The Donald Trump Score Card

But he had time to pardon all the white supremacist anti government guys who occupied a federal facility in Oregon...with weapons! If African Americans, Hispanic Americans, or Muslim Americans had done exactly that, they would have been charged with terrorism or killed on site!

 

He might pardon the white supremacists who killed Allen Berg? Maybe he'll pardon Oklahoma City Terry Nichols?

 

I'm thinking he wants the "base" to get worked up and vote to support him and the white supremacist (Mike Pence) agenda.

 

To the black folks during his run: "what the hell do you have to lose," --by voting for him-- inferring that democrats did nothing for them. He's right about that. BOTH parties are responsible for the vast ghettos that still exist after many, many decades. If helping black people was actually a goal, companies could be/ could have been --induced to locate into areas that would help black citizens instead of moving their businesses overseas. They'll get no help from the racist, bullshitter Trump or his sycophants.

 

Brett Kavanaugh sucks. Anyone Trump picks for anything sucks. I said in the beginning somewhere on this forum when Trump first won..."Here we go back to the dark ages...."....and we are......

Kavanaugh will over turn any environmental protection laws, too...Lets just trash everything while we are at it....because who really gives a shit....? NO ONE on that team....

and the problem with any Supreme justice that is picked and if he gets the vote to go through....will be generational.....and people will be stuck with him for all of their lives or most of their lives....

here is what Move On said about it last night....DEPRESSING!

"
Dear MoveOn member,

Red alert: Donald Trump just nominated Brett Kavanaugh, a 53-year-old, far-right conservative, for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Trump has said that his nominee would "automatically" overturn Roe v. Wade—which would end legal abortion for millions of women and criminalize women and doctors in a radical rollback of women's basic rights and equality.1 Already, the lawsuits intended to overturn Roe are moving through the lower courts.2

But Kavanaugh's confirmation is NOT a foregone conclusion. The Senate is very closely divided, 49 Democrats to 51 Republicans, and two Republican women, Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, both say they support the right to safe, legal abortion.


In addition to access to safe and legal abortion, so much is on the line, from marriage equality and affirmative action to open and fair elections and reining in the power of corporations. And Kavanaugh apparently thinks Trump is above the law.3

Let's be clear: There should not be another conservative Republican on the Supreme Court. We cannot allow it to happen. Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat when they refused to consider President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland. And Trump does not deserve to nominate a second Supreme Court justice who may well preside over a case stemming from the ongoing Russia investigation.

Democrats in the Senate should be waging an all-out fight for this all-important seat. But, stunningly, Democrats are not yet unified in opposing Trump's nominee, and Senators Collins and Murkowski are saying they won't even ask Kavanaugh whether he will would vote to overturn Roe.4,5 That's unacceptable.

The good news is that we know that in fights like this one, intense grassroots pressure can work. Our relentless campaigning last year helped convince Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski to save the Affordable Care Act. And we're experts at pushing Democrats to do what's right.

We urgently need your help to pressure Democrats to stand together to oppose Trump's nominee—and to convince Senators Collins and Murkowski to stand behind their beliefs. But they're only going to do it if we're in the streets, making it crystal clear just how much is at stake.



To win, we will need to muster every ounce of the Resistance's energy—just as we did one year ago when we succeeded in stopping the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, though the odds were stacked against us then just as they are now.

We will not turn back the clock two generations on women's basic rights.

We will not go back to the days of back-alley abortions and coat hangers.

The time is now to stop an already conservative Supreme Court from lurching much farther to the right, taking away our basic rights—for decades to come.


Thanks for all you do.

–Emily, Gabby, Milan, Ilya, and the rest of the team"

 

BMW shifting production of some SUVs out of the country as a result of tariffs

BMW to shift some SUV production overseas in response to tariffs

Le sigh

Did i mention this region voted overwhelmingly Trump

 

sometimes I think B. B. Rebozzo might have been better than Trump!

 

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Trump and his associates (Lighthizer, Ross, Navarro) have a shallow, superficial understanding of trade in today's global market and apparently don't realize the damage they are doing to businesses in the U.S.

Trump was upset about BMW having a plant in Mexico and threatened steep import tariffs on Germany if it didn't close down its plant, seemingly unaware of BMW's manufacturing presence in the U.S. and being the largest exporter of automobiles in the U.S..

Similar to Harley-Davidson, BMW and other manufacturers in the U.S. with a significant export market are forced to adjust to Trump's tariff war, in spite of him kicking and screaming like he did in response to Harley-Davidson's similar plan to move some manufacturing to outside of the U.S..


BMW increasing production in China, raising prices on SC-made SUVs in response to tariffs
Staff and wire reports
Jul 9, 2018

BMW increasing production in China, raising prices on SC-made SUVs in response to tariffs

excerpt:

"FRANKFURT, Germany — Automaker BMW says it will build more of its popular SUVs overseas to
offset the higher cost of sending cars to China due to recently enacted tariffs.

BMW also said it will raise the price of South Carolina-built vehicles sold in China to help offset
that country's new 40 percent import tax on cars from the U.S., retaliation for higher tariffs on
Chinese goods imposed by President Donald Trump.

The dpa news agency reported that Munich-based BMW said Monday it is "not in a position to
completely absorb the tariff increases."

BMW builds key SUV models in Spartanburg County, where it employs 10,000 people. Those
vehicles are exported to 140 countries, making BMW the largest U.S. auto exporter. Most of the
cars made in the Upstate are shipped overseas through the Port of Charleston's Columbus Street
Terminal."

 

At the end of the day what is needed is more black folks in public office. A bunch of well to do white folks aren't gonna have a clue, 9/10. And likely? They aren't going to care beyond the votes they can get.

 

Sometimes I feel like I have nothing to say. Trump just pardoned all them guys from the Oregon Standoff. What can we say after that? Would he have pardoned a bunch of Mexican Americans or African Americans if they had taken over a federal facility and burned federal grass lands? What kind of a country do we live in?

 

Living here, we saw pictures of how they trashed the place and disrespected a Native American burial ground. They're shit, but then so is Blump.

 

---and there's plenty of it to kiss! They are ALL afraid of him----cowards.

 

That's right Scratcho, but really really think about it. What would the cops do to YOU if you were to take a high power rifle then take over a federal government facility? Why did these ranchers who borrowed hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Department Of Agriculture so the could ride around on horseback like John Wayne and never pay back these federal loans, get special treatment? Why don't these cowhands get treated like all the college students who borrow student loans? Why do they get special treatment and a pardon?

 

I think the Heritage Foundation and Sean Hannity prepared their statements. It was scripted. And I did see the imprint of K's face on Trump's trousers.