Lets see if we can keep this thread a little more civil.

I found this interview very interesting.  A lot of soft balls thrown at Trump, he explained his back pedalling on his more extreme issues as a lot of his claims as opening bids for negotiation purposes.  Which .. whatever .. I still think that those are insincere claims he used to get elected.

He does now come across way more presidential then he did prior to the election.  A lot of his noise, yelling, and rhetoric has been scaled back.

Do respect this one though:

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Lesley Stahl: Are you gonna take the salary, the president’s salary?

Donald Trump: Well, I’ve never commented on this, but the answer is no. I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But it’s a -- I don’t even know what it is.

Donald Trump: Do you know what the salary is?

Lesley Stahl: $400,000 you’re giving up.

Donald Trump: No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/

18 hours ago, Tracker said:

And the protest was organized by the family of one Betsy Devos, Trump's Secretary of Education who has been fiercely busy licensing private schools with generous grants for startups and many of these took the startup money and are no longer to be found anywhere. Many millions have evaporated.

To put this in perspective.

Majority stay home

The protest of a few thousand people in Lansing attracted gobs of media attention. But for most Michiganders across the state, it was just another day observing the stay home order during the pandemic in hopes things return to normal soon.

Polling taken April 6 to 8 from the progressive Center for American Progress showed 71% of Michigan voters approve of how Whitmer is handling the COVID-19 crisis and 29% disapprove. Trump was at 51% positive and 49% negative.

https://www.michiganadvance.com/2020/04/15/whitmer-stay-home-order-protest-turns-into-trump-celebration-with-confederate-flags-and-guns/

1 hour ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

To put this in perspective.

Majority stay home

The protest of a few thousand people in Lansing attracted gobs of media attention. But for most Michiganders across the state, it was just another day observing the stay home order during the pandemic in hopes things return to normal soon.

Polling taken April 6 to 8 from the progressive Center for American Progress showed 71% of Michigan voters approve of how Whitmer is handling the COVID-19 crisis and 29% disapprove. Trump was at 51% positive and 49% negative.

https://www.michiganadvance.com/2020/04/15/whitmer-stay-home-order-protest-turns-into-trump-celebration-with-confederate-flags-and-guns/

These sort of things are just the tip of the iceberg so far as the right wing/GOP/Tea Party/Trump are willing to go. They have money and willing pawns who might as well wear brown shirts.

Wow. I always suspected that the USA hates their middle and lower classes... but Wow, this is crazy

 

 

Edited April 18, 20205 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

What the hell is going on down there

 

And this is the man who has now re-opened the beaches in Florida and is talking about re-opening businesses shortly. 

 

From the Daily Beast:

Trump Leads Pro-Plague States of America to a COVID Civil War

 

BREAKING OUT

He is telling us plainly that he will stoke civil unrest and further harm public health to find a political pathway out of a galactic-scale ****-up of his own making.

 

Rick Wilson

Editor-At-Large

Updated Apr. 17, 2020 11:12PM ET / Published Apr. 17, 2020 8:54PM ET 

 

Donald Trump fired the first shots in the COVID Civil War this week, a modern-day Jefferson Davis of the Pro-Plague States of America sending his opening salvo from Fort Twitter at Democratic governors who dared to question if it wasn’t just a wee bit early to end the stay-at-home orders in states still far to the left of the peak.

He started the week with claims of “total authority” and then cried about a supposed mutiny by mouthy state leaders. By Friday, he was up to calls to “liberate” states. Who does he want people to rise up against, exactly: People who don't want to die? People who don't want protesters spreading a deadly disease that's already killed 34,000 Americans? Governors who swore an oath to serve their states and protect their citizens? Science? Medicine?

 

Michael Tomasky

 

 

I just do not understand how someone can wear an N95 mask upside down... it's not rocket appliances.... they are shaped to fit one way on your face. It's just pants on head ******** to get it wrong.

27 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

I just do not understand how someone can wear an N95 mask upside down.

Because this is their leader...

 

 

 

People crowded the beaches in its first open hour on April 17, 2020 in Jacksonville Beach, Fl. Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry opened the beaches to residents for limited activities for the first time in weeks since closing them to the public due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Jacksonville Beach became the first beach in the country to reopen.

 

"The beaches are reopening with restricted hours and can only be used for walking, biking, hiking, fishing, running, swimming, taking care of pets and surfing, according to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. "

So that leaves exactly what off the list of things people go to the beach for?

 

According to Eric Margolis, who I have followed for 20 years and has been remarkably accurate in his reporting and predicting of European and middle-eastern events, it was no accident hat Trump wanted to open the country up and "defeat" the Coronavirus by Easter. This was to cement his status as a messiah among the rabid evangelicals in the US who already see him as the second coming of Jesus. An interesting take on the current pandemic.

www.ericmargolis.com/2020/04/lies-wont-stop-covid-19/

 

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

According to Eric Margolis, who I have followed for 20 years and has been remarkably accurate in his reporting and predicting of European and middle-eastern events, it was no accident hat Trump wanted to open the country up and "defeat" the Coronavirus by Easter. This was to cement his status as a messiah among the rabid evangelicals in the US who already see him as the second coming of Jesus. An interesting take on the current pandemic.

www.ericmargolis.com/2020/04/lies-wont-stop-covid-19/

 

Well ****... that actually makes total sense. That is the world we live in... crazy is the normal...

From Alternet.org

President Donald Trump may have gotten more than he bargained for Friday, when he posted three tweets, just sixteen words in total, that stunned and infuriated the nation and have legal experts weighing in on just how much trouble he could be in.

One, a former U.S. Dept. of Justice official, suggests possibly a lot. 

But first, the tweets:

 

The average Trump supporter might say, “So?” Or, as Trump has often defended his actions, he has a First Amendment right to say what he wants.

00:0000:37

Both are wrong, according to Mary McCord, a former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice, and former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, according to her bio at Georgetown Law, where she is a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

If all that’s not enough, McCord currently serves as the Legal Director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP).

In other words, she knows what she’s talking about. And what she’s saying, in a just-published Washington Post op-ed, is Trump’s actions meet the definition of inciting insurrection, and inciting insurrection is “illegal.”

“President Trump incited insurrection Friday against the duly elected governors of the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia,” McCord begins. “Just a day after issuing guidance for re-opening America that clearly deferred decision-making to state officials — as it must under our Constitutional order — the president undercut his own guidance by calling for criminal acts against the governors for not opening fast enough.”

2 hours ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Well ****... that actually makes total sense. That is the world we live in... crazy is the normal...

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Q: What borders on insanity?

 

A: Canada and Mexico

3 minutes ago, Tracker said:

From Alternet.org

President Donald Trump may have gotten more than he bargained for Friday, when he posted three tweets, just sixteen words in total, that stunned and infuriated the nation and have legal experts weighing in on just how much trouble he could be in.

One, a former U.S. Dept. of Justice official, suggests possibly a lot. 

But first, the tweets:

 

The average Trump supporter might say, “So?” Or, as Trump has often defended his actions, he has a First Amendment right to say what he wants.

00:0000:37

Both are wrong, according to Mary McCord, a former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice, and former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, according to her bio at Georgetown Law, where she is a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

If all that’s not enough, McCord currently serves as the Legal Director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP).

In other words, she knows what she’s talking about. And what she’s saying, in a just-published Washington Post op-ed, is Trump’s actions meet the definition of inciting insurrection, and inciting insurrection is “illegal.”

“President Trump incited insurrection Friday against the duly elected governors of the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia,” McCord begins. “Just a day after issuing guidance for re-opening America that clearly deferred decision-making to state officials — as it must under our Constitutional order — the president undercut his own guidance by calling for criminal acts against the governors for not opening fast enough.”

Susan Collins is disturbed.

1 minute ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Susan Collins is disturbed.

And all Trump needs now is a big fire in Washington and a violin to complete his persona.

From Salon.com

Trump admin awards N95 contract far above normal price to bankrupt company with no employees: report

A combination of demand and the government’s laggard response has chummed the market for protective medical gear.

 

 

The Trump administration awarded an N95 mask procurement contract worth eight times the usual price to a bankrupt company with no employees which has never even manufactured the respirator masks, according to a new report.

The company, Panthera, claims to provide tactical training and "mission support" for the Department of Defense and other government agencies. However, it has no experience with manufacturing or medical equipment, The Washington Post reported this week. Panthera's parent company filed for bankruptcy in the fall, and it has not employed anyone since May 2018.

19 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Susan Collins is disturbed.

No, merely concerned....

Another press conference that has nothing to do with the Pandemic

1 hour ago, do or die said:

No, merely concerned....

He's learned his lesson in her mind. 

 

Seriously the Republicans in the senate have spoken. Trump is above the law.

 

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

Another press conference that has nothing to do with the Pandemic

The American public and media have become desensitized to these travesties. it has become the new normal and America may never recover.

12 minutes ago, Tracker said:

The American public and media have become desensitized to these travesties. it has become the new normal and America may never recover.

Trump’s insanity tested their ‘systems in place’ and it broke.

A statement that embodies when someone doesn't realize they are stupider than a bag of wet hammers

 

 

Edited April 19, 20205 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

Lil old but a goodie.

Edited April 19, 20205 yr by FrostyWinnipeg