Let's fire Trump

Classically baseless fearmongering!

It is all the truth. Reality awaits.

https://www.meforum.org/57925/christians-persecuted-killed

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15969/persecution-of-christians-march

https://cis.org/Report/MS13-Resurgence-Immigration-Enforcement-Needed-Take-Back-Our-Streets


https://www.foxnews.com/us/ms-13-terrorizing-american-small-towns-and-suburbs-ill-equipped-to-fight-back

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-nearly-all-998-of-illegal-drugs-shipped-to-us-from-mexico
Baseless, my ass.

Trump Has Never Looked More Comfortable as a Demagogue

The president's State of the Union previewed his reelection themes: Socialism and health care and socialism and xenophobia and socialism.

By Osita Nwanevu

https://newrepublic.com/article/156467/trump-never-looked-comfortable-demagogue

Roughly 24 hours ago, Democrats around the country were informed that the Iowa Democratic Party, after years of organization and effort from the Democratic candidates and their campaigns, would not be delivering results from the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. The outcome of the contest remains unresolved at the time of this writing, and the debacle has thrown the future of the caucuses, as well as the course of the primary to come, into question. In a matter of hours, Donald Trump, the third president in our history to have been impeached, will be acquitted by a Republican Senate after a trial that introduced no witnesses or evidence and examined only a narrow sliver of Trump’s alleged abuses of office.

All told, Tuesday could not have been a more favorable night for the last State of the Union of Trump’s term. Many speculated, in the hours leading up to the speech, that gloating about impeachment and Iowa would pepper his remarks. The speech, however, mentioned neither. Instead, it just about mirrored Trump’s past addresses, with the exception of a few buzzy moments—Limbaugh’s feigned surprise at being given the Medal of Freedom, a deployed soldier’s reunion with his family, Nancy Pelosi’s impromptu ripping of the speech’s pages—that will likely pass from memory within a week. The sections of his remarks likeliest to stick are the ones he’s likeliest to reprise as this year’s election gets underway.

While the events of the week’s news cycle didn’t make it into the text, Trump did opt to take a victory lap on the economy—the first half of the speech was a rote recitation of massaged, manipulated, and outright invented statistics about the growth his administration did little to bring about. This was accompanied by still more brazen dishonesty about the right’s dedication to protecting Medicare and Social Security. Their attacks on the safety net—including the Trump administration’s efforts to cut Social Security benefits for the disabled—ought to figure largely in the messaging the eventual Democratic nominee takes into the general election. Trump cannot ride comfortably on economic performance alone, especially given that the outlook might darken in the months ahead, and the Republican vulnerability on entitlements was among the factors that made Trump’s populist heterodoxy during the 2016 election so compelling to so many.

Trump, aware of this, is still trying to put on an empathetic front on health care. At one point during the speech, Trump laughably cast himself as a defender of protections for those with preexisting conditions to a standing ovation from Republicans. But the instincts that led him to suggest he supported public insurance during the Republican primary in 2015 have been suppressed and supplanted by scaremongering about socialism on the march. “As we work to improve Americans’ health care, there are those who want to take away your health care, take away your doctor, and abolish private insurance entirely,” he said. “One hundred thirty-two lawmakers in this room have endorsed legislation to impose a socialist takeover of our health care system, wiping out the private health insurance plans of 180 million Americans. To those watching at home tonight, I want you to know: We will never let socialism destroy American health care!”

The terrifying specter of “free taxpayer-funded health care to millions of illegal aliens” was also raised. “These proposals would raid the Medicare benefits our seniors depend on, while acting as a powerful lure for illegal immigration,” he said. “This is what is happening in California and other states—their systems are totally out of control, costing taxpayers vast and unaffordable amounts of money.”

Through it all, Trump refrained from referencing any of the Democratic Party’s socialists by name—no doubt partly because the right is comfortable with red-baiting as a strategy against the Democratic Party as a whole. The broad brushes satisfy the base. During his State of the Union addresses, Obama spent considerable time trying to win over skeptics and critics with paeans to bipartisanship and centrist messaging on issues such as the deficit and national security. Trump, by contrast, uses these addresses to get the blood of his supporters flowing—and he often does it with invocations of blood.

True to form, he wound down his speech Tuesday night with grisly descriptions of crimes allegedly committed by the undocumented, including killings blamed on sanctuary city policies. “Just 29 days ago, a criminal alien freed by the sanctuary city of New York was charged with the brutal rape and murder of a 92-year-old woman,” he said. “The killer had been previously arrested for assault, but under New York’s sanctuary policies, he was set free. If the city had honored ICE’s detainer request, his victim would be alive today.”

Blunt xenophobia didn’t deliver for Republicans in the 2018 midterms, and it’s doubtful that it will in this year’s election. But Trump and other Republican candidates are sure to give it another go anyway. Whether they succeed in spite of themselves depends in part on whether the Democratic Party settles on a nominee willing to take a rhetorical approach against this president more compelling to the average voter than the viral GIFs and clap backs that now inevitably accompany these speeches. As it stands, chances are about even that we’ll see Trump at the dais again next year, with considerably more to gloat about.

What is with old opinion pieces? We know people hate Trump.

Feb 3, 2020 is old??????
Trump mongers fear daily.

Give me some links. Christians are killed every day. Gangs murder people daily. Illegal aliens kill Americans. Drugs still come over the border. Thanks to Trump not as many.

We have a lot of problems and hating Trump will not fix any of them.

I wonder if Democrats will ever be able to reconcile recognizing problems like gangs, drugs, and cross-border crime without immediately thinking of them in terms of racial blaming.

I wonder if they will ever see that the people of minority and/or poor identity caught in the crossfire in these situations are not necessarily the same ethnicity/class as those causing the crime at a higher level, who may be upper/middle/working class whites and/or other ethnicities.

For some reason, despite all the diversity awareness, there is no acknowledgement among Democrats that crime is also diverse. There are always accusations of racism in criminal justice, probably justified in some cases, but no corresponding accusations of racism within crime itself, as if criminals all love the people they exploit as mules to do the dirtiest and most risky jobs.

It's funny and ironic that the exact same corporate ethic of everyone within the company supporting and loving each other, down to the lowest-paid employee is the way Democrats regard crime; i.e. as people helping each other when they're downtrodden. When it comes to taxing legal corporations, they complain that corporations aren't people, but when it comes to crime, they don't want to acknowledge that people organize themselves as corporations.

whatt happens to this nation if Trump gos ahead with declaring the NOV election invalid? Will the Congress impeach and discharge or will they Kow tow and complete the fascist state?.
Weve got a Constitutional Crisis in the rising and some of you clowns are worried about stationery and **** that neither Dems OR GOPS have addressed .

Who's the biggliest Loser? Trump is!!

Trump threatens to regulate, shutter social media after Twitter fact-checks him

by: Associated Press Posted: May 27, 2020 / 08:40 AM EDT / Updated: May 27, 2020 / 08:44

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering a day after Twitter added fact checks to two of his tweets.

The president can’t unilaterally regulate or close the companies, which would require action by Congress or the Federal Communications Commission. But that didn’t stop Trump from angrily issuing a strong warning.

Claiming tech giants “silence conservative voices,” Trump tweeted, “We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.”


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And he repeated his unsubstantiated claim — which sparked his latest showdown with Silicon Valley — that expanding mail-in voting “would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots.”

Trump and his campaign angrily lashed out Tuesday after Twitter added a warning phrase to two Trump tweets that called mail-in ballots “fraudulent” and predicted that “mail boxes will be robbed,” among other things. Under the tweets, there is now a link reading “Get the facts about mail-in ballots” that guides users to a Twitter “moments” page with fact checks and news stories about Trump’s unsubstantiated claims.

Trump replied on Twitter, accusing the platform of “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election” and insisting that “as president, I will not allow this to happen.” His 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said Twitter’s “clear political bias” had led the campaign to pull “all our advertising from Twitter months ago.” Twitter has banned all political advertising since last November.

Trump did not explain his threat Wednesday, and the call to expand regulation appeared to fly in the face of long-held conservative principles on deregulation.

But some Trump allies, who have alleged bias on the part of tech companies, have questioned whether platforms like Twitter and Facebook should continue to enjoy liability protections as “platforms” under federal law — or be treated more like publishers, which could face lawsuits over content.

The protections have been credited with allowing the unfettered growth of the internet for more than two decades, but now some Trump allies are advocating that social media companies face more scrutiny.

“Big tech gets a huge handout from the federal government,” Republican Sen. Josh Hawley told Fox News. “They get this special immunity, this special immunity from suits and from liability that’s worth billions of dollars to them every year. Why are they getting subsidized by federal taxpayers to censor conservatives, to censor people critical of China.”

What a pack of pathetic whiners. Taxpayers would not benefit if these companies were sued, so it's total bullshit that the companies are being subsidized. Go ahead, clown, take all of your marbles and go home.

“Are you f@#%ing stupid?”: Trump’s weekend polling meltdown exposed in new Vanity Fair account

May 26, 2020

Vinnie Longobardo

https://occupydemocrats.com/2020/05/26/are-you-fing-stupid-trumps-weekend-polling-meltdown-exposed-in-new-va-1/

Anonymous insiders are exactly the kind of journalistic sources that Donald Trump loves to decry when he accuses the mainstream media of being “Fake News,” despite the fact that the president’s own frequently tweeted conspiracy theories come from much less reliable narrators than the kind of lower-level White House aides who may be on friendly terms with a White House correspondent.

Vanity Fair‘s Gabriel Sherman is a gregarious, well-connected journalist with many contacts in the Trump administration — and much to Trump’s consternation, Sherman has little compunction in contacting those sources to get the latest insider scuttlebutt to enlighten the world on the president’s latest mood swings and most potent current grudges.

In his latest article, the Vanity Fair columnist painted a bleak portrait of the president’s Memorial Day weekend temperament as witnessed by White House insiders and people close to Trump.

It was a weekend where the president threw an extended cry-baby tantrum as he played the victim card to the full hilt — as if he himself was soon to be among the nearly 100,000 dead Americans, instead of merely a soon to be ex-commander-in-chief.

“’He was just in a ******* rage,’ said a person who spoke with Trump late last week. ‘He was saying, ‘This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great. We were cruising to reelection!”’ Even as the death toll neared 100,000 and unemployment ranks swelled to over 38 million, Trump couldn’t see the pandemic as anything other than something that had happened to him. ‘The problem is he has no empathy,’ the adviser said. Trump complained that he should have been warned about the virus sooner. ‘The intelligence community let me down!’ he said,” Sherman starts his article.

Those psychiatrists who have written of their diagnosis of Trump as suffering from malignant narcissism will recognize all of the symptoms.

Add your name to reject Trump & Republicans’ vile idea of sacrificing seniors’ lives to save the stock market!

The outburst was likely triggered by Trump’s growing realization that his con-man shtick is no longer working and that more than half the country hates his guts (or at least disapproves of his performance as president), as new polls show his popularity plummeting among older voters, women, and, frankly, anyone with half a brain and former Vice President Joe Biden leading by a significant margin in key swing states.

“Trump knows the numbers are bad. It’s why he’s thrashing about,” one Republican familar with the White House’ internal polling data told Sharman.

The beauty of having close White House contacts is that Sherman is able to get insider gossip like the fact that First Lady Melania Trump had more sense when it came to sussing out the early potential dangers of the pandemic than her husband did.

“According to a source, Melania Trump warned the president during their trip to India in February to take the virus response seriously. ‘He totally blew her off,’ the source said. Melania later told people that Trump ‘only hears what he wants to hear and surrounds himself with yes-people and family,’ the source added.”

It’s the ability to find juicy quotes like these that Sherman has built his reputation on and he does not disappoint in this most recent article.

He describes Trump’s moves to shake up his campaign operations today by naming former White House political director Bill Stepien as his new deputy campaign manager and Stephanie Alexander, his Midwest political director, to the position of campaign chief of staff.

According to Sherman:

“The moves are being seen by many in Trumpworld as a demotion for Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who has been at odds with Trump for weeks over his spending and the president’s deteriorating poll numbers. ‘Trump has been screaming at Brad, ‘How many ******* times do I have to tell you I don’t like this! Are you ******* stupid?”’ said a Republican who’s overheard the conversations. (‘Your source is wrong,’ a campaign spokesperson said in an email. ‘The President never said that about Brad.’) ‘Once you get on the wrong side of the mountain with Trump, it’s hard to get back,’ said a Trump friend.”

A former White House official told Sherman that “This is a sign the campaign realized they needed to bring in the big boys.”

Still many people in the administration are beginning to realize that the problem isn’t with the campaign staff but with Trump himself.

“’Trump is doing it to himself by tweeting idiotic conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough. Women are tired of this ****,’ said another former West Wing official. An outside adviser agreed. ‘Trump can’t pivot to a different strategy,’ the adviser told me. ‘He only knows one strategy—which is attack. It worked in 2016. But now it’s not what people are looking for.’ The adviser told me that Trump’s New York friends are planning an intervention to get him to stop tweeting about the Morning Joe cohost,” Sherman writes.

If they are planning an intervention, they had better start quickly since the president was digging that Scarborough hole even deeper today.

Sherman’s closing paragraphs show both the depths to which the president has sunk and that the race is now Biden’s to lose.

“And when he’s not feeling helpless or aggrieved, Trump continues to cling to magical thinking. ‘He lives in his own ******* world,’ the outside adviser said. Trump recently told a friend that the Moderna vaccine is going to be ready in months.”

“At this point many Republicans I spoke to said the only hope for Trump is that Biden implodes. As one prominent Republican put it: ‘Right now the only person who can change the dynamic is Joe Biden.’”

Trump is not only his own worst enemy, but he’s also the biggest danger that America faces — since his ego and incompetence prevents someone with actual management and leadership skills and a respect for science, process, and the rule of law from guiding the ship of state during these perilous times.

Even President Lyndon Johnson at the height of the Vietnam War had the sense to quit the race for re-election when it became clear that he had no path to victory in either the war or at the ballot box.

Donald Trump’s infinite ego won’t allow him to do that, so America will have to suffer through the next six months and wonder whether America’s democracy can survive Trump’s inevitable contention of the results that likely will see him losing by a landslide.

But hey, since when did the popular vote matter anyway? It does when a momentous landslide for Biden is the only way to pry the nuclear football out of Trump’s greedy and desperate hands.

Are they going to allow fact-checkers of all political leanings to annotate anyone's tweets they want?

Are we going to have Republican fact-checkers citing analyses that contradict things that Democrat politicians say, for example?

Are you kidding? Intolerance is the name of the their game.

Well, what's the solution then? I've read they are talking about removing legal protections against being sued. Should they be allowed to keep the legal protections by allowing annotations by anyone?

It basically sounds like Twitter tweets are going to have comment sections for fact-checking by whoever wants to fact check, or they are going to lose legal protections against lawsuits.

Trump’s Net Approval IMPLODES in His Favorite Poll — Down 15 Points in 3 Weeks
By Tommy Christopher
May 27th, 2020, 12:09 pm

President Donald Trump got more bad polling news, as his net approval cratered in a pair of new surveys — including the one he often cites because it typically shows him faring better than others.

Last week, Trump lashed out at Fox News after their poll showed him losing to former Vice President Joe Biden by eight points, and his net approval dropping by 20 points. But on Wednesday, he got even worse approval news from a pair of national polls.

The Politico/Morning Consult poll had his net approval at a whopping minus 17, with 40 percent approving of the job Trump is doing and 57 percent disapproving. That marked a 7-point drop in that poll since May 8, when his net approval was at minus ten.

But in the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, which Trump and his White House frequently cite because Trump tends to overperform in it, the bloodbath was even bloodier. On May 8, Trump was dead even with 49 percent approval and 49 percent disapproval.

Three weeks later, Trump’s net approval has sunk by fifteen points, with 42 percent approval and 57 percent disapproval.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trumps-net-approval-implodes-in-his-favorite-poll-down-15-points-in-3-weeks/

That is how fast it can go back up too. He still has 40% and they will not go away.

Just like George HW Bush who had a 90%+ approval rating and less than 2 years later was a one term President.

Trump is nothing like Bush and that is good for the country.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump:
WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF AMERICANS IS WRONG!


George Conway @gtconway3d:
I’m sure you don’t remember this, didn’t really understand it when you did it, don’t understand it now, and lack the intellectual capacity ever to understand it, but you signed into law Public Law No. 115-118, the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017.