The Donald Trump Score Card

The School Lunches Malia And Sasha Eat Vs. The Crap Michelle Obama Has Foisted On America

Obama Girls Enjoy 'Best School Lunch in America;' Public Schoolers Lament 'Let's Move' Meals

 

Add to the list another senior level White House person forced out by Trump in favor of a loyalist.

Ratcliffe put on such a good act at the Mueller hearing that Trump couldn't resist bringing him onboard.



Dan Coats to Step Down as Intelligence Chief; Trump Picks Loyalist for Job
By Maggie Haberman, Julian E. Barnes and Peter Baker
Jul 28, 2019

Dan Coats to Step Down as Intelligence Chief; Trump Picks Loyalist for Job

excerpt:

"If Mr. Ratcliffe is confirmed by the Senate, he will offer a starkly different perspective in the Situation Room, one more in line with Mr. Trump’s thinking. Mr. Ratcliffe, a third-term Republican from Texas and a former prosecutor, has embraced Mr. Trump’s theories about the Russia investigation and was among the sharpest questioners of Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, at last week’s hearings.

Mr. Trump met with Mr. Ratcliffe on July 19 to discuss the job, but the hearings just five days later offered the congressman a chance to essentially audition for the president, who enjoyed watching him grill Mr. Mueller, according to people informed about the process."

 

He will be. Just another example of an inexperienced ass kisser.

 

I once talked with the guy in charge of mental health for the AMA. Forty years of extensive studies concluded the obvious, that the republican party and fundamentalists in general organize like chickens. Duh! Psychologists are so fucking smart, the idiots don't even know how to deal with chickens! They cannot pump out new drugs fast enough to meet the demand, but the fucking idiots know nothing about raising chickens. The resemblance to chickens merely reflects the fact they cannot organize any better, and by merely encouraging them to actually share their words and play nice, its possible to make progress.

Academics have sold themselves down the river, with logistics, mathematics, philosophy, and even jokes now being classified as "Vital to the National Defense" and corporations attempting to patent and copyright the laws of physics. Physician, heal thyself, before you help to destroy the whole fucking world. I've been booted off every academic website imaginable that is open to the public, for suggesting the idiots organize like chickens, according to their own evidence. I've seen all good people turn their heads each day, so satisfied, I figured out the mathematics, linguistics, and physics that can drive chickens insane.

With a little work, next gen laptops should be able to run bots that will be your every little bitch you could possibly desire. You want to beat the bitch up in VR, no problem. You want to own Wall Street, while living in the slums, go for it. It will require a few decades of careful studies, but I feel certain academics will get the message. Chickens only care about who feeds them, and fundamentalists have been compared to a cannibalistic culture that eats their own children, which is why their numbers are crashing. Academics are teaching people they call idiots how to destroy the world and insisting on rewriting the dictionary for everybody else, after they patent the laws of nature.

As a result, academics have the lowest reproductive rates and tend to complain nobody believes in Darwinism. So, I provide an explanation for the quantum observer effect, as reflecting the fact lowbrow slapstick is intrinsic to nature, and how to categorize humor according to academic standards, to examine the ignorance of the experts in excruciating detail, all within the public domain, and how to cheaply automate the process and make unique predictions. Let them eat cake if they insist on being fatheaded.

The truth hurts for a reason, and academics don't like admitting it anymore than anyone else.

 

Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics
By MARC LEVY and SCOTT BAUER
July 30, 2019

Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics

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"The president’s recent return to racial politics may be aimed at rallying his base of white working-class voters across rural America. But the risks of the strategy are glaring in conversations with women like Evans.

Many professional, suburban women — a critical voting bloc in the 2020 election — recoil at the abrasive, divisive rhetoric, exposing the president to a potential wave of opposition in key battlegrounds across the country.

In more than three dozen interviews by The Associated Press with women in critical suburbs, nearly all expressed dismay — or worse — at Trump’s racially polarizing insults and what was often described as unpresidential treatment of people. Even some who gave Trump credit for the economy or backed his crackdown on immigration acknowledged they were troubled or uncomfortable lining up behind the president.

The interviews in suburbs outside Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit and Denver are a warning light for the Republican president’s reelection campaign. Trump did not win a majority of female voters in 2016, but he won enough — notably winning white women by a roughly 10 percentage-point margin, according to the American National Election Studies survey — to help him eke out victories across the Rust Belt and take the White House."

 

School lunches in the U.S. tend to be dumping grounds for farm surplus products--high on carbohydrates.

 

It was another scene out of Trump's TV show The Apprentice.

Previous acts included Dr. Ronny Jackson who said Trump could live to be 200 if he didn't eat as much fast food.and U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's appearance before the Senate touting repeatedly his love of drinking beer.


Here Are All The Times Brett Kavanaugh Said He Likes Beer At His Senate Hearing On Sexual Assault Allegations
"Yes, we drank beer. My friends and I. Boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer. We drank beer."
Stephanie K. Baer, BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on September 27, 2018, at 7:57 p.m. ET

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/brett-kavanaugh-likes-beer

 

Remember the Alamo is merely one theme of many popularly embraced by conservatives. The South Shall Rise Again! is another one saved for desperate times.

 

Its professional wrestling and, as bizarre as it might sound, Giuliani is as close to law and order as conservatives get, insisting my way or the highway is all the law and order Americans can afford. Its the wild west, and he's the guy who can give the Mafia a run for their money, because he knows them personally. Still, he can't beat Russian hackers and Libertarians making it illegal to vote for Mickey Mouse, which are priceless comedy routines. The governor of Texas also gets the prize, for threatening to secede from the union, until the Mexican cartels told him to stop spouting smack, or they'd take it personally.

 

The first vote in the 2020 election will likely be cast tomorrow as Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell will step up to the mike and announce a .25 or .50 basis point cut in interest rates. It takes at least 90 days for the ripple effect to settle as cheap money floods brokerage houses and boosts markets ever higher. All this comes as the election season gets under way and of course further cuts will follow soon.
Donald Trump is a primary benefactor as have been past presidents from Fed actions lowering rates at the most auspicious occasions such as these. No one on the campaign trail will say so but all are aware of the convenient timing involved here.

 

Interest rates are already plenty low. Questioning just how much stimulus this will provide. the economy is doing well.

 

It's my firm belief they will return to zero within the next year or so. Powell knows his hands are tied and he has no choice.

 

China and Argentina are developing trade relations in response to global uncertainty created in part by Trump's trade war.



Exclusive: China to inspect Argentine crushers, could unlock No. 1 soymeal market
Hugh Bronstein, Reuters
July 30, 2019

Exclusive: China to inspect Argentine crushers, could unlock No. 1 soymeal market - Reuters

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"Argentina, the top global soymeal exporter, has tried for years to break into the China market, the biggest consumer of the meal which it uses to feed its giant hog herd. China, with its own crushing industry to protect, has steadfastly resisted.

Global trade uncertainties - including pessimism about U.S.-China negotiations that start on Tuesday in Shanghai - has, however, strengthened Argentina’s hand, grain traders said, prompting China to expand its soymeal import options.

“We will have a visit of Chinese officials as part of the process of pursuing the objective of exporting soybean meal to China,” Santiago del Solar, chief of staff to Argentina’s Agriculture Secretary, told Reuters.

China is the No. 1 buyer of Argentine soybeans but does not import any of its processed meal, which could be used to help feed the world’s biggest hog heard as consumers in the country shift toward a diet of meal-fed pork and poultry."

 

Argentine soybean farmers sow ‘green gold’ to outlast the U.S.-China trade war
By Franco Ordoñez
November 30, 2018 12:00 AM

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/policy/trade/article222257655.html

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"Brazil and Argentina are the second and third biggest producers after the United States, and along with the U.S., account for the vast majority of soybeans produced around the world.

“The Trump administration is a friend to foreign farmers,” Gedan said. “U.S. protectionism, and the U.S. absence in new multilateral trade arrangements, is limiting access for U.S. farmers to large overseas markets.”

Brazil exported 50.9 million tons of soybeans to China from January to August, a 15 percent increase from the same period last year, according to the agriculture ministry. Meanwhile, Argentina has replaced China as the top buyer of U.S. beans.

Citing the increased demand from China, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange projected Argentina soybean exports will grow 15.4 million tons in the 2018-19 harvest season."

 

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/policy/trade/article222257655.html

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"But he’s also growing increasingly weary that the longer the trade war continues the greater harm it will cause. No matter what, U.S. farmers’ reputation as a supplier has been damaged, he said.

“Argentina is going to do everything they can to take that market,” Hurst said. “And if you’re China wouldn’t you want a more dependable suppler. Even if we come to some agreement, we’re still going to be the supplier of last resort because they don’t know when we’re going to do this again.”

It’s happened before.

Forty years ago, many Midwestern farmers were pushed out of the industry when President Jimmy Carter sought to punish the Soviet Union for invading Afghanistan and announced an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union.

While the U.S. cuts its own sales to the Soviet Union, countries like Argentina and Brazil seized on the opportunity and their own grain markets, which they sold to the Soviets to the detriment of American family farmers."

 

Why is that? He's chair of an independent regulatory commission that's charged with making monetary policy to promote maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates (Federal Reserve Act). Under the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, it is prohibited from "arbitrary and capricious" actions' and must make its decisions on the basis of substantial evidence on the record taken as a whole. It would be inconsistent with the Fed's mandate for it to keep goosing the economy in order to maximize short-term growth to serve the political purposes of the incumbent President.

 

Right on! I am a retired economist and the issue of time preference for money is a big deal. Without a meaningful positive interest rate there is no reason for saving. The only alternative for investment is the stock market which, as we know has a speculative component and has risk. What can possibly go wrong?....

 

California governor signs bill requiring Trump to release tax returns; White House vows legal fight
By Louis Casiano | Fox News
July 30, 2019

California governor signs bill requiring Trump to release tax returns; White House vows legal fight