The Donald Trump Score Card

In his quest for his border wall, the one he said Mexico would finance, Trump might want to consider subsidizing landlords with U.S. taxpayer money so that they can go, as Trump would say, 'nice and easy' on their tenants who are federal workers who can't pay their rent due to his shutdown.

It would be the same approach of Trump using tariffs, which are an effective tax on consumers, to subsidize farmers who have been damaged by his trade war.

 

A prophetic spoof video of Trump from August 2017.

 

President Trump just used the White House press briefing room for a publicity stunt
Hunter Walker White House Correspondent
Yahoo News
January 3, 2019

President Trump just used the White House press briefing room for a publicity stunt

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON — President Trump made his first appearance ever in the White House press briefing room on Thursday, but he didn’t take any questions from the media. Instead, Trump used the occasion to pursue a political battle with Congress, trotting out burly Border Patrol union representatives to endorse his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border."

 

Fascinating read.

 

I would like to see a majority of TSA workers call in sick. I would also like to see the furloughed workers seek other employment, and leave their present jobs.

 

Why?

 

MeAgain, I love you but need to remind you that Afghanistan is a land locked country. The nearest Mariner port would be in Pakistan or Iran, unless the Russians wanted a road over some land to these ports, meaning invasion of other nations?

 

to show trump that they don't depend on him for a job.

 

"Trump falsely claimed that Russia invaded Afghanistan because “terrorists were going into Russia” and “literally they went bankrupt”. Well he does know about going bankrupt.

 

Warm water ports aside, Trump's explanation of why the Soviets went into Afghanistan is certainly false and not shared by many (if anybody) outside Russia.
No, the Soviet Union did not invade Afghanistan because terrorists were crossing the border into Russia
Trump Defends Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan for Some Reason
Most scholars have viewed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan within the context of the Cold War: the USSR's policy of cautious expansionism in pursuit of prestige and thwarting the West. Recent scholarshp suggests it was a response to security concerns about " a rapidly weakening Afghanistan, vulnerable to Islamic extremism and Western encroachment, posed to the Soviet Union’s southern borders".
Why Did the Soviet Union Invade Afghanistan in 1979?
Trump's statement is only the latest in a string of pro-Russian statements that have led many observers to question his independence from Russian interests--notably accepting Putin's word over the advice of U.S. intelligence at Helsinki.
Over U.S. Intelligence, Donald Trump Accepts Putin’s Strong Denial of Russian Election Interference – Warren Throckmorton
80 times Trump talked about Putin
Trump's Pro-Putin Remarks May Have Been Historic - The Atlantic
Trump Is Already Helping Putin Consolidate Control of Ukraine
Trump's comments on Russia denounced as 'shocking and dangerous'
The controversy over Donald Trump's ties to Russia, explained

 

Donald Trump signs Industrial Hemp bill legalizing hemp nationwide

 

I can see their thinking. Iran at the time was under the Shah for a while before the 1978 Revolution where the religious leaders took control. Pakistan was never going to fall to the Russians because of all the money they were getting from the Saudis. There might have been another reason for their misadventure. Maybe it just to build another buffer between themselves and the US forces. At the time they feared America and also feared China who had just cut a deal with Nixon and Kissinger. Glasnost was still down the road a piece.

 

Australians care if politicians tell lies, but people in the US don’t

“People like a politician less if they find out they have been lied to a lot,” says Lewandowsky. “It’s a reasonably large effect.”


But when the team did a follow-up study in the US, the size of the effect was ten times smaller. “We have a lot of information now suggesting American voters don’t really care about facts, in the sense that if you tell them a politician is dishonest it doesn’t really seem to matter,” says Lewandowsky.

 

President Trump bets big on Supreme Court to uphold controversial policies after lower court losses
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
Published 7:00 a.m. ET Jan. 7, 2019 | Updated 7:56 a.m. ET Jan. 7, 2019

President Trump bets big on Supreme Court to uphold controversial policies after lower court losses

excerpt:

"One of the administration's central arguments is that district court judges operating at the bottom rung of the federal judicial system should not be able to block executive actions nationwide. It's an argument that has won some support in legal circles.

When a federal appeals court ruled in August against Trump's sanctuary cities policy, it nonetheless admonished a lower court for blocking the policy nationwide. And when the Supreme Court upheld Trump's travel ban in June, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should go further and consider stripping district judges of that authority.

At the same time, critics of the administration's legal efforts contend Solicitor General Noel Francisco routinely is seeking to circumvent Supreme Court rules that allow leapfrogging lower courts "only upon a showing that the case is of such imperative public importance as to justify deviation from normal appellate practice."

The Justice Department "has shown a remarkable lack of respect for the judicial process by repeatedly seeking to skip over the lower courts and, rather, go straight to the Supreme Court," New York's former acting attorney general, Barbara Underwood, tweeted in November.

If the strategy proves successful, it could lead to even more efforts by the Trump administration to seek Supreme Court bailouts of lower court rulings. One prime target: The Justice Department is seeking to quash a lawsuit that alleges the president has benefited illegally from his family business, including at the Trump International Hotel just blocks from the White House."

 

There are always those (especially people like Trump) who will say that the authors of the research study are mistaken and that the study actually confirms the opposite, what they believed all along.

 

Now we need an amendment so we could remove political operators from the big court.

 

I remember when the Republicans used to whine about Obama acting like a tyrant.

 

Time is running out for us. The President's claim that he can build the wall without Congressional approval by invoking emergency powers based on a Trumped-up emergency in effect is a claim to dictatorial powers. If he could get away with that, he could get away with anything. If he did this, and the courts backed him up, we'd in effect be a dictatorship. And this from Republicans who thought Obama was a dictator for using executive orders.