the U.S. government has spent $1.2 million at Trump’s properties around the world throughout his presidency. At least $238,000 of that stemmed from Trump’s adult children’s visits as they requested Secret Service protection,
I don’t blame him for going on auto-pilot through this. He knows that the hearings are just for show and she will be duly rubber stamped no matter what. So why should he put energy into it when he has his own re-election effort to sustain instead. Makes sense.
By the way, does anyone know what happened to the Rassmussen daily poll? It was always very close but maybe 2-3% more favorable towards Trump than other polls and then suddenly Biden leads Trump by 12% on their daily poll? Did they change sampling methodology, maybe changing how they determined who likely voters are? That just seemed too big a shift to be simply about Trump tanking or Biden convincing tons of voters suddenly.
I’m just curious if they hinted at change in polling method if anyone has heard.
Not really, its not a good look for his campaign. Especially when one of his opponent’s big ad lines is “Lindsey just doesnt care any more.” What better way to back up that claim.
I go to a black owned coffee shop for coffee where the clientele is mostly black, the location is very convenient for me. I’m often the only white person in there, and I’m usually there for an hour or two. We talk a lot of politics in there.
The coffee shop hosted a Black outreach event for Trump during the 2016 election, hosted by Omarosa herself back when she was on Trumps campaign team, because the owner was a Trump fan. Let me tell you how many people there now support Trump: one.
It is possible you are too young to remember Pravda and Izvestia.
Never. Ever.
Fools believe such things. Many people do not have inquiring minds.
Is it the owner?
Definitely not the first time. I cannot imagine brain addled Biden sitting across the table from any foreign leader and trying to conduct a conversation face to face. If elected, he will embarrass our country big time. We will be a laughingstock for having elected a senile old man as POTUS. And this is becoming worse as campaign intensity mounts.
Not the owner. A customer.
“Will the Trump haters finally admit there is a media bias that has helped form their negative perception of Trump?”
The biggest promoters of what Trump says? The mainstream media that Republicans like to cry about.
I’m bummed I missed out on the abortion debate a week ago. Can we revive it now that I’m on here, or is it over?
You’re correct, right up until…
You seem like you know how the Supreme Court works, so I don’t understand how you could make this statement. Abortion cases arrive at the Supreme Court when states restrict abortions (usually by restricting abortion providers). But no state has had the balls to flat out outlaw abortion because they know it would essentially go nowhere. What they do is chip away at abortion providers like TX and LA did in the last two cases that made it to SCOTUS that simply required abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges. Both of those states lost their cases. They could have won them without Roe being overturned because, keep in mind, Roe is not the law of the land anymore. Planned Parent v. Casey is. The (ridiculous) standard we now use is that a law cannot create an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to an abortion. The right to an abortion is assumed because of Roe, yes. But the standard we use to determine if an abortion restriction is constitutional is the undue burden test.
Could the court overturn Roe on the next case where a state tries to defend their abortion restriction? Unlikely, but yes. At that moment that 5 justices write that there is no longer a right to an abortion under the 14th amendment, abortion only becomes illegal in states that have passed laws making it illegal. Are there a few states in the South that still have those laws on the books written before the early 70s and never repealed them after Roe? Maybe. But I predict even the most Red states will be forced, through the political process, to allow abortions for some number of weeks. There are many abortion methods. The is no political will on the Right to make abortion pills illegal, for instance. Could we see states like Wyoming, Mississippi, and North Dakota outlaw surgical abortions completely? Maybe, but just them. Very few Republicans would have the balls to do that, even at the state level. And then, it only as permanent as long as the Republicans in that retain a majority in the State legislature. Most majority Republican states would likely just shorten the time period abortion is allowed. The most onerous restriction I could see passing would be limiting abortions only to cases of rape, incest, or fetal abnormality. But even that would be difficult politically.
@scripta I’m curious, why exactly do you think there should be a right to have (or perform) an abortion? I only read the last 7 days or so of abortion debate on here, so I apologize if this was already covered. If it was, please just direct me to the correct post.
Correction: we are a laughingstock for having elected a senile old man as POTUS.
Because I believe that pregnancy is an entirely private undertaking, and society should have no say in how or if it is conducted. It is nobody’s effing business except for the parents-to-be (mostly the mother), especially because we as a society do not have a problem reproducing, we have the opposite problem (I fully accept that if humans were going extinct and inability to reproduce was the cause, then it would make sense to severely restrict abortion).
I consider a legal requirement to carry a fetus to term as egregious as legalizing rape or slavery. It literally forces innocent people to suffer physical and mental abuse against their desires. I’m also repulsed by the religious influences on the subject (as someone who studied just enough neuroscience and artificial intelligence, I find the idea of “ensoulment” so absurd, I can’t even). I obviously agree that human life must be protected, I just think the needs of the mother outweigh the needs of society until the child is born. I also do not believe that any reasonable (not mentally deficient) woman would ever have a late term abortion on a whim, and that all such abortions are performed only because the mother is at risk or the fetus couldn’t survive or have a good quality of life due to some condition or complication.
Since when does Fox News represent the entirety of “mainstream media”? I’m talking about the dozens of other mainstream outlets, that blatantly drop the “illegal” from comments about deporting “illegal immigrants”, spin “maybe they’ll develop a treatment that can be injected to disinfect your blood” into “drink bleach!”, etc, etc, etc. Right up to harping about Trump’s “tardiness” arriving at the debate while not mentioning how Biden arrived hours after Trump, and glossing over Biden’s “I wont answer that until after the election, voters dont deserve an answer”.
That article itself was full of disinformation. And it has absolutely nothing to do with my comment.
Next faux controversy? Hilarious it’s the only attack the alt- right extremists behind Trump could manufacture in all this time.
What’s the controversy, and what’s being manufactured?
He’s refused to answer, saying that voters don’t deserve an answer before the election. That’s not manufactured. Trump gets crucified mercilessly for not answering a similar question. That isn’t manufactured.
Besides, when the time comes, it really doesn’t matter what either of them has said previously. The real faux controversy is what the media has manufactured.
Perhaps a combination of the first presidential debate -where it became clear Biden isn’t senile as Trump’s campaign has suggested- plus Trump’s handling of his own covid-19 illness? Just a thought…
They’re a completely unreliable polling firm, they basically make up the results of every one of their “polls”. Where will anyone get in speculation of their reason for changing their results?
IMO it’s pointless to ask why a palm-reader changed their “prediction”.
538’s silver was asked about this (Rasmussen’s change) a few weeks ago, gave a similar answer.