The Donald Trump Score Card

It's likely less than that...

 

Personal political branding at the cost of public safety.


Republicans risk becoming face of delta surge as key GOP governors oppose anti-covid measures

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"DeSantis, too, has made opposition to covid-19 rules a key part of his political branding. This summer, his political team started selling "Don't Fauci My Florida" beer koozies and T-shirts as he said that the state had chosen "freedom" over the pandemic precautions advocated by White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci.

He doubled down as the delta variant pushed covid-19 hospitalizations in Florida to record highs. This week, DeSantis threatened to withhold the pay of school officials who defy his executive order barring campus mask mandates, which criticized the Biden administration for "unscientific and inconsistent recommendations that school-aged children wear masks." He also vowed to appeal a federal judge's decision to temporarily block his ban on vaccine passports and allow a cruise company to require immunization against the coronavirus."

 

Trump sure doesn't talk about farmers, coal miners, and auto workers anymore like he once did.

 

If Mike Lindell really was attacked, it will give him a mild taste of what it was like to be on the receiving end of Trump's rioters at the Capitol

 

Just after Babbitt was shot, one of Trump's rioters can be heard on video saying, "It was just a flash-bang."

It's symbolic of the naiveness and obliviousness of Trump's rioters to the magnitude of the situation they caused. They were smashing down barricaded doors and windows of the last line of defense the police had for members of Congress and staff who were still in the House chamber whose entrances are in the lobby just beyond the barricaded doors.

A blogger stated, "What did they expect to happen? To be invited in and given milk and cookies?"

 

The GOP naively thinks it can stop this large scale demographic trend from hurting them by passing new restrictive voting legislation while clinging to Trump's fringe base.


Census: US sees unprecedented multiracial growth, decline in the white population for first time in history

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"The United States experienced unprecedented multiracial population growth and a decline in the white population for the first time in the nation’s history, according to U.S. Census officials who released data Thursday, revealing the most sweeping picture of America’s racial and ethnic makeup in a decade.

“These changes reveal that the US population is much more multiracial, and more racially and ethnically diverse, than what we measured in the past,” said Nicholas Jones, the director of race, ethnicity, research and outreach for the Census Bureau's Population Division.

The white, non-Hispanic population, without another race, decreased by 8.6% since 2010, Jones said during a Census bureau press briefing. He cautioned that some of the changes can be attributed to improvements to the survey. The White, non-Hispanic population is still the largest racial group in the U.S."

 

Trump said the GOP would never win another election if it were easier to vote.

The GOP could still win elections, but the expansion of voting rights would mean that the GOP would have to start becoming more like the Democrats to appeal to voters who were no longer disenfranchised. This is what the GOP doesn't like.


Trump says Republicans would ‘never’ be elected again if it was easier to vote

 

Texas Senate outlasts 15-hour filibuster by Sen. Carol Alvarado to pass GOP voting-restrictions bill

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"Since before sunset Wednesday, state Sen. Carol Alvarado had been on her feet speaking, not allowed to sit or lean against her desk, on the Senate floor.

Unable to take bathroom breaks or drink water, she had worn a back brace, eyeglasses and running shoes and talked slowly behind a desk stacked with papers and with a microphone in her hand as she mounted a 15-hour filibuster. The target of her efforts was Senate Bill 1, the GOP's priority bill that would place new restrictions on voting that many opponents say would disproportionately suppress ballots from voters of color and disabled voters.

But ultimately, her speaking marathon could only delay the passage of the bill in the Republican-controlled Senate. Shortly after she finally stepped away from her desk around 9 a.m., the Senate voted to advance the measure on an 18-11 party-line vote."

 

Next the republicans will pass a law that photographic light meters will be used to admit or deny entry into the US. Very light: You're alright. Too dark: Missed the mark.

 

What happened at the Capitol ‘was domestic terrorism,’ lawmakers and experts say
By Meryl Kornfield
January 7, 2021 at 3:21 p.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/01/07/domestic-terrorism-capitol-mob/

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""Members of both political parties pointed to the destruction of government property, threats to law enforcement and two explosive devices found near the Capitol as acts of terrorism as far-right extremist groups rallied in the nation’s capital to contest the results of the presidential election. In the media, CNN executives told the organization’s journalists that they could refer to the siege as “domestic terrorism.”

National security experts agreed with that assessment, comparing the aggressive takeover of the federal landmark to the FBI’s definition of domestic terrorism: “Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.”

But the agency has acknowledged that homegrown violent extremism has become an increasingly prevalent threat, especially in the past four years.

“A majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacy, but it includes other things as well,” FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told Congress in 2019.""

 

Foreign terrorists blew an opportunity to attack the U.S. like they did on 9/11. They could have organized a flash mob similar to what Trump and his supporters did at the Capitol using private communications on the web.

In the end, Trump and his followers did it for them.

 

An article by Colin Clarke published on November 29, 2020 that warned of violence stemming from Trump's lies about the election.


Op-Ed: How Trump is laying the groundwork for violence and unrest during Biden’s presidency
By Colin P. Clarke
Nov. 29, 2020 3:05 AM PT

Op-Ed: How Trump is laying the groundwork for violence and unrest during Biden's presidency

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"President Trump’s post-election antics are dangerous. Few expected him to be a graceful loser, but his refusal to officially concede and his flood of tweets insisting the election was rigged may have serious and long-term violent consequences.

Even though he fashions himself as a modern-day strongman, Trump’s tactics mirror those of tin-pot dictators, who simply dismiss election results that don’t work out in their favor — and who portray their political adversaries as illegitimate and resort to intimidation to silence the opposition. It’s the kind of thing we saw in Algeria in the 1990s, Kenya in 2007 and Belarus earlier this year.

In one of the hundreds of tweets Trump has posted since the election in an attempt to undermine the will of the voters, he declared “I WON THE ELECTION, VOTER FRAUD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.” By trying to convince his supporters that Democrats stole the presidency, Trump is actively delegitimizing the Biden administration and, in the process, condoning all forms of civil disobedience and public unrest related to the election results.

I firmly believe that the president of the United States is laying the groundwork for violence and disruption to unfold regularly over the next four years. As a national security researcher, I never imagined I’d write that sentence."

 

Trump's violence happened before Biden even took office.

 

Op-Ed: How Trump is laying the groundwork for violence and unrest during Biden's presidency

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"By firing Chris Krebs, a well-regarded director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election, Trump is showing his supporters that he’s serious about his claims of impropriety — and demonstrating just how desperate he is to hold onto power.

Of course, Trump encouraging his supporters to engage in insurgency-like behavior is nothing new. His incessant rants against the “fake news media” helped motivate Cesar Sayoc, described as a “Donald Trump superfan,” to mail 16 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and members of the media in 2018. After Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MICHIGAN” in April following the establishment of COVID-19 protocols in that state, legal scholars accused him of inciting insurrection. In Michigan, armed men stormed the state’s Capitol building and anti-government militias plotted to kidnap and potentially kill the state’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer."

 

That was the practice run...

 

In a video clip of the insurrection at the Capitol, one of Trump rioters is heard saying, "Let's bring guns next time."

 

Frankly, I'm surprised Babbit was the only one shot and the cop the only shooter. They must have gotten a stand down order after the shot.

 

About 3/4 of the country feels they have every right to believe you guys are bonehead hillbillies.

 

Ted Cruz under fire for calling arrests of Capitol rioters ‘persecution’
The senator previously complained that George Floyd protesters were not facing severe enough prosecution
Graig Graziosi
August 12, 2021

Ted Cruz under fire for calling arrests of Capitol rioters ‘persecution’