I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Report // July 2, 2020
RESEARCH: Trump BLM Nominee's Four-Decade History of Anti-Public Lands Extremism
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following news that President Donald Trump has formally nominated William Perry Pendley to run the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Western Values Project, a project of Accountable.US, is releasing a detailed review of the controversial lawyer's views on public land management on its WilliamPendley.org site.
"William Perry Pendley has spent decades undermining public lands and the environment at the expense of all Americans," said Chris Saeger, a spokesman for Accountable.US. "He is not just unqualified to manage the federal estate, he is a danger to the outdoor heritage so many in the West depend on to make a living. To protect our public lands, the Senate should unequivocally vote this nomination down"
Here are a few highlights from the site:
- Pendley supports selling off vast amounts of public land to private special interests.
- Over the years, he has repeatedly sued the federal government to remove conservation protections.
- A previous nomination to a top post at BLM in 1981 fell through after questions arose about whether Pendley exerted political pressure on career scientists.
- He expressed support for the armed extremists that engaged the BLM in a standoff over unpaid grazing leases.
- His official ethics filings indicate over 50 conflicts of interest.
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Well now, seeing as how you are fat, orange and mentally dysfunctional where do you fit in here.
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A note of much needed humor!
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Okay, so I will admit that Sam Elliott is the one man I would leave my DH for, sigh. Loved his meme because at this rate, I most likely will not get to Europe again. It was one place where one could collectively get sympathy for having DT as our leader and where the possibilities of running into a MAGA idiot were slim.
ruthbru, loved the meme about Renaissance women. I am chubby so that part works but braless I do not even begin to look like those women. Sort of like the old LSMFT ditty from when I was a kid.
Given that DT is older than me, I am unwilling to become a sacrifice on his altar but have no problem with him making a personal sacrifice for his country. I am not disposable nor do I know of anyone I would wish that on.
He just threw Dr. Fauci under the bus again for saying we are still in phase 1 of Covid-19.
The one woman with the sign about her list of "nots" will definitely not like a ventilator since it doesn't involve a mask but either an endotracheal tube or a tracheostomy. Definitely not on my list of experiences I am yearning for. Sadly, there is no guarantee you can be weaned off, once you are on one. Hopefully, she has signed a living will.
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Somehow this doesn’t surprise me.
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I vaguely recall something of the IQ tests referred to here, but I'm not surprised that none were ever followed up on and had they been the truth about them would not have been told. Trump hides everything -- it is ingrained in him, but if he didn't hide these things he would easily be exposed as the monumental liar he truly is at all times.
Rachel Maddow read portions of Mary's book on her show tonight and other people in news positions have a copy. This likely means that Trump's lawsuit to stop the publication will go no-where. There still could end up a penalty perhaps since there was a non-disclosure agreement, but it was based on a fraud committed on Mary and her sibling so maybe and maybe not. Trump is definitely vindictive -- so I would not put it past him to continue a lawsuit just to take the money.
Trump's Niece Says He Paid a Friend to Take the SAT For Him in High School
Chris Walker, Truthout
In her book, Mary Trump chronicles how cheating has always been "a way of life" for her uncle, President Trump.
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What a pathetic s**t s**w.
Trump's Reelection Kick-Off Fell Flat. Does He Really Want to Be President?
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout
Trump laid down his marker on stolen land this weekend, and intimidated precisely nobody.
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I would be surprised if I learned Donald DID take his own SAT test!
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Heather Cox Richardson
21 hrs ·July 6, 2020 (Monday)
It is becoming clearer that there are currently two different versions of America. The White House and Trump supporters are trying to pretend that the world Trump continually tweets about is real, while the rest of the country is proving that reality doesn't much care about the fictions Trump is peddling.
Today began with Trump frantic-tweeting, and those tweets were an impressionistic picture of how he hopes to win voters. He defended his performance in combatting what he called "new China Virus" cases, touted the strong stock market, and warned that "if you want your 401k's and Stocks, which are getting close to an all time high…, to disintegrate and disappear, vote for the Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats and Corrupt Joe Biden. Massive Tax Hikes—They will make you very poor, FAST!"
He tweeted "China has caused great damage to the United States and the rest of the world," then attacked Black race car driver Bubba Wallace for the discovery of a noose in his garage (it was not Wallace who discovered it) and NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate flag. He complained that "the Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they are going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct. Indians, like Elizabeth Warren, must be very angry right now."
Then he defended his handling of the coronavirus, and once again insisted that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment for Covid-19. He tweeted "SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!" and said that Democrats opposed reopening the schools "for political reasons, not for health reasons! They think it will help them in November. Wrong, the people get it!" Finally, he boasted that his border wall "is moving fast in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. Great numbers at the Southern Border. Dems want people to just flow in. They want very dangerous open Borders!"
This frantic tweeting offered racism, attacks on Democrats, hopeful economic news, and Trump's signature border wall (which has cost more than $3.6 billion already, for about 120 miles of wall, most of it replacing older fencing). It was a narrative tailor-made for Trump's base.
Looming over Trump's portrayal of his version of America, though, was the coronavirus. While other advanced countries have gotten the virus under control and are cautiously beginning to reopen, we are moving the opposite direction. As of today, we have almost 3 million confirmed cases and more than 130,000 deaths. In a number of states, especially in the South, cases are hitting new highs. Europe has banned American visitors, and Mexico and Canada have both closed their border with the U.S. Rather than trying to stop the crisis, the White House is launching new messaging about the coronavirus: "Learn to live with it."
Trump is doubling down on the idea that the United States must simply reopen, and take the resulting deaths as a cost of doing business. Three people who have been privy to administration thinking about the issue told reporters for the Washington Post that officials are hoping "Americans will go numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day." Advisors have urged Trump to try to avoid responsibility for the administration's disastrous response to the pandemic by simply blaming China for it. Their goal is to try to repair the economy before the election, recognizing that economic recovery is the only way to make up the gap between Trump's poll numbers and those of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, governors who reopened their states before cases had begun to decline significantly are now backpedaling. Texas governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order last Thursday requiring masks in more than half of the state's hardest hit counties; Georgia Governor Brian Kemp asked Georgians to wear masks; Florida's Miami-Dade County closed gyms, party venues, and ballrooms; and California closed beaches in Orange County over the holiday weekend. Washington state has stopped its reopening process for at least two weeks and is requiring face masks; Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut have issued travel advisories requiring people coming from fifteen states experiencing Covid-19 spikes to self-quarantine for fourteen days.
But Trump is barreling ahead as if fears of the coronavirus are illegitimate. He is insisting that public schools must reopen for the fall on schedule, with no plan for doing so safely: "SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!" Today, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran called for this plan exactly, issuing an executive order for all Florida K-12 schools to reopen in August. Florida set the national record for the most new coronavirus cases in a single day—11,458—two days ago.
Today, just as colleges and universities are trying to figure out how to manage their fall classes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that foreign students have to leave the country if their universities go to on-line instruction in the fall. The decision appears to be designed to pressure schools to resume face-to-face instruction or lose their foreign students, who pay the full tuition that most American students do not.
Urging Americans to plow headfirst into a deadly crisis that is racking up horrific numbers of dead is an unprecedented abdication of presidential leadership. It is hard to imagine what the endgame is, because it seems unlikely that Americans will, in fact, become numb to rising numbers of dead. Trump has suggested that there will be a vaccine sooner than we think, and perhaps he hopes such a miracle will win him goodwill to overcome our horror at the national death toll (there is even some speculation that he will announce one falsely as part of his "October surprise" before the election).
But the observations of his briefers that he cannot hear anything that does not conform to his worldview have stuck with me as I thought about this today. Perhaps he doesn't have an endgame at all; he is simply making a gamble that the virus will magically go away, as he has suggested. It strikes me that, until now, he has always been able to get away with ignoring reality in favor of his worldview. The coronavirus, though, can't be bullied or flattered, and it certainly cannot be ignored.
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Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose people everywhere, simultaneously, stopped what they were doing and paid attention for only as long as it took to recognize their shared humanity. Surely the heartbreak of the world's pain, visible to all, would convert everyone to kindness.What a gift that would be. -Sylvia Boorstein
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Nothing to see here 😒
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An organization called Republican Voters Against Trump is running ads featuring people (Republicans) who voted for Trump, regret their choice and will now vote for Biden.
Their website, rvat.org has many short clips of individuals discussing why they feel as they do now. The videos are even broken down by the state the people live in. RVAT isn't aiming at hard core Republicans but those people in the middle.
One guy says he'll vote for any Dem with a pulse. Another man is a former Trump campaign intern who went to the inauguration and met Trump Jr but says he will proudly vote for Biden.This guy says he will vote for a tuna fish sandwich before voting for Trump again:
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I think we should cook up a really good movie or TV role for DT. Then he would have something to look forward to and would probably prefer it to being president. He could say it was too good to turn down and leave in triumph.
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Wren, that would work as Trump is all about saving face and being as Melania puts it BEST.
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I'm not really but it is painful to watch so many get hurt. Most of us have had to be a party to all this when we didn't even consider voting for him and from the sound of it perhaps there are a lot more 'won't even consider its' now. Time to tootle-do.
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