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    Donald Trump is losing. He's losing nationally in the polls. He's losing in battleground states. He's losing in the streets. Every day when he wakes up and turns on the news, he is losing. He can't escape it. He is a loser.
    He is losing his precious Supreme Court. Twice in one week, the court ruled against him on matters near and dear to his heart. On Monday, the court handed him an unexpected defeat as two conservative justices, including Trump's hand-picked buddy-boy Neil Gorsuch, ruled that gay and transgender Americans are covered by the Civil Rights Act's Title VII and cannot be fired or discriminated against in hiring simply because they are gay or transgender. On Thursday, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the four liberals in deciding against the Trump administration's attempt to end the DACA program, ruling that Trump's order to cancel the program had been ham-handed and "arbitrary and capricious."
    He is losing to John Bolton, the former national security adviser and a man he called a "dope," whose book, "The Room Where It Happened," to be published next week, has already made headlines and sent Trump into paroxysms of anger and despair. Bolton, who refused to testify before the House impeachment committee or to provide testimony at Trump's trial in the Senate, didn't add much to the Ukraine bribery scandal, but he did admit that he had gone to Trump's lackey of an attorney general, Bill Barr, and reported on Trump's penchant for "doing favors for his favorite dictators." He quoted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling Trump "full of shit," echoing his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who called him a "fucking moron." Zing.
    He is losing to his generals. After using National Guard troops to clear the way for his disastrous Bible-toting photo op at St. John's Church and threatening to put active duty troops on the streets of Washington to suppress protests, he was forced to withdraw all National Guard troops from the capital. Then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper gave the order to send home the active duty Army units Trump had called up and stationed outside D.C. at Joint Base Andrews. Several former high-ranking military officers, including former Defense Secretary James Mattis and retired Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, wrote articles critical of Trump's proposed use of American soldiers against protesting American citizens. Even active duty generals reacted strongly, with Gen. Mark Milley, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs, writing a cleverly coded letter to the rest of the joint chiefs reminding them of their oath to the Constitution, including their obligation to defend its guarantee of free speech and assembly.
    He is losing to the protesters. Demonstrations in Washington caused Trump to erect a 10-foot-high fence around the White House, two miles of it by some accounts. And yet the protests against the killing of black men and boys by police go on, and the protesters keep coming. Two blocks of 16th Street near the White House have been renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza." Thousands in Washington are still protesting police brutality, and against Trump himself. Trump disappeared into a bunker in the basement of the White House at the height of the demonstrations. He has been surrounded.
    He is losing to Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C. In addition to painting "Black Lives Matter" in gigantic yellow letters on the street in sight of the White House, she demanded that National Guard and active duty troops be removed from her city, and Trump was forced by his own generals to comply. Muriel Bowser is in charge in Washington, not Trump.
    He is losing to Colin Kaepernick. The commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, made a video admitting that the NFL made a mistake when it sought to bar players from "taking a knee" in protest against police brutality. At least two NFL coaches and one team owner have shown interest in signing Kaepernick "if the timing and the fit" are right, according to Fox News. If they ever get the NFL season going this fall, it will be a nightmare for Trump as he watches players take a knee during the National Anthem in protest against police brutality.
    He is losing to Aunt Jemima. On Wednesday, Quaker Oats announced that it will completely change the name and brand due to its racist stereotypes. Three other brands that used racist stereotypes quickly followed suit: Uncle Ben's rice, Mrs. Butterworth's syrup, and Cream of Wheat hot cereal. All these brand changes come in reaction to the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks by police, and to the subsequent protests. Trump's reflexive support of police and "law and order" is backfiring on him. A recent Washington Post poll found that 70 percent of Americans say that police killings of blacks are a sign of "broader problems." That number was 43 percent only a few years ago. Major companies around the country have made announcements in support of Black Lives Matter. The dog whistles and racist code that Trump has used for four years no longer work.
    (To read the full column, go to the link in the comments.)

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    ^^ Re-posted and formatted for SK

    Donald Trump is losing.
    He's losing nationally in the polls.
    He's losing in battleground states.
    He's losing in the streets.
    Every day when he wakes up and turns on the news, he is losing.
    He can't escape it. He is a loser.

    He is losing his precious Supreme Court. Twice in one week, the court ruled against him on matters near and dear to his heart.
    On Monday, the court handed him an unexpected defeat as two conservative justices, including Trump's hand-picked buddy-boy Neil Gorsuch, ruled that gay and transgender Americans are covered by the Civil Rights Act's Title VII and cannot be fired or discriminated against in hiring simply because they are gay or transgender.

    On Thursday, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the four liberals in deciding against the Trump administration's attempt to end the DACA program, ruling that Trump's order to cancel the program had been ham-handed and "arbitrary and capricious."

    He is losing to John Bolton, the former national security adviser and a man he called a "dope," whose book, "The Room Where It Happened," to be published next week, has already made headlines and sent Trump into paroxysms of anger and despair. Bolton, who refused to testify before the House impeachment committee or to provide testimony at Trump's trial in the Senate, didn't add much to the Ukraine bribery scandal, but he did admit that he had gone to Trump's lackey of an attorney general, Bill Barr, and reported on Trump's penchant for "doing favors for his favorite dictators." He quoted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling Trump "full of shit," echoing his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who called him a "fucking moron." Zing.

    He is losing to his generals. After using National Guard troops to clear the way for his disastrous Bible-toting photo op at St. John's Church and threatening to put active duty troops on the streets of Washington to suppress protests, he was forced to withdraw all National Guard troops from the capital.

    Then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper gave the order to send home the active duty Army units Trump had called up and stationed outside D.C. at Joint Base Andrews.

    Several former high-ranking military officers, including former Defense Secretary James Mattis and retired Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, wrote articles critical of Trump's proposed use of American soldiers against protesting American citizens.
    Even active duty generals reacted strongly, with Gen. Mark Milley, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs, writing a cleverly coded letter to the rest of the joint chiefs reminding them of their oath to the Constitution, including their obligation to defend its guarantee of free speech and assembly.

    He is losing to the protesters. Demonstrations in Washington caused Trump to erect a 10-foot-high fence around the White House, two miles of it by some accounts.
    And yet the protests against the killing of black men and boys by police go on, and the protesters keep coming. Two blocks of 16th Street near the White House have been renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza."

    Thousands in Washington are still protesting police brutality, and against Trump himself. Trump disappeared into a bunker in the basement of the White House at the height of the demonstrations. He has been surrounded.

    He is losing to Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C. In addition to painting "Black Lives Matter" in gigantic yellow letters on the street in sight of the White House, she demanded that National Guard and active duty troops be removed from her city, and Trump was forced by his own generals to comply. Muriel Bowser is in charge in Washington, not Trump.

    He is losing to Colin Kaepernick.
    The commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, made a video admitting that the NFL made a mistake when it sought to bar players from "taking a knee" in protest against police brutality.
    At least two NFL coaches and one team owner have shown interest in signing Kaepernick "if the timing and the fit" are right, according to Fox News. If they ever get the NFL season going this fall, it will be a nightmare for Trump as he watches players take a knee during the National Anthem in protest against police brutality.

    He is losing to Aunt Jemima.
    On Wednesday, Quaker Oats announced that it will completely change the name and brand due to its racist stereotypes. T
    hree other brands that used racist stereotypes quickly followed suit: Uncle Ben's rice, Mrs. Butterworth's syrup, and Cream of Wheat hot cereal.
    All these brand changes come in reaction to the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks by police, and to the subsequent protests.

    Trump's reflexive support of police and "law and order" is backfiring on him. A recent Washington Post poll found that 70 percent of Americans say that police killings of blacks are a sign of "broader problems."
    That number was 43 percent only a few years ago. Major companies around the country have made announcements in support of Black Lives Matter.

    The dog whistles and racist code that Trump has used for four years no longer work.
    (To read the full column, go to the link in the comments.)


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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    Just saw some footage of the rally on the news, the highlight was him showing the attendees he could drink a guess of water using just one hand. I'm not even joking
    Him explaining the West Point ramp ?

    Entertaining.

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    Surely just miming?

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    she's hilarious .

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    Surely just miming?

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    Tulsa Fire Department 6,200 people showed up...

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one
    Tulsa Fire Department 6,200 people showed up...
    Well a good thing then that his campaign and Trump himself hadn't promoted the whole thing as some dick measuring contest because that would be massively embarrassing...





    ...oh.

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    Ouch. That's gotta sting. I do hope he sees these.

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    Go to 4.45 when Peter Navarro talks about China and Covid-19, implying that China deliberately sent Chinese into the USA to infect Americans.

    Plus his comments re "China trade deal is 'over' " sent world Stock Markets into a spin for a few hours until he walked back his comments.


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    is it cofeve-19 ?

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    Trump’s campaign manager is planning to step down following disastrous Tulsa rally: Vanity Fair

    After Tulsa Catastrophe, Parscale—And Kushner—Is at the Top of Trump’s Hit List | Vanity Fair

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    ^ Unca Donald’s thick make-up really shows in that photo.

    Trump realizes campaign manager has been running ‘Nigerian prince scam’ on him: report

    Trump realizes campaign manager has been running ‘Nigerian prince scam’ on him: report – Raw Story

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    Steve Schmidt is a Republican. He's also honest. I respect Steve Schmidt.

    "Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.

    "When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.
    "It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City.

    Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale.

    And let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk."
    This is the most succinct -- and brutal -- Republican rejection of Donald Trump that you will ever read - CNNPolitics

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Steve Schmidt is a Republican.
    He actually left the party and is now registered as an independent. But yeah, he gets under Trumps skin almost as much as Obama, and I think the Lincoln Project is great.

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    If only the rest of the GOP had half the spine and integrity.

    But no, too busy kissing puckered orange ring-piece and disenfranchising voters:


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    With reviews like this Trump and his cronies have to try and cheat.



    This is the most succinct -- and brutal -- Republican rejection of Donald Trump that you will ever read - CNNPolitics


    This is the most succinct -- and brutal -- Republican rejection of Donald Trump that you will ever read

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