Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.
G. Washington
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
A. Lincoln
"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord." Across the uncertain ways of space and time our hearts echo those words, for the days are with us again when, at the gathering of the harvest, we solemnly express our dependence upon Almighty God.
The final months of this year, now almost spent, find our Republic and the Nations joined with it waging a battle on many fronts for the preservation of liberty.
F.D. Roosevelt
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‘School Choice Moms’ Tipped the Governor’s Florida Race
DeSantis owes his win to unexpected support from minority women.
Believe it or not, Republican Ron DeSantis owes his victory in the Florida gubernatorial election to about 100,000 African-American women who unexpectedly chose him over the black Democratic candidate, Andrew Gillum.
Of the roughly 650,000 black women who voted in Florida, 18% chose Mr. DeSantis, according to CNN’s exit poll of 3,108 voters. This exceeded their support for GOP U.S. Senate candidate Rick Scott (9%), Mr. DeSantis’s performance among black men (8%) and the GOP’s national average among black women (7%).
To be sure, 18% of the black female vote in Florida is equal to less than 2% of the total electorate. But in an election decided by fewer than 40,000 votes, these 100,000 black women proved decisive. Their apparent ticket splitting helps to explain why the Florida governor’s race wasn’t as close as the Florida Senate race, though Mr. Gillum was widely expected to carry Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson to victory on his coattails.
What explains Mr. DeSantis’ surprising support from African-American women? Two words: school choice.
More than 100,000 low-income students in Florida participate in the Step Up For Students program, which grants tax-credit funded scholarships to attend private schools. Even more students are currently enrolled in the state’s 650 charter schools.
Most Step Up students are minorities whose mothers are registered Democrats. Yet many of these “school-choice moms” vote for gubernatorial candidates committed to protecting their ability to choose where their child goes to school.
Bad news for Democrats. Wonder if this will start a trend of African-American voters away from the Democrat party back to their original roots.
This is only one-way the Democrats have diverge away from their interest. One other point of contention is illegal immigration.
Add to that new-found wealth from Trump and Republican policies and you may have a perfect storm for a significant demographic shift.
Wonder if this will start a trend of African-American voters away from the Democrat party back to their original roots.
i'd like to think that they're finally figuring out that democrats care not for them, but only for their votes, period.
One other point of contention is illegal immigration.
and there's your heaping helping of irony for the day. smart dems are scared shitless that blacks ARE figuring out that the left only cares for their votes, so there is their motivation to import as many undocumented new democrats as they can.
“[European politicians] must send a very clear message – ‘we are not going to be able [to] continue to provide refuge and support’ – because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic,”
Trump
Or Hillary ??
President Donald Trump speaks to military members via teleconference from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 22. Trump told reporters on the call that he was most thankful for the "tremendous job" he's doing for the country.
PHOTO: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Donald Trump said he was most thankful for himself on Thanksgiving as he spent the holiday weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The president was on a phone call with members of the media and the military early Thursday morning when one reporter asked him what he was “most thankful for” this year.
“For having a great family and for having made a tremendous difference in this country,” Trump responded. “I made a tremendous difference in the country. This country is so much stronger now than it was when I took office that you won’t believe it.”
The president continued, adding, “And I mean, you see it, but so much stronger that people can’t even believe it. When I see foreign leaders, they say we cannot believe the difference in strength between the United States now and the United States two years ago. Made a lot of progress.”
His response contrasted sharply with that of his Oval Office predecessor, Barack Obama, who said on Wednesday that he was thankful for the future “generation of leaders.”
“I am grateful for the next generation of leaders—the young people who are tolerant, creative, idealistic and doing the work to create the world as it should be. Who understand that hope requires action. From the Obama family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving,” Obama posted on Twitter.
Obama’s comment came after he made a surprise appearance at a Chicago food bank, where he volunteered ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
On the phone call Thursday morning, Trump also addressed American service members who were spending Thanksgiving at the southern border awaiting the arrival of the migrant caravan. The president has ordered nearly 6,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to prepare for the caravan of asylum-seekers, which Trump claimed, with no evidence, was filled with dangerous gang members, drug dealers and terrorists.
During the holiday call, Trump took the opportunity to slam the federal courts for ruling against his decisions on immigration. He directly referred to the judge who had issued a temporary restraining order blocking the White House from barring migrants who crossed the border illegally from seeking asylum.
“It’s a terrible thing when judges take over your protective services, when they tell you how to protect your border. It’s a disgrace,” Trump said. He also gave the military permission to use lethal force along the border.
In a video message posted on Twitter, Trump gave tribute to the military members overseas, police officers, first responders and firefighters, saying: “These are brave people, these are great people, these are special people.”
It's all about him.
Just like everything else he says.
Trump is a coward.
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Trump Avoids Visiting Troops In Harm’s Way, Talks To Them From His Country Club Instead
The president still has not visited service members in combat zones, 22 months into his term. President Barack Obama visited Iraq three months into his first term.
By S.V. Date
11/22/2018 05:09 PM ET
On Thanksgiving, President Donald Trump spoke with U.S. service members via teleconference from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Flo
On Thanksgiving, President Donald Trump spoke with U.S. service members via teleconference from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. (ERIC THAYER / Reuters)
For the second straight year as president, President Donald Trump chose not to visit American service members deployed around the world on Thanksgiving and instead spoke to them via teleconference from his private, for-profit country club in Palm Beach, Florida.
“Not surprised. He’s been avoiding them since the mid-’60s,” said Will Fischer, an Iraq War veteran with the liberal group VoteVets, referring to Trump’s avoidance of service during the Vietnam War.
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Trump sat in a chandeliered room with gold ceilings and read from a script before conversing with several of them on issues ranging from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to whether the United States was getting “ripped off” on trade agreements.
“We don’t see any issues in terms of trade right now,” a Coast Guard commander stationed in Bahrain said, sounding somewhat puzzled.
As he did on Tuesday while leaving the White House for his Thanksgiving vacation, Trump hinted that he might visit troops in a forward combat zone. “We’re going to do some interesting things. We’ll be doing some very interesting things,” he told reporters invited by the White House to watch Trump’s teleconference from his members-only Mar-a-Lago club.
He added that he knew when he would be going but would not say. “I can’t tell you. You’re the last people I can tell,” he told reporters.
Whether Trump ever visits any troops overseas, though, is far from guaranteed. Trump has made numerous promises that he has failed to honor.
He pledged that he would release his tax returns if he ran for president, for instance, but has refused to do so since he announced his campaign three years ago. He promised hundreds of times during his campaign that he would build a wall along the southwestern border and force Mexico to pay for it, but in his first two years, has not broached the topic a single time with the Mexican president’s office.
He's done better than that in their eyes. He's increased military pay and vet benefits. And they all appreciate it very much.
ALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump’s Thanksgiving began, as his days often do, with an all-caps tweet: “HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!”
Minutes later, he tweeted of potential “bedlam, chaos, injury and death,” a harbinger of what would be a frenetic Thanksgiving morning.
Over the span of a few hours, the president would mix the traditional pablum of Thanksgiving tidings with renouncing the findings of his Central Intelligence Agency, threatening Mexico, criticizing court decisions, attacking Hillary Clinton over her emails, misstating facts about the economy, floating a shutdown of the government — and per usual, jousting with the news media.
Asked what he was most thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day — a question that for commanders in chief usually prompts praise of service members in harm’s way — Trump delivered a singularly Trumpian answer.
“I made a tremendous difference in our country,” he said, citing himself.
Trump opened the public part of his day by hosting a televised conference call with military officers around the world that, while intended to spread cheer and inoculate him from criticism of his absence from war zones, quickly morphed into an effort to enlist them in his domestic priorities.
In the slathered-in-gold center foyer of his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump sat at a small table covered in a black tablecloth, holding a script as aides scurried about. An American flag stood nearby, and a crystal chandelier dangled above. Behind him, servers arranged the tables for a Thanksgiving feast.
Beneath a gold ceiling, Trump told troops representing five branches in five countries overseas about “barbed wire plus . . . the ultimate” that was blocking migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Loquacious and hopping from topic to topic, he debated the merits of steam catapults vs. electromagnetic ones for aircraft carriers and whether the United States was being treated poorly on trade. On both occasions, perplexed officers on the other end of the phone seemed to disagree with his conclusions.
He blamed “the world” for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, disputing the analysis from the CIA that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was to blame. In fact, Trump said inexplicably, the crown prince hated the death even more than Trump did.
Explaining why he needed to keep a close alliance with Saudi Arabia, he cited lower oil prices. That leads to lower gas prices, he said, before saying the news media had unfairly blamed him for traffic jams caused by cheap gas.
In recent weeks, Trump has stumbled when it came to demonstrating his support for the military — skipping a military cemetery memorial service outside Paris, declining to visit Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day and mocking a Navy SEAL who led the raid to capture Osama bin Laden, saying bin Laden should have been found far earlier.
Asked Thursday whether it was enough to call troops from his palatial resort and later visit officers at a nearby station, he retreated to a familiar boast.
“Nobody’s done more for the military than me,” Trump said.
Sometimes, he praised those on the other end of the line, but often by extension he praised himself.
“A as in the best,” he said of one Coast Guard officer’s school, likening it to his alma mater. “Going to that school is like going to the Wharton School of Finance if you happen to be doing what you do.”
A Navy commander in Bahrain, a U.S. ally, became the foil to discuss trade.
“As you know, trade for me is a very big subject,” Trump said, adding that the United States was getting ripped off.
“We don’t have any good trade deals,” Trump complained.
The commander seemed confused and told the president of abundant goods being carried across nearby waters. “We don’t see any issues in terms of trade right now,” the officer said.
Trump quickly moved on to hurricane response, bragging several times about the improving brand of the Coast Guard.
“Waves like record-setting. It’s been record-setting. The one hurricane in Texas they say dumped more water, and it was more violent in terms of water, than anything we’ve ever had in the country,” he said, referring to rescues they had undertaken.
He complained at length that a new Navy ship was using electromagnetic catapults to propel planes off ships. He said steam was better and was incredulous the military would consider otherwise. “Would you go with steam or would you go with electromagnetic? Because steam is very reliable, and the electromagnetic, unfortunately, you have to be Albert Einstein to really work it properly,” he asked.
“You have to be Albert Einstein to run the nuclear power plants that we have here, as well. But we’re doing that very well. I would go, sir, with electromagnetic,” the officer responded.
Trump repeatedly asked military commanders what they were seeing in their regions, a conversation not usually held on a televised broadcast. He asked if those serving in Afghanistan were enjoying themselves. (Later, he demurred when asked by reporters whether he would pull troops out of the country.)
He bragged during part of the conversation about sending troops to the Mexico border, a mission that is controversial and seen by many as a waste of time. He expressed no second-guessing about the constitutionality of signing an order giving soldiers the right to use lethal force at the border, although many in his government harbor such concerns.
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As he spoke, a soccer net was being set up on the large front lawn, and his daughter Ivanka Trump and her children were spotted in leisurewear near the mangrove bushes.
The subsequent 55-minute question-and-answer session with reporters had a similar antic air. He claimed to know little about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or the Justice Department’s desire to prosecute him. (In the past, Trump has said, “I love WikiLeaks!”)
Falsely, the president said the gross domestic product percentage was “going down to minus 4, 5, 6 percent” when he took office, describing the country as “teetering” under President Barack Obama. (It was a positive 2.1 percent in the last quarter of 2016.)
He offered, without evidence, that Clinton had “probably” deleted more than 100,000 emails, a continuation of his long campaign to impugn her for using a private email system. At the same time, he defended Ivanka Trump’s use of a private email account for government business as “very innocent.” He said Ivanka’s private emails were all “in the Historical Society”; her lawyer has said they were forwarded to an official government server.
He disclosed that he was interviewing job candidates at Mar-a-Lago, although no jobs are known to be open. He has let his frustration with several Cabinet officials be known, and the president said Thursday that embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was “in there trying.” And he offered effusive, unprompted praise for Hope Hicks, a former top aide.
By 11:15 a.m., he had arrived at a nearby Coast Guard station, where he greeted troops and posed for pictures for 14 minutes in a sweltering kitchen, in front of a tray of submarine sandwiches the troops would soon eat for lunch. He served no turkey but told Coast Guard officials there that he would give them $100 if they could break par at his golf course.
By noon, Trump disappeared behind the towering hedges of that course. Thursday night, he was enjoying a spread in the gilded Mar-a-Lago ballroom. The menu included turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, ribs, Chilean sea bass, Florida stone crab, beef tenderloin and Caesar salad, among other dishes. Surrounded by family, he pointed at the cameras and waved while other clubgoers angled to get in the camera shot
Rhetorical bedlam erupts as President Trump speaks to the world from Mar-a-Lago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/happy-thanksgiving-to-all-rhetorical-bedlam-erupts-as-president-trump-speaks-to-the-world-from-mar-a-lago/2018/11/22/349c4a3e-ee7d-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html
The man is not competent.
Think Roger is obsessed over Trump?
It's all me.
In his first two years, President Obama had visited the troops in Afghanistan. He won't venture out into the rain to honor the fallen that have defended our country. He avoided serving in Vietnam with bone spurs.
He prompted a Twitter war against him.
He actually honors the people who murdered the Washington Post columnist.
The list of lies and inaccurate comments are the greatest in the history of the United States. He spends 3 hours a day working as the President. The rest is tweeting and watching the news.
I am not obsessed with the President. I am deeply concerned about the republic. I'm an America first person. You are a Trump first person CS.
Notthing but hackery because Barack Obama never visited the Troops during thanksgiving.
I'm an America first person.
And yet you voted for Barack Obama who never put America first.
“This country is so much stronger now than it was when I took office and you wouldn’t believe it and when you see it, we’ve gotten so much stronger people don’t even believe it,”
“When I see foreign leaders, they cannot believe the difference in strength between the United States now and the United States two years ago,” he continued. “We’ve made a lot of progress.”
When the conversation turned to the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Trump adamantly denied widespread reports that the CIA had reached a definitive conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the killing. Trump steadfastly denied to reporters that there were any conclusions in the report he was presented. He said only that the CIA had “feelings certain ways” but that they in no way came to a conclusion.
The CIA steadfastly declared the Crown Prince had directly ordered the murder of a Washington Post columnist. Not just a rag head mooslim. A legal American immigrant. Who had denounced the government of Saudi Arabia.
I never said that President Obama had visited the troops in the during the Thanksgiving holiday. Trump has never ventured out into the war zones since he took office.
Actually, Even California Says Trump Is Right About the Wildfires
Actually, Even California Says Trump Is Right About the WildfiresPaul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP, Pool
President Donald Trump's critics are belittling him for not buying the politically correct narrative that global warming is to blame for the California wildfires. Instead, Trump correctly points to decades of mistakes by state and federal forest agencies that caused the woodlands to be become overly dense and blanketed with highly flammable dead wood and underbrush.
Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown calls the conflagrations "the new abnormal," and predicts it "will continue, certainly, in the next 10, 15, 20 years." How defeatist. Trump, in contrast has the right idea. He's vowing "we're going to have safe forests." Science is on Trump's side.
For a century, forest mismanagement has resulted in huge blazes. Amid claims that global warning is the culprit, history shows that California suffered far bigger fires decades ago. The death toll from the Northern California fire known as Camp Fire sets a gruesome state record, because many more people have settled on the forest's edge. But in 1936, fires statewide burned 756,696 acres, five times the size of Camp Fire. Fires in 1934, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1950 and 1963 also vastly exceeded Camp Fire's size.
The press repeatedly baits the president, asking him about global warming and trying to discredit him as a climate change "denier." California's recent prolonged drought and record temperatures played a role in turning the state's forests into a tinderbox. It's possible climate change contributed to the high temperatures and drought. Debating that is a distraction from what must be done now. Scientists put significant blame for the fires on mistaken policies by state and federal forest agencies -- things that could have been changed to avert the disaster and still can be altered with more predictable results than trying to control the world's temperature.
The firefighters in the 30s and 40s are 50s didn't have the firefighting equipment and technology we have today. So of course the fires were larger because they didn't actually have the ability to stop the fires.
Get your rake out and assist the President rake thousands of acres next fall.
Your plan is what Roger?
We see the loss of life and the 100's of billions of property damage. The pollution your state is exporing.
Think Roger is obsessed over Trump?" CS
Of course he is. Look at this thread .
The firefighters in the 30s and 40s are 50s didn't have the firefighting equipment and technology we have today. So of course the fires were larger because they didn't actually have the ability to stop the fires.
They had shovels. They had fire trucks. The even had tanker planes in the 40's and 50's. Firefighting technology hasn't changed all that much.
But that wasn't the point. The point was that the fires were bigger and covered more ground than they do today. The big diffrence is that more man-made stuff is in the way.
Get your rake out and assist the President rake thousands of acres next fall.
Well if you don't to the metaphoric equivalent (control burns, removing underbrush and dead wood) then you will have bigger,hotter fires.
Personally, I don't care if your double-wide burns to the ground because you're stupid enough to vote for politicians whose solution is to put a carbon tax on you.
The point was that the fires were bigger and covered more ground than they do today
That is your opinion, menstral....
. The big difference is that more man-made stuff is in the way.
The reason being is more building is being allowed in known fire zones and people disturbing the natural habitat with houses....Like building on barrier islands in hurricane zones....people looking for the perfect view are jeopardizing themselves... The permitting should be a whole lot tougher....
Aerial fire fighting started in 1947 with water bombs and Likevery limited success....Modifications of retired military and passenger planes started in earnest in the late 50's..As for clearing underbrush in national forests....POTUS is in charge of that...costs mega money....and is a year round job....People in So Cal living on top of those dry hills do not do a very good job clearing the brush around their homes...Local enforcement is the key...I posted a link from Glendora specifying what people need to do to protect their homes from fires...My experience living there....most ignore the advice...!!
Denial of climate change and you believe that the government should rake the thousand of acres in the forests in California.
If Trump would let the people escaping gangs and government suppression come into California to rake the forests that is not going to happen, because if they become United States citizens they would vote for Democrats.
Please repost that link. Ty.
Roger your solution to mismanagement by gov herbal tea sipper is more illegals.
Denial of climate change and you believe that the government should rake the thousand of acres in the forests in California.
You have a problem understanding this metaphor thing don't you Roger. Shallow thinker that you are.
As I said, controlled burns, removing brush, and dead falling wood is the metaphoric equivalent of "raking the forest".
Try to pay attention instead of mindlessly pasting the liberal talking point de jure.
That is your opinion, menstral....
It was a paraphase from the report. And it is factuallly accurate.
Actually, Even California Says Trump Is Right About the WildfiresPaul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP, Pool
Hey cramps....that headline is part you making shit up and the cite is for the picture on the article....the author is By Betsy McCaughey who appears to be retired R politician....IOW's not a spokesman or an expert...LOLOLOL
It was a paraphrase from the report.
What report....From Betsy????? LOL
Suggest cramps take a look at his....It may help him learn something.....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2018/11/21/how-urbanization-makes-wildfires-and-hurricanes-worse/#1e1724418b3d
The CIA, Mr. Trump said Thursday, never "concluded" that the Saudi royals were responsible in the death, although CBS News has confirmed that CIA intelligence points to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordering the murder. Mr. Trump has refused to listen to audio of the killing.
Obama letting everyone know he's always the smartest guy in the room, from community organizing all the way up to G20
Insane, take a look:
https://twitter.com/Jenn198523/status/1065186488554405888/video/1
from community organizing all the way up to G20
You mean like trump saying yesterday he was most thankful for the fantastic job he is doing???? Like that you asshole coward?????
He never stops lying....and the slurpers will keep swallowing....wonder if they will ever come out of their trump induced coma????
Donald Trump doesn’t mind using flawed logic to get him out of a hole, and in some cases when even that doesn’t work, the president simply “invents” facts.
Another example of such inventiveness came this week when Trump, who has seen the now Democrat-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee begin an investigation into whether or not Ivanka Trump used private email for government-related business, cooked up more than a 100,000 Hillary Clinton emails which don’t exist.
Clinton had used her private server for government-related emails back when she was the Secretary of State, 33,000 of which were eventually deleted by an employee managing Clinton’s private email. However, a subsequent investigation by the FBI, although it rebuked Clinton for her carelessness, didn’t find anything criminal in her actions.
But that hasn’t stopped Trump from continuing to attack Clinton, and now when his own daughter is accused of using a private email address to send government-related emails, the president made up an additional 100,000 Hillary emails to defend Ivanka Trump’s actions, as reported by Newsweek.
“There was no deletion of emails like the 33,000 plus, probably another hundred thousand, that Hillary Clinton did after she got a subpoena.”
There is absolutely no evidence to back up his claim, and the number of deleted Clinton emails has not changed since it was first reported. So Trump seems to have invented 100,000 emails to deflect from the accusations that plague his own daughter. The president also said that none of the emails Ivanka sent were classified, saying she was “very innocent,” and that it happened over a “short period of time” and “very early on” in her service.
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Think Roger is obsessed over Trump?
stage IV TDS. the alky is triggered by every single thing trump says or does.
and btw alky, since you're consumed with trump and rain, remember that time 0linsky was giving a speech and he made a marine hold an umbrella over him?
good times, right alky?
oh and go easy on trump and his bone spurs there, you america first DRAFT DODGER you.
you never take a day off from your hypocrisy, do you alky?
I see lo iq commie must have gotten the turkey asshole again this year.
Doesn't know how to ask for anything else.
EOFLMFAO !!!
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