The Donald Trump Score Card

Hail to the Dictator.



GOP leaders consider resolutions supporting Trump in 2020
Eleanor Watson
January 24, 2019

GOP leaders consider resolutions supporting Trump in 2020

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"Albuquerque, N.M. - Top Republican Party leaders on Wednesday began sensitive discussions over the scope of support the GOP can give now to President Trump's re-election campaign, amid talk of potential primary challenges, fresh evidence of sagging approval ratings and multiple ongoing government investigations.

Members of a Republican National Committee (RNC) panel responsible for considering formal resolutions and changes to party rules on Wednesday affirmed their support for the president by passing a resolution offered by Oklahoma Committeewoman Carolyn McClarty that stated the party's "unequivocal support" of the president — a step that a president's own party has never before taken."

 

Pregnant federal contractor: My bills are piling up and there won't be back pay to help me
Adriana Belmonte, Associate Editor
Yahoo Finance
January 23, 2019

Pregnant federal contractor: My bills are piling up and there won't be back pay to help me

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"The government shutdown hits contractors extra hard since those people will not receive back pay after any resolution.

Taylor Gautreaux is a Louisiana-based government contractor whose company works with the Department of Transportation. Like her co-workers, she has been put under a work stoppage. This means she’s not allowed to charge her contract, and in turn, does not receive a paycheck. Gautreaux also happens to be seven months pregnant."

 

Commerce Secretary and billionaire Wilbur Ross tells furloughed workers to get a loan.



Wilbur Ross says he doesn't understand why federal workers are turning to food banks in shutdown
Dylan Stableford, Senior Editor
Yahoo News
January 24, 2019

Wilbur Ross says he doesn't understand why federal workers are turning to food banks in shutdown

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"U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday that he doesn’t understand why some federal workers who have been furloughed or are working without pay during the ongoing partial government shutdown are having to turn to food banks and homeless shelters to feed themselves and their families.

“I know they are, and I don’t really quite understand why,” Ross said in an interview on CNBC.

Ross, whose net worth in 2016 was estimated to be $2.9 billion, said those workers should seek loans because “the banks and the credit unions should be making credit available to them.”

“True, the people might have to pay a little bit of interest,” Ross added. “But the idea that it’s paycheck or zero is not a really valid idea.”"

 

Sounds like a modern version of Marie Antoinette. "Let the eat cake!"

 

Wilbur Ross advises furloughed workers to get a loan in an administration where Trump made Mick 'The Knife' Mulvaney head of the OMB and the CFPB which previously had been protecting the rights of people who borrowed money, such as college students..

Trump himself settled a fraud case against his Trump University before it could go to a jury trial. He chose to lose but avoided losing outright in a public venue.



Why Loan Sharks, Car Salesmen, and Payday Lenders Love Mick Mulvaney
Trump’s pick to protect consumers is throwing students and members of the military under the bus.
By George ZornickTwitter
September 13, 2018

Why Loan Sharks, Car Salesmen, and Payday Lenders Love Mick Mulvaney

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"Among Mulvaney’s more radical moves has been to defang the CFPB’s oversight of student loans. American students are deeply in debt: 44 million people owe a combined $1.5 trillion. Eight million are now in default, while 3 million more are at least two payments behind; three times as many people defaulted on student debt in 2016 than lost a home to foreclosure. That makes these borrowers susceptible to scams: Under Cordray, the bureau received 60,000 complaints through August 2017—that’s one complaint per hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The CFPB acted on many of them, returning $750 million to injured borrowers, as well as conducting proactive supervision.

That didn’t sit well with lenders, and Trump’s new guard quickly moved to appease them. Even before Cordray resigned, the Education Department hamstrung the CFPB by saying it would stop sharing student-loan data with the “overreaching and unaccountable” agency. Upon his appointment, Mulvaney folded the bureau’s student-loan division into a consumer-education office—a clear signal that the CFPB would focus on providing information about the loans, not on monitoring bad actors."

 

Police shut down shutdown protest.



Demonstrators protesting shutdown arrested outside McConnell's office
By Justin Wise
01/23/19 05:09 PM EST

Demonstrators protesting shutdown arrested outside McConnell's office

 

Eat cake? I feel like Trump & CO want me on bread and water rations!

 

I wonder if part of the shutdown plan is to paralyze the FBI. Like the joke now is dumb asses on parole think they are off because of the shutdown. Is Trump that stupid too or does he think he has outmatched the national police of the USA? I'd hope they still have some staff on him

FBI agents say shutdown is hampering criminal investigations


Saddest thing is if an attack were to happen it is immediately a partisan issue. The Trumpers will use it as justification for xenophobia and blame the very people keeping democracy alive with checks and balances (Democrat's). No, the proper solution was to do as dear leader says he knows what is best. Russia knows this too. This country is divided in a way they could only dream of in the 1960's. Their puppet has performed.

I gurentee the Mexican cartels love this. No TSA makes it super easy to move drugs and smuggle people. You can also easily fly over and never leave the most common source of illegal Latin people in America.

 

How is this a bad thing? In Kentucky, the state where I live, Medicaid recipients ages 19 to 64 must complete at least 80 hours per month of “community engagement” to keep their benefits. That includes getting a job, looking for a job, going to school, volunteering for community service or taking a job training course. These are all positive things. There are also exemptions for pregnant women, full-time students, former foster care youth, survivors of domestic violence, primary caregivers of children and the elderly, and the “medically frail,” a broad term that includes people suffering from alcohol and drug addiction.

Opposition to at least some requirements reinforces the belief that liberals want to keep the masses helpless and dependent on government for their most basic of needs.

 

I've been talking about the way he has damaged each of the government agencies. He acts like he does not want us to have government services. The political philosophy is very much Pence & Tea-party-freedom caucus?

 

The Republicans just shut off food stamps to 15,000,000+ Americans...old, disabled, sick, single mothers, and little kids.

 

That's become a liberal clique. Without a work history it is harder to find a job. Employers are suspicious of gaps in employment. And as I mentioned a job isn't the only way to continue qualifying for Medicaid; school or job training are excellent options.

 

So SoS Mike Pompeo says that Nicholas Maduro, of Venzuela, is an illegimate president. . . . . . . . . . .

 

UK has universal healthcare, free at point of delivery – unemployment rate at timer of speaking is 4%

The US also has a rate of 4%

Germany also a country with universal healthcare has an unemployment rate today of even less 3.4% Norway 3.9%

Point being that this would seem to indicate that even with access to something like the National Health Service people don’t become ‘helpless and dependent on government for their most basic of needs’.

This is a myth that is spread by wealth sponsored think tanks and right wing lobbyists to bamboozle the unwary. It plays upon grievances and prejudices and tries to divide by setting up the [false premise of] ‘them’ and the ‘us’ the hard working and the scroungers, the deserving and undeserving. It’s an old con that wealth have used for generations, to keep the ‘lower orders’ fighting amongst themselves rather than joining together to tackle the real problem of inequality.

 

Dice

So do you believe these people haven’t got genuine needs they are just ‘getting one over’ on you and society, and if so why?

 

Mueller indicts Roger Stone.



Roger Stone Arrested in Mueller Investigation Into Trump Campaign
By Mark Mazzetti and Eileen Sullivan
Jan. 25, 2019

Roger Stone Arrested in Mueller Investigation Into Trump Campaign

 

Donny JR and Jerome Corosi should go and buy some petroleum jelly, cuz Big Bob is coming for 'em!

 

It is no secret that the Republicans are the main supporters of the NRA...big time gun rights advocates. It is also undisputed that Trump and his sons are gun owners. He said he could shoot some one on Fifth Avenue and people would still vote for him. His sons have proudly posted pictures of their trophy elephant parts, after having killed that endangered animal. Trump's heavy hitter John Bolton cooperated with Mariia Butina and the NRA to push gun rights in Russia. It now looks like Russian money went through the NRA to support Trump's campaign for office. During the last 30 months there have been many mass shootings in America, mostly by Trump/NRA supporters, or persons who subscribe to that extremist line of thinking. It hasn't been that long ago when a man who like Trump objected to immigrants who come to America went to a Synagogue in Pennsylvania and killed at least 11 innocent people. In North Carolina, a man who hated Muslim immigrants killed three of them after he became enraged over a car parking matter. Yesterday a man with a gun went to a bank and killed 5 people in Florida. In Wisconsin a gun nut killed a child's parents because he wanted her for himself...and that gun made things real easy for him. The American voters need to unite over this issue and stop the madness which uses gun ownership as a vector for men who think they must have their way under any circumstances. To do this we need to support the Democrats who can remove Trump from office. six of Trump's close associates have been charged in the Russia probe and we have a video where Trump is heard as he called upon the Russians to find Hillary's emails. There is plenty of proof to establish the case for collusion and convict all of the Trump team players.