The Donald Trump Score Card

Vindman quits the military.

Witness 'bullied by Trump' quits military

 

Yes, very delusional.

 

I have been saying Trump and Pence want to reestablish the Confederacy for three and a half years now.

 

To truly describe what Trump has been doing over the past 3 ½ years is so horrendous most Americans would simply refuse to believe it.

Just one example.

Two years ago Trump signed an executive order to stop his own zero tolerance policy because most Americans were so appalled over the treatment of immigrant families.
One week later a U.S. District Judge issued an injunction against family separation.

Now two years later……..

Thousands of Children (including toddlers) have been separated from their families, crying and begging for their parents, while being held in cages in locked warehouses.

What the trump administration has done is expose serious flaws in the system of checks and balances. This country was founded on principles and the rule of law.
If the executive branch openly violated those principles, then the constitution and everything the United States stands for suddenly becomes meaningless.

 

I agree totally. And for addition, I say Trump & Pence have been making every government agency ineffective. Look at EPA, BLM, HUD, CDC, DOJ and all the others. They can't serve the American people anymore, because of Trump's executive orders. Ask your self when the last time EEOC took a case of discrimination to court? And at HUD Ben Carson wanted to increase poor people's rent? These people don't want OUR government to serve US!

 

Trump makes threats of cutting off money to schools that do not reopen.



Trump trashes CDC school-reopening guidelines -- then CDC updates them
By Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 4:52 PM ET, Wed July 8, 2020

Trump trashes CDC school-reopening guidelines -- then CDC updates them - CNNPolitics

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"Trump has pushed to reopen schools as a way to allow parents to return to normal work, a step that could further fuel an economic resurgence.

On Wednesday morning, he also threatened he "may cut off funding" to schools that do not reopen, though the bulk of public school funding comes from state and local governments.

"I disagree with @CDCgov on their very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools. While they want them open, they are asking schools to do very impractical things. I will be meeting with them!!!" the President tweeted.

During a press briefing a few hours later, Vice President Mike Pence said the CDC would issue new guidance on reopening schools next week. Both he and the CDC's director said the agency's recommendations should not be viewed as a barrier to returning children to classrooms."

 

Sounds like a good plan. The kids go to school, get infected, come home and infect their parents, who go to work and infect their co-workers...

Only a stable genius could come up with such a great plan!!!

 

So... Let me get this straight. The guy that paid somebody else to take his SAT for him is worried about schools being open.

 

More uncomfortable news for Trump who is desperately trying to gaslight the public into thinking everything is returning to normal.



Ivy League cancels sports for this fall in what could be barometer for college football amid COVID-19 pandemic
Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY
Published 4:37 p.m. ET July 8, 2020
Updated 6:58 p.m. ET July 8, 2020

Ivy League will not play football this fall or other sports

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"The Ivy League on Wednesday made official what had been suspected for some time, announcing that fall sports would not be held during the coming semester because of concerns about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The decision affects football as well as men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, and women’s field hockey and volleyball."

 

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I think the idea is to wipe out the entire electorate, leaving Trump as dictator by default.

 

Tulsa experiences coronavirus surge after Trump super-spreader rally.

Trump is coercing schools to reopen after generating a risky environment by snubbing safety measures and conducting such rallies.


Tulsa Health Official Says Trump Rally 'Likely Contributed' to Surge in COVID-19 Cases

 

Yes, and we dumb okies will bear the brunt, lap it up, and ask for more.

 

Satire from The Onion.


Trump Slaughters Dozens Of American Troops In Hopes Of Cashing In On Russian Bounties
The Onion
July 5, 2020

Trump Slaughters Dozens Of American Troops In Hopes Of Cashing In On Russian Bounties

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"BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN—Following intelligence reports that Moscow offered to pay Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump reportedly slaughtered dozens of U.S. service members Monday in hopes of cashing in on the bounties. “Once I heard Russia was paying out these six-figure sums for dead American soldiers, I knew I couldn’t leave that kind of money lying on the table,” said Trump, remarking that his position as commander in chief gave him full access to U.S. military movements, which meant he had no trouble selecting targets and taking out the troops while they slept. “We weren’t about to walk away from a deal like that. Not on my watch."

 

Professor doubles down on prediction model of Trump's chances in 2020
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
July 9, 2020

Professor doubles down on prediction model of Trump's chances in 2020

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"Norpoth's model examines the results of presidential primaries as the strongest indicator as to the outcome in the general election, not the polls that dominate the political discussion. According to Norpoth, Biden is in a much weaker position than Trump because of his poor showing in the first two primary races.

Before making the stunning comeback in the South Carolina primary and carrying the following races, Biden came in fourth place in Iowa with just 15.8 percent of the vote and came in fifth place in New Hampshire with just 8.4 percent. Norpoth stressed that enthusiasm is key.

“The terrain of presidential contests is littered with nominees who saw a poll lead in the spring turn to dust in the fall,” Norpoth told Mediaite. “The list is long and discouraging for early frontrunners. Beginning with Thomas Dewey in 1948, it spans such notables as Richard Nixon in 1960, Jimmy Carter in 1980, Michael Dukakis in 1988, George H.W. Bush in 1992, and John Kerry in 2004, to cite just the most spectacular cases.""

 

I was just asking myself if Trump wants this medical catastrophe in America? He did want the meat packing house workers to go back and work in dangerous conditions. He did remove a Navy Captain from duty after he reported near calamity conditions on an air craft carrier. He and his idiot vice president insisted the Lockdown/Curfew be ended at Memorial Day. When people did return to daily activity, Trump ridiculed the wearing of protective mask. After that we started seeing people get careless in Republican states like Arkansas where swimming pools were filled with unmasked people. In the Bars the social drinking resumed. Then we started seeing the numbers of infected people start to go up. As if that wasn't enough, Trump started holding rallies again, in Florida, in Oklahoma, in New Hampshire, in Texas, and in Arizona. Now these states are reporting astronomical increase of infected people. You would think that Trump and his advisors know what an infection is? Would know what "Contagious" means? WE now need to ask why Trump wants this dangerous virus to spread further through America's cities, schools, factories, packing houses, restaurants, taverns, and police departments? What is Trump thinking and who does he get his marching orders from? We need to ask who wants the majority of Americans infected with a contagious virus which destroys human internal organs to eventually kill its victim?

 

whoohoo!!
Supreme Court: NYC prosecutor can get Donald Trump's financial records

 

Supreme Court says Trump will have to fight to keep secret his taxes and records
The two cases involving Trump's financial records will now go back to the lower courts.
By Pete Williams
July 9, 2020, 10:14 AM EDT / Updated July 9, 2020, 11:02 AM EDT

Supreme Court says Trump will have to fight to keep secret his taxes and records

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"Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, meanwhile, called the decision “a tremendous victory for our nation’s system of justice and its founding principle that no one – not even a president – is above the law."

"Our investigation, which was delayed for almost a year by this lawsuit, will resume, guided as always by the grand jury’s solemn obligation to follow the law and the facts, wherever they may lead,” Vance said in a statement.

Vance sought eight years' worth of Trump's business and personal tax records for an investigation of payments made to two women who claimed they had affairs with him — allegations the president has consistently denied.

Trump's lawyers argued that because sitting presidents cannot be indicted, they are beyond the reach of any part of the criminal justice process, including grand jury subpoenas. One of his lawyers even told an appeals court during an earlier stage of the case that a president could not be investigated for shooting someone on New York's Fifth Avenue."

 

Trump and religious conservatives scored a series of victories this week.



Supreme Court expands religious rights with trio of rulings
By John Kruzel
07/08/20 06:58 PM EDT

Supreme Court expands religious rights with trio of rulings

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"Among the trio of recent decisions, perhaps the most politically potent was the court’s 7-2 ruling to give certain employers more leeway to opt-out of paying for birth control, as is generally required under ObamaCare.

“The Supreme Court's decision to enable the Trump Administration’s brutal assault on women’s health, financial security and independence is a fundamental misreading of the statute,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “The Affordable Care Act was explicitly designed to prevent discrimination against women and to ensure that women have access to preventive care, including contraception.”

In the Obama era, religious nonprofits could claim an exemption from contraceptive coverage. But legal challenges arose in response to the Trump administration’s move to expand eligibility to companies that voiced religious or moral objections.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority, which comprised his fellow conservative justices, as well as two of its more liberal justices, Obama appointee Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer. But the two more liberal justices made clear their vote in the case — Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania — was not centered on religious liberty.

“Kagan and Breyer insisted that exemptions to the contraception mandate must stand only because the Executive Branch has broad power to create the exemptions, not because they agreed that the Little Sisters had a right to be exempt from the law,” said Franke, who serves as faculty director of Columbia University’s Law, Rights, and Religion Project and who joined an amicus brief opposing the expanded exemptions for religious employers."

 

Trump is using his extortion tactics again, threatening to cut off federal money to schools if they don't reopen.

He engaged in similar behavior when stay-at-home orders were common during the initial impact of the coronavirus, making it sound like he had authority to force governors to reopen states. He later backed off that threat when his handlers informed him that he didn't have such authority.



Trump threatens to cut funding for schools, slams CDC reopening guidelines as too tough and expensive
Christina Wilkie
Published Wed, Jul 8 20209:44 AM EDT
Updated Wed, Jul 8 20204:14 PM EDT

Trump threatens to cut funding for schools, slams CDC reopening guidelines as too tough and expensive

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"The president’s threat to cut off school funding and his subsequent attack on the CDC prompted a swift rebuke from governors and educators, who have been saying for months that more federal funding will be needed if schools are to safely reopen in the fall.

On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo also dismissed the idea that Trump has the legal authority to require schools, which are controlled at the state and local level, and not the federal level, to reopen.

“This has been there, done that. School reopenings are state decisions. Period,” Cuomo said at a press conference. “That is the law. That is the way we’re going to proceed. It’s not up to the president of the United States.”

But while Trump lacks the authority to force schools to reopen, when it comes to providing additional money for schools, that authority rests firmly with Congress.

The nation’s second largest teachers union announced the launch Wednesday of a $1 million ad campaign aimed at lobbying Congress to approve additional funds to help schools prepare for the demands of reopening in the midst of a pandemic that shows no sign of abating.

“We can’t reopen the economy without reopening schools, and we can’t reopen schools without the resources to do so safely,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, which sponsored the ad campaign."

 

Little bit off topic but take a look at this

This my dear fellows is a wooden statue of Melania Trump. Why she deserves a monument is the minor question, the major one is why she's become monkey Jesus in the interpretation of some Slovenian sculptor. Now they burned this gratuitous horror down and during these stupid times of toppled statues at least they managed to destroy something that has really no value at all. I personally would've just added a middle finger to the raised hand and left the statue be. It sums up the character nicely