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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 21, 2024 4:56:33 GMT -5
Those who know Don the Con best and have managed to escape the cult: Former Trump press secretary says he mocked his supporters as ‘basement dwellers’ Among the more eyebrow-raising speakers Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention was a former Trump administration official: Stephanie Grisham, who previously served as press secretary to Donald Trump as well as chief of staff to first lady Melania Trump. In brief remarks at the beginning of Tuesday night’s programming, Grisham first laid out her Trump bona fides: She wasn’t just a supporter of the former president, she said, but “a true believer” and one of his closest advisers. Grisham claimed that, behind closed doors, Trump mocked his supporters as “basement dwellers” and once, on a hospital visit, he was upset that cameras were focused on intensive care unit patients rather than on him. “He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,” she said. “He used to tell me, ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie. Say it enough, and people will believe you.’” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/20/stephanie-grisham-dnc-trump/I rarely have occasion to agree with Trump, but on assessing his supporters, he nailed it. He might even be understating it.
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Post by Massholya on Aug 21, 2024 6:50:18 GMT -5
[/quote] Apparently a strategy adopted by Kamala “we have a secure border” Harris She is beginning to sound like she believes it. [/quote] The border crisis has been going on for 30+ years. Multiple republican and democratic congresses have been unwilling to reach a deal. What is it that makes this such an important issue to be solved today and how would you reach a compromise to fix it? How would you address the labor shortage that would ensue and how would you fund the massive increase needed for personnel and systems needed to process work visas to allow more workers? Could you do that and still keep the wallet happy or will then decry the “increased spending on “foreigners”?
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 21, 2024 7:01:48 GMT -5
The last evidence I can find that Harris said "the border is secure" is a quote from 2022. Mayorkas and others have said that more recently but one would think that if Harris has said it as many times as Elvado implies she has, Fox "News" would have highlighted it in this clip from January 2024. Maybe Elvado can provide a link that Harris has repeatedly said "the border is secure" since January 30, 2024, instead of repeating an exaggerated Fox talking point. But in keeping with Elvadoism, he avoids any citations in support of his assertions. www.foxnews.com/video/6345885035112
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 21, 2024 7:26:19 GMT -5
Apparently a strategy adopted by Kamala “we have a secure border” Harris She is beginning to sound like she believes it. [/quote] The border crisis has been going on for 30+ years. Multiple republican and democratic congresses have been unwilling to reach a deal. What is it that makes this such an important issue to be solved today and how would you reach a compromise to fix it? How would you address the labor shortage that would ensue and how would you fund the massive increase needed for personnel and systems needed to process work visas to allow more workers? Could you do that and still keep the wallet happy or will then decry the “increased spending on “foreigners”? [/quote] Correction: A bipartisan border bill WAS agreed to basically giving the GOP virtually all the provisions it wanted, negotiated by Sen Lankford, but Don the Con killed it to keep it as an election issue. Senior Senate Republicans are furious that Donald Trump may have killed an emerging bipartisan deal over the southern border, depriving them of a key legislative achievement on a pressing national priority and offering a preview of what’s to come with Trump as their likely presidential nominee. In recent weeks, Trump has been lobbying Republicans both in private conversations and in public statements on social media to oppose the border compromise being delicately hashed out in the Senate, according to GOP sources familiar with the conversations – in part because he wants to campaign on the issue this November and doesn’t want President Joe Biden to score a victory in an area where he is politically vulnerable. www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal/index.html
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 21, 2024 9:36:55 GMT -5
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 21, 2024 9:41:49 GMT -5
The last evidence I can find that Harris said "the border is secure" is a quote from 2022. Mayorkas and others have said that more recently but one would think that if Harris has said it as many times as Elvado implies she has, Fox "News" would have highlighted it in this clip from January 2024. Maybe Elvado can provide a link that Harris has repeatedly said "the border is secure" since January 30, 2024, instead of repeating an exaggerated Fox talking point. But in keeping with Elvadoism, he avoids any citations in support of his assertions. www.foxnews.com/video/6345885035112Republicans have made many enemies over the last 10 years, the two greatest of which are facts and reason.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 21, 2024 11:49:16 GMT -5
And does anyone expect this sociopath to be locked into reality? Trump’s claims about violent crime increasingly diverge from reality “But you can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread,” Trump continued. “You get shot. You get mugged. You get raped, you get whatever it may be. And you’ve seen it and I’ve seen it, and it’s time for a change. We have to bring back our cities. We have these cities that are great cities where people are afraid to live in them, and they’re fleeing the cities of our country.” It’s all just fear-mongering. We can say that not only because baseless fear-mongering is a centerpiece of Donald Trump’s political rhetoric but because it’s obviously false. Sure, Fox News airs individual crimes on repeat, the stuff that “you’ve seen and I’ve seen,” at least if we watch Fox. But we might have seen far more people walk outside without being shot. We might have noticed that American cities still have residents. "That was a coup. And I'm no fan of his at all," Trump said. "And it started with the debate, and from that point on, it just got worse and worse. But that was a coup. It was a vicious, violent overthrow of a president of the United States." Again, we can Gordian-knot this: This is patently ridiculous. It wasn't a coup, it wasn't an overthrow and, most of all, it wasn't violent. Trump's again trying to minimize his role in the Capitol riot by suggesting that the transition from Biden to Harris is somehow an equivalent threat to presidential power. But in Michigan he took that tacit comparison further. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/21/trump-crime-fear/
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 21, 2024 18:34:16 GMT -5
And does anyone expect this sociopath to be locked into reality? Trump’s claims about violent crime increasingly diverge from reality “But you can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread,” Trump continued. “You get shot. You get mugged. You get raped, you get whatever it may be. And you’ve seen it and I’ve seen it, and it’s time for a change. We have to bring back our cities. We have these cities that are great cities where people are afraid to live in them, and they’re fleeing the cities of our country.” It’s all just fear-mongering. We can say that not only because baseless fear-mongering is a centerpiece of Donald Trump’s political rhetoric but because it’s obviously false. Sure, Fox News airs individual crimes on repeat, the stuff that “you’ve seen and I’ve seen,” at least if we watch Fox. But we might have seen far more people walk outside without being shot. We might have noticed that American cities still have residents. "That was a coup. And I'm no fan of his at all," Trump said. "And it started with the debate, and from that point on, it just got worse and worse. But that was a coup. It was a vicious, violent overthrow of a president of the United States." Again, we can Gordian-knot this: This is patently ridiculous. It wasn't a coup, it wasn't an overthrow and, most of all, it wasn't violent. Trump's again trying to minimize his role in the Capitol riot by suggesting that the transition from Biden to Harris is somehow an equivalent threat to presidential power. But in Michigan he took that tacit comparison further. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/21/trump-crime-fear/I wonder why he didn't add that you can't walk into Bergdorf Goodman without getting raped.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 21, 2024 19:19:30 GMT -5
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign spending more than doubled last month as he dropped big money on ads attacking his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. But he continues to significantly trail Harris in terms of campaign infrastructure that could help him turn his war chest into votes, according to new filings with the Federal Election Commission. Those reports underscore just how much Harris’ ascendance upended the race, including putting Trump behind once again in terms of campaign cash. With the race reset for the final months, money could take on an ever greater importance as both sides scramble to turn out their respective bases and reach persuadable voters in battleground states. This July, the Trump campaign and the RNC had just over 300 staffers on payroll, FEC filings show. Meanwhile, the Harris campaign and the Democratic National Committee had a combined roughly 1,100 staffers last month. www.politico.com/news/2024/08/21/trump-harris-campaign-spending-fec-00175377
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Post by Elvado on Aug 21, 2024 20:26:51 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 21, 2024 20:55:59 GMT -5
Demented Donnie and Hillbilly Vance doubling down on stupid. Trump-led attack on Walz’s military record includes vets with their own false claims Former president Donald Trump’s campaign released a letter Wednesday from Republican lawmakers with military experience that criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, for how he has described his military record. But Trump’s campaign reissued the letter hours later after a Democratic veterans group raised issues with how it characterized the military experience of many of the lawmakers. The group, VoteVets, said 29 of the 50 lawmakers who signed the letter targeting Walz came “from Republicans who falsely claim they retired from military service.” The group later revised the number to 28. A military retiree is defined as someone who has accrued at least 20 years of service. Troops can also medically retire for service-connected ailments. The letter also included at least two GOP congressmen — Reps. Ronny Jackson and Troy E. Nehls, both from Texas — who have faced scrutiny over their own military records, including how they have portrayed their service. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/21/trump-walz-military/For the record, I am entitled to identify myself as LCDR SSHoya, JAGC, USNR (formerly) which indicates I am not a retired Navy officer. I wish EasyEd was still with us to hear his opinion.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Aug 21, 2024 21:38:44 GMT -5
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