The 2020 USA POTUS election politics, the civil war, and the world war (Part 1)

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Michael Cohen’s Daughter Reveals How She Was Sexualized by Donald Trump as a Teen

More about the creep in the White House:

"…it was a hot summer day in 2012 when he was standing with Trump outside the pool area at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, discussing “some pressing business matter, like the size of the breasts of a woman sunbathing on a lounge chair.” Cohen writes that he remembers Trump whistling and looking over at the tennis courts: “Look at that piece of a**,” Trump said. “I’d love some of that.” Little did Trump know, he was talking about Cohen’s then 15-year-old daughter. Cohen turned to Trump and said, “That’s my daughter.”

“That’s your daughter? When did she get so hot?” Trump said. Cohen writes that he didn’t respond but remembered thinking, “Who talks about a man’s daughter in that way?” And when Samantha approached her father and gave him a kiss on the cheek, Trump apparently asked for one too — to which the teen “complied with a tiny peck.” Cohen writes that Trump then offered him a “bro-like bumped fist” after questioning Samantha about her looks. “When did you get such a beautiful figure?” Trump said. “You better watch out because in a few years I’ll be dating one of your friends.”

“My dad always tuned out everything negative Trump said about him, but what I remember was Trump saying, ‘Thank God she got those looks from her mother. She certainly didn’t get them from you,'” Samantha recalled. “I was not desensitized to someone putting down my dad and insulting him and degrading him. That was one of the reasons I hated Trump so much.”

Of course, at least 25 women have accused Trump of rape, sexual assault and/or sexual harassment and we have his own words bragging about adultery and molesting women, so none of this is really new.

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  • President Donald Trump bragged that he protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after the assassination and dismembering of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018.
  • “I saved his ass,” Trump had said amid the US outcry over Khashoggi’s killing, according to Bob Woodward’s new book. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.”
  • The president told Woodward he didn’t believe that MBS ordered Khashoggi’s murder, though the US and other foreign intelligence services concluded that he did order the attack.
  • After Khashoggi’s murder, Trump bypassed Congress to sell roughly $8 billion in arms to the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates. He vetoed a trio of resolutions blocking the sale, as well as a resolution to end US support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
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The Supreme Court, for now, is staying out of a dispute over whether to allow greater mail-in voting in Texas because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The justices on Friday kept in place a lower court order blocking a request from state Democratic leaders to expand the mail option, at least while the case is being litigated.

“The application to vacate stay presented to [Justice Samuel Alito] and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the order said.

So, yes there was a lower court decision unfavorable to Democrats. The matter was taken to the SCOTUS which refused to vacate that unfavorable decision. This means that, following SCOTUS review, the Democrats still lose.

So will the Democrats continue to pursue this? In my view, probably. But I don’t know the intricacies of their legal challenge options going forward.

I do know Trump is pretty happy on this one! :sweat_smile:

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Bahrain today joined the UAE in recognition of Israel. This is the road to peace and Trump’s strategy is causing the dominos to fall.

As you would expect, this went entirely unreported on the nightly news by the American mainstream media propaganda arm of the DNC. This Bahrain outcome is a positive for Trump. Such events are not permitted to be reported this close to the election. I don’t know what they are gonna do if Saudi Arabia gets on board. That would be earth shaking. But they have ignored, or carefully minimized, bigger stuff than that which bolsters Trump. It’s what they do.

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Trump, through Kushner, is essentially formalizing the status quo. To Trump, Iran is America’s enemy. But Iran has a number of nations (relatively) close by that are its enemy. Trump is bringing Iran’s opponents together, using Israel as a marker for them all to assert. Because Iran also detests Israel and seeks its destruction.

My worry, if Trump loses the election, it all will disintegrate. Biden can safely be assumed to favor Iran, as did Obama. Obama also did not like Israel one bit. If Biden returns to that Obama treaty that gives Iran the bomb in five years, well, that will frighten the crap out of Saudi and the rest of these countries wanting now to recognize Israel, all enemies of Iran. I hope we do not switch sides when so much is finally going our way. But it certainly could happen with Biden in the big chair.

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Wonderful news: President Trump’s Rasmussen approval is up to 48%. This is winning territory for our leader. “But how?”, you ask. Simple:

Without question at least half the country detests Trump. But those voters are focused, they are concentrated, in three states: California, New York, and Illinois. Those states are overwhelmingly anti-Trump. But their voters cannot vote in swing states, where their votes would actually matter.

Trump, from the jump, knows he will lose in CA, NY, and IL. Nobody questions that. But with so many anti-Trump votes in those states, and with his popularity and approval high as they are, it does not leave enough Biden voters in all the other states to defeat Trump in those states. If Biden could spread his votes out, if he could put them in states where he needs them, the eventual outcome would be much different. But he cannot. With Trump at 48% approval, Biden is toast.

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Trump’s Administration Secretly Took Millions From FDNY’s 9/11 Health Program

The Trump administration has been quietly pulling money out of a fund for New York City firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11 related illnesses, with nearly $4 million channeled to the federal government, an investigation by Michael McAuliff of The New York Daily News found.

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Can you imagine how persuasive President Trump must be to pull this off? Amazing!

And I was going to mention about posting on multiple threads, but I see that it was an alt. :innocent: Regardless, I’ll post the same response here.

They never say the whole line … “Emails show HHS official trying to muzzle Fauci at a Nationals baseball game as he openly flouted his wear a mask mantra.”

It’s obvious they were trying to protect the people in his “line of fire”. If I thought half of what he said was the truth, I would be appreciative of the attempted muzzling and downright grateful for the successful muzzling.

It’s amazing how much the “press” loves whistleblowers while Trump’s in office. I presume this is about as factual as that moron on the Ukrainian phone call where Trump talked of murdering babies and playing footsie with Margot Hemingway.

There’s that level-headed, reasonable, non-name calling, accepting kind of a ??? that we’ve come to expect.

This may be a big part of the problem. Facts don’t slant. When you’re able to accept that, you’ll be on the way to recovery and … well, something better.

Don’t forget the other link … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton Don’t believe me? Just ask Ron Brown.

Wow! How many whistleblowers does it take to start impeachment? Figure that out, and you’re a quarter of the way to success.

Why? Because he was insincere, an empty suit, a sock puppet? Oh, wait because he really thought you could keep you doctor if you liked your doctor and President Trump changed that policy?

Well it’s about *#&#^ time that somebody notices that the Russians have been trying to interfere with our elections since 1960. Leave it to the purveyors of truth, justice and the proletariat way at Yahoo to break blockbuster news like this.

In case we don’t win the election, here is our ace in the hole. It sure beats corrupt FBI agents who couldn’t pin anything on Trump despite the entire Demorcat membership of Congress and their media wing (NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, way too many to list) and their social media wing (Goo, et al.) pouring resources behind them.

Yes, he could not draw his teary eyes away from the destruction that the violent peaceful protesters are causing every night. To him, I suspect that he looks at it similar to 9/11, but with the added insult that Democrats and the media are encouraging / hiding it.

And now it’s time for payback. That’s right, the Saudi Crown Prince is buying candidate Biden out. That’s why you’ve seen the significant drop in his mental performance over the past year. He needs money for the gas guzzler that he’s burning down the planet with.

As usual, they’re half-right. :wink:

You may want to double check that. The President was disqualified after he signed up. The milspec doctor found the spurs.

As they should. It’s un-American, or it would be if I were king.

Right before she took an economics course.

Are you getting candidate Biden’s supposed disease? Regardless, my response is the same:

And now it’s time for payback. That’s right, the Saudi Crown Prince is buying candidate Biden out. That’s why you’ve seen the significant drop in his mental performance over the past year. He needs money for the gas guzzler that he’s burning down the planet with.

Further info coming in on this … Apparently he used those millions to pay for abortions for the 48 million women he impregnated, trying to compete with Wilt the Stilt.

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I believe you’re in error. Again to some people, the ends justifies the means. This means anything from misquoting someone to, as some in the 30’s learned, keep repeating it until it is true.

He was the first person that I know of to win it on the come.

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I admire that you included the “a few months after” phrase. Unless you have a remarkable memory, you looked it up, as I did. It was, in fact, six months later, and although it wasn’t as supportive of your arguement, I wish you had been more transparent. Regardless, I don’t think most people would consider it a tit-for-tat kind of a thing when separated by that many months.

And I don’t expect you to know this, but if you ever find a drone that can launch a cruise missile, please let me know. :wink:

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Research indicates that sociopaths and psychopaths are less concerned about COVID-19 :crazy_face: :laughing: .

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A serious setback in these last hours has descended upon President Trump and his reelection hopes. I report this with regret. First learned of this news in the night from a Canadian source:

A top aide to US Attorney John Durham, who is probing the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, has resigned from the Department of Justice. A Justice Department source confirmed Friday that the federal prosecutor, Norah Dannehy, has resigned. Dannehy has worked with Durham for years and is a close aide to him. Durham’s office confirmed that Dannehy resigned from the DOJ but did not elaborate on her reasoning. The Justice Department did not comment Friday.

Durham is the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. The Hartford Courant in Connecticut said Dannehy informed colleagues in the New Haven US Attorney’s Office of her resignation Thursday evening but did not elaborate on the reasons.

But the paper also cited sources in saying Dannehy resigned “at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done.”

Her departure could complicate the final stretch of an investigation already slowed by the coronavirus pandemic but eagerly anticipated by President Donald Trump and his supporters to uncover what they see as wrongdoing within the FBI during the Russia investigation. It leaves the investigative team without one of its veteran prosecutors as key decisions presumably await before the probe wraps up.

I’m a big fan of AG Bill Barr. But this is the most important investigation existing today. I question Barr’s having entrusted something this pivotal to a team located in New England, a region of this country riddled with liberals just waiting to harm Trump and his supporters. I’m not impugning Durham himself; not at all. But Barr should have foreseen that there would be people like this woman closeted close to Durham.

After eight years of Obama there are liberal implants throughout government. I’m not at all certain, even if he has another four years, that Trump will be able to root them all out. And certainly in his first two or three years Trump did very little in this regard. He has been slow coming to a realization of the peril these people embody.

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Yeah, I referred to actual Nazis and any of their modern-day supporters (Shandril referred to the actual nazis as well, with reference to the untermenschen or lugenpresse) as “alt-reich”. I name-called them! The horror! Here comes the PC-police to complain. I can’t refer to actual nazis as nazis. They’re people too!
It offends the special snowflakes to call actual Nazis names.
Too bad, one of my grandparents escaped while Hitler was coming to power and later received word from the red cross that the rest of his family “died from over-eating” (standard code for starvation) because they didn’t cooperate with the Nazis. Nazis don’t deserve any respect. Nazi ideology is in direct opposition to what America stands for.

I specifically did NOT say anyone not planning to vote against Trump was part of the “alt-reich” or even part of the alt-right (Two DIFFERENT groups I referred to). Even the alt-right doesn’t even make up the bulk of the remaining RINO voters, though it does make up a plurality of Trump’s “core supporters”.

Facts don’t slant, that’s why I had that in quotes. But that’s what is often implied by the alt-right RINOs. It must be subjective journalism picking on the criminal. It can’t possibly be that the preponderance of the evidence supports that the failure-in-chief warrants focus on the negatives. It’s all distortion, the free press is just “slanting” all the coverage by not solely acting as Trump’s propaganda arm.

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#TrumpEconomy

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Tom Ridge: Whistleblower allegation against Trump should outrage all Americans

"If the allegations made this week by a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower are correct — that a senior intelligence analyst was told to stop providing intelligence reports on the threat of Russian interference in the 2020 election because it “made the president look bad” — it should make anyone who had the privilege and responsibility to brief a U.S. president furious, and it should make all Americans shudder.

As my role transitioned from a presidential adviser to the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, my appreciation for the work of American intelligence officers only grew. These men and women are true patriots, with those in the field risking their lives to bring back critical information that forms the daily threat assessments used to shape decisions made at the highest levels of government. I can promise you that information saved lives.

Brian Murphy, the DHS official who had been in charge of intelligence and analysis at DHS, said he was told not only to stand down on reporting, he also alleged that he was told to modify intelligence reports, including about white supremacists to bring them in line with President Trump’s public comments. Thankfully, he said he refused that direction.

This episode is yet another example of how President Trump continues to undermine and erode the trust of the American public in our system of government. This is the same man who routinely pronounces that the only way he will lose re-election is if the election itself is rigged. It is hard to imagine a more un-American and fraudulent statement from an incumbent president."

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What about an extra ~35,000 days?

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This episode is yet another example of how President Trump continues to undermine and erode the trust of the American public in our system of government.

It’s kind of like those nasty attack ads. Get the required “I approve this message” out of the way at the top, then after the nastiness everyone has forgotten who approved it and only remember the nasty stuff. Get the “if it’s true” qualifier out of the way quickly, then you can ramble on and on with the premise that it is true and everyone forgets the “if” part. It’s what you do when you’re not all that sure the claims can be taken at face value, but want to push the narrative anyways.

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See? Trump’s Post Office is getting done what a dozen previous presidents were unable to accomplish!

(You walked into that one :wink: )

I’m going to run out and mail my 2118 ballot now, just to make sure it’s received in time. What you think your grandkid’s name will be, so I can write it in properly?

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Really? Whistleblowers and confirmed (but not publicly named) sources have long been a necessary part of a functioning free society and a functioning free press.

On the other hand, this seems more like the behavior you’re describing:

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Looking at the back and forth (2.8k posts later) with everyone quoting only articles supporting their favorite horse in the race, I just wondered if anyone’s position on this election changed (ignoring echo chamber-type reinforcements) in favor of the other candidate?

Local newspaper here ran a poll in April and another last week asking the same few question to the same people they polled in April. Only 2.3% of respondents changed their prospective vote and not all in the same direction so net change was 0.7% (for Biden if it matters). But it made me wonder if the election is not already decided. You’d think a lot happened since April when outlook was about as dark as it could be with the whole State shutdown, unemployment skyrocketing, shortages of necessities, etc…

But if 5 months moved the needle less than 1%, this whole campaign of spending billions and tons of volunteer time and effort to essentially preach to the choir seems less and less wise an investment. So is this a fluke of something that’s been the same across the whole country?

P.S.: FWIW, my own vote has not changed either since April even though I was not polled. :wink:

P.P.S: I forgot to mention that the article was putting the lack of movement on both Trump and Biden being relative well known commodities at this point so it argued that many people had had time to make up their minds back in April where as previous elections had more uncertainty on the candidates. I’m not convinced this is accurate but it’s worth entertaining.

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Many had a very rosy outlook in April. The plan at that point looked like a few weeks or months of pain (the public covered by stimulus, paid for by the public), then the virus would be at negligible containment levels and we could use ramped up testing/ contact tracing and get back near to normal. That was this administration’s publicly released plan with reasonable gating between phases of resuming activities. Then the admin bashed states following the administration’s own plan and pushed for ignoring it completely.

After six months of sacrifices being completely squandered through incompetence… we’re still in a painful quagmire with no end in sight.
Now we’re at the start of flu season with continued out of control spread, over 200k deaths, and companies in many industries approaching (or already gone over) the waterfall to bankruptcy. Which only means more and more jobs are unlikely to return anytime soon.

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