America is waving a big stick at everyone. Trump is doing the Kim Jong Un dance ODT)
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This executive order is more an act of strident protest and petulance rather than anything effectual. ICC officials are concerned but undeterred. Magnitsky remains the spectre at the feast; but he would surely find this latest chapter both comical and slightly absurd. “Asset freezes and travel bans are for human rights violators, not those seeking to bring human violators to justice,” insisted an alarmed Richard Dicker, international justice director at Human Rights Watch. The human rights defenders have become the sanctioned ones.
Verification of known facts Sarah Palin was a Mensa genius compared to Donald Trump (ODT)
via John Bolton’s bombshell Trump book: eight of its most stunning claims | Donald Trump | The Guardian
But on Monday, Trump got similarly bad news from a much friendlier source. Just the News, an outlet started by media ally John Solomon, released a new survey with longtime pro-Trump pollster Scott Rasmussen.
According to this poll, Trump is 12 points behind Biden, 36-48. This is pretty devastating — it’s in territory that essentially guarantees the electoral college won’t save Trump, and even wide bands of a margin of error don’t help him much. It’s just one poll, of course — but in combination with the CNN survey and many others showing Trump’s approval falling, things are looking bleak for the president. It remains possible he could recover from these depths, but it’s clear he needs a change of course.
Trump administration sues to block John Bolton book
One America News, a far-right cable channel that rounds up internet conspiracy theories for its viewers, has spent the past week trying to smear Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old Catholic peace activist who was assaulted by Buffalo police officers at a protest against police brutality, and remains hospitalized with a brain injury.
The channel’s obsessive focus on Gugino is part of a wider effort to tarnish protests against racism and police violence that OAN has pursued for years. In 2016, one of its hosts denounced the Black Lives Matter movement as “a farce.” On Monday, a black college football star, Chuba Hubbard, described his coach’s decision to wear an OAN T-shirt as “unacceptable” and “completely insensitive to everything going on in society.”
Although OAN’s reporting on Gugino has been filled with glaring factual errors, misleading characterizations and innuendo scraped from the lower depths of the internet, its smears have been amplified on Twitter by President Donald Trump.
via Trump’s Favorite Channel, OAN, Lies About Buffalo Protester
- ABC News says Trump expected to file suit seeking injunction
- The Room Where It Happened due for publication next week
Trump the American role model of irresponsibility (ODT)
But the decision to pull the trigger now was driven, in large part, by the mass anti-racism protests that
via Donald Trump rally a ‘dangerous move’ as coronavirus cases spike in US
“Over the last two weeks, support for Black Lives Matter increased by nearly as much as it had over the previous two years, according to data from Civiqs, an online survey research firm,” Cohn and Quealy wrote. “By a 28-point margin, Civiqs finds that a majority of American voters support the movement, up from a 17-point margin before the most recent wave of protests began.”
“Public opinion didn’t even shift this fast in support of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s,” noted Luntz.
There are also clear signs Trump isn’t handling the moment well. His approval rating has fallen since the protests began. And Joe Biden’s lead over the president in head-to-head polls has increased over the same period. Meanwhile, 67 percent of Americans say that Trump has increased racial tensions, according to a poll from NPR, PBS, and Marist
Trump has attacked the UN, WHO now the ICC insistin America is a law unto it’s ow with no International responsibilities. He Trule is modeling America on Nth Korea (ODT)
The Trump administration is launching an economic and legal offensive on the international criminal court in response to the court’s decision to open an investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan carried out by all sides, including the US.
In Trumps purview the 75 year old Antifa agent provocatuer is to blame for everything. Just as the banks were for his 6 bankruptcies and the women that acred up when he grabbed their pussies (ODT)
The economists of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the group that determines when recessions begin and end, have officially declared that we are in a recession, which started in February, ending the longest economic expansion the nation has experienced.
Their working definition of recession is “a decline in economic activity that lasts more than a few months.” In a statement, the panel said “The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this episode as a recession, even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions.”
via The Smirking Chimp | News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Don really lives in the bunker of his own mind and shames America in the process.(ODT)
Trump’s paying to Refute the Polls to placate the Republicans who have turned against him.(ODT)
KKK left Blacks hanged in trees for the public to see. Now Trump posts tweets about how great it is to see his secret service boys and their dogs prepare for so much FUN with such eagerness.
via How Tear Gas Became the White Supremacist’s Favorite Poison – Mother Jones
“The United States would normally condemn this tactic if used by dictators of other countries, and its use here directly threatens our democracy.”
We saw Bashar, Saddam, Qaddafi, do it and now Trump is following in their footsteps (ODT)
via Trump’s Plan to Use the Military to “Dominate” American Cities Must Be Stopped
Trump could sit on live TV, peeing his pants and whimpering that the protesters are coming for him, and his base would stick by him and claim to see courage in the urine puddles below his chair, just so long as he keeps the racism and the lib-triggering coming. They know he’s a “Bunker Boy,” but will pretend they don’t see it until the bitter end.
Guys, we found an instance of voter fraud and it is pretty blatant! This person tried to use an out-of-state address to get a mail in ballot for Florida. You can’t do that – it is FRAUD! VOTER FRAUD! The exact thing that Donald Trump and the Republicans warned us about.
But wait. Who was this criminal? This scammer? This evil liar who should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? This person trying to stuff the ballot box from afar?
IT IS NONE OTHER THAN DONALD J. TRUMP!
via Guess Who Got Caught Trying To Commit Voter Fraud? | Crooks and Liars
Trump denies use of tear gas on Washington DC protesters
But in the case of the George Floyd protests, right-wing attempts to blame everything on antifa – perceived by many to be predominantly white – evince a kind of racism that assumes that black people couldn’t organise on this deep and wide of a scale. Trump and his allies also have a more specific motive: If the flames and broken glass were simply blamed on “antifa” or “outsiders” – as if anyone had to travel very far to protest – then the urgency would shift from addressing the root causes of Floyd’s death to figuring out how to stop the shadowy boogeyman Trump rails against. Even if you disagree with property destruction, it’s easy to see the chain of events between Floyd’s death and burning police cars. Trump’s misinformation aims to mislead us all.
via What is antifa and why does Donald Trump want to blame it for the violence in the US?
Donald Trump is attempting to drum up hysteria about antifa to clamp down on protest and dissent in the United States. Don’t let him.
via Donald Trump’s “Antifa” Hysteria Is Absurd. But It’s Also Very Dangerous.
Republicans have, as I said, spent decades exploiting racial hostility to win elections despite a policy agenda that hurts workers. But Trump is now pushing that cynical strategy towards a kind of apotheosis.
On one side, he’s effectively inciting violence by his supporters. On the other, he’s very close to calling for a military response to social protest. And at this point, nobody expects any significant pushback from other Republicans.
Now, I don’t think Trump will actually succeed in provoking a race war in the near future, even though he’s clearly itching for an excuse to use force. But the months ahead are still likely to be very, very ugly.
After all, if Trump is encouraging violence and talking about military solutions to overwhelmingly peaceful protests, what will he and his supporters do if he looks likely to lose November’s election?
via ‘A terrifying performance’: Donald Trump is close to inciting civil war
Trump’s excuse that Antifa is behind the mass uprising is just that a moronic excuse.(ODT)
A total of some 400 cities in all 50 US states – as well as in the territories of Guam and North Mariana Islands – witnessed protest actions over the weekend. And even though most of the rallies were peaceful, some American cities turned into real riot hotspots as angry crowds attacked police officers, who responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.
via Almost 400 cities in EVERY US state join wave of protest over George Floyd death — RT USA News
Trump represented, and represents, an unadulterated evil that not only transcends politics, but even the rudiments of human decency. Underneath all his puerile rantings the media so love to dissect resides a sociopath who, if not for his money, would have been incarcerated, instead of idolized, long ago.
Someone else Trump will without question blame. (ODT)
When the President of the United States says that he’ll be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization, a part of me thinks: well go on then, let’s see you try. Because this awful, foreign-sounding word “antifa” is only an abbreviation of “anti-fascist.” Organizations can be banned, but it isn’t so easy to do the same with ideas.
via Donald Trump’s Antifa Bogeyman Has a Long, Proud History of Fighting Fascists
The majority arrested were found to be LOCALS
For some critics, blaming outsiders is a way of distracting from protesters’ legitimate demands.
via Claims of “Outsiders” in Minneapolis Draw on Fraught History
Trump goes Hard Right-Wing Mass shootings and Domestic Terror is Right – Wing (ODT)
Fascism will be rushed and it won’t be pretty if you lean left. An excuse has to be found (ODT)
No Blame it’s “THEM” says Trump again (ODT)
The incapable incompetant leader Charlet Chaplin predicted he would arrive in America and he has (ODT)
When Trump was done reading his teleprompter remarks in an almost bored monotone, he turned around and left the lectern, his aides who had stood beside him only as props in tow, with reporters calling out for him to take questions. What had been announced as a “press conference” turned out only to be a brief statement, wasting the time of all the reporters who had waited for Trump as the day ticked by. Reporters were stunned, having expected the president to address the many other issues roiling the nation. Instead, he seemed laser-focused on an issue he’s trying to leverage for his re-election: demonizing China.
The world and country are in chaos and mourning, and it’s clear both could use some leadership. But as many pointed out, it was probably better that Trump left the press conference without taking questions — his interactions with reporters have rarely if ever made anything better or clearer. He probably would have just stoked tensions among various groups even further.
Trump is incapable of being a leader for the country or the world. And it seems at this point, he’s not even trying.
Donald Trump’s bloodthirsty threat to have protesters in Minneapolis shot by the military, issued in a tweet early Friday morning, prompted Twitter to restrict access to the president’s message, ruling that it violated the social network’s policy against “glorifying violence.”
via The Racist History Behind Trump’s Threat to Shoot Protesters
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