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/

In terms of the real estate lawsuit in the earl 70's its' certainly troubling. As is Biden's record from the 70's. I would have greatly preferred candidates who didn't have these types of issues from the 70's like Bernie Sanders and Tusli Gabbard. However, the system is still broken and the best candidates the ones who want to make real change are not being allowed to make waves unfortunately. Tusli Gabbard would have been my most preferred candidate but she dared to speak about the problems with the democratic party and is even more anti-war than Trump.  Not sure what Bernie's policy on war would be so she's even more preferred in my mind but she's very clear on the issue. 

 

A recap of what Biden was up to in the 70's if we missed the comments that Kamala Harris made towards him in the democratic debates. 

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/joe-biden-record-on-busing-incarceration-racial-justice-democratic-primary-2020-explained.html

8 minutes ago, bustamente said:

I wonder if all American's and even those unaffected by the Covid pandemic are enjoying the confirmation of a new justice for their supreme court, nice to see the Senate particularly the Republicans have their priorities in order.

There's more to it than that.  During the obama administration instead of working together with the Republicans in the senate the Democrats passed a bill that made it so that all that is required to approve a supreme court justice would be a simple majority. The Republicans were enraged by this subversion of democracy and declared that the democrats would live to regret this decision and sooner than you think. So this is payback for that more than anything. It was a very foolish policy to bring in because it ended up ensuring that Supreme Court selections would be completely partisan going forward and that's exactly what has happened. The democrats right now are being completely disingenuous when they state that they should let the people decide on the supreme court during the next election because they refuse to give a list of the type of individuals that they would nominate to the Supreme Court and they refuse to state whether or not they plan to pack the courts.  In doing so they are not actually letting the people decide.  Trump and his cohorts keep stating that Joe Biden will indeed stack the courts but I don't believe it. They don't want to state clearly that they won't stack the courts because they want to give progressives false hope. The democrats will love a supreme court which favors the republicans. This will allow them to propose bills that progressives want to see implemented only to have the supreme court block these bills. Then they will be able to tell progressives that we tried and you gotta keep electing us for the next 30 years to get a supreme court in their favor which will never end up happening. It reminds me of George Bush on the abortion issue. He never actually delivered on the issue of Roe v Wade and even put in a supreme court justice who is against overturning it. Republicans like him want to win votes on abortion for the next 30 years without ever actually overturning Roe v Wade. The second it got overturned there would no longer be a reason to vote for them. 

So much whataboutism. Just admit you are ok with the shirty person cause you share his opinions.

Again, we don't have to look very far to see that white supremacy is spreading in Canada. F*** Trump and all his supporters. 

Exactly why is Senator Mike Lee at the hearing, what is he trying to prove, just another wanna be tough guy I guess.

1 minute ago, bustamente said:

Exactly why is Senator Mike Lee at the hearing, what is he trying to prove, just another wanna be tough guy I guess.

So, by chance he spreads a little COVID around, and the numbers of those infected go up in that hearing, what would his nickname become?

You have to admire the perseverance of these voters. They sacrifice their time to get that m.f. out of office.

 

Interesting interview of a person who covers the Christian Right in the USA, and what they get from Trump.

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“What do you think is the ultimate goal of the Christian right leaders who are supporting Trump?

POSNER: A very serious - more serious rollback of the separation of church and state than the Supreme Court has already undertaken, and kind of a flipping of the separation of church and state to elevate the free exercise clause over the separation clause - so to basically brought in what is perceived as religious freedom for Christians and to have government policy and the law reflect that.

So if you think about the Hobby Lobby decision, where a Christian company was permitted to opt out of providing contraception coverage in its employer health plan, bolstering government support for Christian private schools, creating huge religious exemptions so that people would not have to comply with nondiscrimination laws protecting people based on sexual orientation and gender identity - basically, have a government run from the perspective of the Christian right, what they would call a biblical worldview.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888906337/unholy-examines-the-alliance-between-white-evangelicals-and-trump

 

we have the same thing in Canada. People who want the laws of our country to be based on their religious beliefs.

 

Hard no to that idea.

 

Edited October 12, 20205 yr by Mark F

How many Republican Senators that are defeated will blame the confirmation hearings, Americans in need in fact all of them should be pissed that this hearing is going on

 

Republicans only care about one thing: power for themselves. Nothing else matters. It is why anyone who supports them at this point is either an idiot, willfully ignorant or just a plain old horrible person. Or i suppose a ricj greedy *******, but let's be honest that is a minority.

👁‍🗨 A gun going off. But at least he’s not loaded...I think.

"In response to your inquiry regarding the President's most recent COVID-19 tests, I can share with you that he has tested NEGATIVE, on consecutive days, using the Abbott BinaxNOW antigen card," Conley wrote, noting that those tests were taken "in context with additional clinical and laboratory data."

EDIT As his Florida rally is about to get underway, President Donald Trump's physician releases info he has tested negative for #COVID19 on 'consecutive days.' Not released: when said tests took place. #uspoli - Raffy Boudjikanian

 

Edited October 12, 20205 yr by Mr Dee

Eric...just trumping along

 

The man is deranged. And so are his followers.

 

15 minutes ago, Mr Dee said:

The man is deranged. And so are his followers.

People that knew they had aids, and had intercourse without disclosing the fact, and transmitted it,, have been convicted and jailed, in Canada.

Trump needs to do some Long,  hard, time for his malicious acts.

The biggest mistake in American's political history Trump will go down as the worst president in history.

 

https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/10/10/candace-owens-blexit-black-people-trump-event.html?cq_ck=1602374537598

 

11 hours ago, Colin Unger said:

Well there are two types of racism that is often spoken about these days. One is Systemic. This is the type of racism that is almost subconscious. As an example. A white person might encounter several young African Americans when they go out for a walk. They may feel scared or something and walk to the other side of the street. That same white person would encounter several young white teenagerers and think they look like young punks but walk right past them. This would be an example of on a subconscious racism. And then there are pure racists like those in the Alt-Right and KKK ect. Who hate people who are not white, don't want to associate with them, and are fully aware of their hatred. These are two very different things. Everyone to some degree on some level is a systemic racist however most people are no full on racists.   

So.. what category is the one that contains a spokesperson in the most powerful office in the free world that fails to condemn the "pure racists" and even equates them with antiracist protesters until the political fallout is untenable? Is that the same category that stokes racial tensions and lends legitimacy to these "pure racist"?

 

 

https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/12/pennsylvania-second-lady-gisele-fetterman-lt-governor-wife-racist-attack/

Bernie!!!! 

 

 

Bernie's messaging is so refined and really speaks to a lot of people- dude is amazing.

Edited October 13, 20205 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

“Defeat is coming”, “accountability’s coming”, “we are coming”

 

This clown is what's wrong with America, he is only in it for himself, history will not be kind with him not that he cares.

 

23 minutes ago, bustamente said:

This clown is what's wrong with America, he is only in it for himself, history will not be kind with him not that he cares.

Boy, does he look silly, sitting there giggling and laughing like he’s right out of it.

Come to think of it, he is...

The biggest error in judgement on Covid response in the states was New York governor Cuomo. He literally implemented a policy that required nursing homes to accept clients who already had covid which ended up leading to a massively high fatality rate in New York. 

 

“Relying on naturally obtaining herd immunity would be “scientifically and ethically problematic”, Tedros said. “Allowing a dangerous virus that we don’t fully understand to run free is simply unethical. It’s not an option.”
https://apple.news/AiV4wjJzlRWWCL61XJb_4Sg