You have no comprehension of kit's post. Damn
You have no comprehension of kit's post. Damn
'Two presidencies today
Biden: "Here's my plan for getting the Covid vaccine distributed quickly and rebuilding the economy."
Trump: "I'm conferring with a pillow salesman about imposing martial law."'
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NRA Files 4 Bankruptcy
fROM A YEAR AGO ... how times have changed!
Sorry it won't allow me to cut and paste.
Trump plans to leave Washington Inauguration Day morning; Pence, Harris speak
I wonder if he'll take a dump in the oval office toilet tank. Known as an upper decker I believe.
Trump plans to leave Washington Inauguration Day morning; Pence, Harris speak
JOHN SANTUCCI, MOLLY NAGLE, KATHERINE FAULDERS and ELIZABETH THOMASSat, January 16, 2021, 7:04 AM·2 min read
President Donald Trump plans to make the unprecedented move to depart the White House next Wednesday morning, just before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, ABC News has learned.
Trump has requested a large sendoff to be planned for the morning of Jan. 20, sources said, after he choppers via Marine One to Joint Base Andrews, where he is expected to give remarks to supporters and departing members of his administration.
Sources add that Trump has requested his departure ceremony to have a "military-like feel," although details are not finalized.
He hopes to depart to the blare of a military band, with a red carpet and military honors, according to sources briefed on the plans. Even some sort of military flyover has been suggested, they said.
PHOTO: President Donald Trump walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Jan. 12, 2021 in Washington. (Gerald Herbert/AP)The president will then fly down to Mar-a-Lago aboard Air Force One with a small number of staffers who will be part of his post-presidency operation, the sources said.
Meanwhile, it's been revealed that Vice President Mike Pence spoke with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Thursday, just six days before the inauguration, according to sources familiar with the call, first reported by The New York Times.
Pence, unlike Trump, is expected to attend the event, according to a source familiar with his plans. His call to Harris came 68 days after Biden and Harris were projected as the winners on Nov. 7.
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PHOTO: From left, Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Harris, President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden on stage together, Nov. 7, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (Andrew Harnik/AP)Thursday’s call also is the first known communication directly between the highest-ranking elected officials of the current outgoing and incoming administrations since Trump claimed he won on election night and for months following the vote.
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It is unclear if Trump has called Biden to concede. He defiantly announced on Twitter just before the social media platform permanently suspended his account that he would not be attending the inauguration.
Trump's plan to leave the White House the morning of the inauguration, an unmatched break with tradition, would come two weeks after inciting a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that left five dead and his historic second impeachment a week later.
ABC News' Justin Gomez contributed to this report.
Warning: Be cautious if you are a fragile pink
They should use the chopper to take him and his odious trophy wife and drop them in a fucking field somewhere.
Surely, the military involved will ignore such a request.
OPINION
The move by the US political and corporate establishment to ban Donald Trump from public office and social media is so breathtakingly stupid and potentially dangerous you could be forgiven for thinking it was orchestrated by Trump’s hard line supporters themselves – were they not also so breathtakingly stupid and potentially dangerous.
Indeed, its staggering folly can be exposed with just two words: What then?
In the first case it undermines the American left’s greatest weapon in its repudiation of Trumpism, namely Joe Biden’s resounding election victory. While the razor thin result in the battleground states should serve as a dire warning for coastal wokesters, there is no doubt Biden won the election fair and square and won it well.
And so why trash a triumph of democracy with convoluted congressional proceedings that will have no impact on who gets sworn in on Inauguration Day? At best it is a wholly symbolic crucifixion of Trump at a time when, according to the President-elect himself, the nation desperately needs unity and healing. At worst it will be a rallying point for a Trumpist resurgence.
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A defaced mural painting of US President Donald Trump on Israel's controversial separation barrier on January 14, 2021. Picture: AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP,Source:AFP
‘WTF’ DECISION PLAYS INTO TRUMP’S HANDS
Is there a moral or legal case for Trump to be impeached? Certainly. In the space between the election result and the storming of the Capitol, Trump transformed from a cartoonish and roguish figure to a genuine threat to the American democratic process.
I suspect this was more the result of his rampant narcissism than any calculated or sinister malignance but that is neither here nor there. The only salient fact is that Trump must go.
But the fact is he is going, and going as a result of the people’s will. Why on earth would Washington politicians muddy the waters by allowing him to claim he has been removed only by a congressional conspiracy?
Trump has always claimed the election was rigged and illegitimate. The attempt to remove him via impeachment only reinforces this view and gives his diehard followers the evidence they need that he is a victim not of the American people but the Washington elite. It could not play more perfectly into Trump’s hands.
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Donald Trump in the Oval Office will soon be but a memory. Picture: JIM WATSON / AFP.Source:AFP
Indeed, the clear driver of Trump’s increasingly deranged and erratic behaviour since his election loss was his inability to accept that the American people had turned against him. His alternate facts had deserted him and he was trapped in a cage of inconvenient truth. Now the Democrats have just handed him a get out of jail free card.
I genuinely cannot imagine even a kindergarten-level Australian political strategist performing such a self-damaging act. Indeed, a veteran Labor advisor texted me these exact words as soon as the move was afoot:
“WTF are Dems thinking? There will be chaos, guns and nuts everywhere running amok. It will make the storming of the house seem like preschoolers arguing in the sand.”
The same strategist was almost alone in the Australian left in publicly predicting a Trump victory four and a half years ago. As of today I suspect he has more political brainpower than the entire Democratic caucus combined.
The conspiracy theories of tens of millions of Trumpers have, in their own minds, been confirmed. God knows what this will mean for the next election campaign but you can bet your bottom Bezos it won’t be a civil one.
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey backed its ban of US President Donald Trump, but said it sets a "dangerous" precedent and represents a failure to promote healthy conversation on the platform. Picture: Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP.Source:AFP
SOCIAL MEDIA MISSTEP
As for Trump’s deplatforming from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube – not to mention the deplatforming of an entire platform in the form of Amazon’s removal of Parler – one also has to ask the question the tech giants clearly never asked themselves: What then?
There has long been talk that the lay down misere option for Trump would be to launch his own cable propaganda network dubbed Trump TV. After all, he already has 75 million potential subscribers.
Do you think Donald Trump's social media ban is justified?
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Cast your vote
But television is a notoriously expensive and complex medium. How much cheaper and easier it would be for Trump to launch his own social media site. All he’d have to do is set up the platform and the content would provide itself for free.
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Twitter’s banning of Donald Trump could lead to a Trump version to spring up. Picture: Olivier DOULIERY / AFP.Source:AFP
There he and his acolytes could spread whatever conspiracy theories and plot whatever revolutions they wanted. The only difference is it would be largely unchecked and unchallenged by mainstream views.
This is the staggering hubris of political and corporate elites, or perhaps just their staggering naivety. Like the cartoon mouse that covers its eyes and thinks it is invisible they assume that if they cannot see something it no longer exists.
But even this assessment is probably too kind. It would be generous to think that the Silicon Valley strategy is to wipe Trump from the public sphere and hope that his 75 million voters will then miraculously forget about him or forget about their fears or miraculously change their minds.
My strong suspicion is that they actually forget that Trump has voters at all. That they are so far removed from the seismic rumblings of real people in middle America they think Trump is the only person they have to worry about. It is a critical mistake.
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There is huge security around the White House. Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP.Source:AFP
BIDEN’S NEXT MOVE
In all the endless coverage and holier-than-thou pronouncements that have accompanied Trump’s election loss and the ugly scenes that followed, I have seen and heard almost nothing that fully appreciates the vast numbers of people who voted for him despite his myriad failings.
The great irony is that the one man who does seem to appreciate it is Joe Biden, who, having achieved a record voter turnout, was quick to realise that the second highest ever turnout was for his opponent. Hence his impressive and immediate appeal for unity upon claiming victory.
It is of course a national sport to speculate that Biden is suffering from some form of dementia or another. But even if he is it would still make him smarter than most of his colleagues.
America is a country that desperately needs peace but is beset by provocation. It contains in its belly an angry mob — or, perhaps more accurately, two angry mobs.
Both need reminding that democracy is their salvation, not their jailer. Washington parlour games only serve to make them feel that they are forever in exile.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/dumb-decision-trump-haters-will-regret/news-story/c23bd443263f1187cd0d9b856906e0d6
^^^ For some reason I get Youtube notifications and often it is some fucking trumpanzee convict twat spouting bollocks.
Why have the convicts got trumpanzees? I mean they're just as fucking dumb as the real ones.
Not all of them, for some it is slowly sinking in.
"In a new poll from the Pew Research Center, only 29% of Americans said they approve of how Trump is handling his job "
Donald Trump leaves White House with lowest-ever approval rating
Trump will be remembered for pitting Americans against Americans. His divisive approach to everything has led to the needed protections in Washington. But hey, there are good people on both sides. Sheesh! This is what he accomplished in 4 years.... Can you imagine 8?
Voters are split over whether Trump should be removed, NBC News poll says
Voters are divided, largely along partisan lines, over whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office, a new NBC News poll shows.
Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats say Trump, who was impeached by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, should be convicted by the Senate. Fewer than 1 in 10 Republicans say the same.
In all, about 50% of Americans say that Trump should be removed while 48% are opposed, a divide within the survey’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Voters divided over whether Trump should be removed: NBC poll
One thing is certain. He will be leaving office shortly, and entering a world bedeviled by the pandemic and his total lack of respect for anyone except himself. At a time when the hospitality industry is suffering from his poor response to the pandemic, he will return as head of the Trump enterprise in tatters, due almost entirely to his own dumb arrogance.
I read that he cant even go back to Mara Largo because when he purchased the property he signed an agreement that no member , of which he is one , can stay there more than 21 consecutive days.
" President signed 1993 agreement with town that says he cannot live at the club for more than three nonconsecutive weeks in a year"
Mar-a-Lago neighbors say Trump can’t live there after White House | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Perhaps he can get around that by getting a job there as a live in gardener, or busboy
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
Pentagon Confirms Military Will Not Hold Traditional Farewell Ceremony for Trump
By Tommy ChristopherJan 16th, 2021, 10:54 am
Military Won't Hold Traditional Farewell Ceremony for Trump
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Defense One reports that the Pentagon confirms the military will not hold a farewell ceremony for President Donald Trump, as it has for past presidents.
The outlet, which focuses on national security issues, broke the news that Trump won’t be getting the traditional sendoff in a scathing commentary by Executive Editor Kevin Baron:
The Pentagon, in a break with recent tradition, will not host an Armed Forces Farewell tribute to President Donald Trump.
It’s a shame, but not a surprise. Trump will leave office in disgrace, one week after the House voted a second time for his impeachment, two weeks after his supporters staged a deadly siege in the Capitol Building, six months after he dragged his Joint Chiefs chairman into a political firestorm, and after four years of nonstop assaults on truth. One of those disgraces is how he is ghosting the U.S. troops that he commanded.
On Wednesday, the White House announced that this weekend Vice President Mike Pence “will deliver remarks to sailors on the Trump Administration’s historic foreign policy achievements at Naval Air Station Lemoore,” and then to the 10th Mountain Division, in Fort Drum, New York. Two senior defense officials confirmed to Defense One on Thursday that no military farewell is being planned for the commander in chief.
Baron’s reporting, as Jim Heath points out, doesn’t specify who made the decision or why. Heath also provides a review of past such ceremonies:
For the last 40 years, the Pentagon has seen each president out the door with a farewell tribute.
In 2017 that included a salute from a military band, a review of troops, and a long line of military leaders stepping forward to praise President Obama.
They thanked Obama for the care he had demonstrated for the troops, for his strategic thinking, and for his work with NATO and other allied military organizations.
Pentagon leaders also surprised Obama by awarding him the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
Trump is reportedly considering throwing himself a farewell ceremony that would include two kazoos and a harmonica.
Majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd
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