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August 28, 2020

Trump said he had never seen Sarah Cooper's "act."

Donald Trump was finally asked about Sarah Cooper's viral impersonations of him

In a preview of a Fox News interview that will air Sunday at 9 pm ET, host Steve Hilton asked Trump if he had seen Cooper's parody.

"I have not, no," Trump said, blank-faced. "I'd like to see them. Are they good or bad?"
ear.

The pandemic might have lowered emissions, but it’ll take more than this temporary fix to have a lasting impact.
Hilton told Trump he thought the president would find them very entertaining.

"OK, good! I'd like to see them," Trump said. "If you're saying they're positive, I'd like to look. If they're not positive...."
Hilton acknowledged that Cooper "doesn't mean it to be positive."

"I see," Trump said. "Well, I'll have to check it out."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/media/donald-trump-sara-cooper/index.html

August 27, 2020

Why did Trump/Melania redo the White House Rose Garden (Jackie Kennedy's)?

They did it just to be pricks. Because nothing tastes sweeter than a liberal's tears and to gas light
America by changing the news cycle. They know that not unless they have massive fraud,
Russian help, and they block mail in voting they are going to lose so why do it now as they are just
about "out the door?" They did it just to be pricks. Outside of the flagstone pavers to allow people with
disabilities access they did not need to do it. I think the crab trees that were removed were not
the ones that Jackie Kennedy had planted because they were smaller then the ones I saw in a
picture of the garden in 1988. I believe that during Melanie's "make over" they removed a number
of roses that date back over 100 years (those roses might not be the original ones but the White House
hort. staff may have propagated the original ones to keep the line going). The crab trees not only
gave a verticle element to the garden but added to the sun vs shadow play under the colonnade.
Especially in the late fall, winter, and early spring.



Outside of the low quality of the design and the work itself doing this now pisses me off because they did it JUST TO BE PRICKS.

BTW even though this is my field the rose garden is nowhere near as important as the >1,000 Americans
per day that are dying from C-19.



August 27, 2020

"American Greatness" Can i watch Pence without drinking?

Ft. McHenry????

We see American Greatness? 200,000 dead from the Trump Virus , > 5 million cases of the Trump virus, and we are
now looking at another recession/depression.

They are speaking to empty rooms and the guests and family can't sit besides each other because of the
Trump Virus. "American Greatness."

August 27, 2020

Isn't the current speaker, Jack Brewer, in a shitload of trouble?


Standing up against the KKK? You mean like Donny's dad?

Time to turn this crap off.


RNC Speaker Facing Federal Charges Of Insider Trading

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/25/905953942/rnc-speaker-facing-federal-charges-of-insider-trading

Jack Brewer, a member of Black Voices for Trump who is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, was charged with insider trading by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month.

Brewer is a former National Football League player, who went on to work in financial services. The SEC alleges he sold 100,000 shares in a penny stock, because he had inside information that the company's share price was likely to drop. The charges, filed August 6, are civil - not criminal. The SEC is seeking financial penalties, a return of "all ill-gotten gains he received directly or indirectly," and a permanent ban on Brewer "from participating in any offering of a penny stock."

Reached briefly by phone on Tuesday, Brewer said, "I'm taking off for my flight," and hung up after NPR asked about the case. He did not respond to additional phone and email messages seeking comment.

Brewer has become a prominent supporter of President Trump's reelection, making frequent appearances on Fox News, and tweeting that "Trump has done more for blacks than any [President] since Lincoln." At a White House event in February, Brewer called Trump, "the first Black President."
August 25, 2020

Father says Black Wisconsin man shot by police is paralyzed

Source: AP

The father of a Black man who was shot, apparently in the back, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his son was left paralyzed from the waist down.

Jacob Blake's father told ABC News that he was told his son was shot eight times during the Sunday evening confrontation with police, which was captured on cellphone video and led to two nights of unrest in the city between Milwaukee and Chicago.

The father, who is also named Jacob Blake and who was driving from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Kenosha to be with his son, told the newspaper that he learned Sunday night that officers had shot his son eight times and that he saw the video of it online a few minutes later.

He said his son now has "eight holes" in his body,and is paralyzed from the waist down, though doctors don't know if the paralysis will be permanent.

Read more: https://kstp.com/news/father-says-black-wisconsin-man-shot-by-police-is-paralyzed-jacob-blake/5839122/

August 25, 2020

Am I paranoid or just batshit crazy?

Do the Republicans/Trump Campaign/Vlad Daddy have a data base of Democratic voters
names and home addresses and have they passrd that info onto their people inside the USPS?

Now, I know that the USPS shut down/slow downs have targeted blue voting areas* but
have "they" micro targeted it down to individual persons and or homes?




* Columbus, OH is #1 in country. My hometown.


August 24, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr. aka Chauncey Gardner, I like "to watch."

Giancarlo Granda says his sexual relationship with the Falwells began when he was 20. He says he had sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell Jr, head of Liberty University and a staunch supporter of President Trump, looked on.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/

Is he another Chauncey Gardner? "I like to watch Eve."

August 22, 2020

Trump's Crazy Strategy to Convince America Things Are Actually Great / Darkness? What darkness?

Trump Previews Crazy Strategy to Convince America Things Are Actually Great


“Where Joe Biden sees American darkness, I see American greatness,” he told a conservative group in Virginia, “They spent four straight days attacking America as racist and a horrible country that must be redeemed. Joe Biden grimly declared a season of American darkness, and yet look at what we’ve accomplished.”

As messaging choices go, this is an odd one. Since the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has leaned on three primary themes. First, Joe Biden is so senile he literally doesn’t know what he’s saying. Second, if Biden wins, he will abdicate power to an AOC–ruled hellscape in which taxes triple and anarchist goons burn down your cities and marry your daughters. Third, and most importantly, Trump is the best candidate to restore prosperity.

Trump has claimed that he personally created the greatest economy in the history of the world (he didn’t), the devastation caused by the pandemic was not his fault (it mostly was) and that, once it disappears, he will restore prosperity. As Mike Pence put it, “we’ll make American great again — again.”

“Make American Great Again, Again” is not obviously not an ideal promise for an incumbent to have to make. But there’s a reason Trump was resorting to it: Everything is terrible now. And Trump’s fans don’t even actually believe things are going well. The most recent Gallup poll asking, “In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time?” found 13 percent of the public satisfied with current condition and 84 percent unsatisfied.

You know who else besides Joe Biden sees American darkness? Almost everybody. A president who grossly mishandled a catastrophe in the most high-profile fashion possible, denying its seriousness day after day on camera while refusing to accept responsibility, doesn’t have a lot of great options. But telling the country that things are actually going well might be one of his worst possible options.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/trump-american-darkness-startegy-message-campaign-2020-biden.html

Trump never stops being a con man.


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