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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    Trump descends into the absurd again on the White House lawn today:

    "So shower heads, you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You wanna wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out... Dishwashers you didn’t have any water... In most places of the country, water is not a problem. They don’t know what do with it. It’s called rain".

    No mention of almost 140, 000 dead from the Corona Virus disaster under his watch.

    Hard to believe.
    Wasn't that gibberish about water years ago? I he recycling now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Wasn't that gibberish about water years ago? I he recycling now?
    The dotard does repeat himself quite a bit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    The dotard does repeat himself quite a bit
    Indeed, he does. Nice to see you posting again.

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    US: Arizona Republican says "I want my party back"

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    Linda Rawles has been a Republican since she was 13. Now, she's fighting against her own president, Donald Trump, and she isn't alone, as Ines Pohl reports from Arizona.


    Dyed-in-the-wool Republican



    Linda Rawles is a Republican through and through. Rawles, who lives with her husband in the Phoenix, Arizona, suburb of Carefree, began volunteering and working for the party at the age of 13.
    She always campaigned for party members on the municipal and state level.

    She even ran for Congress herself in 1994.
    She didn't win the seat, and one detects a mix of emotions ranging from pride to melancholy when she looks at her old campaign flyers.


    Good article and interview from DW ... US: Arizona Republican says ′I want my party back′ | Americas| North and South American news impacting on Europe | DW | 17.07.2020
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    The Trump Reich ministry has formed a secret police force comprised of Homeland Security and Border Protection Police to arrest without Miranda rights and interrogate protesters on the streets of Portland. What other surprises do they have in store for us I wonder?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    The Trump Reich ministry has formed a secret police force comprised of Homeland Security and Border Protection Police to arrest without Miranda rights and interrogate protesters on the streets of Portland. What other surprises do they have in store for us I wonder?
    Source?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Source?
    Is your wifi down?

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    Oregon lawmakers call for DOJ, DHS inspectors general to investigate law enforcement presence in Portland

    Four Oregon lawmakers on Friday called on the internal watchdogs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to investigate federal law enforcement’s presence and practices in Portland amid rising protests in the city.


    Sens. Jeff Merkley (D) and Ron Wyden (D) and Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D) and Suzanne Bonamici (D) said they are making the request after federal officers shot a demonstrator in the head and reports emerged of unmarked federal agents detaining protesters and taking them to unmarked minivans.


    “DHS and DOJ are engaged in acts that are horrific and outrageous in our constitutional democratic republic,” Merkley said. “First, they are deploying paramilitary forces with no identification indicating who they are or who they work for. Second, these agents are snatching people off the street with no underlying justification. Both of these acts are profound offenses against Americans."

    MORE Oregon lawmakers call for DOJ, DHS inspectors general to investigate law enforcement presence in Portland | TheHill

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Oregon lawmakers call for DOJ, DHS inspectors general to investigate law enforcement presence in Portland

    Four Oregon lawmakers on Friday called on the internal watchdogs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to investigate federal law enforcement’s presence and practices in Portland amid rising protests in the city.


    Sens. Jeff Merkley (D) and Ron Wyden (D) and Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D) and Suzanne Bonamici (D) said they are making the request after federal officers shot a demonstrator in the head and reports emerged of unmarked federal agents detaining protesters and taking them to unmarked minivans.


    “DHS and DOJ are engaged in acts that are horrific and outrageous in our constitutional democratic republic,” Merkley said. “First, they are deploying paramilitary forces with no identification indicating who they are or who they work for. Second, these agents are snatching people off the street with no underlying justification. Both of these acts are profound offenses against Americans."

    MORE Oregon lawmakers call for DOJ, DHS inspectors general to investigate law enforcement presence in Portland | TheHill
    Holy shit, that's horrific. Sounds like he's been getting advice from his pal Vlad who I read recently he speaks to on the telephonic device regularly.

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    Scary stuff.

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    A new Lincoln project ad.


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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    reports emerged of unmarked federal agents detaining protesters and taking them to unmarked minivans.

    l
    An interesting article on these unmarked federal agents (published after the Washington problems):
    The Story Behind Bill Barr’s Unmarked Federal Agents - POLITICO

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    What a fucking twat.


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    Another lincoln project ad.


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    will the lincoln project make an ad to encourage people to register and vote ?

    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    unmarked federal agents detaining protesters and taking them to unmarked minivans.
    the stories online are a bit disturbing if true - it is also true that the 100 mile border security limit is also around international airports ?

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    President Donald Trump-wpcbe200719-jpg

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    I was just going to watch the first couple of minutes of the but ...

    Trump just kept digging and digging ... lower and lower



    @ 24.50 min Trump goes on about taking an intelligence test .. hard not to smile

    When asked 'will you accept the Election?", Trump replies ... "I have to see" @ 38 Min mark
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    ^ here is the 4min highlight real according to the WP ...


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    President Donald Trump-wpcbe200719-jpg
    Yup. Difficult test:

    What happens during a cognitive test?
    There are different types of cognitive tests. Each involves answering a series of questions and/or performing simple tasks. They are designed to help measure mental functions, such as memory, language, and the ability to recognize objects. The most common types of tests are:


    Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test. A 10-15 minute test that includes memorizing a short list of words, identifying a picture of an animal, and copying a drawing of a shape or object.

    555.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    @ 24.50 min Trump goes on about taking an intelligence test .. hard not to smile
    No way I could make it that far. Disgusting man to watch.

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    This must be somewhat concerning for Americans.
    Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decreeJohn Yoo wrote memo used to justify waterboarding
    Trump keen to use executive orders and circumvent Congress
    Julian Borger in Washington


    The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding on how the president might try to rule by decree.

    John Yoo told the Guardian he has been talking to White House officials about his view that a recent supreme court ruling on immigration would allow Trump to issue executive orders on whether to apply existing federal laws.


    “If the court really believes what it just did, then it just handed President Trump a great deal of power, too,” Yoo, a professor at Berkeley Law, said.

    “The supreme court has said President Obama could [choose not to] enforce immigration laws for about 2 million cases. And why can’t the Trump administration do something similar with immigration – create its own … program, but it could do it in areas beyond that, like healthcare, tax policy, criminal justice, inner city policy. I talked to them a fair amount about cities, because of the disorder.”

    In a Fox News Sunday interview, Trump declared he would try to use that interpretation to try to force through decrees on healthcare, immigration and “various other plans” over the coming month. The White House consultations with Yoo were first reported by the Axios news website.


    Constitutional scholars and human rights activists have also pointed to the deployment of paramilitary federal forces against protesters in Portland as a sign that Trump is ready to use this broad interpretation of presidential powers as a means to suppress basic constitutional rights.


    “This is how it begins,” Laurence Tribe, a Harvard constitutional law professor, wrote on Twitter. “The dictatorial hunger for power is insatiable. If ever there was a time for peaceful civil disobedience, that time is upon us.”
    Yoo became notorious for a legal memo he drafted in August 2002, when he was deputy assistant attorney general in the justice department’s office of legal counsel.


    It stated: “Necessity or self-defense may justify interrogation methods that might violate” the criminal prohibition on torture.


    Memos drafted by Yoo were used for justifying waterboarding and other forms of torture on terrorism suspects at CIA “black sites” around the world.

    Asked if he now regretted his memos, Yoo replied: “I’m still not exactly sure about how far the CIA took its interrogation methods but I think if they stayed within the outlines of the legal memos, I think they weren’t violating American law.”

    In a book titled Defender in Chief, due to be published next week, Yoo argues that Trump was fighting to restore the powers of the presidency, in a way that would have been approved by the framers of the US constitution.

    “They wanted each branch to have certain constitutional weapons and then they wanted them to fight. And so they wanted the president to try to expand his powers but they expected also Congress to keep fighting with the President,” he said.


    In a June article in the National Review, he wrote that a supreme court decision that blocked Trump’s attempt to repeal Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, known as Daca and established by executive order, meant Trump could do the same thing to achieve his policy goals.

    Daca suspended deportations of undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as children. As an example of what Trump might achieve in the same way, Yoo suggested the president could declare a national right to carry firearms openly, in conflict with many state laws.

    “He could declare that he would not enforce federal firearms laws,” Yoo wrote, “and that a new ‘Trump permit’ would free any holder of state and local gun-control restrictions.

    “Even if Trump knew that his scheme lacked legal authority, he could get away with it for the length of his presidency,” he said. In a telephone interview, he added: “According to the supreme court, the president can now choose to under-enforce the law in certain areas and it can’t be undone by his successor unless that successor goes through this onerous thing called the Administrative Procedure Act, which usually takes one to two years.”

    Constitutional scholars have rejected Yoo’s arguments as ignoring limits on the executive powers of the president imposed by the founders, who were determined to prevent the rise of a tyrant.

    Tribe called Yoo’s interpretation of the Daca ruling “indefensible”.

    He added: “I fear that this lawless administration will take full advantage of the fact that judicial wheels grind slowly and that it will be difficult to keep up with the many ways Trump, aided and abetted by Bill Barr as attorney general and Chad Wolf as acting head of homeland security, can usurp congressional powers and abridge fundamental rights in the immigration space in particular but also in matters of public health and safety.”

    On the deployment of federal paramilitary units against Portland, Yoo said he did not know enough of the facts to deem whether it was an abuse of executive power.


    “It has to be really reasonably related to protecting federal buildings,” he said. “If it’s just graffiti, that’s not enough. It really depends on what the facts are.”

    Alka Pradhan, a defence counsel in the 9/11 terrorism cases against inmates in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, said: “John Yoo’s so-called reasoning has always been based on ‘What can the president get away with?’ rather than ‘What is the purpose and letter of the law?’

    “That is not legal reasoning, it’s inherently tyrannical and anti-democratic.”

    Pradhan and other defence lawyers in the pre-trial hearings at the Guantánamo Bay military tribunal have argued that the use of torture against their clients, made possible by Yoo’s 2002 memo, invalidated much of the case against them.

    “The fact that John Yoo is employed and free to opine on legal matters is an example of the culture of impunity in the United States,” she said.
    Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree | Trump administration | The Guardian

    Where are all those gun toting militia prepers concerned about the gubmint taking over? On their way to portland?
    I definitely smell the hand of Putin in this.
    “If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    I definitely smell the hand of Putin in this.
    john yoo was banned from entering russia 8 years ago.

    but sure, OK.

    keep following your nose.

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    When such a sleazy, repugnant and vile creature can still garner 40% public support, I have no hope in the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by elche View Post
    still garner 40% public support
    He got 25% of the electorate in 2016

    One can hope he doesn't get more this time

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