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Thom - please! I hope you read this message! I just found your video from a year ago in which you posit that Trump abandoned the Kurds with his sudden and controversial withdrawal of troops from northern Syria for a hotel in Turkey! I also read in the New Yorker that he made his decision right after a phone conversation with Erdoğan. Please revisit this! The release of his tax returns spotlights money he received from Turkey!! You were onto something monumental!! Did Trump sell out the Kurds for a business arrangement??
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Another bit of advice to Biden. In response to Trump trying to make a big deal out of Hunter Binden, Joe should remind everyone that even though Trump only paid $750.00 in taxes, he didn’t hesitate to spend millions of taxpayers dollars, months of time and valuable government resources at a time of national crisis, only to come up with the word “problematic” as the result of all this trouble and expense.
You know that person who cannot resist a bright shiny object and runs their credit card to the max because of it, that's Donald J. Trump. He sees something he wants, convinces someone to lend him the money and proceeds to ruin it just like everything he touches. Dark Towers explains his relationship with Deutsche Bank who loaned him hundreds of millions. Several books talk about his money laundering through real estate deals with Russians and crooks. What he has not inherited, borrowed, or obtained through illegal deals has come from screwing some poor schmuck that he hired. But, every dog has his day. The investigations have been proceeding despite his attempt to stop them. He took no questions today; he looked a bit down-trodden. All I have to say about this mangy dog is RUFF!
The worse he is, the better his base-base likes him. They want to be him. No moral compass, no empathy, and living a lie does not offend them. They want to be him. Using everyone and throwing them under the bus when someone has to go is logical to them. They want to be him.
An excellent strategy! Mary Trump says that addressing him as "Donald" will also get under his skin.
How Biden could win the debate in about the first 3 minutes!
One of the Trump campaign’s favorite slogans is, “Promises made, Promises kept.” Biden could easily turn that against Trump by using his time at the first of the debate and saying, “if Trump’s slogan is “Promises made, Promises kept.” “Then Trump must have promised to be, by far, most inept world leader to deal with the worst pandemic since 1918.” “ Promise kept!”
“Trump must have promised to have over 7 million Americans infected with the Covid-19 virus.” “Promise kept!”
“Trump must have promised during his watch the over 200,000 Americans would die from a novel virus.” “Promise kept!”
“Trump must have promised that during his term, 40 million Americans would lose their jobs.” “Promise kept!”
“Trump must have promised that unemployment would about triple.” “Promise kept!”
“Trump must have promised the national debt would increase by 6 trillion dollars.” “Promise kept!”
“Trump must have promised to have the most corrupt campaign staff resulting in numerous indictments.” “Promise kept.”
“Trump must have promised to lie to the American people over 22,000 times.” “Promise kept!”
Anyway, you probably get the idea. Memorize a long list of everything wrong with Trump and phrase it as a “Promise made and Promise kept. “Then watch Trump’s head explode.
Another thing Biden should consider is telling the audience (us) that every time he hears Trump lie, he will simply lift his index finger over his head. That too would probably make Trump’s head explode.
Twenty-two thousand lies didn't do it.
Two-hundred thousand dead didn't do it.
Neither did: squandering undeserved tax breaks on the moneyed class while stiffing the little "disgusting people" and sinking the U.S. three trillion deeper into unnecessary debt; calling military heroes "suckers and losers;" colluding extensively with Russia to get elected in 2016; embarrassing America in the eyes of our once most trusted geopolitical friends and allies and, more ominously, in the eyes of our enemies; betraying erstwhile comrades on the battlefield in Syria to appease a fellow autocrat in Turkey who is holding the strings to the Trump Org.'s financial interests and Trump-branded towers in Istanbul; attempting to corrupt Ukraine's newly elected, reform politician by withholding vital military aid to this very important ally fighting a live shooting war against Russian incursion, all to cheat his way to re-election; obstructing justice at every turn both before and after his cheat-to-win election (the second part of the Mueller report being just the tip of the iceberg); violating the Emoluments clause daily; directing beaucoup taxpayer bucks to his own properties that he visits routinely; dismantling the social safety net; undoing environmental safety regulations; dismantling food safety regulations; deregulating his rapacious buddies on Wall Street while screwing labor unions, ergo, workers' families; hiring industry lobbyists from the "swamp" to corrupt the federal agencies monitoring those same industries; kidnapping little kids from parents and families, caging them in cold cells, and then purposely losing their records; illegally placing travel bans on whole religions and nations due to extreme xenophobia, religious bigotry, and overt racism; criminally mismanaging a deadly pandemic, causing hundreds of thousands of needless American deaths, because of a crass and horribly misguided political calculation, and for personal profit; using the pandemic to ram through a wingnut agenda; orchestrating a pogrom of potentially lethal violence against peaceful protesters protected by the First Amendment; engaing in systematic election interference, election fraud, and voter suppression (no need to further source what's already plastered all over the news leading up to the most critical election E-V-E-R); and whatever the fck else that even the most tenacious investigative journalists couldn't possibly think of off the top of their heads -- all the rot that slips down the memory hole.
Nope, none of that broke through the thick battle ramparts of "the Base," Trump's Al-Qaeda. So, is there any reason to think that the latest disclosure of his massive, decades-long tax-dodging schemes (c'mon, something everyone already suspected was true anyway) will change any minds? Hahahahaha!!!
Though you'd think that somewhere in those dim, barely conscious corners of self-reflection the average blind Trump zealots just can't help but ponder the gross injustice of it all, as they get soaked paying taxes on the sweat of their brows, backstopping the taxes that Trump and Sons and Daughter and the top one percent continually evade through "enhanced" deductions available only to themselves, never mind huge infusions of Russian laundered money to keep the Trump train on the rails. Brilliant! Sheer genius I tells ya!
"Playing down" a raging pandemic? Over 200, 000 needless deaths and a ruined economy? Even Susan Collins might find that a little more than "concerning." But gotta help McConnell get all those winger judges through in record time. Gotta have priorities.
Legend, to answer your question it is because few who have been conned will admit that they were taken. They keep hoping for a miracle. I think that in a way it's like being in an abusive relationship. Those voting for Trump may often be people who are happy that at least someone who seems big and powerful is recognizing them, and that makes them feel better than being ignored. This is doubly true if their idol then proclaims that they are better than another group who they can blame for all their problems and feelings of being marginalized. It's an old, old story that still works.
“People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Comparing those two lists on Wikipedia (post #1) of "Executive branch" scandals from these last two administrations makes the bygone days of Obama seem almost quaint ...ah, the good old days.
I could understand supporting Trump after a few major liabilaties. But we are way past that. We have most of his ex staff against him. Most of the military. We are over 22000 lies. He is a train wreck everyday. Please explain how you can keep supporting Trump.
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It’s great that professional athletes are speaking out and actively supporting get-out-the-vote efforts in states like Florida – but those efforts will run into high voter suppression and purging and other hijinks this year and every year into the future in most Red States. However they could have real impact if they (or Democratic activists with any imagination) launched a MOVEMENT to starve those states of the athletic talent that fuels the lives of so many sports fans. Imagine what would happen if star high school athletes refused to even talk to college recruiters from those states, until those states ended voter suppression and racist gerrymandering. Fans would freak out as their teams start having losing rather than winning seasons, with likely political repercussions. The latent political power of college athletes was crystal clear in Fall of 2015 when U of Missouri football players threatened a boycott due to racism on campus, and their demand to get rid of school system president Tim Wolfe was met within a few days. Then in North Carolina, Republican Governor McCrory lost in large part because he got blamed for the NCAA moving 7 championship events in different sports from that state due to the LGBTQ bathroom bill and other attacks on civil rights.
He (Trump) has to have losses to avoid his taxes. That was his plan all along.
Have you read this article from Yahoo what Tucker Carlson has confessed? This will give you the wake-up call of your life time:
Tucker Carlson: "Every story" about George Floyd and Breonna Taylor has "at its core" been "a lie"
If you remember the recording from Woodward, he likes to downplay. If you remember what hospital workers wore garbage bags, you should know by now that we (United States) are not his priority. Remember this: his family and his party deliberately gave all the ventilators, masks, and other medical equipments to "white-dominant" or "red states" to save only white people (March 31, 2020) (April 1, 2020) and made money by states to compete for PPE in a freewheeling global marketplace rife with profiteering and price-gouging (Washington Post). I mean, his people and his family are anti-government people who are trying to destroy the U.S. Government as a whole.
These "whites only" people don't want to see non-white population to go up and make them (whites) become a minority (Birth Dearth) (Ben Wattenberg 1987) (former member of American Enterprise Institute).
Back in May, Florida scientist (Rebekah Jones) was fired for refusing to manipulate COVID-19 data (Florida Today)(USA Today network) and Florida Health Department officials told manager to delet coronavirus data before reassigning her, emails show (Tampa Bay Times).
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Patriotism aside, only around 40% of eligible U.S. voters cast their ballots on November 5, 1918, compared with 50% in the previous midterm. Republicans won control of both House and Senate for the first time since 1908, marking a major defeat for Wilson and his foreign policy agenda.
The election's low turnout can't be entirely blamed on the flu. Around 2 million men were fighting in the war at the time, representing a high percentage of the U.S. voting population. (American women wouldn't get the right to vote until 1920.) Yet even if the flu only partially explains the voting drop-off, it undoubtedly had an impact.
"If just a fraction of the drop in turnout from 1914 to 1918 was due to the presence of the flu, then the disease was responsible for hundreds of people not voting," Marisam writes.
The political fallout from the 1918 election was real, too. Republicans in Congress, back in power, then blocked ratification of the Versailles Treaty and U.S. membership in Wilson's beloved League of Nations. In 1920, Warren G Harding won the presidency, spelling the end of the Progressive Era and beginning an era of Republican dominance that would last another 12 years.
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Does anybody know that Federal law enforcement document reveals white supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon?
White supremacists discussed plans to weaponize coronavirus via "saliva," a "spray bottle" laced items," according to a weekly intelligence brief distributed by a federal law enforcement division on Feb 17.
Federal investigators appeared to be monitoring the white nationalists' communications on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app that has become popular with neo-Nazis. In the conversations, the white supremacists suggested targeting law enforcement agents and "nonwhite" people with attacks designed to infect them with the coronavirus.
"Violent extremists continue to make bioterrorism a popular topic among themselves," reads the intelligence brief written by the Federal Protective Service, which covered the week of Feb. 17-24. "White Racially Motivated Violent Extremists have recently commented on the coronavirus stating that it is an 'OBLIGATION' to spread it should any of them contract the virus."
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Their (Trump and people in his circle) ultimate goal is to keep "white population" higher than "nonwhite" population to stay in power. Last thing they want is democracy, equality, and fairness because they want to stay on top of "nonwhite" people and be able to control them (just like slavery).
Remember these books: Birth Dearth (Ben Wattenberg), The Color of Law (Richard Rothstein), The Color of Money (Mehrsa Baradaran)
Amy Coney Barrett’s membership in her controversial ‘covenant group’ should be probed by Democrats: Catholic theologian
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Remember when Obama said that "you can keep your doctor"? Although the vast majority did it was a major issue for Republicans. It was Obama's big lie and Trump is over 22000. Remember when Obama wore a tan suit? Mitch just wore one but Republicans can and Democrats cannot. How many of you have paid more in taxes than Trump? I have, by a lot. But people that pay taxes are losers in Trumps mind.
Obama's issues:
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