The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump gave Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his State of the Union address.


Plain Talk: Rush Limbaugh couldn't be less deserving of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
By Dave Zweifel
Feb 19, 2020

Plain Talk: Rush Limbaugh couldn't be less deserving of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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"Rush Limbaugh doesn't deserve to be in their midst. Donald Trump's decision to award Limbaugh the medal in front of a State of the Union audience, no less, disrespects everyone who has been honored by presidents since John F. Kennedy initiated the award in 1963, the year he was assassinated.

"What's next?" asked Washington Post Jennifer Rubin, who is often identified as a conservative columnist. "Giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to David Duke?"

Yes, the king of right-wing radio blowhards, Limbaugh has a bad case of cancer and, as Rubin herself pointed out, "any decent person should hope he has a full recovery."

But as she and others have observed, his health problems do not excuse his career of hate-filled racism, homophobia and misogyny, elevating him to deserve a Medal of Freedom.


Naturally, a lot of Republicans thought making him a medal winner was just great. Ohio's U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, unfortunately a UW-Madison grad, called Limbaugh getting the medal one of "the things that make America great," and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the honor "well-deserved.""

 

Jim Jordan of Ohio again.

The Great Lakes states like Ohio have changed. They used to be known as the breadbasket of pragmatic people who were model citizens, such as Neil Armstrong and John Glenn.

 

Although it can work as a campaign ploy in the short term to try to allay fears held by those who hark back to a long-lost fatherland, Trump and his wall aren't going to stop the reality of a demographically and economically changing America and world.

His supporters will eventually come to grips with this reality, just as those who were clinging to traditionalism during the rapidly changing U.S. culture of the 1920's eventually accepted women's rights, residential electricity, widespread automobile use, the advent of jazz music, modern physics, and the science of biological evolution.

The reality is already setting in, an example being the eight major coal mining bankruptcies that have occurred during the last year in an industry that Trump talked about as if he would restore it to how it was in the 1950's. The Republicans in Congress were forced at the end of 2019 to provide a $10 billion bailout to the coal miner pensions.

 

Remarkably, Trump has resurrected the issue of the Rust Belt demise, an event that occurred nearly 40 years ago after the 1981 recession. He dangles the carrot in front of automobile manufacturing, steel producing, and coal mining workers and makes them believe those industries are all coming back to the level they were in the WWII era via his trade war.

Most people in Rust Belt during the 80's moved ahead after accepting the fact that a domestically dominated, manual labor, manufacturing economy wasn't returning to that region.

 

Man, I'm so tired of this sonuvabitch!! I have to watch myself I guess---there is that saying that "ÿou become what you hate." He's so easy to hate if one loves this country for the good of it and hates the bad of it.

 

After WWII large numbers of southern families moved north to get jobs in the automobile/truck manufacturing plants. In Indiana, lots of southern men got jobs in the International Harvester Scout & pickup truck plant. Some southern men got jobs at the Tokheim Gas Pump factory, maybe at Zolner piston, or at Magnavox. With them, they brought up the KKK secretive organization. The KKK flourished in Indiana, Ohio, and even Michigan. And their KKK values were disseminated far and wide to all the nearby small towns. After 1972 when Charles Colson and Jerry Falwell fell in behind Nixon to create the New Conservative Agenda and the Silent Majority, these northern states began to shift from traditional Yankee to none traditional Johnny Reb.

 

I recognize very little of what I used to see 50 years ago.

 

Post of a blogger:


White House Job Opening

position: Director of National Intelligence

requirements: loyalty to Trump

 

His Head Honcho of personnel just issued an order to all agencies which requires them to report all disloyal workers, as in left-overs from the Obama days. That got me to thinking: They should report a disloyal president.

 

Considering her criminal charges and loyalty to Trump, Stella could easily be hired by Trump if she loses the election or drops out.



Republican challenger to Ilhan Omar has outstanding warrant for her arrest
Graig Graziosi
The Independent
February 21, 2020

Republican challenger to Ilhan Omar has outstanding warrant for her arrest

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"The charges against Ms Stella allege that she stole 279 items worth more than $2,300 from Target. She insists she didn’t break the law, but the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office told The Daily Beast that she did, in fact, have an active felony theft warrant.

“I am not guilty of these crimes. In this country I am innocent until proven guilty and that is the law,” Ms Stella told The Guardian at the time of her arrest.

Ms Stella missed multiple court hearings concerning her alleged felony, resulting in a judge issuing the warrant for her arrest.

This is hardly the first controversy stirred by the candidate. Beyond her apparent belief in the QAnon conspiracy theories, she was also banned from Twitter in November for suggesting Ms Omar was working for the Iranian government and should be hanged for treason."

 

Wow, you still flogging that dead horse

 

Oxymoron....

 

You all fell for that one I see. Notice egger didn't fall for it

 

That's McEntee, the one the Secret Service quickly escorted out of the White House when he didn't pass security requirements and who was said to have an online gambling problem.

Trump brought him back as head of the Presidential Personnel Office in charge of hiring and firing officials.

 

Ms. Stella should invoke yet another one of her conspiracy narratives and contend that her political rival, Ms. Omar, planted the merchandise on her.

 

Didn't that fat slob say he only hired the best?

 

I think that would fit in the definition of white privilege somewhere, huh?

 

The King Lear Era of Donald Trump’s Presidency
Unconstrained by the law, enabled by his staff, the unitary executive is raging.
By Dahlia Lithwick
Feb 21, 20202:30 PM

The King Lear Era of Donald Trump’s Presidency

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"On Thursday, President Donald Trump railed at the Oscars for awarding its highest honors to a foreign film. He then installed an acclaimed insult comic with no national intelligence experience as his acting director of national intelligence, because he prefers hearing from intelligence directors who tell him what he wants to believe as opposed to what is happening. He also indicated that when he threatens judges and jurors involved in federal criminal cases it’s OK because he has First Amendment needs that transcend the demands of rule of law. In other words, in the span of a few days, we’ve moved from unitary executive to peak Lear-wandering-on-the-heath executive. The only remaining operative question is: Who will be rewarded for loving the king as much as the king demands?"


"Staffers are frequently upbraided when they are not appropriately servile. Jeff Sessions is not sufficiently loyal and so is replaced by a Bill Barr. Former acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, who helped cover up the Ukraine scandal, is not sufficiently loyal and is to be replaced by an internet troll who will be a part-time ambassador to Germany. Because offering truthful information about Russian threats to the 2020 election indicates disloyalty, the only staffers who can remain on the payroll are those who remember to tell the emperor that his waistcoat is superb. This is pretty standard King George III territory, all bowing and scraping and insisting that the sovereign simply cannot be made to understand that there are rules and procedures, until the rules and procedures stop mattering at all."

 

The King Lear Era of Donald Trump’s Presidency

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"Donald Trump is very dissatisfied with Brad Pitt, bad cops, his intelligence agencies, congressional intelligence briefings, a Roger Stone juror, and the fact that they just don’t make films like Gone With the Wind anymore. Because this is the scope of his constitutional aperture, the world is formally split into friends and enemies, loyalists and spies, the underlings and the other, fired underlings. In this one sense only, Donald Trump was wrong about the limitless reach of his own Article II powers: Yes, they are seemingly infinite, but the rest of us occupy a world that is ever more tragically constrained by the failures of his imagination."

 

Trump is dissatisfied with good cops (who he thinks are bad) and praises bad cops like Arpaio who he thinks are good.

Trump has met with cops so that they could praise him at the White House. Many of them had sordid, bigoted backgrounds and records of abusive behavior. These are the type of people Trump praises, like he does Rush Limbaugh who he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.



Sheriffs who cheered Trump's attack on press have their own media run-ins
A group of sheriffs gave the president a troubling ovation after he called journalists ‘very, very dishonest’. Here is a taste of local media scrutiny of 10 of them
Jon Swaine
Sat 8 Sep 2018 07.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 10 Sep 2018 09.26 EDT

Sheriffs who cheered Trump's attack on press have their own media run-ins

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"1. Sheriff Ana Franklin, Morgan county, Alabama

Franklin is under investigation by the FBI and state authorities after a local news blogger, Glenda Lockhart, disclosed last year that the sheriff used $150,000 in public money to invest in a now-bankrupt used car dealership that was part-owned by a convicted fraudster. The money was taken from a fund meant for feeding inmates in the county jail.

2. Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, Bristol county, Massachusetts

Hodgson recently claimed he was the victim of a “witch-hunt”, after the Massachusetts attorney general called for an investigation of suicides and mistreatment in his jails, in response to findings by the New England Center For Investigative Reporting.

3. Sheriff Sharon Wehrly, Nye county, Nevada

In May this year it was reported by KTNV News that Wehrly left her Glock .45 service pistol in the bathroom of a casino. It was discovered by a cleaner. Wehrly, who could not immediately recall what day the incident had occurred, told a reporter it was not the first time she had mislaid her weapon. She later apologised for the mishap.

The local station also uncovered a series of false statements made by Wehrly’s office about the fatal shooting of a family dog by one of Wehrly’s deputies, leading to an internal investigation."