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riversedge's JournalMitch McConnell Is Panicking As The 'Moscow Mitch' Label Sticks Because it's true!....
Seems Morning Joe hit the jackpot with this nickname for #moscowMitch. te he
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Posted on Mon, Jul 29th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Mitch McConnell Is Panicking As The ‘Moscow Mitch’ Label Sticks
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/07/29/mitch-mcconnell-is-panicking-as-the-moscow-mitch-label-sticks.html
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has always been shameless in his efforts to ignore what’s best for the country in order to protect his party and his president.
But as the ‘Moscow Mitch’ label continues to stick to him after he refused to advance commonsense election security legislation through the Senate, he looks to be increasingly panicked.
That was clear earlier on Monday as he took to the Senate floor to defend himself from a chorus of backlash that he’s faced in recent days.
On Twitter, the Senate majority leader played damage control, desperately (and laughably) accusing his critics of “doing Putin’s destabilizing work for him.”
As Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, said on Monday, “Clearly Mitch McConnell is a bit freaked by #MoscowMitch.”
Could 2020 be the year Mitch McConnell is sent packing?
Mitch McConnell is still the favorite to win reelection in deep-red Kentucky next year, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a scenario in which he could be sent packing.
Let’s first start with the fact that the Kentucky senator will face well-funded Democrat and former fighter pilot Amy McGrath in 2020. As PoliticusUSA’s Jason Easley wrote earlier this month, McGrath is poised to shatter fundraising records in her quest to beat McConnell.
In addition to a strong challenger, McConnell faces his own image problems as he is the most hated senator in America. Trump’s approval rating in Kentucky – a key indicator for how the state will vote – has also declined by nearly 20 points since he took office..............................
'He's Like A Child' Rev. Al Sharpton Fires Back President Donald Trump
Source: baltimore.com
July 29, 2019 at 11:13 am
Filed Under:Baltimore, Baltimore News, Local TV, politics, president donald trump, Talkers, The Rev. Al Sharpton
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Rev. Al Sharpton fired back at President Donald Trump in a press conference from Baltimore Monday after the president called him a “conman.”
“Little did I know that Mr. Trump was going to, on the eve of this, would attack the congressman of this city — and not only the congressman but the people of this city in the most bigoted and racist way,” Sharpton said. “He attacks everybody. I know Donald Trump, he’s not mature enough to take criticism. He can’t help it. He’s like a child. Someone says something he reacts. He’s thin-skinned and not really matured that well.”
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.............“But he has a particular venom for blacks and people of color,” Sharpton added. “He doesn’t refer to any of his other opponents or critics as infested. He does not attack their districts. He attacks Nancy Pelosi, he attacks Chuck Schumer, he attacks other whites — but he never says that their districts or that their states are places that no human being wants to live.”
Read more: https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/07/29/rev-al-sharpton-fires-back-president-donald-trump/
https://twitter.com/wjz/status/1155870609282404352?s=20
25,000 in Wisconsin could lose food share assistance if proposal for new eligibility rules passes
Updated: Jul 26, 2019 09:18 PM CDT
25,000 in Wisconsin could lose food share assistance if proposal for new eligibility rules passes
https://www.channel3000.com/news/25-000-in-wisconsin-could-lose-food-share-assistance-if-proposal-for-new-eligibility-rules-passes/1100314248
MADISON, Wis. - Karen Battle knows what it's like to constantly worry about where her next meal is coming from.
"I know the effects of not having enough food. I know what it's going to do to people. It makes them do things they normally wouldn't do," she said.
Battle is one of thousands in Wisconsin who could potentially lose benefits of the food share assistance program.
A new federal proposal under the Trump administration would limit access to food stamps by imposing new eligibility requirements. If the proposal passes, it could affect more than 3 million people nationwide.
Critics, like the president and CEO of The River Food Pantry, Charles McLimans, say it will hurt the country's most vulnerable population.
"We believe food is a right and not a privilege," McLimans said. "They are families that are working. They are families with children. They are seniors."
McLimans said more than 1,000 households get food from The River Food Pantry every week. McLimans fears that if the proposal is approved, the demand for food will increase at his pantry. ....................................
@RashidaTlaib formally inducted 200 local elected officials from allover the country into the #squad
On this day, Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib formally inducted 200 local elected officials from all over the country into the #squad.
https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1155197414896230406?s=20
Baltimore Sun Editorial Board rains holy hell down on Trump in epic editorial
Baltimore Sun rains holy hell down on Trump in epic editorial
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/baltimore-sun-rains-holy-hell-down-on-trump-in-epic-editorial/
Published 10 hours ago
on July 27, 2019
By Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump began his Saturday attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The city’s newspaper The Baltimore Sun unleashed on Trump for the racist attacks implying the residents were vermin or trash.
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Why Trump lashed out at Baltimore and Cummings gets lost in the shock of the racism. Perhaps it’s by design. He was illustrating how his migrant camps were better than some places in America. They are not, the Sun wrote.
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“In pointing to the 7th, the president wasn’t hoping his supporters would recognize landmarks like Johns Hopkins Hospital, perhaps the nation’s leading medical center,” the editorial continued. “He wasn’t conjuring images of the U.S. Social Security Administration, where they write the checks that so many retired and disabled Americans depend upon. It wasn’t about the beauty of the Inner Harbor or the proud history of Fort McHenry. And it surely wasn’t about the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average.”
Instead, Trump was “returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority-black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments.”
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“This is a president who will happily debase himself at the slightest provocation. And given Mr. Cummings’ criticisms of U.S. border policy, the various investigations he has launched as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, his willingness to call Mr. Trump a racist for his recent attacks on the freshmen congresswomen, and the fact that ‘Fox & Friends’ had recently aired a segment critical of the city, slamming Baltimore must have been irresistible in a Pavlovian way,” the Sun explained. “Fox News rang the bell, the president salivated, and his thumbs moved across his cell phone into action.”
The editorial explained that it was “heartening” to see the uprising online defending the city. But, ultimately, it’s the White House who has the most power’ to affect change in the city, for good or bad. The administration has far more power than even Cummings.
“If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyone’s, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land,” the editorial said.
They promised they wouldn’t “sink to name-calling” the way Trump would do, or even point out that he can’t spell or doesn’t know how to spell Cummings name correctly.
What they did want to do, is tell “the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are ‘good people’ among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”
Read the full editorial at The Baltimore Sun.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0728-trump-baltimore-20190727-k6ac4yvnpvcczlaexdfglifada-story.html
Better to have a few rats than to be one
By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board
Baltimore Sun |
Jul 27, 2019 | 6:36 PM
Baltimore Sun Editorial: Better to have a few rats than to be one {speaking of #RacistTrump]
Smackdown. The Baltimore sun just called Trump a rat!!
https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1155319085934305283?s=20
Better to have a few rats than to be one
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0728-trump-baltimore-20190727-k6ac4yvnpvcczlaexdfglifada-story.html
By Baltimore Sun Editorial Board Baltimore Sun |
Jul 27, 2019 | 6:36 PM
In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Maryland’s 7th congressional district on Saturday morning. Here are the key phrases: “no human being would want to live there,” it is a “very dangerous & filthy place,” “Worst in the USA” and, our personal favorite: It is a “rat and rodent infested mess.” He wasn’t really speaking of the 7th as a whole. He failed to mention Ellicott City, for example, or Baldwin or Monkton or Prettyboy, all of which are contained in the sprawling yet oddly-shaped district that runs from western Howard County to southern Harford County. No, Donald Trump’s wrath was directed at Baltimore and specifically at Rep. Elijah Cummings, the 68-year-old son of a former South Carolina sharecropper who has represented the district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996.
It’s not hard to see what’s going on here. The congressman has been a thorn in this president’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don’t to scream. President Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in order to make a point that the border camps are “clean, efficient & well run," which, of course, they are not — unless you are fine with all the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what the Department of Homeland Security’s own inspector-general recently called “a ticking time bomb."
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In pointing to the 7th, the president wasn’t hoping his supporters would recognize landmarks like Johns Hopkins Hospital, perhaps the nation’s leading medical center. He wasn’t conjuring images of the U.S. Social Security Administration, where they write the checks that so many retired and disabled Americans depend upon. It wasn’t about the beauty of the Inner Harbor or the proud history of Fort McHenry. And it surely wasn’t about the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average. No, he was returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments. It was only surprising that there wasn’t room for a few classic phrases like “you people” or “welfare queens” or “crime-ridden ghettos” or a suggestion that the congressman “go back” to where he came from.
David Zurawik: Trump’s Twitter attack on Cummings and Baltimore: undiluted racism and hate »
This is a president who will happily debase himself at the slightest provocation. And given Mr. Cummings’ criticisms of U.S. border policy, the various investigations he has launched as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, his willingness to call Mr. Trump a racist for his recent attacks on the freshmen congresswomen, and the fact that “Fox & Friends” had recently aired a segment critical of the city, slamming Baltimore must have been irresistible in a Pavlovian way. Fox News rang the bell, the president salivated and his thumbs moved across his cell phone into action.
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Joe Manchin questions China's promised $84 billion investment in Wv: 'Something doesn't make sense..
Big so-called deals via Trump are a flop=look at Wisconsin also!!
Joe Manchin questions China’s promised $84 billion investment in West Virginia: ‘Something doesn’t make sense here’
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/joe-manchin-questions-chinas-84-billion-investment-in-west-virginia.html
Published Thu, Jul 25 2019 5:14 PM EDTUpdated Thu, Jul 25 2019 6:53 PM EDT
Tucker Higgins
Key Points
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is raising alarm bells about an $83.7 billion investment in his home state pledged by China’s state-owned energy giant.
“When you put that in comparison to the state budget of West Virginia, our state budget only goes over $4 billion a year, so something doesn’t make sense here, and we cannot find out what their intent is,” he says.
The deal was announced in 2017 as part of $250 billion in business agreements reached between the U.S. and China in connection with President Donald Trump’s visit to the country..................................
Read more: West Virginia is still waiting on an $84 billion investment from China that was promised in 2017.................................
ICYMI: The cost of Trump's tariffs has fallen 'entirely' on US businesses and households: Goldman
a few months old but we are still living with these increased costs.
https://twitter.com/Warrigal69/status/1155076702956969984?s=20
The cost of Trump’s tariffs has fallen ‘entirely’ on US businesses and households: Goldman
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/12/goldman-trump-tariff-costs-fall-entirely-on-us-businesses-households.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain
Published Sun, May 12 2019 3:45 PM EDTUpdated Mon, May 13 2019 10:53 AM EDT
Emma Newburger @emma_newburger
Key Points
Goldman Sachs said the cost of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump last year against Chinese goods has fallen “entirely” on American businesses and households, with a greater impact on consumer prices than previously expected.
The bank said in a note that the trade war’s impact on U.S. consumer prices is now higher than previously expected, partly because Chinese exporters have not lowered their prices to better compete in the US market
“One might have expected that Chinese exporters of tariff-affected goods would have to lower their prices somewhat to compete in the US market, sharing in the cost of the tariffs,” Goldman said.
#RacistTrump is up early and is #cyberbullying Elijah Cummings ...........
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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....As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073965880172544?s=20
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Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA......
https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/status/1155099581899792386?s=20
Hong Kong police fire tear gas after protesters defy ban
Source: abc
HONG KONG — Jul 27, 2019, 8:18 AM ET
Protesters kick back and pick up tear gas canisters during a face off with riot police at Yuen Long district in Hong Kong Saturday, July 27, 2019. Police in Hong Kong shot tear gas at protesters who defied authorities warnings not to march in a neig
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The streets of Yuen Long became a sea of umbrellas as the march began Saturday afternoon. A symbol going back to the Occupy Central protests that shook Hong Kong in 2014, umbrellas have become tools to help protesters conceal their identities from police cameras as well as shields against tear gas and pepper spray. Some also wore masks to obscure their faces............................
Massive demonstrations began in Hong Kong in early June against an extradition bill that would have allowed suspects to face trial in mainland China, where critics say their rights would be compromised. The bill was eventually suspended, but protesters' demands have grown to include direct elections, the dissolution of the current legislature and an investigation into alleged police brutality.
A former British colony, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 under the framework of "one country, two systems." The arrangement promises the city certain democratic freedoms that are not afforded mainland citizens, but some residents say these liberties have been steadily eroded in recent years after the arrests of booksellers and democracy activists...............................
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/man-arrested-knife-assault-ahead-hong-kong-protest-64602429
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