They say it’s bad lipreading, but the interpretation seems to be on point.
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Contradiction? Who’s to say.
The federal government released a report based on the judgement of 13 agencies that unequivocally warned of the dangers, both economic and biological, of the comingpresent global warming crisis. The report was mandated by Congress and points out in stark detail why we need to address climate change, carbon dioxide, and everything else that is contributing to major changes in the United States and the world. It hands the Democrats a potent line of attack for the next election, and should make every American stand up and realize the danger we face.
Then, of course, there’s the guy in the White House. You know, the guy who says it’s all a Chinese hoax meant to destroy the US economy. The guy who has issued several executive orders that will enable the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries to pollute more, destroy sensitive ecosystems, and foul the air and water in the name of…jobs and a misplaced, OK, warped, sense of history.
Yes, it’s true that the United States grew wealthy on US Steel and Exxon and Dow Chemical, but those days are over and gone. And killing more people who mine and work around dangerous materials will not bring those days back.
Neither will the air and water, but that seems to be the policy of choice among Trump’s avid supporters, and those sycophants who worry about the latest tweet or the mercurial nature of the man who holds the future of the country in his small hands.
Yes, I am worried too.
At least with the Democrats in control of the House of Representatives, we can have an honest debate about the role and influence of actual science, rather than some warped accounting of the world that has no basis in rational thought. The White House thought it could bury this report in the frenzy of the holiday shopping season. It cannot, nor can it hide the facts that undergird the research.
A president whose approval ratings have never seen the sunlight that shines above 50% will have a tremendously difficult time running on a platform of denial and pollution.
He certainly has his fans.
The rest of us are in the majority.
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The disrespect is real folks. And if you’re on his… shitlist, Trump’s disrespect for you will be on a hole lower level. What else do you expect from someone with the mental development of a toad?
We already know how he feels about reporters and any media outlet doing their job and shedding light on Trumps many abuses of office. But White House reporter, April Ryan, has a special place deep in the dungeon of Trump’s hate.
Watch the disrespect this man exudes as Ryan asked Trump a question about whether his daughter should be investigated for using a personal email account to conduct government business in the White House.
Don’t laugh, but this is what Donald Trump said on Friday about ‘respect, before he began his short trip to Paris.
“When you’re in the White House, this is a very sacred place for me, a very special place. You have to treat the White House with respect. You have to treat the presidency with respect.”
That statement was part of Trump’s response when a reporter asked about the White House’s ban on CNN’s Jim Acosta. “I think Jim Acosta is a very unprofessional man,” Trump said. “As far as I’m concerned I haven’t made a decision. But there could be others also.”
While answering the question and demanding respect, Trump naturally disrespected another reporter by calling April Ryan a “loser.”
“You talk about somebody that’s a loser; she doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Ryan, in an unprompted diatribe. “She gets publicity, and then she gets a pay raise or a contract with, I think, CNN. But she’s very nasty. And she shouldn’t be. She shouldn’t be. You’ve got to treat the White House and the office of the presidency with respect.”
This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. A self-proclaimed pussy grabber who has absolutely no respect for anyone inside or outside the White House now expects respect in return.
I can’t wait for 2020 to restore some measure of sanity to this nation. I am tired of having a joker in the White House. I am tired of being the laughing-stock of the entire world.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell were interviewed by Fareed Zakari on CNN on Sunday, and although both had very important views on where this country is going, Colin Powell has some pointed words on Donald Trump and his leadership style.
When Fareed asked if Trump can be a “moral leader for the rest of the world,” Powell let his feelings be known.
I don’t know that he can do that because right now that is not the way he’s acting. Let me give you an example. My favorite three words in our constitution is the first three words, We The People, We The People. But recently it’s become me the president as opposed to We the people. And you see things that should not be happening. How could the president of the United States get up and say that the media is the enemy of Americans? Hasn’t he read the First Amendment? You’re not supposed to like everything the Press says or what anyone says in the First Amendment, that’s why we have the First Amendment, to protect that type of speech.
The former Secretary of State continued;
And I hope the President can come to the realization that he should really stop insulting people. And I used this two years ago when I said I could not vote for him in the 2016 election. Why? He insulted everybody. He insulted African Americans, he insulted women, he insulted women, he insulted immigrants, he insulted our best friends around the world. He insulted all of his fellow candidates upon the stage during the debates. And I don’t think that’s what should be coming out of the President of the United States, but I don’t see anything that’s changed in the last few years.”
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The Storm Before the Storm
For a man who demands loyalty, the steady drip of betrayals and plea bargains have to be driving the president wacky. And by the tone of his recent tweets, I’d say that I’m not saying anything new.
But loyalty is as loyalty does, and President Trump has repeatedly shown that he is not terribly loyal, even to those who have supported him. He’s burned through more cabinet members than other recent presidents as well as staff members and advisors, and every person who’s left has been the subject of a personal and public attack that demonstrates the personal nature of which the president sees these relationships. Of course, when everything has to be about him, then everything has to be either against him or for him.
The real problem for the president is what Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen have told prosecutors about what he knew and when he knew it, and this can’t be good for him. We already know that Trump lied about his sexual liaisons with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, and generally speaking, when people lie about their affairs, there’s usually much more skulduggery in their closets.
The president can call Robert Mueller’s investigation whatever he wants, but it looks like Mueller is conducting a sober, thorough, evidence-based inquiry that probably bothers the president because none of those three words describes how he approaches problems. It’s usually true that when you don’t have the ideas to support you, then you go after the person. That’s exactly what’s happening here. And if Mueller releases his findings close to the November elections, you’ll be able to see the fireworks no matter where you look in the sky.
The storms of September will pass and the country will unite to help people who have lost their homes and their property, and we will mourn those who have died. But there are more storms yet to come before November’s election and these will be of consequence for everyone.
If you haven’t registered to vote and you still can in your state, then please do. And make sure you vote.
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There was a time when politicians would lie behind closed doors, and if their lie saw the light of day, they would immediately go into damage-control. There was a time when Americans held their elected leaders to a higher standard and demanded the truth.
Then came Trump and a bucket full of lies followed.
On Sept. 7, President Trump woke up in Billings, Mont., flew to Fargo, N.D., visited Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually returned to Washington. He spoke to reporters on Air Force One, held a pair of fundraisers and was interviewed by three local reporters.
In that single day, he publicly made 125 false or misleading statements — in a period of time that totaled only about 120 minutes. It was a new single-day high.
The day before, the president made 74 false or misleading claims, many at a campaign rally in Montana. An anonymous op-ed article by a senior administration official had just been published in the New York Times, and news circulated about journalist Bob Woodward’s insider account of Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s tsunami of untruths helped push the count in The Fact Checker’s database past 5,000 on the 601st day of his presidency. That’s an average of 8.3 Trumpian claims a day, but in the past nine days — since our last update — the president has averaged 32 claims a day.
…’cause after he left the island, it was impossible, just impossible for 3000 people to die! The holy paper-towel was supposed to soak all that up!
The Republicans’ mighty leader has spoken tweeted!
In yet another blatant in-your-face attempt to show how gullible his supporters really are, Donald Trump went on the television box yesterday and lied.
What else is new? He lies all the time.
Yesterday, during an Oval Office briefing to discuss his administration’s preparedness for Hurricane Florence, Trump was asked if he learned anything from his administration’s disastrous response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. It is common knowledge that almost 3000 died in Puerto Rico as a result of Maria, but that memo has not reached the desk of the mighty leader!
Hurricane Maria was the “hardest one we had by far because of the island nature”, Trump said, adding: “I actually think it was one of the best jobs that’s ever been done with respect to what this is all about.”
He wasn’t done. He had more lies to tell.
“The job that FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in Puerto Rico, I think was tremendous. I think that Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success.”
And if any of his gullible followers missed his television box appearance, Trump went on the Twitter machine and lied some more.
“We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida”, he tweeted, “(and did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico…”
Even the Republican Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, could not sit silent like a good Republican while the mighty leader lied. Rossello issued a statement saying,
“No relationship between a colony and the federal government can ever be called ‘successful’ because Puerto Ricans lack certain inalienable rights enjoyed by our fellow Americans in the states.”
Rossello called Hurricane Maria “the worst natural disaster in our modern history” and said work still remained before they could move on to other stages of recovery. He also said he was still waiting for Trump to respond to a petition to help Puerto Rico complete work on emergency housing restoration programs and debris removal.
The consensus is obvious. Losing almost 3000 people is a national disaster.
Seventeen years after September 11th where 2974 people died, we still honor the lives lost in that terrorist attack. If Trump was president then would he call that attack and any feeble response he musters, an “unsung success?”
Maybe he will… maybe he will…
Remember the Teaparty? Remember how angry and outraged they were when President Obama strapped this country around his waist and pulled it out of the ditch? Remember how Republicans stood on the sidelines and criticized every dime Obama spent to revive a dead economy?
Because of the quick and decisive actions of President Obama, the economy rebound. The Stock Market that was free-falling off the cliff grabbed the rope thrown by Obama and somehow managed to pull itself back to today’s record levels. And unemployment continually decreased.
Yes, Obama did what he had to do to save America, in spite of the grumblings of the Teaparty and the Republican party.
But where is the Teaparty now? Where are the Republicans? Miraculously, they are in lockstep with their little drummer boy, Donald Trump. Blind with their giddiness as he increased the federal deficit by 32 percent to pay for a campaign promise giving permanent tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, like Donald Trump.
The federal deficit hit $895 billion in the first 11 months of fiscal 2018, an increase of $222 billion, or 32 percent, over the same period the previous year, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The nonpartisan CBO reported that the central drivers of the increasing deficit were the Republican tax law and the bipartisan agreement to increase spending. As a result, revenue only rose 1 percent, failing to keep up with a 7 percent surge in spending, it added.
Our grandchildren will thank us later… I’m sure of it!
Ben Sasse, a Republican Senator from Nebraska called out Donald Trump and his White House for all its drama in a Sunday morning interview.
“I don’t have any desire to beat this president up, but it’s pretty clear that this White House is a reality-show, soap-opera presidency,” Sasse told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” running through a list of the more incendiary reports that have put the White House on the defensive in recent months, including several anonymous accounts detailing dissent and subversion in the administration.
“What you’d like is the president to not worry so much about the short-term of staffing but the long-term of vision-casting for America, pull us together as a people, help us deliberate about where we should go and then build a team of great, big-cause, low-ego people around you,” he said. “Right now it feels like there’s just way too much drama every day and that distracts us from the longer-term stuff we should be focused on together.”
The coming midterm elections should be taken seriously, as a chance to “restore some sanity in our politics,” Former President Barack Obama said at a campaign event in California on Saturday – a clear swipe against Donald Trump and the normalization of insanity since Trump won the White House.
Obama didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name during a 20-minute speech Saturday in the key Southern California battleground of Orange County but the allusions were clear.
“We’re in a challenging moment because, when you look at the arc of American history, there’s always been a push and pull between those who want to go forward and those who want to look back, between those who want to divide and those are seeking to bring people together, between those who promote the politics of hope and those who exploit the politics of fear,” he said.
His appearance — one day after a strongly worded critique of Trump at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — touched on themes of retirement security, climate change and education.
“If we don’t step up, things can get worse,” the former president told the audience at the Anaheim Convention Center. “In two months, we have the chance to restore some sanity to our politics. We have the chance to flip the House of Representatives and make sure there are real checks and balances in Washington.”