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4 minutes ago, do or die said:

Pence will update us on all the tremendous things done:

As initiated by the President
Under the leadership of the President
Following the lead from the President
As directed by the President
Thanks to the President
Overseen by the President
 

 

Not to mention the sunrises, oxygen and gravity. America is so blessed.

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TRUMP FORGETS HIMSELF AND TELLS THE TRUTH FOR ONCE!

 

One of President Donald Trump’s surprising virtues is that, because of his lack of filter and his tendency for obliviousness, he is occasionally explicit about parts of Republican Party orthodoxy that more circumspect members avoid saying directly.

And on Monday morning in an interview with “Fox & Friends,” Trump let slip a truth that has long been known but frequently been denied about the GOP: They prefer for fewer people to vote so they can hold on to power.

He was responding to a question from a viewer who was concerned about “special interest projects” included in the coronavirus relief bills. Erroneously and mendaciously, Trump implied that only Democrats use big pieces of legislation to fund special interest items that they feel are important for their personal electoral chances.

But then he slammed the Democrats for the reforms and funding they pushed to make it easier for people to vote in the wake of the pandemic. They had hoped to get $2 billion to fund this effort, but they eventually settled for $400 million, which experts believe is insufficient.

“The things they had in their were crazy,” Trump said of provisions Democrats wanted in the legislation. “They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again. They had things in there about election days, and what you do…”

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10 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Another democratic rock star that will be out there for Biden assuming there’s is some semblance of normalcy during the campaign. 

I would think that the next election will make the last one look tame by comparison. The GOP is busy setting up dummy websites and fake news outlets to spread their messages and also sources purporting to be Democratic which are spreading disinformation. The PCs here in Canada are starting to do the same.

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32 minutes ago, Tracker said:

I would think that the next election will make the last one look tame by comparison. The GOP is busy setting up dummy websites and fake news outlets to spread their messages and also sources purporting to be Democratic which are spreading disinformation. The PCs here in Canada are starting to do the same.

Absolutely.  2016 showed them how to cheat to win.  But the most basic thing remains true.  If the left gets out to vote, they win.  This pandemic going on long term is actually to Trump's benefit.  If it largely goes way by summer, and allows the US to have a relatively normal campaign, he's in trouble.  Because his handling of it becomes a huge election issue.  Economy becomes a huge election issue.  Unemployment etc.

And if the Dems dont screw it up (and you can never discount that very real possibility) and come together, you have Biden with Obama, Warren, Clintons, Bernie and everyone else out campaigning and pulling everyone together for the common good.  It *should* be a landslide.

Trump will say "if was so close, you have to assume they cheated."  or "I was beat so badly you have to assume it's unrealistic so they must have cheated".

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3 hours ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

New?

Trump play book was to blame previous administration and lie which he is still doing, and have his minions deflect, now he is going to actively try to rewrite history in terms of what people heard him say both live and what he tweeted, he needs to be held accountable

 

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58 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Trump play book was to blame previous administration and lie which he is still doing, and have his minions deflect, now he is going to actively try to rewrite history in terms of what people heard him say both live and what he tweeted, he needs to be held accountable

 

Yeah, trump rewriting history is nothing new.

 

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Trump Literally Laughed at How He Can Game the Press With His ‘New Tone’

 
LATHER, RINSE, REPEAT

The president is acutely aware that if he acts in a somber fashion, the media will quickly notice and praise him for it.

 

As evening fell on Tuesday, President Donald Trump did what he’s done virtually every day for the past few weeks: He went to the White House briefing room to talk to gathered reporters about the coronavirus. Only this time, things were atmospherically different. The president wasn’t dismissive of the pandemic. He wasn’t overly self-congratulatory. He didn’t talk about the country going back to work in a few weeks.

Instead, he was generally somber and even dour, acknowledging that under best-case scenarios the country would likely experience more than 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths

                                                

Afterward, the press noted the difference in “tone,” with several pundits and reporters speculating that the gravity of the moment was finally weighing on the man in the Oval Office. And Trump, three aides and allies tell The Daily Beast, almost assuredly noted the praise he received from them for his more “presidential” tune. That’s because, they say, there is no one who more voraciously consumes media coverage of himself. And over the past three years, the president has periodically remarked—sometimes with a self-aware chuckle or smirk—about how “easy” it is for him to trigger praise from a typically adversarial press simply by acting “nice” during a particularly weighty moment.


 
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