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6 minutes ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

All agree that the downfall of the fiscal conservative has been a major loss to the party and to the country.  perhaps the voting public subconsciously stopped trusting conservatives after they let a policy platform Fall by the wayside quietly at night 

 

"Fiscal Conservatism" under Republicans has been more myth than practice. It sounds good at a podium, but Republicans have spent freely and easily when in power the past four decades.

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1 hour ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

All agree that the downfall of the fiscal conservative has been a major loss to the party and to the country.  perhaps the voting public subconsciously stopped trusting conservatives after they let a policy platform Fall by the wayside quietly at night 

I’m a fiscal conservative. The Republican Party left this idea a long long time ago. 
 

They ran away from it in light speed when they elected this piece of s#!t. 

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if numbskull trump can get elected for being crazy...maybe it will work for kanye

 

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/07/kanye-2020-rally/

 

 For example, after a young woman accused social media of brainwashing children, Kanye launched into a diatribe about how prescription drugs were also altering societal’s perception of reality. He also proudly boasted about his own 132-point IQ and how he went “to the hospital because my brain was too big for my skull.”

At another point, Kanye railed against Black iconography used by white organizations, specifically citing Harriet Tubman as an example. “She didn’t free the slaves, she had them go work for other white people,” he remarked.

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Crime President to keep on criming. 

 

Between the goon squads rolling around Portland and this, we may be on the brink of that point at which Trump just disregards the law entirely and pretends he has unlimited authority. 

That should scare us. Were he not so incompetent, it would be very scary.

 

FWIW, the lawyer consulting them on this scheme, John Yoo, is the guy who drew up Dubya's legal justification for waterboarding. 

 

 

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On 7/16/2020 at 3:20 PM, Undone said:

 

I'm not embarrassed in the slightest. He's showing obvious signs of cognitive difficulties.

 

How about the videos of Joe inappropriate touching children in plain sight and those types of allegations against him from his past?

I'm not plugging Trump here. I'm making an observation on how difficult it apparently is to field a candidate these days. It's almost as if there aren't any good candidates to even field, one might even surmise.

 

Kinda feels like you are, though. 

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Good OPED by Maureen Dowd -- tRUMP VS  the Doctor   -   A few quotes from the article are copied below.

 

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/07/19/maureen-dowd-doctor/

 

 

 

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It was always bound to be tempestuous because they are the ultimate odd couple, the doctor and the president.

One is a champion of truth and facts. The other is a master of deceit and denial. One is highly disciplined, working 18-hour days. The other can’t be bothered to do his homework and golfs instead. One is driven by science and the public good. The other is a public menace, driven by greed and ego. One is a Washington institution. The other was sent here to destroy Washington institutions. One is incorruptible. The other corrupts. One is apolitical. The other politicizes everything he touches — toilets, windows, beans and, most fatally, masks.

After a fractious week, when the former reality-show star in the White House retweeted a former game-show host saying that we shouldn’t trust doctors about COVID-19, Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci are gritting their teeth.

What’s so scary is that the bumpy course of their relationship has life-or-death consequences for Americans.

 

 

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As though it couldn’t get more absurd, Kellyanne Conway told Fox News on Friday that she thinks it would help Trump’s poll numbers for him to start giving public briefings on the virus again — even though that exercise went off the rails when the president began suggesting people inject themselves with bleach.

“How did we get to a situation in our country where the public health official most known for honesty and hard work is most vilified for it?” marvels Michael Specter, a science writer for The New Yorker who began covering Fauci during the AIDS crisis. “And as Team Trump trashes him, the numbers keep horrifyingly proving him right.”

 

 

 

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Now Fauci struggles to drive the data bus as the White House throws nails under his tires. It seems emblematic of a deeper, existential problem: America has lost its can-do spirit. We were always Bugs Bunny, faster, smarter, more wily than everybody else. Now we’re Slugs Bunny.

Can our country be any more pathetic than this: The Georgia governor suing the Atlanta mayor and City Council to block their mandate for city residents to wear masks?

Trump promised the A team, but he has surrounded himself with losers and kiss-ups and second-raters. Just your basic Ayn Rand nightmare.

 

 

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It’s no coincidence that the QAnon-adjacent cultists on the right began circulating a new conspiracy theory in the fever swamps of Facebook that Fauci’s wife of 3 1/2 decades, a bioethicist, is Ghislane Maxwell’s sister. (Do I need to tell you she isn’t?)

Worryingly, new polls show that the smear from Trumpworld may be starting to stick; fewer Republicans trust the doctor now than in the spring.

Forget Mueller, Sessions, Comey, Canada, his niece, Mika Brzezinski. Of the many quarrels, scrapes and scraps Trump has instigated in his time in office, surely this will be remembered not only as the most needless and perverse, but as the most dangerous.

As Fauci told The Atlantic, it’s “a bit bizarre.”

More than a bit, actually.

 

 

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John Kasich expected to speak at Democratic National Convention for Joe Biden: report

Joey Garrison, USA TODAY 22 mins ago
USA TODAY logo John Kasich expected to speak at Democratic National Convention for Joe Biden: report
 

WASHINGTON — Former Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, is expected to speak on behalf of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at next month's Democratic National Convention, the Associated Press reported Monday.

 

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Trump sending the stormtroopers to Chicago next.

 

This is bad. Dollars to donuts they're using these forces as an election tactic. But what's really worrisome is this:

 

 

I don't Trump or any of the decision-makers in his orbit would bat an eye to send these goon squads out to try to intimidate voters and suppress votes.

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Whoa. Dems not pulling any punches. That is a hefty accusation to lob at another Senator's probe. Rightly so, IMO, because Ron Johnson is almost assuredly on a fishing expedition to try and drag Hunter Biden back into the news.

 

If we think back, this is a sharpy different tact from 2016, when Obama would not name and shame Russia because Mitch McConnell cared more about getting Donald Trump elected than protecting our election.

 

Dems not making the same mistake twice.

 

 

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