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The Trump Years- Every day something more shocking than the last! (13 Viewers)

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Don Quixote said:
The last line of the article is a pretty good kicker and captures a lot of the mindset that got us where we are:  "Nobody really thinks about it until it affects them personally," Ms. Menard said.
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This line essentially sums up my frustration in discussing criminal justice issues such as expediting the death penalty thread.  It's so so common for people to want to see the system be tough on crime, provide minimal due process, and render the harshest punishments but then totally change their tunes when it's them or a loved one finding themselves in that position. 
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Its the world we live in and not unique to any situation, really.  I see it in the corporate world all the time.  Folks don't react until they feel some pain.

 
The projects being cut off by the diversion of funds from the military budget to build the wall are beginning to come out.  The best one I've seen so far is an elementary school on an army base in Kentucky....McConnell's state.  He's not even hiding it anymore...pretty ballsy to take education opportunities away from kids in Kentucky with an election year so close.  It's unbelievable really.

 
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The projects being cut off by the diversion of funds from the military budget to build the wall are beginning to come out.  The best one I've seen so far is an elementary school on an army base in Kentucky....McConnell's state.  He's not even hiding it anymore...pretty ballsy to take education opportunities away from kids in Kentucky with an election year so close.  It's unbelievable really.
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You must not have heard that this is socialism and must be eliminated. 

 
Dickies said:
His top priority in life has been to cover up how incompetent he is.  Expect something even more ridiculous by the end of tomorrow so that we forget about this Alabama ####show.
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Yep.  For 70 years it was private boardrooms with a few dozen people watching, tops.  Boardrooms where he controlled the information and the entire environment.  People who laughed or opposed him we're fired.  Now it's the entire world.  He has no control over the people who oppose and laugh at him.  He's being publicly mocked and laughed at by people who are not scared of him.  People that he cannot control.  And it's exposing him and driving him nuts.  Money has no affect on them and, for the first time in his life, he's being exposed publicly.  His incompetence is on full display.

 
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urbanhack said:
https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/1170125847673626627?s=21

im sure this will be the final straw.  

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The military has spent $11 million on fuel alone at the Prestwick Airport near Trump’s Turnberry resort since fall of 2017, Politico reported
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We can't feed the poor because Trump is filling his bank account.  This of course isn't the only money he has been stealing from every US tax payer.

He deserves nothing but the harshest punishment that God, Karma, the universe, whatever, can drop on him. 

 
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Donald Trump’s disordered personality—his unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning, and behaving—has become the defining characteristic of his presidency. It manifests itself in multiple ways: his extreme narcissism; his addiction to lying about things large and small, including his finances and bullying and silencing those who could expose them; his detachment from reality, including denying things he said even when there is video evidence to the contrary; his affinity for conspiracy theories; his demand for total loyalty from others while showing none to others; and his self-aggrandizement and petty cheating.

It manifests itself in Trump’s impulsiveness and vindictiveness; his craving for adulation; his misogyny, predatory sexual behavior, and sexualization of his daughters; his open admiration for brutal dictators; his remorselessness; and his lack of empathy and sympathy, including attacking a family whose son died while fighting for this country, mocking a reporter with a disability, and ridiculing a former POW. (When asked about Trump’s feelings for his fellow human beings, Trump’s mentor, the notorious lawyer Roy Cohn, reportedly said, “He pisses ice water.”)

The most recent example is the president’s bizarre fixation on falsely insisting that he was correct to warn that Alabama faced a major risk from Hurricane Dorian, to the point that he doctored a hurricane map with a black Sharpie to include the state as being in the path of the storm.

“He’s deteriorating in plain sight,” one Republican strategist who is in frequent contact with the White House told Business Insider on Friday. Asked why the president was obsessed with Alabama instead of the states that would actually be affected by the storm, the strategist said, “You should ask a psychiatrist about that; I’m not sure I’m qualified to comment.”

We have repeatedly heard versions of that sentiment over the course of Trump’s presidency. It’s said that speculating on Trump’s mental health is inappropriate and unwise, especially for those who are not formally trained in the field of psychiatry or psychology.

That’s true, up to a point. Yes, it is best to leave it to experts to determine whether Trump satisfies the criteria for a clinical diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, some combination of both, or nothing at all.

But if a clinical diagnosis is beyond my own expertise, Trump’s psychological impairments are obvious to all who are not willfully blind. On a daily basis we see the president’s chaotic, unstable mind on display. Are we supposed to ignore that?
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Indeed.

 
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JP Morgan has created an index to track the effect of Trump’s tweets on financial markets: ‘Volfefe index’

  • Trump’s market-moving tweets most often address trade and monetary policy, with keywords including “China,” “billion” and “products.”
  • J.P. Morgan’s “Volfefe Index,” named after Trump’s infamous and still mysterious “covfefe” tweet, explains a measurable fraction of the moves in implied rate volatility for 2-year and 5-year Treasurys.
  • Out of about 4,000 non-retweets by Trump occurring during market hours from 2018 to the present, only 146 moved the market.
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President Donald Trump’s campaign manager predicted Saturday that the president and his family will become “a dynasty that will last for decades,” transforming the Republican Party while hewing to conservative values.

Speaking to a convention of Republican Party delegates in Indian Wells, California, Brad Parscale also said the campaign’s goal is to build a national army of 2 million trained volunteers, far beyond the president’s 2016 organization, that in California could help the GOP retake a string of U.S. House seats captured by Democrats last year.

“The Trumps will be a dynasty that will last for decades, propelling the Republican Party into a new party,” he said. “One that will adapt to changing cultures. One must continue to adapt while keeping the conservative values that we believe in.”

Parscale later declined to elaborate on his prediction of a coming Trump “dynasty,” or whether the president’s children could become candidates for public office.

He told reporters after the speech, “I just think they are a dynasty. I think they are all amazing people with ... amazing capabilities.”
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Threatening to fire NOAA officials now...

WASHINGTON — The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion. 

That threat led to an unusual, unsigned statement later that Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disavowing the office’s own position that Alabama was not at risk. The reversal caused widespread anger within the agency and drew criticism from the scientific community that NOAA, a division of the Commerce Department, had been bent to political purposes.

Officials at the White House and the Commerce Department declined to comment on administration involvement in the NOAA statement.

The actions by the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., are the latest developments in a political imbroglio that began more than a week ago, when Dorian was bearing down on the Bahamas and Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter that Alabama would be hit “harder than anticipated.” A few minutes later, the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Ala., posted on Twitter that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.”
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Trump was just asked if we would take any refugees from the Bahamas. He said we need to be really careful because there are some "really bad people in the Bahamas, drug dealers, criminals. So we will be very careful about this."

But of course, there will be people here who will read that and see nothing wrong, and will deny once again that he is in any way racist...

 
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting chief scientist said that he would investigate why the agency backed President Donald Trump's claims about Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama over its own forecasters.

In an internal email obtained by NBC News, NOAA's Craig McLean wrote Sunday that an unsigned Friday statement issued by the agency in defense of Trump "inappropriately and incorrectly contradicted the [National Weather Service] forecaster." The Friday statement referred to a tweet from National Weather Service's Birmingham, Alabama office last weekend rebutting the president, who had claimed earlier in the day that Alabama was in the path of the storm.

"My understanding is that this intervention to contradict the forecaster was not based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance, or simply put, political," McLean wrote. "Our NOAA Scientific Integrity Policy and Code of Scientific Conduct make clear that all NOAA employees shall approach all scientific activities with honesty, objectively, and completely, without allegiance to individuals, organizations, or ideology."

He called the content of the release "very concerning as it compromises the ability of NOAA to convey life-saving information necessary to avoid substantial and specific danger to public health and safety."

"If the public cannot trust our information, or we debase our forecaster's warnings and products, that specific danger arises," he continued. "You know that the value of our science is in the complexity of our understanding, our ability to convey that understanding to a wide audience of users of this information, and to establish and sustain the public trust in the truth and legitimacy of that information. Unfortunately, the press release of last Friday violated this trust and violated NOAA's policies of scientific integrity."

McLean said he is "pursuing the potential violations of our NOAA Administrative Order on Scientific Integrity," adding, "I have a responsibility to pursue these truths."

 
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Ruffrodys05 said:
Ok.....what's effing new here? Sick and tired of this admin. Sick and tired of this incompetent president. 
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And he keeps talking about extending his term, there is Republicans talking about his family becoming a dynasty.  If this is what 94% of Republicans want,  I wish they would all go away and form their own country. 

 
Ruffrodys05 said:
Ok.....what's effing new here? Sick and tired of this admin. Sick and tired of this incompetent president. 
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And he's going to a rally tonight. Sold out. They're going to cheer the guy on; they love him. At least one guy in this forum is going, and others are congratulating him for it.

Maybe they love how he warned today that refugees from the Bahamas could be drug dealers. Or maybe they appreciate it when he says that any vote for a Democrat is a "vote for Open Borders." I don't know. I only know that I'm with you, it makes me absolutely sick. I don't understand my fellow Americans.

 
Whether Trump leaves in January of 2020, or God forbid 2024, a part of me can't wait to see him kicking and screaming as he goes. The thing to fear is what he will do during the November election, assuming 2020, and the day of the new President getting sworn in. Those two months... watch TF out.

 
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting chief scientist said that he would investigate why the agency backed President Donald Trump's claims about Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama over its own forecasters.

In an internal email obtained by NBC News, NOAA's Craig McLean wrote Sunday that an unsigned Friday statement issued by the agency in defense of Trump "inappropriately and incorrectly contradicted the [National Weather Service] forecaster." The Friday statement referred to a tweet from National Weather Service's Birmingham, Alabama office last weekend rebutting the president, who had claimed earlier in the day that Alabama was in the path of the storm.

"My understanding is that this intervention to contradict the forecaster was not based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance, or simply put, political," McLean wrote. "Our NOAA Scientific Integrity Policy and Code of Scientific Conduct make clear that all NOAA employees shall approach all scientific activities with honesty, objectively, and completely, without allegiance to individuals, organizations, or ideology."

He called the content of the release "very concerning as it compromises the ability of NOAA to convey life-saving information necessary to avoid substantial and specific danger to public health and safety."

"If the public cannot trust our information, or we debase our forecaster's warnings and products, that specific danger arises," he continued. "You know that the value of our science is in the complexity of our understanding, our ability to convey that understanding to a wide audience of users of this information, and to establish and sustain the public trust in the truth and legitimacy of that information. Unfortunately, the press release of last Friday violated this trust and violated NOAA's policies of scientific integrity."

McLean said he is "pursuing the potential violations of our NOAA Administrative Order on Scientific Integrity," adding, "I have a responsibility to pursue these truths."
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#FAKEWEATHER  of course no one cares anymore...

 
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From NYT article:

A senior administration official who asked not to be identified when discussing internal deliberations said that the Birmingham office had been wrong and that NOAA had simply done the responsible thing and corrected the record.

That official suggested the Twitter post by the Birmingham forecasters had been motivated by a desire to embarrass the president more than concern for the safety of people in Alabama. The official provided no evidence to support that conclusion.

:lmao:

Maybe the twitter post by the Birmingham forecasters was a reminder that the people in Alabama were not in danger...

 
When he says #### like this I just want to say #### you, you lying cheating racist conman. 

"Tomorrow is your chance to send a clear message to the America-hating left."

A president who is only president to  few is an enemy to the rest.

 
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Politicizing weather. Sad. What’s next?
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It's not that.  It's the  head of the Department of Commerce pressuring it's department to not speak obvious truth but rather to alter it's official statement to pacify the president.

Politicing weather?  Sure, ha ha no biggie.  However, this is the same department that publishes GDP reports, jobs report, the census.  Knowing what we know now, how do we trust anything from Washington?

 
Mile High said:
And he keeps talking about extending his term, there is Republicans talking about his family becoming a dynasty.  If this is what 94% of Republicans want,  I wish they would all go away and form their own country. 
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He's going to use the non-existent voter fraud to either:

A) Try to postpone the 2020 elections; or

B) Contest the results if he loses.

 
Yenrub said:
Are the Bahamas known for having a huge gang/criminal element?
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I honestly think he saw images of the people of color in the Bahamas and therefore trotted out his "drug dealers and criminal" language.  

And now Trump - with multiple divorces, adultery, crude language, and general disrespect for many people and the planet - is stating that the Democrats are "not big believers in religion."

 
Mile High said:
And he keeps talking about extending his term, there is Republicans talking about his family becoming a dynasty.  If this is what 94% of Republicans want,  I wish they would all go away and form their own country. 
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They could call it Ameristan

 
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