The Donald Trump Score Card

What else do these facts tell us? Getting the vaccine is smart, therefore people who hate Trump are smart. Refusing the vaccine is stupid, therefore people who love Trump are stupid.

Note: Sarah Palin refuses the vaccine and loves Trump. I rest my case.

 

Well, that's proof of something.

 

THANK YOU ZEN FOR PUTTING THAT DAVE BARRY COLUMN UP!!!! I laughed my ass off!! He is so damn funny. I read Insane City by him and now that your post reminded me of how damned funny he is, I'm gonna head to the bookstore and get some more Dave Barry.

 

Debbie Dingell, the wife of the late U.S. Congressman John Dingell, shares death threats leveled at her.

Trump started a revenge campaign against her after she voted to impeach him. She assumed the House seat of her husband when he retired.

After John Dingell died in 2019, Trump made a public statement at a rally that implied that Dingell was looking up from hell.


Lawmaker Debbie Dingell shares phone threat audio, says no escaping "Trump hate tunnel"

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"During an interview on Sunday, Democratic Representative Debbie Dingell shared a violent and threatening voice message that was recently sent to her office, stating that she's been the focus of a "Trump hate tunnel" for years.

Dingell was speaking during a joint interview on CNN's State of the Union with Republican Representative Fred Upton. The politically opposite lawmakers, both from Michigan, came together to share stories and discuss a contentious year in U.S. politics.

Host Dana Bash played an audio clip of a hateful voice message sent to Dingell, in which a male caller repeatedly attacks her with vulgar and violent language.

"You goddamn old senile b*tch. You're as old and ugly as Biden. You ought to get the f**k off the planet. You f**king foul b*tch. They ought to f**king try you for treason, b*tch," the caller begins. "I hope your family dies in front of you. I pray to God if you've got any children, they die in your face," he adds.

Dingell said she's received consistent threats since she became the subject of attack by former President Donald Trump in 2019, shortly after the death of her husband Representative John Dingell. During that time, Trump began targeting Dingell for her role in voting to impeach him.

At one point, Trump implied to a crowd of supporters that her late husband—who served as a Michigan lawmaker for 59 years—was "looking up from hell.""

 

Trump was upset that he made a sympathy remark about John Dingell when he died but that his wife later impeached him because of his meddling in U.S. taxpayer money to Ukraine.

Trump thinks that making a polite comment about someone should earn him the right to behave illegally with impunity.

 

Where is Rudy? Spokesman for Hair Care for Men? Landscape artist for Four Seasons Landscaping? Janitor at the Adult Emporium?

 

Former Trump appointee to stand trial for role in Capitol riot

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"The trial of a former Trump appointee working in the State Department who is accused of assault against police during the Capitol riot has been set for September.

Federico Klein is one of the hundreds of rioters arrested for allegedly participating in the 6 January attack on the Capitol. At the time of the attack, Mr Klein was a member of the US State Department, appointed to his position by then-President Donald Trump.

Mr Klein resigned his position two weeks after the attack and was arrested in March after several witnesses, including a former co-worker, saw his picture on an FBI wanted poster and alerted the authorities."

 

Former Trump appointee to stand trial for role in Capitol riot

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"The former Trump appointee was originally charged with allegedly obstructing police officers by using a police shield to prevent them from securing the Capitol's entrance. New charges were added in August when video evidence suggested he allegedly used the shield to assault Capitol police with the shield.

That indictment alleged that Mr Klein was "Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers and Aiding and Abetting."

Investigators believe that Mr Klein was among the first Trump supporters to breach the Capitol, and accused him of inciting further chaos inside the building, calling for "fresh people" to fill the halls.

Mr Klein was offered a plea deal by prosecutors over the summer, but he rejected that offer, calling it "unreasonable.""

 

OMG Now they're drinking Chlorine Dioxide

 

First They Fought About Masks. Then Over the Soul of the City.

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"From lockdowns to masks to vaccines to school curricula, the conflicts in America keep growing and morphing, even without Donald Trump, the leader who thrived on encouraging them, in the White House. But the fights are not simply about masks or schools or vaccines. They are, in many ways, all connected as part of a deeper rupture — one that is now about the most fundamental questions a society can ask itself: What does it mean to be an American? Who is in charge? And whose version of the country will prevail?

Social scientists who study conflict say the only way to understand it — and to begin to get out of it — is to look at the powerful currents of human emotions that are the real drivers. They include the fear of not belonging, the sting of humiliation, a sense of threat — real or perceived — and the strong pull of group behavior.

Some of these feelings were already coursing through American society, triggered by rapid cultural, technological, demographic and economic change. Then came the pandemic, plunging Americans into uncertainty and loneliness, an emotion that scientists have found causes people to see danger where there is none.

Add to all of that leaders who stoke the conflict, and disagreements over the simplest things can become almost sectarian."

 

First They Fought About Masks. Then Over the Soul of the City.

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"This makes her feel unsettled, because America is changing. Gender is blurred in ways that she said she believes God did not intend. She home-schools her children, in part to steer clear of these shifts. But the bigger problem, as she sees it, is that the broader culture seems to applaud them. It is not just sexuality. There are other issues too — for example, what she sees as the left’s preoccupation with race and its telling of history.

Demographics are changing too. Growing numbers of Hispanic people and Asian people from the Marshall Islands call Enid home. The county of Garfield, in which Enid is the seat, was 94% white in 1980. Last year, that figure was about 68%. The county experienced one of the largest increases in racial diversity in the country over the past decade, 2020 census data show.

Crabtree, who is white, could feel that change was accelerating, and that was making her feel like she was losing her country, like it was becoming something she did not recognize.

So when she heard about the indoor mask mandate proposal last year in her city, she jumped to get involved."

 

First They Fought About Masks. Then Over the Soul of the City.

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"Waddell thought it had to do with fear. He said America is in a moment when the people who ran things from the beginning — mostly white, mostly Christian, mostly male — are now having to share control. Their story about America is being challenged. New versions are becoming mainstream, and that, he believes, is threatening.

“You don’t just get to be the sole, solitary voice in terms of what we do here, what we teach here, what we show on television here,” he said. “You don’t get to do it anymore. That’s where the fight is.”

He sees it as the next chapter in the story of what it means to be an American, of who gets to write this country’s story. But he does not see the country getting through it without a fight.

“We’re going to have an explosion,” he said. “Whether it’s literal or figurative. It’s going to be bad.”

For Waddell, the past 18 months have been the most painful of his life. He said the experience changed him and left him feeling that Enid, as much as he tried to build a life there, no longer feels like home."

 

The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.

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Donald Trump Jr. is both intensely unappealing and uninteresting. He combines in his person corruption, ineptitude, and banality. He is perpetually aggrieved; obsessed with trolling the left; a crude, one-dimensional figure who has done a remarkably good job of keeping from public view any redeeming qualities he might have.

There’s a case to be made that he’s worth ignoring, except for this: Don Jr. has been his father’s chief emissary to MAGA world; he’s one of the most popular figures in the Republican Party; and he’s influential with Republicans in positions of power. He’s also attuned to what appeals to the base of the GOP. So, from time to time, it is worth paying attention to what he has to say.

Trump spoke at a Turning Point USA gathering on December 19. He displayed seething, nearly pathological resentments; playground insults (he led the crowd in “Let’s Go, Brandon” chants); tough guy/average Joe shtick; and a pulsating sense of aggrieved victimhood and persecution, all of it coming from the elitist, extravagantly rich son of a former president.

But there was one short section of Trump’s speech that I thought was particularly revealing. Relatively early in the speech, he said, “If we get together, they cannot cancel us all. Okay? They won’t. And this will be contrary to a lot of our beliefs because—I’d love not to have to participate in cancel culture. I’d love that it didn’t exist. But as long as it does, folks, we better be playing the same game. Okay? We’ve been playing T-ball for half a century while they’re playing hardball and cheating. Right? We’ve turned the other cheek, and I understand, sort of, the biblical reference—I understand the mentality—but it’s gotten us nothing. Okay? It’s gotten us nothing while we’ve ceded ground in every major institution in our country.”"

 

Trump has said that he tries to retaliate tens times over with people who he perceives have violated him.

His son shares the same sentiment.


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Trump and the January 6 committee are now locked in a full-on confrontation - CNNPolitics

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"Trump's campaign of obstruction, which has now reached the Supreme Court, raises questions about whether the panel, already facing a racing clock ahead of next year's midterms, will fulfill its goal of a historic accounting of his efforts to overturn the election. Trump's inner circle is locked into a strategy of preventing a comprehensive reckoning over one of the most notorious days ever in the United States and seeking to whitewash history as he readies an apparent new run for the White House.

The panel's attempt to reach deep into Trump world and behind the scenes in the West Wing on January 6 kicked into higher gear in the days before Christmas, offering new insight into its areas of focus. Trump responded by stepping up his own strategy of defying the truth. It is now clear committee members are trying to build a detailed picture of exactly what Trump said, did and thought in the days leading up to the insurrection and in the hours when it raged on Capitol Hill after he incited the mob with fresh election fraud lies."

 

Trump and the January 6 committee are now locked in a full-on confrontation - CNNPolitics

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"For the first time, the panel publicly called for testimony from lawmakers closely bound up in Trump's effort to discredit the 2020 election and cling to power. It asked Rep. Scott Perry to talk about his effort to install Jeffrey Clark, an official who wanted the Justice Department to pursue Trump's lies about electoral fraud as attorney general. The Pennsylvania Republican declined, arguing the panel was illegally constituted -- even though it was created by a vote in the full House. The committee also asked another Trump crony, Rep. Jim Jordan, to discuss what it says are his multiple communications with the ex-President on January 6. The Ohio Republican has yet to respond, but his loyalty to Trump and fierce attacks on the committee suggest he's unlikely to be a cooperative witness.""

 

Idiots

 

Trump received $4 million in British aid money for claimed damages for the COVID pandemic (that he and Johnson botched) and the Brexit that he promoted.


Trump Golf Courses Claimed Nearly $4 Million In British Aid While He Was President

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"The payments were detailed in newly released accounts filed with the United Kingdom by Golf Recreation Scotland Ltd., the holding company that owns both golf courses.

Trump Turnberry in Aryshire claimed some $3 million in COVID relief in 2020, according to the filings, and Trump International in Aberdeenshire reportedly collected some $600,000 in aid the same year.

Filings by the businesses in part blamed losses on Brexit — which Trump strongly supported — for disrupting supply chains. Despite the plush British subsidies, the businesses still slashed staff.

The former president’s son, Eric Trump, who was put in charge of the resorts after his father’s election, defended the foreign government handouts, saying in one of the filings that they were “helpful to retain as many jobs as possible.”"

 

Similar to the America farmers collecting direct payments from the federal government (which amount to welfare checks) for the damage caused by their hero Trump.

 

The 2021 Political Royal Screw Award goes to Kirk Hartle who used his deceased wife's name to vote twice for Trump.

Hartle said publicly at a press gathering that he was outraged that someone could commit such a devious act and that he wondered how pervasive it might be in light of Trump's exaggerrations about voter fraud in the 2020 election.

He was arrested and charged with voter fraud.

Hartle said he was eager to have his day in court to tell his side of the story.

He pleaded guilty to voter fraud before going to court.

Hartle is CFO for companies owned by Nevada state Republican party finance chairman Donald Ahern.

Trump made no public remarks about Hartle's guilt.


Las Vegas man pleads guilty to voter fraud in 2020 election
By Selwyn Harris Pahrump Valley Times
November 19, 2021 - 7:01 am

Las Vegas man pleads guilty to voter fraud in 2020 election