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Let me be candid and honest here my man. I cannot be sympathetic to your comments because this is how adult life has always been. From the moment I stepped out of my home and headed off to college I h

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This slipped under the radar:

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/may/28/white-house-punts-economic-update-as-election-draw/

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The White House has taken the unusual step of deciding not to release an updated economic forecast as planned this year, a fresh sign of the administration's anxiety about how the coronavirus has ravaged the nation just months before the election.

The decision, which was confirmed Thursday by a senior administration official who was not authorized to publicly comment on the plan, came amid intensifying signals of the pandemic's grim economic toll.

The U.S. economy shrank at a faster-than-expected annual rate of 5% during the first quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. At least 2.1 million Americans lost their jobs last week, meaning an astonishing 41 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits since shutdowns intended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus began in mid-March

 

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Trump argues that the economy will rebound later this year or in 2021 and that voters should give him another term in office to oversee the expansion. But the delay of the updated midyear economic forecast, typically released in July or August, was an indication that the administration doesn't want to bring attention to the pandemic's impact anytime soon.

“It’s a sign that the White House does not anticipate a major recovery in employment and growth prior to the election and that it has essentially punted economic policy over to the Fed and the Congress,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist for the consultant RSM.

The senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, maintained that the underlying economic data would be too uncertain to convey a meaningful picture about the recovery.

But the political stakes of a weakening economy are hard to overstate, especially in states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin that are critical to the president's reelection.

 

But of course they did:

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In 2017, the Trump administration criticized the Obama administration for rosy expectations of growth during the Great Recession more than a decade ago. An updated forecast in the mid-session review could make the Trump White House a similar target for criticism.

Jared Bernstein, a former economic adviser to Biden, said a timely update on the state of the economy is more important than ever.

“The idea that you'd abrogate that responsibility now is pretty serious fiscal malpractice,” Bernstein said. “They don't like the numbers they'd have to write down. This is a White House that is in denial about the trajectory of the economy.”

 

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30 minutes ago, RPM said:

Trump would lose his shit if protesters showed up at the WH with tiki torches. That's usually a sign they're good people.

Lose his shit??   If you grabbed one of doll-sized hands and pulled his fingers back 10 degrees while glaring, that pussy would give you the nuclear codes.  

OK. That's not true.   He would not know what that means, and I doubt the Military has told him anything about it.

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1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

OK. That's not true.   He would not know what that means, and I doubt the Military has told him anything about it.

They gave him one of these. All he has to do is repeat the code 10 times with no mistakes.

2278934?wid=500&hei=500&op_sharpen=1

 

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53 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

I heard Trump say, “Protestors? Let them eat cake! Dolly Madison’s. I have a desk full,”

He's so confused watching CNN headquarters get destroyed.  He's asking Stephen Miller what he should do.  Are they still thugs?  Are these the few good people?  

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4 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

No doubt Trump will go down as a bottom 5 President of all-time in the history books.

He'll definitely pass Warren Harding but hopefully not Buchanan. If he does, that might mean things had to get way worse than they are now.

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6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

So, in Republican brain-rot land, "quoting the president's exact words" = "purposefully misrepresenting what the president said."  These guys are not even crypto-fascists -- they're just good old fashioned fascists - "I didn't say what I just said....and if you say otherwise you're an enemy of the state."

So......more donuts?

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13 minutes ago, Pasken said:

He'll definitely pass Warren Harding but hopefully not Buchanan. If he does, that might mean things had to get way worse than they are now.

"the projects i lived in were named after zachary taylor, generally considered to be one of the worst presidents of all time!" 

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To hell you say:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/29/pompeo-diplomats-watchdog-probe-290023

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State Department officials are increasingly uneasy with their new acting inspector general, fearing he has conflicts of interest that could lead him to derail ongoing investigations — including ones into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — while endangering cooperating witnesses.

The concerns about Stephen Akard, shared by Democrats in Congress, extend further. Some State Department staffers fear Akard will try to rescind, or otherwise undermine, past investigations conducted by his ousted predecessor, Steve Linick. A conservative website alleged this week that Linick had “weaponized” his role, questioning at least one of the fired inspector general’s finished probes.

 

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Others worry that the presence of Akard, who also has ties to Vice President Mike Pence, will scare off employees who wish to report waste, fraud and abuse. And there are some signs that Akard will face pressure to conform to what Pompeo and his top aides want instead of serving as a traditionally independent watchdog. The secretary, for one, has implied in recent remarks that he wants a subservient inspector general. 

In a recent letter to Akard, several top Democrats in the House asked him to resign as acting inspector general, arguing that his conflicts of interest could “prohibit” him from “having the independence necessary to conduct fair and rigorous oversight of the department and the secretary.” They also bemoaned Linick’s firing, one of several moves by President Donald Trump to oust or sideline various inspectors general.

 

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Inside the State Department – even within the inspector general’s own office – concerns over Akard have only grown since he showed up in his new role a few days after Linick’s May 15 firing.

One major reason for the worry: Akard is still keeping his position as the head of the Office of Foreign Missions, a unit whose responsibilities including dealing with the activities of foreign embassies based in the United States. That means that, in theory, he should recuse himself from any inspector general investigation into that office.

But State Department officials point out that there’s a bigger issue.

 

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As the head of the Office of Foreign Missions, Akard reports to Bulatao. As the undersecretary of State for management, Bulatao also oversees several other major divisions within the State Department, such as the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Bureau of Consular Affairs.

If any of those other units falls under investigation by the inspector general’s office, some State Department officials argue, Akard can’t reasonably expect to play a role in the probe because he also reports to Bulatao. Bulatao is a longtime personal friend and former business partner of Pompeo’s.

Akard previously worked under Pence when the vice president was governor of Indiana, including advising him on foreign affairs, adding to fears by State Department employees and Democrats that he will try to scuttle investigations that paint the Trump administration in a bad light.

 

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When asked about these potential conflicts of interest, Akard has offered a “head-scratching” take, a person familiar with the situation told POLITICO. Akard has said that, in reality, Bulatao is not his supervisor, but that his actual boss is Trump, because it’s the president who technically nominated him to serve as the head of OFM.

 

 

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He'll definitely pass Warren Harding but hopefully not Buchanan. If he does, that might mean things had to get way worse than they are now.

Ummm....perhaps you’ve missed the last 3.5 years.

It is a one way street. It only gets worse. A lot worse. We’re in the endgame. This is when the worsening accelerates.

We’re in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

And an economic depression.

And the country is on fire.

And here’s the deal: it’s going to get much, much worse.

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So the Trump looting/shooting tweet was actually about how people were getting shot looting in MN?   That’s his new excuse?   He tweeted that before the business owner shot the looter.  
 

 

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13 minutes ago, Lobo said:

So the Trump looting/shooting tweet was actually about how people were getting shot looting in MN?   That’s his new excuse?   He tweeted that before the business owner shot the looter.  
 

 

And it's also attributed to a late 60s Miami police chief and bad George Wallace, in the original sense, not the revisionist sense.

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8 hours ago, Stringer said:

Jesus. Imagine spending half a million to sit with this sack of shit.  

Takes one to know one, I guess.

 

5 hours ago, RPM said:

They gave him one of these. All he has to do is repeat the code 10 times with no mistakes.

2278934?wid=500&hei=500&op_sharpen=1

 

I heard he asked for something he could remember.  They gave him Ivanka's measurements.

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59 minutes ago, thepop said:

Cities on fire, 100k dead, economic recession. The Trump presidency is literally the Troy gif from Community. 
 

pizza fire GIF

40 million plus unemployed and counting, People have all the time in the world. This is going to be an historic summer.

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Great, somebody taught him  "ominous"   He's gonna be using that 3x/press conference for the next few months.  

 

Also, one of you on twitter needs to point this out to the world.  I'm not on it, so maybe somebody already pointed this out but I haven't heard/seen any news outlet comment on this:

Inside Trump's Wednesday night tweet/veiled threat, was a curious turn of phrase, "Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the military is with him all the way.  Any difficulty and we will assume control..."

He is indicating that if a State (in this case, Minnesota) is unable to provide for the wellbeing of its citizens, that they Federal Government/Trump Administration will take over.  Right?  Even the DT always-Trumpers crowd would agree that is a reasonable assessment of his tweet.  So if a state is having challenges taking care of its people, it can expect to look to the federal government?  He offers his help in the form of military action and shooting looters, but does not offer his help to states during a pandemic outbreak---expects them to work it out among one another? 

That's fucking leadership, folks.  

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7 hours ago, thepop said:
Cities on fire, 100k dead, economic recession. The Trump presidency is literally the Troy gif from Community. 
 
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Literally how dare you compare anything Trump-connected to the pure innocent angel that is Troy Barnes

Troy is obviously the American public in this scenario.

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