I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited August 2020

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited August 2020

    I really want this shirt!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited August 2020

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited August 2020

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited August 2020

    Last one for the day!

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  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,307
    edited August 2020

    Ruth: These are phenomenal. Shame that Moscow Mitch and Lindsey can't get the same factual info from kissing DJT's butt and/or Fox News.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    Despite the fact that elections can have surprising things happen, when I read the two articles below I really felt like -- Trump has the knowledge that there is a strong chance he could lose. He isn't really even making much of a pretense right now. It is quite clear he has no stomach for ACTUAL work which is why he doesn't care one whit to try and alleviate the pandemic issues in any way. What a useless shell of a person, so damaged that he can't even pretend to do the things a REAL president would. Yet, likely somewhere inside I am thinking with his magical thinking he may think some streak out of the sky would dash down to save him on election day -- or maybe it is more truthful that he just can't think that far ahead. He does tend to live in the moment. The only thing he does right now is read off of the notes his stoolies hand him. He needs to lose in incredible numbers -- bigly -- like no one ever has before.


    Trump Admits That He Is Going To Get Sued For Illegal Executive Orders

    Trump admitted that he is going to be sued for his planned executive orders cutting payroll taxes and expanding extended unemployment benefits.
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    Trump Thinks Daily Press Conferences Will Cover Up How Little He Actually Works

    Trump seems to think that daily press conferences will convince the American people that he's working hard during this moment of crisis.
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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited August 2020

    I just ordered the Yo Semite tee shirt, a RBG face mask, and Princess Leia "Women belong in the Resistance" travel coffee mug from the Museum! The article below in from the Huffington Post:

    President Donald Trump's embarrassing blooper mispronouncing "Yosemite" earlier this week is paying off hugely for a U.S. Jewish museum, sparking eye-popping online sales for its "Yo Semite" T-shirts.

    As it happens, the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia has been selling T-shirts with images of two sequoia redwood trees over the words "Yo Semite" since 2011. Trump's gaffe sent sales skyrocketing.

    Online shoppers spent $30,000 on the shirts and other merchandise in the first 30 hours after the blooper. That's nearly the entire amount the museum collected in sales for all of June.

    "It just keeps gathering momentum," said Kristen Kreider, the museum's director of retail and visitor experience, to the Philadelphia Business Journal. "I just keep thinking, 'OK, this is going to be over in the next couple of hours. It'll die down.' And it doesn't. It just keeps on going, and we'll take it."

    The fast-thinking Kreider reached out on social media to hype the shirts after Trump's remarks, and it worked.

    The museum usually sells about 100 of the shirts annually, but some 1,500 flew off the shelf in just three days, Kreider told the Business Journal.

    The windfall comes at an auspicious time for the museum, which shut down months ago. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early March as it struggled to pay creditors.

    Shoppers drawn by the T-shirts are also purchasing other merchandise from the museum's online store and donating funds as well, Kreider said.

    "It's just a win-win for the museum, any way you look at it," she added.


  • dogmomrunner
    dogmomrunner Member Posts: 501
    edited August 2020

    I hope the shirt sales predict how the election will go.

  • chisandy
    chisandy Member Posts: 11,408
    edited August 2020

    I just ordered that T-shirt, especially to wear during ZOOM Shabbat services!

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity. Aung San Suu Kyi

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    Glad to hear that SOMETHING good is coming from Trump. I hope it just keeps going. I was just reading about Trump saying if he is re-elected he is going after Medicare and Social Security. Really !!! I think he is not going to make it back in. Only with massive Russian interference and massive vote suppression could it happen. Those things will stay on my mind but I am convinced as I listen daily that Trump is more OUT of it then ever and if he actually wants another term it would be to stay out of jail and the fact that he has so enjoyed sticking it to people.

    He has done nothing but the huge tax folly of enrichment to businesses and people who already had aplenty. That's it -- and even that was something that was placed before him to sign. He is and remains a clueless clown that missed the best opportunity ( despite all of the mis-steps up to the pandemic ) he would have ever had to possibly get re-elected. Had he taken on the pandemic correctly while small and listened to the Scientists he might have had a chance. He just couldn't tolerate those men who were smarter and much more adept at reading the signs of what was coming. He had to be in charge and do it by his what -- overbearing sized gut and gut instinct. Instead of actually helping himself and us, he have on his ledger a spectacular failure which no one will ever forgive him for.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    Image may contain: text that says 'Middle Age Riot @middleageriot Donald Trump does not "own" 162,000 American deaths from COVID-19 He co-owns them with his supporters and the Republican Party.'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    The break-down:


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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    Image may contain: 2 people, text that says 'Trump just tweeted that a Biden presidency would kill your stocks and crash the economy. Uh-huh! Raise your hand if you're responsible for the 10 biggest Dow point drops in history, killed 165,000 Americans, and started an unwinnable trade war that sent the country into a recession in less than 3 1/2 years. American News X'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    A wave good-bye as I rev up the motor for overdrive.


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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    All too true.


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  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,932
    edited August 2020

    I think Trump needs to consider how little starving elderly people have to lose.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited August 2020

    Sandy, I had to register and create a password before it would let me in.


  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    Wren, that is a really good point. And on another note I have to say I have felt some concern about Tulsi Gabbard for some time. Usually I work hard if it is a person who has served, but Gabbard was always just a bit ( a couple of times a lot ) off and so I am not at all sorry to see her lose out. I'm sure it will be for the better. Great that Sen. Kahele is a National Guard member.


    Democrat Kai Kahele Wins Hawaii Primary to Replace Tulsi Gabbard

    Posted: 09 Aug 2020 02:31 PM PDT

    State Sen. Kai Kahele (D), an active National Guard member, won the primary in Hawaii's 2nd District on Saturday in the race to replace retiring Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D).image
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    I do recall ( though it has been awhile ) that this item came out some time before. I think at the time it seemed like it was just one of the idiotic things that often falls out of his mouth. So -- to hear that it was touted quite awhile back when most people were not near close to thinking any such thing and in a serious vein -- the man really does thing he is worthy to claim some sort of greatness.

    Yes, Trump Actually did Want to be Added to Mount Rushmore

    Posted: 09 Aug 2020 12:30 PM PDT

    Back in 2018, then South Dakota Republican representative Kristi Noem recounted how when she met President Trump for the first time in the Oval Office in 2017, he told her that it was his dream for his face to end up on Mount Rushmore.
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    This is something most of we Vets who use the V.A. have known for a good long while. He hates Obama, but doesn't mind stealing his accomplishments. That is truly sad because it is mainly the only way Trump will have any.


    Trump Abruptly Ends Briefing after Confronted with Vets Choice Lie

    Posted: 09 Aug 2020 09:30 AM PDT

    President Donald Trump abruptly ended a news conference Saturday when he was pressed by a reporter regarding his false claim that he was the first to sign the Veterans Choice bill into law, a feat that he said "no president has ever been able to do."image
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    That's great but we'll be rid of Trump likely before any testimony takes place. It still would behoove to have the truth of much of what went on. Just to keep the history of this horribly failed and disastrous four yrs. in the hopes of never allowing it to happen again.


    House Can Sue to Force Testimony from McGahn, Appeals Court Rules

    Posted: 08 Aug 2020 09:03 PM PDT

    The House Judiciary Committee can sue to force the former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II to testify before Congress, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.image
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    They have not moved fast enough or far enough to suit me. Still, I do think he will continue doing whatever he thinks could make him suddenly turn into a winner. While he has thought of losing I'm not sure he is able to think that far actually since he tends to live in moments more than anyone I've ever known. Trying to gain relevance after totally botching the economy and pandemic together ( one quite lg. fell swoop ) could be impossible for a few who have more going than Trump. He I hope just continues to fizzle out.


    Trump Is Sliding Into Irrelevance And Slowly Fading Away

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited August 2020

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    Such jewels -- the right hands have no idea even where the left hands are and the stupid boss is too busy playing golf and tweeting to give much of a darn about any of it.


    Trump Trade Adviser Appears To Admit Executive Orders Are Toothless

    Trump's own trade adviser Peter Navarro admitted that Trump's executive orders were guidance to the Executive Branch, not policies to help people.
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    Schakowsky is totally right about that too.

  • chisandy
    chisandy Member Posts: 11,408
    edited August 2020

    Jan is my Congresswoman (I was an area coordinator for her first two campaigns), and I couldn't be prouder of her!

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    Our beliefs are so powerful that they color our entire world. We literally see what we believe, but we can--and most of us do--fail to take responsibility for what we see, especially what we see within. -Hugh Prather


    The biggest addiction, and one we least often talk about, is being addicted to beliefs. We really get hooked into thinking what we believe is true and right. -Martha Boesing

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,754
    edited August 2020

    Sun, Aug 9th, 2020Sun, Aug 9th, 2020 by Adalia Woodbury

    Opinion: Corruption is Not A Second Amendment Right

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    The law was not kind to corrupt people this week. The DC Circuit sided with congressional oversight when it said the House could sue Don McGahn if he didn't comply with a subpoena. We learned that Deutsche Bank gave up Donald Trump's financials to Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance, and the crown jewel came with New York Attorney General Letitia James's announcement of a civil suit against the NRA over its corrupt business practices.

    It was pretty much a given that Donald Trump, Wayne LaPierre and the NRA would play that tattered victim card – this time claiming that NY AG Letitia James was coming for the Second Amendment. It's never about the fraud or the misappropriation of funds. It's about all that good charitable work making sure terrorists and people with violent histories can have as many guns as they want.

    The NRA is registered as a charitable organization, which means it's supposed to be a non-profit organization that works toward a public good. However one may feel about guns, there was a time that the NRA did serve a public good by promoting responsible gun ownership in a manner that benefitted its users and the public at large because actual gun safety was a feature of its activities.

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    But that NRA is long gone. Now we have an organization whose only objective is selling guns. Sell them to terrorists, domestic abusers, white supremacists – disturbed teens who feel like shooting up their classrooms. Anyone who wants a gun should get one, and as a consequence, gun violence rapidly became an epidemic. Pre Covid-19, the frequency of mass shootings was accelerating to the point that we didn't even get through the ritual of dealing with one mass shooting before the next one occurred.

    And who can forget that infamous Wayne LaPierre moment when he declared that a good guy with a gun is the best way to deal with a bad guy with a gun. Dipsy Betsy DeVos declared her support for another NRA policy – guns in the classroom.

    This NRA abandoned its membership, whom they only cared about at dues time. And no wonder, when you use a lobbying organization as a piggy bank to finance a lavish life-style, you need serious money. The way it got that money is unrelated to the suit at hand, but it is worth noting for the purpose of understanding why Letitia James likely has very solid evidence that corruption is pervasive throughout the NRA organization.

    Regardless of how one feels about the NRA, reasonable people can agree that corruption is not a Second Amendment right.

    Enter Russia, where citizens do not have the right to gun ownership, but which for some reason developed a fascination with the NRA. There is plenty of reporting on this curious relationship, but the bottom line is that the NRA has laundered Russian money. There was a report by the Republican-controlled Senate published last year that Russia doesn't care about gun rights.

    It cares about funneling money to desirable politicians like Donald Trump and it cares about creating mayhem in America. What better way than to give money to an organization that lobbies for letting as many mass shooters as possible have as many weapons as possible to shoot as many people as possible in as short a time as possible?

    The Senate committee revealed a tangle of political issues extending not just to corruption in the NRA but also to an infection of the Republican Party and the Trump campaign. The lawsuit filed by New York focuses only on corruption by a few in leadership who used the organization's coffers as a personal piggy bank. They lived as well as Donald Trump and like Donald Trump they did it with someone else's money.

    As bad as that is, I raise the Russia component to convey how pervasive corruption is in the NRA and that it was there long before the organization's enthusiasm for Donald Trump.

    Letitia James's suit is a smart way to approach corruption in the NRA because Trump and Barr can't touch it. This law suit is under New York law and it deals exclusively with the NRA's dealings within the Empire State. Once Russia is brought into the equation, there can be jurisdictional issues with an unknown outcome.

    Knowing what we know about the current occupant of the White House, it's small wonder he is still feeling burnt from when New York dissolved his fraudulent charitable organization and banned Ivanka and Don Jr. from sitting on boards of charitable organizations there.

    Trump lost that income stream, and for the same reason, he will feel the burn of losing the NRA income stream. The New York Attorney General is doing her job, and she's doing it the way we should expect of all Attorneys-General to.

    What Attorney General James may feel about the NRA's political agenda is beside the point. This is not about partisan politics. The NRA could be lobbying for puppies and the suit would still have merit. The only issue is whether Wayne LaPierre and others named in the suit misused members' donations.

    This is why the rule of law is preferable to the rule of a person. Under the rule of law a criminal act remains criminal regardless of who does it.

    Trump knows on some level that the NRA is as corrupt as his foundation was and he probably knows the NRA is likely to be dissolved. That's why he told the NRA to skip town, right? Isn't that the sort of advice you could imagine a typical "law and order" president giving?

    While we celebrate the fact that the NRA gravy train is being held to account, the political reality is that gun manufacturers will find a new lobbyist for their narrow, deadly interests. Hopefully responsible gun owners will also have a voice.

  • SerenitySTAT
    SerenitySTAT Member Posts: 3,534
    edited August 2020

    Thought some of you would be interested in pre-ordering these stamps.

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