Trump 47: The Covidiot's Traveling Circus Is Back On The Road

[Dandruff]

2 hours ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

He would be even more dangerous if he listened to them.  I honestly think the fact that he's not changing course despite his numbers clearly falling due to public disapproval over Covid just proves he thinks he knows everything.

I hope that's the reason.  Alternatives would be that he just doesn't gaf and/or he's aware of a potent and heinous scheme that's likely to keep him in office.

Edited July 2, 2020 by Dandruff
added missing word

[sndral]

Interesting article about research into what ads are likely to work/not work to sway those swing voters. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/democrats-ads-trump-341903

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

 

[Dandruff]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I expect bragging about cutting the Social Security deficit if enough older people die of COVID.

2 hours ago, sndral said:

Interesting article about research into what ads are likely to work/not work to sway those swing voters. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/democrats-ads-trump-341903

I think they need to keep the ads short and get to the point immediately.  At least some of the people they're trying to reason with aren't wearing masks because they heard the whole thing is a hoax.

[GreyhoundFan]

Boo-hoo, they don't love me enough...

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[fraurosena]

WTAF?

Trump tells African-Americans to understand their history or 'you will go back to it again'

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During an interview with Fox News that was aired on Sunday, Donald Trump told members of the African-American community to learn US history in opposition to statues of problematic figures being removed.

Speaking to Fox and Friends anchor Brian Kilmeade, Trump was asked for his thoughts on the anti-racism protesters that have been attempting to remove statues around the United States of Confederate generals and other individuals such as Christopher Colombus and Theodore Roosevelt, which promote a history of slavery or white people being perceived as the superior race. 

On the subject, Trump claimed that the people tearing down the statues, which he referred to as 'beautiful pieces of art' didn't know why they were attempting to remove the monuments adding that he was aware of groups who wanted to remove statues of former president's such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, despite all owning slaves. He also said that people were trying to remove monuments honouring Abraham Lincoln who is the president who abolished slavery.

Kilmeade then asked Trump: 

Since you have done a lot for the African-American community, what is your message to them when their ancestors were enslaved because of [these leaders who are commemorated on these monuments]?

What should have been a relatively easy answer and an apology from Trump for the history of injustice and inequality forced upon Black Americans, turned into a complete mess of an answer, turned into Trump telling Black people to learn US history or risk "going back to it again."

My message is that we have a great country, we have the greatest country on Earth. We have a heritage, we have a history and we should learn from the history, and if you don’t understand your history, you will go back to it again. You will go right back to it. You have to learn. Think of it, you take away that whole era and you’re going to go back to it sometime. People won’t know about it. They’re going to forget about it. It’s okay.

Now what I do like, I like the idea of building new statues to people, to great people. People that have done something. And I think that’s okay.

But you don’t want to take away our heritage and history and the beauty, in many cases, the beauty, the artistic beauty. Some of the sculptures and some of this work is some of the great — you can go to France, you can go anywhere in the world and you will never see more magnificent work. And that’s a factor. It’s not the biggest factor but it’s a factor.

As with most things that Trump says it's not entirely obvious what he means but he does seem to be encouraging Black people to learn US history and heritage, but we can't be sure what he means when he says "you will go back to it again'", which seems very suspect indeed.

Kilmeade wisely changed the subject after hearing this answer, which was probably for the best...

 

[Audrey2]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Boo-hoo, they don't love me enough...

 

Sorry buddy you don't get credit for "recovering" from a situation you created. Also we have not recovered yet. The virus is still running rampant, and still causing schools businesses and other places to be closed or service very few people. That does not sound like recovered to me.

it's like beating someone over their head, knocking them down and injuring them, stealing from them, then driving to the hospital and wanting credit for being the one who drove them to the hospital when you are the one who caused the injuries in the first place. No sale, Buddy.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Audrey2

[fraurosena]

Irony is dead.

 

[fraurosena]

What Amy said.

 

[fraurosena]

TikTok Teens Are Now Leaving One Star Reviews on Trump's Businesses and They're Savage AF

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TikTok teens continue to forge their role in the proverbial resistance against President Donald Trump and his efforts for a second term.

They've largely been credited with spoiling Trump's comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma last month. TikTok influencers encouraged their followers to reserve tickets to the rally without showing up. As a result, the Trump campaign bragged about the number of reservations made for the rally, but only six thousand people actually arrived at the 19 thousand seat arena.

Many of the popular video app's users have been filling up their online shopping carts with Trump campaign merchandise, but not actually making a purchase. The effect—known as cart abandonment—is purported to disrupt online shopping data and potentially erroneously label items as sold out.

But these teenagers aren't done.

They've now begun instructing their followers to leave one star reviews on all of Trump's businesses.

One of the teenagers credited with amplifying the trend is the teenage daughter of infamous presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway: Claudia Conway.

fraurosena side note:
It's shameful that George had to send out this tweet.

 

 

[Audrey2]

I am very proud of our teens and I hope that this translates into voting after they turn 18 and keeping actively involved in the political process.

Just as so many of my peers in generation x and younger Baby boomers became Reagan Republicans, I would love for this group to turn into more liberal anti Trump Democrats. Although I break strongly for my age group, I know many of my peers were heavily influenced by 8 years of growing up under Reagan and sadly thinking that his way was the best way.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Audrey2

[WiseGirl]

Very happy to see teens/young adilts using TikTok to troll 45. May this activism continue.

At the older end of the spectrum now you're coming to your senses? How did you not see everything he touches falls apart?

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Trump heads to Mount Rushmore for speech and fireworks; protesters block highway"

Spoiler

President Trump is heading to Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Friday for a massive Independence Day celebration, as protesters gather, including blocking a key highway to the site.

About three hours ahead of Trump’s scheduled speech, police were demanding that protesters clear the highway.

At the event, he plans to lament “the left wing mob” and so-called “cancel culture.”

“If we tear down our history, we will not be able to understand ourselves or America’s destiny. The left wing mob and those practicing cancel culture are engaging in totalitarian behavior that is completely alien to American life — and we must not accept it,” Trump will say, according to a campaign official with knowledge of the speech.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) confirmed this week that social distancing won’t be enforced and that the approximately 7,500 expected attendees will not be required to wear masks. The United States on Thursday recorded the largest single-day total of new coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, and on Friday a number of states set new case records.

“We will have a large event on July 3. We told those folks that have concerns that they can stay home, but those who want to come and join us, we’ll be giving out free face masks, if they choose to wear one. But we won’t be social distancing,” Noem said Monday in an interview on Fox News. “We’re asking them to come — be ready to celebrate, to enjoy the freedoms and the liberties that we have in this country.”

The Mount Rushmore event is just the beginning of Trump’s planned Fourth of July weekend celebrations. On Saturday, the president is expected to watch military displays and the annual fireworks show from the White House, and he is also expected to give an address. Before heading to South Dakota, Trump spent several hours Friday golfing at his private club in Sterling, Va.

While the governor and the president are billing the event as a celebration, some see it as an insult. Trump is expected to be met by protests organized by Native American leaders, who have criticized the president’s use of the memorial, which they say was built on sacred tribal land, as well as the risk the event poses to the environment and to public health.

“The whole Black Hills is sacred. For them to come and carve the presidents, slave owners who have no meaning to us, it was an insult,” Ricky Gray Grass, a member of the Oglala Sioux’s executive council, told The Washington Post earlier this week.

The tribes also warn that Trump’s push for fireworks at the event, which have been banned at the site for more than a decade, could result in wildfires and contaminate the water in the surrounding Black Hills. And they have voiced serious concern that a massive gathering without any safety restrictions could cause a coronavirus outbreak in their communities.

Trump, who has faced criticism from lawmakers in both parties for his refusal to wear a mask in public and reluctance to encourage Americans to do so, maintains that the surge of new cases is a result of increased testing capacity and that the virus will soon “disappear.”

“There is a rise in Coronavirus cases because our testing is so massive and so good, far bigger and better than any other country,” Trump tweeted late Thursday. “This is great news, but even better news is that death, and the death rate, is DOWN. Also, younger people, who get better much easier and faster!”

Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease doctor, and other public health officials have repeatedly warned that without social distancing and other precautions like masks, the coronavirus will spread out of control.

At Trump’s first campaign rally since the nation effectively shut down, held June 20 in Tulsa, neither social distancing nor mask use was required. Ahead of the event, several advance staffers tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing dozens of Secret Service officers and agents to self-quarantine because of the risk of exposure. This week, Vice President Pence postponed a trip to Arizona by a day after several Secret Service agents tested positive or showed symptoms of the coronavirus.

Democrats have criticized the president’s decision to go forward with mass gatherings this weekend, which defy guidance from his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that people avoid close contact by staying at least six-feet apart.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) said Friday morning on MSNBC that many Americans would love to celebrate the Fourth of July as they always have, but understand it’s not safe.

“And here’s the president wandering off to Mount Rushmore, where we know he aspires to have his face placed, and continue to have this be all about himself,” Doggett said.

A Trump campaign staffer tweeted an image of Trump’s face carved next to George Washington with the caption, “Mount Rushmore, improved.”

The tweet appears to be a response to a picture of the monument being blown up that was tweeted using that same caption.

The Fourth of July celebration at the national landmark arrives at a moment of national reckoning over America’s racist past. Advocates for racial justice have called for a more nuanced recounting of the country’s history, including the fact that revered figures like Washington and Thomas Jefferson, whose likeness is also carved into the mountain, were slave owners.

Conservatives have seized on this, accusing those who have advocated for the removal of statues and monuments — mostly those connected to the Confederacy — as an effort to erase America’s history.

“To celebrate Independence Day, @realDonaldTrump is going to tell the TRUTH about American history—and the truth about the people tearing down our statues/history,” tweeted Donald Trump Jr. “At the foot of Mount Rushmore tonight, our @POTUS will defend and celebrate America’s founding.”

Ahead of Trump’s visit to the monument, the Mississippi flag was removed from an area of the site where all 50 states’ and U.S. territories’ flags fly. The state’s legislature voted this week to remove the Confederate symbol from its flag and thus the Mississippi flag pole will be empty.

 

[onekidanddone]

7 hours ago, fraurosena said:

TikTok Teens Are Now Leaving One Star Reviews on Trump's Businesses and They're Savage AF

 

Note to self: Ask OneKid if she has a ticktok account. If not, encourage her to sign up. 
 

Edited July 4, 2020 by onekidanddone

[GreyhoundFan]

Yes. "Our declaration this Independence Day should be liberation from Trump"

Spoiler

“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

Frederick Douglass’s historic oration and cry of pain, anger and resolve were delivered to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society’s Fourth of July observance in Rochester, N.Y., in 1852.

Douglass did not use the occasion to take anything away from the Founders and their legacy. “I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration,” he told the crowd of more than 500 abolitionists. “They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory.”

But Douglass knew he was commemorating the signing of the Declaration at the very hour millions of black men, women and children in America were chained to servitude. “The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers,” Douglass said to his largely white audience, “is shared by you, not by me.”

So it was, then.

What is this Fourth of July to America?

This day in national life, I submit, is President Trump’s. It has been appropriated by his shameless narcissism.

Trump will celebrate the Fourth by drawing attention to himself in the White House, backdropped by a huge fireworks display on the Mall and flyovers by the Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force’s Thunderbirds.

Unlike Trump, many others will use this Fourth to give thoughts and prayers for the 126,000 people in the country who have died since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, and the 2.7 million more sickened by the disease.

This July 4 is not a high old time in America.

The nation is spending this national holiday in the midst of a deadly public health crisis that Trump, through negligence, incompetence and disgraceful self-regard, allowed to spread like a wildfire across the country.

All that is of small moment to Trump.

This president will celebrate and sermonize the day, looking past the protests against shocking and bloody police practices and the gross economic injustices that he has allowed to flourish on his watch. Trump shout-outs to liberty and equality will ring hollow.

Yes, the Fourth of July is a date to honor. But this year, it is also a day of sorrow for where we now find ourselves.

The United States of America, created in 1776 by men who put love of country over their own private interests — who staked their lives, fortunes and their sacred honor on the cause of their new nation — is now in the grasp of a man whose entire life has been spent taking, while giving nothing in return.

Trump’s successes are displayed in shrines across the country and around the world emblazoned with his name — Trump towers, Trump plazas, Trump golf courses, Trump casinos, and Trump streets and roads. Trump’s love is limited to his private interests. He stakes his life and fortune only on the cause of Trump.

To further sully the celebration of the most pivotal day in U.S. history, the White House is in the grasp of a president who thinks the United States’ heritage is exemplified by the legacy of the Confederate flag and the traitorous generals who fought under that symbol of white supremacy.

Trump’s meltdown over the attempted takedown of the slaveholding Andrew Jackson’s statue in Lafayette Square is, for instance, of a kind with his cherishing of monuments of the War of Southern Aggression, which started when the Confederacy fired on the American flag at Fort Sumter.

Douglass would be revolted by Trump’s infatuation with a history in which generations of blacks were robbed of their liberty and forced to show obedience to the master. As outraged as I am now.

Trump’s warm embrace of white nationalism on Independence Day 2020 makes a mockery of the concepts of justice and liberty entrusted to the nation in the Declaration.

Gwen and I celebrated our 59th wedding anniversary on July 3. The first four Fourth of Julys of our marriage were spent as citizens of a country with a large swath of areas that had hotels, restaurants and places of entertainment that we were not allowed to enter because we were black. Two of those years I spent proudly wearing the uniform of a U.S. Army commissioned officer.

Try living with that.

Today, we have the bodies of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery — with a preening, coldblooded bully ensconced in the Oval Office.

Whose Fourth of July is this?

The Founders discovered themselves faced with an oppressive Crown.

Separation from the Crown was right.

So, too, will be America’s liberation from Donald Trump.

That should be our declaration on this Independence Day.

 

[onekidanddone]

12 hours ago, onekidanddone said:

Note to self: Ask OneKid if she has a ticktok account. If not, encourage her to sign up. 
 

Makes a momma proud 

 

[Dandruff]

21 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"Trump heads to Mount Rushmore for speech and fireworks; protesters block highway"

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President Trump is heading to Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Friday for a massive Independence Day celebration, as protesters gather, including blocking a key highway to the site.

About three hours ahead of Trump’s scheduled speech, police were demanding that protesters clear the highway.

At the event, he plans to lament “the left wing mob” and so-called “cancel culture.”

“If we tear down our history, we will not be able to understand ourselves or America’s destiny. The left wing mob and those practicing cancel culture are engaging in totalitarian behavior that is completely alien to American life — and we must not accept it,” Trump will say, according to a campaign official with knowledge of the speech.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) confirmed this week that social distancing won’t be enforced and that the approximately 7,500 expected attendees will not be required to wear masks. The United States on Thursday recorded the largest single-day total of new coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, and on Friday a number of states set new case records.

“We will have a large event on July 3. We told those folks that have concerns that they can stay home, but those who want to come and join us, we’ll be giving out free face masks, if they choose to wear one. But we won’t be social distancing,” Noem said Monday in an interview on Fox News. “We’re asking them to come — be ready to celebrate, to enjoy the freedoms and the liberties that we have in this country.”

The Mount Rushmore event is just the beginning of Trump’s planned Fourth of July weekend celebrations. On Saturday, the president is expected to watch military displays and the annual fireworks show from the White House, and he is also expected to give an address. Before heading to South Dakota, Trump spent several hours Friday golfing at his private club in Sterling, Va.

While the governor and the president are billing the event as a celebration, some see it as an insult. Trump is expected to be met by protests organized by Native American leaders, who have criticized the president’s use of the memorial, which they say was built on sacred tribal land, as well as the risk the event poses to the environment and to public health.

“The whole Black Hills is sacred. For them to come and carve the presidents, slave owners who have no meaning to us, it was an insult,” Ricky Gray Grass, a member of the Oglala Sioux’s executive council, told The Washington Post earlier this week.

The tribes also warn that Trump’s push for fireworks at the event, which have been banned at the site for more than a decade, could result in wildfires and contaminate the water in the surrounding Black Hills. And they have voiced serious concern that a massive gathering without any safety restrictions could cause a coronavirus outbreak in their communities.

Trump, who has faced criticism from lawmakers in both parties for his refusal to wear a mask in public and reluctance to encourage Americans to do so, maintains that the surge of new cases is a result of increased testing capacity and that the virus will soon “disappear.”

“There is a rise in Coronavirus cases because our testing is so massive and so good, far bigger and better than any other country,” Trump tweeted late Thursday. “This is great news, but even better news is that death, and the death rate, is DOWN. Also, younger people, who get better much easier and faster!”

Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease doctor, and other public health officials have repeatedly warned that without social distancing and other precautions like masks, the coronavirus will spread out of control.

At Trump’s first campaign rally since the nation effectively shut down, held June 20 in Tulsa, neither social distancing nor mask use was required. Ahead of the event, several advance staffers tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing dozens of Secret Service officers and agents to self-quarantine because of the risk of exposure. This week, Vice President Pence postponed a trip to Arizona by a day after several Secret Service agents tested positive or showed symptoms of the coronavirus.

Democrats have criticized the president’s decision to go forward with mass gatherings this weekend, which defy guidance from his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that people avoid close contact by staying at least six-feet apart.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) said Friday morning on MSNBC that many Americans would love to celebrate the Fourth of July as they always have, but understand it’s not safe.

“And here’s the president wandering off to Mount Rushmore, where we know he aspires to have his face placed, and continue to have this be all about himself,” Doggett said.

A Trump campaign staffer tweeted an image of Trump’s face carved next to George Washington with the caption, “Mount Rushmore, improved.”

The tweet appears to be a response to a picture of the monument being blown up that was tweeted using that same caption.

The Fourth of July celebration at the national landmark arrives at a moment of national reckoning over America’s racist past. Advocates for racial justice have called for a more nuanced recounting of the country’s history, including the fact that revered figures like Washington and Thomas Jefferson, whose likeness is also carved into the mountain, were slave owners.

Conservatives have seized on this, accusing those who have advocated for the removal of statues and monuments — mostly those connected to the Confederacy — as an effort to erase America’s history.

“To celebrate Independence Day, @realDonaldTrump is going to tell the TRUTH about American history—and the truth about the people tearing down our statues/history,” tweeted Donald Trump Jr. “At the foot of Mount Rushmore tonight, our @POTUS will defend and celebrate America’s founding.”

Ahead of Trump’s visit to the monument, the Mississippi flag was removed from an area of the site where all 50 states’ and U.S. territories’ flags fly. The state’s legislature voted this week to remove the Confederate symbol from its flag and thus the Mississippi flag pole will be empty.

 

If Trump's face was carved next to George Washington they could call it Mt. Mushroom.

[47of74]

You all know what do to here...

 

[Audrey2]

2 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

You all know what do to here...

 

Gee, Donald, you look old there. You look a little like Teddy Kennedy but with worse hair.

[GreyhoundFan]

The covidiot is going to be unhappy because there's not much of a crowd in downtown DC for his "praise me" festival.

That's not even a fraction of a normal Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial.

 

On other Independence days, people would be packed in like sardines. You wouldn't see a blade of grass or much pavement.

[GreyhoundFan]

Um, what a idiot.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[Dandruff]

32 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Um, what a idiot.

Holy crap - so feeble and vile.  If he had actually served in Vietnam perhaps he'd have a clue.

#bonespurbaby

[GreyhoundFan]

Well, he is the bigliest...