The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump

[Z Buck McFate]

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[Jaguar]

He's going over the cliff on steroids.

 

[Jaguar]

“Taxing hardworking Americans isn’t doing a thing to address China’s trade abuses. Instead, these tariffs are costing American jobs, raising prices, hurting farmers and derailing U.S. economic growth,” Gold said.

While Trump claims that China is harder hit by the tariffs, the numbers say otherwise.

Over the last year, U.S. imports from China subject to tariffs fell by $21 billion as U.S. exports subject to retaliation fell by $25 billion.

“Ultimately the U.S. is paying a lot more tariffs, and buying somewhat less. The Chinese aren’t really paying as much in tariffs, but it’s because they just stopped purchasing altogether,” said Dan Anthony, vice president of The Trade Partnership, which compiled the data.

Since the beginning of the trade war in 2018 through June of this year, tariffs have cost U.S. buyers $27 billion, according to the report.

Trump's tariffs cost US businesses $3.4 billion in June: Study

Wow, now that's "standing up to China." Woohoo! Fuck over as many Americans as possible, Donald.

 

[The Cat]

He's going over the cliff on steroids.

 

[FemMecha]

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Agreed.

Trump is an organized crime boss who knows how to recruit thugs. He knows exactly what he's doing, so people playing dumb and innocent - whether Trump himself or his followers share in the guilt. If we are so unlucky to have him win, I'll erase any social media posts against him because I think he will start with the democratic governors, but may not stop there. We may no longer be in a democracy. He already has secret police kidnapping protestors off the streets. More to come.

 

[Z Buck McFate]

From HCR's Letters to an American yesterday:

Last night, at a rally in Michigan, Trump once again attacked Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer for locking down her state in the early days of the pandemic. When the crowd started to chant “Lock her up!” Trump responded: “Lock them all up!” Just ten days ago, the FBI arrested eight men plotting to kidnap Whitmer and put her on trial for “treason.” Whitmer called Trump out for “inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism.” She told NBC, “It is wrong. It’s got to end. It is dangerous, not just for me and my family, but for public servants everywhere who are doing their jobs and trying to protect their fellow Americans. People of goodwill on both sides of the aisle need to step up and call this out and bring the heat down.”

Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump and is a senior advisor to the Trump campaign, disagreed. She told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “Well, look, he wasn’t doing anything, I don’t think, to provoke people to threaten this woman at all…. He was having fun at a Trump rally.” The Trump campaign then insisted that a small “8645” emblem on a table beside Whitmer during her television interview was “encouraging assassination attempts” against Trump. (To “86” something is slang for getting rid of it.) While observers have noted Trump’s use of gaslighting—making someone believe something that is not true—another abusive pattern is “DARVO,” which stands for “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.”

Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that political officials in the Trump administration have restricted his media appearances. He also explained that he now has federal protection because of threats to his life, and to his wife and children. “That’s sad,” he told Jonathan Lapook of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” “The very fact that a public health message to save lives triggers such venom and animosity to me that it results in real and credible threats to my life and my safety.”

The editorial board of the New York Times today ran a special section of the Sunday Review to explain to readers in thirteen essays why Trump “is unfit to lead the nation.” The essays cover his corruption, incompetent statesmanship, attacks on women and minorities, rejection of science, and so on.
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HCR lists sources for every claim she makes at the bottom of her post. Additionally, here's an Axios piece on what Lara Trump said.

Trump senior campaign adviser Lara Trump defended President Trump's rhetoric about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), claiming that he was "having fun at a Trump rally" when encouraging "lock her up" chants.

Why it matters: Whitmer, who has faced criticism for her strict lockdown measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic, was the target of a kidnapping plot by anti-government militia groups. The president has continued to demand that Whitmer lift COVID restrictions, calling her a "dictator."

• The governor's deputy digital director tweeted on Saturday that every time Trump attacks her at a rally, the "violent rhetoric towards her immediately escalates on social media."
• Whitmer herself has said that Trump's rhetoric puts her and her family's lives in danger, accusing the president of "stoking distrust, fomenting anger and giving comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division."

What she's saying: "Well, look, he wasn't doing anything, I don't think, to provoke people to threaten this woman at all. He was having fun at a Trump rally. And quite frankly, there are bigger issues than this right now for everyday Americans," Lara Trump said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday.

• "People want to get the country reopened. They want to get back to work. Not only are we trying to make it through a pandemic, but think about all of the cancers that have gone unaddressed. Think about the kids that aren't in school who use school to get their one meal a day."
  
• "There are issues at hand here that are bigger than just keeping everyone locked down. ... The president was at a rally. It's a fun, light atmosphere. Of course, he wasn't encouraging people to threaten this woman. That's ridiculous."

The other side: Whitmer reacted to Trump's comments on NBC's "Meet the Press" later on Sunday, saying: "It's dangerous, not just for me and my family but for public servants everywhere who are doing their jobs and trying to protect their fellow Americans. People of goodwill on both sides of the aisle need to step up and call this out and bring the heat down."

• She also clarified that Michigan hasn't had a stay-at-home order since late spring, despite Trump's comments demanding an end to "lockdowns."

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[ceecee]

Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

No one wanted to believe promises like this more than the people who went to work for Foxconn in Wisconsin. They each came to regret different things: the wasted time, the jobs they’d left, the integrity lost making deals and offering jobs only to have the company change course. But one common theme was frustration that it hadn’t turned out to be real and that long after they’d learned the truth, they saw the facade still standing. “There are a lot of good people who fell for this,” said one employee, shortly before departing a job at Foxconn. “Who wanted to see it succeed.”

“We got screwed,” another former employee said. “The state got screwed.”

Foxconn's Promised PA Jobs - What Happened? | Foxconn WI

Kind of curious how many more times Foxcon can "screw" the people of yet another state and it is allowed by developers, GOP state legislatures and bullshit "jobs" mantra?

 

[Jaguar]

Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin



Foxconn's Promised PA Jobs - What Happened? | Foxconn WI

Kind of curious how many more times Foxcon can "screw" the people of yet another state and it is allowed by developers, GOP state legislatures and bullshit "jobs" mantra?

These scamming assholes should be locked up.

 

[Jaguar]

I guess Fauci pissed off Trump by appearing on 60 Minutes.

 

[Z Buck McFate]

Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that political officials in the Trump administration have restricted his media appearances. He also explained that he now has federal protection because of threats to his life, and to his wife and children. “That’s sad,” he told Jonathan Lapook of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” “The very fact that a public health message to save lives triggers such venom and animosity to me that it results in real and credible threats to my life and my safety.”
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About this, it's worth pointing out that Fauci has worked for 6 other presidents and he's never needed security detail before.

 

[Z Buck McFate]

^^Trump Rails Against 'Fauci And These Idiots' In Campaign Call

"People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong," Trump said on the call meant to discuss Election Day strategy, according to The New York Times.
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Maybe we should start a pool on who - among the people who won't bow down and enable Emperor Blowhard - will be the next attempted kidnapping victim, and who amongst his enablers will surface to make a statement about how it's not Trump's fault.

 

[Jaguar]

Fauci says he's not surprised Trump got COVID, admits administration has restricted his media appearances - CBS News

 

[Totenkindly]

FFS. Hope this shitshow is over soon.

 

[Z Buck McFate]

Trump campaign demands change to final debate topics

The Trump campaign is demanding that the Commission on Presidential Debates adjust the topics for the final presidential debate so that the meeting focuses on foreign policy.

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien penned a letter to the commission Monday raising objections with the topics announced by moderator and NBC News correspondent Kristen Welker last week, saying the commission should observe “long-standing custom” by making foreign policy the central focus of Thursday’s debate. Stepien also claimed the campaigns had agreed to the third debate being focused on foreign policy.

“As is the long-standing custom, and as has been promised by the Commission on Presidential Debates, we had expected that foreign policy would be the central focus of the October 22 debate. We urge you to recalibrate the topics and return to subjects which had already been confirmed,” Stepien wrote.

Stepien accused Democratic nominee Joe Biden of being “desperate to avoid conversations about his own foreign policy record” and said the commission was trying to alter the course of the final debate in order to “insulate Biden from his own history.”

“The Commission’s pro-Biden antics have turned the entire debate season into a fiasco and it is little wonder why the public has lost faith in its objectivity,” he wrote.

Biden’s campaign, however, says that there was a prior agreement that the moderator would select the topics and that the Trump campaign is lying so that Trump could sidestep questions about his administration’s “disastrous” response to the coronavirus pandemic.

"The campaigns and the Commission agreed months ago that the debate moderator would choose the topics,” said national press secretary TJ Ducklo. “The Trump campaign is lying about that now because Donald Trump is afraid to face more questions about his disastrous COVID response. As usual, the president is more concerned with the rules of a debate than he is getting a nation in crisis the help it needs."

Stepien's letter comes days after Welker announced that the topics of the debate would be fighting the coronavirus pandemic, American families, race in America, climate change, national security, and leadership.

Trump’s campaign has consistently claimed that the Commission on Presidential Debates, which describes itself as a nonpartisan panel, is working to assist Biden in the debates.
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Prime example of narcissistic DARVO spin. Translation: Trump is desperate to avoid conversations about fighting the coronavirus pandemic, American families, race in America, climate change, national security, and leadership. They want to control the topics discussed to insulate Trump from his own history.

 

[Jaguar]

The Trump campaign is demanding that the Commission on Presidential Debates adjust the topics for the final presidential debate so that the meeting focuses on foreign policy.

So he can segue into Biden and Ukraine for the 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th time?

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

So he can segue into Biden and Ukraine for the 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th time?

Or Hillary's emails, since apparently that's still relevant.

 

[The Cat]

His ralleys are just wall to wall lies. easily researchable lies.

 

[ceecee]

Lawyers say they can'''t find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration

Great job stupid.

 

[The Cat]

The beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.

 

[Jaguar]

Fuck him.