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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49725 on: September 09, 2020, 12:35:39 PM »

Military advisors are “fucking pussies”.

Said Trump, according to Bob Woodward.

And... it turns out that it is not a matter of Woodward's credibility. He has the tapes to support all of what is in his book that he claims Trump said. (Some are in the CNN link I already posted.)

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49726 on: September 09, 2020, 12:43:28 PM »

Getting a rebuke from Kiid about how to be helpful to the thread is like getting a lecture from Dr. Josef Mengele on racial sensitivity and medical ethics.
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bodiddley

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49727 on: September 09, 2020, 01:05:48 PM »

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Woodward reports new details on Russia's election meddling, writing that the NSA and CIA have classified evidence the Russians had placed malware in the election registration systems of at least two Florida counties, St. Lucie and Washington. While there was no evidence the malware had been activated, Woodward writes, it was sophisticated and could erase voters in specific districts. The voting system vendor used by Florida was also used in states across the country.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49728 on: September 09, 2020, 01:07:53 PM »

https://www.westernstatescenter.org/schools

This is about the rise of white nationalism in our schools.

Everybody here except Ward, Kid, and Bambi will want to read this. Ward will LOL, Kid will deny, and Bambi will make some sort of mealy-mouthed response.

This type of comment is not helpful to the forum

Just an FYI

If you need to vent, try another method

Ah yes, White Nationalism.
I looked it up in Google.

If Black, Brown, Asian people are races, then so are White people.
Wanting a White majority nation...America remaining a White-majority nation for example, is perfectly reasonable.

The alternatives?
America turns into:
Central America.
South America.
Africa.
Middle East.
N.S.E.W. Asia.


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49729 on: September 09, 2020, 01:08:12 PM »

I tells ya.
If I were Biden, I'd liven up say the 2nd debate by wheeling out a bunch of books on the Trump presidency.
Mary Trump
Michael Cohen
Woodward
er, there's been others.
Set up who they are and their relationship with Trump and then read one devastating quote from each.

People remember stunts like that.  And these are form people who were close to Trump.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49730 on: September 09, 2020, 01:24:44 PM »

Heh

I doubt he feels your advice is wise or helpful.

Mary Trump is already yesterday's news.  Nobody cares.

Woodward doesn't drive voting.  Never has.

But he - as is his goal - does make bucks off his prose.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49732 on: September 09, 2020, 01:46:59 PM »

Heh

I doubt he feels your advice is wise or helpful.

Mary Trump is already yesterday's news.  Nobody cares.

Woodward doesn't drive voting.  Never has.

But he - as is his goal - does make bucks off his prose.

It's not his books that will drive voting.

It's the tapes of Trump talking that will drive voting.

And your ongoing quotes of made-up stats from Rasmussen have even less content than your subjectless tweets.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49733 on: September 09, 2020, 01:56:44 PM »

I could go on creating new SNs for Kid to block as soon as he sees them, I suppose.

It's mildly amusing.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49734 on: September 09, 2020, 01:57:50 PM »

https://www.westernstatescenter.org/schools

This is about the rise of white nationalism in our schools.

Everybody here except Ward, Kid, and Bambi will want to read this. Ward will LOL, Kid will deny, and Bambi will make some sort of mealy-mouthed response.

This type of comment is not helpful to the forum

Just an FYI

If you need to vent, try another method
Also "not helpful to the forum" is your relentless cheer-leading for a Chief Executive who is both incompetent and a functional illiterate.  We know where you stand. 
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bodiddley

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49735 on: September 09, 2020, 02:29:47 PM »

I'll walk you through this:

Mary Trump is already yesterday's news.  Nobody cares.

Exactly why you refresh people's memories and boost her book sales.

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Woodward doesn't drive voting.  Never has.

That's not how these things work.  Woodward helps frame a narrative and change perceptions -- or in this case maybe firm up the perception.   This trickles through to how the rest of the media portrays Trump and the questions he is faced with.  Everybody knows Woodward is always well-sourced, so they trust his writings.
Any media shift and re-emphasis due to Woodward will indeed trickle through into votes.

Just for instance, how does Trump keep downplaying Russian election interference when Woodward cites Russian malware embedded in some Florida voting systems?
It will have an effect ...

But more importantly, the book puts the focus back on his disastrous response to the Virus as Trump has been trying to talk economy and lawnorder.  Trump can't really afford a week or two wasted rehashing all that went wrong with the epidemic.
And that's one of the challenges Woodward's book poses.

You're welcome.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49736 on: September 09, 2020, 02:47:22 PM »

Barr enlists DOJ to cover up Rape.
Trump tells his followers to intimidate voters at polling places.
And he is on tape saying he knew the danger COVID19 posed to the lives of Americans, but he lied about it.

Just another day for our "president."

Add to that:

Suppress and alter intelligence regarding Russian interference in our elections on his behalf.

Its just another Wednesday for the most corrupt administration in our history.
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« Reply #49737 on: September 09, 2020, 02:50:20 PM »

On Trump downplaying the Virus:

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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president’s words to the public were designed to express confidence and calm at a time of insurmountable challenges.

Somehow China managed to surmount a much bigger virus threat with a lot less lead time.  Two months of lockdown was all it took.  Followed by two months of careful gradual reopening.  Was a largely normal Summer here the past three months.

One day in America now has more confirmed cases than all of China outside of Wuhan/Hubei Province.  Two days of infections in the US roughly equals China's entire outbreak.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #49738 on: September 09, 2020, 02:50:49 PM »


Woodward doesn't drive voting.  Never has.

LOL.  If only you could ask Nixon about his history of driving political opinion.

So...Trump admitted to lying to the public about the dangers of COVID.

Outside of your expert political analysis on the impact of this revelation, do you have any thoughts on that?
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« Reply #49739 on: September 09, 2020, 02:55:13 PM »

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Woodward’s book is his second on the Trump White House. The first, published in 2018, portrayed Trump in an unflattering light, and the president fumed at staff that he was not interviewed for it, according to two former White House officials and Republicans close to the White House. They were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations and discussed the matter on condition of anonymity.

Trump was convinced that had he talked to Woodward, he could have led to a more favorable depiction in the book, according to the officials. Trump had always held Woodward in high regard — he considered the journalist as the biggest star in the field — and told aides that he insisted on being interviewed if Woodward were to write again, the officials said.

Trump still doesn't understand how stupid he is.
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