The Donald Trump Score Card

Final Senate Vote On Kavanaugh Nomination Expected Saturday
by Brian Naylor
October 6, 2018 7:00 AM ET

Final Senate Vote On Kavanaugh Nomination Expected Saturday

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"The Senate is expected to vote Saturday on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and — barring a major unforeseen development — in all likelihood, he will be confirmed by the narrowest of margins.

Friday, after the nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle with a 51-49 vote, two previously undecided senators, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced they would support Kavanaugh. That support all but assures Republicans of the votes they need to push the controversial nomination across the finish line."

 

Why Mitch McConnell is bragging about holding up Merrick Garland from the Supreme Court, two years later
By Amber Phillips
April 5, 2018

Analysis | Why Mitch McConnell is bragging about holding up Merrick Garland from the Supreme Court, two years later

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made the riskiest decision of his political career in 2016: to block a vote on President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court.

McConnell’s decision not to allow a vote on Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat meant that the Senate leader would be responsible for leaving a vacancy on the Supreme Court for more than a year. The new president should be the one to fill the vacancy, he argued. Democrats hammered him on it. Legal experts said it was unprecedented in modern history.

All McConnell could do after making his decision was cross his fingers that Republicans would hold on to the Senate and win the presidency and get to fill the seat themselves. If not, he'd just risk losing the Senate, the presidency and the conservative balance of the Supreme Court.

That risky decision paid off, so well in fact that today, McConnell is basically bragging about it.

 

Manchin is a fucking hillbilly whore. He would sell is mother to stay in office.

We need a constitutional convention to revise the constitution.
First order of business, term and age limits for anyone that works for the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and that includes SCOTUS.

 

Term limits was the big reform slogan of the Republicans back in the early 90s. Until they took Congress and the state legislatures. After that, they lost interest for some reason.

 

There was uncontrolled border crossing/crashing when the whites were invading the lands of the native peoples. Then the laws were re-written and since that day, there has not been UNCONTROLLED BORDER CRASHING. The claim is Republican and baseless and purely designed to get Trump's voter base worked up. Since before the forming of the United States of America, Mexican/Hispanic families have been crossing the Rio Grande and adjacent border places in the southwest TO VISIT FAMILIES AND WORK as migrant farm hands. It was their land first and they have family members on both sides of the border. It is very racist of Republicans and Trump Bigots to call them "Illegals" when this was their home first. It was the White Europeans who came here without any regard for the locals and the local rules.

 

Yes, last night Rachel Maddow played a clip of Susan Collins giving a speech about term limits where she said she would retire after two terms. That was up in 2008. She stayed on for an extra ten years. It's a do as I say not as I do!

 

Great video on The Young Turks showing exactly which Russians that his family has been dealing with, how the Russians have laundered money stolen from the Russian people for decades through his properties. The whole damn family has been crooked even BEFORE they emigrated and began their money games here. Don Jr doomed himself and his "I don't know any Russians--I have nothing to do with Russia," father by admitting so much money was flowing in from Russia.
Trump lovers will NOT CARE.
In fact, I believe some will show up soon to holler- unproven!! fake news!!

 

Post-10346=Very important: so Bump! Be interesting to see righties wiggle out of this stuff.

( when Mueller and his crew get through with the crooked Trump family---maybe things will return to---#1- somewhat normal. #2-war in the streets. #3- a collective sigh of relief around the world. (except in Russky-land.)

 

What I can't figure out is if he's using the Russians or if the Russians are using him? Maybe it is a join venture in a criminal enterprise?

 

Donald Trump came to power less than two years ago and has changed the government as we knew it. He has ended:

Environmental Protections
Clean Water Sources
Food Safety Inspections
Government Employee Ability To Speak Publicly
Endangered Animal Protections
School Funding
Medicaid Funding
Help To Palestinians
Immigration For Ethnic Groups
Clean Air Protections
Affordable Care Act Provisions
Consumer Financial Protections
American Recognition of the International Criminal Court
The 60 Votes Requirement to Confirm A Supreme Court Judge
American Recognition of International Human Rights
Separation of Church and State Laws
Tax share of rich people
Press Access to the White House
Department of Justice and FBI independence

But he has protected several of his friends who had been accused of sexual assault. And he appointed Gina Haspel after saying torture works.

 

Trump called for term limits for members of the U.S. Congress during the election but hasn't said much about it since being elected, although he made a statement supporting it in a tweet in April 2018.

As President, he praised China for getting rid of term limits for its presidency, praised Xi for being 'president for life', and jokingly said that the maybe the U.S. should try it.



Trump’s term limits promise faces its own limits on Capitol Hill
By Paul Kane
November 26, 2016

Trump’s term limits promise faces its own limits on Capitol Hill

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"The term-limits movement gained momentum in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as 23 states passed legislation trying to impose a limit on how long members of Congress could serve. But the Supreme Court struck down those laws in a ruling making clear that the only limits to congressional service were spelled out in the Constitution, which would have to be amended to pursue change.

The term-limits movement, which drew more support from conservatives than liberals, started its growth during an era when Democrats had a powerful hold on the congressional majorities — controlling the House from 1955 to 1995, while holding the Senate for all but six of those 40 years.

But when Republicans retook the congressional majority in the 1994 midterms, a new era of competition took hold. The Senate majority has flipped four times in the past 16 years, and the House majority has changed hands twice in the past decade.

That took much of the wind out of the sails for term limits.

“We have term limits now — they’re called elections,” McConnell said the day after the election. He said there would be no consideration of the proposal in the Senate."

 

Trump Hails Kavanaugh Victory at Kansas Political Rally
Associated Press
October 06, 2018 9:47 PM

Trump Hails Kavanaugh Victory at Kansas Political Rally

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"Aboard Air Force One, Trump said Kavanaugh had withstood a “horrible, horrible attack” that “nobody should have to go through.”

And he revealed that he believes a rally speech in which he mocked Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony had been turning point for the nomination.

“I think that the Mississippi speech had great impact,” he said, calling it “a very important thing.”

Advisers and Senate leaders had urged Trump not to attack Ford publicly, worried such a move would anger on-the-fence senators. But Trump went after her anyway, mocking her testimony and gaps in her memory as a rally crowd laughed and cheered.

White House officials now say they view the speech as a turning point that changed the momentum as it appeared Kavanaugh’s nomination was at risk."

 

Got stoned and watched a video of Trump walk up Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe and nearly pissed myself.

 

Trump Boards Air Force One with Toilet Paper Stuck to His Shoe — and the Internet Has Thoughts

 

The presidents ass-wiper is in big trouble!

 

The U.S. farmers feel like that piece of toilet paper stuck to Trump's shoe.


Trump said soybean prices have gone up. They're near decade-lows.
Gina Heeb, Business Insider
October 7, 2018

Trump said soybean prices have gone up. They're near decade-lows.

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- President Donald Trump said soybean prices have gone up.
- They have fallen to near decade lows since his trade war with China began.
- China has turned to South American countries to replace US soybeans.
- Soybean stocks are approaching record levels.

President Donald Trump claims US soybeans have largely held up against his trade war with China. But tariffs have pushed prices to lows not seen since 2008.

"And soybeans are going up, and things are going up," he said at a press conference in New York on Wednesday. "And we've had very little hurt, from what I’ve done. In fact, the markets have gone up, and the farmers are going to do great."

 

'Using extortion and intimidation tactics to play a zero-sum game' is an accurate description of Trump's trade policy.

Trump has projected his mafia-style Manhattan real estate mindset onto international relations. The U.S. farmers are feeling the brunt of it. What appeared to the farmers in the election to be an asset of Trump has turned into a liability.


Trump's trade 'extortion' won't work, China state media says
Andrew Galbraith, Michael Martina
August 5, 2018 / 11:40 PM

Trump's trade 'extortion' won't work, China state media says | Reuters

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"China’s strictly controlled news outlets have frequently rebuked the United States and the Trump administration as the trade conflict has escalated, but they have largely refrained from specifically targeting Trump.

The latest criticism from the overseas edition of the ruling Communist Party’s People’s Daily newspaper singled out Trump, saying he was starring in his own “street fighter-style deceitful drama of extortion and intimidation”.

Trump’s desire for others to play along with his drama is “wishful thinking”, a commentary on the paper’s front page said, arguing that the United States had escalated trade friction with China and turned international trade into a “zero-sum game”."

 

Qs. When will the farmers wake up, smell the coffee, and realize they bet on the wrong horse? When will consumers realize that cheap Chinese goods at WalMart are a thing of the past? Will the economic boom last until after the election? And how will the crisis resulting from the Mueller probe intersect with all this?

 

That would be Lindsey Graham.

 

Okie

I agree but think of the timing – the US is doing well economically at the moment due to policies put in place by the Obama admin but Trump supporters see it as all down to the genius of Trump.

So – the Democrats get more power in November and the policies of the Trump regime start to bit and the US takes a financial hit

Who do you think the right is going to blame? And how is the right wing media going to spin it?

The problem is that many people do not see long term trends they see the immediate and so often false cause and effects.