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Acquitted but still impeached ... Trump thread 99

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TheClaws · 12/02/2020 03:00

I’ll tell you a funny story. I’m a member of a very right-wing US politics online discussion group for kicks. The moderator of the group controls - and gets involved in - every discussion. (I should say the membership of this group is over 50K and the number of posts a day is generally 30 or so.) She’s also a typical Trumpian in that she reels off the standard “lamestream mass media” etc lines” and she mutes anyone who disagrees with her.

Anyway, I took her on eventually. She said that the Democratic candidates wanted to get rid of the Constitution. To this, I replied Trump flouts the Constitution on a regular basis. “What? Provide examples!” she replies. “Emoluments clause,” I replied. “That’s just one.”

GUYS. SHE HAD NOT HEARD OF THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE.

She then just spat something about she doesn’t read mass media lies and that’s why she didn’t know and muted me.

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Roussette · 28/02/2020 19:26

Well done Warren

TheClaws · 29/02/2020 00:05

I won’t copy it, as that will get him more clicks, but Donald Trump Jr. has put his foot in it (again) by suggesting on Fox that Democrats would enjoy seeing millions die via Coronavirus just so they could “end Donald Trump’s winning streak”. Republicans have attempted to scramble since by saying this was of course “hyperbole”, but it still gone out into Fox’s the empty minds of Fox’s diseased viewers.

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TheClaws · 29/02/2020 03:46

Breitbart summary of Trump’s Ohio rally today. I’m not including a full transcript - just a couple of interesting snippets. The first few are about coronavirus. Trump referred to CV as a “hoax” during the rally, but Breitbart omit this important fact.

7:35 PM: Trump says the Democrats’ open-borders policies threaten the health and well-being of all Americans.

7:23 PM: Trump says he created a White House virus task force. He says it is a “big thing.” He says he wanted $2.5 million but Democrats wanted $8.5 million. Trump says we must understand that “border security is also health security.” He says the wall has “gone up like magic.”

7:22 PM: Trump, having some problems pronouncing words tonight, says the Democrats’ single talking point is that it’s Trump’s fault even though he bought America critical time with his travel restrictions that Democrats criticized.

7:21 PM: Trump says the US is prepared for the worst but hopefully it will amount to very little. Trump says he ordered the suspension of foreign nationals who have recently been in China from entering the United States.

7:16 PM: Trump says he just learned that around 35,000 people a year die from the flu. He again says he had no clue about that number. He says the US has lost “nobody” yet to coronavirus but it doesn’t mean we won’t. He says the press is in “hysteria mode.” Trump says Democrats are “willing to hurt the country” to take down Trump.

The quote below is why Trump still has support. He makes people genuinely believe he cares for them; he creates enemies where there were none; he conflates issues and threatens mental wellbeing daily.

8:00 PM: Trump says every Democrat running for president supports free federal welfare for illegal aliens and want to treat them “better than they want to treat our military and our veterans.” Trump says illegal immigrants drain our treasury and threaten lives.

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UYScuti · 29/02/2020 12:55

I think the real reason Trump wants to deny coronavirus is that it might put a stop to his rallies, such public gatherings could be banned in an effort to control the spread and then how would he spread the love amongst his base??

AcrossthePond55 · 29/02/2020 13:12

I think the real reason Trump wants to deny coronavirus is that it might put a stop to his rallies,

Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

UYScuti · 29/02/2020 13:33

Imagine if there was an outbreak traced definitively to a trump rally and then Trump's name would be forever synonymous with a killer virus from China😊
Maybe this Chinese pneumonia could be Trump's old man's friend, that would make a difference to his orange complexion now wouldn't it 😊

Lweji · 29/02/2020 13:37

That would be fake news

AcrossthePond55 · 29/02/2020 18:41

1st US victim of Covid-19 has died in the state of Washington. That's West Coast US, not DC.

I live in the 'general area' of, but not close to, the hospital treating the 2 'community contact' patients, in fact it's where DH sees his cardiologist. According to local scuttlebutt there's shit hitting the fan about the quarantine procedures that were originally used vis a vis the healthcare providers entering and exiting the 'zero zone'.

BigChocFrenzy · 29/02/2020 20:19

First US coronavirus death follows Trump claim outbreak is a hoax

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/joe-biden-trump-coronavirus-hoax-claim

Facts & science don't change, no matter how important the political ego denying them

Trump was bizarrely claiming that Corona virus is a big hoax orchestrated by Democrats to stop him winning the US election

  • doesn't bode well for tackling the virus in the USA

Fortunately for the UK, BJ has already won his GE < phew, I think >

lionheart · 29/02/2020 21:01

Guess who?

"We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical."

BigChocFrenzy · 29/02/2020 21:21

ALERT: Americans With Coronavirus Symptoms Are Being Asked To Cough Directly Onto President Trump
😂
https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2020/02/27/alert-americans-with-coronavirus-symptoms-are-being-asked-to-cough-directly-onto-president-trump/

US HEALTH officials grappling with containing the spread of the Coronavirus have issued a number of emergency alerts to citizens in an effort to keep the public up to date and informed on the troubling disease.

Chief among the alerts was an appeal for all those experiencing symptoms associated with Coronavirus such as fever, coughing and shortness of breath
to make their way to the White House and cough directly onto President Donald J. Trump.

“We repeat, we have no further information or instruction at this time, the CDC have not explained if coughing on the President will cure you,
they only ask that you get your ass to Washington or the Mar-a-Largo and do it now,”

explained one of thousands of identical media reports issued across America in the last few minutes.

Lweji · 29/02/2020 21:35

Genius!

AcrossthePond55 · 29/02/2020 21:56

That really made me laugh! And we need laughs these days.

Today is the So Carolina Primary. Results should start rolling in around, let me see.....4.30 my time....3 hrs time difference....that's 7.30 on the East Coast which is.....umm...take away 2, carry the 9....got it!!!!

12.30am GMT.

TheClaws · 29/02/2020 23:54

(Via Reuters) This is funny as Mexico has far fewer cases of the coronavirus than the US. It is Mexico that should be imposing entry restrictions on US citizens, really, but there’s nothing like a bit of xenophobia at a time like this, I suppose.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson 1hr

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is considering imposing entry restrictions at the US-Mexico border to control the spread of the coronavirus in the United States, according to two DHS officials

twitter.com/tedhesson/status/1233820995523313666?s=21

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Lweji · 29/02/2020 23:57

And another excuse to impose restrictions on Iran too, it seems.

I wonder if they'll keep Italians out too.

lionheart · 01/03/2020 01:43

Tonight looks good for Biden.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51693714

AcrossthePond55 · 01/03/2020 02:28

Yep, lion.

With 53% reporting, Biden has 49.0%, Sanders 19.3% Steyer 11.6%. The rest of the field is under 10% each.

Polls are closed at right now NPR is predicting Biden will win South Carolina. Although 'win' isn't technically correct as SC isn't a 'winner take all' state. The delegates are 'proportioned out', but don't ask me to explain how they do it!

www.live5news.com/2020/02/29/politics-explained-winning-most-votes-does-not-mean-you-win-south-carolina-primary/