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/

24 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

So yeah, it's Holocaust Memorial Day and ****** carlson needs to double down on the white supremacy talking points...

 

How is this even allowed on TV?

Because Faux News is just an entertainment network, not actual news. "Entertainment" being loosely attributed to it, as you'd have to be certifiably insane to watch that dogshit network with any regularity.

9 minutes ago, JCon said:

GOP GQP talking points. This is who they are. 

FTFY

And who they are? Disgraceful human beings.

8 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

Because Faux News is just an entertainment network, not actual news. "Entertainment" being loosely attributed to it, as you'd have to be certifiably insane to watch that dogshit network with any regularity.

FTFY

And who they are? Disgraceful human beings.

Fox is a wing of the GOP.

 

“You Will Not Replace Us” is a white supremacist slogan that became popular in early 2017, as did its acronym version, YWNRU. The slogan appeared on white supremacist flyers, banners and graffiti in a variety of places in the first six months of 2017, gaining wider attention when white supremacists used the phrase at several rallies held in Charlottesville, Virginia, culminating in the large and violent Unite the Right event in August 2017.

The slogan is a reference to the popular white supremacist belief that the white race is in danger of extinction by a rising tide of non-whites who are controlled and manipulated by Jews (in fact, one variant of “You Will Not Replace Us” is “Jews Will Not Replace Us”).

...adl

 

yes, on the number one network, by a man who makes forty million a year.

It really is astonishing.

 

Edited April 9, 20214 yr by Mark F

 

 

Washington Post
April 7, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. CDT

The National Republican Congressional Committee threatened donors that it will tell former president Donald Trump that they are defectors if they opt out of giving recurring monthly funds to the campaign arm for the House GOP.

After donating to the NRCC, donors are shown a yellow box with a small pre-checked box that warns: “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.” Left checked and the supporter will be agreeing to contribute every month.

The tactic, roundly criticized by campaign finance experts as deceptive, was also employed by the Trump campaign from September until the 2020 election to shore up its dwindling coffers.

Many Trump supporters who intended to donate only once were unwittingly enrolled to give weekly because they didn’t read the fine print requiring them to uncheck a box, a New York Times investigation found, resulting in credit card complaints, overdrafts and the Trump campaign refunding tens of millions of dollars to its supporters.

1 minute ago, JCon said:

Fox is a wing of the GOP.

As the network head himself described it......."the loyal opposition"

2 minutes ago, do or die said:

 

 

Washington Post
April 7, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. CDT

The National Republican Congressional Committee threatened donors that it will tell former president Donald Trump that they are defectors if they opt out of giving recurring monthly funds to the campaign arm for the House GOP.

After donating to the NRCC, donors are shown a yellow box with a small pre-checked box that warns: “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.” Left checked and the supporter will be agreeing to contribute every month.

The tactic, roundly criticized by campaign finance experts as deceptive, was also employed by the Trump campaign from September until the 2020 election to shore up its dwindling coffers.

Many Trump supporters who intended to donate only once were unwittingly enrolled to give weekly because they didn’t read the fine print requiring them to uncheck a box, a New York Times investigation found, resulting in credit card complaints, overdrafts and the Trump campaign refunding tens of millions of dollars to its supporters.

As the network head himself described it......."the loyal opposition"

They are terrorists. 

16 minutes ago, JCon said:

They are terrorists. 

They are stupid

Between Trump, and the fundamentalist scammers.....surprised that the flock has any wool left.

Whoa, that's pretty toxic:

 

 

4 hours ago, do or die said:

Between Trump, and the fundamentalist scammers.....surprised that the flock has any wool left.

Sorry, I omitted to mention the many other grifters who recognize the deluded MAGA flock....as a potential goldmine
One example:

Feds accuse man of scamming Trump donors out of $250,000
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/547402-feds-charge-man-who-scammed-trump-donors-out-of-250000
 

6 hours ago, JCon said:

Fox is a wing of the GOP.

I think that the GOP has become a wing of Fox News and both cater to the worst that human beings can demonstrate. Fox and many of the GOP have sold their souls in exchange for wealth and power. In exchange, the faces of Fox and the GOP validate and empower the racism, sexism and intolerance of their troglodyte followers.

Just now, Tracker said:

I think that the GOP has become a wing of Fox News and both cater to the worst that human beings can demonstrate. Fox and many of the GOP have sold their souls in exchange for wealth and power. In exchange, the faces of Fox and the GOP validate and empower the racism, sexism and intolerance of their troglodyte followers.

Yeah, not sure who's leading who at this point. Fox is a money loser and is only around to drive the alt-right agenda. That's it. Just like Sinclair, it's uber rich people controlling the narrative. 

4 minutes ago, JCon said:

Yeah, not sure who's leading who at this point. Fox is a money loser and is only around to drive the alt-right agenda. That's it. Just like Sinclair, it's uber rich people controlling the narrative. 

The right-wing extremists will fracture and implode, but not before doing a lot of damage and the real concern is whether the damage will be permanent.

Newly revealed Trump administration emails show depravity and conspiracy against the country

The select subcommittee in the United States House of Representatives that is now investigating how the federal government managed the country's response to the covid pandemic released emails Thursday showing top officials in the Trump administration knowingly, carefully and deliberately sabotaged public understanding of the disease.

According to the Post's Dan Diamond, "The documents provide further insight into how senior Trump officials approached last year's explosion of coronavirus cases in the United States. Even as career government scientists worked to combat the virus, a cadre of Trump appointees were attempting to blunt the scientists' messages, edit their findings and equip the president with an alternate set of talking points."

Diamond's story is about "political interference" in what should have been the neutral administration of public health policy in the face of a once-a-century plague. That framing of the issue will likely be adopted by the Washington pundit corps. That framing has been adopted by the House investigators, too. "Our investigation has shown that Trump Administration officials engaged in a persistent pattern of political interference in the nation's public health response to the coronavirus pandemic, overruling and bullying scientists and making harmful decisions that allowed the virus to spread more rapidly," said House Whip James Clyburn, the subcommittee chair.

But while the press and investigators are right to be careful with language, the court of public opinion, which may be the only court demanding justice in the end, need not be so careful. Let's not obscure the body-count reality of what Michael Caputo and Paul Alexander have done with gauzy abstractions like "political interference." As of this writing, the covid has killed over 573,000 Americans. These men, along with others, including the former president, were engaged in crimes. The question shouldn't be whether this was "political interference." It should be whether this was homicide.

Newly revealed Trump administration emails show depravity and conspiracy against the country - Alternet.org

Tucker Carlson: ‘Obedient Voters From Third World’ Are Replacing Me

Tucker Carlson on Thursday served up a blatantly racist hot take on immigration at the border, saying Democrats are trying to “replace the current electorate” with “more obedient voters from the Third World.” (Watch the video below.)

“That’s what’s actually happening,” the Fox News host insisted, dismissing suggestions he’s preaching “white replacement theory.” “Everybody wants to make a racial issue out of it,” he said. “This is a voting rights question.” 

(Sure sounds like a rephrase of the Nazi "we will not be replaced")

Texas Republican Caught on Video Organizing 'Brigade' of Volunteers to Watch Voters in Mostly Black and Latinx Houston Precincts

A Republican official in Harris County, Texas, was heard on a video presentation saying that 10,000 volunteers were needed to form an “election integrity brigade” in Houston to fight against election fraud, the Washington Post reports.

We know that there is no evidence of election fraud in Harris County, but the person in the video insists that there is. In the video, the unnamed official pulls up a map of the county’s voting locations—basically, the diverse areas where people of color vote—and said the GOP needed volunteers with “the confidence and courage to come down here” to look out for irregularities.

“This is where the fraud is occurring,” the official added.

Common Cause Texas, a government accountability group, which published the video Thursday, is rightfully claiming that the video is a warning that Republicans are planning to intimidate and suppress voters in metro Houston, where large numbers of people of color live.

“It’s very clear that we’re talking about recruiting people from the predominantly Anglo parts of town to go to Black and brown neighborhoods,” Anthony Gutierrez, the group’s executive director, told the Washington Post.

Video Catches Texas Republicans' Calling for 'Election Integrity' Brigade in Diverse Harris County (theroot.com)

3 hours ago, do or die said:

Sorry, I omitted to mention the many other grifters who recognize the deluded MAGA flock....as a potential goldmine
One example:

Feds accuse man of scamming Trump donors out of $250,000
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/547402-feds-charge-man-who-scammed-trump-donors-out-of-250000
 

if they charge this guy shouldnt they charge Trump too?

not seeing any difference.

tHeSe AeRn'T rAcIsTs, ThEy'Re PaTrIoTs. 

BoTh SiDeS. 

MaGa

 

16 hours ago, Tracker said:

Tucker Carlson: ‘Obedient Voters From Third World’ Are Replacing Me

Tucker Carlson on Thursday served up a blatantly racist hot take on immigration at the border, saying Democrats are trying to “replace the current electorate” with “more obedient voters from the Third World.” (Watch the video below.)

“That’s what’s actually happening,” the Fox News host insisted, dismissing suggestions he’s preaching “white replacement theory.” “Everybody wants to make a racial issue out of it,” he said. “This is a voting rights question.” 

(Sure sounds like a rephrase of the Nazi "we will not be replaced")

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/us/tucker-carlson-adl-replacement-theory.html#click=https://t.co/bFgM2F8Vdp
“Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it, ‘Ooh, the white replacement theory,’” Mr. Carlson went on. “No, no, no, this is a voting rights question. I have less political power because they are importing a brand-new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that? The power that I have as an American, guaranteed at birth, is one man, one vote. And they are diluting it.”

The A.D.L. letter, signed by Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the Jewish advocacy group’s chief executive, said that the language by Mr. Carlson “was not just a dog whistle to racists — it was a bullhorn.”

Again saying the quiet part out loud. It’s not about being “replaced” or being denied your rights. It’s all about losing your power position as the only voice. 

3 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/us/tucker-carlson-adl-replacement-theory.html#click=https://t.co/bFgM2F8Vdp
“Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it, ‘Ooh, the white replacement theory,’” Mr. Carlson went on. “No, no, no, this is a voting rights question. I have less political power because they are importing a brand-new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that? The power that I have as an American, guaranteed at birth, is one man, one vote. And they are diluting it.”

The A.D.L. letter, signed by Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the Jewish advocacy group’s chief executive, said that the language by Mr. Carlson “was not just a dog whistle to racists — it was a bullhorn.”

Again saying the quiet part out loud. It’s not about being “replaced” or being denied your rights. It’s all about losing your power position as the only voice. 

A sad commentary is that there is a small but vocal segment of Judaism that has been actively supporting Trump and ignoring all the racist rhetoric he and his followers have been spouting- some of it overtly anti-Semitic. A rabbi was even involved in the January 6th insurrection. 

Busted: Mike Pence quietly adds hate group leader to advisory board for his new organization
   
Former Vice President Mike Pence launched his new organization, Advancing American Freedom, on Wednesday.  Since then, one name has quietly been added to the advisory boardthat was announced at launch.

Pence's advisory board now includes Mike Farris, the president and CEO of the group Alliance Defending Freedom.

In 2016, Alliance Defending Freedom was declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

"The SPLC lists ADF as a hate group because it has supported the idea that being LGBTQ+ should be a crime in the U.S. and abroad and believes that is OK to put LGBTQ+ people in prison for engaging in consensual sex," SPLC explained. "It has also supported laws that required the forced sterilization of transgender Europeans."

"ADF has spread lies about the LGBTQ+ community. It has, for example, linked being LGBTQ+ to pedophilia and claimed that a "homosexual agenda" will destroy society. ADF tries to couch its rhetoric in benign-sounding phrases, but the truth is that it works to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and restrict their rights for being who they are," SPLC explained. 

Busted: Mike Pence quietly adds hate group leader to advisory board for his new organization - Alternet.org

Trump Curses Out ‘Son of a B*tch’ McConnell at GOP Donor Event for Not Completely Destroying Democracy

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During this weekend’s Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida, attendees headed to Donald Trump’s private club Mar-a-Lago on Saturday evening to hear prepared remarks from the twice-impeached former president on the future of his party. Predictably, Trump at times veered wildly off-script from his prewritten speech, the text of which was reviewed by The Daily Beast earlier in the day. While at the private event, he inveighed against Republican, Democratic, and celebrity enemies, and again denounced the 2020 presidential election outcome as “bullshit,” according to those in the audience.

“[Trump began] swearing and telling everyone about the stolen election,” according to one such attendee. The 2020 election, of course, was not stolen from Trump, and President Joe Biden decisively beat the GOP incumbent in both the Electoral College and popular vote counts. Trump’s anti-democratic blitz following Election Day and the lies he and much of the mainstream GOP spread about the election culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which Trump is now accused in court papers of inciting.

The source noted that the ex-president dinged his former VP Mike Pence for not fighting harder to subvert American democracy to keep Trump in power, but in particular went after Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. This source did not immediately respond to questions about specific phrasing but, according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, Trump alleged that “a real leader" would not have bowed to the outcome and certification of Biden’s 2020 victory. Another source familiar with the event told The Daily Beast the former president trashed McConnell as a “dumb son of a *****” in a non-scripted portion of his Saturday night address to GOP donors.

And according to Washington Post journalist Josh Dawsey, Trump also made time to vent pet grievances about “Oprah Winfrey and Barack Hussein Obama,” and to accuse Dr. Anthony Fauci of being “so full of crap.”

3 hours ago, Tracker said:

rump Curses Out ‘Son of a B*tch’ McConnell at GOP Donor Event for Not Completely Destroying Democracy

trump emerges from his bolt hole every few weeks to whine and cry.

such a strong leader. 🤣

6 minutes ago, Mark F said:

trump emerges from his bolt hole every few weeks to whine and cry.

such a strong leader. 🤣

Cash flow must of been down, line up the rubes and fleece them

So much for Mitch and smoking the peace pipe with Trump.    
DJT is simply sucking the life out of the Republican party - ethically, morally. intellectually.......and of course, monetarily

quote of the day

sandyh tpm

"Republicans couldn’t be happy even if The Rapture took them straight to heaven. They’d go right to work complaining and ruining it for those already resting there in peace."

😂