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    Looks like even Republican voters don't want to touch baldy with a shitty stick.

    A 24-year-old real estate investor and motivational speaker in western North Carolina has defeated the candidate endorsed by President Trump in a Republican runoff to vie for White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s seat in Congress, marking another race this election cycle that has bucked the president’s influence.

    Madison Cawthorn, who turns 25 in August, was the surprise victor in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District runoff against real estate agent Lynda Bennett with nearly two-thirds of the vote,
    according to the Associated Press. Bennett, 62, had endorsements not only from Trump but also from Meadows, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio.) Meadows vacated the seat in March to join the White House.

    Voters have now snubbed the president’s recommendation in at least three recent congressional races, blemishing his previously undefeated record. On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)
    handily won the Republican primary after Trump called him a “disaster for America” and a “third-rate grandstander” when Massie opposed the coronavirus stimulus package in March.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...wpisrc=nl_most

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    50 IQ ?


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    So the great baldy orange cunto contribution to Middle East peace?

    Giving Israel the green light to annex the West Bank.



    Israel annexation plans for West Bank leave Palestinians in despair - BBC News
    Last edited by harrybarracuda; 25-06-2020 at 12:19 PM.

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    ...^that was a gift to plan authors Jared and Ivanka from dear family friend Bibi...no one can figure out why the local Arabs are so angry as they get to keep their jobs washing settlement windows...

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    50 IQ ?


    What about another solution: Stop all the wars your predecessors had started (and some of them promised to stop)...

    This would surely reduce the displaced 80 millions running out of the "liberated" countries...

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    Judge rejects Trump family attempt to block publication of niece Mary Trump’s tell-all book



    Key Points
    • A New York surrogate’s court judge rejected on jurisdictional grounds an effort by President Donald Trump’s brother to halt the publication of a book by the president’s niece, Mary Trump.
    • The book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” is scheduled to be published on July 28.
    • The president has said that his niece is subject to a nondisclosure agreement and is “not allowed to write a book.”
    • Robert Trump’s lawyer, Charles Harder, said he would file a new suit in New York Supreme Court to try and block the book.


    Mary Trump book: judge dismisses Trump family lawsuit
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    If the current polls were election night:

    President Donald Trump-ebzmjmexgaaypjd-jpg




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    ...agree: 'tis devoutly to be wished...

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    "The Trump administration commenced amid a flood of scandals, lies and controversies, coming so fast that crises that would have tainted a "normal" administration were forgotten in days, drowned out by new scandals.

    "Flood the zone with shit." -S. Bannon.

    Early in those days, a group of writers at McSweeneys set to cataloging each of these "atrocities." Today, they've released the first 759 of these, in chronological order and broken down by category:"



    'Atrocities' is a bit melodramatic however the point remains that this is the most corrupt and inept presidency in the history of the US:

    Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing (So Far): Atrocities 1-759 - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    'Atrocities' is a bit melodramatic
    ...agree: I prefer High Crimes and Misdemeanors...

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    Since taking over, Imran Khan (Pakistan's Prime Minister) claimed his government has reset the Pakistan-US relationship, elevating it to one of mutual respect, for which he also credited the personal rapport he has built with President Donald Trump. “No one insults us now,” said Khan.


    Give him time Imran, he'll get around to you eventually.

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    no trump cheque for cells


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    Trump World boils over as campaign hits skids | TheHill


    I read Trump blathered on like an imbecile last night on Hannity. Worse than he usually does, anyway. Will try to find a transcript.

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    So just when Americans have probably got good reason to rely on their healthcare, the idiot comes up with this.

    It seems the last vestiges of a plot are long gone.

    The Trump administration has asked the US supreme court to invalidate the Obamacare law that added millions to the healthcare safety net but has been at the centre of political controversy.

    The government advocate, Noel Francisco, argued in a filing late on Thursday that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one of Barack Obama’s signature achievements – in office, became invalid after the previous Republican-led Congress axed parts of it.
    Trump administration asks supreme court to axe Obamacare | US news | The Guardian

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    So just when Americans have probably got good reason to rely on their healthcare, the idiot comes up with this.

    It seems the last vestiges of a plot are long gone.



    Trump administration asks supreme court to axe Obamacare | US news | The Guardian
    In the interview with Hannity he almost concedes defeat to Biden.

    He knows he's fucked and I think he's about to starting burning the house down before he leaves. He's a vindictive kuunt and it's all about him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    He knows he's fucked and I think he's about to starting burning the house down before he leaves.
    That would be the plan for the right wing twats.

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    What a retard.

    Claims he redesigned the ships to be more beautiful. Surely we've got to reach a point where even the trumpanzees can see what a moron he is.

    Trump Suggests Navy Sent $5 Billion to Wisconsin Firm to Help Him Win Election

    IN WHAT SOUNDED like a confession that his administration is corruptly using federal funds to boost his re-election campaign, President Donald Trump told workers at a shipyard in Wisconsin on Thursday that “one of the big factors” in the Navy awarding a $5.5 billion contract to their firm was, “your location in Wisconsin, if you want to know the truth.”


    The president’s startling admission came as he veered off-script during a speech to employees of Fincantieri Marinette Marine, the firm chosen by the Navy on April 30 to build 10 new guided-missile frigates for its FFG(X) program. The Wisconsin firm was chosen over rivals that build ships in Alabama, Mississippi and Maine — three states that are far less important in the electoral college.

    As he read aloud a description that the frigates would be the “fastest, most advanced, and most maneuverable combat ships anywhere on the ocean,” Trump looked up and ad-libbed: “I hear the maneuverability is one of the big factors that you were chosen for the contract. The other is your location in Wisconsin, if you want to know the truth.”

    The president then boasted that the “massive deal” would boost employment in the state, which he won by less than 23,000 votes in 2016, by allowing the firm to keep “your 1,500 full-time employees” on staff and hire another 1,000 people “all across the shipyards in Wisconsin.” (The shipbuilding firm actually employs 2,500 people in Wisconsin right now, not 1,500.)


    Trump also claimed that “an estimated 15,000 additional new jobs will be created through the Wisconsin supply chain,” as a result of the contract. Moments later, Trump changed that estimate to 9,000 new jobs, without explaining why.


    Both estimates seem to be vastly inflated. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, said in April that the contract could create “more than 5,000 direct and indirect jobs” over the course of its 10-year duration. The projection seemed to come from Fincantieri, the shipbuilding firm, which told reporters that the contract could create 1,000 new jobs at the shipyard and 4,000 more at the company’s suppliers.


    The president’s remarks, which were transcribed by the White House, could be grounds for one of the three firms that lost out on the contract — Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Austal USA of Mobile, Alabama and Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine — to file a protest with the Government Accountability Office’s Procurement Law Division. As the U.S. Naval Institute’s news site reported earlier this month, none of the firms contested the decision during the 30-day period after the bid was accepted, which is normally when protests are filed. But there is nothing normal about the commander-in-chief publicly admitting that the government contracting process was corrupted by political considerations.


    A spokesperson for Ingalls declined to comment on the president’s remarks. Austal USA and Bath Iron Works did not immediately reply to questions from The Intercept about whether they might file a protest given this new information.


    A spokesman for James Geurts, the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, who oversees more than $100 billion in spending each year, also did not reply to a request for comment.


    In his speech, which he frequently delivered as if he was at a campaign rally rather than an official appearance, the president also joked about his ignorance of why the Navy’s FFG(X) shipbuilding project had that name. After reading the letters aloud, Trump mistakenly said, “FX! Is that good? FX!” The president then suggested that “nobody knows” what those initials stand for. As the Congressional Research Service explained this month, “FF means frigate, G means guided-missile ship… and (X) indicates that the specific design of the ship has not yet been determined.”


    In another portion of the speech devoted to praising himself, Trump also claimed that he had personally intervened in the design of the new Navy frigate. “The ships that they were building, they looked terrible. I changed designs. I looked at it. I said, ‘That’s a terrible looking ship. Let’s make it beautiful. It’ll cost you the same, and maybe less,'” the president told workers at the shipyard.


    “I said, ‘This is not a good-looking ship, let’s change the design of it.’ And I got people in, and we looked at different designs,” Trump added. “And look at what you’re doing, how beautiful it is. They gave me a beautiful model that’s absolutely…. It’s like a yacht with missiles on it.”


    As the Green Bay Press Gazette reported in April, Marinette Marine, which has built ships in Wisconsin since the 1940s, was acquired by the Italian yacht-maker Fincantieri in 2009. The firm’s winning frigate design is based on an Italian warship that already exists, and was not designed by the president.
    https://theintercept.com/2020/06/25/...-win-election/

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    ^^^^The ACA has signed up around 500,000 new individuals since the job losses caused by the coronavirus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    ^^^^The ACA has signed up around 500,000 new individuals since the job losses caused by the coronavirus.
    He knows hes going to lose. He's just going to fuck everything up as much as he can before then. Regardless of who it impacts. And most of those ne aca signups will be poor low educated people who for some inexplicable reason are Trumps base.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    He knows hes going to lose. He's just going to fuck everything up as much as he can before then. Regardless of who it impacts. And most of those ne aca signups will be poor low educated people who for some inexplicable reason are Trumps base.
    He is doing what he initially planed to do in 2016, and much to his surprise won. He is trying to monetize his loss and create a post presidential cult base to make it political difficult to pursue criminal indictments and investigations. That's why it is important to not only get him out of the White house , but for the Democrats to win a majority in the Senate, otherwise the Republicans will try to whitewash the whole thing.
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    From the Hannity interview last night.

    President Donald Trump-cb3c84e8-6553-4887-8683-f79d9ab702b1-jpeg

    Mediaite.com | Media & Politics News | TV, Print, Online

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    Be wary of the claims about him losing.

    Democrats biggest worry is people thinking Biden is a shoo-in and not bothering to vote.

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    I think most people learnt that lesson last go-round.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    I think most people learnt that lesson last go-round.
    I noticed you said "I think" and not "I know".


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