Election 2024

From #600

• praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies
• refused to allow the presidential transition to begin
• insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death
• spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president
• falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote
• called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser”
• falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year
• considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions
• mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID
• locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones
• used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus”
• hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser
• pardoned several of his shady associates
• gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories
• got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!)
• had a Secretary of State who called him a moron
• forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history
• botched the COVID vaccine rollout
• tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him
• charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties
• constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate
• claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear
• called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas”
• used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise
• opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling
• got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers
• claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US
• ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings
• blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining
• redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle
• got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters”
• threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution
• botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
• threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them
• pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes
• thought that the Virgin islands had a President
• drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane
• allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing
• rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos
• pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID
• rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers
• held blatant campaign rallies at the White House
• tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man
• refused to attend his successors’ inauguration
• nominated the worst Education Secretary in history
• threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted
• attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci
• promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t)
• allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues
• struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble
• called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ”
• threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders
• went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic
• claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts,”
• seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution
• demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director
• praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles
• completely gutted the Voice of America
• placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service
• claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower
• suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country
• suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public
• overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported
• reduced the number of refugees the US accepts
• insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames
• gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address
• named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties
• eliminated the White House office of pandemic response
• used soldiers as campaign props
• fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him
• demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade
• hired a shit ton of white nationalists
• politicized the civil service
• did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government
• falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts
• claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won
• insulted reporters of color
• insulted women reporters
• insulted women reporters of color
• suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs
• attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him
• summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election
• spent countless hours every day watching Fox News
• refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
• hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer
• tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him
• acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney
• attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault
• held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present
• didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media
• stopped holding press briefings for months at a time
• “ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power
• led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform
• claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers
 
• tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course
• suggested that the government nuke hurricanes
• suggested that wind turbines cause cancer
• said that he had a special aptitude for science
• fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure
• blurted out classified information to Russian officials
• tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida
• fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban
• hired Stephen Miller
• openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them
• interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel
• abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war
• tried to get Russia back into the G7
• held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden
• seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive
• lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated
• falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t
• shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
• still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan
• still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks"
• forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
• told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by”
• fucked up the Census
• withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic
• did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings,” allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act
• seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
• stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win
• constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump
• claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened
• said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake
• claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him
• claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President
• created a commission to whitewash American history
• retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
• claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there
• hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims
• had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others
• bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties
• apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
• stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians
• falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police
• said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about
• tried to rescind protection from DREAMers
• gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic
• tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax
• said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states
• deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented
• claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln
• touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all
• retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile
• forced through security clearances for his family
• suggested that police officers should rough up suspects
• suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs
• tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender
• suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher
• nominated a climate change skeptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy
• retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event
• hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags
• accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address
• claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia
• mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
• obsessed over low-flow toilets
• ordered the re-release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
• called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek)
• hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech
• took advice from the MyPillow guy
• claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists
• said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure
• never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign
• falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent
• announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest
• insulted the leader of Canada
• insulted the leader of France
• insulted the leader of Britain
• insulted the leader of Germany
• insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!)
• falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues
• blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually
• continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders,
• said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked
• left a NATO summit early in a huff
• stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of five knows not to do that
• called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary
• refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise

And a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.
 
Shiftless2 said:
#600 & +
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- fine -
This partial list is not merely useful, but informative. It helps detail the political panorama pending for the next four years. BUT !!

That's about Trump.
Perhaps the real eye opener here is the majority electoral support Trump has received here. How can we explain this?

- A majority of voters are ignorant of this? Or
- a majority of voters are aware of this, but don't care?

Trump got millions of votes.
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Commenting on Donald Trump's going years without paying federal income tax former federal prosecutor former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani said of Trump:

"The man's a genius."

Late night TV comedy host Stephen Colbert replied:

"Yes. Only a genius could lose a $Billion $dollars running a casino."
Shiftless2 said:
"Both" #605
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If the portion of the Trump electorate that knows but doesn't care is a larger fraction of the population than Trump's win margin over Harris,
they're sinking their own boat.

The system they're threatening to destabilize is the very system that brought them (U.S.) to global leadership. It's form of self-abuse that glamorizes masturbating
at the shopping mall.
 
sear said:
Commenting on Donald Trump's going years without paying federal income tax former federal prosecutor former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani said of Trump:

"The man's a genius."
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While many (most?) work very hard to minimize taxes payable they don't brag about it.
 

Trump Advisers Ramp Up Work on Mass Deportation Push​

Story by Michelle Hackman, Andrew Restuccia

Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are drawing up plans to carry out his mass deportation pledge, including discussing how to pay for it and weighing a national emergency declaration that would allow the incoming administration to repurpose military assets to detain and remove migrants.


The behind-the-scenes discussions, which started months before the election and have picked up in the days since Trump’s victory, include policy changes required to increase deportations, according to people working on the presidential transition, members of Congress and others close to the president-elect.

Among the changes: revoking a Biden administration policy directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to pursue immigrants in the country illegally who haven’t committed other crimes, and making changes to the immigration court system to speed up cases. Trump’s allies have said they are planning first to focus on immigrants in the country illegally who have received final orders of deportation from an immigration court, of which there are about 1.3 million, as well as those with other criminal convictions or charges.

Trump’s budding deportation plans are still in flux, the president-elect’s advisers said.

Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the transition, said: ...

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Shiftless2 said:
"While many (most?) work very hard to minimize taxes payable they don't brag about it." S2 #608
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Trump's vanity is insatiable. In his 2016 race didn't Trump boast that he could commit murder, without significant electoral repercussion?

Shiftless2 said:

Trump Advisers Ramp Up Work on Mass Deportation Push​

"Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are drawing up plans to carry out his mass deportation pledge, including discussing how to pay for it and weighing a national emergency declaration that would allow the incoming administration to repurpose military assets to detain and remove migrants." #609
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The expert opinion I'm aware of predict dire consequences to the U.S. economy if Trump comes close to accomplishing this. Illegal labor serves as a low cost, high quality labor source in both agriculture (harvesting crops) and for example, the restaurant business.

To be determined, If these economist's predictions are correct, will Trump back off?
 
Don't know enough about this guy to be able to offer an opinion (though the simple fact that Trump has asked him to serve makes you wonder what Donnie finds appealing)

Donald Trump asks Rep. Mike Waltz to serve as national security adviser​


SOURCE
 
"Oh woe is everything!" Grace06
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Shiftless2 said:
"Donald Trump asks Rep. Mike Waltz to serve as national security adviser" #612
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Trump calls it a "cabinet".
- hyperbole -
It's actually little more than a shoo box.



- bonus bad joke a few days before the full moon -

'We're not going back' Democrat presidential candidate VP Kamala Harris​

www.nbcnews.com

'We're not going back': Some Never-Trump Republicans embrace Harris' 'top cop' persona

Biden had won over anti-Trump Republicans by promising to be a moderate. Harris is now trying to sway those voters to her side.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Alright KamHar,
what do you call it?

An old way forward?

note:
The Western world if not the planet seems to be in a scramble.
The U.S. was unlikely to meet atmospheric Carbon targets even if Democrats controlled the U.S. federal government. BUT !
- Republicans will control the exec, the "white house"
- Republicans will control the senate
- though not yet conclusive, it appears Republicans will also control the house

Not depressing enough?
Try this:
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - During his campaign for re-election, Donald Trump vowed to purge the military of so-called "woke" generals. Now that he is president-elect, the question in the halls of the Pentagon is whether he would go much further.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-trump-presidency-could-lead-purge-pentagon-2024-11-10/
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Members of the U.S. military including our senior military commanders swear an oath of fidelity to the president of the United States AND
to the United States Constitution.

During a second Trump administration the U.S. may be careening toward a series of Constitutional crises.
Let US all hope none of them involve mushroom clouds.
 

Eva Longoria Quits ‘Dystopian, Scary’ America and Relocates Full-Time to Her Homes in Mexico and Spain: ‘I Get To Escape’​

By Charlie Lankston / Nov 14, 2024
Texas-born actress Eva Longoria has joined the growing list of celebrities who have turned their backs on the U.S. and relocated abroad in the wake of Donald Trump‘s election win, revealing in a new interview that she is “done” with life in “dystopian” America and is now based full-time between Spain and Mexico.
www.realtor.com

Eva Longoria Quits 'Dystopian, Scary' America and Relocates Full-Time to Her Homes in Mexico and Spain: 'I Get To Escape'

Texas-born actress Eva Longoria has joined the growing list of celebrities who have turned their backs on the U.S. and relocated.
www.realtor.com www.realtor.com
 
Re #614 - I'm seeing a lot of "good riddance" comments on conservative boards re re her and other celebrities who have made similar statements.
 

Trump Pentagon pick had been flagged by fellow service member as possible 'Insider Threat'​

Story by TARA COPP, MICHELLE R. SMITH and JASON DEAREN

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that's associated with white supremacist groups.


Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and veterans in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and railed against the Pentagon’s subsequent efforts to address extremism in the ranks, has said he was pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration. He's said he was unfairly identified as an extremist due to a cross tattoo on his chest.

This week, however, a fellow Guard member who was the unit’s security manager and on an anti-terrorism team at the time, shared with The Associated Press an email he sent to the unit’s leadership flagging a different tattoo reading “Deus Vult” that’s been used by white supremacists, concerned it was an indication of an “Insider Threat.”

If Hegseth assumes office, it would mean that someone who has said ....

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BTW, if you haven't heard of Mr Wright before:

What to know about Trump's energy secretary nominee Chris Wright​

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If you doubted that Donnie is determined to eliminate any and all positive things that have been accomplished under the Democrats.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"good riddance" conservative boards #615
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"sour grapes"
I may reconsider that for "conservatives" that were equally critical of her before her announced relocation.

Shiftless2 said:

Trump picks Liberty Energy CEO and Oklo board member Chris Wright as Energy secretary #617​

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WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump’s dream came true when Republicans swept control of the House and Senate in the 2024 election, setting up a favorable path for his legislative agenda.
But he could get pushback from a minority of members in his own party, who will likely seek to poke holes in his long to-do list.
As members returned to session this week, snapshots of this opposition crept up in GOP leadership fights, Trump’s closed-door meeting with Republican House members and his picks for cabinet roles, giving a preview of what the next few years could look like.
Standing outside the Hyatt Regency Washington hotel on Wednesday, for instance, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., knocked House Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign policy and labeled him a “neocon” - even after Trump had endorsed Johnson for another term to lead the chamber.
And Trump’s selection of now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., as attorney general prompted immediate backlash and doubt from some Republican senators - including Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine ...
news.yahoo.com

Trump got a red trifecta in Washington. But will he face any Republican Party pushback?

Even amid a unified GOP government, Trump will have to face intra-party detractors when he begins his second term in January.
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Shiftless2 said:
What to know about Trump's energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
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For those that like landscape photography:

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Is this rubble a former Palestinian neighborhood? Or is it a graphic representation of the current ideology of the GOP?

Shiftless2 said:
If you doubted that Donnie is determined to eliminate any and all positive things that have been accomplished under the Democrats. #618
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Rather than Trump expressing his own position, it's rather more like Trump advocates, tries to justify actions, past, present, or future.
It appears Trump enjoys the exercise of power.
 
Trump's picks just keeping "better" ...

House Ethics Committee meeting canceled amid firestorm over Gaetz report​

Story by Mychael Schnell

The House Ethics Committee has canceled its meeting set for Friday morning, two sources confirmed to The Hill, as the panel faces increased pressure to release its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).

Gaetz — who has been under investigation by the panel for roughly three years — resigned from Congress on Wednesday, immediately following his nomination by President-elect Trump to serve as attorney general.


Before Gaetz’s nomination, the committee, known for operating in secrecy, had scheduled a Friday meeting to vote on whether to release its long-awaited report into the Florida Republican. Punchbowl News first reported on the meeting, which a source familiar confirmed to The Hill.

On Tuesday evening, the source said the group was ....

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