The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump's losing skid continues.

Massie won in the Kentucky primary. Trump had called him a disaster for Americs.

In N. Carolina, the seat vacated by Mark Meadows who joined the Trump administration didn't go to Bennet who Trump and Meadows had wanted.



2 Republicans opposed by Trump win in Kentucky, N. Carolina
CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN and ALAN FRAM
Associated Press
June 23, 2020

2 Republicans opposed by Trump win in Kentucky, N. Carolina

excerpt:

"LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Voters rebuffed President Donald Trump and nominated two Republicans he opposed to House seats from North Carolina and Kentucky on Tuesday. Calls in higher-profile races in Kentucky and New York faced days of delay as swamped officials count mountains of mail-in ballots.

In western North Carolina, GOP voters picked 24-year-old investor Madison Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair following an accident, over Trump-backed real estate agent Lynda Bennett. The runoff was for the seat vacated by GOP Rep. Mark Meadows, who resigned to become Trump's chief of staff and joined his new boss in backing Bennett.

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, a libertarian-minded maverick who often clashes with GOP leaders, was renominated for a sixth House term. Trump savaged Massie in March as a “disaster for America” who should be ejected from the party after he forced lawmakers to return to Washington during a pandemic to vote on a huge economic relief package."

 

Trump has ramp trouble and Pence has stairs trouble.

A blogger said that Pence falls like Gerald Ford and waves like Richard Nixon.



Pence trips on stairs on June 23, 2020

Youtube video:

 

The Trump slump in the polls is changing the expectations in the markets.



Wall Street executives brace for a potential Biden win as Trump fades in polls
Brian Schwartz
Published Thu, Jun 25 20203:08 PM EDT

Wall Street executives brace for a potential Biden win as Trump fades in polls

excerpt:

"Finance executives are now bracing for Joe Biden to potentially win the presidency as Donald Trump slides in national and swing-state polls.

Various current and former Wall Street financiers, analysts, lobbyists, lawyers and political advisors with banking clients spoke to CNBC about how the industry is bracing for a possible Biden win. Some spoke on the record, others decided to discuss on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

The changes in tone and expectation – and, in some cases, preparation for a Biden presidency – represent an about-face for many executives who privately cheered on Trump's cuts in corporate and income taxes, along with his rollback of regulations. Many of them have traditionally projected more moderate leanings in public settings."

 

A lengthy article by The Atlantic that summarizes how Trump dismantled a large portion of the competent leadership of the federal government by firing those he didn't like and instilling fear in everyone else.

The Republican party sat by idly, pleased with its corporate tax cut and its ride on Trump's political coattails.

The remnant is an empty shell of mostly incompetent Trump loyalists who are unable to grapple with real problems, a fact that has come to light in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.



The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions
George Packer
March 02, 2020

The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions

Outline - Read & annotate without distractions

excerpts:

"In his fourth year in power, Trump has largely succeeded in making the executive branch work on his personal behalf. He hasn’t done it by figuring out how to operate the bureaucratic levers of power, or by installing leaders with a vision of policy that he shares, or by channeling a popular groundswell into government action. He’s done it by punishing perceived enemies, co‑opting craven allies, and driving out career officials of competence and integrity. The result is a thin layer of political loyalists on top of a cowed bureaucracy."


"Within the federal government, career officials are weighing outside job opportunities against their pension plans and their commitment to their oaths. More than 1,000 scientists have left the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and other agencies, according to The Washington Post. Almost 80 percent of employees at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture have quit. The Labor Department has made deep cuts in the number of safety inspectors, and worker deaths nationwide have increased dramatically, while recalls of unsafe consumer products have dropped off. When passing laws and changing regulations prove onerous, the Trump administration simply guts the government of expertise so that basic functions wither away, the well-connected feed on the remains, and the survivors keep their heads down, until the day comes when they face the same choice as McCabe and Yovanovitch: do Trump’s dirty work or be destroyed."

 

More somber news for Trump with Texas inhibiting its reopening.

The governor of Texas is a Republican.



Texas Pauses Reopening as Virus Cases Soar Across the South and West
A growing number of states are pausing plans to reopen, amid rising case counts. But Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said shutting back down was the “last thing we want to do.”
By Manny Fernandez and Sarah Mervosh
Published June 25, 2020
Updated June 26, 2020, 9:30 a.m. ET

Texas Pauses Reopening as Virus Cases Soar Across the South and West

excerpt:

"The latest developments call into question any suggestion that the worst of the pandemic has passed in the United States, as rising outbreaks in the South and the West threaten to upend months of social distancing meant to help keep the virus at bay.

The nation recorded a new high point with 36,975 new cases on Wednesday, nearly two months after many states began to reopen with the hope of salvaging the economy and the livelihoods of millions of Americans. Alabama, Missouri, Montana and Utah all hit new daily case records on Thursday."

 

Post of a blogger:


"Our government hasn't been a reflection of the people for a long time. It's just an extension of Corporate America, internationals, Wall Street, and those who who represent those interests (lobbyists). Congress has been bought and paid for decades now (by the same interests), and any laws Congress passes are pretty much sculpted, written by, and reflect the interests of those the lobbyists represent.

All Trump's done is see it for what it is and taken advantage of it to satisfy his own need for power, control, self-aggrandizement, and greed."

 

I have been seeing news articles saying that polling isn't great for him. He is the incumbent, but if that's true there's a slight chance a democrat will win in the election.

 

Trump will claim it is due to the world's best testing machine that he thinks he built.

Imagine the risk of 20,000 people packed in an arena yelling for Trump.



18 members of North Texas family reportedly test positive for coronavirus after birthday party
One person with the virus spread it to seven others, who then went on to pass it to 10 more relatives, WFAA reports.
By Catherine Marfin
2:13 PM on Jun 25, 2020 CDT

18 members of North Texas family reportedly test positive for coronavirus after birthday party

 

Trump is calling for less virus testing, the same Trump who accuses China and the WHO of not being forthright with data.

 

The video is from May 20, 2020 when Pence visited DeSantis who was overly optimistic like Trump to the extent of being delusional.

Florida is now facing difficult times.


Texas Pauses Reopening as Virus Cases Soar Across the South and West
A growing number of states are pausing plans to reopen, amid rising case counts. But Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said shutting back down was the “last thing we want to do.”
By Manny Fernandez and Sarah Mervosh
Published June 25, 2020
Updated June 26, 2020, 9:30 a.m. ET

Texas Pauses Reopening as Virus Cases Soar Across the South and West

excerpt:

"Florida has reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases over the past two days, bringing its total to 114,018. Orange County, home to Orlando, is averaging 353 new cases per day, compared to an average of 73 two weeks ago. And in Miami-Dade, which has reopened more slowly than the rest of the state, Mayor Carlos Gimenez said that for now all plans to move forward are on pause.

“We’re not opening up bars,” he said on Wednesday. “We’re not opening up nightclubs. That’s just asking for trouble.”"




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By the way, just before midnight, Barr went to the SCOTUS asking them to kill Obamacare. Everything the republicans are doing are last minute, and desparate measures because they know that trump is likely to lose, and take the republican senate with him.
In Scathing Letter, More Than 80-Percent of Faculty at Bill Barr’s Law School Call for His Censure and Resignation

 

9000 new coronavirus cases in one day in Florida.

Trump can attribute it to his claimed super-duper testing machine.



Florida confirms nearly 9,000 coronavirus cases in a single day, a new record
By Ben Conarck and Daniel Chang
June 26, 2020 11:18 AM

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243817017.html

 

Barr and his night moves again to help Trump, hoping that no one will notice.

His last midnight maneuver was his firing of Berman.




Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Affordable Care Act
If successful, the move would permanently end the health insurance program popularly known as Obamacare and wipe out coverage for as many as 23 million Americans.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
June 26, 2020, 1:54 a.m. ET

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Affordable Care Act

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act — a move that, if successful, would bring a permanent end to the health insurance program popularly known as Obamacare and wipe out coverage for as many as 23 million Americans.

In an 82-page brief submitted an hour before a midnight deadline, the administration joined Republican officials in Texas and 17 other states in arguing that in 2017, Congress, then controlled by Republicans, had rendered the law unconstitutional when it zeroed out the tax penalty for not buying insurance — the so-called individual mandate.

The administration’s argument, coming in the thick of an election season — as well as a pandemic that has devastated the economy and left millions of unemployed Americans without health coverage — is sure to reignite Washington’s bitter political debate over health care."

 

Head like a hole

black as a soul

I rather die

than give you control

---fuck you-orange punk------and adios motherfucker!

National nightmare soon to end!!!!!!!

 

Trump still hasn't delivered on his 2016 promise of big, beautiful, inexpensive, healthcare coverage for everyone.

In the midst of a deadly pandemic that has left people unemployed and without healthcare coverage through what was their job and without money to buy their own, Trump is still trying to retaliate against Obama for making humor of him at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2011 at the expense of further crippling the healthcare system.

 

I know the video was from may, I was trying to make a contrast between what he said a little over a month ago, and today.


In the meanwhile: Florida just shattered their previous single day record with 8,942 new cases

 

Yes. The contrast is striking.

 

So if we just stop looking for illegal persons and votes the problem goes away right? Be like an ostrich if you can't see it's not real. I just solved his biggest problem for free. Small government for the win.

 

Unfortunately for Trump, the virus surges are happening in southern swing states critical to Trump's reelection like FL, TX, and AZ after his gut told him the warmth and UV would end the virus before it could ever become a problem.



Florida suspends alcohol consumption at bars amid surging virus caseload
By Rob Wile
June 26, 2020 11:53 AM

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243818462.html

excerpt:

"The Florida Department of Business and Regulatory affairs announced Friday it is suspending alcohol consumption at all bars statewide, amid a surging statewide coronavirus caseload.

The announcement was tweeted just before 11:30 a.m. by Department Secretary Haley Beshears. It was not immediately clear how the announcement would affect restaurants that serve alcohol, restaurants with bars that serve alcohol, or bars that serve food.

Earlier Friday, the state announced another record of reported COVID-19 cases."

 

Dammit--if they'd just stop testing--it would go away.