The Donald Trump Score Card

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The Donald Trump Score Card


Hurricane Dorian a Category 5 storm as it slams into the Bahamas
Dana Jacobson
Updated on: September 1, 2019 / 3:39 PM / CBS News

Hurricane Dorian a Category 5 storm as it slams into the Bahamas

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"Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told CBS News..."

 

Another headline for The Onion.

"Trump says he warmed everyone about the dangers of the hurricane by golfing in Virginia and sending Pence to Poland"

 

Trump Golfs and Tweets After Canceling Poland Trip to Keep Track of Hurricane Dorian
By Daniel Politi
Aug 31, 20196:11 PM

Trump Golfs and Tweets After Canceling Poland Trip to Keep Track of Hurricane Dorian

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"In the middle of everything, the president also spent a lot of time on Twitter. Several of those tweets were directly related to Dorian, but lots of others weren’t, including a message about his recently departed assistant Madeleine Westerhout. He also had time to complain about media coverage and praise Sean Hannity while also blasting Democrats and former intelligence officials and implying Americans should thank him for lower gas prices over Labor Day weekend."

 

Trump should be expressing concern and prosecuting foreign elements that interfere illegally with U.S. elections.

Instead, he praises the world autocrats who engage in such activity, dismisses the facts as conspiracy rubbish, fires those who can bring such criminals to justice, replaces them with people under his thumb (including a beer enthusiast), and calls for a space force of mighty warriors subservient to their favorite supreme commander...Trump!

 

And he just said he has never heard of a category 5 storm before?????

 

Meet the Trumpverstehers
We know about the president’s most vocal supporters. But what about his more discreet following?
Eliot A. Cohen
Jul 11, 2018

Trump’s Closeted Sympathizers

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"Finally, the Trumpverstehers usually focus on a few issues—the Iran deal, deregulation, stronger border enforcement—and come back to those as justifications for supporting him. They judge him by those particular areas where he is more or less in harmony with their views. An argument that the whole is more important than the parts they find unconvincing. They like the obvious big moves—a larger defense budget, moving the United States embassy to Jerusalem, getting hostages back from North Korea—and dismiss as less consequential the alienation of European allies, trade war with Canada, anger in Mexico, or the worries of the Japanese about being sold out. To some extent, they buy Trump’s argument that most of the allies are freeloaders who would benefit from a good slapping around.

I understand these points and even faintly sympathize with some, but the above are in no way conservative arguments. The example of the Trumpverstehers suggests that Peter Wehner was correct in saying that we are seeing American conservatism evolve into the American Right, a very different and more disturbing thing.

There is, however, one thing I do not comprehend about the Trumpverstehers. I do not understand how the cries of an infant torn from its immigrant mother’s arms now fail to rend the hearts of people who, in other settings, I once knew to be upright, generous, and kind."

 

Donald Trump’s Know-Nothing Science Budget
By Alan Burdick
March 4, 2018

Donald Trump’s Know-Nothing Science Budget

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"Donald Trump’s disregard for science has never been much of a secret. Well before he became President, he tweeted that light bulbs can cause cancer, that wind farms are unhealthy, that fracking “poses ZERO health risks,” and that Ebola “is much easier to transmit” than the government lets on. As a candidate, he regularly called global warming a hoax, repeated the false notion that vaccines can cause autism, and stated confidently that spraying hair spray in one’s apartment does not harm the ozone layer (it does, a little). He avoids exercise, proudly fears germs, and, in Mike Pence, has chosen a Vice-President who, when pointedly asked, won’t say whether he believes in evolution. The day after Trump won the 2016 election, the editors of the journal Nature wrote that, as incoming President, he “should leave behind his damaging and unpopular attitudes and embrace reality, rationality and evidence.”

It’s been downhill ever since. Under Trump, the United States has withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement, and the phrases “climate change” and “evidence-based” have been scrubbed from federal Web sites—in the very same year that three once-in-a-century hurricanes and two major drought-fuelled wildfires ravaged parts of the nation. (Last weekend, the temperature in the Arctic soared above forty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and today’s forecast calls for historic flooding in Boston.) Two national monuments have been shrunk to make way for mining; the Affordable Care Act is being dismantled, with nothing to replace it; the Environmental Protection Agency has banned E.P.A.-funded scientists, but not industry representatives, from serving on its advisory boards; and the Centers for Disease Control, facing steep budget cuts, will soon all but shut down a vital program that helps more than three dozen developing countries detect and control the spread of infectious diseases."

 

Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for them to snap out of it?
By Alexander Hurst
December 13, 2018

Escape From the Trump Cult

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"Personality cults are a hallmark of populist-autocratic politics. The names of the various leaders are practically synonymous with their movements: Le Pen, Farage, Duterte, Orbán, Erdogan, Chávez, Bolsonaro, Putin. Or if we were to dip farther back into history: Castro, Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin. Like religious cult leaders, demagogues understand the importance of setting up an in-group/out-group dynamic as a means of establishing their followers’ identity as members of a besieged collective."


"In an interview with Pacific Standard, Janja Lalich, a sociologist who specializes in cults, identified four characteristics of a totalistic cult and applied them to Trumpism: an all-encompassing belief system, extreme devotion to the leader, reluctance to acknowledge criticism of the group or its leader, and a disdain for nonmembers. Eileen Barker, another sociologist of cults, has written that, together, cult leaders and followers create and maintain their movement by proclaiming shared beliefs and identifying themselves as a distinguishable unit; behaving in ways that reinforce the group as a social entity, like closing themselves off to conflicting information; and stoking division and fear of enemies, real or perceived."


"Does Trump tick off the boxes? The hatchet job he has made of Republican ideology and the sway he holds over what is now his party suggest he does not lack for devotion. His nearly 90 percent approval rating among Republicans is the more remarkable for his having shifted Republican views on a range of issues, from trade, to NATO, to Putin, to even the NFL. Then there are the endless rallies that smack of a noxious sort of revivalism, complete with a loyalty “pledge” during the 2016 campaign; a steady stream of sycophantic fealty (at least in public) from aides in the administration and its congressional Republican allies; and an almost universal unwillingness by Republican congressional leadership to check or thwart Trump’s worst instincts in any substantive way."

 

Why the fuck would Donald Duck care about foreign interference in our elections, when Americans have been voting for whoever advertises the most in virtually every election for over twenty years? Do you really think foreign countries don't comprehend that all they have to do is give money to whichever candidate they want? Donald Duck has a nice offshore account, where he can play golf and negotiate. The only reason to crack down on hackers is because they bring the price of buying politicians down.

A billion fucking dollars for a single election, so our politicians can work for the fucking banks. You get the justice you can afford, making your reward reality TV.

 

Trump used executive privilege to release a sensitive spy satellite image for the sake of trolling Iran on its launch site accident by making it sound like he was sorry that the accident happened..

Trump has responded to those who have criticized him for releasing the image by saying that they spoiled his 'condolences' to Iran.



Amateurs Identify U.S. Spy Satellite Behind President Trump's Tweet
Geoff Brumfiel
September 2, 20199:04 AM ET

Amateurs Identify U.S. Spy Satellite Behind President Trump's Tweet

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"I'm now scratching my head and curious about how they account for the effects of the atmosphere and motion of the objects," she says.

And she says she thinks she's not alone. Others will be trying to use the image to learn more about how USA 224 works. "I imagine adversaries are going to take a look at this image and reverse-engineer it to figure out how the sensor itself works and what kind of post-production techniques they're using," she says.

Hanham questions whether Trump's tweet zinging the Iranians was worth the information this image provides to other nations, but she adds: "It's his decision as the president."

 

LOL, if you know anything about the technology, you know Donald Duck did not release any sensitive information. The satellite that took this picture was the size of a shoebox and there are maybe another 40,000 like it in orbit. These days they can use lasers to measure exactly how to compensate for atmospheric disturbances for telescopes, but that's overkill for this little satellite just trying to take pictures of the ground. Using a simple adaptive AI like you might find in a VR headset or any number of devices today, they can compensate for such issues faster than you can blink an eye, on the satellite itself, using the tiniest circuits imaginable that use .01 watts.

Google's AI crap can do the same thing right now, with any photograph you want. People are so easily impressed, they assume Google is smart and super high tech, but they are yesterday's crap the Pentagon has no real use for, except mass production. That's why Google pretended to not work for the government for so long, because they wanted to sucker idealists into working for them long enough to give them the technology they required to actually do more serious work for the government. When it comes to high tech, you either work for the Pentagon or you are lunch meat.

Here's an example of what is already possible on a home computer, and the newer satellites going up should be about as powerful as a high end laptop, but this is totally synthetic images, and they can take the grainiest and most distorted image, and clean up fast enough to do this kind of rendering in real time.

 

Trump has said that he has never heard of a category 5 storm at various times over the past two years.

He'll probably make the same statement next year and beyond.



'I'm not sure I've even heard of a category 5' says Donald Trump about Hurricane Dorian – video

'I'm not sure I've even heard of a category 5' says Donald Trump about Hurricane Dorian – video

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"Trump has said the same thing – that he has never heard of category 5 hurricanes – at least four times over the last two years, including as recently as May."

 

Short term memory issues... Long term memory issues, as well.


Guy's just a fucking moron.

 

Doctor Demented might hold the key for understanding our Trumpy.

 

The image may have been tweeted during a security briefing. It's typical of Trump's whimsical and impulsive use of resources for the sake of trying to insult people and groups he doesn't like. Tweet now, make alibis and more insults later.


Experts worry Trump revealed US secrets when he tweeted a photo of an Iranian launch site
Trump tweeted what appears to be a classified image of a failed Iranian rocket launch, and said the US didn’t sabotage the effort.
By Anya van Wagtendonk
Updated Aug 31, 2019, 3:57pm EDT

Experts worry Trump revealed US secrets when he tweeted a photo of an Iranian launch site

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"It is not completely clear where the image Trump shared came from. Security experts told NPR that, given the image’s angle and the time at which it was taken, it could have been taken by the USA-224 American spy satellite. Other experts believe the image actually came from a military drone.

Either way, such images are usually kept classified in order to occlude US intelligence gathering methods and capabilities. The CIA, the director of national intelligence, and the State Department referred questions to the White House when asked about the photograph by CNN, and the National Security Council declined to comment. A defense official told CNBC that the photograph was included in the president’s intelligence briefing Friday.

Trump refused to confirm whether he’d tweeted a photograph from his security briefing while speaking to reporters Friday before boarding Marine One; instead, he defended his choice to share the image."

 

Oh jeezus christ

They are going to reverse engineer from a photo are they?

He was just trolling Iran, ha, look what we can do

When it comes to handling the media, guy is a genius and libtards keep falling for it

 

Donald Duck spouts endless insults, lies, and utter nonsense, and his 40% of followers defend every word. Me, I crack jokes and get booted off academic websites for referencing their own damning empirical evidence, that they are the reason he was elected.

 

If the degradation continues, down the road Trump may make repeated statements that he never heard of category 4, or 3, or 2,...

 

Another mass shooting in Texas.



Trump says West Texas shooting 'hasn't changed anything' in ongoing gun talks
By Morgan Chalfant
09/01/19 12:27 PM EDT

Trump says West Texas shooting 'hasn't changed anything' in ongoing gun talks

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"Trump has seemed to vacillate on his support for background checks in the wake of two separate mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, within a 24-hour period in August that left more than 30 dead.

After those shootings, Trump signaled he would support stricter background checks, only to later assert that the United States already has “very strong background checks” and repeat a common National Rifle Association (NRA) talking point by warning of a “slippery slope” of enacting gun reform legislation.

“I have an appetite for background checks,” Trump told reporters on Aug. 21. “We have a lot of background checks right now.”

Trump has said it is important for lawmakers to fix the “weak” areas in the current system and has emphasized that he believes gun violence is a mental health issue."

 

But at the same time, he said he knew they existed.