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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2020 11:58:57 GMT
"A toddler threw a self-pitying tantrum on live television on Monday night. Unfortunately he was 73 years old, wearing a long red tie and running the world’s most powerful country." from the Guardian
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2020 4:47:04 GMT
That sums him up. Of course you know about his spiteful withholding of funds from WHO, but now there is this from the egotistical infant creep tyrant: "... stimulus checks from the coronavirus relief package are being delayed so Trump’s name can be printed on them." source
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2020 6:00:37 GMT
He is cleverer than we thought. Just when we think he is going to run out of stupid ideas, he manages to come up with new and different ones.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 15, 2020 6:18:11 GMT
Now pointedly shifting the blame for the devastating effect of Coroavirus in the USA...pointing the finger at the WHO saying that they didn't let the world know how bad the virus was going to be. He's saying that WHO should have investigated in December.
"IT WASNT ME...IT WAS THEM! "
He is a complete arse.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 15, 2020 9:06:34 GMT
He is cleverer than we thought. Just when we think he is going to run out of stupid ideas, he manages to come up with new and different ones. Yes Exactly. Stupid ideas that cost lives.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2020 11:08:10 GMT
I don't understand the American system at all. All those things about "checks and balances" and now Trump can unilaterally decide to cut off funding to the WHO?
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 15, 2020 12:07:43 GMT
That’s what I thought. The amount of power he seems to have is ridiculous.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2020 15:44:40 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2020 16:08:56 GMT
Well, it's sort of like when Trump pulled out of the Cop-21 environmental agreement. He had to wait a year after the announcement to make it official, and then I think there is something like a 3-year transition period to make it effective. By then, he might not be president anymore, so it can all be undone.
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Post by htmb on Apr 15, 2020 16:23:28 GMT
When the Catholic priests and nuns who educated me during my first years in school talked about evil, this is who they meant. If there really is a hell, that’s where he belongs. He has certainly made living here in the US a daily living hell ever since he took office. Just when you think he’s hit an all time low, we find it really can get worse...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 15, 2020 21:01:35 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 16, 2020 6:54:08 GMT
It should be said that the above applies to many other world leaders, including many British ones over the years. Trump is pretty awful tho I have to admit.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 16, 2020 11:47:51 GMT
I'm trying to think of the variations required for Bolsonaro, Orban and Modi.
Pogroms and massacres are de rigueur. And clear-cutting in the first case.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2020 17:44:16 GMT
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Post by htmb on Apr 22, 2020 18:45:38 GMT
The Georgia state line is only an hour and a half drive to the north of me. I can just head on up there Friday and get a haircut.........not!
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2020 18:50:08 GMT
Maybe a tattoo and fake nails then, just before your massage and your trip to the bowling alley?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2020 21:51:46 GMT
She don' need no steenkin' fake nails! In Georgia she'll be able to let someone get up close and personal while digging into her cuticles, etc. SHEESH! Have you all seen this: "... a razor sharp observation made yesterday by George Chidi, a Georgia journalist and former staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Chidi examined Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, tattoo parlors, barbers, nail salons, restaurants, theaters, and massage therapists, among other businesses, next week. Kemp said the businesses would be required to screen workers for illness, increase sanitation rules, separate workspaces by at least six feet, telework where at all possible, and have staggered shifts. He also said that more restrictive local rules could not override his order. Kemp told reporters that his concern was to protect small businesses, hurt by the economic shutdown, but Chidi had a different interpretation. “It’s about making sure people can’t file unemployment,” he wrote. The state’s unemployment fund has about $2.6 billion. The shutdown has made claims skyrocket—Chidi says the fund will empty in about 28 weeks. There is no easy way to replenish the account because Georgia has recently set a limit on income taxes that cannot be overridden without a constitutional amendment. It cannot borrow enough to cover the fund either, because by law Georgia can’t borrow more than 5% of its previous year’s revenue in any year, and any borrowing must be repaid in full before the state can borrow any more. By ending the business closures, Kemp guarantees that workers can no longer claim they are involuntarily unemployed, and so cannot claim unemployment benefits. Chidi notes that the order did not include banks, software firms, factories, or schools. It covered businesses usually staffed by poorer people that Kemp wants to keep off the unemployment rolls." source & full article here: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-21-2020
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Post by questa on Apr 23, 2020 0:43:40 GMT
At what point does "deviousness" become "bastardry"?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2020 0:45:52 GMT
You have to wonder if they're born that way -- they're such stereotypical silent-movie villains.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2020 6:01:53 GMT
I'm pretty sure it was some Georgia mayor I saw being interviewed on CNN yesterday defending the decision to reopen. In any case, some heartless bitch was asked about social distancing in these places and she replied something along the lines of "that's not my problem; that's their problem."
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2020 6:18:39 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2020 6:30:14 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2020 7:36:01 GMT
I was interested to learn (actually I had a vague memory of having read this in the past but I totally forgot it) that the Las Vegas strip is not at all in the city of Las Vegas -- it is unincorporated county land, so she has absolutely no control over it. Of course there are still a number of downtown casinos that she can play with if she gets a chance;
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Post by whatagain on Apr 23, 2020 9:11:49 GMT
On trump I just watched and shared a great video presented as the anthem of anti trump. It is on the music of the lion sleeps tonight and is called the liar tweets tonight. The chores sing 'vote him away vite him away ...' Kind of good actually.
And today trump said he saw light at the end of the tunnel.
The day when the record of death is reached. He should go to an ophtalmo. As churchill said it is not the beginning of the end but may be the end of the beginning. Et encore...
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2020 9:16:25 GMT
Yes, that music video was posted here, on the covid thread, I think.
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Post by bjd on Apr 23, 2020 18:11:15 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 23, 2020 18:28:13 GMT
Yes, I saw Cuomo live on CNN a few hours ago. His response was excellent.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 24, 2020 20:02:47 GMT
Trump torturing another doctor:
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Post by casimira on Apr 30, 2020 13:41:13 GMT
I just heard on NPR that the Trump re-election campaign has come up with a new campaign money raising idea that's going to be available soon. It's a Trump jigsaw puzzle for trumpers to play with during their COVID19 confinement. (statistics show that jigsaw puzzles have been one of the most popular pastimes at this time.) Just as the MAGA hat raised a phenomenal amount of money, the puzzle is their newest merchandising tactic.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 30, 2020 14:13:39 GMT
All of the orange pieces should make it as difficult as jigsaw puzzles that have too much blue sky.
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