The 188th Week of Trump's Torment!

[KeithD]

Katie Porter for Kamala Harris's Senate seat.

 

[JackLuis]

Democrats demand Mitch McConnell bring Senate back into session to ‘protect USPS and our election’

After Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Sunday she was calling members back from recess to Washington, D.C. early to address the “devastating effects” of President Donald Trump’s efforts to “sabotage” the November election by using the United States Postal Service to disenfranchise voters, Democrats in the upper chamber urged GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to follow suit.

“Good for Nancy Pelosi for bringing the House back. I believe that Mitch McConnell needs to bring the Senate back as well. I called for that publicly yesterday,” Warren said. “People depend on the post office. We’re depending on it for our democracy, for votes, but people also depend on it to get their retirement checks and their Social Security. People depend on it to get medications through the mail.”

 

[KeithD]

Wonder how Moscow Mitch gets his checks from Russia and his wife gets hers from China. If in the mail . . .

 

[phrodeau]

Wonder how Moscow Mitch gets his checks from Russia and his wife gets hers from China. If in the mail . . .

Direct deposit, surely.

 

[JackLuis]

Ex-Trump official has opened the door for other aides to spill the beans on the president: conservative

In her column for the Washington Post, conservative Jennifer Rubin said that former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor’s admission that Donald Trump is doing irreparable damage to the United States that came on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention was an invitation to like-minded White House staffers past and present to come forward and expose behind the scenes shenanigans.

In the video, released by Republican Voters Against Trump, Taylor explained, “We would go in to try to talk to him about a pressing national security issue — a cyber attack, a terrorism threat — he wasn’t interested in those things.To him, they weren’t priorities,” and added Trump’s actions were “terrifying.”

Calling Taylor’s warning “compelling,” Rubin suggested that now would be a good time for anyone who has worked for the president to come clean.

Republicans will pay a heavy price for their cowardice!

 

[JackLuis]

‘She gets fawning reviews’: Trump whines Michelle Obama was in ‘over her head’ after blockbuster DNC speech

"President Donald Trump on Tuesday reacted to former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech with scorn. “She was [in] over her head,” Trump said during a pardoning ceremony for Susan B. Anthony. “And frankly, she should have made the speech live which she didn’t do. She taped it and it was not only taped, it was taped a long time ago because she had the wrong [COVID-19] deaths.”

“If you gave a real review, it wouldn’t be so fawning,” he continued. “I thought it was a very divisive speech, extremely divisive. We have a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for my campaign.”

Trump lashes out at Michelle Obama after her DNC speech earns rave reviews


‘She ended you’: Internet piles on Trump for snarling tweet aimed at Michelle Obama

Donnie boy whines and squirms as the country points and laughs!

 

[JackLuis]

Morning Joe pinpoints the moment when Michelle Obama absolutely nailed Trump

On Tuesday morning the panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” immediately began lavishing praise on former first Lady Michelle Obama for putting a capper on the first night of the Democratic National Convention with a widely heralded talk with America.

After showing a clip of the former first lady saying, “Whenever we look to this White House for some leadership or consolation or any semblance of steadiness, what we get instead is chaos, division, and a total and utter lack of empathy. If you take one thing from my words tonight, it is this: if you think things cannot possibly get worse. trust me, they can and they will if we don’t make a change in this election. If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it,” the MSNBC host said that moment likely struck home with 2020 voters.

“It’s fascinating that four years later, Donald Trump’s message has been turned on its head,” Scarborough observed. “Not just by Michelle Obama, but by 150, 160, 170,000 deaths. What did Donald Trump say to African-Americans, what did he say to black voters four years ago, ‘what do you have to lose?'”

"What do you have to lose?" How about your job, your house, everything you've worked for the last 20 years, your life and your system of government. Isn't that enough?

 

[JackLuis]

Blame enough to go around!


Morning Joe’s Mika buries Jared Kushner for touting COVID success while the bodies pile up

“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski lambasted White House senior advisor Jared Kushner on Tuesday morning for boasting on CNN on Monday that the Donald Trump administration has the coronavirus pandemic well in hand and things are looking up.

“Wow,” she began after silently staring at her monitor. “Jared Kushner just completely rewriting how they responded to the pandemic, which was to not take it seriously and say it was going to go away and to not mobilize the Defense Production Act and get testing nationalized for the people and do contact tracing and do what other countries did to bring the numbers down so kids could go back to school.”

“And at 170,000 dead that’s not good news,” she continued. “That from the guy who said on national television months ago by July ‘we’ll be rocking and rolling again.’ If this is rocking and rolling, I don’t know what good news looks like because this is not good and we are headed in the wrong direction.”

This is why nepotism is bad!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s USPS slowdown could backfire among the rural voters he desperately needs: election forecaster

President Donald Trump’s postmaster general has implemented policies that even he has admitted have slowed down mail delivery throughout the United States.

While there is no definitive proof that the delivery slowdown is part of a plan to sabotage the United States Postal Service in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, one elections forecaster this week presented new polling data showing that such a plan could massively backfire among the rural voters the president desperately needs to turn out for him.

Overall, the poll found that 57 percent of likely voters in these areas they they’d be “less likely to support a candidate who reduced the budget for the U.S. Postal Service,” while 51 percent of voters said they were “concerned” about changes recently made to USPS. Additionally, 52 percent of these voters say they are “very” or “somewhat” reliant on USPS for service.

Trump's worst enemy is Donald J. Trump!

 

[JackLuis]

Here is Trump’s four-point plan to use the USPS to rig the 2020 presidential election

Donald Trump is practically daring us to nab him in the act. That’s how obvious and unequivocal his latest conspiracy to cheat in the 2020 election happens to be. We all see it happening, we know what he’s doing and we know exactly why. The crisis is so urgent that it requires us to compile, step-by-step, a complete picture of his plot to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service and, with it, the election. That’s what I’d like to do here today, so let’s get started.

Too long to quote, but well worth the read to see Lumpy's plans for vote rigging.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump's woman troubles continue!


Trump ‘hit a buzzsaw’ when he attacked popular Michigan governor — now he’s paying the price: Biden pollster

A pollster working for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said that President Donald Trump made a major miscalculation when he attacked popular Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

In an interview with Politico, Biden pollster John Anzalone said that Trump has been struggling in the crucial swing state of Michigan in recent weeks, in part because he has been getting into public feuds with Whitmer, who has earned high marks in the state for her efforts to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

“He took on a fight he probably should not have taken on in my client, Gretchen Whitmer,” he said. “I think it hurt him early on in the coronavirus [pandemic]. You know, she has a job rating that’s in the low 60s, he has a job rating below 50 percent on the coronavirus. So he hit a buzzsaw there, and I don’t think voters liked that.”

Anzalone went on to say that Michigan “is in a good place” at the moment, but warned that “we have a lot of work to do,” while also saying that the campaign isn’t taking anything for granted.

 

[JackLuis]

8-18-20 AM
Box Scores

United States
Coronavirus Cases: 5,621,396

Deaths: 174,076

Recovered: 2,974,803

On track for 337,284 total Deaths

 

[KeithD]

Direct deposit, surely.

At Deutsche Bank?

 

[bodysong]

John Fugelsang ✓
Twitter › JohnFugelsang

Nobody tell Trump that the one demographic you want to anger the least
is the US postal workers. And nobody's ever tried to enrage all of them
at the same time.

11 minutes ago

 

[JackLuis]

Warnings of GOP attempt to ‘control the narrative’ as Senate Republicans set hearing with DeJoy just ahead of House testimony

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson announced Tuesday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy—a major donor to the GOP—will testify at a virtual Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Friday, just days ahead of DeJoy’s scheduled appearance before the Democrat-controlled House Oversight Committee.

The timing of the planned Senate hearing—and Johnson’s stated reasons for inviting DeJoy to testify—immediately sparked concerns that the GOP is attempting preempt the House panel’s questioning and put its own spin on the postmaster general’s disruptive and possibly illegal changes to the U.S. Postal Service’s operations ahead of the November elections.

“Republicans scheduled the hearing with DeJoy before his appearance on Monday at the House hearing clearly to try to control the narrative and say all of his changes were reasonable and in good faith.”
—Vanita Gupta, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

 

[JackLuis]

Trump Busted By the GOP!!!

‘This is what collusion looks like’: GOP-led Senate report ‘far more devastating’ than Mueller probe

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on its bipartisan Russia investigation revealed even more numerous contacts between President Donald Trump’s advisers and Russian operatives than former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

The committee, which is chaired by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Tuesday released its fifth and final report, totaling nearly 1,000 pages, following a three-year bipartsian investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The report documents the extent to which Russia sought to influence the election — and members of Trump’s team welcoming their assistance.

‘Devastating’: Morning Joe panel stunned by depth of Trump criminality exposed in GOP Russia report

During a long “Morning Joe” panel discussion on the Russia report compiled by a GOP-led Senate committee released on Monday, the panel seemed stunned by how many members of Donald Trump’s administration who were implicated in not only working with Russia, but also who lied to investigators about it.

With MSNBC legal analyst Ben Wittes calling the nearly thousand-page report “devastating” to Trump, co-host Joe Scarborough ticked off the crimes alleged in Senate investigators.

“I mean, he had time to think through it and still committed that,” he said of the president’s written responses to the special counsel’s questions. “And then again, that you go through all of these people — Trump’s foreign policy adviser lied about contacts with Russia. His national security adviser lied about contacts with Russia. His campaign chairman lied about contacts with Russia. His deputy campaign chairman lied under oath, all of them under oath, about contacts with Russia. His personal lawyer lied about contacts with Russia under oath. His political consultant lied about contacts with Russia under oath. and his attorney general lied before Congress under oath.”

“And of course — and yesterday, Republicans concluded that the president of the United States lied under oath to federal investigators about his campaign’s contacts with Russia,” he concluded, “Boy, that’s some [Russia] hoax.”

1,000 pages of TREASON!

Pdf of the whole Report (redacted)
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf

 

[JackLuis]

Trump dropped into Iowa — and didn’t even try to understand the devastation

Amid the rubble of uprooted trees and fallen power lines, my teenage son set up his climate strike protest last Friday for the 79th consecutive week, holding up a wobbly handmade sign: “Wake up, Iowa. Climate action plan now.”

We were still without electricity or internet on Friday morning, four days into riding out the aftermath of the hurricane-level “derecho” storm that devastated a 770-mile swath of the heartland from South Dakota to Ohio, and left a million residents without power, along with widespread damage.

It also left an estimated 40% of Iowa’s corn crop in ruins, flattening millions of acres and the state’s key economic generator in a matter of minutes.

We were the lucky ones. In his 30-minute briefing at an Iowa airport on Tuesday, President Trump didn’t bother to tour the storm damage in Cedar Rapids, where tens of thousands of residents have remained without power, water and shelter, camping in tents along the streets as extreme weather refugees in an undeniable humanitarian crisis.

 

[JackLuis]

8-19-20 AM
Box Scores

United States

Coronavirus Cases: 5,656,744

Deaths: 175,105

Recovered: 3,012,050

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Trump gives a horrifying answer when pressed on support from unhinged conspiracy cult

When President Donald Trump sees an inferno, his instinct is to pour gasoline on it.

Though his performances in the White House briefing room have already stretched the country’s capacity to be shocked, the president gave an exceptionally reckless and dangerous answer to a reporter on Wednesday when asked about QAnon.

The conspiracy theory behind the QAnon movement holds that Trump is secretly working to dismantle a satanic child trafficking ring at the upper echelons of society. It is completely out of touch reality, and the FBI has cited it in a bulletin warning of dangerous conspiracy theories that pose domestic extremist threats. It warned:

"The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts."

“The QAnon movement appears to be gaining a lot of followers,” a reporter said. “Can you talk about what you think about that, and what you have to say to people who are following this movement right now?”

“Well, I don’t know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much,” he said. “Which I appreciate. But I don’t know much about the movement. I have heard that it is gaining in popularity.”

"Me me me me" says Trumpski!

 

[JackLuis]

Here’s why ’embarrassed’ Trump won’t accept the election results if he loses in November

On Wednesday, writing for The Washington Post, Philip Bump broke down the significance of President Donald Trump’s ongoing refusal to commit to accepting the election results — a refusal that Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany echoed to reporters earlier in the day.

His attempts to attack the political process goes back to 2016, wrote Bump: “He’s repeatedly made the nonsensical claim that his huge loss in California was a function of fraud, meaning that millions of votes would somehow have been illegally cast without detection. He’s also repeatedly claimed that the results in New Hampshire were tainted by fraud, a claim unsupported by any evidence and which has repeatedly been rejected by officials in the state and by outside analysis of the vote.”

I suggest four companies of the 82nd Airborne DIv march in the inauguration parade and be on standby to "escort" PeeResident Trump to the Capitol for Joe's searing in.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Not even Oreos are safe’: Reporter lays out all the products Trump has called for boycotting

On Wednesday, writing for The Daily Beast, reporter Pilar Melendez laid out all of the times President Donald Trump has called for boycotting products — remarking that “not even Oreos are safe.”

“The MAGA president has urged his supporters to cancel a long list of products or institutions, usually launching his rallying cry on Twitter,” wrote Melendez. “On Wednesday, he added to the ever growing list, discouraging Americans from buying Goodyear tires after the company apparently told Kansas employees in a presentation slide that MAGA attire (or any other political causes) were not allowed, while Black Lives Matter and LGBT causes were.”

 

[JackLuis]

Trump blasts McConnell over timing of Senate hearing with postmaster general

President Donald Trump blasted Republicans Wednesday on Twitter -- tagging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a rare move -- for "allowing the Democrats to have ridiculous Post Office hearings on Saturday & Monday, just before and during our Convention" as Democrats revisit questions surrounding the selection process of Trump's controversial postmaster pick.

Under mounting concerns with mail-in voting and increased scrutiny in recent weeks for enacting a series of measures meant to streamline the Postal Service, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to testify at a GOP-controlled Senate hearing on Friday and a Democratic House hearing on Monday -- the first day of the Republican National Convention.

"Let them hold them NOW (during their Convention) or after our Convention is over. Always playing right into their hands," Trump said in a tweet, tagging McConnell.

If Mitch switches sides, Trump is finished!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump says "we'll look at" treating COVID with an untested, toxic plant extract touted by MyPillow CEO

Trump says "we'll look at" treating COVID with an untested, toxic plant extract touted by MyPillow CEO

August 18, 2020 / 7:08 PM / CBS News

President Trump suggested he's open to looking at a botanical extract being touted by a major donor, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, as a treatment for COVID-19, even though it comes from a poisonous plant and there have been no medical studies to show if it's safe or effective in people.

Asked on Monday by CBS News' Paula Reid whether he's urging the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the use of oleandrin, extracted from the Nerium oleander plant, to treat the virus, the president responded, "No, I haven't." He added, "I've heard of it, yes."

And he asked Reid, "Is it something that people are talking about very strongly? We'll look at it."

Should Trump try it first, so we know it's safe?
Science for 100 years says NO!

 

[JackLuis]

ICE Feeds Muslim Detainees Some Jesus-Fried Pork

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Florida has been giving Muslim immigration detainees a choice for their meals: They can either "choose" standard pre-packed meals that contain pork, or they can opt for pre-packaged halal meals that are years past their expiration dates and rotting. That's according to a letter sent to officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security by attorneys working with two civil rights groups, Muslim Advocates and Americans for Immigrant Justice.

The whole thing is disgusting, just one more reminder that in Trump's America, the cruelty is the point.

According to the letter from the two groups and law firm King and Spalding, ICE's Krome Service Processing Center in Miami has only offered expired, rotting halal meals to Muslim detainees for more than two years, even though the detainees had pointed out the meals had expired in 2017 and that those who ate them had become ill. If detainees declined the halal option, they'd get fresh, pre-plated meals, but at least two to three times a week, those meals contained pork.

Say, would this be a goof place to mention that people in ICE detention are mostly awaiting action in immigration court, and possible deportation, and those are civil matters — these are not convicts, or they'd be in the prison system. Hell, if they were imprisoned, there might be more concern for their rights. Well, okay, probably not.

 

[JackLuis]

Ohio officials tear into Trump’s ‘despicable’ Goodyear boycott: ‘You’re coming to destroy the American economy’

After President Donald Trump’s call to boycott Goodyear tires over their policy limiting the wearing of political apparel by employees at work, officials in Akron, Ohio, where the company is based, were quick to hit back, according to KHOU 11.

Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan replied directly to the president, condemning his statement and using a GIF of Ohio native LeBron James.

City of Akron, Ohio
@AkronOhioMayor
First, you came to destroy American decency. Next, you came to destroy American institutions. Now you're coming to destroy the American economy and heartland jobs. Luckily you seem to fail at everything you do.