The Donald Trump Score Card

If there is one thing black people trust it's old rich white men

The Republican angle is vote us because we don't acknowledge any racism that is racist. You are equal. It's those Democrats saying there is racism using you like a pawn. Lincoln was a Republican so it proves it. And they say that seriously.

 

The only REAL way to make waves and get some action from those self serving so-called legislators and the "job creators", is an idea that would work 100 % , but also and idea that will/would never happen. Imagine if millions and millions of people stopped buying anything but groceries and gas for 1 month. No reaction? Do it again for 2 months. Buy nothing else. WE are the people that keep everything going by buying all the things that are made. But of course, we need our new widgets and plenty of them. Every cent they so lavishly spend is OUR money. Radical problems deserve radical solutions. Sometimes it has to be --fuck it--let's do it. Let the fabled 'çhips' fall where they may.

And make no mistake--you never own your house. Ever. Miss some tax bills and the results will not be pleasing.

 

Ben Carson Wants to Triple Rent for the Poorest of the Poor
By Ed Kilgore
April 26, 2018 8:00 am

Ben Carson Wants to Triple Poor People’s Rent

excerpt:

"At another time and under a different Republican HUD Secretary, Ben Carson’s proposal today (right before appearing before a Republican-controlled congressional subcommittee) to triple the minimum rent paid by the poorest public-housing tenants while imposing work requirements and reducing subsidies generally would have been predictable. The GOP hasn’t harbored many real defenders of public housing for a long time, and reducing the cost of housing subsidies is the kind of thing Republicans favor reflexively as an alleged belt-tightening measure.

But coming shortly after the GOP blew up the federal budget with huge upper-income tax cuts (with some expensive sweeteners to cut middle-class voters in on the bonanza at a significantly reduced level), this eagerness to strike a blow against really poor people is at a minimum unseemly. That it is happening during a highly politicized season when Congress is not about to enact a budget or any major legislation is gratuitous and symbolic, and not in a good way. And Ben Carson’s association with this nasty piece of business adds insult to injury, after all the claims during his confirmation hearings that he was a former public-housing resident with a special bond of compassion towards those now similarly situated. (It actually turns out he did not “grow up in the projects” as was initially claimed, but instead lived for a while in subsidized private housing.)"

 

An article by investigative journalist Jack Anderson about Nixon and Rebozo. Nixon apparently attempted to hamper investigators from gaining information about their unusual financial transactions.


Justice Face True Test in Rebozo Inquiry
by Jack Anderson
Bangor Daily News
October 26, 1973

 

An example of what can go wrong when the President conducts business with shady partners.


Charles (Bebe) Rebozo

Charles (Bebe) Rebozo

excerpt:

"Rebozo was eventually dragged into the Watergate Scandal. During the investigation, a $100,000 donation from Howard Hughes that was meant for the Republican Party, was found in a safe-deposit box owned by Rebozo. The IRS now began a detailed look into Rebozo's financial affairs, with a focus on "misappropriation of campaign contributions, acceptance of money in exchange for favors by the Justice Department, distribution of Watergate hush money, and alleged diversion of campaign funds to Nixon's brothers and personal secretary."

The IRS investigation discovered that when Nixon took office his net worth was $307,000. During his first five years in the White House this sum had tripled to nearly $1 million. During the same period Rebozo's net worth went from $673,000 to $4.5 million. According to Jack Anderson, Nixon and Rebozo had both hidden money in Switzerland.

Rebozo escaped prosecution. One of the IRS investigators, Andy Baruffi, later claimed that "I was assigned to review the entire case file. We had Rebozo primarily on a straight up-and-down provable false statement charge. It was a dead-bang case. I believe a deal was made with the White House to kill the investigation."

In 1974 the staff of the Senate Watergate committee discovered that Charles Rebozo gave or lent part of a $100,000 campaign contribution to President Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods.

It was also discovered during the Watergate investigation that Rebozo had a business relationship with two of the burglars, Bernard L. Barker and Eugenio Martinez. Rebozo had also arranged for E. Howard Hunt to investigate Hoke Maroon, who had information about Nixon's early business investments in Cuba."

 

Yes it was open hostility

ha, ha, apparently Trump's letter to Kim wasn't the first letter he personally wrote which required some changes

 

Article about Trump's barb wire signature.

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Trump’s signature is ‘horrifying,’ but should you care?
By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
February 01, 2017

Trump’s signature is ‘horrifying,’ but should you care? - The Boston Globe

excerpt:

"Some experts — graphologists, people who have been trained to examine handwriting for markers of personality — were no less harsh. “His signature is this barbed-wire thing that’s into power and control and rigidity,” said Sheila Lowe, a Ventura, Calif., handwriting analyst with more than 40 years of experience in this small field. “It’s closed, it’s not open, it’s not soft at all and it looks like Himmler’s.” As in Heinrich Himmler, head of Adolf Hitler’s SS and the man who established the first official concentration camp at Dachau.

Lowe first came across Trump’s handwriting and signature in the 1990s and has been keeping a professional eye on it since. “Handwriting changes over time in people who grow and change. . . . It’s like a road map of who you were,” she said. Trump’s handwriting, she said, has remained largely consistent for the last 20 years. “He’s the same person he was all those years ago — an empty narcissist.”"

 

Oil-rich Gulf nations spend millions on Trump insiders
By Ali Dukakis
May 28, 2018, 5:55 AM ET

Oil-rich Gulf nations spend millions on Trump insiders

excerpt:

"A key point of tension between the two countries: Qatar’s relationship with Iran. The two countries had a soft diplomatic relationship, with each maintaining an embassy in the other’s country. In August of 2017, Qatar moved to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Iran.

Qatar’s media attache in Washington, D.C., Jassim Bin Mansour Al-Thani, told ABC News in a written statement that his country’s lobbying push has been focused on “promoting our enduring bilateral relationship – the core tenants of which are strong military, economic, and cultural ties.”

“Without provocation, the blockaders have spent millions in the United States to tarnish the reputation of Qatar. The goal of their smear campaign and lobbying is to drive a wedge between Qatar and the United States – they have failed,” Al-Thani added. The embassies of UAE and Saudi Arabia did not respond to messages from ABC News requesting comment.

Alterman, the DC-based Middle East foreign policy expert, said there is growing reason for concern about the shadow lobbying war playing out in Washington.

“What seems to be happening here is people are using very specific relationships to effect very discreet things on a very large scale, and making money,” Alterman said. “And the system is designed to be a system that can’t be bent for any individual and what we’re increasingly seeing is it’s being bent for a small number of individuals.”"

 

Trump makes Memorial Day about praising himself and insulting the DOJ and Obama.


Trump Honors Fallen Soldiers On Memorial Day With Self-Congratulatory Tweet
by Hayley Miller
May 28, 2018

Trump Honors Fallen Soldiers On Memorial Day With Self-Congratulatory Tweet

 

The democrats demonstrated this by running two old white people, Bernie and Hillary. It was odd because the republicans ran a weirdly diverse array of candidates. All of them with such thin track records that Trump was able to walk all over them using only childish insults and relentless badgering. Still, it was amusing to watch him disassemble the establishment right so handily.

I had high hopes for Bernie, though I was somewhat concerned he'd croak before reaching a second term. But that wasn't to be, he never really got a chance at Trump thanks to the underhanded ways of the infamous "Clinton Machine". How any of that would have benefited black Americans is anybody's guess. Obama didn't accomplish much for black people who earned less than $250K a year.

If only he had ended the war on drugs, where he disappointed me the most. I voted for change, hope I already had. From now on I plan to vote out as many "career" politicians as I can. I'll have to dodge all the slick games they play to hold office of course. But I have faith after watching what happened to Cantor.

 

There's nothing to be gained by simply scrapping the electoral college, a better replacement has to be submitted. Simply slicing it out of our nation's charter will result in larger states impinging on the smaller states as one would expect from a common democracy.

The US isn't a democracy for a lot of good reasons, but I do agree that the representation we're supposed to reap from this republic has managed to skirt their way around the original charter to the point I doubt they'd recognize much of what they wrote.

 

And Nixon used the IRS to go after Jack Anderson because of this investigation...outright retaliation!

 

For Trump, it's MEmorial Day.

 

The election should be by popular vote using block chain technology imo. It would probably be cheaper than having to buy all the diebold machines.

 

The popular vote being a sole determining factor would be a simple democracy. It would effectively abolish the individual states and put us all under singular federal control. Considering how well the federal government manages the War on Drugs, The Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service, I'm not inclined to be giddy over handing everything over.

Perhaps the states that feel the electoral college fails them should consider seceding from the US and establishing a sovereign nation. It would be SO much better than having the lives of 350 million people's lives controlled by the acts of just over 500 federal government "leaders". Particularly the bureaucrats and "career" politicians.

I'd sure like to know which nation has a better system that we might emulate, but so far I haven't seen it. Oddly, Uruguay was founded with a copy of the US constitution. They legalized marijuana so they could focus on their heroin problem.

 

No, it would remain a democratic republic because the vote would still be determining who represents the people. There would still be three branches of government, all of which would still be controlled and function by the same systems and protocols they do now.

The only difference an abolished electoral college would bring is a president elected by popular vote. Small population states would still wield a great deal of power due to their having two representatives in the senate.

This seems clearly better than having a system where candidates can win a national election while losing the vote by 3 million.

 

I meant just for picking the president. We'd still have a republic. The block chain would be a more trustworthy voting system, because it's a transparent ledger on millions of computers.

 

Agreed, we DO need a flawless voting system. It IS the 21st century after all. So why in the hell do we still have people whining about having to identify themselves before they vote? Don't we ALL want to rest assured that every effort is made to prevent fraud? No matter how "small" the chances are.

I get kind of sick of the voter ID issue. I need an ID to buy liquor (Georgia is a tad behind the times and has applied a belt & suspenders policy), write a check, cash a check, get a ticket, pay for a ticket, drive a car, get insurance for that car and get married. So how, HOW is asking me to show an ID to vote a "race" issue?

Again, it's the 21st century. Time to let the old shit fall away.

 

I see your point. I am only suggesting that an alternative to the electoral college be anchored before it is dismantled. Voting by popular vote alone is fraught with problems that the founders recognized early in the game.