smginaz Suzy
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Je suis desole.
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jul 29, 2019 3:30:45 GMT
for @bergdorfblonde : Click on thumbnail to see full-size. So unfair to Cheetos.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 3:51:10 GMT
Rachel Morris... ”She is a US citizen who was *carrying her passport* when ICE picked her up. They still held her for 32 hours because when they questioned her without a lawyer or guardian present, she gave “inconsistent information.” She is 9 years old. huffpost.com/entry/julia-is… #” Doesn’t this make you proud to be an American? They held and questioned a 9 year old US Citizen for 32 hours without an attorney present. They grabbed her on the way to school. This is the world trump is creating. link
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 29, 2019 4:07:18 GMT
The Republicans had a majority in the House and Senate but let’s don’t let the facts get in the way. Repeat and repeat again!
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Post by lucyg on Jul 29, 2019 6:05:25 GMT
trump.. ”If the Democrats would have closed the Loopholes two years ago when President Trump asked them to do so, none of this stuff would have happened.” @thomashomanice” The Republicans had a majority in the House and Senate but let’s don’t let the facts get in the way. And I can understand this from Senator Chris Murphy... ”I’m unfollowing the President of the United States today on Twitter, because his feed is the most hate-filled, racist, and demeaning of the 200+ I follow, and it regularly ruins my day to read it. So I’m just going to stop. I can’t believe I just typed that.” He calls himself President Trump in his own tweet! So weird. That tweet by Chris Murphy though. Perfect. He was quoting someone else. Not that he would think twice about referring to himself in the third person. He also uses the “royal we” pretty much daily.
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J u l e e
Drama Llama
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Post by J u l e e on Jul 29, 2019 10:33:06 GMT
Oh, I see that now! It read like something he would have written.
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Post by evnimom on Jul 29, 2019 10:44:30 GMT
Sidenote: One of my sisters begged me to have DH create some Trump voodoo dolls. (DH has been doing voodoo dolls, ouija boards and all things odd for a few years now. They're surprisingly big sellers, but he didn't want to get into any political items. For my sister though, he's in the process of creating the Trump voodoo doll!!!!) I want one!
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Post by oliquig on Jul 29, 2019 10:45:10 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 29, 2019 13:16:56 GMT
They do NOT care!
'Public comment period' Sure.......... like they ignore those, hide them........
USDA moved, DC to Kansas, research/scientists and at least 75% quit, so they are saving money, why not provide KIDS food!?!>?!?!? They sure listened to 'public comments' actually there wasn't even time for 'public comments'!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 29, 2019 13:42:44 GMT
Under Armour CEO stands up for Baltimore! New York (CNN Business) Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank is defending his company's hometown after President Donald Trump attacked Democrat Elijah Cummings, whose congressional district includes Baltimore, and criticized the city.Plank posted an old commercial on his personal Instagram account Sunday showing Under Armour's (UAA) adoration of the Maryland city. He didn't mention Trump by name, but the intention was clear with his caption: "On behalf of the thousands of UA Teammates who proudly call Baltimore HOME... Work to be done but we are of this city and for this city," Plank wrote.The one-minute commercial, originally released last year, points to an Under Armour website for We Will. Under Armour launched that marketing campaign in 2017 to become more engaged with Baltimore. ** Plank has previously disagreed with Trump in public. He stepped down from Trump's American Manufacturing Council in 2017 after the president didn't directly criticize neo-Nazis, the KKK and other white supremacists at a Charlottesville, Virginia rally. "I think there is blame on both sides," Trump previously said and equated the white supremacists on one side with the "alt-left" on the other side. "There is no place for racism or discrimination in this world. We choose love & unity," Plank wrote in a tweet. ** www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/kevin-plank-donald-trump-trnd/index.html
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 14:03:28 GMT
ABC News..
”NEW: Rev. Al Sharpton responds to Pres. Trump's attack this morning: "If he really thought I was a con man, he'd be nominating me for his Cabinet." abcn.ws/2SLgWvg”
Score one for Rev Al...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 15:36:33 GMT
MSNBC..
”President Trump to 9/11 first responders: "I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you."
We know that’s not true because we know trump is a coward.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 15:40:43 GMT
Quasimodo’s Rashid....
”Today is 210th day of 2019
Gilroy Garlic Festival is 246th mass shooting of 2019
GOP has passed: •Muslim Ban •Refugee Ban •Asylee Ban •Abortion Ban •Disaster Aid Ban
But for the 8,440 Americans killed by guns in 2019 YTD: •0 gun laws •0 gun reform •0 accountability”
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 29, 2019 15:40:53 GMT
well, at least he doesn't consider himself a first responder. I wouldn't have been surprised if he had said he ran into the burning building and carried people down on his back, the way he is.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 15:45:31 GMT
Sidenote: One of my sisters begged me to have DH create some Trump voodoo dolls. (DH has been doing voodoo dolls, ouija boards and all things odd for a few years now. They're surprisingly big sellers, but he didn't want to get into any political items. For my sister though, he's in the process of creating the Trump voodoo doll!!!!) I want one! No 2 are exactly the same, but I could msg you a pic of the one he's already completed for my sister. I'll send you the details and you could let me know if you'd want to buy it. He normally sells thru his eBay, but I'll send you the info.
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Jul 29, 2019 17:02:01 GMT
These instances of American citizens being held and questioned without counsel infuriates me to no end, like what the 9-year-old Julia Medina experienced as posted by @fred upthread. CBP has been empowered by Trump to be the law unto themselves. No American citizen should be detained without probable cause, especially a minor. Just to be clear, a US citizen only has to answer questions establishing his/her identity and citizenship. That’s it. Once those questions are answered and citizenship is proven with a US-issued document, that citizen cannot be detained and denied entry into US soil, again, without probable cause.
A child, for heaven’s sake…what just cause would CBP have against a child crossing the border to go to school? Because the photo on her passport was taken when she was younger? Ridiculous. Once the child showed her passport to prove she’s a citizen, that should have been the end of it. Seriously, at this point, every American citizen who is held in custody without cause, after establishing citizenship, should sue the gov’t for Fourth Amendment violation. Maybe then these practices will abate.
I am not putting all of these at Trump’s feet because CBP has long abused its powers granted by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court even before Trump became president. But under his tenure thus far, CBP is consistently becoming a rogue law enforcement agency emboldened by his orders that border security is now a “military operation.” I’m not being hysterical here (and I’d like to think I’m not some fearmongering crackpot), but I’ve traveled the Far East, South and Southeast Asia extensively since the 1970s and I’ve seen firsthand this sort of surging lawlessness in public officials and law enforcement in some countries that became dictatorships. And I’m telling y’all, this is how fascism usually takes hold. Not with jackboots and goose-stepping and tanks, but with the orchestrated and relentless destruction of its citizens’ civil rights under an authoritarian leader.
The banality of evil is just that…banal. So banal that hardly anyone really notices and slowly but surely, it escalates one notch at a time.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 29, 2019 17:03:19 GMT
ABC News.. ”NEW: Rev. Al Sharpton responds to Pres. Trump's attack this morning: "If he really thought I was a con man, he'd be nominating me for his Cabinet." abcn.ws/2SLgWvg” Score one for Rev Al...
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Post by dewryce on Jul 29, 2019 17:19:43 GMT
lizacreates This is exactly what I think when I hear the “but it’s not Trumps fault” crowd try and Trumpsplain everything away. They refuse to see the actual impact his actions are having, even indirectly. It is the same with racism. Is it his fault? No, but he allowed everyone to come out of the sewers and express their hate more openly.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 29, 2019 22:50:42 GMT
Holy crap IT IS the Apocalypse!
I agree with BOTH TRUMP & AL SHARPTON on the same day?!?
How is it possible?
Imho they both told the truth about each other. I’m used to SHARPTON saying stuff like that ( I don’t usually agree with it ) I’m sad that I’m getting used to my president speaking like that.
It’s one thing for me to say he’s a lying conman who can’t be trusted (applies to both ) but I’m not president. If I were president I’d have to keepthose kinda of things to myself.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 29, 2019 22:57:01 GMT
trump... ”Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!” Sure they can investigate where the money is going just as soon as you release 20 years of tax returns and all the documentation from the Mueller investigation and honor all subpoenas to those who testified in the Mueller Investigation. Gee Don, have a chat with your son in law who owns & runs some of those ‘rat infested buildings’ in that district. Have Jared get an exterminator right on that. While your having a chat with him why don’t you have him fix the holes in the walls & the broken windows. Multiple tenants have lodged complaints against the company Jared owns for serious issues with their apartments.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 29, 2019 23:21:54 GMT
We’ve become a country where law enforcement experts are giving active shooter situation survival tips on what supposed to be the evening Hollywood gossip show.
Let that sink in
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jul 29, 2019 23:40:50 GMT
Rachel Morris... ”She is a US citizen who was *carrying her passport* when ICE picked her up. They still held her for 32 hours because when they questioned her without a lawyer or guardian present, she gave “inconsistent information.” She is 9 years old. huffpost.com/entry/julia-is… #” Doesn’t this make you proud to be an American? They held and questioned a 9 year old US Citizen for 32 hours without an attorney present. They grabbed her on the way to school. This is the world trump is creating. linkI was thinking this as well....what 9 year old wouldn't provide inconsistent info? The fact that they were trying to threaten, intimidate and manipulate her brother is very disturbing as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 0:14:29 GMT
Translation: trump ain’t got nothing of substance to run on.
Greg Sargent - Washington Post
“Trump’s new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness”
“Whenever President Trump unleashes one of his racist attacks, the political world tends to go through a now-predictable cycle. We are first told Republicans think Trump’s latest racist display is brilliant politics, a view often pushed by Trump himself. Then gullible pundits echo that claim.
And then persistent digging by reporters shows that Republicans are actually worried that his racism poses a serious problem for the party, unmasking the initial confidence as false bravado.
Trump just unleashed another volley of racist tweets targeting Rep. Elijah Cummings, after spending the weekend attacking the Maryland Democrat for presiding over a crime-ridden and “rodent infested” district. This comes after Trump spent days attacking “the Squad” of four nonwhite female lawmakers.
Once again, we are in the midst of that spin cycle, in which Trump and Republicans insist that this attack on Cummings is brilliant politics.
As Trump put it: “If the Democrats are going to defend the Radical Left ‘Squad’ and King Elijah’s Baltimore Fail, it will be a long road to 2020.”
It’s awfully telling that Trump is linking his attacks on Cummings to his attacks on the Squad. Trump’s propagandists pretend these attacks are only about an underlying substantive difference: Both the Squad and Cummings have criticized Trump’s cruelty toward migrants, leading White House advisers to claim Trump is “fighting back” against unfair criticism.
And so, the innocent interpretation of Trump’s latest is that he’s just asserting all this is good politics because this contrast on immigration plays in his favor.
But the content of the attacks is the giveaway here. Trump told the four nonwhite female lawmakers to “go back” to their “crime infested” countries — reprising his claim that we shouldn’t want immigrants from “s---hole countries” — and he depicted Cummings’s district as a crime-infested place where “no human being would want to live.”
Yet three of those nonwhite congresswomen were born in the United States, and Cummings’s district is in the upper half in terms of median income and includes very safe Columbia, Md. This is part of a pattern — Trump also attacked Rep. John Lewis’s Georgia district as “crime infested.”
As Fox News’s Chris Wallace noted of this pattern: “Infested. It sounds like vermin. It sounds subhuman. And these are all six members of Congress who are people of color.” In short, Trump has basically moved back and forth between “s---hole countries” and “s---hole districts.”
And so, when Republicans and pundits — and Trump himself — say his attacks on nonwhite lawmakers constitute good politics, we all know they’re really saying Trump’s racist attacks will galvanize white voters, in particular the blue-collar whites in Trump’s base.
Putting aside the dim view of those voters this embodies, here’s a follow-up question: Why does Trump need to do this to win reelection, given his own constant suggestion that America is winning everywhere and the Trump economy is the greatest in U.S. history?
Republicans give away Trump’s game
Some new reporting in The Post offers a clue: Republican officials privately say this is a winner, because Trump is “harnessing the anger of those who continue to feel left behind despite the strong economy,” and channeling it by casting Democrats as socialists.
But note the implicit suggestion here that, despite the stupendous Trump economy, non-college-educated white voters are not energized to the degree Trump needs for his reelection campaign. Why?
Well, once in office, Trump abandoned the populist economic nationalism he campaigned on, embracing orthodox GOP plutocracy in the form of a massive corporate tax cut and a failed effort to roll back popular health-care protections that benefited untold numbers in Trump country.
Meanwhile, his ineffectual trade wars are causing his own constituencies real pain, requiring a taxpayer-funded bailout. There won’t be any big infrastructure package, and Trump and Republicans oppose the minimum-wage hike that House Democrats just passed.
Trump loyalist Newt Gingrich recently confirmed what those Republican officials say privately, by basically conceding that Trump is far more interested in trying to win reelection by depicting Democrats as radical than he is in working on the populist pro-worker agenda he campaigned on. The former is the substitute for the latter.
Former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon has also spoken to this point. He told journalist Joshua Green that Trump’s campaign populism had two components — the immigration restrictionism and the pro-worker economics — and that, by selling out on the latter, Trump risks leaving himself vulnerable.
Whatever the role of Trump’s “economic” populism in his victory, what’s left behind here is the crucial fact that Trump’s economic agenda isn’t energizing his base in the manner he needs. We know this due to the admission of Republicans themselves, and it’s illustrated by Trump’s own fallback on racism as a galvanizer.
The media coverage of all this has mystifyingly treated it as a sign of Trump’s political savvy. This is galling on its face:
But the substantive suggestion at the core of this coverage is also absurd. You sometimes hear that Trump’s attacks on the Squad cleverly “distracted” from Democrats passing a minimum-wage bill.
But this is better seen not as savvy, but as a sign of weakness. The very need to distract from the Democratic economic agenda, and the need to find other ways to energize white voters, itself tells that story.
As it is, Trump’s racism probably won’t end up being a net positive. It will likely keep driving away the suburban and educated whites he needs, and could alienate blue-collar white women as well.
But beyond this, the fact that Trump sees the need to resort to this strategy in the first place deserves more critical attention, and less reflexive savvy. Trump certainly has a reasonable shot at winning reelection, but his latest antics project the opposite of confidence and strength.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 1:53:54 GMT
And he is at it again...
“Elijah Cummings never even went to the Southern Border and then he screams at the very good people who, despite Congresses failure to fix the Loopholes and Asylum, make it work (crossings are way down and the Wall is being built). Even with zero Dem help, Border getting strong!
”Baltimore’s numbers are the worst in the United States on Crime and the Economy. Billions of dollars have been pumped in over the years, but to no avail. The money was stolen or wasted. Ask Elijah Cummings where it went. He should investigate himself with his Oversight Committee!”
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 30, 2019 2:04:17 GMT
Rachel Morris... ”She is a US citizen who was *carrying her passport* when ICE picked her up. They still held her for 32 hours because when they questioned her without a lawyer or guardian present, she gave “inconsistent information.” She is 9 years old. huffpost.com/entry/julia-is… #” Doesn’t this make you proud to be an American? They held and questioned a 9 year old US Citizen for 32 hours without an attorney present. They grabbed her on the way to school. This is the world trump is creating. linkI was thinking this as well....what 9 year old wouldn't provide inconsistent info? The fact that they were trying to threaten, intimidate and manipulate her brother is very disturbing as well. Mine would be freaking out and completely inconsolable. There is no way she would be consistent under those circumstances. None.
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smginaz Suzy
Pearl Clutcher
Je suis desole.
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jul 30, 2019 2:33:32 GMT
well, at least he doesn't consider himself a first responder. I wouldn't have been surprised if he had said he ran into the burning building and carried people down on his back, the way he is. The Trump version of The Woman Who Wasn't There. Linky
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 30, 2019 11:00:24 GMT
I was thinking this as well....what 9 year old wouldn't provide inconsistent info? The fact that they were trying to threaten, intimidate and manipulate her brother is very disturbing as well. Mine would be freaking out and completely inconsolable. There is no way she would be consistent under those circumstances. None. My mind immediately went to my eight year old. No way would he be able to cope with that. Nor should a child have to.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 30, 2019 13:57:43 GMT
dt talking about Baltimore and all the billions of dollars ..... stolen by Elijah Cummings........ This was during his comments on the WH lawn this morning!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 14:03:06 GMT
ABC News...
”Responding to criticism of Mitch McConnell over election security bill, Pres. Trump says, "Mitch McConnell is a man that knows less about Russia and Russian influence than even Donald Trump, and I know nothing." abcn.ws/2K0BLjq”
Ok
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 30, 2019 15:14:20 GMT
ABC News... ”Responding to criticism of Mitch McConnell over election security bill, Pres. Trump says, "Mitch McConnell is a man that knows less about Russia and Russian influence than even Donald Trump, and I know nothing." abcn.ws/2K0BLjq” Ok it's too bad that his pants wouldn't ACTUALLY catch on fire when he lies like that, isn't it?!? I'd love to see it-- just once. Once- is that too much to ask? There's got to be someone who could make that happen somehow.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 19:33:01 GMT
It’s going to get interesting...
NPR...
”JUST IN: California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill into law that requires presidential and gubernatorial candidates to submit their most recent five years of tax returns in order to qualify for primary ballots in the state.”
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