Not quite sure that they meant the same thing.
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We as a country are at the point of our media literacy being so poor, that Snopes have to debunk such an obvious joke
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Why this matters: Publicly, House Republicans are putting on a brave face about the midterms. But privately, they are scrambling to prepare for the worst. This document, which catalogs requests Democrats have already made, is part of that effort.
It has churned Republican stomachs. Here are some of the probes it predicts:
- President Trumpâs tax returns
- Trump family businesses â and whether they comply with the Constitutionâs emoluments clause, including the Chinese trademark grant to the Trump Organization
- Trumpâs dealings with Russia, including the presidentâs preparation for his meeting with Vladimir Putin
- The payment to Stephanie Clifford â a.k.a. Stormy Daniels
- James Comeyâs firing
- Trumpâs firing of U.S. attorneys
- Trumpâs proposed transgender ban for the military
- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchinâs business dealings
- White House staffâs personal email use
- Cabinet secretary travel, office expenses, and other misused perks
- Discussion of classified information at Mar-a-Lago
- Jared Kushnerâs ethics law compliance
- Dismissal of members of the EPA board of scientific counselors
- The travel ban
- Family separation policy
- Hurricane response in Puerto Rico
- Election security and hacking attempts
- White House security clearances
Good.
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Why am I imagining that under each of those bullets in a sub bullet stated âEmailsâ?
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Um, Iâd have thought theyâd be hoping for that one, not fearing it.
Giving a White House middle finger to a dead guy.
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âWhen everyone says youâre wrong, donât admit it. Double down instead. Hell, triple down!â
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When trump dies the world will have a block party.
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You know it. I canât wait.
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âThe damage you have done to the Bureau betrays these families and sacrifices the financial futures of millions of Americans in communities across the country,â Frotman said.
GOP - Keeping 'murica stupid and in debt.
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Trumpâs flapping his meat. He doesnât have a mandate from Congress to make a Mexico-only deal, and killing NAFTA would have to go to Congress as well.
Since the US already took the Sunset clause off the table, and the diary problem is fake posturing, my guess is that heâs hoping to get through the Canada round quickly, and drop a new NAFTA TrumpTrade agreement just before the mid-terms and play to the current economy. (And never mind the problems piling up in the near future.)
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You know what they say⌠shitheads gotta spew absolute shit
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A good read:
In death, Sen. John McCain is about to exact revenge on President Trump.
As McCain (R-Ariz.) ascends to heaven on an updraft of praise, Trumpâs political hell on Earth will burn hotter. Through the wall-to-wall coverage of McCainâs life, and his memorial and burial that will take place over the next few days, Trump will become a bystander as our nation is given a reminder of the best of what it stands for, and the best of what it can be. The president and the rest of America are about to look in the mirror and see Trumpâs opposite.
McCain lived a life of service to country; Trump lives in service of self. McCain exemplified sacrifice; Trump, indulgence. McCain played down his heroism; Trump boasts of imagined rescues into school buildings to save children from gunfire. McCain sought reconciliation with his enemies; Trump thrives on creating new ones. McCain was, in the words of his longtime aide and collaborator Mark Salter, a âromantic about his causes and a cynic about the world.â Trump is a cynic about both.
Perhaps McCain (and Salter, his co-writer) stated the contrast best in 2002, long before the age of Trump: âSuccess, wealth, [and] celebrity, gained and kept for private interest, are small things. ⌠But sacrifice for a cause greater than self-interest, and you invest your life with the eminence of that cause, [and] your self-respect is assured.â Once McCain was asked what he wanted on his tombstone; he replied, âHe served his country.â One imagines that Trumpâs desired epitaph might be, âI did it my way.â
McCainâs death will serve as a distraction from Trumpâs deepening legal and political jeopardy, but not in a way that will give him respite â although it could give him insight. Christmas is still months away, but Trump is about to be visited, not unlike Ebenezer Scrooge, by disturbing spirits who will use the example of McCainâs life to warn him of his own mortality.
Like Scrooge, who had to see his own callousness toward people, Trump will be forced to see his cynical and bitter comment about McCain again: âHe is not a war hero.â But now that comment will be placed directly in the context of vivid memories from McCainâs past where he endured torture and refused early release from a Hanoi prison simply because he was an admiralâs son.
Like Scrooge, Trump will see other vivid contrasts between his narrow, selfish life and the expansive joy of a life lived in service. At McCainâs funeral, Trump will see Democrats and Republicans; most, if not all, former living presidents; and hundreds of lifelong friends sitting together in unity and celebration of a man, his service and ideals. Grown men and women will cry, because they loved McCain and what he stood for.
Can any man, even one as obtuse and self-involved as Trump, fail to see the meaning of McCainâs death for his own life? Scrooge himself finally gained insight from seeing his future laid bare: âMenâs courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.â
In the days ahead, one hopes Trump pays close attention to McCainâs course for clues about how to better live his own, for himself and his country.
By Carter Eskew
Contributing opinion writer (WaPo)
August 26 at 11:18 AM
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Then who was phone?
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"He spent the weekend calling people and screaming,â one former White House official said.
Always play to your strengths!
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Trump-related, once removed: according to this article, McCain stopped Manafort from managing the 2008 Republican national convention.
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