’t welcome and was backed up by Donald Trump. In Giuliani’s version, the manager said she (I think Giuliani indicated it was a woman) said she would call Donald Trump and she did. Trump told him to get out and he could pick up his stuff.
Maybe Trump has nothing to fear from his 15-year friendship with Epstein and Ghislaine but I doubt it.
Sammy Finkelman (4b8ab4) — 7/23/2020 @ 10:57 amThere is always an accusation possible that he knew something.
I think what Ghislaine now fears is something to do with money. Which might be more current than what she did with Jeffrey Eosteinn n the 1990s and possibly in the next decade also.
Sammy Finkelman (4b8ab4) — 7/23/2020 @ 11:01 amYeah, about that…
And…
Finally…
The headline reads [bold mine]:
The take away is:
This is why it is not bad advice to read the whole thing.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/23/2020 @ 11:28 am