Trump Thread 2.0

[phillipj]

And speaking of-- one thing I somehow missed recently with so much bullshit flying out of his mouth was this, which is truly astounding & laughable:

I think I've done more for the Black community than any other president, but let's take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good, although it's always questionable

[LowR3V'in]

what has he really done for the black community though and what does it need.

[phillipj]

what has he really done for the black community though and what does it need.

Who knows and how could someone be pompous enough to make that claim

[nando]

It's still going really well! Remember, kids can't get or spread COVID - the Trump groupies said so...

Coronavirus cases lead over 800 to quarantine in Georgia school district where masks not required

Cherokee County School District drew attention last week when students without masks posed for a group photo.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...where-n1236364

Oh look! (most) masks do work..

Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech

https://advances.sciencemag.org/cont...sciadv.abd3083

[roguetoaster]

Who knows and how could someone be pompous enough to make that claim

Would be impossible when that same person is also the most humble, best person ever.

[ForcedFirebird]

Oh look! (most) masks do work..

Amazing how well basic surgical masks do.

[nando]

Herp-a-derp..

Florida sheriff orders deputies not to wear masks, bans civilians in masks from office

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...masks-n1236502

'Archbishop' of Florida church selling bleach 'miracle cure' arrested with son

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-arrested-son

3 guesses as to which party registration they were selling COVID-19 "miracle cures" to...

[ForcedFirebird]

Herp-a-derp..


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...masks-n1236502



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-arrested-son

3 guesses as to which party registration they were selling COVID-19 "miracle cures" to...

Your morning news feed suggestions mirror mine lol. Every article you have posted was on my feed the previous day.

Oh, and you forgot about the "immune" kids:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/11/900861372/at-least-97-000-children-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-in-last-2-weeks-of-july

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/08/12/arizona-leads-nation-its-pediatric-covid-19-infection-rate/3351333001/

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-cdc-pediatric-hospitalizations-covid-.html

Newborn hospitalized:

https://kstp.com/coronavirus/newborn-baby-among-the-minnesota-children-recently-hospitalized-with-covid-19-august-12-2020/5825027/

[nando]

yeah there was a lot more that I didn't post. also that Georgia school district ended up with over 1000 kids/staff in quarantine and had to close one of their high schools. and it's only been a week. We just got two laptops for our kids so they can do their school work (if you haven't got one yet, do it now, they're selling out).

I honestly thought this was satire, BTW, but it's real. Hahahahaha:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53761744

US calls for shower rules to be eased after Trump hair complaints


The US government has proposed changing the definition of a showerhead to allow increased water flow, following complaints from President Donald Trump about his hair routine.

I'm sure glad Trump knows which crisis to prioritize. What would we ever do without him...

[nando]

Trump says he opposes funding USPS because of mail-in voting

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/polit...ion/index.html

I know, CNN.. but I couldn't find a transcript of the Faux News interview, and it's all over the place anyway.

[ForcedFirebird]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oKYK1MPwhM

[nando]

lol. The only question is, which was the real Trump?

[phillipj]

lol. The only question is, which was the real Trump?

The lip-reading one is at least funny in a nonsense way... not in the "this complete moron has the nuclear codes, wtf" way.
The real interview is embarrassing/scary, just completely pathetic: https://youtu.be/NmrEfQG6pIg

[nando]

Yeah, I watched the original too. Trump was fumbling around with those "charts and graphs" like a 12 year old boy who forgot to do his homework and showed up late to class.

BTW, Trump has registered to vote by mail in Florida. So apparently, it's fraudulent.. unless he does it.

President Trump requests mail-in ballot ahead of Florida's primary election

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-m...election-2020/

I wouldn't be shocked if this ends up hurting him more than it helps him. A lot of those older, white, rural voters are probably going to want to vote by mail, but he's discouraging them. I think Democrats and Independents are going to try to vote no matter what.

Also, Kanye West.. with Kushner trying to get him on the ballot, I think that is likely to backfire as well. There's only a smattering of polls out there, but it looks like he's pulling support from Trump, not Biden. Oops.

[phillipj]

Also, Kanye West.. with Kushner trying to get him on the ballot, I think that is likely to backfire as well. There's only a smattering of polls out there, but it looks like he's pulling support from Trump, not Biden. Oops.

Well, it's more than just Kushner trying to get him on the Ballot:


WISCONSIN

Lane Ruhland, a former legal counsel for the Wisconsin Republican Party, was seen last week dropping off signatures for West to qualify in Wisconsin. Ruhland, who did not respond to a request for comment, represented the Trump campaign in a lawsuit at the end of July.

The Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation to "investigate whether attorney Lane Ruhland engaged in conduct inconsistent with her ethical obligations as a member of the Wisconsin Bar."

"The fact that a lawyer for the Trump campaign is working to put Kanye West on the ballot suggests the West campaign is a sham," CFA Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith said in a statement.


OHIO

An attorney at the Ohio law firm Isaac Wiles filed West's paperwork in the state. That firm has reportedly received thousands of dollars in legal consulting fees from the state House and Senate Republican campaign committees since 2015.


COLORADO

ABC reported that of Colorado's nine electors for West, four are current or former GOP operatives, including a former Colorado Republican political director. Vice News reported that Rachel George, a GOP strategist who runs her own communications firm and had worked for Republican Sen. Cory Gardner when he was in the House, sent an email to contacts asking them to sign up to support West. In an email obtained by Vice, George writes: "I have the most random favor to ask of you ever ... would you help me get Kanye West on the ballot in Colorado? No, I am not joking, and I realize this is hilarious."


"Bizarre and unusual"

Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that while it's not unusual for a political party or party activists to try to keep a candidate off a ballot, the reverse is "bizarre and unusual."

"We've never really seen [that] before," Burden says.

"If this was happening in just one state, that there were a couple of Republican insiders who were aiding the Kanye West campaign, that would seem a little odd and kind of unexpected," he says. "But because we're seeing it now in multiple states, people who are either slated as electors, delegates or Republican attorneys working on behalf of Kanye West's effort to get on the ballot, it looks like something systematic and organized across large parts of the country."