Donald Trump 2020

[SizzleChest 8284]

22 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

He gave a WH interview to fucking Barstool Portnoy? 🖕🏼🖕🏼

Guinness BoR reps were there as well.

And congrats to Donnie and Dave, they set a world record for concentrated douchebaggery in a confined space.

[Chad Fuck 17704]

1 hour ago, JimmyJames said:

This is so great. Leveraging a position of influence to drive the Trumpkins nuts is a beautiful thing. I wish I could do that but all the Trumpkins I know are either family or friends. Kudos good sir. 

I have a long text chain with some high school buddies of mine.  One was a Baptist preacher.  Yesterday, he actually called Trump "dotard" and meant it.  I will pour an extra finger of the Glenmorangie this evening to celebrate my coup.  

 

[ChiTownDoc 21154]

6 minutes ago, F250 said:

These were all medical device reps which surprised me that these coke heads were let anywhere near doctors. I guess they were there to explain the tech behind the devices or something.

Yeah - so much of that has gone white box that they had to run to work comp etc.  We are in all value based medicine plans so we get checks on outcomes AND costs.  It’s not a perfect system but beats the hell out of the old way.  

[Sbbruin 21865]

6 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

 

As a parent who watched hours of Dora with his daughter years ago, this is greatness.

[Brisketexan 105186]

1 minute ago, Chad Fuck said:

I have a long text chain with some high school buddies of mine.  One was a Baptist preacher.  Yesterday, he actually called Trump "dotard" and meant it.  I will pour an extra finger of the Glenmorangie this evening to celebrate my coup.  

 

Here's the thing....95% of them are the type who will wear a "Trump 2020 FUCK YOUR FEELINGS" shirt to the store because they like being an asshole (it's the first time they've felt important and noticed in their shitty little lives).  But there's maybe 5% out there who, while they will never turn on him and vote for a SOCIALIST (read: anyone not blessed by Trump and Mitch).....they may just be discouraged and disappointed enough to stay home.  And each Trump vote that doesn't happen is a mathematical win for the country.  I'll take it.  Death by 1,000 cuts is still death.  That's good.

[4th&Five 41571]

 

[ChiTownDoc 21154]

4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

In May:

End of July, with 144,000 fatalities:

PERSON (checks notes: dead)

WOMAN (checks notes: dead)

MAN (checks notes: dead)

CAMERA (checks notes: wait a minute...)

TV (checks notes: Now we're talking)

The 45th President of the United States of America, ladies and gentlemen. Live from DC.

 

How many more months? Three months. I may have to switch units.

I can’t believe he posts that type of shit and is out there bragging about not drinking or doing drugs.  His tweets are much more embarrassing than admitting to a hit or two off a crack pipe.  

[TheRealRonWeaver? 1258]

11 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

 

I'm crying.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Here's the thing....95% of them are the type who will wear a "Trump 2020 FUCK YOUR FEELINGS" shirt to the store because they like being an asshole (it's the first time they've felt important and noticed in their shitty little lives).  But there's maybe 5% out there who, while they will never turn on him and vote for a SOCIALIST (read: anyone not blessed by Trump and Mitch).....they may just be discouraged and disappointed enough to stay home.  And each Trump vote that doesn't happen is a mathematical win for the country.  I'll take it.  Death by 1,000 cuts is still death.  That's good.

I've got an elementary school friend that is prime trumptard demographics.  he posts all the right wing conspiracy nonsense you'd expect on facebook.  in the last year, it is all right wing conspiracy nonsense PLUS a lot of everyone sucks.  he now puts up nonstop stuff about jo j someone that is a third party candidate he's going to vote for.  i count it as a huge win and a harbinger of things to come.

[TwiceHorn 31514]

2 hours ago, Irieguy said:

He’s the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. That still doesn’t give him the power to change the bill. I suppose he could make suggestions on implementation. 

Which raises an interesting point.  The bill requires, apparently, the change of names, but doesn't actually accomplish it.

Which means someone is going to have to put forward the bills that actually change the names.  And then that bill is going to be assigned to Inhofe's committee, which is probably going to bury it, at least until committee assignments change.

@Bateshorn may be able to tell us how that's going to work.

[Rougarou 594]

2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

"You get 4 President's with the price of 1-- art of the deal. Tremendous deal."

[SquishMitten 10422]

Maybe it will be done by internet polling and we’ll get a Basey McBaseface

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13586]

56 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

I almost feel embarrassed for people that are this stupid.

[Bama Chick 28596]

Oh yeah.  Tons of it has been reigned in.  We don’t allow any reps into any facility or talk to any of our docs without approval.  As you can imagine almost zero is approved.  Some are necessary like the device reps etc.  But the reps for basic meds are pretty much extinct.  

That’s certainly the case now.

About 8-10 years ago any reps with longevity and credibility got pushed out for easily brainwashed former college athletes who would tow the company line for half the salary of those of us who had been around for years.

Back in the day, we had to leave our families for 4-6 weeks to be truly trained. These new ones get one week of online courses and are considered certified.

I was in my territory for almost 20 years and my docs and offices trusted me. I got a new manager from Atlanta who came and worked with me. After one call where I told a doctor my product probably wasn’t the best choice for a specific patient, we got in the car and he chewed me out for not promoting the product “no matter what”.

He was a 29 year old former college football player with 4 years experience to my almost 20 years experience.

I started searching for something outside the industry that very night.

Drug reps are pretty much obsolete - what with the internet and 95% of prescribing decisions dictated by insurance formularies.

(Sorry for the derailment)

[Underdog 28755]

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Somewhere in the bowels of his basement, Sean Trump seethes with jealousy.  

[AnTiM 1669]

 

1 hour ago, Rougarou said:

"You get 4 President's with the price of 1-- art of the deal. Tremendous deal."

Too bad he is not more like Kennedy, Garfield, Lincoln.....

[Steamboat1874 4075]

49 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

That’s certainly the case now.

About 8-10 years ago any reps with longevity and credibility got pushed out for easily brainwashed former college athletes who would tow the company line for half the salary of those of us who had been around for years.

Back in the day, we had to leave our families for 4-6 weeks to be truly trained. These new ones get one week of online courses and are considered certified.

I was in my territory for almost 20 years and my docs and offices trusted me. I got a new manager from Atlanta who came and worked with me. After one call where I told a doctor my product probably wasn’t the best choice for a specific patient, we got in the car and he chewed me out for not promoting the product “no matter what”.

He was a 29 year old former college football player with 4 years experience to my almost 20 years experience.

I started searching for something outside the industry that very night.

Drug reps are pretty much obsolete - what with the internet and 95% of prescribing decisions dictated by insurance formularies.

(Sorry for the derailment)

The drug reps I remember seeing were usually very attractive young women.

[Pig Bellmont 8719]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Which raises an interesting point.  The bill requires, apparently, the change of names, but doesn't actually accomplish it.

Which means someone is going to have to put forward the bills that actually change the names.  And then that bill is going to be assigned to Inhofe's committee, which is probably going to bury it, at least until committee assignments change.

@Bateshorn may be able to tell us how that's going to work.

I haven’t read the legislative text, but wouldn’t the military just change the names without further passing of laws? Usually I feel like Congress says “do a thing” and then the responsibility falls on the agency so authorized to issue rules and enforce the thing. 

[Walser 1109]

Jacked up Ram in a nearby cul-de-sac that I walk past with the dogs had a Trump 2020 bumper sticker. In addition to a dozen innocuous ones. The Trump one is gone as of a few weeks ago. I'm hoping he had a change of heart.

Hope is a dangerous thing.

[Sawbonz 27580]

3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

I have a long text chain with some high school buddies of mine.  One was a Baptist preacher.  Yesterday, he actually called Trump "dotard" and meant it.  I will pour an extra finger of the Glenmorangie this evening to celebrate my coup.  

 

I’m telling you covid has opened a lot of eyes. Needless suffering and death hitting close to home while this fuckstick preens with no mask while everyone around him is tested and positives are quarantined. He’s done

[Sawbonz 27580]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Here's the thing....95% of them are the type who will wear a "Trump 2020 FUCK YOUR FEELINGS" shirt to the store because they like being an asshole (it's the first time they've felt important and noticed in their shitty little lives).  But there's maybe 5% out there who, while they will never turn on him and vote for a SOCIALIST (read: anyone not blessed by Trump and Mitch).....they may just be discouraged and disappointed enough to stay home.  And each Trump vote that doesn't happen is a mathematical win for the country.  I'll take it.  Death by 1,000 cuts is still death.  That's good.

If I didn’t know better I’d accuse you of having just a tad bit of faith in your fellow man 

[TwiceHorn 31514]

1 hour ago, Pig Bellmont said:

I haven’t read the legislative text, but wouldn’t the military just change the names without further passing of laws? Usually I feel like Congress says “do a thing” and then the responsibility falls on the agency so authorized to issue rules and enforce the thing. 

Possibly so, yes.  I don't know.

It appears that you are correct.  

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The naming of installations is now the responsibility of the Assistant Secretary of Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs).

https://history.army.mil/html/faq/base_name.html

Edited July 24, 2020 by TwiceHorn

[TwiceHorn 31514]

16 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

I’m telling you covid has opened a lot of eyes. Needless suffering and death hitting close to home while this fuckstick preens with no mask while everyone around him is tested and positives are quarantined. He’s done

The nature of a pandemic, being highly factual and not really susceptible to spin, bullying, and general purpose bullshittery, is the perfect thing to undo a Trump.

About all you can do is lead and put the best people in the best position to do real work.  Total. Fucking. Failure.  And it's obvious to just about anyone.

[Brisketexan 105186]

15 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

If I didn’t know better I’d accuse you of having just a tad bit of faith in your fellow man 

Meh....5% faith in humanity is within the margin of error. 

[Brisketexan 105186]

10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The nature of a pandemic, being highly factual and not really susceptible to spin, bullying, and general purpose bullshittery, is the perfect thing to undo a Trump.

About all you can do is lead and put the best people in the best position to do real work.  Total. Fucking. Failure.  And it's obvious to just about anyone.

"We didn't ask for this virus.  We didn't invite it here....but it's here nonetheless.  So now, our job is to do what the American people do best: take on a challenge, and work hard until we find ourselves on the other side.  We have the best minds in the world here working with us.  Our team will include (some geniuses and shit). But there will be so much for each one of us to do.  As we learn about and understand this virus, we will look to the experts for the best advice and the path forward, and this administration will work with you, the people, to take it.  Many of the challenges we have faced in our history we did not invite, but when they came, we met them, and overcame them.  We will overcome this, if we all work together.  Now, I'd like to introduce [any fucking medical genius you can think of]."

That's it.  You set the tone early, and you just follow it.  It's one of the easiest fucking things in the world to do, and he didn't just miss the mark -- he didn't even engage in leadership.  Like, at all.  He just avoided responsibility, deflected, evaded, and lied.

Fuck him to hell.

Edited July 24, 2020 by Brisketexan

[Sawbonz 27580]

6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"We didn't ask for this virus.  We didn't invite it here....but it's here nonetheless.  So now, our job is to do what the American people do best: take on a challenge, and work hard until we find ourselves on the other side.  We have the best minds in the world here working with us.  Our team will include (some geniuses and shit). But there will be so much for each one of us to do.  As we learn about and understand this virus, we will look to the experts for the best advice and the path forward, and this administration will work with you, the people, to take it.  Many of the challenges we have faced in our history we did not invite, but when they came, we met them, and overcame them.  We will overcome this, if we all work together.  Now, I'd like to introduce [any fucking medical genius you can think of]."

That's it.  You set the tone early, and you just follow it.  It's one of the easiest fucking things in the world to do, and he didn't just miss the mark -- he didn't even engage in leadership.  Like, at all.  He just avoided responsibility, deflected, evaded, and lied.

Fuck him to hell.

The invisible China virus is a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats 

 

 

kinda hard to walk that back

[TwiceHorn 31514]

4 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

The invisible China virus is a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats 

 

 

kinda hard to walk that back

I think the other thing is that his failed attempts to blame the Democrat Party and the lamestream media and his various lies about the pandemic have actually damaged his credibility among a fair number who had previously gone along with these fables.  They're like "oh shit, maybe it wasn't the do nothing democrats and media, maybe he's been completely full of shit about everything all along."

[Francisco 2.0 32395]

35 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"We didn't ask for this virus.  We didn't invite it here....but it's here nonetheless.  So now, our job is to do what the American people do best: take on a challenge, and work hard until we find ourselves on the other side.  We have the best minds in the world here working with us.  Our team will include (some geniuses and shit). But there will be so much for each one of us to do.  As we learn about and understand this virus, we will look to the experts for the best advice and the path forward, and this administration will work with you, the people, to take it.  Many of the challenges we have faced in our history we did not invite, but when they came, we met them, and overcame them.  We will overcome this, if we all work together.  Now, I'd like to introduce [any fucking medical genius you can think of]."

That's it.  You set the tone early, and you just follow it.  It's one of the easiest fucking things in the world to do, and he didn't just miss the mark -- he didn't even engage in leadership.  Like, at all.  He just avoided responsibility, deflected, evaded, and lied.

Fuck him to hell.

 

Any president in our nation's history would have said roughly the same thing.

We are living with the one president who chose not to do a goddamned thing.  

 

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

I’m telling you covid has opened a lot of eyes. Needless suffering and death hitting close to home while this fuckstick preens with no mask while everyone around him is tested and positives are quarantined. He’s done

There is no surviving that and it will only get even worse in the fall. It won’t even be close enough for Trump to steal it. 

[henrygandorf 29194]

31 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think the other thing is that his failed attempts to blame the Democrat Party and the lamestream media and his various lies about the pandemic have actually damaged his credibility among a fair number who had previously gone along with these fables.  They're like "oh shit, maybe it wasn't the do nothing democrats and media, maybe he's been completely full of shit about everything all along."

his playbook is a post-it.

[JimmyJames 12271]

52 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The nature of a pandemic, being highly factual and not really susceptible to spin, bullying, and general purpose bullshittery, is the perfect thing to undo a Trump.

About all you can do is lead and put the best people in the best position to do real work.  Total. Fucking. Failure.  And it's obvious to just about anyone.

Yep. He’s too much of a narcissist asshole to see it, but the pandemic was actually his chance to show leadership and to win this thing. Instead he fucked it up so bad that it won’t be close. 

[JimmyJames 12271]

47 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"We didn't ask for this virus.  We didn't invite it here....but it's here nonetheless.  So now, our job is to do what the American people do best: take on a challenge, and work hard until we find ourselves on the other side.  We have the best minds in the world here working with us.  Our team will include (some geniuses and shit). But there will be so much for each one of us to do.  As we learn about and understand this virus, we will look to the experts for the best advice and the path forward, and this administration will work with you, the people, to take it.  Many of the challenges we have faced in our history we did not invite, but when they came, we met them, and overcame them.  We will overcome this, if we all work together.  Now, I'd like to introduce [any fucking medical genius you can think of]."

That's it.  You set the tone early, and you just follow it.  It's one of the easiest fucking things in the world to do, and he didn't just miss the mark -- he didn't even engage in leadership.  Like, at all.  He just avoided responsibility, deflected, evaded, and lied.

Fuck him to hell.

Brisket for president!!! He’s tan, rested and ready.

[Degenerate Gardner 4085]

 

12 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

There is no surviving that and it will only get even worse in the fall. It won’t even be close enough for Trump to steal it. 

Tell that to Louis Dejoy.

 

 

Edited July 24, 2020 by Degenerate Gardner

[Queen Bitch 1692]

2 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

Brisket for president!!! He’s tan, rested and ready.

Tan SUIT? Careful bro 

[JimmyJames 12271]

And we got this guy, not sure.... And he’s so smart... He’s gonna solve all these problems!

[JimmyJames 12271]

2 minutes ago, Queen Bitch said:

Tan SUIT? Careful bro 

Nah, not a suit. That’s an old 80’s T shirt reference.

Nixon in 1988. He’s tan, rested and ready!

[4th&Five 41571]

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

2 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Why not done?

[F250 28804]

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

I’m telling you covid has opened a lot of eyes. Needless suffering and death hitting close to home while this fuckstick preens with no mask while everyone around him is tested and positives are quarantined. He’s done

I know of one Trump supporter that turned on him due to Covid. They are not going to vote for Biden but said they will just sit out of the election.

The pandemic has been a beating for everyone and most people realize that there is a big problem with our response and that Facui isn't the cause for our poor response plan.

[Guest Lobo]

18 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Okay seriously man, I am a former Republican with disposable income who can donate to you and withdraw my support for Biden.  All you Gotta do is produce one piece of paper that says that the former administration abuse their executive power and spied on you.  As much as I deplore you I am more disgusted with abuses of the presidency when it comes to their political rivals.  You keep saying for the last two years that you have abundant evidence to suggest Obama gate.   Produce one fucking piece of paper and I will make sure the Texas does not go for Biden.  Just one piece of paper buddy, that’s all you Gotta do.   Will be waiting over hereWill be waiting over here

[TwiceHorn 31514]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

"We didn't ask for this virus.  We didn't invite it here....but it's here nonetheless.  So now, our job is to do what the American people do best: take on a challenge, and work hard until we find ourselves on the other side.  We have the best minds in the world here working with us.  Our team will include (some geniuses and shit). But there will be so much for each one of us to do.  As we learn about and understand this virus, we will look to the experts for the best advice and the path forward, and this administration will work with you, the people, to take it.  Many of the challenges we have faced in our history we did not invite, but when they came, we met them, and overcame them.  We will overcome this, if we all work together.  Now, I'd like to introduce [any fucking medical genius you can think of]."

That's it.  You set the tone early, and you just follow it.  It's one of the easiest fucking things in the world to do, and he didn't just miss the mark -- he didn't even engage in leadership.  Like, at all.  He just avoided responsibility, deflected, evaded, and lied.

Fuck him to hell.

Yep and people could debate endlessly about whether leadership is effective or this move or the other move was the right move.

But they seem to know pretty well when there's no leadership at all.

[JimmyJames 12271]

18 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yep and people could debate endlessly about whether leadership is effective or this move or the other move was the right move.

But they seem to know pretty well when there's no leadership at all.

Exactamundo.

The American people may be dumb, hell I am sometimes, but we’re not that dumb.

[Francisco 2.0 32395]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-bleak-trumps-great-american-comeback-is-a-dumpster-fire

 

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Shortly before the summer kicked off, Donald Trump was hopeful. The president, his campaign, and his top lieutenants in his administration were busy branding Trump the face of an upcoming American rebirth. He and his White House staff made a big push to position him as the frontman for economic revival, as summertime employment upticks seemed on the horizon and as experts and politicians kept their fingers crossed that the season’s heat would help spur a respite from the global pandemic.

 

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Trump and his 2020 team kept promising that they were doing everything they could to get him back on the campaign trail as soon as possible, where attendance at his signature mega-rallies would surely humiliate Joe Biden and the former VP’s paltry turnouts. The president was relentless in telling the American public that it was time to get back to work, and that he was right about it being time to triumphantly and speedily “open” the country and show the coronavirus who’s boss.

 

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The planned rebirth would build upon a message crafted in the early months of this year, when Trump was gearing up to campaign on issues such as a strong economy and even criminal-justice reform. That effort was aimed at peeling away as many Black voters as he could from Biden’s column, with his campaign knowing full well that even a marginal depression of enthusiasm for a Democratic presidential nominee among that demographic can help ensure Republicans keep the White House.

The summer would end, much to President Trump’s giddey enthusiasm, with the 2020 Republican National Convention, a lavish, celebratory, in-person extravaganza—virus be damned—that at every turn would show up Biden and the Democrats, who clung to their masks, their social distancing, and their safe spaces like politically correct cowards.

But just one month into the summer, it all came crashing down, with the president admitting to the American people and the press corps that he was throwing in the towel in more ways than one.

“It’s not the right time,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday, announcing the official cancellation of his big night for the GOP re-nominating convention in Jacksonville, Florida, in light of the shocking coronavirus surge in the Sunshine State. He finally called it off this week after months of insisting that it was, in fact, the right time, and with many weeks of public-health officials and experts warning Team Trump that these types of events can be dangerous during a still-raging pandemic.

Three people working on the president’s reelection effort told The Daily Beast on Friday that the reason for all of these cancellations and suspensions of Trump’s summer plans is simple: The situation with the virus, which has a U.S. body count upwards of 140,000 dead, is so dire still that even some of Trump’s most diehard advisers no longer think it is wise to press forth. It’s bad enough that even the notoriously stubborn and obsessed president realizes that it just isn’t politically viable at this stage, with one of the sources recounting a recent conversation in which Trump griped that his enemies in the press “love” looking for chances to say that he’s going to get a lot of people hurt or possibly killed.

During Thursday’s event, he also underscored how the virus—which he had for months publicly insisted would go away so soon—had vanquished his once-promising rally schedule. “We’re going to do other things, like ‘tele-rallies’ and other, smaller events,” the president told the assembled press.

It’s not that the president didn’t try to keep the rally model.

Earlier this month, when Trump pulled out of a planned New Hampshire rally, not long after enduring utter humiliation and diminished attendanceat his Tulsa event, his White House said the New Hampshire one was going to be put off for a mere “week or two.” Two weeks on, there’s no news of Trump returning to the state. On Friday night, a Trump campaign spokesperson told The Daily Beast that there was “nothing to announce” regarding New Hampshire at this time.

One reason several of Trump’s top aides wanted to get him back on the trail was to help alleviate his worsening mood, as he grew increasingly impatient with month after month of being mostly holed up in the White House. During a conference call organized by the Trump campaign last week, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) told journalists on the line that Trump’s coronavirus-era arena rallies around the country would be “good for everybody.”

Now they’ll be good for nobody.

However, those working to re-elect the president attempted to spin it as a moment of austere leadership, rather than an overly-demanding president cowed by grim reality. “Leading by example, President Trump has put the health and safety of the American people first with his decision on the Jacksonville convention,” Bill Stepien, Trump’s new 2020 campaign manager, said in a statement.

In an official RNC “pundit prep” talking-points memo blasted out to the GOP’s media surrogates on Friday, the committee advised, “President Trump is prioritizing the safety of everyone—particularly older Americans and most vulnerable—and encouraging masks, hand washing, and social distancing. While President Trump is leading this bold response, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Congressional Democrats are politicizing this pandemic for their own gain…Thanks to President Trump, our great American comeback is underway.”

The email reviewed by The Daily Beast also noted, “While we will not celebrate the President’s accomplishments in Jacksonville, we look forward to President Donald Trump accepting the nomination and outlining his vision for the next four years.”

But it wasn’t just the rallies or Trump’s festivities in Florida that were being taken away from the president. As the seasons got warmer, his reelection prospects have grown dimmer. For weeks, he’s consistently trailed Biden, Barack Obama’s vice president and the presumptive 2020 Democratic pick, in a solid majority of not only national polling, but in surveys done in crucial swing states that will likely determine if he’ll be remembered as a one-term loser. And with his presidency imperiled by widespread voter disapproval to his response to the deadly pandemic, the tanked U.S. economy, and protest movements in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, his senior aides and campaign officials have largely resorted to tactics specifically designed to make Trump feel better about himself.

Meanwhile, the president’s drive to re-open American schools on his terms and his timeline—a policy push that his reelection campaign had thought would be a real winner with the electorate, given their own private polling on the matter—has mostly backfired, with various school leaders and health officials defying his wishes, citing the safety of the teachers, kids, and families. The economic “revival” Trump had promised since April hasn’t happened, and many prominent Republicans and conservative lawmakers aren’t sure if boosting the president’s 2020 chances with another large injection of economic stimulus would even be worth it at this point, with just over three months to go until Election Day.

And even Team Trump’s previous intention to troll Biden throughout the election for his past “tough on crime” excesses, and to frame the president as the true criminal-justice reformer, is dead and gone, replaced in recent weeks by Trump’s unequivocal pivot to “law and order,” draconian posturing and federal crackdowns in American cities.

“It’s bleak,” said one senior White House official, discussing the current electoral landscape and how, for instance, it’s highly possible that the suburbs end up crushing Trump and other Republicans in the November election. “The president has done such damage to himself that a lot of us are just waiting for him to stop being handed so many of those kinds of opportunities.”

 

[Left Coast 863]

27 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Okay seriously man, I am a former Republican with disposable income who can donate to you and withdraw my support for Biden.  All you Gotta do is produce one piece of paper that says that the former administration abuse their executive power and spied on you.  As much as I deplore you I am more disgusted with abuses of the presidency when it comes to their political rivals.  You keep saying for the last two years that you have abundant evidence to suggest Obama gate.   Produce one fucking piece of paper and I will make sure the Texas does not go for Biden.  Just one piece of paper buddy, that’s all you Gotta do.   Will be waiting over hereWill be waiting over here

I realize this was written in (somewhat) jest but if you are truly concerned with “abuses of the presidency when it comes to their political rivals” there is no way you would ever ever pull the lever for Putin’s puppet.

[JimmyJames 12271]

4 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-bleak-trumps-great-american-comeback-is-a-dumpster-fire

 

 

 

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The planned rebirth would build upon a message crafted in the early months of this year, when Trump was gearing up to campaign on issues such as a strong economy and even criminal-justice reform. That effort was aimed at peeling away as many Black voters as he could from Biden’s column, with his campaign knowing full well that even a marginal depression of enthusiasm for a Democratic presidential nominee among that demographic can help ensure Republicans keep the White House.

The summer would end, much to President Trump’s giddey enthusiasm, with the 2020 Republican National Convention, a lavish, celebratory, in-person extravaganza—virus be damned—that at every turn would show up Biden and the Democrats, who clung to their masks, their social distancing, and their safe spaces like politically correct cowards.

But just one month into the summer, it all came crashing down, with the president admitting to the American people and the press corps that he was throwing in the towel in more ways than one.

“It’s not the right time,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday, announcing the official cancellation of his big night for the GOP re-nominating convention in Jacksonville, Florida, in light of the shocking coronavirus surge in the Sunshine State. He finally called it off this week after months of insisting that it was, in fact, the right time, and with many weeks of public-health officials and experts warning Team Trump that these types of events can be dangerous during a still-raging pandemic.

Three people working on the president’s reelection effort told The Daily Beast on Friday that the reason for all of these cancellations and suspensions of Trump’s summer plans is simple: The situation with the virus, which has a U.S. body count upwards of 140,000 dead, is so dire still that even some of Trump’s most diehard advisers no longer think it is wise to press forth. It’s bad enough that even the notoriously stubborn and obsessed president realizes that it just isn’t politically viable at this stage, with one of the sources recounting a recent conversation in which Trump griped that his enemies in the press “love” looking for chances to say that he’s going to get a lot of people hurt or possibly killed.

During Thursday’s event, he also underscored how the virus—which he had for months publicly insisted would go away so soon—had vanquished his once-promising rally schedule. “We’re going to do other things, like ‘tele-rallies’ and other, smaller events,” the president told the assembled press.

It’s not that the president didn’t try to keep the rally model.

Earlier this month, when Trump pulled out of a planned New Hampshire rally, not long after enduring utter humiliation and diminished attendanceat his Tulsa event, his White House said the New Hampshire one was going to be put off for a mere “week or two.” Two weeks on, there’s no news of Trump returning to the state. On Friday night, a Trump campaign spokesperson told The Daily Beast that there was “nothing to announce” regarding New Hampshire at this time.

One reason several of Trump’s top aides wanted to get him back on the trail was to help alleviate his worsening mood, as he grew increasingly impatient with month after month of being mostly holed up in the White House. During a conference call organized by the Trump campaign last week, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) told journalists on the line that Trump’s coronavirus-era arena rallies around the country would be “good for everybody.”

Now they’ll be good for nobody.

However, those working to re-elect the president attempted to spin it as a moment of austere leadership, rather than an overly-demanding president cowed by grim reality. “Leading by example, President Trump has put the health and safety of the American people first with his decision on the Jacksonville convention,” Bill Stepien, Trump’s new 2020 campaign manager, said in a statement.

In an official RNC “pundit prep” talking-points memo blasted out to the GOP’s media surrogates on Friday, the committee advised, “President Trump is prioritizing the safety of everyone—particularly older Americans and most vulnerable—and encouraging masks, hand washing, and social distancing. While President Trump is leading this bold response, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Congressional Democrats are politicizing this pandemic for their own gain…Thanks to President Trump, our great American comeback is underway.”

The email reviewed by The Daily Beast also noted, “While we will not celebrate the President’s accomplishments in Jacksonville, we look forward to President Donald Trump accepting the nomination and outlining his vision for the next four years.”

But it wasn’t just the rallies or Trump’s festivities in Florida that were being taken away from the president. As the seasons got warmer, his reelection prospects have grown dimmer. For weeks, he’s consistently trailed Biden, Barack Obama’s vice president and the presumptive 2020 Democratic pick, in a solid majority of not only national polling, but in surveys done in crucial swing states that will likely determine if he’ll be remembered as a one-term loser. And with his presidency imperiled by widespread voter disapproval to his response to the deadly pandemic, the tanked U.S. economy, and protest movements in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, his senior aides and campaign officials have largely resorted to tactics specifically designed to make Trump feel better about himself.

Meanwhile, the president’s drive to re-open American schools on his terms and his timeline—a policy push that his reelection campaign had thought would be a real winner with the electorate, given their own private polling on the matter—has mostly backfired, with various school leaders and health officials defying his wishes, citing the safety of the teachers, kids, and families. The economic “revival” Trump had promised since April hasn’t happened, and many prominent Republicans and conservative lawmakers aren’t sure if boosting the president’s 2020 chances with another large injection of economic stimulus would even be worth it at this point, with just over three months to go until Election Day.

And even Team Trump’s previous intention to troll Biden throughout the election for his past “tough on crime” excesses, and to frame the president as the true criminal-justice reformer, is dead and gone, replaced in recent weeks by Trump’s unequivocal pivot to “law and order,” draconian posturing and federal crackdowns in American cities.

“It’s bleak,” said one senior White House official, discussing the current electoral landscape and how, for instance, it’s highly possible that the suburbs end up crushing Trump and other Republicans in the November election. “The president has done such damage to himself that a lot of us are just waiting for him to stop being handed so many of those kinds of opportunities.”

 

Madness. Simply madness.

[Beau Vine 54327]

5 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

 

With instincts like that, it's no wonder Portnoy was so good at day-trading.

[BradInATX 9208]

18 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

The American people may be dumb, hell I am sometimes, but we’re not that dumb.

 

Eh.

[Superhero 8833]

3 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

The drug reps I remember seeing were usually very attractive young women.

I'll need pics to verify.

 

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

"We didn't ask for this virus.  We didn't invite it here....but it's here nonetheless.  So now, our job is to do what the American people do best: take on a challenge, and work hard until we find ourselves on the other side.  We have the best minds in the world here working with us.  Our team will include (some geniuses and shit). But there will be so much for each one of us to do.  As we learn about and understand this virus, we will look to the experts for the best advice and the path forward, and this administration will work with you, the people, to take it.  Many of the challenges we have faced in our history we did not invite, but when they came, we met them, and overcame them.  We will overcome this, if we all work together.  Now, I'd like to introduce [any fucking medical genius you can think of]."

That's it.  You set the tone early, and you just follow it.  It's one of the easiest fucking things in the world to do, and he didn't just miss the mark -- he didn't even engage in leadership.  Like, at all.  He just avoided responsibility, deflected, evaded, and lied.

Fuck him to hell.

Damn, that's some Adam Sorkin shit.

[Brisketexan 105186]

Damn, that's some Adam Sorkin shit.

That’s the point - leading on an issue like this is so easy most any moron can do it.
But apparently not a malignant narcissist moron.

Sure, there would be some tough decisions to be made, but all you have to say is “this is a new disease. We don’t always understand exactly what we’re facing or exactly what it will do. But we’ll make the best decisions we can. And when the evidence tells us to change what we’re doing, we’ll make the next decision. But I can promise you one thing - we will always try to do what’s best for the American people.”

Again, a fucking 4th grader could write and deliver this shit.

[6th Street 6444]

Instead we get:

"This is their new hoax!"

"We have it all under control"

"One day it'll be like a miracle and disappear"