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Post by DFW HOYA on May 20, 2020 19:01:38 GMT -5
Hey, Trump cultists, you'd better head to OAN. Fox News has a A- ranking on the FiveThirtyEight rankings and a 71% accuracy on races called. But it's a fake poll as far as the evening cohort at Fox is concerned.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 20, 2020 19:24:02 GMT -5
Sam Alito and Neil Gorsuch were on the guest lists for Mike Pompeo's taxpayer-funded political dinners that are now under investigation Definitely a bad look for Alito and Gorsuch. I wonder why I Love Beer and Long Dong Silver didn't make the list. Willing to state right up front that there was a special on Justice Thomas on PBS the other night; I did not watch it.
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Post by SSHoya on May 21, 2020 10:37:06 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 22, 2020 5:51:56 GMT -5
Cadet Bonespurs under pressure. Trump is a POS who knows nothing other than his own selfish, corrupt interest. Trump administration officials are preparing plans to extend the federal deployment of more than 40,000 National Guard members performing coronavirus relief work across the country, after scores of lawmakers moved to pressure President Donald Trump to keep the Guards in place past June. Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.), one of the letter's lead authors, is a combat veteran and National Guard captain who has deployed along with his unit to help set up hospitals in and near his Staten Island district. He told POLITICO he’s furious with the administration for treating Guard members like “dog” by planning to end deployments at a time when thousands of Guard members will have 89 days of service — one short of the 90 days required for federal retirement and education benefits. www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/trump-administration-extending-national-guard-deployments-272156?fbclid=IwAR2CI1HgWfJWpTcrM1SSNIEVUFFDmqtZC9jwkq3701fp2HsP_PEQMrQiDG8
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Post by SSHoya on May 22, 2020 12:40:21 GMT -5
This has Jared's fingerprints all over it. The concept is fine but the execution may turn out to be abysmal and likely rife with corruption. I anticipate the USDA IG will soon be fired. An Army S4 or a Navy SC officer could have done a better job. Those who continue to support Trump are moronic as he is. The Trump administration withdrew one of the largest contracts in its signature effort to use farm surplus to feed hungry Americans, capping a chaotic process that industry experts say relied too heavily on companies with little demonstrated experience in farming, food chains or food banks. Contracts totaling more than $107 million went to a San Antonio event planner, an avocado mail-order company, a health-and-wellness airport kiosk company and a trade finance corporation, according to the Agriculture Department’s announcement of contract awards. www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/22/trumps-signature-effort-direct-farm-surplus-needy-families-abruptly-withdraws-large-contract-amid-criticism-programs-rollout/
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Post by SSHoya on May 22, 2020 14:26:08 GMT -5
Tara Reade’s attorney announced Friday that he will no longer represent her as a client. In a statement, Douglas Wigdor, who has represented victims of sexual assault in the past, said the decision did not have to do with the question of whether Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, as Reade has alleged. The announcement came a day after defense lawyers in California said they were reviewing whether she misrepresented her credentials in past cases where she testified as an expert witness. www.politico.com/news/2020/05/22/lawyer-drops-tara-reade-as-client-274635"Misrepresented her credentials" is a polite way of saying she committed perjury and perpetrated a fraud upon the court and defrauded the prosecutor's office who paid her a stipend and hotel bills as compensation. www.politico.com/news/2020/05/21/tara-reade-biden-expert-testimony-274460
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Post by hoyajinx on May 22, 2020 15:09:32 GMT -5
Tara Reade’s attorney announced Friday that he will no longer represent her as a client. In a statement, Douglas Wigdor, who has represented victims of sexual assault in the past, said the decision did not have to do with the question of whether Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, as Reade has alleged. The announcement came a day after defense lawyers in California said they were reviewing whether she misrepresented her credentials in past cases where she testified as an expert witness. www.politico.com/news/2020/05/22/lawyer-drops-tara-reade-as-client-274635"Misrepresented her credentials" is a polite way of saying she committed perjury and perpetrated a fraud upon the court and defrauded the prosecutor's office who paid her a stipend and hotel bills as compensation. www.politico.com/news/2020/05/21/tara-reade-biden-expert-testimony-274460This does seem to cast some doubt as to her credibility. She lied about graduating from college, which also means she lied about it to get into law school, which also means she lied about it to become a member of the bar if she indeed is a member. Also, Politico published an article a few days ago regarding the lengths she went to defraud and con a number of landlords and other individuals in California over the past decade. It doesn’t mean what she is saying about Biden in 93 isn’t true, but her willingness to be less than truthful, especially under penalty of perjury, is certainly problematic.
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Post by SSHoya on May 22, 2020 15:13:53 GMT -5
Tara Reade’s attorney announced Friday that he will no longer represent her as a client. In a statement, Douglas Wigdor, who has represented victims of sexual assault in the past, said the decision did not have to do with the question of whether Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, as Reade has alleged. The announcement came a day after defense lawyers in California said they were reviewing whether she misrepresented her credentials in past cases where she testified as an expert witness. www.politico.com/news/2020/05/22/lawyer-drops-tara-reade-as-client-274635"Misrepresented her credentials" is a polite way of saying she committed perjury and perpetrated a fraud upon the court and defrauded the prosecutor's office who paid her a stipend and hotel bills as compensation. www.politico.com/news/2020/05/21/tara-reade-biden-expert-testimony-274460This does seem to cast some doubt as to her credibility. She lied about graduating from college, which also means she lied about it to get into law school, which also means she lied about it to become a member of the bar if she indeed is a member. Also, Politico published an article a few days ago regarding the lengths she went to defraud and con a number of landlords and other individuals in California over the past decade. It doesn’t mean what she is saying about Biden in 93 isn’t true, but her willingness to be less than truthful, especially under penalty of perjury, is certainly problematic. I once interviewed a witness I contemplated putting on the stand and asked if there was anything in his background that might be problematic. His answer: "Well, there was that manslaughter conviction . . ." Next! Wigdor #MeThrough !!
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2020 11:01:14 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 24, 2020 10:10:06 GMT -5
David Frum's new book reviewed. Corruption was an overriding concern in “Trumpocracy,” back when violations of the Constitution’s emoluments clause seemed like this White House’s most serious transgression. (Adorable!) “Costly as the Trump family was to the presidency, the presidency was correspondingly lucrative to the Trump family,” Frum wrote in 2018. The president’s goal was not really to deconstruct the administrative state but to exploit it. Trump would do so aided by congressional Republicans who averted their eyes, covered their ears and shut their mouths in exchange for tax reform, judges and deregulation. A devil’s bargain. One of many. In “Trumpocalypse,” however, Frum concludes that Trump hasn’t been all that good at corruption, much as he is not all that good at lots of things. “No question, Trump extracted dishonest millions from the presidency,” Frum acknowledges. But his schemes were often small-time hustles, such as Vice President Pence’s stay at Trump’s golf resort in Ireland, or the doubling of admission fees at Mar-a-Lago, or all those foreign officials crashing at Trump International in Washington. “He convicted himself in the eyes of the public as the most corrupt American president in history, all for less money than Michelle Obama earned from her book and speaking fees,” Frum smirks. Far more consequential is the moral damage Trump has inflicted on America’s global power and domestic politics. Frum laments the deceit and pseudo-information infecting our discourse, the performative cruelty overpowering our politics, and the misguided disdain for our democratic allies. “How to stand for any liberal, democratic, or humane principle or value under a president who so noisily repudiates them all?” he asks. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/21/what-is-trumpocalypse-is-there-way-out/
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2020 10:36:43 GMT -5
Sunday's entire @nytimes front page is a partial list of Covid-19 victims. "The 1,000 people here reflect just 1% of the toll. None were mere numbers."
Trump arrives at his Virginia golf club for the second time this weekend. Per CNN’s count, this is his 358th visit to one of his properties and his 266th trip to one of his golf clubs since he took office in January 2017.
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 24, 2020 13:07:46 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 24, 2020 17:54:57 GMT -5
What a disgusting individual. IOW, the perfect leader for the Republican Party. Trump cultists and apologists must be very, very proud. As the death toll in the novel coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000 Americans this Memorial Day weekend, President Trump derided and insulted perceived enemies and promoted a baseless conspiracy theory, in between rounds of golf. In a flurry of tweets and retweets Saturday and Sunday, Trump mocked former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’s weight, ridiculed the looks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and called former Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton a “skank.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-weekend-dedicated-to-war-dead-trump-tweets-insults-promotes-baseless-claims-and-plays-golf/2020/05/24/a1a79876-9dc3-11ea-9590-1858a893bd59_story.htmlOnly a sociopath would have no thought of the poor woman's family. Trump is a sociopath. Trump’s tweets offer a reminder of the remarkable nature of the Trump era — that a sitting president can traffic in incendiary and false allegations while the political world around him remains largely silent, accustomed to Trump’s modern-day definition of presidential behavior. As with many such eruptions from the White House, there will probably be little if any consequence beyond, in this case, the collateral suffering of a private family in Florida. A White House spokesman declined to comment. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-family-grieves-as-trump-spreads-debunked-conspiracy-theory-to-attack-msnbc-host/2020/05/24/8a0a45a6-9dcd-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html?tid=pm_pop&itid=pm_pop
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Post by SSHoya on May 25, 2020 6:56:53 GMT -5
By former Republican Tom Nichols, Professor at the Naval War College (and Nichols manages to avoid even mentioning Trump's deferments from the Vietnam War draft): But since his first day as a presidential candidate, I have been baffled by one mystery in particular: Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency? The question is not whether Trump fails to meet some archaic or idealized version of masculinity. The president’s inability to measure up to Marcus Aurelius or Omar Bradley is not the issue. Rather, the question is why so many of Trump’s working-class white male voters refuse to hold Trump to their own standards of masculinity—why they support a man who behaves more like a little boy. As the writer Windsor Mann has noted, Trump behaves in ways that many working-class men would ridicule: “He wears bronzer, loves gold and gossip, is obsessed with his physical appearance, whines constantly, can't control his emotions, watches daytime television, enjoys parades and interior decorating, and used to sell perfume.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 19:16:27 GMT -5
Just a horrible thing to do to people. How are you not ashamed to vote for this?
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2020 10:41:40 GMT -5
“I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the president of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him — the memory of my dead wife — and perverted it for perceived political gain.”
The woman’s husband has begged the president of the United States to stop spreading this conspiracy theory. Because there is no cold case and he still continues.
The President is inhumanly cruel.
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Post by hoya9797 on May 26, 2020 11:19:25 GMT -5
And, Twitter does nothing...
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Post by EtomicB on May 26, 2020 13:39:17 GMT -5
Smh...
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Post by hoya9797 on May 26, 2020 13:46:00 GMT -5
Remember just a few weeks ago when he was saying that it would be 60K and keeping it under 100K was a big win? Man, have the goalposts moved since then.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2020 14:02:07 GMT -5
Remember just a few weeks ago when he was saying that it would be 60K and keeping it under 100LK was a big win? Man, have the goalposts moved since then. 15 and it will be down to zero in a couple days. We've done a great job! Looks like it will be 50 to 60,000. We've done a great job! It's only been 100,000+. We've done a great job!
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