The Donald Trump Score Card

Mr Blump flat admitted he's withholding money for the USPS to keep citizens from voting by mail. The removal of sorting machines sounds like something that would be done in Russia or some other country where elections are phony and rigged. How long are the republican legislators going to remain silent on this obvious coup attempt by the bloated yam? Answer: As long as it takes to steal another election. (Bush v Gore-2000)

 

What You Can Do About Trump’s Attack on the U.S. Postal Service
By Claire Lampen
August 14, 2020 1:38 P.M.

What You Can Do About Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service

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"Again, what Trump is proposing looks uncannily like voter suppression. There are a number of organizations that were already working to thwart obstructive tactics on the ground, even before the war on USPS began. Here are some national options you could support (the American Bar Association also has a list), but research what activists have planned in your area — if you feel you can do so safely, you might consider helping to transport voters to the polls or working on a registration drive.

• Fair Fight, Stacey Abrams’s organization aiming to “promote fair elections in Georgia and around the country, encourage voter participation in elections, and educate voters about elections and their voting rights.”

• When We All Vote, “a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that is on a mission to increase participation in every election and close the race and age voting gap.”

• Common Cause, an organization that works to expand voting rights, combat gerrymandering, and in a pandemic, make sure everyone still has access to the ballot box.

• Election Protection, a nonpartisan coalition that works year-round to provide voters nationwide “with comprehensive information and assistance at all stages of voting — from registration, to absentee and early voting, to casting a vote at the polls, to overcoming obstacles to their participation.”

• Voto Latino, “a grassroots political organization focused on educating and empowering a new generation of Latinx voters, as well as creating a more robust and inclusive democracy.”

• League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan organization that “encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.”

• Indivisible, a grassroots movement of thousands of local groups that take regular actions to thwart all manner of Trumpian civil-rights violations and to elect progressive candidates."

 

Trump suggests he'd oppose USPS funding to hurt mail-in voting, then says he won't
Trump has for weeks railed against mail-in voting.
By Mariam Khan
August 13, 2020, 10:57 PM

Trump suggests he'd oppose USPS funding to hurt mail-in voting, then says he won't

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""The President of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that hundreds of millions of people rely upon, cutting a critical lifeline for rural economies and for delivery of medicines, because he wants to deprive Americans of their fundamental right to vote safely during the most catastrophic public health crisis in over 100 years -- a crisis so devastatingly worsened by his own failed leadership that we are now the hardest hit country in the world by the coronavirus pandemic," Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.

"Even Donald Trump's own campaign has endorsed voting by mail and his own administration has conclusively refuted his wild-eyed conspiracy theories about the most secure form of voting. This is an assault on our democracy and economy by a desperate man who's terrified that the American people will force him to confront what he's done everything in his power to escape for months -- responsibility for his own actions," Bates said."

 

Trump has exacerbated the coronavirus problem in the U.S. with his denialism. Other places around the globe are experiencing serious problems caring for people even without the sabotage of Trump.



'Ants crawling from wounds': horrifying scenes at coronavirus-hit aged care home in Melbourne
Exclusive: video and pictures show resident left with ants crawling over bloodied bandages on her legs as staff report dreadful conditions
Melissa Davey
Fri 14 Aug 2020 00.27 EDT
First published on Fri 14 Aug 2020 00.20 EDT

'Ants crawling from wound': horrifying scenes at coronavirus-hit aged care home in Melbourne

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"Horrific footage of a 95-year-old woman left to languish in a Melbourne aged care facility struck by Covid-19 shows ants crawling from a wound on her leg, and the bandages around it crusted with blood.

The footage and photos, described by the federal aged care minister as “heartbreaking”, were taken inside Kalyna Care, a private residential home in Melbourne’s north-west, on Tuesday, some two weeks after the virus was first identified in one staff member.

The woman, known to her family as Milka, died on Friday morning of conditions unrelated to Covid-19.

Care staff brought into the home this week have told Guardian Australia that some residents went without food or water for 18 hours. Faeces were found on the floor. An ant infestation, which had been kept at bay, had got out-of-control in Milka’s room."

 

The pee pee tape was locked away in a vault in the Kremlin after trumps last visit to Moscow, and the prostitutes silenced.

But I wonder if there was tape in Vegas, I wonder? ...lol...

 

Trump is seemingly unaware that Congress already left town for August recess. He should have engaged himself fully during the past few weeks when a coronavirus relief bill was being negotiated.

Trump took a similar stance during the 2018 Christmas recess when he repeatedly called for members of Congress to return to DC to try to resolve the government shutdown that he caused because he didn't get his U.S. taxpayer money (not even from Republicans) for his border wall that he said Mexico would finance. Trump later conceded and ended the shutdown.



Trump tries to push for a coronavirus stimulus deal — after Congress has left town
Jacob Pramuk
Published Fri, Aug 14 20202:34 PM EDT

Trump tries to push for a coronavirus stimulus deal — after Congress has left town

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"President Donald Trump agitated Friday for coronavirus aid, after Congress left town following more than two weeks of flailing in efforts to boost the U.S. economy and health-care system.

Trump, who has not personally joined in pandemic relief talks this month, pushed for direct payments to Americans, small business loan funding, state and local government relief and rental assistance payments. The policies Trump backed in a series of tweets and in a later news conference would need congressional approval. The plans have appeared in some form in the aid packages lawmakers have proposed since May."

 

Sen. Susan Collins says she is concerned about what Trump is doing to the USPS.

Collins is known for trying to portray herself as undergoing mental anguish as she struggles to decide what she should do about Trump's behavior, as if she really cares, only to support him in the Senate time after time in the end.



GOP Sen. Susan Collins is 'concerned' about U.S. Postal Service delays, she tells postmaster general

 

An example of how figures can make it appear that the coal industry has been revived.



Has Trump lived up to his promise to revive the US coal industry?
By James Murray
18 May 2020

Has Trump lived up to his promise to revive the US coal industry?

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"Has the coal industry stabilised since Trump came into office?

In June 2017, Trump claimed at a rally in Iowa that he had “ended the war on coal” and was “putting the miners back to work”.

While figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the government’s principal fact-finding agency, backed up his claim that 33,000 mining jobs had been created (actual number 32,600) since his inauguration in January that year, it came with a caveat.

That’s because the mining category also included oil, gas extraction, quarrying and non-metallic mineral mining jobs – and just 1,000 of the additions were coal-based."

 

US farmers speak out against Trump's trade policy
China tensions and COVID hit agriculture -- and chip away at a key support base
MARRIAN ZHOU, Nikkei staff writer
August 13, 2020 19:00 JST

US farmers speak out against Trump's trade policy

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"The numbers suggest China is making a good-faith effort to try to live up to its purchasing commitments, but it's simply unrealistic in the current economic environment," said Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Those targets would have been very ambitious, even without the interruption from the pandemic. ... Those are just targets that are not going to be met."

Making matters worse, the pandemic has also devastated the U.S. services sector, hitting demand from the food industry, the other key customer for American farmers.

In the year through March, 627 family farms in the U.S. filed for bankruptcy, a 23% increase from the previous year, according to U.S. courts statistics. Wisconsin, a state known for dairy and ginseng productions, lead the bankruptcies.

Overproduction coupled with the lack of market access caused milk prices to drop below farmers' break-even level.

"If you look at the last three years, we've lost over 2,000 dairy farms in the state of Wisconsin," said Darin Von Ruden, a third-generation dairy farmer based in Westby, in western Wisconsin. "So really the Trump administration exacerbated a growing problem that's been happening. ... We're not able to get a price that we need to sustain the farms.""

 

So how about them tax returns.

 

Trump shows no reservations about giving increasing amounts of taxpayer handouts to farmers.

Trump has been transforming the U.S. farmers from a state of self-sufficiency, of which they were once proud, to that of a welfare state that doesn't seem to bother some farmers.

Trump's trade fights with China and other countries and his lackluster response to the coronavirus have deepened agricultural problems that were already occurring.



‘Here’s your check’: Trump’s massive payouts to farmers will be hard to pull back
The president was already spending double his predecessor to spare farmers the cost of his trade war. Now the price is reaching unsustainable levels.
By RYAN MCCRIMMON
07/14/2020 04:30 AM EDT

‘Here’s your check’: Trump’s massive payouts to farmers will be hard to pull back

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"Government payments to farmers have surged to historic levels under President Donald Trump as the Agriculture Department floods the industry with cash to stem the financial losses from Trump’s tariff fights and the coronavirus pandemic.

But as agriculture grows more reliant on unprecedented taxpayer support, farm policy experts and watchdog groups warn the subsidies are growing too big and too fast, with no strings attached and little oversight from Congress — and that Washington could have a difficult time shutting off the spigot.

Direct farm aid has climbed each year of Trump’s presidency, from $11.5 billion in 2017 to more than $32 billion this year — an all-time high, with potentially far more funding still to come in 2020, amounting to about two-thirds of the cost of the entire Department of Housing and Urban Development and more than the Agriculture Department’s $24 billion discretionary budget, according to a POLITICO analysis. But lawmakers have taken a largely hands-off approach, letting the department decide who gets the money and how much.

The massive payments have been a political boon to Trump in farm country — he tweeted in January that he hoped the money would be “the thing they will most remember” — but risk creating a culture of dependency, as farmers and ranchers work the bonus subsidies into their financial plans when making large, up-front investments in seed, feed and farm machinery."

 

Regardless if he loses--prediction: He will assert that the election results are a democratic, socialist, communist hoax, declare martial law and attempt to remain in the white house to "save this country from lawless marxists and crooked socialist democratic legislators. Just my opinion, of course----BUT----anyone who has been paying attention the last four years ---minus his stupid fucking useful idiots---understands that this bloated yam of a psychopath has done and will do anything to WIN. Expect the worst.

Over 20,000 lies and counting.

 

Trump isn't "doing it" to The USPS, the future is; its a Blockbuster organization in a Netflex world.
As Jeff Besos says to Macys: Amazon isn't ruining you, the future is.

 

His former attorney Michael Cohen knows him best, and agrees he won’t leave office without kicking and screaming

 

Hopefully that's when the military moves in and forcibly removes he, and barr, from office.

In the long term you are correct, but not in the short term.

 

Trump is indeed doing it to the postal service. They're removing sorting machines and even local mail boxes until Montana raised such a stink they backed off. Blocbuster and Netflex don't get the mail in ballots to the voters and the ballots back to the election board. Trump is doing his best to ruin us now.

 

Global warming bad

Coal bad

 

President Trump is doing an outstanding job looking after farmers during these challenging times

And you silly twats wanted the lockdowns, so you should be more than happy to pay for it


....and you will pay for it

 

You think Trump only had one attorney?