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Big RR wrote:Now he's god's anointed president; what's next--maybe claiming a familial relationship to god. I never liked Pompeo, but had no idea he's such a toadying ass.
They say "history repeats itself", so I'm hoping he DOES claim to be God's son.  Look what happened the last time.

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I'd certainly vote to release Barrabas over Trump.

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Kentucky governor intentionally exposed his 9 kids to chickenpox — experts say that’s ‘dangerous’

Kentucky’s governor is being criticized for the health decisions he has made for his kids after he told a radio show that he intentionally exposed all nine of them to chickenpox, believing it would make them immune.

Matt Bevin, a Republican, told Bowling Green radio station WKCT on Tuesday about how he exposed his kids to the disease, which manifests as an itchy rash on sufferers’ bodies.

“They got the chickenpox on purpose because we found a neighbour that had it, and I went and made sure every one of my kids was exposed to it, and they got it,” he told the station, as recounted by the Louisville Courier-Journal.

“They were miserable for a few days, and they all turned out fine.”

Bevin went on to say that government should refrain from mandating that parents vaccinate their kids.

“If you are worried about your child getting chickenpox or whatever else, vaccinate your child,” he said.

“But for some people, and for some parents, for some reason they choose otherwise. This is America. The federal government should not be forcing this upon people. They just shouldn’t.”

Chickenpox, or varicella, used to be a common illness in the U.S., infecting an average of 4 million people each year in the early 1990s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A vaccine to protect against chickenpox became available in 1995, and now, over 3.5 million cases are prevented every year, the CDC added.

Canada, meanwhile, saw as many as 350,000 chickenpox cases before a vaccine emerged, according to the federal government.

Assessing immunization programs is difficult, it added, but a publicly-funded vaccine program started in the Great White North in 2004.

Data from around that time showed chickenpox-related hospitalizations falling from 288 between 1999 and 2004, to 114 between 2005 and 2009.

The CDC does not recommend “chickenpox parties” — attempts to expose unvaccinated kids to the disease in the hope that they’ll contract it and become immune that way.

The disease, it said, can be “serious and can lead to severe complications and death, even in healthy children.”

Bevin’s remarks on WKCT suggest he’s misinformed about chickenpox, Steven Teutsch, adjunct professor of healthy policy and management at the University of California at Los Angeles, told The Washington Post.

“It’s a public health hazard,” he said.

“One of the things that we worry about is that you know people who think these things — you’re on a slippery slope that leaves the kids and the population vulnerable.”

Bevin didn’t respond to requests for comment from the Post or the Courier-Journal.

Robert Jacobson of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. said it’s “just dangerous” to expose your kids to chickenpox, the Courier-Journal reported.

He recommended that parents have their children vaccinated.

“We’re no longer living in the 17th century,” Jacobson said.

“I really recommend to my parents that they vaccinate their children, that they do it in a timely manner, and they recognize they are doing the right thing for their children.”
How is it not a crime to deliberately infect your children with a disease?
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Scooter wrote:How is it not a crime to deliberately infect your children with a disease?
I agree.  Why is this not a classic definition of child abuse, or endangerment of a child?  After all, If letting your kids play outside without adult supervision, spanking them, or making them walk a few blocks to school is grounds for some busybody to call Child Protective Services or whatever they call it in your area, then this most certainly fits the bill as well.

On the other hand, we've got people in this country that are actually TRYING to infect themselves with AIDS through unsafe sex with HIV-positive individuals, so maybe the world is just that fucked up and you and I, Scooter, just haven't sunk down to everyone else's level yet.
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Trump profiting from presidency by selling
White House-branded merchandise via his ‘Trump Store’


Donald Trump’s website has launched a range of White House-branded merchandise, apparently for personal profit, in a potential violation of government ethics rules.  The items, which include a $45 (£34) long-sleeve t-shirt and a $16 (£12) giant mug, feature the outline of a building which mirrors the iconic Washington residence of sitting US presidents.  The new line - "Cherry Blossom Collection" - which debuted on Wednesday and was first reported by website 1100 Pennsylvania, features around 11 new items, of which four appear to depict the White House and other DC landmarks.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 35361.html

I'd say he is once again trying to monetize the presidency for his own personal profit and in violation of federal custom, if not laws — but this is just one more incident in an on-going chain of events, so i suppose the correct phrase is that he is STILL trying to make money off of his tenure as our National Embarrassment.
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Donald Trump erroneously says Lordstown workers could have saved plant by lowering union dues

LIMA, Ohio – Republican President Donald Trump, during a trip to Ohio Wednesday, again laid the blame for the idling of the General Motors plant in Lordstown on the more than 1,400 now-laid off workers.

Along with the workers, Trump also attacked U.S. Sen. John McCain and went on a tirade about renewable energy during his appearance at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center – the site where the M1 Abrams tank is built.

In his speech to the around 1,000 employees, Trump said the workers at the Lordstown GM factory, which up until its recent shuttering produced the Chevy Cruze, didn’t try to save the facility. GM announced the Lordstown plant’s shutdown in November as part of a plan to lay off more than 14,000 workers in the United States and Canada.

“They could’ve kept that gorgeous plant,” Trump said. “Lower your dues. Lower your dues.”

His statements about union dues are curious. Union dues are paid by employees, not by the company.

Regardless of the accuracy of his statements, Trump’s comments were clearly intended to blame the union workers for the plant’s demise in the latest bit of a feud that has at times approached the bizarre. Presidents rarely tell bargaining units how to operate.

It all started over the weekend when Trump attacked UAW Local 1112 President Dave Green, head of the union that represents Lordstown workers, apparently in a fit of rage over a brief appearance by Green on Fox News.

Trump tweeted that Green needed to “get his act together” and “stop complaining.”

Ohio Democrats were quick to defend Green and the union. Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke even traveled to Lordstown personally to meet with Green on Monday.
And he went on a tear against renewable energy as well, claiming that people who live next to wind turbines see their property values decrease significantly.

Wind turbines are not typically found in residential neighborhoods
and instead are clustered on farms in the country, including outside Lima.
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Evangelicals Relieved Their President Now Only Guilty Of Paying Off Porn Stars, Models
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And after everything he’s seen and heard the last two years, DJT has decided his winning platform for re-election is to decimate the ACA in its entirety - destroying even protections for those with pre-existing conditions, prohibition of lifetime coverage caps, and the other basic protections in the legislation.

He’s evil. And very stupid.


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Fred Trump was born on October 11, 1905, in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. There are actual records.

How stupid do you have to be to make up a lie like this one? How stupid do you have to be to think anyone will believe you? How stupid do his followers have to be to believe anything he says?
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Maybe Trump is speaking the truth, and maybe his mother was, ummmm, 'entertaining' someone else and Fred Trump is just the poor patsy whose name ended up on the birth certificate.

I almost hope that's the case.  Then we can legitimately, honestly, and truthfully call the POTUS a bastard.
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Trump on closing the US-Mexico border: ‘Security is more important to me than trade’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated his threat to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border, insisting that any economic damage from the move would be overshadowed by the benefits of greater security.

Asked at the White House whether shutting the border would hurt the U.S. economy, Trump replied, “Sure, it will have a negative effect on the economy,” noting that Mexico is “a very big trading partner.”

“Trading is very important. The borders are very important. But security is what is the most important,” Trump said at a joint appearance with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

“All you hear me talking about is trade, but let me just give you a little secret,” Trump continued. “Security is more important to me than trade. So we’re going to have a slower border or a closed border.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/02/trump-o ... trade.html

Uhh, yeah...

Donald J. Trump, The Great Guardian Of National Security:
Trump White House granted about 25 people security clearances over officials’ objections, whistleblower says

More than two dozen people were granted security clearances or access to national security secrets by President Donald Trump’s White House — despite recommendations from officials that they be denied, a whistleblower told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

That whistleblower, longtime White House security specialist Tricia Newbold, spoke with Republicans and Democrats on the committee in a private interview on March 23, according to Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md.

According to Cummings, the whistleblower said during the March interview that the list of approximately 25 individuals whose denials were overruled “had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct."
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/01/trump-w ... lower.html

Maybe it's just me, but I think that on the short list of things to avoid that a person who genuinely cared about national security would have, "Don't give security clearances to dozens of people who fail security clearance background checks" would be right near the top...

(Maybe right below "Don't share classified information with the Russian Foreign Minister."...)


Example #247 of how Donald Trump is the first President in American history to not give a flying fuck about the well being of the United States...
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I think your count is low.


Really how did “count” autocorrect to “four”?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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Trump Says He Made Major Israel Decision After Quick ‘Little History’ Lesson
President Donald Trump’s decision that he announced in a tweet last month to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights territory marked a dramatic shift in decades of U.S. policy. And he revealed on Saturday that the controversial move was made quickly — after he’d received a “little history” lesson from his advisors.

Trump told a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition that he’d been speaking to his son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, as well as U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman and his Israel adviser, Jason Greenblatt, over the phone about an unrelated issue when he suddenly brought up the Golan Heights, The Times of Israel reported.

“I said, ‘Fellows, do me a favor. Give me a little history, quick. Want to go fast. I got a lot of things I’m working on: China, North Korea. Give me a quickie,’” Trump recalled of the conversation.

After the advisers filled him in, Trump said he asked Friedman: “David, what do you think about me recognizing Israel and the Golan Heights?”

Friedman, apparently surprised by the suggestion, reacted like a “wonderful, beautiful baby,” Trump said, and asked if he would “really ... do that.”

“Yeah, I think I’m doing it right now. Let’s write something up,” Trump said he responded, prompting applause and cheers from his audience in Las Vegas. “We make fast decisions and we make good decisions.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-go ... 0f6d40e2e2

Remember when the country nearly had a meltdown when it was leaked that Reagan was getting advice from an astrologer?  Any day now I expect to see a picture of Trump's Oval Office desk with a "Magic 8-Ball" in a prominent place on it.
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We as a nation are behind the 8-ball as long as this goof is POTUS.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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Trump Thinks The ‘Flores Decision’ Is Named After A Judge Who Doesn’t Exist

President Donald Trump showcased on Friday that he lacked a full understanding of a key court case involving immigration standards for children, believing that the title of that case was named after a judge, and not a young immigrant instead.

Some have described the gaffe as worrisome and demonstrative of the president’s mental decline.

Trump lambasted the “Flores decision” on Friday, a ruling that was named after former Attorney General Janet Reno as well as Jenny Lisette Flores, an immigrant who was 15-years-old in 1987 when she illegally entered the United States. In 1997, a settlement, resulting from the High Court’s decision on her detention, created the rules for the treatment of immigrants who are minors, according to reporting from USA Today.

President Trump, this week, expressed his disdain for the Flores decision — but exhibited his ignorance on the issue by stating that he believed it was a bad decision by a judge named Flores. Trump scolded that imaginary judge in his remarks.

“The Flores decision is a disaster,” Trump said. “I have to tell you, Judge Flores, whoever you may be, that decision is a disaster for our country, a disaster.”

Trump’s gaffe, and others from earlier this week, are starting to cause concern for some. Trump previously claimed this week that his father, Fred Trump, was born in Germany, when in actuality he was born in New York City. The president also had a difficult time pronouncing the word “origins” when questioning how the Russia investigation began, using what seemed to be the word “oranges” in its place at several points during a presser at the White House.

Clinical psychologist John Gartner believes that these mistakes are not random occurrences, HuffPost reported. “I think he’s suffering from pre-dementia. And it’s only getting worse,” Gartner said.
https://hillreporter.com/trump-thinks-t ... xist-29963

One really doesn't have to be a brainiac to figure out why wes can no longer bring himself to defend this hot mess...
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I won't speak for Wes, but there are many who still do;; who run to his rallies and chant things like "Build the wall"; even "Lock her up"; and far more who agree "He might be an asshole, but he's our asshole". Indeed, I know many people in that latter group; intelligent people who are otherwise ration but have a blind spot when it comes to Trump. I don't understand it, but it makes me very uneasy--maybe they just can't admit they were taken in by the hype?

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Trump Thinks The ‘Flores Decision’ Is Named After A Judge Who Doesn’t Exist

President Donald Trump showcased on Friday that he lacked a full understanding of a key court case involving immigration standards for children, believing that the title of that case was named after a judge, and not a young immigrant instead.
Ooooohhh, this could be fun, in a perverse way!  Next, let's ask him about the Miranda law or the Dred Scott decision.... or even the Curt Flood rule. :loon
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'If he was smart, he would've put his name on it': Trump criticizes George Washington about Mount Vernon's name

President Donald Trump was not impressed with a tour of the first commander in chief’s home last year, Politico reported Wednesday, describing his visit to Mount Vernon with French President Emmanuel Macron and their wives as “truly bizarre.”

“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump reportedly said. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”

On the subject of whether anyone remembers George Washington, The Washington Post, which is based in the capital city of Washington (not Washington state) near George Washington University, would refer readers to the fact that Washington has come in first or second nearly every “best presidents” poll conducted, including the most recent one, in 2018, by Siena College Research Institute. Trump, in case you’re wondering, came in 42nd out of 45 commander in chiefs.
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