DELUSIONAL IDIOT on display for the World to see!
CULT SUPPORTERS should be embarrassed....if they had any brains.
COMMENT:
He is literally the goofy ass uncle everybody laughs about, who smells
funny and farts at inappropriate times.
Showing posts with label unfit to serve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unfit to serve. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
"I never understood wind...."
COMMENT:
He is literally the goofy ass uncle everybody laughs about, who smells
funny and farts at inappropriate times.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Does Trump Realize the Trouble He’s In?
No, because never once in his life has he ever been accountable for anything.
This will be quite a shock!
Wednesday, the 1,000th day of Donald Trump’s presidency, went badly. That’s no surprise; most of the first 999 days went badly too. I have no idea if he’s going to wind up getting ousted from office, either as a result of the impeachment House Democrats are readying or the 2020 election. But things are getting worse for Trump — whether he realizes it or not.
Every once in a while, some event offers a clarifying reminder of the president’s poor judgment. On Wednesday, it was the release of a letter Trump wrote to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The letter itself was an embarrassment, in which Trump, soon after telling Erdogan on the phone that U.S. forces would move out of his way to enable Turkey’s invasion of Syria, tried to walk things back. Sort of. As Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman put it at the Monkey Cage, the president opted for “threatening rhetoric reminiscent of a Mafia boss” to “make loud threats that he may not be able to deliver on.” As soon as the letter was published, professional diplomats and historians said they had never seen something so amateurish from a U.S. president.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
FOCUS: Impeach-O-Meter: Democrats Are Making Coded Allusions to Maybe Finally Doing Something (Potentially)
23 September 19
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FOCUS: Impeach-O-Meter: Democrats Are Making Coded Allusions to Maybe Finally Doing Something (Potentially)
Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate
Mathis-Lilley writes: "Even the Democratic caucus's most cautious leaders are acknowledging that, yes, this Ukraine business sounds bad-and maybe impeachment-level bad."
Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate
Mathis-Lilley writes: "Even the Democratic caucus's most cautious leaders are acknowledging that, yes, this Ukraine business sounds bad-and maybe impeachment-level bad."
EXCERPT:
The caucus’s least tentative members, meanwhile, are in this mood:
At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior - it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it.
62.7K people are talking about this
But what about the most important Democrat, Nancy Pelosi?
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
Potentially significant. In new letter to lawmakers, PELOSI says if the admin fails to turn over whistleblower complaint, the investigation will enter “a whole new stage”
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'
tRump's behavior and conduct was predictable.
Two years ago but still true......or maybe just more obvious.
"In the 34-year history of USA TODAY, the Editorial Board has never taken sides in the presidential race. Instead, we’ve expressed opinions about the major issues and haven’t presumed to tell our readers, who have a variety of priorities and values, which choice is best for them. Because every presidential race is different, we revisit our no-endorsement policy every four years. We’ve never seen reason to alter our approach. Until now."
In the 34-year history of USA TODAY, the Editorial Board has never taken sides in the presidential race. Instead, we’ve expressed opinions about the major issues and haven’t presumed to tell our readers, who have a variety of priorities and values, which choice is best for them. Because every presidential race is different, we revisit our no-endorsement policy every four years. We’ve never seen reason to alter our approach. Until now.
This year, the choice isn’t between two capable major party nominees who happen to have significant ideological differences. This year, one of the candidates — Republican nominee Donald Trump — is, by unanimous consensus of the Editorial Board, unfit for the presidency.
From the day he declared his candidacy 15 months ago through this week’s first presidential debate, Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty that America needs from its presidents.
Whether through indifference or ignorance, Trump has betrayed fundamental commitments made by all presidents since the end of World War II. These commitments include unwavering support for NATO allies, steadfast opposition to Russian aggression, and the absolute certainty that the United States will make good on its debts. He has expressed troubling admiration for authoritarian leaders and scant regard for constitutional protections.
We’ve been highly critical of the GOP nominee in a number of previous editorials. With early voting already underway in several states and polls showing a close race, now is the time to spell out, in one place, the reasons Trump should not be president:
He is erratic. Trump has been on so many sides of so many issues that attempting to assess his policy positions is like shooting at a moving target. A list prepared by NBC details 124 shifts by Trump on 20 major issues since shortly before he entered the race. He simply spouts slogans and outcomes (he’d replace Obamacare with “something terrific”) without any credible explanations of how he’d achieve them.
He is ill-equipped to be commander in chief. Trump’s foreign policy pronouncements typically range from uninformed to incoherent. It’s not just Democrats who say this. Scores of Republican national security leaders have signed an extraordinary open letter calling Trump’s foreign policy vision “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle.” In a Wall Street Journal column this month, Robert Gates, the highly respected former Defense secretary who served presidents of both parties over a half-century, described Trump as “beyond repair.”
He traffics in prejudice. From the very beginning, Trump has built his campaign on appeals to bigotry and xenophobia, whipping up resentment against Mexicans, Muslims and migrants. His proposals for mass deportations and religious tests are unworkable and contrary to America’s ideals.
Trump has stirred racist sentiments in ways that can’t be erased by his belated and clumsy outreach to African Americans. His attacks on an Indiana-born federal judge of Mexican heritage fit “the textbook definition of a racist comment,” according to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking elected official in the Republican Party. And for five years, Trump fanned the absurd “birther” movement that falsely questioned the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.
His business career is checkered. Trump has built his candidacy on his achievements as a real estate developer and entrepreneur. It’s a shaky scaffold, starting with a 1973 Justice Department suit against Trump and his father for systematically discriminating against blacks in housing rentals. (The Trumps fought the suit but later settled on terms that were viewed as a government victory.) Trump’s companies have had some spectacular financial successes, but this track record is marred by six bankruptcy filings, apparent misuse of the family’s charitable foundation, and allegations by Trump University customers of fraud. A series of investigative articles published by the USA TODAY Network found that Trump has been involved in thousands of lawsuits over the past three decades, including at least 60 that involved small businesses and contract employees who said they were stiffed. So much for being a champion of the little guy.
He isn’t leveling with the American people. Is Trump as rich as he says? No one knows, in part because, alone among major party presidential candidates for the past four decades, he refuses to release his tax returns. Nor do we know whether he has paid his fair share of taxes, or the extent of his foreign financial entanglements.
He speaks recklessly. In the days after the Republican convention, Trump invited Russian hackers to interfere with an American election by releasing Hillary Clinton’s emails, and he raised the prospect of “Second Amendment people” preventing the Democratic nominee from appointing liberal justices. It’s hard to imagine two more irresponsible statements from one presidential candidate.
He has coarsened the national dialogue. Did you ever imagine that a presidential candidate would discuss the size of his genitalia during a nationally televised Republican debate? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine a presidential candidate, one who avoided service in the military, would criticize Gold Star parents who lost a son in Iraq? Neither did we. Did you ever imagine you’d see a presidential candidate mock a disabled reporter? Neither did we. Trump’s inability or unwillingness to ignore criticism raises the specter of a president who, like Richard Nixon, would create enemies’ lists and be consumed with getting even with his critics.
He’s a serial liar. Although polls show that Clinton is considered less honest and trustworthy than Trump, it’s not even a close contest. Trump is in a league of his own when it comes to the quality and quantity of his misstatements. When confronted with a falsehood, such as his assertion that he was always against the Iraq War, Trump’s reaction is to use the Big Lie technique of repeating it so often that people begin to believe it.
We are not unmindful of the issues that Trump’s campaign has exploited: the disappearance of working-class jobs; excessive political correctness; the direction of the Supreme Court; urban unrest and street violence; the rise of the Islamic State terrorist group; gridlock in Washington and the influence of moneyed interests. All are legitimate sources of concern.
Nor does this editorial represent unqualified support for Hillary Clinton, who has her own flaws (though hers are far less likely to threaten national security or lead to a constitutional crisis). The Editorial Board does not have a consensus for a Clinton endorsement.
Some of us look at her command of the issues, resilience and long record of public service — as first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of State — and believe she’d serve the nation ably as its president.
Other board members have serious reservations about Clinton’s sense of entitlement, her lack of candor and her extreme carelessness in handling classified information.
Where does that leave us? Our bottom-line advice for voters is this: Stay true to your convictions. That might mean a vote for Clinton, the most plausible alternative to keep Trump out of the White House. Or it might mean a third-party candidate. Or a write-in. Or a focus on down-ballot candidates who will serve the nation honestly, try to heal its divisions, and work to solve its problems.
Whatever you do, however, resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue. By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Andy Borowitz | Trump Orders Pence to Find Passage in Bible Where Jesus Tells People to Get the Hell Out
 23 July 19
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Andy Borowitz | Trump Orders Pence to Find Passage in Bible Where Jesus Tells People to Get the Hell Out
 Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "Hoping to bolster the core message of his 2020 campaign, Donald J. Trump ordered Mike Pence to locate a passage in the Bible where Jesus tells people 'to get the hell out of here,' White House sources confirmed on Monday." READ MORE  Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley. (photo: Instagram)
Jelani Cobb | Donald Trump's Idea of Selective Citizenship
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker Cobb writes: "We have known since the earliest moments of Donald Trump's political life that the epidermal lottery into which we are all cast is, to him, more than happenstance. Pigment is something foundational-a navigational star in the night sky of his world view." READ MORE  Thousands in San Juan on Monday demanded that Gov. Ricardo Rossello of Puerto Rico step down. (photo: Carlos Giusti/AP)
'March of the People': Puerto Rico Mobilizes Largest Protest for Governor Rossello's Resignation
Nicole Acevedo, Gabe Gutierrez and Annie Rose Ramos, NBC News Excerpt: "Hundreds of thousands of people occupied San Juan's biggest highway on Monday demanding the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, in the island's largest protest in recent history." READ MORE  The four congresswomen sometimes refer to themselves as 'the Squad.' (photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Illinois Republicans Remove Offensive Facebook Post About 'Jihad Squad'
Associated Press Excerpt: "An Illinois Republican group has apologized and removed from its Facebook page a post that showed images of four Democratic congresswomen who have been criticized by Donald Trump and referred to them as the 'Jihad Squad.'"
This is on the Illinois Republican County Chairmen’s Association’s Facebook site:
 Men stand in an Immigration and Border Enforcement detention center in McAllen, Texas, on July 12 during a visit by Vice President Mike Pence. (photo: Josh Dawsey/WP/AP)
Migrant Mental Health Crisis Spirals in ICE Detention Facilities
Renuka Rayasam, Politico Rayasam writes: "While treatment of immigrants has become an explosive national issue, the plight of mentally ill migrants has scarcely registered." READ MORE  A younger Boris Johnson in his office, with bound volumes of the Spectator magazine behind him. (photo: Neville Elder/Corbis/Getty Images)
Want to Understand Boris Johnson, Britain's Probable Next Prime Minister? Read His Incendiary Journalism.
William Booth and Karla Adam, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Boris Johnson, the far-ahead front-runner to become Britain's prime minister this week, waved a vacuum-packed fish over his head and railed at the European Union." READ MORE  Golde Wallingford submitted this photo of 'Pure Joy' to EcoWatch's first photo contest. (photo: Golde Wallingford/EcoWatch)
Will the US Be a Dystopian Hellscape in 2100 if Emissions Keep Rising?
Kristy Dahl, Union of Concerned Scientists Dahl writes: "Last week, UCS released Killer Heat, a report analyzing how the frequency of days with a dangerously hot heat index - the combination of temperature and humidity the National Weather Service calls the 'feels like' temperature - will change in response to the global emissions choices we make in the coming decades." READ MORE Update My Monthly Donation |
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