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_Kevin Graham
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Supreme Court told the Trump no citizenship question on the census. Trump said he was going to put one in anyway. Buncha people sued. Court said no citizenship question. DOJ lawyer told court they were not going to add a citizenship question. Trump tweets that he’s absolutely adding a citizenship question. Court asks DOJ lawyer what’s up. DOJ lawyer says he has no idea.

This is what happens when you put corrupt rapist who can barely read in charge of the government.

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Trump plans to divert $2.5 million from national parks to fund his ‘Salute to America’ — featuring himself.

Trump will address the crowd at some point in the evening. The event is free to the public, though the section closest to the Lincoln Memorial is reserved with tickets being doled out by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s reelection campaign.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/07/03/president-trump-plans/

Making the 4th of July Celebration into a partisan campaign event to raise money is a new low for any American President. One that should get Trump tossed from office if his party had any integrity.
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The popular snack Cheetos will look different starting tomorrow after Frito-Lay decided to change the color from its traditional bright orange.

“Cheetos are now fluorescent green, though with the same great cheesy taste you know and love.”

The move is being made in response to consumers associating the product with President Trump.

“People who love Cheetos suddenly reported feeling sick after eating them, and we finally realized it’s because they reminded them who the leader of the country was.”

Focus testing suggested the new look was a vast improvement, with the product now being associated with aliens, radioactivity, and the Grinch instead of the current White House incumbent.

Orange growers will be closely watching Frito-Lay’s balance sheet, as they decide whether to genetically modify their product to be more purple.

Sadly, one victim of the Trump era appears to be the mushroom business, where sales have been steadily falling over the past year.

“People just can’t bring themselves to put a mushroom in their mouth anymore for some reason.”
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moksha wrote:
The event is free to the public, though the section closest to the Lincoln Memorial is reserved with tickets being doled out by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s reelection campaign.

Apparently, part of ‘making America great again’ is roping off historic structures and public areas during national holidays, and then letting in only those folks whose politics Trump and his aides approve of, or that can give his party money.
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“But we knew all that, already ...”

The weekend leak of a British diplomatic cable savaging President Trump was a minor event by Trump-era standards. That’s in part because it came via the British press on an American holiday weekend, but also because the memo’s author, British ambassador Kim Darroch, didn’t break new ground in assessing the president and his administration.

Trump, he wrote, is dim-witted (“you need to make your points simple, even blunt”), susceptible to flattery (“you need to start praising him for something that he’s done recently”), lies constantly, potentially compromised by Russia (“the worst cannot be ruled out”), and generally incompetent (“we don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept”).


You gotta appreciate the British tendency to tell it like it is. This is how our allies see this Administration.
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canpakes wrote:...This is how our allies see this Administration.

actually its how one guy sees Trump...and even then, so what?
I just checked 1776 and we don't really care how Britain "sees" anything.

But please, continue framing your 2020 campaign platform with style instead of substance....
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One guy!

Our Western Liberalism expert thinks just one guy says this about our moron in chief.

Subs is one of those uneducated dumbasses who thinks 1776 is based on Mel Gibson's movie and has any relevance to today.

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But what's more concerning are the many people in his own administration who have called him a damned moron and/or resigned because they couldn't handle his incompetence or propensity for law breaking.
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subgenius wrote:But please, continue framing your 2020 campaign platform with style instead of substance....

Like, shouting empty phrases ("Make America Great Again!", "I Alone can Fix It", "Lock Her Up"), and continually whining on Twitter about the last President and a good portion of the general public?
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On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump traveled to North Carolina to arouse the faithful by reiterating his racist crusade of the moment — a campaign to drive Rep. Ilhan Omar out of the country and back to Somalia, a country she left when she was 6 years old.

The rally was disgusting and shocking, but not surprising to those who’d read the weekend volley of racist tweets that initiated this particular news cycle nor to those who recall the 2016 campaign’s Muslim ban, the blood libels about “the caravan” that stalked the 2018 midterms, or anything else from Trump’s long and sordid history of racial demagoguery.

But if you want to really understand American politics in the summer of 2019, it makes sense to tune out the carnival barker’s antics for a moment and consider a plaintive memo issued earlier on Wednesday by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz — one of America’s top business law firms.

The memo made the case to clients that Wachtell’s expertise in regulatory compliance and white-collar defense is still important, even though many buyers of legal services may be inclined to think that rich companies don’t much need lawyers anymore. That’s because under Trump there’s been a “significant drop over the past two years in both the number of white-collar prosecutions and the scale of corporate fines and penalties.”

Earlier this week, the White House formally stated its plan to veto Democrats’ proposed increase in the federal minimum wage. And the New York Times reported that Trump’s newly installed acting secretary of labor is expected to “push through a sweeping anti-union agenda and coordinate his actions with the president’s political team.”

It’s wrong to characterize the racist incitement as a “distraction” since it is important on its own terms. But it is worth understanding that there is a controversial aspect of the Trump administration that he is happy to talk about — the racist aspect — and then there is a whole other set of controversies lurking hidden below the water line that Trump doesn’t like to talk about.

In the fight Trump wants to have, he casts himself as a champion of the typical white American Christian who is beset by various alien forces and politically correct elites. But when you bring the entire iceberg into view, you see a version of Trump that is much more reflective of Trump’s entire business career — a scam artist who profits off the misplaced trust of his fans just as much as anything else.


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... llar-crime
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