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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 17:31:03 GMT
Well trump isn't going to be happy when he sees this from the polling agency that not too long ago had him at 50% approval rating...
Monday, July 31, 2017
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 39% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Sixty-one percent (61%) disapprove.
The latest figures for Trump include 26% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 49% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -23. (see trends).
The latest findings mark the first time Trump’s overall approval rating has slipped below 40% in Rasmussen Reports tracking.
Regular updates are posted Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily email update).
Trump has pledged to sign a bill that would impose new economic sanctions on Russia. Voters tend to agree that sanctions work and make this country safer.
The House last week approved $1.6 billion in spending for Trump’s proposed border wall, but are voters still on board with the idea? We’ll tell you at 10:30 EST.
Over half of voters in both major political parties continue to say that they are moving away from the positions of their party's leaders.
Sixty-seven (67%) of Likely GOP Voters now believe Republicans in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters throughout the nation over the past several years, up from 51% in February. Forty-four percent (44%) of Democrats say the same about their leadrers, up from 36%."
I guess Rasmussen now joins the ranks of "fake news polls".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:21:29 GMT
From ABC News....
"Treasury Sec. Mnuchin announces that the U.S. is sanctioning Venezuelan President Maduro "who dreams of becoming a dictator "
More than a few people could make the case trump has the same dream.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:24:28 GMT
From ABC News. ..
"Press Sec. on Scaramucci’s controversial comments: POTUS "felt that Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position."
Nah it was because Mooch was taking the spotlight away from trump. Can't have that.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 31, 2017 21:00:27 GMT
I think he's just counting the days till he's in charge. The lunatic canNOT last another 3.5 years. No way, no how. Get used to saying it now: "President Pence" Ugh. Do I have to. Can we skip ahead 3.5 years and say President Booker! I'm starting a champaign #CoreyBooker2020! Yeah, no Though at least he would not embarrass the nation - he is all About the optics of it all and would very carefully craft his image. So definitely a step up. But not who I'd like to vote for, but I might have to, because none of thes clowns will get my vote.
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Post by artgirl1 on Jul 31, 2017 21:18:39 GMT
Random thoughts:
Sanctions on Venezuela - 3rd largest exporter of gas to us (citgo/BPI)watch gas double
Preibus Out - that was the last tie to the Republican Party, and the only one who could lobby party members on the hill
Russia locked up the embassy's this morning, although the employees were suppose to have until noon August 1 to vacate building. How much confidential information has been seized?
Tillerson is on vacation and 70% of state department is unmanned.
Trump tweeting economic numbers from January and claiming success.
Trump is concentrating on filling Federal Judgeship vacancies with more right wing conservatives. An action thhis will last far past his reign/regime (oops administration)
Trump is railing about anti-corruption across the world,yet our own house is in disorder with all the President and his families conflicts of interest.
He has pissed off Nato, so who will have our back when Russia and North Korean conflicts both blow up? Or maybe he is allowing North Korean to escalate, so Putin can come to our rescue.
We should be very afraid.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 31, 2017 21:48:00 GMT
"Press Sec. on Scaramucci’s controversial comments: POTUS "felt that Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position." pot, meet kettle. eta: and to be clear, I *liked* artgirl1's post not because I actually LIKE what you said, but because I agree with it... I wish I didn't, but I do.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 23:44:24 GMT
The Boy in the wheelchair video was edited to make Trump look bad. When Trump entered the room - he bent down and interacted with the little boy. It it would have been nice to see him shake the boys hand again but I believe Trumps actions were okay. Hard to believe but I think he got something right. hell has just frozen over - I defended Trump. Sorry I'm not going to give him a pass on this. Doesn't matter that he greeted them when he first came in because after his little speech he turned and shooked hands with the kids right behind him and then walked right by the little boy in his haste to get out of the room. In fact its even worse since he knew the little boy was there since he interacted with him when he first came in. It's all about him. The fact that he shook hands with the kids behind him a second time and then walked by the little boy with his out stretched hand is proof of that. He should have just walked out or shook the hands of all the kids the second time. What he did was rude. He didn't ignore him, he spent some time with him personally before this part of the video and the kid wasn't trying to shake his hand again, he was holding up a secret service patch. That's why Trump didn't shake his hand. This, the baseball hat video, the "meeting with Putin" which was really a dinner for a hall full of people, the video of his daughter "snubbing him" and things like that are making people upset with him over deceitfully edited videos, false accusations and with enough of these irrelevant moments people will have stopped listening when it really matters.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 0:34:26 GMT
Sorry I'm not going to give him a pass on this. Doesn't matter that he greeted them when he first came in because after his little speech he turned and shooked hands with the kids right behind him and then walked right by the little boy in his haste to get out of the room. In fact its even worse since he knew the little boy was there since he interacted with him when he first came in. It's all about him. The fact that he shook hands with the kids behind him a second time and then walked by the little boy with his out stretched hand is proof of that. He should have just walked out or shook the hands of all the kids the second time. What he did was rude. He didn't ignore him, he spent some time with him personally before this part of the video and the kid wasn't trying to shake his hand again, he was holding up a secret service patch. That's why Trump didn't shake his hand. This, the baseball hat video, the "meeting with Putin" which was really a dinner for a hall full of people, the video of his daughter "snubbing him" and things like that are making people upset with him over deceitfully edited videos, false accusations and with enough of these irrelevant moments people will have stopped listening when it really matters. Yes I saw that and I might buy your notion if it wasn't for one small little thing. And I will say it again. If he had not talked to any of the folks behind him after he quit talking and shook hands with the woman standing behind the little boy on his way out I would agree with you. But he didn't. He didn't notice the little boy because he was in a hurry to get out of the room. Pence noticed and he shook hands with the little boy. It was rude and it proves trump has very little awareness of what is around him. As a New York Business who cares? As President of the United States it matters and shows once again that trump does not know how to behave on the world stage. For the record if President Obama or Hillary had done something like this I would feel the same way. However I could never see President Obama missing the little boy. The reason? Whether it's true or not President Obama comes across as someone who actually cares about people. And you can't say that about trump as he proves it over and over again it's all about him. Perception does mean something.
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Post by artgirl1 on Aug 1, 2017 2:07:54 GMT
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Post by busy on Aug 1, 2017 2:25:13 GMT
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Post by happymomma on Aug 1, 2017 2:46:48 GMT
Holy crap, I can't keep up! Bunch of maroons. (Yes, purposefully misspelled.)
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 1, 2017 4:24:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 6:59:46 GMT
Amy Alexander...
"In six months we've gone from No Drama Obama, to Captain Chaos..." -- @chrislu44 to @chrislhayes #inners 😰😱😰😱"
Yup.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 15:46:05 GMT
From Politico....
"Graham troubled by report of Trump’s role in son’s Russia meeting response politi.co/2uU9Poh"
So what are you going to do about it? At some point the Republicans have to stop just being "concerned" and do something. Otherwise they are no better than trump.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 16:43:40 GMT
Fox News...
".@randpaul: "I'm hoping that President Trump will move forward with actually doing some [health care reform] through executive action."
Can you imagine what would have happened if President Obama tried to do this instead going through Congress?
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 1, 2017 16:45:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 16:58:25 GMT
He didn't ignore him, he spent some time with him personally before this part of the video and the kid wasn't trying to shake his hand again, he was holding up a secret service patch. That's why Trump didn't shake his hand. This, the baseball hat video, the "meeting with Putin" which was really a dinner for a hall full of people, the video of his daughter "snubbing him" and things like that are making people upset with him over deceitfully edited videos, false accusations and with enough of these irrelevant moments people will have stopped listening when it really matters. Yes I saw that and I might buy your notion if it wasn't for one small little thing. And I will say it again. If he had not talked to any of the folks behind him after he quit talking and shook hands with the woman standing behind the little boy on his way out I would agree with you. But he didn't. He didn't notice the little boy because he was in a hurry to get out of the room. Pence noticed and he shook hands with the little boy. It was rude and it proves trump has very little awareness of what is around him. As a New York Business who cares? As President of the United States it matters and shows once again that trump does not know how to behave on the world stage. For the record if President Obama or Hillary had done something like this I would feel the same way. However I could never see President Obama missing the little boy. The reason? Whether it's true or not President Obama comes across as someone who actually cares about people. And you can't say that about trump as he proves it over and over again it's all about him. Perception does mean something. He gave special attention to the 3 year old when he walked in and shook only one kid's hand. When he left he covered everyone else. He split his attention between coming in and leaving but he covered everyone so it wasn't rude and to me it doesn't prove he's unaware. Even the 3 year old's mom said Trump didn't snub her kid. It was a deceitfully edited video meant to make trump look bad and people bought into it. It happens to the best of us.
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Post by scrapsotime on Aug 1, 2017 17:04:27 GMT
Fox News... ".@randpaul: "I'm hoping that President Trump will move forward with actually doing some [health care reform] through executive action." Can you imagine what would have happened if President Obama tried to do this instead going through Congress? If I recall correctly Boehner got Congress to file a lawsuit against Obama over an executive order concerning the ACA. I believe Boehner said Obama was trying to take power away from the Legislative branch. I don't recall the specifics or what the outcome was.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 17:08:03 GMT
Yes I saw that and I might buy your notion if it wasn't for one small little thing. And I will say it again. If he had not talked to any of the folks behind him after he quit talking and shook hands with the woman standing behind the little boy on his way out I would agree with you. But he didn't. He didn't notice the little boy because he was in a hurry to get out of the room. Pence noticed and he shook hands with the little boy. It was rude and it proves trump has very little awareness of what is around him. As a New York Business who cares? As President of the United States it matters and shows once again that trump does not know how to behave on the world stage. For the record if President Obama or Hillary had done something like this I would feel the same way. However I could never see President Obama missing the little boy. The reason? Whether it's true or not President Obama comes across as someone who actually cares about people. And you can't say that about trump as he proves it over and over again it's all about him. Perception does mean something. He gave special attention to the 3 year old when he walked in and shook only one kid's hand. When he left he covered everyone else. He split his attention between coming in and leaving but he covered everyone so it wasn't rude and to me it doesn't prove he's unaware. Even the 3 year old's mom said Trump didn't snub her kid. It was a deceitfully edited video meant to make trump look bad and people bought into it. It happens to the best of us. You see it one way and I see it another. In my book there was no excuse for what he did. And yes he was most definitely unaware otherwise, regardless of what happened before, he would have noticed the up stretched hand and stopped and acknowledged the little boy again. What did you expect the mother to say? The fact she was there to be used as a prop says she is a trump supporter. But like I said, you see it one way and I see it another way.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 17:26:36 GMT
Fox News... ".@randpaul: "I'm hoping that President Trump will move forward with actually doing some [health care reform] through executive action." Can you imagine what would have happened if President Obama tried to do this instead going through Congress? If I recall correctly Boehner got Congress to file a lawsuit against Obama over an executive order concerning the ACA. I believe Boehner said Obama was trying to take power away from the Legislative branch. I don't recall the specifics or what the outcome was. Here are the details in the suit... "Boehner revealed on July 10, 2014, that the suit would focus on the president's failure to enforce the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's employer health insurance mandate deadline. He claimed President Obama "changed the healthcare law without a vote of Congress, effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it."[13] The law stated that businesses with over 50 employees needed to offer health benefits before the 2014 deadline or face a fine for not complying with the law. The administration delayed the deadline in July 2013 by one year and then again in February 2014 by another year, pushing the mandate deadline to 2016 for businesses between 50 and 99 employees.[14][15] Obama was asked in 2013 about the legality of the delay, to which he responded, "If Congress thinks that what I’ve done is inappropriate or wrong in some fashion, they’re free to make that case. But there’s not an action that I take that you don't have some folks in Congress who say that I'm usurping my authority.[14]" The point I was trying to make is the ACA worked its way through Congress and took several months before it was finally signed into law. President Obama had the majority in the House and Senate. They worked together without resorting to "Executive Action" to get the ACA done. In 2017 trump has the majority in the House and Senate and at this point can't get the job done. As to the lawsuit. By 2014 President Obama no longer had the majority and Executive Action was his only choice with a Congress hell bent on destroying the ACA. The great irony here is every version of the replacement bill eliminates the "mandate" requiring people to buy insurance or employers to offer it. As far as I know trump has not run into anything like this. So to use Executive Action would truly be as Boehner claimed President Obama did by "changing the health care law without going through Congress."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 18:37:48 GMT
From the Washington Post.....
"The trust that oversees President Trump's assets is intensifying its efforts to shed a luxury beachfront estate he owns on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, slashing the asking price of $28 million by more than $11 million in recent weeks.
Lesley Reed, the agent for Sotheby’s International Realty who is representing the property, confirmed that the sales price of $16.9 million now listed for Le Chateau des Palmiers on the agency's website is accurate. She said it had been lowered about a month ago, declining to comment further.
It is unknown what prompted the nearly 40 percent reduction, which puts the price of the waterfront estate in line with those of other ultraluxury properties for sale on St. Martin. The White House referred questions about the price cut to the Trump Organization, which did not respond to requests for comment.
In May, The Washington Post reported that the $28 million price tag for the 11-bedroom gated compound on Plum Bay far exceeded the going rate for the most exclusive estates on the island. The sum also appeared to be substantially more than what Trump paid for it in 2013, when he bought the property from a business associate, Steve Hilbert and his wife, Tomisue. The couple was seeking $19.7 million for Le Chateau des Palmiers at the time, although the final sales price was never disclosed."
This appears to be trump trying to cash in on the fact (sigh) that he is president. Glad to see it appears it's not working.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Aug 1, 2017 20:24:17 GMT
And today you have Sarah fuckabee sanders telling the press that there wasn't anything to see regarding Trumps letters/emails with Jr. stating it's the democrats continually putting this non news in the news.
No you stupid bitch--it's your boss who lies at every turn--not the Democrats.
The lying that comes out of the WH is unfucking believable!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 21:09:46 GMT
Nate Silver - FiveThrityEight....
"Now an all-time low approval rating for Trump in our tracking (37.8%) as well as all-time high disapproval (56.7%). projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval…"
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 1, 2017 21:13:54 GMT
Wolff Blitzer lead stories just now on CNN:
Trump finally admits he "weighed in" on Don Jr's Russia meeting, "as any parent would" (HUH?!!!!!), as lawyers continue to deny his involvement.
White House/Fox News collaborated on "fake news" story about death of DNC staffer/leaks
Kushner claims the WH "couldn't even collaborate with their own local offices", so couldn't possibly have been capable of colluding with the Russians.
And significant foreign relations concerns which I refuse to watch or talk about because it terrifies me.
ETA: Email "pranksters" (this blows my mind) cybersecurity failure 101
Overwhelming vote to confirm Christopher Wray as new FBI director.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 21:18:23 GMT
From Politico...
"China rebukes Trump: 'Emotional venting' is not policy politi.co/2uhpY5q"
Again he does not know how to act on the World Stage.
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 1, 2017 21:21:19 GMT
Nate Silver - FiveThrityEight.... "Now an all-time low approval rating for Trump in our tracking (37.8%) as well as all-time high disapproval (56.7%). projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval…" I was thinking he'd been down to 36% or even 35% at one point. Am I confused?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 23:25:49 GMT
From Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss...
White House State Dining Room's fireplace is inscribed with John Adams's wish--“May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof”:
So much for that wish.
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 2, 2017 0:01:50 GMT
From Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss... White House State Dining Room's fireplace is inscribed with John Adams's wish--“May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof”: So much for that wish. I really hope someone is montoring the graves of our forefathers, because they're gonna roll themselves out of them if this goes on much longer.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 0:15:15 GMT
Nate Silver - FiveThrityEight.... "Now an all-time low approval rating for Trump in our tracking (37.8%) as well as all-time high disapproval (56.7%). projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval…" I was thinking he'd been down to 36% or even 35% at one point. Am I confused? From what I understand FiveThirtyEight use an average of several polls. For weeks trump has been at 38-39% on the FiveThirtyEight poll. Today it went below 38% for the first time since I have been reading the daily tweets on his numbers. My guess some the polls that had higher approval numbers are starting to come down which pushed this one down.
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 2, 2017 3:09:30 GMT
Anderson Cooper: Saying the supposed Don Jr statement about the meeting being about adoptions is true, is like saying JAWS is a movie about a family going to the beach in the summer.
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