I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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There is nothing Trump won't do to misuse and abuse. Ordinary people do not have their funerals take place at the WH. period. Just another way to degrade the whole process of our government and institutions. Nothing too large or small for Trump. He takes it all on and gives it his gold plated veneer thinking ( in his twisted way ) that it is the perfect thing. The perfect thing will be when the real time idiot is gone.
Trump dangles White House funeral for brother – further politicizing his death: 'He was so proud'
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August 17, 2020By
David Badash,
Donald Trump and Robert Trump (Twitter) Just a few hours after honoring his late brother by declaring he was Robert Trump's "biggest fan," President Donald Trump announced his brother's funeral may be held at the White House Friday. It would be another unprecedented use of the White House just months before the election.
Previous White House funerals have been for Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated while in office, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also died in office. Even recent past presidents who did not die in office have not had their funerals at the White House.
"We may do just a small service right here in the White House for my brother," Trump told reporters Monday morning. "That would be, I think, a great honor to him. I think he'd be greatly honored, he loves our country, he loved our country so much. He was so proud of what we were doing and what we are doing for our country. So I think would be appropriate."
Earlier Monday Trump said his brother would "go around talking about 'how great this is for the country,'" presumably referring to Trump being president.
"He was my biggest fan," Trump also said. "People would tell me all the time, 'I spoke to your brother and your brother was so thrilled.' And so thrilled at what was happening."
Trump is also politicizing the White House by delivering his RNC nomination speech from the White House's South Lawn next week.
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Loved the "rather listen to a kazoo for an hour" and the watch dog with the binoculars. LOL
Do not mean to disparage Robert Trump but if he were having brain bleeds for over a month, how did he ever manage to try to stop his niece's book with a lawsuit? Smells like "something is rotten in Denmark" and was his name just attached to it so the others could remain in the clear? Robert was far more forgiving of his older brother's nastiness than I would ever be: gluing his blocks together and bragging about it in his book and then degrading him in front of corporate executives about the slot machines? His funeral should not be held at the WH! He is not a dignitary, or government official. Who will foot the bill for this service?
As far as the Kushner children returning to classrooms...they go to a private school, again an example of white privilege, unlike children returning to public school systems where the classes are large, the classrooms not so large, book shortages and no thoughts to the protection of the teachers. One child in TX already returned to school ill with Covid and exposed his classmates. Can only shake my head in disbelief that we have descended into Dante's circles of hell.
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I am a bit late on the Oleander conversation and agree with comments about untested use as a treatment for Covid-19. However, there is ongoing research into the use of an oleander extract for selective cancer treatments. To mention just a couple:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10637-014-0190-6
https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/74/19_Supplement/4658
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Well, yes. I thought the description was of Trump. Sigh !!! Good one Wren.
Ruth, I did take a look. There were several Reps. at tonight's Democratic convention who will vote for Biden. Trump doesn't have anything good to say about that which only adds fuel to their decision that he is VERY wrong and should not be re-elected. The only thing knows how to do is degrade and demean. Never wants to 'discover' the reasoning behind something. No wonder he can't change anything.
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Trump's Argument: Look How Bad Things Are - Now Reelect Me
Posted: 17 Aug 2020 10:32 AM PDT
Jennifer Rubin: President Trump has this bizarre notion that if he can show how chaotic, dysfunctional and dangerous things have become, Americans will reelect him. The pandemic that exploded and the economy that collapsed on his watch, and a revolt against racial injustice unlike any since the 1960s, provide the rationale for kicking out the incumbent president. Through incompetence or deliberate destructiveness, Trump has obliterated the case for giving him four more years.0 -
I think Michelle pretty much hit it out of the park again. Excellent speech with heart and soul in it. Trump is teaching kids everything no adult parent would want them to learn. That is what Michelle is saying here.
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It was a great speech! Here's video in case you missed it.
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Michelle Obama definitely hit it out of the park--if great points were base runners, it was a grand slam.
Magiclight, I read the American Assn. for Cancer Research article. First of all, it was six years old. Second, it was a phase 1 trial--i.e., testing only safety. Third, the entire "universe" of patients? A grand total of 9, all metastatic. One patient experienced 11-yr survival, but even for some stage IV patients, that's not unheard-of. The institution where it was conducted? An "integrative medicine" facility. (Huge red flag--not an academic medical center, much less more than just one). The reason it was limited to stage IV patients was undoubtedly the toxicity of oleander: just too dangerous to risk on earlier-stage patients. And to experiment with it on a healthy person for prevention of anything? Somewhere on the continuum between "insane" and "AYFKM??" ("Are You F-ing Kidding Me??").
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I miss the obamas.
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Sigh. Me, too, Artista. Every day.
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There is a Native American saying: "Don't judge another person until you have walked a mile in their moccasins." It is a freeing experience to suspend your judgments, let go of demands, and imagine yourself in the shoes of another. It expands our understanding, leads to compassion, and helps us to become closer to one another. -Charlotte Davis Kasl
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Let's be an ocean for Biden. 0 -
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"Don't judge anyone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. Then you'll be exhausted, your feet will hurt, but they won't have any shoes." (Paraphrasing, I think that came from "Deep Thoughts," by the late Jack Handey of SNL).
So this morning SpongeBlobSquareTan Tweet-farted that the only reason he's in the White House is because of Obama. Well, technically, that's true: Obama's non-renewable 8-year lease was up.
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Yay Bruce Springsteen!!! He even makes a cameo.
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Aw geez Spookie! I had to copy and paste that on my FB page... Hah! You really find out fast who your friends are.... right? xoxo
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From Vanity Fair:
What does it really look like to expose a politician for who they are? Michelle Obama, on Monday's virtual Democratic National Convention didn't need rhetorical flourishes or jabs to lacerate Trump. All she needed was five simple words, words the president himself had used just this month to describe the rising COVID death toll : "It is what it is."
Obama nailed him in her incisive, effortless takedown, a fraud, an incompetent in completely over his head, degrading the national discourse and flexing authoritarian muscles not because he's an evil genius, but because he's so thoroughly inadequate, so "unable to meet the moment," that those strongman tactics are all he's got. "He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us," she said in her rousing address Monday. "It is what it is."
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Caught the cameo of Bruce & Patti in the video. Also, throughout the first night, various spots ended with the "Rise up" refrain of his "My City of Ruins" (originally written pre-9/11 about Asbury Park).
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All throughout the Universe better.
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Trump w/o those who are can at least get papers in front of him to sign, and speeches in front of him to read, and places to 'show' up managed for him would be all the more un-able by far. Of course, all of the WH occupants have to rely on those around them. It is just that most of them have put in ( some were wrong for their positions ) people who were not evil and hoped they would succeed in the jobs they were given/confirmed for. Trump has the parade of sycophants and family who mainly do what Trump does. Decide at something should work and then fire away. The stunning lack of coherent competence is beyond the pale. How the Reps. ( power and greed ) even think of trying to keep this one blows my mind. Even knowing the other side hears a 'different' version of the news etc., I keep thinking surely those who are intelligent find things to question. I know some do because they are not voting for Trump this time around.
I do think ( certainly hope ) that the rest of our convention keep going as last night's did. I am wondering how many Reps. might have tuned in. I watched both conventions in 2016 and I presume I will do it this time as well. It will be hard to watch Trump's -- for all the usual reasons. I expect to hear a lot of what we have all heard for four yrs. now. Nothing fresh, nothing new -- just name calling and blame for Democrats. I think the major difference is that the Democratic party is not in shambles and to my eyes -- it is about all that is left of the Republican party.
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And for all of you Hamilton fans, the phrase “rise up” figures prominently as a theme in that genius musical as well
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The 2020 slogan.
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August 17, 2020 (Monday)
Today's big news was the opening of the Democratic National Convention. Before it happened, though, Trump set up exactly what he stands... for. Between him and the Democrats, the messaging for the upcoming election is clear.
Yesterday, Trump raised eyebrows when he retweeted an account that said: "Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot…. [Walk Away] from the radical left. And do it quickly." His retweet sparked outrage, with British journalist Mehdi Hasan noting "If Obama had retweeted someone saying 'leave Republican states. Let them rot' it would have been a multi-week, multi-month political scandal requiring clarifications and apologies from every top Dem. With Trump, it won't even register in *today's* headlines."
On a campaign swing in Minnesota, Trump made clear his message for the election. He repeatedly insisted that Biden "is the puppet of leftwing extremists," who will "replace American freedom with leftwing fascism." He harped again and again on the words "leftwing" and "fascist." He warned that America would face "crime, chaos, corruption and economic collapse" if he is not reelected, although of course that is precisely where we are now. It is a difficult argument for an incumbent to make under these circumstances.
Trump continues to signal to his base, today by slashing business regulations. This was more to signal his values than to make changes, since today's actions are not actually widely sought by business leaders. He overturned an Obama-era regulation on methane emissions, aimed at finding and plugging the methane leaks that annually produce about 13 million metric tons of the gas that is a primary contributor to climate change. Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil had all supported the regulations, but Trump's new rules will stop measuring the leaks.
He also approved a plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling. In 2017, Congress required the Interior Department to begin to open up the region. The new land would be a game changer, except that oil companies are doing so well in the middle of the country—Texas, North Dakota and so on—that they have little interest in undertaking expensive exploratory actions. "We may not need those resources today but we will eventually," said Dan Eberhart, an oil executive and major Republican donor.
And Trump is focusing on culture wars. Over the course of the day, the Republicans announced some of the people who would participate in the Republican National Convention. Their numbers include Nick Sandmann, the smirking young man in a MAGA hat who faced off against a Native American activist, Nathan Phillips, outside the Lincoln Memorial in January 2019; and the St. Louis couple, Patricia and Mark McCloskey, who waved guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in July 2020.
Trump also announced that he will give the speech accepting his renomination at the White House, breaking norms and probably breaking ethics laws. Likely to distract from the Democratic convention, he announced that he's "doing a pardon tomorrow on somebody that's very very important." The White House press secretary says it's not his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn or Edward Snowden, who leaked highly classified information, and who has now fled for refuge to Russia. We'll see.
But things are not going Trump's way. While he exacerbates divisions in our society, more than 165,000 Americans have died of coronavirus. And while he has pressured schools to reopen, even willing administrators are finding his wishes cannot override reality. After great pressure to open up, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, this afternoon sent its undergraduates home after the university saw four hot spots of at least 177 positive cases.
In the past two days, important voices have deserted Trump. Yesterday, William H. McRaven, former commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command from 2011-2014, warned that "President Trump is actively working to undermine every major institution in this country. He has planted the seeds of doubt in the minds of many Americans that our institutions aren't functioning properly. And, if the president doesn't trust the intelligence community, law enforcement, the press, the military, the Supreme Court, the medical professionals, election officials and the postal workers, then why should we? And if Americans stop believing in the system of institutions, then what is left but chaos and who can bring order out of chaos: only Trump. It is the theme of every autocrat who ever seized power or tried to hold onto it."
Today, Miles Taylor, a member of the leadership team of the Department of Homeland Security from 2017-2019, published an op-ed in the Washington Post warning that the president governs "by whim, political calculation, and self-interest." He has tried to turn the DHS into a political tool to serve his interests, calling, for example, for DHS to pull migrant families apart deliberately as a deterrent from asking for asylum. Trump's "inappropriate and often absurd" requests, "at all hours of the day and night," diverted DHS from "dealing with genuine security threats." The president, he says, has made America "profoundly less safe."
Adding a voice to the mounting opposition to the president, today "Anonymous," who has occasionally written critiques of the administration, allegedly from within it, wrote that Trump is destroying our rules and regulations, and that we must get him and his ilk out of our politics.
That was a theme embraced by the Democratic National Convention, which began tonight. Held on-line because of the coronavirus, it marked a new kind of political engagement by entering the virtual world to which we have increasingly moved in the past twenty or more years. Without hoopla or crowds, the convention was intimate and interesting. There were a variety of backgrounds and people, and no interminable speeches punctuated with dutiful applause. The speeches felt more personal and less political than normal, a feeling that will serve the Democrats well after four years when absolutely everything is political and most of us are tired of it.
The DNC programming was designed to feel inclusive. The theme was "We the People," and the evening began with the voices and pictures of young Americans from all walks of life singing. Soon they were replaced by a video of Americans working together, set to Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising." The evening's events focused on America's youth and its people of color.
Their line-up tried to include everyone opposing Trump, from Ohio Governor John Kasich, who remains a Republican even though he is supporting Biden, through the political spectrum to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, billionaire executive Meg Whitman, and former Representative Susan Molinari all talked about their support for Joe Biden. They were invited to speak both to give teeth to arguments the opposition to Trump is bipartisan, and to give an off ramp to Republicans who need to have some big Republican names to follow off the Republican ticket this year.
But their speeches were less effective than testimonials from ordinary Americans who have lost family members to Covid-19, or who have been on the front lines fighting the disease, delivered from their homes. Most of Biden's rivals for the nomination spoke on his behalf, too. Emphasizing that the new Democratic Party wants to include everyone, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spoke in front of a wall of stacked wood to say that he would "work with liberals, moderates, and yes, conservatives" to protect democracy.
(Seeing Sanders in front of a woodpile, Charles Pierce tweeted: "Bernie is the candidate who took himself to the woodshed.")
Michele Obama delivered tonight's keynote address. She emphasized justice and empathy and the power of words to heal or destroy in a speech so powerful even the Fox News Channel had to applaud it. Her best framing for the election, though, was her sad dismissal of Trump not for any of the combative actions that his base loves so much, but rather for lack of ability. "Let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can: Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country…. He is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is."
The evening ended with guitarist Stephen Stills playing his famous protest song "For What It's Worth," with young African American singer Billy Porter singing the words. It was a vignette of the passing of the torch from one generation to another.
Conservative commentator Bill Kristol said: "I figured they'd be savvy enough to do no harm. But that was an impressive, even compelling, couple of hours."
Biden got very little airtime on this, the convention's first night, although there were retrospectives of his life and explorations of his support for his colleagues as well as ordinary Americans. But what he did say was important: "We are the United States of America. There's not a single thing we cannot do if we do it together."
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